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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 45: Beat Blaze Shadow
Chapter 45: Beat Blaze Shadow
"Hm?" We have been teleported to another location… no… this is just like back in Lindwurm. We are in a completely different dimension. All around us is nothing but lava. A sea of blazing lava as far as the eye can see. I have to put a layer of barrier around my skin to protect myself from the intense heat and pour more magic to my slime suit in order to prevent it from melting.
"Welcome to my world, Shadow. Here, everything is as I want it to be." My nemesis declares proudly as he reveals his handiwork to me.
How terrifying you are, my nemesis. I've focused my training on making myself strong and you went ahead and create cool spells like this. I almost want to call you sensei. Almost!
With a wave of his hand, a wave of lava emerges, threatening to consume me. I've always wanted to try swimming in lava but doing it in his lava is a risk I don't want to take. Who knows? Maybe there are lava sharks around.
I fly away from the lava wave as more waves emerge all around me. I try flying up really high to avoid them but a rain of molten rocks rains down around me. Naturally I avoided them all, destroying some of them with a slash of my sword. Heh heh heh. This is so much fun!
But if this keeps up, I'll be at a disadvantage. Maintaining the barrier around my skin whilst maintaining my slime suit in this environment is consuming so much magic energy. Though I'm not the only one who expends a large amount of magical energy in this fight. This is going to become a battle of attrition, isn't it?
I swipe the sea of lava with my sword, sending back a wave of lava at him. But as expected, the lava didn't harm him. I'm sure he didn't even feel all these heat either.
"It's useless. As I said before, my magic is not meant to trap me." He says mockingly.
I fly closer to him but… everytime I draw closer to him, he teleports away. He sends more lava waves at me with every teleportation.
One more time, he sends another wave of lava and instead of dodging, this time I… surf through the lava wave with a black surfboard made of slime that I reinforced so it would survive contact with the lava.
"Ho ho ho. Not bad." He says mockingly while clapping his hands.
I put my hand on the lava and tries to inject it with magic but as expected… my magic is rejected. His control over this dimension is absolute.
"This is MY domain! Everything obeys only me!" He exclaims as he creates a shark made of lava and sends it my way.
I knew it isn't wise to swim in his lava. There are lava sharks around!
I slice the shark apart as it attempts to bite me but it quickly reforms itself. I jump off the lava wave to dodge the shark's bite.
As I float in the air, several lava sharks jump out of the sea of lava to try biting me.
With a single swipe of my sword, I dice all of them, sending them back to the lava.
"Is that all?" I taunt my nemesis, urging him to show more of his tricks.
"How about this?" He says as he holds an open palm in my direction and sends…. Holy shit! A pyroclastic flow! I dodge the huge wave of black hot cloud coming my way. A deadly natural disaster conjured by his magic is bound to be dangerous. Even inhaling the gas is risky. But I can use this to my advantage.
He keeps conjuring more and more pyroclastic waves and I keep dodging, using the cloud from the pyroclastic flows as smoke screen to mask my steps as I slowly approach him silently.
I eventually move at high speed and appears behind him, a slash of my sword blocked by his staff.
"I knew you would be there. How predictable, nemesis." He says mockingly. Damn, he knows how much I love backstabbing.
Well, backstabbing seems to get old by now. I need to do something fresh. And I know just what to do.
Without disengaging from him, I release a burst of magical energy and push him downwards into the lava.
I watched as he fell into the lava but I know this isn't the end. This is his lava. The lava sharks won't attack him either.
Few seconds after he dropped into the lava, he emerges out of the lava… as a giant version of him made of lava.
"It's useless! This is my domain!" He exclaims, his voice louder due to his size.
He then vomits a stream of lava out of his mouth. Instead of dodging, I step into the stream of lava he vomited and run towards him.
I put magic into my feet and cause a burst which sends me flying straight into his gigantic skull-like face.
I plunge my sword between his eye sockets and inject more magic to the sword, causing a burst of magic to drive deeper into his skull, bursting behind his head.
Ignoring the damage in his skull, the Necromancer raises his hand to try and grab me. I simply step in his hand to dodge the slow moving hand.
I slice his lava form apart with high speed slashes, revealing his true self inside the head, slightly damaged from the magic burst I gave to his lava form's skull.
Not giving him a chance to retaliate, I stab my blade into his chest and… instead of blood, what came out of his body is snow and a burst of cold air, completely contrasting the current environment.
The cold air eventually envelops the whole place, turning it from a sea of lava into a winter wasteland surrounded by harsh blizzard.
I had to adjust the barrier coating my skin to protect me from cold instead of heat in order to adapt to the sudden change in environment.
The Necromancer that I stabbed disappeared when the environment changed.
I step on the snow coated ground, slightly relieved that I no longer have to constantly fly.
I turn behind me to see a giant spear made of ice emerges from the blizzard, flying towards me. I sidestepped the spear before noticing another spear coming from another direction.
The blizzard obscured my vision slightly but I managed dodged several more ice spears before finally spotting his silhouette in the distance, obscured by the blizzard.
