Raze didn't quite know how he had gotten into this situation, but right now, Raze and Rayna were in a room alone together. They were told to go to one of the rooms above and get ready for a gift that Belil was preparing for them both.
Only the three of them would be involved, and he had asked for the Dark Magus to dress in something that would make him stand out a bit. He didn't quite know what he meant by that.
In the room, Raze had entered a dressing room of sorts, even though there was no need for him to actually get changed. He used his Dark Magic to switch out of his beloved blazer and went back to the magic robe.
The robe that people were familiar with, the one that stuck to the name Dark Magus. Raze had imagined this is what Belil meant by those words. When he exited, Rayna was there waiting. She looked the same as before in her martial arts robe, with a spear by her side.
She had tied up her hair into a bun and had placed a few armor pieces on her forearms, but everything else was just the cloth that was on her body.
"I'm sorry about all of this," Rayna said. "I know it's a lot to explain, but honestly, it was the only way I could stop the Neverfall Clan from becoming an enemy of yours."
"It's stupid; my father doesn't usually go after individuals or anything like that. It was just because the Behemoth Clan got involved, and although all of the Demonic Faction are under one umbrella, he can get quite competitive sometimes."
"Don't worry, I understand," Raze said. "The situation, it's not as bad as I thought."
In a lot of ways, Raze felt like this might be better. Would the Behemoth Clan still be after him now that he was connected to the Neverfall Clan? And he could slowly gain trust and learn why the Dark Faction Founder had come here of all places.
It didn't seem like something Raze could just ask outright, and there didn't seem to be the right time anyway.
"What I am worried about is what exactly is this gift that he's prepared for us," Raze replied.
Rayna had to admit that she was slightly concerned as well.
After preparing, they had exited the room onto the main floor, and they could see Belil waiting for them. He had changed as well and was now in an extravagant piece of large black and gold cloth. It was large in the shoulder areas, but it wasn't tied up. Belil had a pair of trousers on, but the center part of the cloth remained open, revealing his well-chiseled stomach, and parts of the cloth were dragging on the floor.
"Let's get going, then, shall we," Belil said as he bent his legs. When he jumped up, he exploded with power.
He had jumped so high that when Raze looked up, he couldn't even see him. The abyssal base was extremely deep. It was the same size as a large mountain but only in reverse.
"How high can he jump?" Raze asked.
"From here, well, he's probably already out of the base. Come on, it's best not to keep him waiting," Rayna replied, as she jumped up onto one of the large chains and waited for Raze to follow.
The two of them continued to jump on the giant hanging chains and then ran across them while hopping from one side to the other until they had eventually reached the outside. Belil was just standing there, staring off into the distance, but he could hear the other two had arrived.
"The portal expedition, it was that way over the mountain, right? I think that's where the Light Faction had attacked from as well," Belil said, seemingly like he was talking to the others, but he didn't wait for them to reply and was already on the move.
While running through the vast lands, Raze suspected that Belil wasn't going at his full speed and was going at a speed where the two of them could keep up.
As they continued to travel, a mountain could be seen up ahead. It was one of the few places that Raze recognized because he had been there before. It was the first portal dimension he had entered, and where he had exited with Dame and the others. Currently, though, there was no portal there.
The three continued to run, and instead of going up the mountain, they had gone around a smaller mountain. Then they hurled down it and could see a vast green forest with yellow leaves falling to the ground.
Then up ahead, what looked like a small little town, similar to the one where the Red Brigade clan was at.
Rayna was getting more tense the closer they moved towards the town. There was a simple reason for this; they were in the Light Faction territory. On the border was the Dawnblade Clan's territory.
It was where Beatrix Highborn, one of the first people that had struck Raze and almost killed him, and had gone head to head against Dame, as well as the man known as Nabi Highborn were from. The Elder that Raze and the Crimson Crane had managed to defeat.
When looking at the place from afar, the town seemed to be void of people, and instead, there looked to be warriors training out in the fields, swinging their swords, several men sparing against each other, and large crates of supplies moving in and out.
"The Dawnblade Clan is under a lot of pressure from the faction themselves," Belil started to comment. "They have had three losses against us, the Demonic Faction."
"Three?" Rayna replied. "I know they lost to Dame when they attacked, and the recent loss of the Elder, due to the Crimson Crane, but the Crimson Crane is not part of the Demonic Faction, and even if we include that, it would only be two."
"Yes," Belil answered. "But the Dark Magus is the one being blamed for having defeated the Elder, and he is now allied with us, so that means it will soon be the Demonic Faction's doing, and as for the third..."
Once again, Belil jumped up from his position; they were still at least one kilometer away. Yet jumping from where he was, Raze could see Belil land perfectly in the center of where the concentrated Light Faction warriors currently were.
Immediately, Qi energy was dispensed, and almost instantly all of the warriors around felt sick, their bodies uncontrollable as they dropped their weapons onto the ground.
'That's almost the same effect as if I were to use the first Descending Step, but he's able to do this with just his Qi.'
No one looked as if they could get up off the ground to attack him, and as Belil walked toward one of the main buildings where a rush of those wearing white cloth had come out with their swords, he had a few words to say to them all.
"The Dark Magus has agreed to become a part of our family today! I hear that the Light Faction has a vendetta against him and wishes to get rid of him. So I have come with a gift for him, and a warning to you."
Belil readied his fist as he brought it to his side. Large ripples in the air could be seen condensing, and the area round felt like it was getting denser. The floor underneath his feet was cracking, and each time the Qi energy felt like it was condensing more and more.
Cracking down, going further in and in. Then, unleashing his fist, it was one strike, a powerful giant blast of energy, no, not energy, but the attack of a fist, that had ripped everything in its path apart.
The attack hit the buildings, crumbling them to pieces, and the warriors, all they saw was the vast energy. Swinging their swords, doing whatever they could, it was useless as they were consumed by the attack.
The sound was as devastating as a lightning strike. Rayna and Raze quickly rushed over to where Belil was, and when they stood by his side, they could see that one half of the entire town had been completely destroyed.
While the other half, where his fist wasn't thrown, was left intact.
"This is my gift to you, Dark Magus. Welcome to the family."
