Revan showed no outward emotions to the man's declaration, but one could easily tell that he was getting excited by how his magic reacted, the hydras near him snapping a the air in anticipation.
"If I had a nickel . . ., fine, if your so eager to get yourself killed, then I'd be more than happy to oblige you." Another series of whistles would causes more hydra's to raise from Revan's shadow, wrapping around him to form his own
intimidating armor, complete with a
blade of his own, that he hefted over his shoulder, the blade black as night with an intense red energy coursing thorough it. Underneath his helmet, a smile shown in the darkness as red eyes flashed through the eye slits, the demonic taint of his magic becoming more potent as his hunger for battle rose.
"Come on then, pup, let's see if you can give me a good warm-up at least."Revan chuckled for a bit, than charge forward in an impressive burst of speed, throwing up a large wall of snow around him as he did so, using both of his arms to power the opening strike, the force behind the blow holding all of his strength. If this blow was blocked, however, the blade would temporarily disperse, leaving Revan free to launch a quick jab to his opponents face with his left hand while his right continued through the motion, the blade reforming in his grip. As soon as it did, he'd launch a violent underhand slash from the right, intending to get some space between them before his enemy could launch an effective counter against him.
"Let's see what this hu-no...let me see what this demon has got!" Nanto smirked under his mask as Revan charged hard at him. As the 'man' named Revan struck first, Nanto shifted his weight into stepping back a little. He knew that his swords wouldn't be able to be utilized at this point at time, throwing them into the air they slowly vanished into his air.
It seemed like a mistake. Nanto eyes widened as Revan went for a jab with his left, getting him clean in the mask, luckily enough the skull mask we wore had enough resistance for a jab like that force of the jab, Nanto quickly back flipped and skidded to a halt a few meters away from the armoured cladded demon. Revan did the same as him.
"Revan....that is your name isn't it?" Nanto said
"I will admit you're damn strong...even better enough to join Altima...if you so choose to." Flicking his hand for him to come at him Nanto chuckled.
"Those Hydras you have...they remind me of a dear friends of mine." Underneath his mask, he smiled gently.
'i'll come home soon.....'"Humans, Demons, Angel, Satan, God...Entities or beings outside his world: Many have been stepped up to me and all of them have been sat down!" Nanto spoke in his tone
"Revan, show me that you have the power and gut to stop me or will you to: Be sat down?"Extending his right arm and took a quite breath and clenched his fist:
"Geminus Anguium: Ouroboros!" As the Serpent coiled around Nanto's body, Nanto got ready for a second warm up "Your Hydra vs My Ouroboros, let see who prevails!"
"Hmph, talk is cheap." Revan cracked his neck, unimpressed by the man's words. He had always had a distaste for men that talked more than they fought, as they usually turned out to be the least enjoyable fights.
"True, how about we change up a gear?" Nanto said as the Serpent hissed.
Revan readied his blade again, eager to oblige his foe. Another low whistling rang out, causing the shadows around them to darken as 3 more versions of his armor arose, each wielding a different weapon: A pair of
huge gauntlets obviously made for crushing and defense, another with a
large cleaver, and the final one wielding dual wielding a pair of
sinister looking blades. A moment passed, with each of the Revan's taking up a position around their foe, all settling in a cross formation around him. The first to attack was the cleaver wielding duplicate, who charged at Nanto with reckless abandon, who was aiming to split his foe vertically down the middle with a distorted roar. As that one charged, the dual wielding one, went in for an attack from behind, some of the hydras that made up it's body converging onto the blades and giving them an intense red glow, which the duplicate then launched at the armor-clad foe in the forms of two serpentile beams of red energy that snaked in a random pattern across the battlefield, before launching themselves at Nanto's sides.
"Pointless" Nanto muttered as waited for the cleaver wilder to come closer. Ouroboros hissed once again as he went strained from the head, biting it of cleanly "If you want to attack me, do it yourself and not a clone, Raven!" in A seamless motion Nanto jumped high into the air before holding out his hand in front of him, two shadowed gun materialized in his hands
as he aimed for the second clone that attacked him.
"Before you ask, they're not your average guns!" He pulled the trigger.
"RYUJIN NO HOKO!" with a roar, a cone of Black and red energy beams rained down on the clone, destroying it easily. Nanto hummed before seeing the beamed energy that was going everywhere fired up into the sky. throwing his guns aside he re-materialized the two swords he hand before as deflected the beams. as he begin descending back to the ground, he zero'd in on Raven positions as he brought his two swords at his head.
