In a barren waste land, a massive circular black barrier noticeable in the distance inside the barrier- two powerful beings fought a single being. One is a dragon, a powerful and almighty being reverend as a closet nature of destruction.
It's towering 18th feet tall, Blackish-blue scale, and a light blue pattern ran across its body. Its massive claw that can crash nature itself in a mere grip and it's blue halo above its head that looks like an absolute divine being.
The other one is a muscular guy wearing an knightly helmets that concealed his face. Wearing an open yellow shirt and a bandage on his wrist.
And the other one is a striking red haired man, wearing a white trousers with lilac cuffs, black shoes, black gloves, and a double-breasted white long coat.
Right now these three powerful beings are locked in each other, each strike of the dragon causes a massive destruction while the guy wearing a helmet strikes with precision. Yet despite their combination, the red hair man did not show any sign of struggles instead he just kept the pace of their attack.
The dragon fired a flame of destruction through its mouth yet the red hair merely swung its sword, splitting the attack into half-redirecting it. Suddenly the man wearing a knightly helmet appeared behind him, its sword ready to slash its target.
Just as the man swung his sword, a kick connected his abdomen making him grunt in pain, then a punch met his helmet making him fly away.
That's right, these three powerful beings who are fighting to death are none other than The Divine Dragon; Volcanica, Al/Aldebaran and the Sword Saint itself; Reinhard van Astrea.
Reinhard looked at Aldebaran who got knocked back and turned his gaze to Volcanica, his sword; Dragon Sword; Reid, readied.
"The Divine Protection is temporary but it's not a problem, the problem is Volcanica and That guy, Al. They were able to strip all of my Divine Protections, just what are they trying to do?" Reinhard thought to himself as he gripped Reid tightly. Facing Al is not a problem for him but Volcanica is another matter he needed to deal with.
Reinhard bent slowly, his shoes buried the sand and with a burst of speed, he rushed towards the Divine Dragon intending to cut him off in a single slash. In response, Divine Dragon took a step forward and readied its claw, and swing.
But a mere claw cannot stop Reinhard's sword, with that Divine Dragon's claw turns into a thinly sliced meat. Divine Dragon roared in pain as his arm was sliced, in that situation he knew he couldn't win right now, he needed an extra hand to help fight Reinhard.
He took a massive step back, creating a distance between him and Reinhard. On another hand, Reinhard fell to the ground gently as he stared at his opponent, he asked a simple question,
"What is the point of doing this- no, what is your goal, Divine Dragon. Why did Aldebaran seal Natsuki Subaru." The Dragon grabbed his missing arm, he stared at Reinhard, knowing full to well he needed to stall Reinhard so his contractor found a way to deal him.
"Keh... Goal? You misunderstood something, Sword Saint. I merely acted in what is according to the contract between me and him. If you want to know then asked him yourself." The Dragon laughed slightly as he answered, he needed time, enough time for Al to come back.
Then the Dragon noticed Aldebaran's presence behind him and Aldebaran, who just returned Appeared with no injuries.
Reinhard noticed this phenomena and furrowed his brow, despite his attack guarantee to kill him, Al always came back with no injuries.
"My goal? It doesn't concern you Reinhard." With one hundred-thirty Thousand loop, each precision needed to gather much information to deal with Reinhard, Aldebaran deliberately sacrificed its body while the Dragon- or should I say, the other half of "Aldebaran" stall Reinhard for the time being.
The Dragon- "Aldebaran" stuck out its mouth and a white flash of beam soared through "Aldebaran"'s mouth, homing towards Reinhard causing a massive destruction.
"Fall back, Human Me!"
Yet in that moment, "Aldebaran" swipes his hand towards Al, flinging him to the other side, a sudden betrayal- in fact was not a betrayal at all.
