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The Necromancer in Shadow by TheOminousRain

Anime » Eminence in Shadow Rated: M, English, Horror & Humor, Cid Kagenou/Shadow, OC, Words: 548k+, Favs: 386, Follows: 387, Published: Oct 27, 2023 Updated: Aug 9

768Chapter 24: The Fated Encounter

Chapter 24: The Fated Encounter

"What was that burst of magical energy!? It's from the direction of vice principal Lutheran's office!" Shouts Iris after feeling the entire building shake from a burst of magical energy. None of the knights accompanying her could answer that question. However, all of them could tell that whoever unleashed that burst of magical energy possess more magic than even Iris does.

"Your highness!" Shouts Marco as he walks weakly towards Iris, clutching his wound the whole time.

"Marco! Report! What happened here!?"

"I was attacked by a cloaked man with skull mask and I was knocked out. The assailant must've attacked Claude and Sherry!" Reports Marco

"The Reaper Squad!" Exclaims Iris.

"Sherry is fine. We confirmed her presence in the gates. In fact, from her testimony, she and Claude seemed to be responsible for dispelling the barrier using the Artifact we entrusted her with." Explains Glen.

"As for Claude, we haven't found him. Last we heard he was fighting the zombies and the terrorists to save as many lives as he can." Remarks Iris with worry.

"Ah… He's amazing." Marco says in admiration of his colleague.

"Indeed he is. Anyway, Marco! You head back to the gate and receive treatments immediately! The rest of you with me! We must go to where that magical burst came from!" Iris commands.

"Yes, ma'am!" All the knights shout as they climb the stairs while avoiding the flames, smoke and falling debris.

Shadow. His mere presence is overwhelming even for me who has faced a dragon before. This man is no doubt the strongest entity this world has to offer. Heh heh heh. I've found him. No. He's come for me.

He stands up and starts walking slowly towards me.

"I won't forgive you." Shadow mutters hatefully.

"Oh? Have our plans for a poor innocent girl angered you?" He appears in front of me immediately and punched me in the face before my sword can intercept him. "Aghh!" I grunt in pain as he reappears a few steps away before my swords can retaliate.

"You've harmed what belongs to me." He mutters hatefully before suddenly appearing in front of me and punches me in the face again before retreating.

"Aghh….! Oww…. So it's about No. 001, is it? Heh heh heh. Should've known." I say as I clutch my mask and fix the cracks on it with magic.

"Then come at me with all your hate and vengeance, Shadow." I say as I unsummon my floating swords.

"Not gonna use your swords?" He asks.

"I only use my swords when I can't be bothered to actually fight, like when I disposed of that old fool. I am a mage. And a mage's weapon…" I summon a magic staff made of modified metal I created with Alchemy that I called Orichalcum. "… is a staff."

"Hmph. Good." He grinns while brandishing his black slime sword and charges at me. I create a barrier surrounding me to intercept his attack, which caused the barrier to crack even with just one strike. The impact between his blade and my barrier sends shockwave that destroyed the room and shook the building further.

Our battle continues in the school's rooftop. He continues moving at high speed to strike my barrier, breaking it with two more strikes. I retreat, create a big fireball in my left hand and throw it at him, which he dodged easily. I throw more fireballs, both big and small, and he continues to dodge them.

"Is that all? You're wasting your energy and my time, Necromancer." Taunts Shadow before realizing that he's surrounded by my fireballs which floats and gathers around him.

I snap my fingers and let the fireballs rain down at him. He increases his speed to dodge the rain of fireballs while lunging at me, which I parry with my staff. The clash between our weapons created another shockwave that destroyed the rooftop, causing us to relocate.

We are now in the courtyard, near the gate, in full view of the students and knights gathering there. I see my minions restraining No. 176 and was prepared to relocate it. I fly towards the beast and shouts "Release it!" towards my minions and they obeyed.

"Run!" The knights shout when they see the Reaper Squad releasing the beast out of its chains, instructing the students to run as they realized they shouldn't be here. The students readily follow the instructions (while screaming) so they won't become collateral damage to our battle. My minions also retreat from the scene. Only a few individuals remain in order to watch the battle unfold, namely Iris, Alexia, Glen, etc.

"OBEY!" I look at the beast in the eyes and command it to attack Shadow and it obeys. The beast attacks Shadow with a swipe of its tail and Shadow merely cuts it apart. It immediately regenerates the tail back and starts attacking again. This time, Shadow dodges and opts to attack the beast's head before stopping due to a strange feeling.

"Hm? I'm getting heavier." He feels his body getting heavier as I cast a gravity curse on him while he was distracted by the lizard.

"Heh. This should be good for practice." He grins fearlessly as he beheads the beast in an instant despite the added weight on his body. I mentally command what remaining zombies I've got in the school to gather around the courtyard in the meantime. It will take time for them to arrive and thus I brace myself for impact from Shadow's high speed overhead slash, which I block with my staff. The impact was actually amplified by the gravity curse I casted upon him and it sends me through the ground where I would eventually emerge on one of the underground tunnels underneath the school.

"Hm. Giving him the gravity curse might've been a mistake." I mutter as I see him descending through the hole I made. I hold my open palm at his direction and cast a lightning spell, which he dodges. The lightning went out of the hole and reached the sky.

