Rise of the White Devil

Not wasting any time, Lucas teleported away before the punch could hit his face.

The punch probably wouldn't have done much damage, if anything, but he didn't want anyone to punch his face nonetheless.

Spinning around, he didn't get time to breathe as a spear was suddenly inches away again.

'Very well.'

Deciding not to dodge this time, he unsheathed the Blade of Chaos from his waist and blocked the spear from impaling his face.

As both weapons clashed, the sound reverberated through the room.

Both jumped back, taking some distance from each other, their weapons in front of them, as Damien glared at him while Lucas was devoid of any emotions.

"Insulting my mother? Do you have a death wish?"

The cold voice of Lucas cut through the air as Damien only glared at him.

"And you harmed my little sister. I will kill you for that." Discover more stories at empire

'Little sister, huh? Wait...'

Lucas's eyes widened as he realized who was in front of him.

"You are Damien Darkcrest, aren't you?"

"Good, you know my name. Remember it for when I kill you."

He spat as he smiled like a madman at Lucas.

Lucas's lips twitched as he pieced together the cause for all of this.

'Damn it, I really shouldn't have pinned her against the wall...'

"Listen, this is all a misunderstanding. I only pushed her back then bec—"

Lucas tried to reason, but Damien just cut in.

"I don't need excuses! You touched my sister! And that smile she gave you..."

'This fucking siscon!'

Lucas screamed inside his mind at how unreasonable the person in front of him was.

'She told me that her family is extremely overprotective of her, but seriously, this much?'

As he tried to come up with something else to convince Damien, since he was Seraphina's brother and didn't want to cause problems, Damien spoke again.

"You have a little sister as well, don't you? What if I—"

Damien didn't get a chance to finish speaking, as in the next second, Lucas disappeared from his line of sight.

The room suddenly felt like it was freezing.

Before he could turn around, sensing Lucas behind him, Lucas punched him with fire engulfing his right fist as Damien crashed against the hard wall, forming a web.

"Argh!"

A groan escaped his lips as he spit out the blood that was in his mouth.

It didn't take long for Damien to get himself together as the spear that was on the ground suddenly appeared back in his hand.

'A soul weapon, huh...'

Lucas thought, narrowing his eyes at the spear in Damien's hands pointed towards him.

Both Lucas and Damien's auras shot out of their bodies, making the room shake.

But before anything else could happen, a clap resounded throughout the room, making both their auras disappear instantly.

Lucas and Damien's eyes widened as they spun towards Nyx, who was watching everything with a smile and amusement in his eyes.

Clearly, he was enjoying the entire thing but cut in before anything worse could happen.

"If the both of you continue this and harm each other, it will only hurt Seraphina, whom you both care for the most."

The moment he said those words, both froze in shock.

'Right, he is still her brother...'

Lucas thought bitterly as both glanced at each other.

The sudden mention of his own little sister made him lose his cool, intending to kill Damien.

He was angry now.

Damien had not only insulted his mother but also talked about his little sister...

Yet he couldn't do anything now because of him being Seraphina's brother and Nyx being here.

Both dismissed their soul weapons as they looked at Nyx.

Lucas glared at the Sovereign of Shadows as Damien became pale, realizing what he had done.

'He is really enjoying this, isn't he?'

Lucas thought as he held the urge to punch Nyx and that stupid smile on his face.

"Please forgive me, Great Sovereign. I let my emotions get the better of me and was extremely disrespectful in your presence."

Damien calmly suddenly said, making him and Nyx look towards him.

He was on one knee with his head down.

"Stand up, Damien."

Nyx spoke as Damien complied before he continued.

"I am glad to see the both of you getting along so well and acting like children your age."

He said, making both Lucas and Damien's lips twitch.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

'Get along?'

"Is old age finally starting to catch up to you now as well?"

Lucas said, narrowing his eyes at Nyx, making him merely chuckle.

Damien looked wide-eyed at Lucas and Nyx in disbelief.

"What are you so shocked about, Damien? If you haven't forgotten, you should know that Lucas is the Sovereign of Chaos."

"Eh?"

Damien exclaimed in disbelief as he looked at Lucas.

'What is this guy planning? Why reveal my identity as a Sovereign to him?'

Lucas thought before Damien suddenly spoke.

"You are the Sovereign of Chaos... am I dreaming? Is this a nightmare?"

Damien mumbled to himself, not wanting to believe what he heard.

"What are you doing?"

Lucas asked Nyx directly as he was starting to get impatient.

"What am I doing? Well, isn't it obvious? I want the both of you to get to know each other."

"Stop playing around."

"Fine, fine, but I am serious. I want the both of you to get to know each other and... work together."

"Eh?"

"Huh?"

Nyx said, making Lucas and Damien look at him wide-eyed.

"In other words, become partners."

"Why..."

Lucas asked as he didn't really want to be partners with Damien in the slightest since they would probably try to kill each other.

"Both the first and second years are about to go to Sky City, which the both of you are in, and I want you both to accompany and stay together as much as you can."

He said, making Lucas and Damien look dumbfounded at him.

"Why? Is something going to happen?"

Lucas asked as he didn't understand why they had to be together, but Nyx merely smiled mysteriously and shook his head.

"I won't tell you, since it would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?"

Lucas was really starting to get annoyed at Nyx but cooled himself as he knew it was pointless.

"Even though you are a Sovereign, Lucas, you still aren't a saint, which is no problem since most of the Sovereigns weren't saints either when I took them in."

Nyx said, addressing Lucas suddenly with a change of topic.

"For what is to come, it is important that you have someone to watch your back, and both of you have the potential to fight alongside each other."

Nyx said as Lucas understood that he was now talking about the void.

'Watching each other's backs, huh...'

Lucas wasn't familiar with someone fighting alongside him, really, since most of the time he fought alone.

If Nyx wanted him to work together with Damien, even though he was a Sovereign, it meant that Damien had the potential to be a Saint and perhaps even a Supreme.

'Well, he is stronger than Seraphina, that is for sure.'

"Does he know about the Void?" Lucas asked, without any intention of keeping it a secret in front of him.

If he was going to have to trust Damien and let him fight alongside him, he wanted to make sure Damien knew about most of the stuff, even though he is already a Voidwalker.

He knew that probably only the Sovereigns would know about the Void.

'It would be better if he knows about the Void as well.'

He was surprised that Damien is a Voidwalker as well, but perhaps it was for the best—to have someone who knows as much as he does and is as close as possible to him.

'I will still pay him back though...'

"He doesn't, but there is no reason to hide it from him since the both of you will work together from now on," Nyx said, thinking the same as Lucas before he looked at Damien who was silently watching the both of them speak.

"It would be best for you to sit down, Damien."

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Damien was silent as he tried to grasp everything he was told by Nyx.

He didn't try to deny the existence of the void or anything about the ancient races that perished.

Lucas even allowed himself to tell Damien that he was a half-dragon.

The way Seraphina spoke about Damien in the entrance exam made him at least know that he could trust the guy a little.

Even though he attacked him, it was because he loves his little sister a lot.

Perhaps a little too much.

But Lucas respected the fact that Damien didn't care that Lucas was a sovereign and Nyx was in the same room before he attacked.

'He is doing better than me. Hell, even Aurora wasn't this calm.'

He felt annoyed at the fact that Damien managed to compose himself much better than he and Aurora, who is a literal Saint.

"Well, I have said what I need to. The both of you should probably leave, since you need to depart to Sky City in four hours."

Lucas didn't realize how he had spent the entire night here, making him release a tired sigh before looking at Damien and then at Nyx again, who spoke again.

"I wish the both of you good luck."