Chapter - 2150

Nemesis Demons (Part 2)
"You'll pay for what you did to me, Inxialot." An angry voice roared in the darkness.

"Baragan?" The Lich King ignored both the pain and his cracked skull, more amused than scared. "I remember shattering your phylactery. What are you doing here?"

The Lich-Demon replied with a snarl, charging at his nemesis with the might of a meteor. His steps on the floor allowed Earth Vision to finally perceive his presence and to the Council member to understand what was happening.

'Be on your guard! Verhen is calling upon our enemies and having them appear in mid-air. They could be anywhere!' Raagu said just before the tier five Spirit Spell, Blasting Furnace hit her at point-blank range.

It belonged to Meriam, the second-best disciple of her late master Tagath. Raagu had killed Meriam in a duel over 500 years ago to become the heir to Tagath's magical legacy.

Dark Dimension weakened her enchanted protections and her enhanced body so much that Blasting Furnace overpowered Raagu. It sent her crashing against the gold-veined marble wall, her skin charred by the intense heat and her bones cracked by the kinetic energy that the spell released.

The surprise and pain broke her focus, dispelling the array that she had nearly completed and forcing the human representative to start from scratch. To make matters worse, every Demon wore a hard-light full suit of armor and wielded their weapon of choice.

By also sharing Lith's Forgemastery skill, they used Spirit Magic to infuse their equipment with runes and give it the enchantments that suited them best.

On top of that, the Nemesis Demons exploited the darkness from Call of the Void and Lith's Light Mastery to conjure invisible constructs that sealed the movements of their opponent before hammering at them with their best spells.

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The hard-light both prevent them from dodging physical attacks like had happened to Inxialot and focused the destructive power of the spells without wasting one iota of mana like had happened to Raagu.

'Less stating the obvious, more casting Full Guard!' Feela had started weaving the Mage Knight spell the moment Inxialot had been sucker punched.

A violet aura spread from her body, filling the entire Throne room and allowing the Behemoth to dodge a knife hand aimed at her spine.

Meron tried to stand up and help his wife, but his body was still weakened by the Forbidden Magic and that simple effort was enough to make him faint. His last thought went to Sylpha, releasing the Saefel Armor from his body so that she could use it instead.

It saved her life since the Void exploited the Queen's moment of confusion after becoming blind to kick at her chest with all of his strength. Thanks to her rich battle experience, Sylpha had kept the Sword of Saefel against War, so to predict the Abomination's every move.

In theory, by controlling the angry blade Sylpha could also keep Lith at a distance and guess his position. In practice, the Void had left War in the hands of her just-summoned nemesis and had gone up close and personal.

He knew that his violet core wouldn't last long against the Queen's bright violet even if they were one on one, let alone one against many. Yet he also knew that despite her might and experience, the Queen was just human.

A Divine Beast weighing dozens of tons like him needed but one hit to snuff her life. The Armor of Saefel blocked the kick, adding its mass to Sylpha's and turning a deadly hit into a very painful one.

The Void would have liked to press on and finish the Queen, but for some reason, the black chains had failed to hit the Hydra who had found him thanks to her own Full Guard. Faluel was upon him and without his equipment, the Void couldn't allow her to land even one hit.

'Why do you keep hindering me? I'm protecting you!'

'Are you insane? You are destroying my life.' Lith replied while messing with its abilities. 'Faluel is a friend and you are out of control. She's trying to help me, not you.'

The Abomination tried to turn his arm into a spear, but Lith kept it from hardening. The Void cursed as he made his limb open into countless tendrils of darkness that wrapped around the Hydra's body before slamming her against the ground.

The wings on his back shapeshifted as well, turning into another set of arms that pummelled at Faluel to not give her the time to strike back.

'By my Mom!' Solus was flabbergasted. 'The tendrils that came out of Lith's shoulder back when he lost his arm at the academy, the extra limbs he conjured every time he cast Death Call, it was the Abomination all along.'