Knowing that he would be able to block it with ease. Nanto didn't apply pressure to his attack, instead: he waited from his counter.
"It's been awhile since i've had a good fight!"Revan stayed in his ready stance, never moving as he saw Nanto destroy his duplicates. As the man came at him from above, however, he'd be surprised to hear a primeval roar come from behind him as the cleaver clone came at him again, charging with surprising speed from where it had seemed to have fallen before jumping into the air to launch a horizontal sweep at the man while in mid-air. The Dual-wielding clone was still reforming, it's form still misty and writhing as the hydra's came back together to reform. The gauntlet demon had jumped in front of Revan to take the blow, and the original only chuckled at the man's words.
"I'm just getting warmed up, whelp, and I'm not feeling very hopeful so far."As the Gauntlet demon blocked the attack for the original, Nanto feinted a quick retreat as he skidded back before rushing the clone once again giving the brute force of his attack as he seeked to take down him down.
That wasn't doing much
"I underestimated your clones...." as he distanced himself as looked his his serpent and nodded
"Alright we'll do that!"Throwing his black sword away Nanto rushed in once more as he saw the Demon brace himself for another attack, that was when the Black unit smirked as he threw Ouroborus into the ground and continued running towards the clone.
"Now!"From under the snow, the serpent shot out and ensnared the Gauntlet clone tightly rendering him unable to move as Nanto readied his sword. With one strong move Nanto pushed of and blended into his surrounding as he quickly got above Raven his sword down point downwards to strike.
The Gauntlet demon let out a roar as it was detain, straining with all of it's strength to be freed from it's entrapment, and while it had no small amount of strength, it would still take a few seconds for it to break the chain, if the chain could even be broken that is. Revan looked up to see Nanto coming at him from above, raising his blade and stepping to the side to deflect the blade away from him. As this was happening, however, the snow underneath the armor-clad man would explode outward, a barrage of hydra's rising up to contain him. Revan, never one to do nothing during a fight, had been spending his time preparing them whilst Nanto had been fighting his demonic duplications.
At this point the dual wielding demon had been fully reformed and charged forward towards the hopefully trapped individual, as did the cleaver demon, but before they could get far, Revan let out a sharp whistle, causing them to halt immediately, then turn to towards each other. The cleaver Demon was going in the reverse direction as before, while the Dual wielder was still moving faster. Soon, the demons crashed into each other, turning into a shadowy tangle of hydras that still pressed on towards Nanto. Soon after, a shape began to take form of a larger and bulkier version of bulwark armor, with four arms wielding two
large swords that border on being claymores.
The demon roared with fury as it charge forward, slightly faster than before, but still weighed down by the added bulk, slashing threw the gauntlet one with one of it's blades if it still had yet to free itself. It was done in a single slice, and it had barely slowed it down, a testament to it's strength. As soon as it reached Nanto, the demon would slash at him from above with a powerful cross cut.
"Fine then, you want to play it that way?" Nanto jumped towards the attack, summoning two swords as well.
"Then let's see who has more power!" As the two blades clashed as a powerful shock way rippled throughout the alleyway. This demon was strong, it's clone was strong. Nanto grunted as we feel towards the ground. we would easily lose the fight we he was not on even ground as the demon himself. Applying pressure against the four armed demon. "
I would have easily overpowered this with ease....just that...I didn't train for so long.""But I won't lose the clone like this!" Pushing against the giant clone Nanto roared as forced the giant back with sheer force, his muscle working to the max as he finally got it to stumble and fall.
"Oroborus! Take him to the void!" As if on cue, a black and green portal opened up underneath the demonic giant as Thousands of green serpents rushed out of the void and snaked their way around the Giant. While it was trying to free itself it was not work...it was a temporary solution to that Nanto was have no obstruction to Revan. As a deranged roar came from the four armed demon, it was soon dragged down into the void- Nanto's void.
He panted as he gripped his sword hard. However a Static noise came from within his armoured suit.
"Nanto! What the hell are you doing?!""Kokonoe?" Nanto whispered into his helmet
"I...kinda got into a fight!""I can see that you dimwit!" A frustrated growl that was soon followed by,
"You're suit says your well below your previous capacity to fight anyone!""I can't do that!" Nanto argued.
"I swear if you die here.....fuck it, i'm sending in backup- I'm send mikhail to you, you two have a lot to talk about." before Nanto could speak, the line cut off. Shaking his head, he got back into fighting mood.
"Sorry about that....got sidetracked." and with that, Nanto re-materialized his guns.
