Over the duration of six weeks, Linux frequently showed up to where Alucard was, and before the he knew it, he was falling for the woman slowly. She was charming, kind and mostly beautiful, qualities of a queen. But little did he know, a plan had been formulated and he was walking head first into its maw.
Alucard arrived at the destination with the intent to tell Anastasia how he felt, he felt nervous. Fighting an army was better than this feeling he was feeling. As he arrived at the Peach tree, he saw her like usual sitting high on the tree branches. Wearing a pink dress reaching her knees and high heeled shoes. Alucard found himself staring at her as she was lit up by the sun and the reflection of the peach tree leaves giving her a whole new level of elegance.
“Ehem.”
Linux turned to look at the voice and a bright smile graced her lips. She jumped down and was caught by Alucard who twirled around for a bit then placed her on her feet.
Their embrace lasted a few more minutes as the two remained still.
“Ana, for a while now I've kept this deep in my chest.”
Linux, or Anastasia brought her head back and looked at Alucard in the eye. “What do you mean?”
Alucard became hesitant, while in his mind offered himself a pep talk of encouragement. “ I don't know how to say this, but I've grown to like you, not as a friend but something more.”
As Alucard confessed, Linux smiled, while deep inside she was jumping with glee. Her plan had worked out and it was time to take the world by storm, she leaned in close to Alucard, positioning her lips next to his ear. “Poor Alucard, the truth is... I'm not who you think I am, he hehe, now awaken from your slumber Demon King Dracula.”
Alucard's eyes widen as the scalera turned black, his eyes shifting to crimson. He pushed Linux away and knelt on the ground, hands clutching his head as memories flashed through his mind while he tried to fight off the thing that came over him, he glanced up and gritted his teeth seeing Anastasia now in her true form.
“What... Have.... You... Done... To
.. Me.”Linux watched the writhing man and resisted the urge to laugh, how foolish could he be? He couldn't even detect the malice she was intentionally leaking? But that didn't matter as he was about to be something more, something greater. “I merely gave you what you sought after, power. Power beyond your imagination, now use it for me and get me the scepter of Avalon.”
The clear skies converted into darkness, dark clouds swirled out of nowhere clouding the whole kingdom. Thunder flashed across the heavens, while lightning struck the earth below. From inside the clouds a pillar of dark Qi descended and fell onto the ground, right on top of Alucard. The pillar emancipated an aura of dread, death and malice.
Alucard faded away, the thing his mind registered was the triumphant look Linux had on his face. With Alucard gone, Dracula, the alter ego Linux sow in Alucard appeared. His appearance changed a bit as he harnessed the Qi into his body, turning his skin reddish while his hair turned white. A tail sprouted from the tail bone and his fingernails turned to claws.
HAHAHAHAHA!!
His laugh sent shockwaves sweeping across the land demolishing the trees as it went. Not a moment later, multiple guards made themselves known to the duo. All armed with weapons, behind them being the long ranged spell casters.
The Archduke, leader of the guards, Rugal stepped forward. His face serious as it could be while his brownish eyes spotted hatred in them. He knew who this person was but at the same time he did not. “What have you done with our Lord? Answer me witch.”
Linux chuckled, they were too funny but she didn't have time to waste, she wanted to find that scepter. The Qi inside of it, and the unique trait it possessed was what she sought. “Dracula, can you be a darling and finish this?”
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Dracula grinned, and in his palm manifested his forearm bone which quickly reshaped into a broadsword while the bone in his arm regenerated to fill the gap. “With pleasure!”
Linux nodded and flew away leaving Dracula and the guards there.
GROUND SPLITTER
Without warning, Dracula jumped up, the bone blade in both hands and he quickly descended, impacting the ground with the blade causing the terrain to be remodeled as the earth bulged outward, releasing a Qi shockwave in the process.
PROTECTION
The mages in the royal army casted an omnidirectional barrier of Qi which contained the explosive force of their Lord's blade from covering the area besides the one they were in. Simultaneously trapping him inside the barrier itself.
Dracula chuckled, it seemed like his initiation was not enough. With excellent footwork, Dracula twirled on his heel, the Demon Bone Sword in hand and he'd launch an omnidirectional wave of destructive Qi to the targets surrounding him.
FISSION WAVE
everyone was forced to dodge as the wave demolished everything around it, even the Qi barrier they had set up. Everyone was shocked at the amount of destruction Dracula had made in just two attacks, everything within a radius of three hundred meters was laid to waste, crumbled to fine dust. The Archduke seeing the level of destruction and the power gap between Dracula and his soldiers retreated to the vanguard, to formulate a plan.
The melee fighters charged at Alucard from all sides, their attacks and weapons coalesced with Qi aiming to end the imposter where he stood. But they had no idea who they were dealing with, for the umpteenth time, Dracula smirked and like a bolt of lightning striking the ground moved.
