Guild Wars

The stoic Draco simply stepped back and maintained the posture of an observer, while the shameless Draco gritted his teeth and struggled to get up but was eventually unable to muster any strength. Meanwhile, the horned deer apparitions sensed something dangerous for the first time and felt like it was on the cusp of a pinnacle moment.

Immediately, it diverted all its power to make its attack strong enough to destroy the entire platform at once rather than do it bit by bit, and to this end, it completely drained all its origin energy supply from outside. The power it condensed at this moment was enough to even threaten the souls of Origin Gods, much less a mere Draco who was half-step into that realm at best.

"It’s over!!" the Horned Deer Apparition roared with palpable excitement, feeling that it was about to achieve the greatest achievement of all primordial, which was killing off one of the supreme invaders!

This wasn’t just any supreme invader too, but a Mark 2 version that was cunning and full of limitless potential, even able to kill two of their kind despite the protections and advantages they possessed. Killing such a ’genius’ in the cradle was truly exciting!

However, all of this came to naught as the blow never landed. To the eyes of the Horned Deer Apparition, it had just raised its leg to stomp down and release all the energy when its sole was blocked by another foot that was far smaller and covered with bluish armor.

It was utterly confused since the energy it pushed downward disappeared completely, like it had sunk into an endless abyss, never to return. On top of that, the force of its stomp was completely negated, which was puzzling given its immense physical strength.

Raising its head, it saw that the one who blocked it was another Draco, but this one was… different.

Not only was his hair spiky and unruly, but his green eyes were different from the other two. The injured one had mirth and playful cruelty in its green eyes, while the calm one had neutrality and coldness in its green eyes.

This one… its eyes were actually the most expressive, showing endless darkness and hatred towards all things in the world. It was like sticking one’s face close to a burning fire; just looking into his eyes felt like one was about to be scarred.

On top of that, the fellow wasn’t even looking its way as he used his left foot to easily block its stomp. Rather, his entire focus was aimed toward the injured one on the floor, his eyes filled with endless derision and disdain, like a human looking at a piece of feces on the roadside.

"Utter trash." He said deeply, not bothering to look at the reaction of the one being insulted.

For that matter, the injured one paled greatly and clenched his fists till blood seeped from his fists, but he could only remain silent since there was nothing he could say in rebuttal. Meanwhile, the hate-filled one finally turned to the Horned Deer Apparition and assessed the foe casually.

"You are stupid for trying to actually kill me. If you knew my history and how I even came to be, you would never try such a foolish plan." Edgelord Draco said coldly, his words full of hidden meaning that only the other two Draco understood.

"I don’t believe it!" The Horned Deer Apparition roared, unleashing its full power once more.

PAH!

However, it was rendered shocked and speechless the next moment when Draco slapped it across the face with the back of his fist, like a dainty young master slapping a foolish servant. After doing this, he didn’t even make another attack but took his foot back and seemed casual.

"Return to where you came. Tell your fellow primordials to wash their necks and wait; you are next after I deal with a group of unruly Origin Gods in the Void Nexus." He said idly, cleaning the back of his palm that was used for the slap as if he had touched filth.

Naturally, the Horned Deer Apparition was not going to heed such a merciful warning as it exploded with madness, feeling endlessly humiliated by Draco’s actions. It was a goddamn primordial for the love of all things in the world, a being that could literally drive every being on the planet to extinction on a whim!

It bellowed out some hate-filled gibberish as it wantonly unleashed power, causing the entire soul space to tremble crazily. Its actions were much akin to self-explosion, aiming to charge energy and then release it all crazily to take everything down with it at once.

Draco frowned coldly. "My first action upon coming back is to show kindness, but it seems to never work out. Okay then, I will show you hell."

He shook his right hand and turned a searing black energy into a blade, much similar to that of the dragorugio sword, idly slashing at the Horned Deer Apparition from the right hip up to its left shoulder, a clean diagonal slash. The Horned Deer Apparition only froze for a split second, its crazy energy output halting immediately.

PFFWAAAH!

Then, akin to having a flesh-and-blood body, the slashed area spewed out endless liquid, but this was blackish-green in color and full of a strange kind of power. The energy contained within this greenish-black liquid was extremely close to that of Origin, which faded into the background of the soul space and began repairing the damage under the control of the one who made the slash.

The other two Draco’s looked on with shock, not comprehending what was happening, while the Horned Deer Apparition seemed to calm down greatly, its eyes falling to its attacker with a blood-red hue, looking like it was… bloodshot?

"How…? How can you have such power?" It asked in a hoarse tone that became weaker with each word.

It couldn’t understand because, putting aside the bizarre issue of having three souls, each of them - while linked - displayed different characteristics and abilities. The other two had shown significant power almost at the Origin level but still fell short of the mark, unable to bridge the gap between them as it easily suppressed the two.

