"Did I hear that right!?" I asked."Two Ultra Aspects!?" Isabella said.Iris nodded."This has never happened before. In the entire history of Ignitus, no one has ever awakened two Ultra Aspects at the same time. It's unheard of. Impossible! Such a person can't exist! But...here are two of them right in front of me!""How powerful would that make someone?" I asked."Let's put it into perspective... Dante is more powerful than the vast majority of our military combined. He is the only one capable of doing battle with Kazuma and he has only one Ultra Aspect. Both of you would easily be more powerful than Dante or Kazuma... Perhaps even combined. Novak and I would be the only things capable of actually challenging you based on power alone...""But you're gods. Do gods even fight?" I asked."Of course they do! That asshole of a war god LOVES to fight people. I'm really powerful too, you know! Novak might also be evil, but he's still a god. In our divine forms, we rank higher than all mort
"Are we all prepared?" Carlos said.Everyone, including Iris all sat down at a round table in the conference room at HQ. Everyone except Carlos, of course. Today he was wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a white lab coat."Go ahead, Carlos," Dante said."Thank you. I've called you all here today because I want to discuss the Abyss Engine.""And isn't that your area of expertise? Have you figured it out, yet?" Michael said."If you'll let me finish, I can explain," Carlos said sternly."Yes, Mom," Michael said.Why is he an Enforcer, again...?"Iris damn it, Michael! Shut up!" Gavin shouted.Iris' expression turned sour."Excuse me!? Do you any idea how rude it is to use someone's NAME as a swear!? What the hell is wrong with you!?" Iris shouted angrily."I...uh...sorry Lady Iris..." Gavin said meekly."You better be! Don't you ever say that again! ...Jerk...""Ahem...Carlos, would you please continue...?" Dante said."Thank you. Now, Yakon has only revealed a small bit of information on
The deafening explosion obliterated everything around us.Once it had cleared, we were somehow alive.We sat within a massive crater as Kazuma drifted slowly to the ground nearby.I could see Isabella breathing heavily from the damage she'd taken.I checked her hp in the status menu and she was already at around sixty percent.This guy is absurdly strong... How can we fight something like this!?"Hmm. You two are still alive...? And Carlos also... Very well then. I will call for backup just to be safe."Kazuma raised his hands and at once, a red-haired woman appeared wearing similar attire to him...albeit, showing much more skin..."Ah...Kazuma! You really must ask before calling us to your side! I could have been bathing for all you know! Or would you have enjoyed that~?" The woman said."If you had arrived in the nude, I would have simply sent you back to get ready for battle. Now then, Elizabeth. Those two otherworlders need to die. Carlos as well.""And you need my help, because..
I truly believed I was about to die...I had so many questions about the exchange I just heard, but I wasn't sure if Iris would be here in time. Meanwhile, the Oracle was screaming obscenities at Iris and yelling at someone named Abbadon.Right now, the mere thought of the Oracle made me feel nothing but seething hatred. Hatred that could swallow a world.I wanted to tear her apart...And hopefully, I would...That is, if I survived this battle.Kazuma seemed to be preparing to strike me. The tip of his claw moved to my forehead and it began to heat up.As soon as the flickering around us stopped, Kazuma looked around."What was...hmm... That was a strange feeling... Deja vu...?" He said.Then he looked back at me.The air around my body began to greatly heat up and then...It started feeling cold.REALLY COLD.Suddenly, Kazuma looked up as several icicles and iron thorns shot straight for him.He threw me to the ground and leaped backward. As he did, iron chains and spikes shot from
When I awoke, I was in a hospital bed. Isabella was in a bed next to mine.I looked out the window and saw from the view that we were somewhere within the Enforcer HQ of Torantis.Isabella was still sleeping, but I reached over to her.At the same time, forgetting that I was missing my arm...Dammit...this is going to take some getting used to...I sighed to myself and stared at the ceiling.After laying motionless for a while, I realized I was shirtless. There were bandages around my midsection.I was sure that there was a huge claw mark on my right side, too.As if I didn't already have enough scars...When I looked at Isabella, she was also bandaged up pretty heavily. She had been treated for burns, but She didn't seem to have any lasting scars.Although some of her hair had been burned off. I knew she would be pissed about it, but the hair would eventually grow back.It seemed that Kazuma had only used fire to attack her instead of his claws for the most part. Her naturally high
A week later, I went into surgery to get a new arm. The medical doctors were much cleaner on Ignitus than Avernia. It was a much more comfortable ordeal. Isabella was worried about me the entire time, but I was fine.They connected my nerve endings to the machinery so that it would move naturally.But this was not my arm.It had none of the scars Cassandra left me.This arm didn't move the same. It wasn't natural at all.I wanted to tear it off and beat Kazuma to death with it, but that would have to wait.Worst of all, I couldn't feel Isabella when I touched her face or stroked her hair with this arm. It just served to make me angrier.At times, I felt like screaming in rage or crying. But I couldn't bring myself to do any of those things. Instead, I was forced to once again bottle things up inside.Although, Isabella was aware of me doing it. She didn't try to stop me, but instead, tried her best to comfort me.From my left side.She recognized that my inability to feel her with my
As soon as I thought those words towards Justice, the sword began glowing brightly.I unsheathed it and many new messages appeared on my status menu.{Manual class change activated by: 'Justice'. Arcane Executioner > Arcane Fencer(T)}{New skill(s) gained: J.Justice Strike LV.EX, J.Punishing Stab LV.EX, J.Blood Price LV.EX, J.Judgement Thrust LV.EX, J.Righteous Execution LV.EX.}{New abilities gained: Justice Form Two: Chain Weapon, Justice Form Three: Guillotine.}"Iris, you might want to step back..." I said.Isabella and Iris both watched in awe as I read the runes on Justice."JUSTICE, HEAR MY CALL! HE THAT JUDGES THINE ENEMY IS THE JUST ONE!!!"There was an powerful burst of magic as the runes glowed bright crimson and my arms were covered in spiked chains.Interestingly enough, they weren't causing me any harm.But I knew what these chains were capable of. I decided not to activate Guillotine right now as I had no idea what that would do. At the same time, I dispersed the chain
Two years of training and learning.I was eighteen now and Isabella was twenty.We worked for a long time, training to properly use our new weapons and learning the weaponry of this world.I learned a lot about technology too. I now had a deep understanding of many kinds of weaponry. Energy weapons, plasma weapons, ballistic weapons, explosives, etcetera.I also knew about using them.Leiso had turned us both into lethal soldiers and we were almost on the same level of hand-to-hand combat as she was.In the two years we had spent training, we weren't attacked once. Michael killed a few more assassins, but none of them ever reached us.He was supposedly able to use an odd trick with light and darkness that would show if someone's hair had been dyed or not.Attendants in Arcadia were not allowed to dye their hair under any circumstances unless they had special government permission to do so. It let everyone know that they were Attendants and served as a badge of office.Exposed Attendan