"Let's start this again:"FIRE TITAN DRAGON'S VOLLEY CANON!" With that, Multiple Large fireballs shot from the gun came flying at Revan, ready to incinerate him.
Revan had backed away as the Giant demon had attacked, then rushed back into strike at him, only for his clone to be dragged away and for his foe to launch several large fireballs in his direction. Revan closed his eyes to shut out all distractions, a series of rapidly fluctuating whistles ringing throughout the clearing as the shadow under his blade darkened considerable, the large pulse of magical energy resonating all around.
"Song of Desolation!"His eyes flashed open with an intense red light as he swung his blade in a viscous upward arc. The shadow of the blade greatly enlarged itself and stretched outward towards Nanto at an insane speed. As it approached, it would rise from the ground to form a huge chaotic mix of larger hydras, meeting the fiery barrage in an explosion of flame and smoke. While it seemed over, Revan was only getting started, as he quickly gave another command whistle, causing shadows to rise from the flames and rapidly form over Nanto to barrel down on him again in a huge hissing mass.
Not only that, but Nanto would suddenly feel a presence behind him as the Gauntlet Demon from before, now free from its bonds thanks to giant demon slaying of it, would attempt to wrap him in an crushing embrace. If it succeeded in catching Nanto off guard, he'd be held in place for the attack, which would result in another big explosion as it crashed into the two. Afterwards, Revan would call to his hydras with a quick whistle, causing them to quickly slither over to him and join together to form a large hydra that would coil around his form and hiss in Nanto's general direction.
"So tell me, are you ready to give this fight your all yet or was all that talk just that, simple talk."Nanto grunted as his first around of Volley cannons which were nulled by Revan's Desolation attack as he fired another Volley Cannon at the still on coming attack- it proved futile, however he misjudged the speed that were coming at him as he had to make a temperance back step, still continuing to fire that the energy blade. Nanto didn't expect the gauntlet demon to back so soon as he essentially when into the arm of the shadow clone as it held him closely, a vice-grip lock Nanto felt unable to move from his held position.
"Heh....now is a good time to unleash that" Nanto squirmed as he calmed his mind again. before he did something unexpected. He merged with the demon clone, his body merging with the shadows until they was nothing left of him. While the Shadow snake crawled back to it's master and bunched up making a much larger snake.
"I am the Darkness of the night." A calm and quite voice echoed around the alleyway
"Chaos is my body and despair is my blood . . ." This time, small black portals appeared around everyone, the magical aura coming from it was immense.
"Through Hatred, have forged and created countless weapons. . . " Spears, swords, Bows and anything weapon related came crashing down around Revan and demonic clone
"These blood tainted hands will only show death, none to life . . ." The Clone started roaring in pain as sword appeared out of it body ripping out the sword before it fell on it's knees and started shrinking.
"Yet these hands will only know to kill." That part sound soft and full of guilt as the form of Nanto took form inside of Demonic clone, giving him a shadow aura around him as the scratched in skull mask glowed red.
"So as i Command: BLACK VOID UNLIMITED!" Nanto roared as he bursted forth from the Clone as he took two nearby swords and hurled it at Revan before another two swords lodged in the ground and readied himself.
Revan drew his blade into position, staying silent as his clone was destroyed, not surprised at the man's apparent affinity to darkness. As the man called out the name of his magic, Revan's eyes narrowed as he doubted that all it did was summon a bunch of weapons on to the field. He swung his blade and quickly deflected the incoming projectiles, but didn't press his attack. Instead, he closed his eyes focusing on something deep with in himself, grabbing hold of it's dark power, and bringing it to the fore.
"Satan Soul."As soon as he spoke the name of the spell, his magical energy spiked immensely, the snake demon suddenly being drawn into the armor he was wearing, which began to writhe and weave around his form. As it did so, a dark chuckle resonated throughout the clearing, the voice distorted, twisted and carrying with it an undeniable malicious cruelty. The demonic taint of his armor became even more pronounced as the transformation of his armor continued. When the armor again lie still, the armor had become even more menacing and demonic than before. And with this new
monstrous form came another wave of intense demon energy. Not only had the armor change, but so had the sword, taking on a similarly twisted
form.
"I believe that it's time to stop with the warm up and testing, or more to the point, I'm getting bored of it. Whether you're worth it or not, I think you can at last offer me a challenge in this form, truly a compliment as I don't say that to many, and hardly say better to anyone. So, let's see if you can keep up when I get serious, boy." Revan took a step forward, and the force of his magical energy caused the ground to crack beneath him. And the next moment he had burst forward to appear in front of Nanto and lashed out with a powerful horizontal slash to open up for a furious barrage to be unleashed upon the armored man, a mark changed being noticed in his fighting style.
