Physics The Greatest Magic

Master Sylvia grit her teeth before asking again.

"Why'd you kill them!?"

Confused, the demon tilted his head before saying.

"I don't know who you're referring to…? But do you need a reason to kill?" The demon asked. A bright smile then formed on his face as he added. "It's just fun."

"I see." Master Sylvia muttered before letting out a sigh.

She suddenly vanished leaving a trace of darkness behind as she appeared above the demon. A swing with her dagger already in motion, aiming right at the horn on his head.

However, without so much as moving from his spot. The demon stopped Master Sylvia's swing with simply two fingers.

"Rak." Translation: Dark Burst.

A dark wave suddenly burst out from the demon, sending Master Sylvia flying towards the ceiling.

Right before Master Sylvia could complete her chant and shadow step again, the demon vanished before appearing above her with his arms raised up, locked inside of a dark Spiky sphere.

Master Sylvia quickly turned and rotated her body before placing both of her daggers in front of her in a cross to block his attack.

But just as he swung his arms down, he vanished again, suddenly appearing beneath master Sylvia.

*Crack*

Before Master Sylvia could even react, she was hit by an overwhelming Impact on her back, sending her even higher, nearly crashing up into the ceiling.

The caused her to weaken her grip over the dagger, and as she went further up, she was suddenly hit in the stomach by a kick, sending her straight back down.

It was one-sided.

John watched as his demon self levitated in the air and watched as dark magic circles began forming in the air beneath him, aiming towards Master Sylvia who was about to crash onto the ground.

It was one magic circle stacked upon the other, a big spell was coming.

He had no need to chant for he was a demon, dark magic came naturally to him. His mastery of dark magic was far greater than Johns. It was thanks to him that John could even use dark magic that efficiently in the first place.

The flow of darkness in the room could be seen gathering and condensing on the top of the magic circle stack. The instant Master Sylvia was about to land, the spell was executed.

A tiny ray of darkness, shot down from the magic circles aimed precisely at Master Sylvia's heart.

It moved faster than the eye could see, Master Sylvia would have been pierced in the instant if it hadn't been for-

"That technique sure is impressive-"

*Clang*

The demon blocked another swing from Master Sylvia which came from behind. She shadow stepped again, in the very last moment.

"It's useless."

The two began to pair blows, over and over. It was completely one sided. Sylvia was being pushed back.

John quickly turned to Ariel, who remained knelled down on the floor grasping the Armour above her heart tightly. Now was her best chance to get away with Serena. That was the case but, something wrong was happening with Ariel.

"Not now… Get out of my head… I need to save him… So the three of us can escape together…"

Ariel began mumbling words to herself as she placed both hands on her head.

From one glance John could tell what was happening. Something was trying to take possession over her. That thing was probably the reason why she was still conscious in the first place.

Her eyes and hair were turning even darker than it's usual black. It was if it was sucking the darkness and light away from the surroundings.

"What…? You promise You won't hurt them…? You'll really stop them…?" Ariel asked herself

'She's not planning to…'

"ARIEL DONT DO IT-" John shouted

John's voice didn't reach Ariel as she muttered with a smile.

"Okay… If that's what it takes. Please stop them… I don't want anyone to get hurt."

"ARIEL!!!!" John shouted.

Even if it was an illusion, he couldn't help it.

*Thump* *Thump*

The expression on Ariel's face changed into a blank one as the flow of darkness in the room suddenly froze.

John watched in disbelief, as Master Sylvia's attention and John's demon self turned to Ariel. They too noticed this change.

"Request confirmed. Payment complete." Ariel muttered as she slowly got up.

She stretched out her hand to the side as the flow of darkness commenced once again and gather on her sacred treasure shaped as a rapier. The rapier seemed to slightly expand and grow as it was embedded with more and more darkness.

Ariel got into a sword stance with her rapier. Her knees bent, her right hand grasping tightly onto the rapier pulled back, her left hand stretched forward and pointed at her target.

The target was demon John.

"Initiating request." Ariel muttered.

Dark wings in the shape of crystals began to expand from her back.

"Hm…? So she's finally decided to show herself. I wonder what-"

Demon John was interrupted as Ariel suddenly appeared in front of him with a thrust already in motion.

It wasn't shadow step so he wasn't able to read the movement. It had caught him off guard.

In a single motion, Ariel kicked Master Sylvia away and pushed forth her right arm, thrusting her rapier forward.

Demon John barely avoided the thrust as he stepped back, it slightly pierced his forehead. But in that instant-

*Crackle* *VAAM!*

'Eh…? You're telling me… That was hiding inside of Ariel…?' John asked

Demon John was completely frozen inside of dark crystals which in an instant, had expanded all the way from the middle of the arena to the walls, creating a large trail of crystals leading all the way to the walls and up to the roof.

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In that moment, Sylvia suddenly appeared beside Ariel, swinging her dagger as she did so. The flames which burst out of the dagger were redirected to the sides as Ariel parried it with her rapier.

Master Sylvia swung her other dagger to attack and Ariel thrust her rapier straight at Master Sylvia's neck.

Ariel was much faster, she stopped short of Master Sylvia's neck but the crystals burst forth before Master's Sylvia's swing had even reached half of the way.

Master Sylvia luckily avoided it again, by instinctively shadow stepping. She had been chanting during mid-swing.

She shadow stepped a few meters behind Ariel before shouting.