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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: 388, Published: Oct 27, 2023 Updated: Aug 9

768Chapter 44: The Second Encounter

Chapter 44: The Second Encounter

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

More sounds of explosions echoes in the cloudy sky. Two combatants fight in the air, their weapons and magic clash, generating mighty shockwaves that brought chaos to the entire Royal Capital of Midgar. The citizens watches on with both awe and fear at both of our powers. This is no longer a battle between two Spellswords… this is a battle of gods.

Seriously, this setting is so dope! And I have you to thank for preparing this stage, my beloved nemesis, Necromancer. I was indecisive about how I want to end this tournament arc, but you provided the answer for me. It's like you know exactly what I needed and came to deliver!

You're still too stingy though.

My sword clashes with his staff once again and… hm? What is this foreign magic invading me? It's gone as soon as I noticed it. Where did it go?

He then shoots the familiar fireballs again and I dodge them easily. If this is the same trick as before, I'm gonna be so disappo— Oh? Instead of gathering like before, the fireballs changed directions to chase me from multiple angles.

The number of fireballs keeps increasing as he keeps shooting them. I slice some of them with my sword to cause them to explode before reaching me but he just keeps shooting more. Obviously I won't let myself get overwhelmed by this. I know what to do.

I fly in some random direction while dodging the fireballs, slowly but subtly getting closer to him before suddenly flying to his direction.

When I reach him, I give him a smirk before flying away at higher speed than his fireballs could detect, causing the fireballs to fly towards him.

"You think my magic exists to trap me?" He said ominously while snapping his fingers. Hm? It's that foreign magic again and…

I suddenly find myself surrounded by the very fireballs I dodged earlier. So that foreign magic… it teleported me to his place and him to mine, essentially switching our places so that I'll be the one bombarded by his fireballs. Clever trick, nemesis.

I could slice them all at high speed before they reach me but instead I try to copy his magic and create a purplish barrier surrounding me, protecting me from the fireballs.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

Explosions surround me but with this barrier I am completely unharmed.

As smoke from the explosions clears out, I emerge unharmed surrounded by my barrier.

"Hoo… So you've copied another one of my spells." He remarks.

"Hmph. It was easy." I reply smugly, despite knowing that it's harder than I implied. Seriously. His spells are so sophisticated that I can learn so much from studying how they work by observing the flow of magical energy in his spells. I'm almost tempted to call him sensei.

"Then how about this?" He raised his hand to the sky, expelling a suspiciously large amount of magic and causing thunder to start rumbling.

"This spell. I've seen it." I say as I rush to interrupt him with a slash, which he blocks with his staff.

But surely he won't use this spell again if he knew that I am aware of its weakness. As if to confirm my suspicion, lightning shoots towards me from the sky and I fly away at high speed to dodge it.

I knew it. Unlike that time with the phantom in Lindwurm, he can control the weather and rain down lightning without needing to concentrate so I cannot interrupt the spell like last time.

Several more lightning shoots at me and I dodge them all. The lightning struck the buildings beneath us, causing destruction and mayhem wherever they struck.

"You may have your weather controlling magic but I can just do this!" I exclaim as I gather magical energy in my hand, which forms purple spiral.

"A brute force then?" He mutters as he watches me throwing my magic to the sky, causing all the gathered cloud to disperse, suddenly revealing a clear and cloudless sky.

But what my magic revealed is not just the sun and blue sky, but also… a black hole with greenish light gathering around it like a spiral. I sensed him sending magic to the sky earlier but I should've known it wasn't just for his weather controlling magic considering how much magic he expelled.

So he has already prepared his ultimate attack, Armageddon, which he used against my I Am Atomic when we first fought.

"You're going for the climax already?" I say as I see the black hole expanding, aiming it at the city.

"It will not be over for us. But for the city however…" He says ominously, implying that if I dodged, the city will be destroyed. He can't be serious about destroying the city! That's too much even for me!

I mean…. How can we leave a legend if there are none to tell the tale!? Isn't that the whole point of this show?

"Are you sure you want to do this?" I ask him while grinning fearlessly.

"What do you mean?" He replies with a question.

"Isn't there something in this city that is precious to you?" You know? Your dungeon? Also the precious stage you just provided for the both of us? It'll be a shame to blow them all up so fast!

"…." My question seems to have made him hesitate. Yes! You get it, don't you?

"Isn't there something in this city that is precious to you?" My nemesis, Shadow, says.

Two familiar faces flashed in my mind the moment he said that, making me hesitate until I realize how much I don't want to lose them.

"You're right. There are things that are precious to me in this city." I answer my sworn nemesis, who guessed correctly what I hold dear in my heart even when I didn't acknowledge them.

I cancel my Armageddon spell after realizing that.