"Aldebaran" flew Al because his attack did not do any damage towards Reinhard. "Aldebaran" shouted in confusion,
"How did you come out unscratched?!" In which Reinhard responds calmly,
"I borrowed it from the Dragon sword, Dragon Sword was made to withstood a powerful attack, be it in a world destroyer or something. Even if the world is destroyed, the Dragon Sword will remain unscratched. And so, I parried it." Reinhard launches towards "Aldebaran", gripping the Dragon Sword tightly.
"Aldebaran" clicked his tongue and shouted,
"I appreciate the explanation but you still haven't answered my question about how you are still unscathed!"
"It's because of the Divine Protections of the Blazing Sun." Reinhard apathetically gives a small response to "Aldebaran", Reinhard chased "Aldebaran" in the air, unleashing a kick. Clashing head-on with the dragons claw- tearing through the sky.
Each of the blows, causing a massive destruction not even a warrior who had undergone a monstrous training could be comprehensive the fight between monsters itself.
The sky split, the ground shook and the very air itself vibrated by the clash between those being. Yet, despite the mismatched size, Reinhard has the upper hand throughout the fight.
"Geh... Gahhhhhh....!!" "Aldebaran" shouted in agony as the sword pierced through his body, it was not exaggerated. After all, The Dragon Sword in Reinhard's hand is not something he can understimate.
"Powerful indeed, however, it is far too different from before." "Aldebaran" clung to the battlefield as Reinhard's relentless attack continued, with a kick from Reinhard, "Aldebaran" flung so hard.
"Aldebaran" grasped hard as the fight between him and Reinhard took a toll from him, while on another hand, Reinhard showed no sign of exhaustion nor a single sweats.
It was truly undeniable, Reinhard is simply a monster using human flesh to cover up it's nature.
"The other day, when I was proceeding towards the Watchtower together with Flam, Ezzo-dono, and the rest, I ended up quarreling with you… with the Divine Dragon Volcanica due to a misunderstanding, but compared to then, your movements and intentions are far too different."
Reinhard pointed out, yet "Aldebaran" deliberately chose to remain silent. In reality, that which Reinhard had previously fought against was the real Divine Dragon Volcanica―― though, it would have been in a dragonhusk state, bereft of its contents after producing a dragonkin.
Having guessed the correct answer, verifying his insight, Reinhard continued.
"The current you are obviously weaker than before, why is that?"
"... Argh." "Aldebaran" groans annoyingly towards Reinhard.
"..." Yet Reinhard remained silent, waiting for "Aldebaran" to continue speaking.
"No, no no, no no no, it's only natural for you to say that. It's just as you say, I can't get full use out of this body. So, I guess I'm kinda weak, eh? Were that the case, there wouldn't be even a single thing strange about it whatsoever. Only-" Aldebaran deliberately cut off his own words as the sickens grin formed on his face,
"I kinda want to show you something or two." "Aldebaran" spread his draconic wings at his back and soared towards Reinhard, closing the distance between him. "Aldebaran" swung his massive claw, intending to flatten Reinhard like a mouse getting crashed by a massive tree.
Yet, seeing the transparent offensive Reinhard parried the attack, with his hand. His leg rises above the ground, he plung it towards the "Aldebaran" chest.
"Guhhh...!!!"
"Aldebaran" straight flung upward at Reinhard's kick, instead of flying using his wings, he was forcibly flung due to Reinhard's attack.
Reinhard followed "Aldebaran", he grab "Aldebaran" legs and smashed it towards the ground. Due to the intensity of Reinhard's throws, the pressure built on "Aldebaran" body, breaking the sound barrier and smashing him to the ground, creating a mashroom of smoke and sands everywhere.
Reinhard landed safely to the ground as he stared at the silhouette on the smoke, standing brightly due to the halo above his head.
"Apologies, but this is far as we go." Reinhard spoke as the smoke cleared, revealing "Aldebaran" battered body.
"I said... I'll show you a thing or two, so play a long lil' with it."