He reappears in front of me as I stand back up. He tries to punch me in the face again and this time I catch his hand with mine. Man, that punch is really heavy.

"Not this time." I mutter before casting a lightning spell on the hand that holds his, giving him a shock of electricity which he receives with a grin. The lightning which electrocuted him also jumps to the tunnel walls and ceiling, breaking them upon impact and causing them to collapse. I fly into the air and escape from the collapsing tunnel through the hole we both entered in. The zombies, numbering merely about 2 dozens, are now gathered around the courtyard as Shadow jumps out of the hole.

"Go." I send my undead minions at him and he grins as he dispatches them easily. What he didn't expect is that I've modified the zombies that I sent after him. Whenever he cut a zombie, their magic circuit will burst and causing them to explode on him. He continues hacking the zombies to pieces and endures the explosions fearlessly until all zombies are spent however. His outfit are now covered by blood and gore along with some ash and soot.

We stand in front of each other. The fight we've had so far had been merely us gauging each other's abilities. We both grin as we both know we are enjoying this battle so much and that it's about to get even more fun. We are both like children playing a fighting game, each gauging the other's favourite strategies, combos, and tendencies, while also trying to find an opening in the other's defenses. I silently place a few mine runes on the ground before he starts moving again.

He takes a single step and disappeared, reappearing behind me as if he teleported. Had I been a lesser man, I would've thought he really did teleported but I saw him move at extremely high speed and even have the time to stand straight behind me after executing such a high speed move. I parry his sword strike with my staff and point a finger at him before sending a lightning bolt at him at point blank range, which he still dodged by disappearing and reappearing behind me again.

I parry his strike once again and cast a blizzard spell that circles around us to disrupt his next move, though he doesn't seem to be slowed down by the cold in addition to the gravity spell, once again disappearing and reappearing behind me. I create an ice spear to skewer him but he merely takes a step back and slices the ice spear effortlessly.

"You're a tricky opponent, Necromancer." He mutters as he once again reappears behind me.

"And you certainly love my back." I reply as I detonate a mine rune beneath him, which he dodged in time. He sends a few black spears made of slime at me, which I block with another barrier, the black spears piercing through the barrier instantly, though they are stopped before they could reach me. As he retracts the slime spears and moves to attack again, I send the shards of the barrier to him, forcing him to abandon his assault and retreats, a few shards graze him a few times in his cheek, hands and feet.

He tries to take a step closer but I snap my fingers and cause a few more mine runes to explode around him. After enduring the explosions, he gathers magic power on his sword and sends a few magic slashes, which I dodge, before sending a surprise magic slash attack while I was in the air, which pushes me away from the courtyard. A good move to avoid my remaining mines.

He chases after me to the forests behind the school and attempts to slash me while we are in the air but I dodge by flying away from him and sending a few spears made of pure magical energy after him. He dodges the spears but before he was able to retaliate, the spears he dodged turn around and chase him again. He is forced to be on the defensive as I call No. 176, who has healed itself despite being beheaded, to me and commands it to release poisonous breath, the only breath attack it can actually do, upon Shadow while he is distracted by the spears.

Despite inhaling the poisonous gas, Shadow seems to be unaffected as he destroys the spears by striking them with his sword. I send No. 176 to attack him with its claws, which was promptly cut apart by him as I appear behind him and put my hand on his back.

"Now it's my turn." I say as I cast another lightning spell, only for him to disappear and reappeared behind me again. I turn back to punch him but he catches my fist in his hand.

"And now it's my turn." He said as he generates lightning on the hand which caught mine, electrocuting me.

"Aghh…!" I swipe him with my staff as I retreat back. He copied… no, recreated his own version of my lightning spell from scratch. What a genius.

No. 176 attempts to bite him from behind but is cleanly diced by him instantly before he continues his assault on me, delivering a series of high speed and high powered slashes that cut several trees on its way and creates shockwaves every time they clash with my barriers. I create a curved blade out of pure magic power on the tip of my staff in order to turn it into a makeshift scythe and engage him in a high speed melee combat, our weapons creating more shockwaves every time they clash, which did more than just damage our surroundings but also delivering cuts all around our bodies.

We eventually stop our melee combat and jump back before staring at each other once again. This battle is so fun. And we want—demand more! This rivalry mustn't end in a single night! However we both need to end tonight's battle properly before retreating. And so we both know what we must do.

"I believe it is time to end tonight's battle, my destined foe." I say.

"I agree." He says as his purple magic begin engulfing both of us along with the regenerated No. 176.

"That's the spirit." I say as I respond in kind by raising my hand up in the air and create a black sphere which is inspired by the darkness that swallowed me and brought me to this world. The black sphere is surrounded by several lines of green colored light which formed a spiral that spins around the sphere.

Shadow grins when he sees what I did and he raises his sword in the air, his magic power envelops it.

"I AM…."

"ARMA…."

The pressure of our magic powers already clashing with each other even before we unleash our ultimate techniques, causing earthquakes in the area.

"ATOMIC!"

"GEDDON!"

His magic and mine erupt, clashing against each other, bathing the night sky with bright light.

Author's Note:

That was the longest fight scene I've written so far. Hope you enjoyed the battle. Shadow certainly love backstabbing like a Dark Souls player. And I Am Atomic met its match.

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