World End: The Successor's Contract

"Ahhhhh!"

Zeno screamed in pain as the fire from the Grail started spreading to his body, the pain was so unbearable that tears were almost coming out of his eyes.

Although Zeno did try to remove his hand from the Grail a couple of times, the Grail itself wouldn't let off Zeno go.

On one knee with one of his hands placed beside the Grail, Zeno screamed in pain as the fire made its way inside his body and was now showcasing in his eyes.

Immersed in pain and with nowhere to go, Zeno felt like a rat trapped inside a cage with the fire burning him to ache.

[Do you accept my power?]

A voice spoke to Zeno, "Wha…" Zeno mumbled, focusing on suppressing the pain that he was feeling.

[Do you accept my power?]

Zeno with all his might rose his head and stared at the sky as he yelled with so much pain in his voice, "Yes!!!" With flames burning in his eyes and blue streaks on his face.

[My powers are yours but it is not without consequence…]

[I grant you the flames which burns the heavens and scorch down the earth, erase the evil and cleanse the good. The flames of Leviton is now yours to use]

All the blue flames in the Grail rushed into his body, causing him to fall unconscious on the ground.

The three look-alikes that invited Zeno into the gate all walked up to him as they watched his body on the ground.

"Do you think he can do it?" One of them spoke.

"I guess we'll just have to watch and see."

...…...

Uta landed on the ground, using her blade to slice the tentacles that were charging toward her.

With each cut came a pour of slimy blue liquid that poured from the tentacle's openings.

She had just finished cutting down all the tentacles that were aimed at her, panting, Uta rested her hand on her blade.

"You sure are taking your damn time." Uta uttered.

Booom!

Out of nowhere, Rachel landed on the ground with a big boom that straight up left a huge hole in the ground.

Before Uta could raise her head, multiple spiky dark energy had surrounded her, with most aimed at her neck.

"Well well, even the two strongest type Ankias couldn't stop me… I'm quite disappointed actually".

Lucifer voiced out, hovering in the air as he looked down on Rachel and Uta with a sinister smile on his face.

Uta grunted in pain when she tried to move her arm and ended up touching one of the spikes that sent a massive shockwave into her body.

"Don't act so cocky!" Rachel yelled, whooshing out of the hole and charging straight at Lucifer with magic energy surrounding her body.

Once she got close, she clapped her hands in front of him which in turn sent a wave that pushed Lucifer back before he received a punch to the gut.

Rachel was panting heavily, as she stayed in a pause motion from the massive punch she had just given Lucifer.

"Got yahhh~"

Rachel's eyes opened in fear when she heard Lucifer whisper in her eyes, the next thing she knew, Lucifer was sinking his teeth into her neck.

Rachel screamed in pain, punching Lucifer all over in desperation as she slowly started fading.

It didn't take long for Rachel to stop moving and die from the huge amount of blood she lost.

Muahah!

Lucifer pulled his teeth away from Rachel's neck and left her to fall flat on the ground, covered in her own blood.

Uta was shocked at the sight but also angered, she gave Lucifer a death stare before she began to move her body forcefully.

She screamed, as the shockwave kept hitting her from all angles, causing her blood vessels to burst from the inside out but she didn't stop.

She kept on pushing her way out, with some of the spikes breaking in two while some were piercing her skin as she moved further.

Lucifer sighed, using his hand to clean the blood on his lips, "Come on, don't look at me like that… I did you a favor here, you wanted her dead before, and will Vulaah–"

Pboom!

Lucifer received a powerful punch to the cheeks that sent him falling and tumbling on the ground before he crashed into a single-standing boulder.

Uta couldn't believe her eyes when she saw Zeno, floating in the sky with blue flames covering his hand and hair and his eyes lit up blue.

Zeno landed on the ground and walked toward Uta, "Are you okay?" He asked, all he did was touch one of the spikes and the rest turned into dust.

Uta didn't wait a single second before jumping on Zeno to hug him but as soon as she made contact with the flames, she jumped back with a scream.

"You might want to keep to yourself for a while." Zeno uttered.

Uta began rubbing the hand that got burnt with a smile on her face as she stared at Zeno, "Is this some kind of power up?" She asked.

Zeno didn't utter anything, instead, he looked at the wasteland and took all the destruction he was seeing in before he finally replied to Uta.

"The world is nothing like it was 900 years ago, the world has been stagnant, even after 900 years I have not been able to fulfill my mission of saving this world."

Uta stood there completely speechless from the surprise she was feeling, "You… you remember." She voiced out.

"Yeah," Zeno responded with a smile before throwing a serious face back at her.

"Our mistakes and failures, our wins and deeds I remember them all, all the demons we killed, and when… even when I adopted you I remember them all." He said calmly.

Uta stared at him with tears almost falling from her eyes but she made sure she didn't show any weakness.

"But still… we failed to eliminate the enemy twice now, I can't let that happen again, with this flames, I'll purify the world and bring back the peace it once had,. ..yProbably".

Lucifer slowly stood up from the boulder he crashed into with a strange smile on his face as he uttered, "look who finally came to join the party,".