"Plan A-" Aldebaran" spoke. Given the distance between him and Reinhard, it was unlikely for Reinhard to hear "Aldebaran" voice. The light of a star twinkling in the night sky was plummeting down, aiming directly for the Sword Saint.
"Al Shario"
This spell, regarded as a specialty of a Witch of yore, was one accepted to be a forbidden technique.
Shining down from beyond the sky, stars were perpetually burning masses of Mana, and by utilizing the property of attraction between Mana of the same type, the unbelievable marvel of casting one to the earth could be realised.
But naturally, to bring a star down upon a precise location required both delicate control over magic and an unfathomable quantity of Mana. In exchange for the difficulty of realizing such a technique, the Mana contained in the star's light could rival that held by a Great Spirit, and was even extolled to have once felled a weyr of Dragons.
"Aldebaran" remembers the words coming from the white haired witch who spoke in the spark of amusement through her eyes, a sickening greed towards the hellish hole.
Her amusement was irritating in "Aldebaran" ear, as such he cannot helped but utter a words,
"Piece of shit."
For any given pinnacle, there remained the possibility to surpass it by means of new ideas and the magic to bring them to life.
Al Shario was no exception. Gritting his teeth as he made the correction in his head in accordance with the Witch's teachings, Aldebaran wished for the fruit borne of that starlight.
"...!!!" Looking up at the sky from atop the Dragon's back, even Reinhard's eyes went wide.
"Hhraahh...?!!" As had been the case at first contact, Reinhard possessed the means by which to dash through the sky―― no, to use the clouds as footholds, by means of the Divine Protection of Clouds he possessed. Before he could regain his balance, "Aldebaran's" roar mowed down the clouds in the vicinity and launched Reinhard further into the sky.
With naught a foothold, with naught an escape route, Reinhard would defenselessly collide with the airborne starlight.
With conditions substantially worse than what they had been for the starslayer during the decisive battle for the Imperial Capital, even Reinhard would have no means of dealing with the incoming blow of this star――,
"-- I have received it."
At that moment, Reinhard stretched out his leg as a last resort, his toe making contact with the star, and the consequent explosive energy swallowed the Sword Saint, setting off a star-rending explosion―― was what should have happened.
However, the explosion that was supposed to occur never came about, and instead, Reinhard walked along the side of the star.
"What... The hell?!" "Aldebaran" shouted in astonishment as the supernova and Reinhard's kick met head on.
"The Divine Protections of Ball Balancing." Reinhard muttered as the supernova rested on his feet.
"Ball dancing eh? Are you treating it like a fireball?" After receiving his answer, the ball of destruction has become the fire ball in Reinhard's feet.
Only then "Aldebaran" realized, if Reinhard was treating it as a fireball then...
"Shit." As "Aldebaran" said that, Reinhard redirect the supernova towards "Aldebaran" location. The scorching heat aimed towards "Aldebaran".
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[A/n: I ain't gonna write the whole fight here, my bad mate but writing that long fight will probably gonna fill up my notes in 5 books.]
"Hah... Hah... Hah..." Aldebaran grasped, this is one hundred-thirty thousand of looping. Each loop meet the dead end, each loop met defeat. Not a single loop where he can kill Reinhard or cause a massive damage on him.
"Apologies, but this is where it ends." Reinhard said as he pointed his Dragon Sword towards Aldebaran.
With that said, Aldebaran muttered a single spell, a spell enough to completely "Defeat" the Sword Saint, Reinhard Van Astrea.
"Your star is bad." A strong gravitonal attraction completely caught Reinhard off guard, a growing black hole appeared behind him. Reinhard snapped his head at the black hole and swung his sword, attempting to slice it in half.
"Stupid, I knew you would do that." Aldebaran mocked Reinhard as he run away, leaving Reinhard alone with the black hole.
"Tch, this is troublesome." The pull continue to grow stronger as he once again about to swung his Dragon Sword when a black miasma surrounded him, an external forces appeared around.
"Witch of envy..."