I decided to show off a little bit of magic I developed myself by studying the Mist Dragon's breath.
I inhale deeply, focusing my magic in my lungs and, by copying my nemesis' own elemental magic, convert it into fire element before blowing it out of my mouth. A stream of fire came out of my mouth towards the direction of his silhouette, engulfing his form in flames. But it was not the real him. It was merely an illusion, just like the one I stabbed before.
"A dragon's breath, eh? Impressive. But can you find me?" His voice echoes in the air.
I see another silhouette of him but as I try to take a step closer, I find my shoes frozen solid. My slime outfit also becomes heavier and harder to be molded into shapes and density I desired.
"Haah… Even the frozen environment won't make it easy for me." I mutter as I pour more magic into my slime suit, breaking the ice and protecting it from freezing further.
I send another fire breath at the direction of the silhouette, dispelling the illusion. Another spear emerges and I slice it apart with my sword.
"Hmph. This is getting repetitive. Playtime is over!" I exclaim as I gather magical energy for my ultimate move. My purple energy envelops a large area around me.
"I… AM…" I say before being interrupted by the Necromancer finally showing himself with a hand coated in a black aura. I cancel my ultimate magic to dodge the dangerous rot magic.
"Now, you're mine." I declare as I coat my sword in flame and bisect him. This time, I drew blood.
His body, now in two pieces, falls to the ground, coating the snow red with his blood.
"Playtime isn't over yet." He says with a clear voice as if he wasn't bisected at all before red tentacle like things emerge from his wounds and reattach his bisected body.
I move to slash him with my sword before he fully reattached his body. I hit him… but…
"It was only an afterimage." He said as he suddenly appeared behind me, sending his rot magic on my back.
"Aaaagh!" I screame in pain as I jumped away. I have high pain tolerance but his rot magic is damn painful. My magic defense and even the slime covering my back evaporated, completely defenseless against that magic. Also, stealing my technique and line. Very clever.
I keep jumping away from him as he keeps chasing me with that rot magic of his while healing the wounds on my back. Ow! Ow! Even being skinned alive wouldn't be this painful!
Like a game of tag, he now becomes the "it". But I have no intention of being chased forever, you know?
As I ran and he kept chasing, I suddenly stop and begin gathering magic around my body, converting it into fire element and unleash it in a large burst of flames which envelops him.
The burst of flames knocks him away, though it wouldn't burn him much, not in this blizzard.
Before he recovers, I move at high speed and stab him with my flaming sword. Blood comes out of his wound… along with a spark of electricity.
"Another change in element, eh?" I mutter as I move away before he explodes in a burst of electricity. The bright light from his explosion also brought change to the scenery. This time we are flying above mountains surrounded by tornadoes and lightning.
"Hmm. If I'm not careful, I could be blown away." I mutter as I pour magic on my flight spell to keep my position steady and prevent myself from being blown away by the harsh wind. He always finds new ways to make me expend more magic than I'm comfortable with.
As I expected, several lightning strikes rain down upon me. Dodging them was made harder with the wind from the tornadoes constantly interrupting my flight. To top it all off, the damn Necromancer shoots more lightning from his hands. Hooray for more projectiles to dodge!
I tried flying towards him but he just blows me away by surrounding himself with a tornado.
Being blown away caused me to be struck by some lightning.
"Aghh!" I grunt as lightning from the sky struck me.
This is getting me nowhere. I must destroy this dimension with a huge bang. Using I Am Atomic is out of the question because he can just attack me with his rot magic before I can finish the technique. But I know a technique that can do the trick.
You know what they say. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Heh heh heh.
I raise my hand to the sky and begin creating a black sphere out of magic. The sphere was surrounded by purplish lights forming a spiral.
"You…!" He mutters hatefully as he tries to attack me but was blown away by the chaotic force generated by the black hole above me. This is the advantage in his technique that my I Am Atomic did not have. I grin as I watch him being blown away by his own technique.
"I hope you enjoy your present, Necromancer! MEGIDDO!" I shout as I aim the black hole towards him, causing it to burst in a huge cone, shattering the dimension.
Author's Note:
As you probably guessed, the title of this chapter is a reference of Tekken 7's OST, Heat Haze Shadow. Even the lava environment was a reference to Heihachi VS Kazuya in Tekken 7. I listened to that song while writing this chapter. It's a banger and fits an epic battle between rivals and sworn enemies.
Thanks to Zero for suggesting the Necromancer having ability similar to Reality Marbles. It gave me the idea to write this chapter.
Wholesome07: I shall wait for you so rest and return to your once you called slumber.
Answer: Yeah I'll rest properly. Don't worry.
BetweenIandGirl: did claude just teleported cid or is it one of those 'memories' arc case?
Answer: Subdimension, like the Sanctuary.
primenidus: Now they gone
Answer: Not for long.
TheVirtualPug: What's Claude's plan for dealing with his 'weakness.'
Answer: I have a plan for that. You'll see.
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