Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

Dragon War X: Evolution's

"...and because I met him I knew the decision I had to make. It is not a decision that comes from a command, a call or a temptation. For the first time I decided something for myself. And that decision was to destroy the world along with them, Liberia."

Cross' cold tone as if any words would not melt the decision that came from his deepest heart.

".....sister Cross you don't seem to be changing your decision no matter what."

"Yes. And the only way to stop me, you know, right?"

"........"

Diana remained silent. Of course he knows, that's by killing Cross, but as a family, the choice is so difficult.

(What should I do?)

Although he had made up his mind, but carrying it out was more difficult than he thought. He now seemed to have to choose between two equal abysses deep and dark.

"After all, do you think you can stop me?" Cross smiled. "No, even if I fail or die here, you won't be able to stop them (Liberia)."

Aldest's eyes immediately narrowed after hearing the unexpected information.

With his magic he can scrape the information in Cross's brain, but now he can't be rash and wait for the right time. Now all he does is become an observer, but he will interfere if the situation is forced.

"What do you mean?"

"Why don't you find out for yourself?"

Suddenly arrived the bracelet in Cross's hands glowed.

"?!"

At the same time, a magic circle appeared under Cross's feet and enlarged. From the magic circle came a piece of metal that slowly enveloped Cross like a black armor.

Slowly its size grew and continued to grow until its size exceeded normal armor, which is 3 and a half meters.

Unlike the Dragon-shaped or dragon-like Knight Gear, the armor was more like a winged monster and more like a demon.

"You know Diana, this is my flagship weapon, Ascalon Gear."

"Ascalon?"

Ascalon is the name of the legendary sword that is devoted to killing dragons. The existence of the weapon is now unknown and has only become a legend.

But what does that have to do with the legendary weapon? Is it just a name?

"Yes. And you know what that means, right?"

After saying that, Cross' entire body was covered in black metal and fused completely with that armor. A huge crystal located in the center of the chest emitted a purple aura and a terrifying aura.

Diana's body seemed to sense danger and immediately warned herself. His feet even stepped back without him noticing.

Diana then glanced at the cristal with a heart, and after that, she finally found something very surprising, namely a sword that was almost destroyed in it.

"Don't tell me..."

"Yes. Ascalon Gear uses the legendary sword Ascalon as its core. I'm sure you know that even if you use Dragon Gear, you won't win against me. I'm not Cross the puppet now, but Cross the Dragon Slayer. Now can you stop me?"

"...Kh... "

Suddenly a giant sword appeared in the hands of the Ascalon Gear like a magic arm. From its size, it looked like a weapon that was indeed devoted to killing a dragon.

With such a large sword, the weight of the sword was also incredible, yet Cross easily swung it like a blade. It was a proof of the power of the Ascalon Gear.

A smile appeared on Cross' lips.

"Let's start.we decide who will be the hero and the villain."

Diana immediately pulled Gungnir to Cross and put up a position to prepare for battle.

"...i don't want to be a hero or a villain. All I want is for my family to be back in one piece. That's all."

Diana immediately put up the horse and unsheathed the spear. Cross is also preparing to fight.

The two of them exuded their respective auras and stomped both of their feet on the ground violently.

[Queen, be careful if you get hit by a little bit, it will be fatal.]

"........."

Hearing the telepathy from Shapira, Diana instantly raised her vigilance.

(As expected, the sword is the real Ascalon, ...but where did Brother Cross get it?)

"?!"

No time to think. Cross instantly kicked the ground and accelerated towards Diana at high speed despite her sizeable body.

Cross attacked using his large sword, which was when Diana immediately prepared to use defense magic.

"[Wind Wall]"

A wall of wind instantly blocked Cross's sword slash, but unfortunately Cross's sword cut through the wall like it was cutting a piece of paper. It was fortunate that Diana had predicted it so she immediately dodged it by jumping up and was already preparing for the next attack.

"[Luminous Spear]"

6 red wind spears appeared around Diana. Then the six wind spears instantly shot towards Cross's massive body.

Cross did not move and accepted Diana's attack. A huge explosion and smoke billowed from where Cross was standing, while Diana still saw the impact of her attack by floating in the air.

(If it doesn't work.)

Diana's attack that she had just used was an attack capable of destroying Astaroth easily. So the attack must have been strong enough to make an impact on Cross.

At least that's what should have happened.

After the smoke dissipated, Cross' armor was seen without the slightest scratch. There was not even a sign of Diana's attack making an impact.

Diana landed with a look of great surprise, but Cross showed a displeased face and instantly unsheathed his sword once more.