Reinhard strength slowly loses, he knew he couldn't afford to lose his sword so chose to sheathe the Dragon Sword to its scabbard.
"This is indeed troubling." With that, the structure of the time and space twist, it continued to twist and the pull grower stronger until Reinhard chose to let the pull grab him towards the object.
If it teleports him to anywhere then, he still have time to deal the witch of envy. The more time he needed, the more problems he can solved.
With that, the black hole finally consumed Reinhard and it slowly died, leaving the barren land full of destruction- empty.
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"Flicker"
"Flicker"
The sound of an empty street and something flickering everywhere entered asReinhard's ears. He slowly regained his consciousness, when he opened his eyes, a moon stared at him.
"Sigh... No time to waste, I must head back." Despite only regaining his consciousness, Reinhard knew he still needed to solve another problem.
He looked around, to familiarize the location before heading out... But there is one problem.
"This... Where is this?" What greeted him aside from moon was a towering building, a metal that looks like a carriage.
"Perhaps another kingdom, the miasma... I can't sense it, maybe they dealt the Witch of Envy?" Reinhard thought full of wonder, after all he was teleported to another kingdom that was more advanced than the kingdom of Laguna.
Reinhard sighed and a small smile appeared on his face,
"good to know they dealt it quickly. Now then, I guess I have to find a shelter so I guess... I need to ask them for night to rest." Reinhard turn his gaze to a massive building and with a single leap, he jumped towards the fourth floor and knock the door that near him.
"Excuse me, is anyone in home?" His voice loud enough to hear and soon, the light inside the door turned on.
The door cracked open as the teen opened it, his head peeked.
"Yes, who is it?" The boy asked curiously as the handsome man with a striking red hair knock on his door.
"Good day, May I bother you tonight and hope for a room to stay just for one night?" When Reinhard spoke, the boy showed a confusion and speak,
"What?" Reinhard noticed the boy was using different languages and so is he, with that said he was about to ask again when the Divine Protections triggered, giving him [Divine Protection of Mother of Tongue]
"Ahem, I mean to say; May I bother you tonight and hope to use your house as a shelter for now, Mr...?" This time, the boy finally nodded and opened the door widely to let Reinhard in.
"I don't... But you can come in for now, I'll asked Mom and Dad about this matter." With that said, the boy walked to another room and knock, while Reinhard got inside and sat at the furniture.
After a few seconds, a footsteps entered Reinhard ears and he turned around, revealing middle age man and woman.
Both faces showed a smile.
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"I see, very well. You can stay here, so take your time, Reinhard." With that, the husband and wife walk away and entered their room, while the boy nodded at Reinhard and also entered his room. Leaving Reinhard alone in the living room.
With the [Divine Protections of Night sky], he doubts he can sleep since it boost everything about him and... He's still not tired yet, when he lay down at the furniture, he slowly dozed off and fell asleep.
Just as he slowly slumber a doorbell rung, waking Reinhard's from his soon-to-be peaceful sleep yet he showed no sign of distressed nor annoyance. Instead he walked towards the door and opened it, revealing a woman wearing an oversized coat and hat and holding a knife.
You might be asking how does Reinhard know? [Divine Protections of Insight] of course, so,
"Who might you be, Miss...?" Reinhard asked as he looked at her.
"Eh? Isn't this the house of Lee Joon?" The woman asked, she licked the knife crazily and stare intensely to Reinhard.
"That is indeed correct but, I have to deny your action. I cannot let you harm the child of the owner of this house so forgive me." With that Reinhard disarm the woman and chop the back of her neck, knocking her out from consciousness.
Only by then a footstep echoed behind him, Reinhard turned around and saw the same boy- Lee Joon sweating a lot that it looks like he just came out from shower.
"I apologies, Lee Joon. It seems like I woken you up." Reinhard gives an apologetic smile to Lee Joon as he grasps the unconscious woman.
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A/n: Well? Give a quick review in which part should I improve! With that said, it's truly hard to give an details (*´ω｀*)