BLAZING DUET.
A mirrored version of Dracula appeared mimicking his movements and speed but in an opposite manner like positive and negative. With both Qi and physical Dracula swinging their swords, the product of their assail manifested. Multiple cuts appeared on all the guards, splitting them in horrid fashion. Gutting their intestines out, cutting their throats, decapitation, body splitting etc. The army of five hundred was reduced to one, Rugal who was on his knees, bleeding with a missing hand, knee and eye.
“My lord... Why... Are... You... Doing... This?”
Dracula just stared at the man and chopped his head off. His eyes void of emotions, only having his goal and that was to aid his creator in her goals. Dracula disappeared from the area after he was done leaving behind a bloodbath.
[With Linux]After giving Dracula the specific commands, Linux appeared at the top of the palace and made her way into the palace discretely. She navigated throughout the hallways following the predominant amount of Qi lingering in the atmosphere acting as guide to where she's supposed to go. Finally she came to a stop next to the large trapdoor. Excitement rushing through her veins as she opened the trapdoor. Her sanguine eyes following with the opening of the door.“Halt where you stand. Who are you and what's your business here.”Linux turned around upon hearing the commanding tone, she saw a couple of armed guards but she didn't have time to deal with them. Instead of speaking back, she raised her hand, unfolded her palm and in the pivot of the palm manifested a multicolored sphere.EYES OF ETERNITYA wave of purplish Qi escaped the confines of the sphere spilling into the room. Immediately the guards started to fall down one by one until none where standing, they were still alive
The Qi cover alarmed everyone within visual area, that included Lily, Midas, and Astaroth who were holding yet another meeting but this time in person. The three rulers shivered as they felt the uncontested rage and malice lurking within the Qi and they began to worry.Midas stood up and looked out the window, looking in the direction of Enslynue where the Qi originated from. In his mind he was against what his gut and heart was telling him, which was to go investigate the course but even he, knew that regardless of how Alucard behaved, the safety of the innocent shouldn't be ignored because of their ruler's ego. Before he knew it, the rain started to pour and heavily so. Midas turned to look at the two sovereigns and snapped his fingers opening a human sized spatial rift. “I'm aware that we all have mixed feelings about Alucard, but we must make sure that nothing bad happened to Enslynue.” Lily and Astaroth nodded, concomitantly rising from the seats. They both followed behind Mida
“The Novachrono family was a family of noble fighters who were considered to be one of the strongest clan's to ever set foot in Enslynue. Our ancestors came here back when the barren lands were intact and they along with the other five families separated a portion of the land from the mainland and such the continent of Enslynue was created. The Novachrono however, didn't rise to be the monarchs until the reign of Julian Novachrono.”A younger version of Alucard tentively listened to the man who sat before him and his three brothers. Like Alucard, Hael and Xerxes were eagerly listening waiting to hear what was next on the story about their family and its origin.“What happened next? I want to know.” Hael, Alucard's second brother asked avidity lanced in his voice and soon after Xerxes followed him, inquiring about what happened.The older man chuckled, and stroked his beard. His name was Azazel, the king of Enslynue and the father to Alucard and his three brothers. Azazel had long yet
After the declaration, Alucard didn't rise from the ground. He just laid there, hands cradling his head as tears started to well up in his eyes. He just couldn't understand, he couldn't get why his father was like that with him much like his two siblings.-Dorothy watched from the palace hallway with a sad expression. She couldn't intervene that much because she knew the truth as to why her husband was like that to Alucard. She blinked her tears away and left, leaving her words to linger about.“You will know one day Alucard.”-After a few minutes passed as Alucard laid there, he got up and dusted his clones. Wordlessly he left the yard and headed to the secluded part of the Palace, that side was Alucard's favorite hanging spot. It was filled with weed all around but in the center were crimson flowers, these flowers were called Red Spider Lilies.Alucard walked across the waist length weed and stopped next to the fl
Alucard after that day of hearing his mother and so called father quarrel and finding out the truth stopped playing nice all together. He spent his days training nonstop under the guidance of the woman he met in the cave. His Qi refinement and cultivation soared by leaps and bounds. Over three whole weeks, he trained in Qi control and cultivation, he also was preparing for the upcoming Dragon Talon tournament, he was going to claim what was rightfully his.Like every other day, Alucard was with the water spirit doing physical training when the woman in the water called out to him. Causing Alucard to stop whatever he was doing, and he went up to The edge of the water and sat down.“Why did you call me?”❝ For the past weeks you've been training on your cultivation skill and you managed to hone it to perfection, however there's one I want to teach you. ❞“OH? What could that one be?”❝ It is called Archetype: Accelerated Combatant Cultivation Technique. ❞“Archetype: Accelerated Combata
