The Sun - Lord of Mysteries (fanfiction)

Chapter 49: Medici

Lucas was terrified, no, it was too underwhelming to put it that way; just being close to the man paralysed him to the core, his thoughts slowing and consciousness clouding by the minute.

He desperately tried to use his remaining strength, but his illusions were quickly shattered as he felt the heavy aura pressing down on him like a mountain, rendering him unable to move any part of his body.

He felt his chin being grabbed, and his gaze met the red-haired man's crimson eyes.

Everything in his vision slowly faded into darkness, but the crimson eyes remained, haunting him.

In the crimson eyes, he saw reddish fires burning brightly like stars, illuminating the darkness.

He began to see visions in which the red-haired man left nothing but disaster in his wake, mountains of corpses of mythical creatures lay on the battlefield as the red-haired man sat on top of it covered in blood, yet the craziness and madness in his eyes and smile didn't fade despite the scene before him.

It went on and on, he saw innumerable battles of the red-haired man, and his mind went almost insane, unable to stand it any longer... The visions didn't end, though; they kept coming back...

The frightening visions repeated over and over in his mind, seeking to dismantle him into the last of his pieces.

His consciousness became blurry, and he felt as if he were falling down at the last moment, then his blurry vision saw the dark river flowing with no beginning or end, towards which he was falling.

'Is this it...?' His entire life flashed before his eyes in the last moments, finally focusing on three pictures, one of which was him swearing his loyalty to his lord, another was him dancing with Diana in the ball, and finally, it was him smiling with Diana, Blaise, and Edward while enjoying the holidays that we rarely got.

In the end, he felt regret and pain....

'I'm sorry, Diana. I broke my promise...'

When his figure arrived just before the dark river, a burst of pure light erupted from the void, illuminating the entire darkness. It also submerged him completely....

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In the battlefield, a terrifying aura of destruction erupted, freezing everything across the no man's land.

The blots of crimson and blue lightning that had been colliding in dark clouds against each other vanished as if erased, as did the majority of the angels' attacks across the battlefield.

The angels felt suffocating aura covers everything around them, as screams of the pain and terror sounded everywhere.

Medici looked up with interest, as he swatted Lucas away, causing the other to fly across and crash into the ground, leaving a trail of blood before stopping.

Lucas' eyes were closed, blood streaming from them, and his face was as pale as a corpse.

While, he was completely motionless, as if he died. But, his chest, on the other hand, moved up and down weakly, implying otherwise.

An ancient spear blazed towards Medici, annihilating everything in its path, including matter itself.

The spear was dyed crimson from tip to handle, and it emitted a horrifying aura of destruction, as though it could harm even a true deity.

Spear of Longinus!

This spear had once appeared in an ancient era that couldn't be traced back, stained with the blood of a great existence.

Through mythical re-enactment, it has now descended into no man's land. The arrival of the legendary spear absolutely threw the entire war into disarray.

"At long last, something interesting..." Medici spoke as his smile grew frenzied. His figure erupted with terrifying bloodlust, instantly covered the entire No Man's Land.

He cast a glance at the approaching ancient spear before raising his sword and pointing it at the sky.

The entire cloudy sky was lit up with crimson light, which could be seen across the northern continent.

Medici then swung his sword down, directly at the ancient spear.

Boom!

A blot of crimson lightning descended from the crimson sky, submerging the ancient spear with enough power to make the tsar bomb look like fire crackers.

Boom!

A terrifying explosion ensued, forming a semi-sphere of chaotic energy that pulsated visibly, as if it possessed limitless power and was poised to leave nothing but total annihilation in its wake.

Seeing this, Medici merely waved his hands as crimson flames erupted around the semi-sphere of energy, completely submerging and consuming it within.

Just then, a flash of light appeared behind Medici, forming a sword and trying to stab him in the back.

Medici smirked as he turned back in an instant before the sword could reach him and grabbed the sword with his bare hands while looking at women in black armour.

"Oh," Medici said, his voice surprised. "I didn't expect to see such an act of love after all this time."

"The angels of Aucuces are full of surprises."

He spoke, while looking at Lucas, who was surrounded by purple light and teleporting away from the battlefield.

Diana, the angel of wisdom, is the woman in black amour.

"You Bastard!" Diana roared, her eyes filled with rage, and she didn't hesitate to grab the sword even tighter the next second after her attack failed.

The sword in their hands broke apart into fundamental blocks of information, which immediately went to Medici's mind.

Diana, on the other hand, did not hesitate to attack again, she attempted to instil a vast amount of useless knowledge and miscellaneous information into Medici's mind.

She didn't hold back, either out of rage at seeing Lucas in that state or knowing she was facing a man who had fought side by side with her lord in the past.

However, all illusory information, whether it came from the sword or was sent by Diana, was set ablaze with crimson flames.

The crimson flames completely burned the information itself, destroying it.

Medici said with a grin, his crimson eyes glowed.

"It's my turn now."

While continuing, he looked up at the crimson sky.

"So, what are you going to do now to save your precious little lover?"

Boom!

A blot of crimson lightning fell from the sky, slashing right at the figure of Lucas, whose teleportation had been completely disrupted by Medici's tampering with the spirit world, which rendered all spirit world travel useless across the battlefield.

"No!" Diana screamed as she saw the lightning, her eyes filled with panic and fear. She didn't hesitate to use her most powerful move.

At that precise moment, Medici appeared in front of Diana, filling the other's eyes with horror.

Slap!

A resounding slap echoed across no man's land.

Medici slapped her away before she could even perform her supposedly powerful move.

Diana felt the entire world before her spin, and she felt light. Everything in her vision was moving so fast that it took her a moment to realise what had happened.

However, it was already too late.....

She felt her vision become cloudy and her mouth fill with blood as she used her last remaining strength to only see the crimson lightning descending on Lucas in the distance.

"Lucas!" Her heart-wrenching roar echoed across the battlefield.