While before he had been controlled, if aggressive, now he was wild and chaotic, striking without any discernable pattern and with a great deal of power and speed. More than that, the aggressiveness of before had been greatly multiplied, as his offense became an unyielding wall of malice and rage. The armor that Revan wore also could cause some form of disorientation if gazed upon, as the hydra's that made it up couldn't help but squirm and move around inside of it, causing the patterns on the armor to move and squirm and if focused on, would cause some sense of disorientation.
After the barrage, Revan would leap into the sky and, with a earth rumbling roar, unveiled his demon wings in a burst of blood and rage, staying airborne for a second before he pointed his sword down at Nanto. A familiar tune would whistle past his lips, distorted by the demonification of his form by his magic.
"Song of Desolation!"A horde of Hydra's burst from his armor and converged upon the tip of the blade, compressing themselves into a small ball of concentrated shadows and darkness for a split-second, before bursting forward with a ravenous hunger in a huge torrent of midnight blackness and Scarlet, malice-filled eyes, the attack being even bigger than before and certainly a good deal stronger and more potent than before.
Nanto smirk under his mask as he saw another transformation of Raven, this time calling it his 'Satan soul'
"Just like Mira huh......" He smirked as he channeled his magic into his right hand.Clearing his mind he spoke to himself. as the terror and pressure around him was enough to kill any normal human being. Bringing up his own power to match Revan his sliver hair wiped around behind him as he and the Demon started combining there own pressure to much that is started to levitate fallen boulders and the snow.
"By this blood tainted hands...let me summon: Blood-scythe!" The sword that a certain swordsman held formed in his hands as he held towards Raven, who had finished powering up. They knew what was to happen next.
Revan took a step forward and so to did Nanto.
Both created large cracks in the earth as they appeared in each other's face.
"Show me what you got!" Nanto shouted as they clashed, the swords creating such a large force of pressure that it cracked the buildings around them. Before Revan warded his sword off and went on the offense while Nanto parried his every move before he went low and delivered a low leg sweep to him. To which he easily countered as he took to the skies.
"......" Nanto readied himself as Revan got some distance from each other and pointed his sword at him. Nanto knew it was time.
"Let's do this!"The Blood scythe suddenly extended and changed his direction as it finally started to look like a proper scythe, taking it in both hands Nanto narrowed his eye as he channeled his magic in the sword the blade covered in pure black magic as the blade grew in size.
"Song of Desolation!""Black Onslaught!" Roaring with all his might Nanto swrung the blade as the created a massive energy blade the traveled towards Revans attack.
What happened next was a Explosion that destroyed half of Peak Village.
Revan flew around the explosion, faltering slightly from the shockwave of it, before spotting Nanto in the wreckage and flying in with a viscous crash, his sword slamming into his scythe to create another intense shockwave of pressure, but instead of continuing with an onslaught of attack, he continued to press down, the anger and rage inside of him slowly beginning to fray at his mind. He didn't just want to beat this man, he din''t just want to kill him, he wanted to devour his flesh, to eat his heart and make him watch, to find his family, his loves, and violate them in front of him, to make his life a living nightmare before his end.
A feeling that was Mutually held by his foe.
The malice around him grew with intensity and with it, so did his rage and cruelty. He began think ing of how he would deal with the others in the group, thinking all sorts of deliciously vile ways to make their final moments the worst in their life.
I'll make them scream, I'll make all of the people in this town my slaves, I shall rebuild my empire, shall regain my power, shall break this world upon my knee and return it all to the void. I will not be sated by this fool in front of me, I will not be sated by the blood of the council, I shall not be sated until the whole world lays prostrate before me, and then I shall show them the true meaning of fear.Revan burst into insane laughter as he pushed down harder ont he fool beneath him, licking his lips behind his helmet as if he could already taste his blood on his lips. Suddenly, Revan would draw his head back before launching a headbutt into Nanto's face, then backing off to send another Song of Desolation his way at point-blank range, this one being somewhat weaker due to the lack of charge time, but at this range, it was sure to do some damage.
And through all of this, Revan's maddened cackling never stopped, his mind descending into malicious darkness and cruel insanity.
Nanto knew it, this demon had lost his marbles, he had seen-it countless times...but he...he was certainly different from the others. Has he endured the pain that was being brought down upon him he could hear Kokonoe shouted something at him before he grew tired of it.
