Lerion layed on the ground, groaning in pain as his stomach bled "AHH!AAAAH!", he rolled back and forth before trying to get up "What the hell.....!", his mouth was leaking with blood. Above him in air was the Drive Knight floating above him and watching him. Lerion muttered "I thought I had blown that pile of junk into scraps! How was it able to survive that?!", Lerion tried healing his wound with a white glowing magical circle, but the healing process only worked for a few moments before disappearing. Lerion was stunned, his eyes widened "The hell? Not even basic healing amplified with Artifactication worked?", he gritted his teeth with anger "This damn thing!", he looked up into the air at the Drive Knight "This thing isn't just mere technology! It has something mixed with it..... ITS DARK MAGIC!". A few years back when Lerion was just a young teen of 13 years old, he and White who was four years old at the time, sat together on a porch. It was a bright day, Lerion was reading a book filled with Noble lord techniques, while White was sitted beside him, stretching his head to see what his elder brother figure was reading. White asked "Hey, cousin Lerion?", Lerion responded without looking at him "Hm? What's the matter, White?". White pointed to a dark magic circle that was on the book Lerion was reading "What's this?", he innocently asked. White replied "That? It's dark magic, also know as dark energy. According to the book, it's supposed to be a counter to the abilities of the Noble Lords! Apparently, a person known as the dark saint created this technique to go against the Noble Lords. It was probably a guy from the Knight Kingdom that invented it.". White asked "A dark saint?", White replied with a smile "Yeah, a very evil guy who wanted to destroy the Noble Lords after the Attack clan and the Katakuri's separated.", he made a very funny and scary tone with his voice just to tease White "He also has the ability to enter naughty children's dreams and give them nightmares.", White shrugged "AAAH!". Lerion just laughed and patted him on the head "Hahaa! I'm just kidding.". The flashback ended, Lerion had a weakened smile on his face as blood dripped down his mouth and his hands filled with blood as he held his bleeding stomach "Hahah!", he softly laughed "Who could have thought I'd remembered a moment like that at a time like this!". Lerion continued his monologue "The dark saint was a saint that was rumored to have been enemies with the Attack clan even before the Katakuri's left. We were nothing but light, and the saint was nothing but darkness. No wonder he made a technique to kill us.", Lerion slowly stood up straight while softly groaning. A confident smirk appeared on his face "You may not look like it, but you're brimming with hatred towards me. Aren't you?", he chuckled "I don't know whether you're a robot or a person dressed as a robot. I don't understand how they were able to impliment dark energy to create you, but oh well. It doesn't matter.". Lerion summoned a white sword "I'll kill you with one swing", he said with cold eyes. He called out [SOLOMON], his body started to emit a tramendous amount of white energy, the Drive Knight responded with dark energy brewing from it's body. Lerion positioned the edge of his sword behind his other arm, his left arm and palm above his sword. Lerion's sword started to glow white with ancient symbols written and glowing all over it "Hey, Solomon? Sorry to bother you. But now would be a good time to activate.", he said to himself. Solomon was a friend of Lerion's from his younger days as a teen, they were both from the same clan, but in different fractions. Solomon and Lerion were friends who had the same ideals, they wanted to rid the world from darkness. To them, anything that was against Kagahara's will was darkness, that was how both boys saw things. Until one day, Lerion (13 years old) was on his knees, his eyes were wide opened with shock. Blood was all over his hands, and jnfront of him was his friend, Solomon who was laying dead. The environment around them was dark and dusty "Solo.... SOLOMON!", Lerion screamed his best friend's name with shock and despair. In current time, a dangerous amount of white energy was bursting out of Lerion's body, an excited smile on his face "Solomon. You remember the special move we used to do together? The one where I'd use my Artifactication to manifest a clone out of you with my energy, and the one where you'd do the same to me with your power? Looks like I'm the only one doing it alone now.". Lerion muttered "Artifactication, I know you only give me the ability to create any weapon with any ability, as long as the scale of power doesn't exceed what I can normally do. Well right now....", above Lerion was the Drive Knight preparing a giant continent sized attack that had enough power to turn continents to ash "I need to break that limit.", Lerion said. Lerion started to chuckle "Damn it all! If I were to break the limitations of what I can do because i can create any ability i want, Artifactication will punish me. It might either kill me, or prevent me from achieving my true potential in life. Worse of all, it might make me completely weaker than I am.". He suddenly remembered the time he tried to go past his limits as a young teen, and then injuring his arm in the process. He thought to himself "Yeah, I remember. My arm got scorched by white lightning when i tried that. Artifactication punished me for going all out and smoked my arm. You really are an overly disciplined ability.", white symbols and ancient letters appeared on the side of his face. A giant ball of energy started to appear above White with a gigantic manifestation of a man holding the ball of energy and ready to drop it. Lerion muttered the incantations "WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND WHITE STARS, AND WITH THE HELP OF LORD RAHELZA ON MY SIDE! LET EVERYTHING THAT'S MY ENEMY TURN TO ASH! ARTIFACTICATION: NO MATTER THE ATTACK AGAINST ME, DESTROY IT! GO, SOLOMON!! ", he roared. Solomon yelled out a powerful roar as it proceeded to drop it's attack, the Drive Knight also blasted it's own attack at Lerion's. Both lightning and darkness clashed, the explosion from the clash was so powerful that it flew into the sky and out of the earth's atmosphere, litung up the entire planet and a few other planets around it. The explosion was that of both light and darkness. Despite how big and powerful the explosion was, it was like a flash to the people around the world who only looked up into the sky for a moment. White on the other hand saw the flash at full display, the entire sky being covered by a white explosion that cleared clouds and dwarfed mountains and regions until it cleared away. White blinked "Lerion....?", he muttered his cousins name. Lerion was on the ground, his arms burnt and lightning burn markings on his face. He scoffed with a tired smirk as steam rushed out his body "Ha! Looks like I win!".
END OF CHAPTER.