The Duel - A Crushing Defeat

"Oh~?,then if that's the case I shall be the judge to decide the winner, after all, it's not everyday you get to see two Grand Dukes fight each other" 

Yvlquir exclaimed, as he couldn't hide his excitement. 

'The Third Devil and The God Of Hell, Lucifer, fighting against The Sixth Devil and The God Of The Human Realm, Azazel*, this will definitely be interesting, especially due to "Those" Two Weapons' 

(Originally, I Planned to Have Yvlquir as The God Of  the Human Realm, as you may have read in the previous chapter, however I Changed it to Azazel as I believed he would fit better in this position) 

The Three Grand Dukes Instantly Travelled To Heaven, in which a colosseum had been, it was created solely for the purpose of Grand Dukes fighting each other, which is why it is Nigh-Infinite Light Years Tall And Wide, if Grand Dukes fought in a different place instead of the Colosseum, that place would be destroyed by the level of power emitting from both Grand Dukes. 

"3...."

Yvlquir had begun the countdown.

"2...."

"1...."

"Begin"

Yvlquir had said it calmly.Lucifer immediately, to slightly confuse Azazel, created an endless amount of afterimages within a fraction of a fraction of a second.*

(Saying Fraction twice is not a mistake.)

Azazel, albeit only for a few milliseconds, had been confused about which Lucifer was the real one, however in that time, Lucifer had already summoned a Pitch-black Scythe, with a rose-gold handle, covering about 16 meters, and containing 3 blades instead of just 1.

"Its The First time you've seen this guy right?, Azazel.His Name is Xharaiyhe,The Scythe Of Failure.It can cut through anything, whether it be a material existence, Abstract existence, or even a conceptual existence, like time and space." 

Lucifer struck Xharaiyhe down, cutting the space in the colosseum in half.However Azazel was not affected by it nor was he afraid of it, because...he too, had a weapon that was on par with Lucifer's Scythe. 

"Manifest,Syzhyier...." 

Lucifer looked at Azazel's Weapon, which he thought he'd seen before, but.... 

"hmm? You modified your Sword?" 

Previously, Lucifer believed that Syzhyier was a sword, but now it was .... 

"...it is a Halberd , do not call it by the wrong name, how would you feel if I called your weapon 'Scrap Metal'?" 

"S-Scrap Metal? You really want me to kill you that bad huh?" 

Lucifer was furious.'Scrap Metal'!?, he thought, and he immediately attacked Azazel. 

"Xharaiyhe, Break" 

Swoosh!, a huge blow from Xharaiyhe, instantly flattening the entire colosseum with ease, the pressure from the blow even reached to some of the planets near the colosseum, these planets instantly crumbled into ashes. 

"Oh~, not bad for a Scythe, but..... Syhzhier,Warp" 

At first, the ability seemed to do nothing, but it definitely did not do 'Nothing', if one word could be used to describe what happened after the ability was used, it'd be.... 

"Huh?, my arm, it's gone?" 

Steal. 

"I See, this 'Warp', it warps reality and then Steals one of my body parts, well then, it seems I've lost..." 

Just as Yvlquir was about to concede the battle, Lucifer had continued his sentence. 

"..... Or so you thought I'd say..." 

Azazel had suddenly lost all 6 of his senses for a few seconds, and when he regained them,many things had changed.Lucifer's Arm was back to normal, Lucifer's Foot was pushing down on Azazel as if it was  pressing down on a pillow, and.... Syhzhier was in pieces. Lucifer was just standing there Laughing while Azazel's Head was being plunged into the colosseum's floor. Although Azazel felt no pain, he still was powerless against Lucifer.But he had already figured out the reason why Lucifer had won this battle,After all, there was only one thing it could've been

"Its that Scythe isn't it?,the name just never sat right with me since the beginning of this battle, 'Scythe of Failure', there's some sort of overpowering ability isn't there."

"hahaha!, you really are smart, Azazel, yeah!, it was certainly the work of Xharaiyhe's special ability, Fail, anything that could cause some sort of harm towards me or any of my vestiges will be repelled, even if the ability exceeds the strength of my Scythe, in other words, no matter what, I can't lose to anyone, that is precisely why I, Lucifer of Greed, am the Strongest of the 7 Grand Dukes, and was titled as the Aide Of Zakiel"

Lucifer had explained the Extremely powerful, perhaps too powerful, ability of his Scythe, Hence the Name 'Scythe Of Failure', anything that attempts to do harm to him or his vestiges will immediately become a 'Failure' of an attack. 