"You don't have to be surprised. You should know Ascalon, the dragon slaying sword made from the fangs of the legendary dragon Bahamuth which is the strongest dragon in the world. Now all of my armor is using it as a core, in other words you must know what it means, right?"

"AM...."

Diana knew. Right now Cross is like Ascalon itself. Not only was it able to withstand any attacks that were sourced from dragons, but Cross was currently able to easily kill the Dragon King.

Dangerous. Extremely dangerous. That's Cross now.

Suddenly changes occurred to Cross armor. Precisely the left hand of Ascalon Gear suddenly shattered into thousands of pieces, but not destroyed, but transformed into a firearm.

"?!"

Diana understood what Cross was doing. With her instincts as a magician and a fighter, Diana instantly used [Leap] magic to move at high speed.

At the same time, Cross had already fired a large number of bullets and had a strength that could not be underestimated. With his current ability, dodging Cross's attacks was easy, but he still did not know what the Ascalon Gear could do.

He knows Cross. The ability shown was still nothing but to change the shape of the weapon he used.

.....and Diana's hunch was right.

"........"

The Cross Armor transformed once again, this time right at the back of the Ascalon Gear.

9 spines or a spiked object grows from the back of the Ascalon Gear. The nine thorns instantly shot out like rocket bullets and pointed towards Diana.

Yep. This time it was a missile that had appeared from Ascalon Gear.

Diana immediately narrowed her eyes and concentrated on seeing the guided missile that was eyeing her and following her. Their speed is not much, but he knows they are not ordinary guided missiles.

Diana tightened her grasp and prepared to slash the missile that was pointing at her. With his current speed, slashing at them was an easy action.

Diana did it.

He slashed 1,2,3,4 and finally 7 of the nine missiles with ease. Even arguably very easy. ..but when trying to cut 2 tertasasa, he failed to do so. The remaining guided bullets moved as if alive or controlled so for a moment as if they could move dodging Diana's slash.

"?!"

Diana's eyes widened in surprise. At the same time two missiles almost hit him.

That's when the ball of wind appeared out of nowhere and held the two missiles. Diana could not calm down. Although successfully detained, but the close distance makes him still receive the impact of the explosion. And the impact he had received was worse than he had expected.

Diana was thrown a few meters away with a tremendous force. But he immediately swiftly used his spear and stuck it on the ground to temper his body.

And finally he stopped after being dragged tens of meters away.

But at that moment..

"You're amazing, no, I think the amazing thing is Dragon Gear, right Diana?"

"?!"

Once again Diana widened her eyes when she learned that the Ascalon Gear (Cross) was already behind her and prepared to slash it with her large sword.

Diana had no choice but to use Gungnir to withstand Cross's attack. And because of the mighty power, Diana's body was thrown once again.

"Guhh!!"

But that's not the worst.

With an incredible speed like teleportation, Cross moved to where Diana was slipping and prepared to slash Diana once more while still in the air.

Realizing that in a dire situation, Diana immediately used Gungnir once more to resist Cross's attack.

This continued to happen so many times that Diana was like a pinbal ball bouncing back and forth at high speed.

"Is this just the power you want to show me? Oh, haaah!!"

After feeling a little bored, at full strength, Cross finally did a slash, or rather a punch towards Diana and threw her into the ruins of a building near them.

Loud explosions were heard as Diana hit the rubble of the building. And at the same time, Cross stepped on the ground with his big iron legs.

"You said you wanted to bring your family back to how it was, but you should know, it was a wish that never materialized."

Diana got up by removing the ruins that had sealed her up. Then what was seen was Diana who looked messy with many pieces of armor that were crushed and scratched. Blood even flowed from his forehead.

From his iron face, neither pity nor mesyesal had left his little sister injured and almost dead.

"Although you borrowed power from the Dragon King, but as long as that power is borrowed power, you will not change the fact that you are weak. And since you're weak, you don't even have the strength to fight or even protect one person."

"....."

"I'm the same. This power is just the power I made and created, but it comes from myself. And with this power I will be able to realize my wish."

"Although it is a desire to destroy the world?"

"Yes. ...but not as devastating as you think."

"?"

"We destroyed the world to build a new world like the Demon King did 400 years ago. The world today is a mistake. The mistake made by the Demon King for letting the world be what it is today. And we have the power for that."

".........."

A bad feeling immediately approached Diana and Aldest who were still watching the fight between the two of them.

"And I've shown you one of them."

"....it is ..Dragon Arm's?"