'What are you talking about?' Kamila was as scared by Lith's madness as she was confused by Solus' words.

For some reason, she could see through the Call of the Void just fine and so did Solus thanks to the mind link.

'Aren't Lith and the Abomination the same thing?'

'Yes, but it's complicated.' Solus had no way to explain Kamila where Lith's undead side came from without also revealing to her about his previous incarnations. 'We must focus to find a way to stop him.

'We aren't affected by any of Lith's and the Demon's skills which means that he's not going to hurt us. The problem is that if any of the Council representatives mistakes us for a Demon, we're dead.'

Her words sent a cold shiver down Kamila's spine who remained close to the unconscious King, waiting for an opportunity to appear.

Inxialot needed but a shrug to conjure enough darkness magic to counter Dark Dimension's effect and a single swing of his staff to blast Baraghan into pieces. Despite all of their power, hard-light constructs were nothing compared with Davross artifacts fueled by elemental crystals.

"You'd be more of a challenge if Verhen was a bright violet cored Awakened and he poured all of his might into you, old friend. As you are, you are barely an annoyance."

"Old friend?" The Lich-Demon said in outrage while reconstructing his body with sheer willpower, without letting a single shred of energy to be lost. "You killed me and stole my life's work!"

"Don't sweat on the small stuff." Inxialot replied. "I have fond memories of our rivalry and of your magical legacy. That's all that matters. On top of that, if I took the trouble of abandoning my own research long enough to kill you, I must have had excellent reasons."

The Lich King's conscience was like his memory, clear. He rarely used either of them and anything that wasn't reported in his diaries was quickly forgotten.

Raagu conjured a Spirit Barrier around her body, focusing her mana to block Meriam's onslaught long enough to finish casting her array. By using Spirit Magic to quickly conjure the runes along with body casting, true and fake magic, it took her but a few seconds to complete the magical formation.

The darkness sealing array dispelled the Call of the Void, allowing everyone to see again and coordinate their efforts. The Royal Guards were no Awakened and until that moment they had been sitting ducks against their invisible opponents.

Chapter 2151
The moment the darkness sealing array activated, the chains connecting the Void with the Nemesis Demons shattered. They still had the energy he had stored inside their bodies but without the chains, they had no longer access to his abilities.

All Lith's notions about modern magic, Light Mastery, and Forgemastery faded like fog under the sun, making the conjured equipment of the Demons crumble along with their teamwork.

The members of the Council and the Royal Guards quickly dispatched of their respective opponents, turning to help Faluel.

Each one of her seven heads had cast a tier five spell but they were all frozen in the space between the Abomination and the Hydra as they wrestled for control. Faluel had experience on her side but the black tendrils sucked her strength and kept slamming her against the ground.

It was a mere battle of Domination, but what everyone saw were seven elemental beams coming out of the Abomination's eyes fighting against those emitted by the Hydra's heads.

On the other side of the room, after Call of the Void had been dispelled, Sylpha had discovered that her opponent wasn't Lith but Tiennon Zavra. The second Lost Magus of Balkor's generation had never left the Royal palace after his death and had jumped at the opportunity to get his revenge.

A normal person would have shivered at the sight of the Lost Magus now wielding Lith's semi-sentient blade but to the Queen it just meant that she had no reason to hold back anymore.

"Enough!" She deflected War with one hand while releasing a pulse of golden light from the other. It killed the Demon so quickly that Zavra didn't even manage to curse at her one last time.

Then Sylpha trapped War inside a Sealed Space to keep it from returning to Lith and activated the seven magical gemstones on the Saefel Blade, tipping the scale to Faluel's advantage.

The seven spells hit the Abomination, each one meant to weaken and restrict him, not kill.

Light and earth formed a straitjacket that Spirit Magic made harder than a diamond. Bolts of lightning coursed through the construct, inducing spasms. Darkness sapped his strength while frost slowed his movements and fire made the air too hot to breathe, sealing his breathing techniques.

