Chapter 44
(A/N: Does my writing looks better compared to my other books? I just feel that way. Anyway, enjoy Lawrence's showcase of power…)
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-Town of Fuyuki. Einzbern Castle.
3rd POV*
"Ergo, a king becomes a slave to 'just'" Rider stated looking down. "That is fine. A king is a martyr to his ideals." Saber responded. Rider was about to spoke again when Lawrence suddenly stood up making them confuse. "Master?" Nero tilted her head in confusion not knowing what he wanted to do. "Sigh, King of Conquerors. Please don't keep this up, even as a King, you need to respect the path that she has chosen" Lawrence said.
Everyone was baffled hearing it. "I must do this, she won't realize what is truth unless forced to" Rider shook his head showing his refusal. "It matters not. She was raised with such ideals, simply you reprimanding her won't change a thing. It was how her mindset was created, you an outsider could never sympathy less even influence her" Lawrence also gave his words that made Rider pause for a second.
"Don't you want that too, Archer?" Lawrence turned to Archer who just responded in kind. "Your impudence has angered me a lot, who gave you the permission to talk in the banquet between kings?" Archer narrowed his eyes at Lawrence trying to look deeper at the man, he can't seem to analyze anything from him making Archer cautious about this man.
Lawrence shrugged that question, "I don't care about what you think, I just wanted to do what I want. Besides if we are talking about kingship, I am literally a king of a whole world, your classifications are lower than mine" after saying that Lawrence stared directly at Archer's eyes who was pondering. His words might be presumptuous however it is not like it was a lie.
"King you say? What king are you Master of Caster?" Rider asked looking at Lawrence with interest. "Hm, I wonder. I can become 4 Kings, 2 Gods, and maybe even demon" Lawrence said sighing. This made the others think that he was just messing around, "I am losing my patience right now mongrel, if you don't have the qualification of a King then shut that mouth of yours in this instance" Archer narrowed his eyes.
Lawrence saw that they won't budge unless he really optimized a character, he shook his head and thought about DoomBringer. He implemented his character fully adjusting it towards his body. A gush of hideous power emerged from Lawrence, his whole body was covered in black mist while the shriek of agony from the souls was released.
It was disturbing for the masters to watch this scene and even for Saber, they have never saw such dreadful transformation. It was as if the world was welcoming the personification of all evils, it made Angra Mainyu looks pale in comparison. The mist disappeared revealing Lawrence with two large horns on his head and a pair of wicked wings floating behind his back.
"Let me introduce myself again, for now, Lawrence Doombringer. King of Hell" Lawrence gave an appalling smile to the kings who widened their eyes. Lawrence now had the regal air that most of them possess, his words seemed to seep of authority making anyone who heard it be forced to follow that words. This made Archer shut up because he can't see anything anymore, even his clairvoyance is malfunctioning when focused on this guy.
"An abomination, why have you come to this world?" Archer spat asking that question, he looked a little revolted at Lawrence's presence. Nero on the other hand just stared at him with stars on her eyes, she seemed to be asking how he did it just based on the look on her eyes. "It is my calling" Lawrence vaguely answered but it had a lot of meanings that Archer instantly comprehended.
"Kuh…hahaha! Even beings like you are just a toy to others huh?" Archer laughed loudly feeling amused by what he discovered. "Master of Caster, are you really the genuine King of Hell?" Rider asked staring at Lawrence seriously. King of Heroes might be surprising but hearing someone proclaiming himself to be the king of hell is just plain disturbing, to the point of absurdity.
Unknown to Lawrence, although he is aware that Doom was the King of Hell, he ignored one detail that made him special creature in Type-Moon world. It was the fact that Doom's real name was… Lucifer.
The world shook, darkness shrouded the whole sky. With the presence of Lucifer standing in the grounds of Earth, negative emotions of people began surging. Envy, Wrath, Pride, Greed, Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth.
The 7 major sins was awakened at this moment, no creature was able to resist the phenomena for Lucifer has the greatest control over humanity even higher than Beast.
The Beasts are comprised of Evils of Humanity. They are evil born from 'the karma produced by humanity progress.' Therefore Lucifer who is literally the King of Hell was above among these creatures. He has full control to every Beast's authority for he is a greater Evil than them.
The storm has been brewed, people on the streets began killing each other much to the joy of Gaia. All humans were affected by this madness, they reap, rape, devour, laze, murder, and kill. It was a joyous situation for Gaia, the wish it has been chasing after is finally getting initialized. The stream of negative emotions flow towards Lawrence who then became aware of the situation of the world. He created the Sunstrike spell to gain a proper view of the world and it was in mess.