In all of the rulers no one was as furious as Azazel while no one was as happy as Dorothy. Due to Enslynue patriarchy system she couldn't do anything to prevent Azazel from stunting her older son's potential. She was glad that Alucard somehow managed to grow stronger without Azazel's help and she thought that it was the right thing he had done. But her significant order did not share the same sentiments as her apparently, he was appalled by the fact one of his sons, the person he had taught effortlessly lost to Alucard.Dorothy was alerted by the sound of wood cracking. She turned to her side and saw her husband furiously digging his fingers into the armrest of his throne, causing splinters to emerge from the once flat armrest. Although she didn't like Azazel's practices whenever it came to her children, it didn't mean she didn't care about his wellbeing. So Dorothy, like a doting wife and queen leaned closer to Azazel's ear.“Dear you'll end up hurting yourself if you continue doing
The brutal display of fighting and the severity of the attacks Xerxes used was uncalled for, and it warranted criticism from the others even the sovereigns. Midas albeit concerned held his tongue and nudged his wife on the side silently alerting her to check upon their son. From his perspective the wounds were not minor, not at all. They were deep and were curved with an intent to take his life, Midas shot a glance at Azazel and a frown married his face but acting civilly, he just kept his calm and watched the match which proceeded rather quickly in comparison to the other two.-The fights that followed after were on par with the ones that had opened up the tournament, and in all four fights, four of the eight participants proceeded forward, along side Alucard and Xerxes was Solaris, Kagami, Akemi and Musamune. The four had put on a splendid show for the spectators showcasing their remarkable strengths and sacred techniques.❝ Ladies and Gentlemen the first round was indeed electrify
As Musamune turned around, Alucard placed a punch on his face causing the boy to stagger backwards. But Alucard wasn't done, he was not giving Musamune time to recover. He followed by a punch to the face then another one to the chin uprooting Musamune sending him into the sky, however before Musamune can fly away from the force. Alucard grabbed his leg and yanked it back at him simultaneously delivering a vicious closeline making Musamune do a 360° spin before smashing on the ring floor. Alucard jumped back and poked his chest releasing the Qi he has stored up in his body. “So that's how it is huh. You are opening your meridians to get an addition boost, now I know it.” Musamune said, digging himself out of the crater he made and resumed his stance. The two charged at one another and both evenly matched as they threw punches at one another, with every punch, the other had a counter for it. Every kick was the same. Their collision was fast, and it left gusts of air weeping across the
As the explosion died down, a bruised Arthur and Linux stood near the edge roots of energy. They held their breaths, anticipating to see the product of their combined effort to defeat the adversary before them. “Insolent fools,” Arodis's voice pierced through the dimensional rift as the last bit of energy circulating where he was dissipated. Arthur and Linux were astounded at the resilience the mechanical monster before them had, the attacks were enough to shake the void realm they were in and cause destruction on a greater scale and yet the target of their attacks only suffered getting his right side blown away. Their shock did not last long as the Qi levels started to rapidly rise, skyrocketing to a point the dimensional rift showed cracks in its edges. “Something is coming” Arthur informed his new comrade. Linux nodded, she could feel the foul Qi resonating around them. Having been connected to the Source, it made it easier for her to detect presences linked to Oblivion. Arod
Arthur spectated the interaction until the towering mechanical being hit Linux, he tightened his grip around his sword. Even if the woman was a menace and a thorn in his side, Arthur was not going to stand by and watch her get hurt. He dashes over to Linux and caught her. His gesture startled the woman who was unsure of what to do. She had been trying to ruin him at every chance she got and yet he was there to rescue her when she needed help. Why? Why was he so selfless? Everything was because of her, he lost everything. His friends, his reality, and his home world all because she was following a fool's goal. Linux looked at Arthur, “Why did you help me?” Arthur acknowledged her question but never paid attention to her. His eyes were focused on Arodis, the speed the latter had struck Linux with was something they had yet to deal with. His vision could not track the hand movement of Arodis until Linux was hit and Arthur was positive that he could track even light moving through
Linux dashed forward and delivered a roundhouse kick to Arthur, the latter blocked the attack with his right forearm and used his left hand to grab Linux's ankle. Arthur twisted his body around generating enough momentum to send Linux flying but instead of releasing his grasp, he smashed the latter on the ground creating a large crater with Linux's body. He was not done, he stabbed his sword near Linux's face and chuckled. The woman was as fast as ever, she managed to narrowly avoid his attack by just an inch when she moved her head. But it did not matter to Arthur, he still had a hold on her ankle. Or so he thought. Linux kicked Arthur on the chin making the latter stagger backward, slightly disoriented from the power behind the blow. Arthur regained his bearing and launched his attack; the black sword in his hand acting as an extension of his reach as he swung it in an attempt to slice through the woman. Linux was nimble on her feet, she easily evaded a majority of the attack