The darkness Lith's body was made of ignored the electricity, the cold, and the heat. He roared a jet stream of Void Flames, uncaring for the damage his lung took while also hitting the Council representatives with a mix of heat rays and hard light constructs.

Alas, he was one against many.

Each one of his opponents was stronger than him and Kamila still held his equipment. A collective Spirit Barrier easily blocked the Cursed Flames and Saefel's Blade overpowered the Light Mastery spells, turning them against the Abomination.

"Stop hurting him!" Now that there was no more risk of friendly fire, Kamila stepped in front of Lith to protect him from the Council and them from him.

"We would if he stopped lashing out like a rabid beast." Feela said in exasperation. "Can you convince him to revert to his human form?"

The moment Solus and Kamila had gotten closer, the Void had ceased his attacks to not risk hurting them. Yet at the same time, he was focusing his strength against the restraints to break them.

"I can try." Kamila nodded before turning around and kneeling next to him. "Lith?"

"Kami?" His voice was weak and slurred as if he had just woken up from a deep slumber.

"Hi, sweetie." Seeing the frenzied madness that had twisted his features until a second ago disappear made her sigh in relief. "Can you please shapeshift into any other form? You gave us a big scare."

Her gentle hand caressed his face, allowing him to experience both her and Solus' touch. She had used the plural intentionally, to let him know that they were both there for him.

Yet all she achieved was to give the Void new strength.

"Something is wrong." Faluel said. "I can feel the power of my spells being sucked away."

Abominations fed on the light element, no matter its source, and constructs were no exception. The Void swallowed the straitjacket, adding its power to his own and breaking free.

"I will protect you!" His whole body swelled as the darkness shapeshifted into new limbs and weapons.

The Void's eyes brimmed with mana of the seven elements but before the fight could start anew Xenagrosh Blinked in front of him. She placed the medium and index finger of her right hand on his forehead and those of her left on his core, releasing two small pulses of Chaos magic.

"I thought you were on my side." The Void said while fainting.

"I am, little brother, and I always will." Xenagrosh replied while supporting his body to keep it from falling.

Everyone glared at her for staying her hand for so long, but the Shadow Dragon ignored them.

"Why isn't he going back to human?" Raagu asked. "Isn't he supposed to be a Tiamat and the Abomination to be just one of his sides?"

"Shapeshifting is always shapeshifting." Feela shrugged. "If someone knocks me out while I'm in human form, I stay that way. There are only two ways to return to your natural appearance. Either you do it by your own will or you die."

Actually, there was a third option. People with great skill in light magic, like Tyris and the late Manohar, could force the shapeshifting in others but it required a degree of mastery that very few achieved and none of those present was even aware of the possibility.

"So, we have to wait that Verhen wakes up and hope he doesn't go on a rampage again?" Sylpha said while panting.

She hadn't taken much damage and her violet core was already rejuvenating her body, but fighting a creature that powerful had taken its toll on her.

"What if we are not that lucky? Are you going to step in this time or you'll just watch again?" The Queen's voice was stone cold as she glared at Xenagrosh.

"I had no reason to intervene." The Shadow Dragon made sure with her diagnostical spells that Lith was alright before answering. "Your guards attacked him first, he was just defending himself.

"Also, you heard him. He has never trained his Abomination form and a little squabble was the perfect opportunity to test his powers. If you really want to send Lith inside the Golden Griffon, he'll need at least his usual level of skill to survive.

"I considered this nothing but practice. I was ready to step in the moment his life was in danger." No one missed how she had expressed worry solely about Lith's life and disregarded everyone else's.

"Enough with this pointless quarrel we have bigger fish to fry." Faluel reverted to her human form and raised her hands toward both sides to make them lower their voice. "Xenagrosh, you are the expert about Abominations. Do you have any idea why Lith lost his mind?"

"I'm afraid that's our fault, little sister." The Shadow Dragon said with a sigh, her words made the Royals look at the Hydra as if she was a traitor. They were unaware that Xenagrosh considered anyone of Dragon bloodline her sibling.