Floods were drowning the earth, unusual earthquakes were shaking the grounds, Hell Fire devouring everything, and violent storms were ravaging the environment. This scene could only be described as the Apocalypse.
Fortunately, Lawrence's presence was suppressed to the utter limit avoiding inflicting the same madness to the Reverse Side of the World. If that would happen then a much worse hell would let loose.
"King of Hell! Stop this madness at once!" Archer shouted in anger for even he was being subjugated to this phenomenon. Among the 4 kings in the circle, only Nero was unaffected by the surge of emotions not because he was a companion of Lawrence. Even Anastashia and the others at house are already rampaging. The reason why Nero was unaffected was because of her other special identity.
"Master of Caster…!" Rider was also clenching his head trying to control himself. Lawrence finally snapped from his daze. Just now he was experiencing immense pleasure from the deaths of people, it was a characteristic of Doom. He looked at Shiki and sighed in relief seeing her not affected, well he was a fool thinking the daughter of Akasha would be hit by this one.
Lawrence took off Doom's character on his body and returned to normal. The influence disappeared on the world as the people regained their sanity. Unfortunately, what has been done can't be replaced. The dead can't stand up and the defiled will never regain their chastity. The first surge of horror has left replaced by the second one. The despair.
"What have you done?!" Saber grabbed Lawrence's collar and shook him off. As the holder of Excalibur, she clearly felt that all hope of humanity has vanished the moment Lawrence became the King of Hell. It was a happening that only occur when all humanity are either dead or in the verge of extinction. Archer and Rider also stared at him seriously. Archer was wondering why there were no Grand Servant dispatched to handle this abomination.
The three kings placed a battle stance ready to fight Lawrence. "You can't blame master! It was your faults in the first place! You forced him to show his qualifications, it was not his fault that he was overqualified!" Nero stood up in front of Lawrence shielding him against their eyes. "That does not warrant his safety! He was threatening the world's destruction just now!" Archer glared at Nero.
Before the three servants could even move, three knives were already placed on their necks. Normally something like this would never bother them but when they saw a terrifying eyes locked onto their figure, they visibly shook. Archer was getting angry at this treatment but nonetheless, he could not move as it would result to his end, a literal end.
"Move and your dead" Shiki's eyes glowed making it frightening, all of their death lines were visible to her right now. Just a simple cut and their heads would roll without resistance. "You dare to threaten me mongrel?!" Archer spat in anger. "Are you not the mongrel in this situation?" Shiki casually asked. Her words further infuriated the king as Golden Ripples started floating besides him ready to pierce Shiki at once.
"Cease fighting at once. Why are you all angry anyway?" Lawrence gave them an order making their eyes widen. They were kings! They could not be order around! "Why you ask? Then as the person who initiated that madness, you should be aware yourself!" Saber shouted pointing her invisible sword at Lawrence. "Ah that? It is my responsibility so I will handle it myself, don't bother yourself thinking about it" Lawrence just shrugged their impatience.
Rider gripped his sword tight, "Doombringer… did you just say you will handle it yourself? You speak as if you had the ability to overturn this situation. Stop blabbering nonsense!" he shouted. Lawrence saw that they could not be reasoned with so he just proceeded to implement DarkTerror into this figure. Just like the implementation of Doom, some changes happened on the spot. Fortunately, Lawrence already learned once and immediately suppressed the changes.
Only the garden of Einzbern were subjugated to the changes making all people on it dizzy from the jumbled Laws of Space and Time. Their perspective of reality began turning all around, their left was up, right was left, down was sideward, up is west. All of them stumbled to the ground unable to cope with the messed up space.
Lawrence immediately created a rift by punching through space. The whole world froze again, the same phenomenon that occurred years ago has returned. Archer, Rider, Saber and Nero was shocked at this. This is the realm of True Magic! Maybe even above as casually messing with the Laws of Space and Time is not something a human can comprehend!
Right now, Lawrence has full control to those 2 concepts and he can manipulate it to his will. Lawrence immediately grabbed his control of it and started turning back time under the eyes of many people. Weak people instantly forget about their memories of the future while the strong ones had to observe everything happened.
At this moment, Lawrence is a full God in this world. A simple move of his hand could destroy this full Earth. He is truly a sight to behold.
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