So why was this one able to easily defeat it?

Edgelord Draco seemed to be disinterested in giving an answer, but glancing at the other two, who were just as clueless, he frowned slightly in disappointment.

"How? It’s simple. If that idiot (pointing to shameless Draco) relied merely on external things and brute force, and that fellow (pointing to stoic Draco) relies on energy and out-of-the-box ability, then I rely purely on skill and expertise."

There was an expression of superiority on his features. "Not to mention that I am the original. These two are basically split off from me due to different circumstances and requirements, so their upper limit is capped while mine is limitless."

"I…see…" The Horned Deer Apparition could only mutter in pseudo comprehension as it slowly faded away, its soul terminated and its body - wherever it launched the attack from - would henceforth forever be ’braindead.’

There was a short spell of silence as Edgelord Draco dematerialized the strange blade he formed and turned to the other two. Stoic Draco hesitated and stepped forward, nodding to the Edgelord fellow, who slightly nodded back.

Meanwhile, the shameless fellow pulled himself to his feet with a pale face, mustering a weak smile.

"Great work! I don’t know how, but you were able to resolve this crisis quite splendidly!"

The fellow then looked around. "However, we are quite injured and will need some time to recuperate."

After that, he dramatically beat his chest with assurance. "However, you can leave this to me!"

Stoic Draco was looking at the fellow with a strange expression on his face while Edgelord Draco was grinning widely, his arms folded as if watching a clown put on a performance. The shameless Draco saw this but maintained his amiable smile as he continued.

"Let’s work as we did before, following the agreement we made. What do you think?" Shameless Draco eventually said, his eyes hopeful.

However, Stoic Draco remained silent and took a step back while Edgelord Draco remained where he was with a cold smirk. "Our agreement? Oh right, that."

"Our ’agreement’ basically consisted of you blaming me for being the sources of all our problems and claiming you’re the solution. However, I’ve been watching all this time as you’ve continually put us in foolish situations and done destructive things."

The Edgelord took a step forward as his smile became more dangerous. "You messed up with the War Maniac Pavilion, with whom I had built camaraderie, and turned over 30 Origin Gods into our enemies, spawning camping us outside the realm barrier and preventing us from exploring other realms early."

Shameless Draco found himself taking a step back involuntarily, his forced smile dulling as the Edgelord continued. "You let Shuro escape after defeating him, and this is someone who can actually enter our realm as he pleases to cause havoc, not to mention he can inherit his father’s power to enter reality."

"Have you ever thought about this? What if the Western Fantasy’s Origin Gods slice open a pathway into reality? Can you and our women deal with them?"

Stoic and Shameless Draco were stunned by this, not having thought about this matter at all.

"You have let the core members deal with the grey rot, but you underestimate a creature that could create such a plague. Right now, it’s passive because the creature in charge is asleep, but what if it wakes up? What if it’s waking up right now as we are here? It will take seconds for the entire Divine Realm to be destroyed and there goes a fundamental territory with endless benefits."

Edgelord Draco took another step forward and bore down on Shameless Draco, his two green eyes full of intensity while Shameless Draco’s eyes were full of uncertainty.

"Most importantly? You fumbled Gabriel. I don’t care what foolishness you thought when you decided to leave her in that shit hole, she belongs to us."

Suddenly, Edgelord Draco relaxed. "However, all of that is forgivable. These are not fatal mistakes that cannot be rectified in time and do not really warrant my presence here to fix."

Stoic Draco raised an eyebrow in surprise while Shameless Draco sighed in relief, mustering a friendly smile.

"You see, it’s best for us to- GAH!"

His words were cut off by a searing pain in his chest as the hands of Edgelord Draco pierced through, causing the entire scene to be silent in shock. Stoic Draco took a step forward to intervene because while he usually wanted to stay neutral in all things, this was too extreme for him to let go.

"As I was saying, all those things would be forgivable if it were actually us doing it, and not a parasite hidden within our soul." Edgelord Draco continued, not at all bothered, his focus solely on the being before him.

"Isn’t that right… Lucifer?"

His words caused Stoic Draco to stop on the spot, the usually calm fellow now completely disheveled and full of disbelief. Meanwhile, Edgelord Draco only remained staring at Shameless Draco, whose pale face began to shift from shock to coldness and then to amusement.

"How did you know?" Shameless Draco, or rather, Lucifer, responded.

"I wasn’t completely sure to be honest, we are too alike at a fundamental level. I never suspected anything before, but you know, you sold your own self out by locking me down there." Edgelord Draco replied coldly as he took his hand out, allowing a well of blood to spurt out of Lucifer’s chest.

Edgelord Draco turned and beckoned to the cage that he had made his home for countless years, beckoning it over with a twist of his finger.

"And would you guess what, I happened to find something very shocking down there…"

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