But Cross immediately shook his head and stared at the fight of the monsters known as the Dragon King and the Dragon Arm.

The fight was almost at its peak. Dragon Arm was almost all destroyed and scattered into chunks of iron meat and wires. Although they almost had the strength of the original Dragon King equivalent, the difference in strength between the real and fake was so great.

It didn't take long until the winner of the fight was determined.

But the invisible Cross showed his surprise. If his face was visible, perhaps now he was smiling when he saw his creation destroyed. Especially when he saw Kuro and Deon moving at high speed while slashing the iron joint part which was the weakness of Dragon Arm among the fighting monsters.

"You are wrong, but you are also right, ..but Dragon Arm is just a container of real weapons. And that's just from one of the weapons they (Liberia) have."

Diana understood what Cross meant.

"That's why Cross said whatever we did, we can't do anything?"

"....yeah. Thas right. They loaned me their technology and tried to recruit me. I thought I was special in their eyes, but I was wrong."

"......"

"They provided conditions as proof that I deserved to join them, but that's when I realized. They don't need me. People like me they can get it easily or even they already have someone greater than me right now."

"If it's like that, why are you still helping them?"

Unfortunately Cross did not answer and instead drew his sword. This time he formed a position with a horse like a sword fighter. Not only that, his sword also changed shape into a 3-meter-long katana.

Diana instantly widened her eyes. The movements and positions Cross was currently doing were very familiar to him. Especially Cross position when holding a weapon.

"Mr Kuro?!"

"Yes. Unlike you guys, I can't create my own fighting style or even fight with my own strength, which is why I create. Now beat me! Look for answers to all your questions after defeating me! I know the power of Dragon Gear isn't just that limited even though you've only briefly mastered it."

"......"

Diana bit her lower lip and immediately took a fighting position. A powerful aura also emanated from his body.

There's no reason to hold back now. He had originally intended not to use his full strength because he did not want to kill or injure Cross, but the situation now did not allow him to do that.

Ascalon Gear was stronger than he had anticipated. A simple guided missile also had a greater impact than he had anticipated. His entire body was sore and almost numb, but he still had the strength to fight.

A weapon that kills dragons. Now he understood why Ascalon had become a legendary forbidden weapon in Dragonia.

But imitating the abilities of others was something Diana had not expected. No. gabe. If Astaroth is able to learn to deal with his enemies, then the ability of Ascalon Gear that is able to imitate the abilities of others is not too surprising. The question is how much can he imitate the capabilities of others?

The question was answered when Cross suddenly shot at high speed towards him. Not only that with a fast movement Cross uses a powerful and fast sword technique. It was fortunate that Diana had practiced fighting against Kuro so much in the past that she did not have much difficulty in seeing Cross's attack pattern.

But the size and power of the Ascalon Gear that was so large made Diana pressed and hit back.

"Guh!!!!"

In terms of speed Diana is not inferior, but Gungnir who has a smaller size is a disadvantage. When compared to Kuro who fought relying on high speed and aiming for the vital parts, then Cross could only perform ordinary slashes with the same speed and pattern as Kuro's attack.

Although the weapons they used and the techniques they used were exactly the same, the large size made Diana able to withstand the attack even though in terms of strength she lost.

Cross should have known if using Kuro's attack, Diana would be able to defend or dodge, but why would she still use the attack?

"Khh!!"

While continuing to survive Cross's attack, Diana tries to figure out the answer, but she does not find the right answer.

Orange sparks and the sound of metal clashing filled the battle arena of the two. Cross continued to corner Diana and gave Diana no chance to strike back..

(It's terrible!)

Cross attacks are also increasing and effective. The intensity of the attacks that hit Diana was also increasing.

(But.).

Diana recalled while training with Kuro.

[How to defeat an enemy stronger than us?]

Diana nodded.

That was when Kuro smiled at Diana's question which could be said to be normal as a fighter.

[Hmm... firstly, how do you measure the strength of your opponent and the strength of yourself?]

Hearing that back question, Diana instantly fell silent in silence.

[How do you know you're stronger or weaker than your opponent?]

"....."

[True, you don't know how strong your opponent was before you fought him. At the same time you will know how weak and strong you are. Unfortunately in the fight of life and death, we are required to win so even if we are up against someone stronger, we must win no matter what. This is the point of your question, but unfortunately I do not have the right answer because the same way will not always work and will not necessarily work with different opponents.]

Then what should he do? Kuro is an ordinary person capable of defeating people stronger than himself. And it wasn't just one time Kuro did, but many times and kept winning. Kuro should have been the one who knew that answer the most.

