Physics The Greatest Magic

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.

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"Ariel don't get in the way… After all this time… I have to be the one to kill him!" Said Master Sylvia.

"Negative." Replied Ariel who suddenly thrust her rapier into the floor.

This time, Sylvia was not able to avoid it. A trace of dark crystals created at a speed faster than master Sylvia could react. Quickly freezing her inside, just as it had done to demon John.

Just like Demon John. Master Sylvia was frozen inside of the dark Crystals.

John couldn't believe it. He was barely able to see her movements, and how were mere crystals able to stop them?

Despite that having happened, it wasn't over.

*Crack*

The sounds of cracks could be heard forming around the crystals where Demon john was trapped.

*Shatter*

"Such strong magic draining crystals can only belong to the Queen of crystals in the underworld. I didn't expect to be facing you so soon after my awakening. Although I must say, you're holding back quite a lot, is it due to the owner of that body's request? You were always a soft-"

Demon John was interrupted as Ariel, suddenly appeared in front of him again. This time it didn't catch him by surprise and he was ready for it.

Countless thrusts were directed at him, all in an instant but he was able to most of them by a hair's margin. The more he avoided the faster he got. Simultaneously, the faster Ariel would make her thrusts.

Whatever was trying to control her was trying to stop herself from hurting demon John, but John knew at that rate, she wouldn't be able to stop him.

Despite that, the fight remained one sided towards Ariel. She threw barrage after barrage, all John could do was avoid, he had no room for a counter.

"brāk."

Ariel suddenly pulled back her arm and rapier before thrusting it forward at an insanely high speed.

Demon john instinctively Shadow stepped to avoid it, but despite that, half of his body had been frozen.

"Tsk, STOP HOLDING ME BACK! I THOUGHT I CONSUMED YOU!" Demon john suddenly shouted to himself in rage as he became unable to move.

'I'm still fighting back even in that situation…?' John wondered

Ariel used that as an opportunity and quickly thrust her rapier one more time, this time, Demon john was distracted and unable to react in time.

*Pierce*

Ariel pierced John right through his heart with the rapier.

"So you'll kill this vessel, even though it means that much to you, huh…?" The demon asked

In that moment, for just a moment, john felt Ariel's presence return.

"John… I can't hold her or master Sylvia back for much longer… Use this as an opportunity to get away… Master Sylvia still hasn't let herself be possessed… She too has a demon who's powers are grand… She'll kill you…" Ariel muttered with tears running down her eyes.

"You'll let me escape? You realize John can't hear you anymore right? The lives of countless people will be in your hands if I escape from here." Said demon john.

With the tears still flowing down her eyes and a smile on her face. Ariel muttered. "I don't care… If you die, John dies… Even if I had to choose between John or the world, I'd choose John…"

"As expected, greedy and selfish just like every other human. You're all the same."

"That's fine with me… If it's about John I'll be as greedy and selfish as I want… After all I… I love him…" Ariel muttered with a blushing smile.

John's and demon John's eyes widened as he heard this. Demon John then hung his head before placing his hand on his forehead.

*Tssss*

A strange sound could be heard as steam began to form around the crystal which had trapped master Sylvia. The Crystal was melting.

"Give it a rest already! Your body is already mine! STOP FIGHTING BACK!" The demon shouted

Ariel's presence slowly began to fade as her expression began to return to it's blank one. Demon John who saw this and noticed that he wasn't in the position to fight, quickly vanished before appearing in front of the arena's exit. The door had opened and had been glowing for a long while now, since they had cleared the dungeon.

Had they not been fighting, they would have been able to exit a while ago.

Demon John glanced back and for a moment, John's presence seemed to return as tears fell down his face and he muttered. "I love you too.". Before returning to his demon self and crossing through the glowing doors.

Following that, everything froze in place before the hallucination disappeared. Leaving behind John.

"Who are you… Why did you show me all of this? Are they still alive…? SHOW ME THE REST WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM!? WHERE ARE THEY!?" John shouted as he wiped away his tears.

Tears wouldn't stop flowing down John's face, as his lid of emotions was filled with different feelings. He felt sadness, happiness, joy, anger and a throbbing pain on his heart and most of all shame.

He felt as if he had betrayed both Serena and Ariel, he had been too afraid to go looking for them due to fear of discovering that they weren't alive. He was ashamed of himself.

Suddenly, An unfamiliar hand was placed on his shoulder. Confused, John turned around to see who it was and when he did, he couldn't believe his eyes.

The figure of a person. He couldn't see the person's face but he had a familiar air to him. Dark hair like John which was covered by a dark cloak's hoodie and a figure similar to that of him.