A/N: Yo! Before the chapter, just wanted to let you guys know of a minor plot point that changed from chapter 73. Karia knew what a persons soul looked like from Sariel showing her in the past, not the news showing it. Doubt many people remember that point in the first place, but just in case there you go.

Last chapter, after Karia ate King Metallica alive with her words by saying how his other pals hated him, the quartet left in two pairs. Disregarding logic Seric unwillingly got paired up with Karia to find the person she is looking for, and King Metallica and Amandeath got paired up to see if they can find the person as well in a different location. Karia began acting like she may not return from this encounter, which worried Seric. However, just as he texts the other two to warn them, they find the red and black armored "monster" from Karia's past waiting for them.

Seric's P.O.V.

"Spirit of Sariel: My Prowling Soul!" Karia shouts out as she bolts towards the terrifying looking "knight" who stops swinging their spear and starts to hold it with both hands, pulling it behind their head right after.

Karia suddenly and weirdly dives straight towards the ground at a quick pace and at the same time-

*FWOOOOSH!*

A giant gust of wind blows as the monster teleports a few feet past her downed body with his spear now being stretched out horizontally in front of him. It's like he was trying to hit her head with the spiked handle of it or something!

But behind and above the monster- a translucent version of Karia with her jean jacket vest and jeans which are also see through is standing in the air with her eyes closed. But, her real normal body that she just dived with is still lying face first on the floor of the street...

Anyways the rain is still hitting her floating self, but it's sliding off of her clothes and body like she's made of glass. She's also holding the edge of a long one sided see through glowing blue blade without a handle above her head, and she swings it down-

*SWIIIIIISH- CRACK!*

The thick multicoloured aura around the monster goes haywire and thins out a lot- and a giant slash appears in the ground at the same time. It stretches right up to my feet and splashes a bunch of the rain and rock from the pavement onto my face- ow!

"Shit- you remembered that move of mine! So be it- though before we continue, we wouldn't want that FUCKING FALSE GOD AND HER SERVANT to interfere again-" The man tries to scream out but gets interrupted by Karia sliding down through the air and slashing her now non glowing blade down with her which cracks the ground again- and the spear wielder jumps back to dodge the hit with ease.

Instead of landing he slides down to his hands and knees and starts to bow like King Metallica did at the library. But for some reason he's mumbling as well...

"Shit, the hell am I doing I've gotta text King and Amandeath!" I think to myself as I stumble back into the alleyway me and Karia just came out of that's surrounded by two red bricked buildings.

*SWISH- CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG!*

Everything around us suddenly gets way darker, and looking up I can see that the sky is now entirely covered in dark purple and blue clouds- with some star things in the air as well...

But even with the new sky, the rain continues to fall.

"This must be some tech from the Hopian Government I think." I think to myself and zone out for a second to try to pass off my new fears.

I look back down and swing the tablet up from my waist and into my two hands, turning it on and quickly starting to type- but the screens soaken wet!

*SWISH- SPLASH!*

"Fuck!" I swear as I rub the tablet on my shirt to dry it off, and then finally I'm able to shakily type my message after remembering a street sign I saw a few minutes ago that we passed by.

Just as I finish texting with the help of the tablet automatically fixing my spelling mistakes, I put it down on the floor and peak my head out of the alleyway. Though just as I do the translucent version of Karia slides backwards right by the alleyway I'm in- then slides forwards again at a speed I can barely comprehend as the armored man blinks towards her actual body that's still lying on the ground and stabs his spear at it-

*CLANG- SWISH!*

The translucent Karia blocks and swipes the spear away with her own giant blade so it only stabs the pavement. This makes the "monster" jump back in response- but lunge forward again with their spear now raised above their head getting ready to slash down-

But Karia somehow flies back and up into the air at an angle to just barely dodge the hit, but the wind from the slice alone causes her unmoving body on the floor to get it's shoulder heavily sliced.

"What the hell is that ability- it's like that see through version of her is being pulled around the air, other than her arms her limbs aren't moving at all! She- she doesn't even have her eyes open!" I think to myself as Karia flies- or slides back down at breakneck speeds. The man swings his spear out to block her- but just as he does Karia slides sideways through the air, then to the ground- and flies by him with her sword stuck out to slice his side.