"Well anyway, I would've won no matter what, as the ability of Xharaiyhe works even if The Scythe is broken,not in my hands, or even if time was reversed to before I created Xaraiyhe" 

***

One Day, many Aeons ago.In an imaginary world, Azazel had stood in front of Zakiel, he had just created the Human Realm, and Zakiel wanted to give him something as a reward. 

"Azazel, my child, what is it that you wish for? I shall give you anything you want."

"I wish to see Lord Zakiel's True Strength, even if it only a small fraction of it."

"Is That All?" 

"Yes,My Lord" 

Azazel couldn't Hold back his excitement, he had always dreamed of seeing the true power of his Lord ever since his creation, even if it was just a small fraction of it. 

"Very Well, then, 'Suffer'" 

With just the utterance of a single world, Azazel was suddenly surrounded in darkness that began eating away at the very core of his existence, it was the first time he had experienced something like this, but he knew what it was. 

Pain.Immense Pain and Suffering. 

It stopped. 

Azazel, who had felt such an immense pain that he had never felt before, had a certain expression on his face after being able to see that just one word from Zakiel was enough to erase the very core of his existence. 

'So That's just a "Fraction" of Lord Zakiel's Power?, and I once thought I could be at a level near to him, what bullshit.'

However there was one thing that Zakiel Said To Azazel, but because he was still recovering from the pain in those few seconds, he did not hear it. 

***

"Right Then, I believe this battle is over?" 

Yvlquir intervened before the battle continued and ended up having Azazel Killed.

"Fine, Lucifer, you win, what do you want?" 

Azazel and Lucifer had made a bet before they battled, the winner would get one thing from the loser, no matter what. 

Lucifer Had brought out Xharaiyhe and handed it to Azazel. 

"Modify It" 

"Huh?!, are you retarded?, why would you want a Scythe even better than the one you already have?, besides, how am I supposed to make a Scythe, that can do literally everything, 'Better'?" 

Azazel was pissed at Lucifer, thinking that There's no way to Make Xharaiyhe even stronger than it already is. 

"Quit your useless excuses, I know you can, if you can't, then your not a Grand Duke, and I'll Completely Erase you right now, even though you won't be gone for long even if I erase you, it still be atleast a few hours." 

"Tch, fine, what do you want me to Modify?" 

"Just make it smaller,increase the sharpness of the blades, and change the handle to a silver-red colour, use the same material that you used to Change your wings*

(these wings will be explained in the next chapter) 

"That's it? It'll only take me a few decades to do that."

"hm? Only a few decades,it took me over a dozen centuries just to decide this things name" 

"Wow, you must be really shit at naming,it suits you perfectly, you should be a main character in these 'manga' things that the humans made, you'd be perfect in that role" 

"Manga?, isn't that just some fictional shit, you telling me to not be real anymore? 

"You Don't need to be fictional, after all, if any of the Grand Dukes wanted, they could make these Manga things real, like that one character named Goku, if I felt like it, I could make him real, although he's pretty weak compared to the high-ranking humans, or the lower devils*"

(Grand Dukes refer to Any Demons/Devils as lower, by no means are they actually low ranked, in this sentence Azazel is referring to Mid-Ranked and High-Ranked Devils) 

"Oh, on the topic of humans, recently I've noticed that there are some humans who could actually fight against Low-Ranking Devils*" 

(In this sentence, Lucifer is literally referring to Low-ranked Devils) 

"I believe those humans are called....." 

"...... God-Ranked Hunters*"

(???-ranked has been changed to God-Ranked) 

"Oh~?, they could go up against Low-Ranks you say? Then they should have some decent blood" 

Whether it be human,Animal,insect, or even Demon blood, any blood consumed by A Grand Duke will increase their strength.The strength that a Grand Duke gains depends on the level of the human/demon/etc.All power owned by the owner of the blood will be given to the Grand Duke, this includes abilities, weapons or even spirits that reside inside those beings,there is no exception to this ability. All Grand Dukes have this ability, if a being does not have blood, and is defeated by a Grand Duke, the Grand Duke will still gain all of their powers, weapons, abilities and spirits. 

"Well that's not important now, continue what you were saying about this 'Manga' stuff" 

Lucifer was curious about the Manga created by humans, he wanted to learn more about it, as he may be able to do something with it. 

Azazel didn't feel like talking about Manga so he just gave all the information about it straight to Lucifer through an ability which allows him to implant information inside others. 

"Hmm, I see, then in that case I can certainly use this for something." 

Lucifer had a plan in mind to use the 'Manga'