CAT WARLOCK: This Darklord Feasts Upon Horror-Chapter 194: Last Hit

The dust settled, revealing Mater back in his cat form.

His fur was a mess and lost its usual glow and smoothness. Not far from him, the Ascendant had also lost his flaming bird form and returned to a burnt man.

He was still alive.

The Ascendant lay on the floor and laughed.

"Nice try, Heretic! Hahahaha!" The man covered his mouth like he couldn’t stop himself from laughing. "But you lose."

Holy Fire slowly returned to his body as he regained his power.

"Ugh. This damn blessed champion." Mater grunted.

He was emptied. Fully. He had no power in him anymore. But it was not the end yet.

The black cat opened its mouth. The Dark Grimoire shot out of his throat. Aurora and Crow jumped out from the pages.

"You two?!" He widened his eyes.

The Ascendant forgot that Mater still had his servants.

Crow turned into a strip of shadow and dashed to the Ascendant. He drove a Nether Sphere into the heart of the man and pinned him onto the floor.

Crow then summoned another Nether Sword to decapitate the Ascendant. The sword stopped and was caught inside his neck, unable to get through entirely.

"It’s useless! Just wait till my power returns!" The Ascendant screamed. He was broken beyond imagination and couldn’t move. But his power was slowly returning. His god was watching over him.

Aurora transformed back to the Glacial Elk. She felt a little dizzy because of the overuse of Chaos.

The snowstorm returned and lowered the temple of the area. A pillar of clear Death Ice encapsulated the Ascendant. Countless Glacial Lances penetrated into his skin. It slowed down his regeneration for a bit but couldn’t kill him.

Aurora turned to Crow, "We can’t kill him! We need to go!"

The fight had resulted in a draw. Mater technically won but he couldn’t end the Ascendant. They needed to leave before the Ascendant fully recovered.

"I guess you can live for another day, Fanatic!" Mater stood up. His entire body was tired and sore.

"I will find you, cat! No matter where you are?! I will find you!" The Ascendant grinded his teeth. Mater couldn’t kill him but he had also failed.

The flame staff pierced through the pillar of ice and penetrated into the Ascendant.

"Huh?" The Ascendant widened his eyes. "Where did this staff come from?"

Selina slowly became visible.

"The lady?!" Crow said.

"Selina?" Aurora blurted out.

The goth girl twisted the staff. All the power of the Holy Fire was consumed by the staff, stopping the Ascendant from healing.

"No one touches my cat!" Selina’s eyes went red. Her Psycho Force went into overdrive. The Chaos Singularity spun fiercely. Chaos wrapped around the golden staff.

"I almost forgot! The Von Schattenbergs is trying to harvest his energy. This entire pocket dimension is for that reason! The staff can drain him!"

"Don’t stop, Aurora!" Crow dashed to Selina. He held his Nether Sword again and smacked into the neck of the Ascendant. His neck was softer.

Aurora continued to leak Death Ice energy into the Ascendant, prohibiting his power.

"You?! YOU MONGRELS!"

The Ascendant roared. He summoned even more power. He asked his god for help. But all the blessings from his god had turned into energy for the staff.

"These damn mortals!"

The Von Schattenbergs found the burnt man. But he was a corpse back then with a never ending power of Holy Fire. This ancient family wanted to exploit and harvest his power.

The burnt man was aware of all of it. But he allowed them to do it. The more the power of the god spread in this world, the more he would have control over it.

But it was different if a Chaos User, or Heretic as the Ascendant referred to, got their hand on Holy Fire.

The only thing that could rival the power of god, was the power of Chaos.

Chaos represented the negative side of reality. The power of God, or as Mater referred to as Fate, represented the positive side of reality. There was another neutral aspect that stood in the middle. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

The humans of this world were users of Chaos. But they didn’t know the full extent of its power. They wouldn’t know to guard against Fate.

But Mater knew. And he would weaponize this power for Chaos.

The Ascendant was able to channel a little bit of his power. His right hand glowed bright yellow again. He plunged through the Death Ice and aimed his palm at Selina.

A wave of fire shot at her.

The tattoo on her chest lit up and formed a gold barrier. It repelled the fire back at the Ascendant. It didn’t hurt him but it rendered his power completely useless.

"You?! A Ward of Protection?"

Crow smacked the sword repeatedly on the neck of the Ascendant. He was able to successfully cut half of the neck loose.

"Only a little bit more." If he could sweat, Crow would have sweated profusely.

"You shouldn’t have hurt my cat." Selina’s eyes turned black. Dark veins spread around the corners of her eyes. "Come!"

The Abyssal Helmet was laying on the floor. It suddenly shot up and flew to Selina.

She wore it and once again became the Dark Knight.

Selina let the flame staff continue eating away the Ascendant. She raised the sword.

All the power within the helmet was drained dry. Selina was using her own Chaos to pilot it.

"Give me your power, Crow." Selina said.

Crow reached out and placed his hand on Selina’s shoulder. His Chaos and the power of the hell of darkness flowed over.

The Nether Sword lit up brightly as Selina finished charging it with all her power. The armor on her body cracked and was disappearing.

"Die."

She sliced over the head of the Ascendant, decapitating him successfully.

Crow fell on his back. Aurora followed soon after.

Selina’s Dark Knight form disappeared without any more energy to maintain it.

The gold staff had fully formed and solidified into a new state. It would no longer slowly disintegrate like the before. It consumed all the power of the Ascendant along with his body.

Selina let out a long breath as she placed the tip of the Nether Sword on the ground. The sword also disappeared right after.

"You’ve done well, servants. You can rest now." Selina said.

"I’ll take my leave, my lady." Crow tipped his hat and disappeared into the Dark Grimoire.

"We leave Master to you, Selina." Aurora shrunk and also jumped into Mater’s Dark Grimoire.

Selina grabbed the golden staff and picked up the leathery book.

She then came to Mater and gently picked him up in her arms.

"You’re alright?" Her voice was as soft as ever. It was as if she’s afraid one sudden movement would hurt him.

"I’m fine, woman." The black cat snickered. "Give me that staff."

Mater swallowed the golden staff and put it into his Demonic Arsenal.

"We should leave now. The Core of this dimension should be right where we first found the Fanatic."

Selina nodded. She came back to the place that had the spherical cage that had held the burnt man. Under the cage was a small jewel glowing.

Selina crushed the jewel.