Ignoring the hit that thinned his bubble like aura the man launches his spear down to Karia's unconcious body again. But just as the spear pokes her lying body's chest the translucent Karia horizontally swings her blue ghost like blade across the front of her chest with two hands from a distance.

*SWISH- TCH!*

As the spear stabs down it suddenly gets knocked out of her real body and high into the air- with the mans aura thinning out once again as all of the buildings in front of and to the side of him get massive slashes and cracks in them!

The man jumps up at a crazy speed to grab his weapon while looking behind him- but he stops, spins around and lowers his arms midair to block his chest as Karia flies at him with her sword still in two hands.

*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH!*

Karia swings the sword- and herself around at a inhuman speed as she moves around the man to slice him at almost every angle! It thins out the aura around him again, it's still pretty thick and he barely flinched from the attack but- it's getting thinner!

"It's a shame you never practiced using this to fight me-" The man tries to say as he grabs his spear midair, but gets interrupted as Karia slides down in front of him with her sword stuck in front of her. She slams the spiked side of the spear that he's now blocking with, causing him to be launched down to the wide road below and to crack it with the landing- causing some dust to fly in the air.

"Huh?! How would he know that- don't tell me was this guy spying on us too?!"  I think to myself with concern.

"You're disgusting, you care more about avenging Sariel who's soul YOU stole, over the hundreds of allies of yours I sent to the abyss while you cowered in fear... you even directly killed two of them yourself."

"Shit he's close to me now- fuck what am I thinking- have to see if King or Amandeath responded!" I think to myself at 100 miles a minute as I spin myself around to back where the tablet is- but as I do a giant gust of wind blows by as the man suddenly appears in front of me- and immediately steps back to pull his spear behind him.

"Looks like I'll get A-FUCKING-NOTHER soul from you!" The man screams and launches his spear at the side of my chest as I just start to react! But right when it starts to pierce me Karia slides right by me without even moving her legs- and slams the spears' handle down, causing it to cut through my hip and down though my left leg!

*SWISH!*

Karia raises her weapon, turning it and swinging it horizontally, causing it to displace the rain droplets in the air as the armored man jumps back to dodge the hit. Though, his aura still somehow gets sliced from a distance along with the buildings surrounding the alleyway.

"I said-" The see through Karia with closed eyes shouts as she sticks her blue ghost like sword through my arm, "DON'T INTERFERE!" She then spins herself around with her arms stuck out- causing me to be dragged along until she releases me at an upwards angle-

*FWOOSH!*

She launches me diagonally up out of the alleyway- and as I fly by her unmoving body on the floor the armored man blinks towards it and slashes his spear down at it!

*CRASH- SLAM!*

I suddenly fly up through the tall window of a building across the street, and slam into the dirty interior roof of the floor I'm now on which takes my breath away.

Just before I close my eyes and fall to the floor, I look down to the ground that's far below me now to see Karia zooming towards the man who's in the middle of the street again. She slices her sword through his chest which distorts the aura around him- though again no blood comes out or anything...

*THUMP!*

I open my eyes again as I lie on the floor, and peak out of the window I just came in through. I can see Karia's now struggling to push her blade with both hands up against the smooth part of the spears handle, which is the only thing stopping the weapons head from continuing to cut straight through the chest of her body on the floor.

"F-fuck how am I gonna get down from here?!" Is all I can think to myself as I'm covered and cuts and glass and still in shock from the insane flight I just endured.

"Agh- just- FUCK OFF ALREADY!" The man grunts as he ends up swinging his spear up and away from Karia's sword without a grip- and at the same time Karia sticks out her blade with one hand now and starts to spin at a dizzying pace which slices through the mans bubble like aura over and over until he jumps away again and slides along the wet pavement.

He then bends down and launches himself up and onto the side of a white building behind him, and springs himself off of it like a bullet with his spear being pulled back with one hand right towards the translucent Karia who's ready to defend her body as she holds up her weapon to block.