Well done, my nemesis. For seeing through me… For knowing me better than I knew myself.

For seeing through my… weakness… weakness that gets in the way of my villainy… weakness that I must soon correct.

"I applaud you, my nemesis. I never thought you know me that much. For that, I shall reward you with this." I say as I snap my fingers and the world around us changed.

Perv Asshat escaped the city along with King Oriana on a common carriage instead of the kingly and decorated carriage reserved for Oriana royalty in order to escape incognito.

In addition to the chaos brought by the titanic battle in the sky and the clash between Shadow Garden and the Reaper Squad, the city is also attacked by a horde of undead warriors emerging from the underground maze after they broke through the barricades guarded by the Knight Order.

The Knight Order personnel are now too occupied with evacuating civilians and fighting off the undead horde to bother noticing a suspicious carriage escaping from the city.

"Hmph. Lord Necromancer is well prepared. With the Knight Order busy fighting his undead monsters, we can escape undetected. Everything went smoothly, hasn't it, your highness?" Says Perv.

"Not completely. My daughter hasn't come into our hands yet." Replies the king in a disappointed tone.

"I had my agents disguise as members the Knight Order too. I'm sure they will arrest her and bring her to us soon." Perv replies.

"Not enough. Not enough at all. You should've asked for Lord Necromancer's assistance."

"I cannot do that! I already owe him too much! My achievements will be overshadowed by him if I keep asking for everything out of him!" Exclaims Perv as he is adamant about not receiving further aid from the Necromancer.

"Hmph. No matter. Sooner or later, she will return to us." Declares the mad king while grinning ominously.

Alpha engages Gilfried in a high speed swordfight. Slash after slash, parry after parry. It looked like both of them are evenly matched but even with all his experience and Artifacts, Gilfried slowly starts to lose ground as the battle goes on.

A moment of weakness is all it takes for Alpha to launch a kick that sends him colliding with a building and through the wall.

"Urghh… it seems that age has caught up to me." Says Gilfried while groaning.

Alpha soon enters the building he was in through the wall he went through and smiles triumphantly.

"Perhaps now it is time for you to give up." Alpha taunts while pointing her black sword at him.

"I see. You want information, eh?"

"Indeed. You are Necromancer's closest aide, yes? Rest assured that Shadow Garden will make you spill all that you know about him."

"Heh heh heh. I'll become an undead monster before then." Declares Gilfried fearlessly.

"…." Alpha is unable to retort as she knew that the Necromancer have a way to prevent captured Reaper Squad members from spilling information during interrogation by remotely turning them into zombies.

As she is contemplating on how to take Gilfried into custody, she feels Shadow's aura disappear.

"What!?" She exclaims as she turns to the sky and found the lack of Shadow's presence along with the lack of explosions from his battle against his mortal enemy. The sky suddenly becomes so serene as if the chaotic battle from before didn't happen.

"Heh. So he's gone and done it." Gilfried says.

"What do you mean!?" Exclaims Alpha angily.

"You shall see it soon! HAAAA!" Shouts Gilfried as he launches himself at Alpha with a slash after he finished healing himself. Alpha hastily blocks the surprise attack and was thrown away by the impact of his attack but she managed to properly land on the rooftop of a building.

"What is the meaning of this!?" She exclaims after she senses that the Necromancer's aura also disappeared.

Author's Note:

I'm back! Finished with the irl stuff I must do this week. I'll probably be back to publishing chapters daily if I'm still up to it, at least until next year where I'll likely get busier and releases may become weekly.

primenidus: You what was not expecting the decapitation I mean fuckjng hell

Answer: For once Cid's plan was foiled. I want to switch the position of Midgar and Oriana in this fic.

TheVirtualPug: Claude? Worrying about his sister? Seems like he's not as evil as he believes. Def gonna be interesting.

Answer: Maybe he's a tsundere?

Wholesome07: I shall await for the epic battle.

Answer: Here it is. But them cliffhanger though.

J-More: For a moment I expected Sherry to throw a Lord Sidious into Alexia while screaming "power! unlimited power!"

Answer: Would be funny but uncharacteristic for Sherry and out of place for this fight.

BetweenIandGirl: timeline wise... it seems war oriana vs midgar will happen at the same time as blood moon(since it seems blood moon arc only one or two weeks away from final act of bunshin tournament festival arc) how would you mitigate this double act of arc?

Answer: The war won't happen that fast. In fact Blood Moon alone would halt any plans for war because people fear the legend.

Soulbow109: Interesting conversation between Nu and Charl. Look forward to the result. Boy Iris is really hating Shadow Garden and the Reaper Squad huh.

Answer: We'll see where she goes from here. And yes, in Iris' mind, these two freaks started a war that killed her dad and brought much chaos to the kingdom.

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