As another song of desolation when his way, Nanto cried this time before bringing out his leg and mule kicked him the the chest getting him to back away from him, it needed to be done. He had though that destroying the town was bad enough..but for this guy to go on a rampage with this kind of mentality: it was spell bad for everyone. Materializing blood Scythe again he changed into it's scythe form agand the gripped it hard.
"I'll start by taking that Demon soul of yours!" "BLACK ONSLAUGHT!" He started hacking away at the snakes the were covering Raven, each slice the creatures would be absorbed into the scythe as he continued cutting away until he got to the insane demon inside that Armour. Until Finally:
"Take this!" the last of the snakes her sucked in as the blade of the scyther became bigger than Nanto and Revan together. and Finally sliced the the demon. He was running on fumes now...and by the will of Revan his strength was running low as well to go insane.
Revan cursed as Nanto ripped his armor apart, as his blade absorbed the hydras into the blade. But Revan was far from dead yet, as Nanto brought the blade down, Revan's sword dispersed and another came into play in his hand to meet the attack.
"Blade of Vengeance!"In Revan's hand appeared another demonic blade that, as it met with the mighty force of Black Onslaught, absorbed the great force into it's core, barely being able to hold the impressive force as could be seen by the cracks that formed after the entirety of it had been contained, but that hardly matter. Revan as he rose up and looked at his foe, able to see his fatigue. Revan did feel some strain from using so many songs of Desolation, but he still felt plenty strong enough to finish off this fool and the rest of them.
He lifted his Infernal Arm high into the air, preparing to unleash the attack upon the man before him, when he found that . . . he couldn't. The blade vanished and his mouth began to move against his own accord.
"This . . . isn't . . . who I am . .
anymore!" Revan grunted out, fighting against the influence of his demonic power, his eyes flickering from the demonic black with red slit pupils and his regular red eyes. He took a breath, then began to speak an incantation, using every ounce of willpower he had to speak without misstep as his body felt like it was tearing itself apart.
"Infernal Arm . . . of he who can halt the movement of the gods . . . I call upon thee . . . Ring of Sloth!" Upon his still outstretched hand formed a beautifully carved wing with a large gemstone within it's center, blacker than the void of the pit and seeming to draw in even light, and yet still manage to shine.
Suddenly, a band of black energy formed around both Revan and Nanto, and just like that, both would fall to the ground with a thump as the will to do . . . anything but just sit there in the snow just left them. Revan body squirmed and writhed as thee demon inside tried to fght against the magic of the Greater Arm, but it only prolonged the inevitable, as with a final roar of defiance, Revan's eyes returned to normal and his demonic energy withdrew back into his core.
The demon was gone, but he didn't feel glad about it as he looked at the devastation he had wrought, a scowl upon his face ash e mustered the will to sit up, though it still took a lot out of him. He didn't worry about anyone attacking him, as anything that entered the ring succumbed to its effects, the most anyone could do was sit down and talk, except for the one wielding the ring and any holding on to him, though all it did was let him get out. The ultimate neutralizer, and it was the only thing that had saved him from himself.
"Well . . . that happened. . . so, Nanto was it, what kind of magic were you using if you don't mind me asking, as I don't think I've seen anything like it before."Nanto grunted as he sat up and looked Revan in the eye
"Before i answer that, you back to yourself right?" getting himself comfortable he sighed."Black void Unlimited is a unique magic that was create for me....unlike it's name: I am able to see and create weapon of any kind....once where out, i could makes the weapons you used just now to my advantage...the only set back is....i kinda need you to hate me in order to make it...because you when bat-shit insane....yeah." Nanto shook his head as he removed his Helmat and reveal in his face.
Brown skin like Revan, silver hair and over orange eye looked at him.
"What about you, you're a unique person...demon in this world: mind sharing your story? I'll share mine as well.""If you want to get technical, what you just saw was me 'back to myself'." Revan chuckled hollowly, before listening to Nanto's description and scowling a little at his question.
"Interesting magic to be sure, and I can see where it can be helpful. Definitely gives you a wide arsenal to choose from . . . it's like the ultimate Re-quip magic. And as for my story, I'll tell you another time, when we're alone, as it's not the kind of thing I want others to hear about." Revan took a breath as he rose to his feet, than took one stumbling step after another over to the edge of the circle, and it was only after he was fully over did the magic release it's grip on him. He gave a stretch,before snapping his fingers and dismantling the magic, doing the same with the ring of sloth as well.
"Anyhow, I've got to face the music for this, as it was mostly my fault, and I need to face any punishment that the villagers bestow upon me . . . except death, I'm not that selfless."