[Where am I?] [You are locked in the subconscious of your mind by Linux, right now the person using our body is not you.][I... See. So what are we going to do Aether?] [The only thing we had been doing ever since, we fight! With all our strength, I have a feeling that our salvation is coming.] Arthur nodded as he looked at Aether, the main conscience behind his actions. It had been a couple of months, maybe a year, since they last, sat down and had a conversation. [So what's going to happen once you complete your goal? Are you going to return to your home world?] Aether shook his head. There's no world to return to, everything was destroyed by Linux's wrath. He clutched his fists tightly and bit his lip. He was useless. He could not protect what his forefathers gave their lives to protect. He did not deserve to be a sorcerer Supreme. Sanz was better suited for the role but his lack of magical prowess got in the way. Aether has to admit something he had been running from. He
Dante dashed forward, crossing the distance between him and the controlled Arthur in a second. He appeared behind Arthur after he relocated and kicked the latter in the back with enough force to shatter the spine of Arthur. Arthur felt his insides grind up from the attack, it was as if his back was being pressed against his stomach. He could feel the bones cracking from the internal pressure. Arthur staggered forward from the kick and turned around only to receive a boot to the chin uprooting him from his feet, launching him into the air. Dante outstretched his arm and a Chakram blade appeared in the palm, he threw the blade with precision at Arthur aiming to slice the latter's neck clean. Arthur saw the blade and covered his most vulnerable part by bringing his head forward, the Chakram cut through his left eye as it narrowly missed his neck. He landed on the ground and placed a hand on his eye, he had one vision now and he could not focus because he was hearing whispers in his
As Evangelist screamed in the illusion world, her screams escaped her mouth startling the others with her. The woman writhing at their feet startled them, they looked at the woman who was holding her head and looked at Arthur. “What did you do to her?” Lily asked looking at Arthur as she cradled Evangelist in her arms. Concern for the woman flashed in her eyes. She saw how protective Arthur was toward the woman in her hands, he threatened them the first time they met and put himself in harm's way for her safety. So why? Why did he attack her like that? The cause of the mental anguish the woman in her arms was the glowing eyes from Arthur, after they glowed, Evangelist behaved rather oddly for Lily even if she was not around her for a long period of time. Arthur stared at the woman unsympathetically, he felt nothing even when she screamed. Hearing Lily ask what he had done, he stared at Lily as well. “I merely put her in an illusion, if she can't win against her past she's weak
Arthur took a look at the gate opened by Linux, his eyes peered through the gate seeing across the dimensions. He knew he made a grave error in calculations but he had to, to match the power of Linux it was imperative for him to release the seal. He flickered across the battlefield and appeared before Linux, he threw a punch at the latter who blocked his punch. Linux kicked Arthur away from her only for the latter to pounce back and be on the assault once again. She diverted and blocked his attacks retaliating with her own. Each time their attacks met, the land shook and the earth split into two. The winds roared as they rippled across the battlefield and the entirety of the globe.Arthur jumped back distancing himself from Linux, he dodged to the side seeing the horde fire attacks where he was standing. He gritted his teeth and looked around him. The army of legions surrounded him, closing every escape route he had. But Arthur was not intimidated, he could deal with a majority o
Granger sneered at Arthur, he was a pest on his side. He did not know when to give up and walk away, the latter was always meddling in his ambitions acting as a hindrance to his goals. Ever since he got word of him, he had been wary of Arthur, he organized the summit between rankers in an attempt to kill him but that failed too. Arthur reminded Granger of someone. Granger chuckled remembering that one friend he had back in his timeline. He was like the man before him, obnoxious, he never knew when to stop probing into people's businesses until he got killed. Arthur looked at the chuckling man, he raised an eyebrow wondering if the latter had gone senile. “What is so funny?” Granger hummed upon hearing the question, what was funny? He looked up at the ceiling unable to find the right words. He contemplated his choice of speech before he began to reply.“You remind me of someone, a person I held dear to me,” Granger replied reminiscing of the past. Held dear? Those words held mean
The battle began between the last two individuals transported away by Midas. They were at a mountain range, the winds were chilling cold as they pillaged the lands like travelers, caressing everything they touched.The weather was humid yet tumultuous at the same time as it caved to the Qi the two fighters had. Standing near the foliage on the mountain peak was a young man standing at 5 foot 7 inches, he wore Israeli clothing consisting of a white blouse shirt, strap-on sandals, and a large coat above. On his waist was a rope that had a small bag connected to it. He was David, the one who had a blessing from the all-father. Also known as the Goliath Slayer. Alucard peered at the man standing before him, he was not that impressive. His body physique was average at best, with no defining muscle structure but there was something about the man that made him take the fight seriously. He could not place his finger on it, but it felt as if he was staring at an even greater being than he