[Then I'll tell you how you can always win, but the result depends on you.]

With all that Kuro said in mind, Diana tried to strike back.

The first time Diana did was to hold Cross's attack at full force and she suddenly released all her strength so that her body was thrown at high speed towards the building. Diana instantly sharpened her concentration and used Leap's magic while being thrown in the air before hitting the ruins of the building and disappearing.

"?!"

Cross surprised. Then at that moment from various directions dozens of wind spears shot towards Cross. The attack had the equivalent power of a Luminous Spear, so Cross did not need to dodge it and instead accepted it. A loud explosion occurs and the ground is scattered, but Cross does not care and instead focuses on finding Diana's whereabouts moving at high speed.

Cross uses all of its tracking systems and all of the sensors contained in the Ascalon Gear. She did find Diana, but Diana instantly disappeared. Cross felt a look at Kuro's current fighting style that relied on speed to attack the opponent.

"Using the same technique, interesting.."

Cross immediately raised his left palm upwards. His left hand once again changed and became a huge iron spear.

"Thousand Spear"

The iron spear shot into the sky. Once at a high enough height, the spear shone and began to split into hundreds of pieces of the same shape and length. And then, the spear shot back down and stuck in a radius of 50 meters with Cross as its center.

Cross' sensor detects the wind spear again from multiple directions, but before it touches Cross, the wind spear is blocked by the tremendous electric shock of the spear that sticks around Cross and disappears.

From the sensor, Cross was able to tell Diana was moving around herself within a 50-meter radius at high speed.

"Maybe you don't know, but Ascalon Gear can use all the elements. Flame Edge's"

Around Cross appeared dozens of small fire birds with 6 wings and flew in all directions randomly. Or not, they flew towards Diana who was moving and chased after Diana with their 6 wings.

Then the explosion happened because the fire birds exploded like a bomb as they approached their target.

"And unlike ordinary witches, I was even able to create magic that was more unique than ordinary witches."

That's when Cross pointed his left palm slightly upwards. And an explosion occurred and a wind spear suddenly appeared and was restrained by a powerful wind shield.

"Indeed from above you will avoid the Thousand Spear, but you are too naive if you are able to attack me that easily."

Diana attacks again and doesn't care what Cross says. But once again Diana's attack was restrained by a thick wall of wind.

"Free, why do you still insist on attacking me with such power. Come on, fight seriously! Is everything you say a lie."

"Of course not!! The Silvarus Spiral"

From the eight directions appeared a thin long spear and shot out at a speed higher than before at the same time. Cross had no choice but to create a wind shield that enveloped his entire being, but-

"?!"

But Cross was startled when he saw the long thin spear piercing through his shield easily and finally hit his armor directly.

Unlike before which it produced loud noises and explosions, this time Diana's attack was so smooth and calm. But that doesn't mean Diana's attack didn't pay off. The Cross Armor was now filled with some quite deep holes.

Unfortunately, that's not enough. Cross is back up.

Diana suddenly appeared in the air and flew.6 thin wings like dragonfly wings appeared on her back.

In the air Diana observed the impact of her attack and at the same time she recalled Kuro's words once again.

[First, know what we can do and what the enemy can do. And vice versa. Although strong, it does not mean invincible. Everything must have weaknesses and when we know the weaknesses of the enemy, then we will be one step to defeat the enemy even though we are weaker.]

"......."

[Although we will have difficulty finding the enemy's weakness, that's when the slightest information will be useful.]

Diana did everything as well as what Kuro said. He was figuring out what he could do at this moment with a new power.

The Dragon Gear he was wearing would allow him to use some of Shapira's power. And since Shapira and herself were wind element users, there was no difficulty in fusing the attacks.

But there was something different about the Dragon Gear that Diana used before. Besides now Dragon Gear looks more like light armor, now Diana's body does not feel the burden at all and no faster to lose power. At first he thought it was because he managed to fuse with Shapira, but it was wrong.

Besides being strong and possessing great mana, the legendary Dragon King Class dragon had one other reason why they were special. And that's their power not only from magic.

Power that comes from nature. That's their strength. This was also the reason why Kuro who was not a magician was able to use Dragon Gear and was chosen as the Dragon Tamer Ruby.

Then after knowing that, Diana immediately realized what she could do. The wind element is the element that symbolizes speed. That means speed is also his strength at the moment. Just like Kuro.

Contrary to Diana, the Ascaon Gear was a weapon that possessed a mighty power. The potential of the weapon is still unknown. Diana knew it would be hard to win if she relied on speed alone.

And that's why he did what Kuro said next.

