The earth shattered.
Not just the land but the trees, the skies, the hearts of every being who dared to stand and witness it.
A deafening silence followed the quake. Smoke choked the atmosphere. Blood dyed the wind.
Kesshō Kikan stood in disbelief, eyes wide with trembling horror.
"No…" he whispered, falling to his knees, staring up at the eye now watching them from beyond the broken sky. "The eye of dying tear…?"
Lucien Veylor laughed like a man possessed.
A madman.
A prophet.
"YES! Yes, yes, YES!!" he screamed, arms wide open to the heavens. "Father, I have brought you back to the world you once blessed… Our world will rise again! Our dominion will return!"
Kesshō roared in fury, staggering to his feet.
"YOU SUMMONED HIM!? You summoned that thing—how DARE YOU, BROTHER!"
Lucien's smile twisted, fangs bared.
"It's what the world wants, Kesshō. The Red Exorcists will rise once more. Now that our Weapon has awakened…" He turned, blood spilling from his lips. "We march to the Deep Beneath. We bring forth our other brother. But first…"
He whispered in Latin, voice cracking with ancient power:
> "Obscura terra, aperi viam — vocabo bestiam."
The ground split open.
Trees disintegrated. The land caved inward, forming a black altar of death revealing the one who now stood at its center:
Ren Akagawa, the Crimson Form.
He radiated power and death. Not breathing. Not blinking. Just… waiting.
Ayame collapsed, clutching her throat, screaming as her skin peeled slightly from the force of his aura. She wept, begging to be unseen.
Souta cried out from behind him. "Ren! Don't let it take over! Please, it's not you!"
Ren's head turned. Slowly.
But the voice that answered was no longer his.
"You're too late, human."
He looked back at the sky.
"What should I do… Father?"
The Eye in the Sky rumbled with a DEEP, soul-devouring voice:
> "KILL ALL THE HOLY KNIGHTS IN FRONT OF YOU."
Ren obeyed.
He dropped Ayame like dust, walking forward with deliberate menace.
And then
Lorth dash forward, his ivory armor cracked but gleaming.
"You face the Ivory Cross," he growled. "Your corruption ends with me."
He raised his claymore.
Ren didn't speak. He simply vanished.
SLASH.
Blood sprayed. Lorth stumbled, a deep wound across his chest. But he didn't fall.
He roared and summoned divine sigils behind him, launching spears of light.
Ren walked through them. Every holy weapon that touched him melted.
Lorth gritted his teeth.
Ren grabbed his arm and ripped it off.
Lorth howled as his arm was crushed like paper in Ren's claws.
The Crimson Form whispered.
"Then God… is dead."
He stabbed Lorth through the gut with his blood-forged sword.
Kairo summoned tidal blades, his body glowing blue, water forming a cyclone around him.
"I'll freeze your blood before you kill again!"
He launched toward Ren, blades cutting with precision.
Ren bled only to absorb it back into his body,
Kairo froze.
"No… you regenerate from the blood?"
Ren grabbed Kairo's face and slammed it into the ground. Then again. And again.
CRACK.
CRACK.
CRUNCH.
Kairo's mask shattered, blood gushing from his mouth.
Lucien veylor slapping his hands like a baby
Yes yes hehe
He raised him and crushed his chest in a red spike, water and blood mixing as Kairo screamed one last time.
Rovik charged with flames consuming him, turning into a burning beast.
"I'll burn your sins to ash!"
He clashed with Ren mid-air, flames and blood clashing like gods of war.
Ren was pushed back.
Rovik grinned.
"I'm not like the rest. I kill monsters like you."
But then
Ren opened his arms.
His chest split open, revealing a massive demonic mouth. It roared and swallowed Rovik whole.
Inside the mouth, Rovik's fire was smothered. His screams echoed. Then
Silence.
Kesshō stood alone now.
Kesshō in his mind
He had been controlled I gatta save this kid before it's too late
His body shook. His blade trembled. But he stepped forward.
"You were our last hope, Ren…"
His eyes turned red showing his mark of a demon as his staff showed upon it
"I'll stop you myself."
He clashed with Ren as the dodge's and kicks him left and right. They moved faster than the eye could follow, destroying building and grounds of dead people
Ren punched through a his staff not a single wood broken Kesshō's smiled
Kesshō stabbed Ren in the shoulder.
Ren felt pain and said
"i am not the Ren that you know" he shouted
Ren grabbed his head and smashed it into the ground. Then threw him across the battlefield.
Blood spilled. Limbs trembled.
Kesshō looked up, trying to find consciousness but.
"…Ren…"
the Crimson Form raised his blade.
And the Eye in the Sky boomed:
"Finish him."