Baron Crimson (II)

It's just pathetic, so before I could refuse, my energetic pride spoke for me, accepting his offer.

Emerald, who still had a face full of fear, quickly backed away from the arena, positioning herself only inches away from entering it.

"You know what to do, Emerald" Baron commanded in a chilling voice full of elegance, causing Emerald to instinctively move her arms forward, speaking words I couldn't hear for how low it was, the arena was covered in a sphere of pure darkness.

Everything, absolutely everything was darkness in that sphere, it was not like that of Lord Chaos that was an infinite cube of darkness, in this case it was a sphere of darkness that was not infinite, you could clearly see that after we removed them from the field, that was the end where the darkness arrives.

With me and the Baron at the epicenter, we stared at each other for several seconds until finally someone broke the silence.

"I'm not going to go too rough Lord, but I'm also not going to treat you like I'm weak after all, you're not at your peak yet" The masked man stated as he continued to stare at me, his words made me frown.

'I'm still not at my peak yet? That means... 'I was more powerful before?' A slight revelation arose in my mind, it actually made sense, after all I have the Baron and Emerald of subordinates who are extremely powerful, besides, yesterday I didn't give it much thought, but when I got angry I could even feel a very high fear from the Baron and Emerald was so afraid that maybe his heart was going to burst out.

'If he was more powerful... What exactly happened?' I wondered internally, but my thinking time was over when the Baron launched himself at me without warning.

*Crash*

A fist was thrown at me at high speed, but miraculously I was able to block it with my forearm. The power of the attack was such that I slid backwards a little, but I didn't even have time to stabilize myself when on my right side a spinning kick came at me at high speed, it was going straight for my head.

*Dull sound

I was able to dodge it by throwing my head back, the kick was grazing my face.

'I must not continue to let him get the upper hand in his attacks' I thought so, I created some darkness around me that I turned into sharp blades of darkness that I quickly expelled towards the Baron, who had no other remedy but to move away.

All the blades were dodged by him acrobatically, each movement with grace and elegance.

But I couldn't just stand there and watch while he dodged, could I? Absolutely NOT! Every fraction of seconds is crucial in a combat.

"ABYSS: Shadow State" I shouted in desperation, at that moment the Baron had already dodged all the blades and was heading straight for me.

*Gloat*

From my body a black liquid substance came out of nowhere, so that later that liquid would take.... Life? It moved from side to side, and then covered my body.

When I faced the King, everything was shadows and darkness, I simply absorbed that, but in this case the shadows were born from me, covering my body, only leaving my two crimson orbs that glowed with intensity.

Covering my body with the shadows only took a split second, so I was already ready to react against him.

"Eh?" I was surprised, the Baron wasn't in front of me to attack me.... There was a sea of crimson flames coming towards me, their temperature was abnormally high, I was sure that if I made contact with them, I was going to be roasted to death.

'Shit!'

I cursed, the flames were only a few meters away from me, I could not block them or dodge... So I decided to do something new, evade.

"Gravity: evade" I shouted, I hadn't practiced gravity before, but I had some information in my mind, that information I could use now.

With my hand outstretched, I modified a point in space or rather a sphere in space almost my size, controlling the gravity there so that everything that will enter will be ejected.... This is what I called: Evade.

Modifying an existing space, changing the laws of gravity there, was basically that, and in this case I made everything separate.

This consumed a large amount of mana, making my head extremely sore, I could control the mana from the outside but with my mana, that's what I understood after using it so much.

*Crash*

A sound of something colliding sounded, I couldn't tell exactly what sound it was only of something colliding, thus, the Sea of crimson fire touched the space where the law of gravity was modified, such a change of gravity made the flames go crazy and uncontrollable, to then separate as dictated by my command.

So, as the affected space was inches away from me, the flames parted in front of me, creating an amazing and beautiful scene, with the flames seeming not to want to touch me and my cold and indifferent gaze upon them.

The sea of flames lasted several seconds when it finally ceased, also in that instant my spell went away, I didn't want it to take much more mana, in fact every moment that passed I had to spend mana to control the specific space I modified, a single mistake and the modified space would have returned to its original form and the flames would have burned me alive.

*drops*.

Droplets or rather spurts of blood were spewing out of my eyes, mouth, nose and ears, I was in my shadow form which made me have regeneration, in fact it seemed that after having my bloodline I can increase my regeneration, but the excessive mana expenditure and usage was so high that even my regeneration wasn't keeping up with my internal wounds.

"That's really interesting you have there, Lord" A voice came from the front, through the smoke caused by the sea of flames, I couldn't see the person but it was more than obvious that it was the Baron.

"Yes, in fact I am also a little surprised that it worked so well" I spoke in a high tone, slightly proud.

A time of silence settled between us, at this moment I could get to appreciate the whole battlefield after the sea of flames.

"Hey, tell me, why the fuck is everything almost completely destroyed?"

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