[Second, creative. Use all the knowledge you can to make the weaknesses you already know useful. In addition, with creative, then we will give the opportunity of our attack more powerful and effective.]

The Silveras Spiral was the result of Diana's creative power and was the magic she had just mastered.

But when he saw the impact of the attack did not match expectations, there was a little disappointment that approached Diana.

(It's not enough.)

Diana watched as the Ascalon Gear slowly recovered and returned intact like it had the ability to regenerate. This was an incredible ability, but not something that shocked Diana's eyes. This was just one of the abilities that made him even more aware that it was indeed difficult to defeat Cross.

Dozens more missiles appeared on the Ascalon Gear's back and at the same time the left hand turned into a firearm and shot towards Diana.

Despite the onslaught in multiple directions and with incredible speed, Diana could see every bullet Cross shot through like slow motion.

Yep. Diana could now move as if she had teleportation magic.

Even so, avoiding it is not enough. Diana realized this and she also realized she would not be able to last long because the mana she had slowly began to diminish and thin. If he did not end this battle immediately, he could lose. The problem is, what should he do?

While thinking, Cross's attack stopped. He must have realized it was useless to attack Diana with the current attack.

The change happened to Cross (Ascalon Gear). The iron metal seemed to slowly peel off and splatter like a change of skin. Slowly but surely, the reborn form begins to appear.

Silvery human feet and black scales. His tall body was big like a handsome adult, yet his entire body was black with black scales like a dark snake.

Red eyes lit up as if symbolizing hatred and bloodlust. Two black wings that were shaped like dragon wings, but hollow like torn cloth. A two-sided black sword that exuded an evil and sinister aura appeared in the figure's hands.

And lastly, the purple crystal that was the core of the Ascalon Gear shrank and turned into a crystal ball that was now in the center of the figure's chest.

"........"

Diana could not say anything. He felt an unusually large and terrifying mana pressure from that born figure. The figure was human-like, but no longer human. If it was called a monster, then it was also not appropriate.

If you call that figure a demon, then it might be very appropriate.

"Why are you surprised to see a ghost, Diana?"

"Ka-sister Cross?"

That demon figure had the same voice as Cross.

"What's with that face? You know, this is the true form of Ascalon Gear. You don't think Ascalon Gear is just armor, do you?"

"But how can? I just found out there's magic that can do that?"

Using monster power or incorporating monster power into the body does exist. Even such magic could be said to be common, but there was a risk for witches using it that way. The easiest example is Deon who is now almost fused with the devil.

What Cross did was completely different. Rather than combining the power of monsters, he was more akin to turning into a monster himself.

"It's just a magic called "Evolution", but it's also called "Assimilate". One of the forbidden magic possessed by the Demon King."

"....."

Hearing the Demon King's name, Diana increasingly felt a bad premonition.

"I guess I now understand why almost no one can defeat the Demon King."

Cross clenched his hand and felt all the power he now had.

"I feel as if I can destroy the world with my current strength even if compared to the Demon King, my strength is vastly different."

Cross smiled and showed two sharp white fangs. He then took a fighting position with the same horse as Kuro's fighting style.

"Diana, maybe you don't know, but have you never thought, why would the Demon King's heir use a technique that only relies on speed and accuracy?"

Diana understood immediately. Cross is talking about Kuro's fighting style which is arguably ordinary, but very effective.

"The answer is simple, and the answer is .. He needs nothing else, not even something called magic."

"?!"

Cross's figure suddenly disappeared like it was swallowed by the earth, but with her instinct, Diana immediately turned around and fended off Cross's attack which was now moving at the same speed as her. No, even faster.

A high-speed fight ensued once more, but not between Deon and Kuro, but between Cross and Diana. Their movements were extremely fast and even like a faint lightning clashed in the air.

But when they are fighting

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

About 100 km from Drageass which is now the center of the battle, a huge explosion occurred. The explosion was like the strongest magic attack of a paladin.

The blast radius reaches 40km with a force capable of being felt as far as 100km. Surprisingly, although there was mana felt, yet the existence of mana was so small as if the explosion was not from a magic attack.

"W-What's going on?"

Diana could only widen her eyes when she saw the terrifying power capable of destroying lives in that instant. He even forgot he was fighting Cross.

Suddenly, Cross appeared and floated not far from Diana and witnessed the same scene.

"Don't I tell you, no matter what happens, you can't stop them."

Diana immediately turned her head toward Cross because she remembered what Cross had said about Liberia's hidden power.

What power does their enemy actually have? Diana didn't even want to imagine it.