*FWOOSH!*

Just before the man reaches her he chucks his spear right under Karia's translucent arm which is now raised in the air with her glowing blue ghost-like sword. The spear ends up tearing through her real body's shoulder- and dangerously close to her heart at that.

But at the same time right as the man spins down and slams his feet on the ground to land, Karia slices her blade straight through his defenseless self which also cuts and shatters the glass of the building he just launched off of.

He grunts as the slice causes a giant line of the bubble like aura around him to disappear from his chest down to his legs- which reveals his red and black armor in that area!

With my pain and injuries being mainly gone by this point I get up and lean out of the window a bit to get a better view of the fight.

"Ow!" I cry as I stupidly try to rest my hand on the broken glass of the window. But I just start shaking my hand like crazy as I look out of the massive hole in the window and down towards the street a few stories down below me. The rain from the outside is hitting me now as some wind blows in my face.

"Shit- she's actually doing it! But- where the hell is King Metallica and Amandeath, do they need more info about the address or something?! This could still go wrong, like with Virile... speaking of which why didn't she use this against him-" I think to myself but stop as the man rips his spear out of Karia's unconcious body and swings the spiked edge of it towards the standing translucent Karia.

She dodges it again by sliding to the side at a ludicrous speed without moving her limbs an inch, and she slides back a second later to slam her swords blade into the mans now raised spear that he's blocking with with both hands.

"Ok- I think I get this now! So Karia's hits hurt him- but don't stop his movement at all. So the only way to stop him from hitting her body on the floor is to hit his spear- which DOES stop its movement. And the guy is only going for her unconcious body on the floor because... maybe his attacks don't work on the see through Karia? But still- this is way different than her normal abilities- it's like she's really a ghost!" I think to myself with a slight smile as the man pushes his spear forward which causes Karia to be shoved back- but at the same time as she's sliding she swings her sword horizontally, which causes a long range slice- that makes another horizontal line of the mans aura disappear along his chest!

"Karia thinning the aura out beforehand really did do something, I bet that's how she's slicing through it now! But wait- on my other point if she can't move that bastard with her sword, how was she able to launch me up here?" I think to myself in confusion as I look out the window, to see that the rain has suddenly stopped falling.

"I won't lose again- this isn't just for Sariel, this is for everything-" I just barely manage to hear Karia say from below until-

"Shut the FUCK UP- ONLY THE STRONG GET TO TALK DURING BATTLE!"

Karia gets interrupted by the man shouting and blinking towards her ghost form and slicing his spear down at her- but Karia slides back, hits the tip of the spear to the side, and moves around him at breakneck speeds that I can barely even see and slices him multiple times before he swings his spear back up again.

"I AM strong!" Karia shouts out as my jaw drops as the man has a bunch of cuts through the aura around him now- hell I'd even say that he's got way more of his armor exposed than is covered by the aura!

"Nice, Karia! But what's she going to do with the armor exposed now... oh- no, she'll be able to hit him like she did to me I think." I think to myself as I peak around away from the fight to see if I can see Amandeath or King Metallica coming, but don't.

"A-AHHHH! W-why are you doing this to me?! I was... I wasn't the one who took Sariel- yo-you're just trying to push your own flaws onto someone else! So p-p-please, just leave me alone!" The man cries out as he takes a few shaky steps back, until he eventually trips over a crack in the road and falls over.

At the same time the translucent Karia stands still and finally opens her eyes, and at the same time her sword starts to emit a multicoloured see through smoke as she... stabs herself with it?

"...Maybe you're somewhat right. But- sending you to hell is the first step I'll take to fix that. Underestimating me was your fatal flaw." Karia says in a stern tone as she glares down at the armored man, who's now crawling away in fear towards a worn down turquoise painted building that's behind him.

"SPIRIT OF SARIEL: REND THAT IS DIVINE!" She shouts as she swings her sword out of her chest with one hand with it now glowing so brightly it hurts my eyes. She then raises it above her head- but the man suddenly shakes his head like crazy and kicks himself up off the ground, screaming and jumping to the side in a last ditch effort until-

*SHING!*

Karia swings her sword down- and suddenly a crazily blinding blue light flashes from the two. I can just manage to see through my squinted eyes that the armored mans armor is starting to crack- and his helmet is off now, revealing his terrified face and crying blue eyes.

*CRACK!*

The light stops, and at the same time the man gets sent flying back at a pace I can't even comprehend.

"H-...Holy fucking shit!!!" I cry out as the pavement in front of Karia now has a HUGE line dug straight through it. It continues through the building in front of her which was also split in two- or more so the middle of it's destroyed entirely. Not that I can see many details due to huge amount of dust that's now surrounding the area, though.

The translucent Karia with the sword suddenly gets sucked back into her real body that's still on the floor, and a second later...

"AH!" Her eyes open wide as she gasps, and at the same time parts of the building she just sliced in two start to loudly collapse.

She immediately grips her bloody shoulder and grits her teeth- but regardless a second later she starts to stand up.

Then, I can see drops of something falling down her face as she looks in my direction now... based on her quivering lips, I'll guess those are tears instead of the rain that's already covering her body from her lying on the ground for so long.

"S-Sariel... I... I did it... I'-I'm sorry for...! I..." She tries to cry out, but can't put her words together as she puts her hand over her eyes.

*SHK!*

A spear pierces through Karia's upper chest, causing her to vomit out a huge amount of blood as a giant gust of wind blows by that gets rid of the dust in the air.

"Who's fatal flaw?" The... the armored monster says from behind Karia- as he stands tall right in front of the giant crack Karia made in the ground. And- his thinned out bubble like aura covering him entirely again!

"Just to make sure you don't make any more mistakes." The man says in a twisted tone as he steps back and roughly pulls his spear out from Karia's chest which makes her stumble back, until he stabs her again, this time all the way through her lower abdomen- shit!!

Instead of pulling the spear out he raises and bends his right armored leg, and kicks Karia's back to launch her off of the spear- causing her to roll along the pavement and leave a trail of blood behind her.

He blinks towards her and stomps on her face to stop her rolling- all the while her eyes are wide open as she looks to be in shock as she gasps for air.

"You're even worse than normal humans you know. You never even considered the fact that my abilities would advance after two years... no even if you hadn't, YOU STILL WOULD'VE LOST! If father permitted it I would've sent your soul to nothingness instantly. But, toying with you until the five minutes you're able to use Sariel's Blessing for were up- and then showing you how pathetic you really are afterwards sufficed. YOU- YOU FUCKING IDIOT, YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO FATHER!" The man cries out as he rubs his foot deep into her face and stomps down on it again.

"...But. Of course, father told me about how you thought you would "win" no matter what happened here. Too bad for you- you're not getting ANY of the outcomes you desired." The man says calmly as he takes his foot off of Karia and spits into her right turquiose eye.

"Now then- the real reason for why I came here." The armored man says as he looks directly at me from below with his guiltless blue eyes!

I call out to the only thing I know can protect me- "KING METALLICA HEL-"

*BOOM!*

The armored man blinks straight at me with a wide smile from right outside the window- then launches his free hand through the glass to grab my retreating arm and pull me out-

*FWOOSH!*

He throws me down to the ground as I scream- until he appears underneath me and stops my fall by grabbing my neck which makes it painfully crack.

"AHHH I'M STUPID I WASTED TOO MUCH TIME TALKING! On that note- watch this purple hair, I just have to watch out for Seric's flames and then... father's calling!" The armored man says in a happy tone as he uses his other hand to slowly stick his spear into the center of my chest until suddenly-

*POP!*

For some reason, I'm seeing my body from below... what... what's happening- wh-what did he do to me!?!?

I look down at my hands, and see that my entire body is now translucent- just like Karia was in that other form...

But... before I have time to think... my vision... starts to... go... aw-...

Narrator's P.O.V.

"Well, that's that. Time to leave before that bot father warned me about gets here..." The armored man says to himself as Seric's soul fades into thin air and Karia lies on the floor with her heart being destroyed- and immediately starts to run away into a nearby alleyway.

A/N: The story begins.