Nhieling was breathing loudly. Zieref apparition had consumed a lot of his power. One vanguard were still standing.

Eeee what do we do now?

Daisuke could hear from afar of what was going but uncertain of the truth so asked "Is it all over now?" as he was still laying on the grassy land leaving his hair flow along the breeze blowing through the air. He made a deep inhale and a loud sigh "Gah.. I can finally rest" He somehow had his hopes up during that time.

Ryousuke was watching the match between bex and who seemed to be the last one left, Mortanus. "Yeah, it's over already" He made a slight smile of releive feeling the cooling air breeze along. Ryousuke suddenly felt something out of place. His eyes were wide open as he could feel another strong presence. It was tremendous and he himself was surprised for not to have noticed it earlier. Ryousuke stood up and made a turn around to notice the last vanguard, Adonus.

"It couldn't be...!" Ryousuke has totally forgotten about Adonus the last vanguard standing in perfect condition and holds not even a single scratch on its armour. Adonus has been observing what everyone's capabilities were and if it were to come upfront, they'd all be in danger which was what Ryousuke thought.

Ryousuke seemed to be slightly panicked trying to get Daisuke up "Dai, we've got to regroup and fast!" Daisuke wasn't really out of energy to move just exhausted and lazy to move. Ryousuke vigrously shake him up and ended up carrying Daisuke to the others quickly.

Daisuke was surprised with what Ryousuke was suddenly doing by carring him "Woah, what's the rush?!" By then Ryousuke has already regroup with the others as in Nhieling, Pyoh and Alice and dropped Daisuke from his arms while Bex was still slightly further from them but seemed to have finally ended his opponent on his side.

Now would leave them all with the last vanguard standing up ahead ready to strike at anytime. What will they do upon this conflict of the worst? Will they be able to stand up against Adonus with their remaining energy left within themselves or will Adonus handle them all with ease? Find out on the next post on this thread of Negima: Lost Magic.

Taurou was now over tired, the magic he absorbed now dissipated. He leaned against Alice who was also tired. He looked around, hearing no more of the noises of fighting. He saw that everyone had grouped up besides Bex, and he felt a strong magical presence. Without a word he struggled to stand, and when he managed to stand, he walked forwards a few steps only to see a totally unscathed Vanguard still standing. Taurou cursed and staggered backwards, looking at the others. He took a fighting stance, but the exhaustion took over him and he collapsed.

The Vanguard seemed pensive, kinda bored too. The death of his comrade didn't seem to affect him so much.

On the brink of death,yet not fallen.I was brought back from hell once again.My life concerned to a fellow demon,for our strings of fates were tied and intervened.
"Is he done?"I asked,gasping for breath,as more blood clogged my throat.
"Hes disposed off.That last minute trick of yours worked perfectly"came the reply.
Adonus had sat long enough.The last standing vanguard between us and the reader.
"How is your body?"he asked,concerned.He was aware of my immortality,my wounds were no concern,the question was,would by body break apart should it take more impact?
"Ill have to lose some excess weight" I said,as i stood up once again.
Slowly but gradually I dig in my fingers into my stomach,and start to rip off the shredded excess skin clinging onto my body.

All the others ,tired and battered from their own battles,had come together for the last confrontation.The last battle.

Adonus had a strange body,more perfect than his fellow vanguards,and a lot smaller and compact.His form was more humanoid,his ki aura comparatively lesser than all of them.Although for a ki warrior like my own,his masked powers did less to fool one.

"And so,they succumb.The all mighty Mortanus has been slain.The fellow vanguards thwarted down.This is where..the real battle begins.

Amazing..is it not? As weak as we are..together we cross our boundaries,humans..demons..angels...gods...
Revolving around our powers,we serve but one.The impeccable force driving us to take actions,to slay and to be slain.All this butchery,all this chaos just but to gain one absolute quality.
Power.."

His voice was nonchalant,less concerned about his comrades,Adonus seemed the most peculiar among the group.Hints and traces of what he said could be made some sense out of.The one he serves must be lucifer.The power he seeks must be that of a pure born archangel.The ancestors they could never outmatch,never surpass.

While standing still,not moving an inch.Within a fraction of a second,adonus rips apart the bodies of his fallen comrades,while his eyes are locked onto us.

"Come as you may,this quality still separates us"He says,calling forth one and all.

"No splitting up this time.To overcome this adversary,each one of us matters.I have no plans or strategy.We simply give it our all"

To Bex : Wouldn't it be wiser to flee for now one?

Nhieling was gathering what was left of his power. The recent passage of his master had let trace, some energies weren't really his own, but he could use them to get a little power-up.

Nhieling was sweating a lot, the pilled tension from the previous fight, and the one in coming started to let some traces. The Vanguard didn't seemed to want to take the first move.

Fine, then I'll take it...

Lifting his hand at the height off his shoulder, he connected all the magical thread to his puppet, this time he should give it his best, he didn't have any choice.

Then Nhieling puppet rush over Adonus, switching direction the faster it could to get in his guard.

As the puppet advanced towards Adonus with flickering speed,only momentarily could the puppet be seen,again to vanish into the air.The wind currents gushed around,ripping through the atmosphere.The speed was unimaginable,almost unreal.

Adonus was not intimidated,not caring the least for the advancing adversary.Too foolish or too confident? Only the clash could answer.The puppet ran all the way through...now only inches away from the vanguard.But before the powers could clash,the puppet passed through.

Unreal..this was not an illusion.The greater surges of power that emanated from time to time,were reason enough to believe the threat standing before us was adonus..how then could he not be touched? why was the clash negated?

As if only for a second,adonus became translucent..mist..hazy.

"You attacks are meaningless,no matter the strength"he said,awaited the others to try their luck.

Nhieling, frustated, tried to win time to think for a solution. Making his puppet do a full turn, he start attacking wildly, from blind spot...
The Vanguard seemed to be unvulnerable, standing here. Eh? Standing? Meaning he have to touch the ground at least?

Nhieling through about this conjecture, and draw out the option he had. First he use his puppet to throw a rock at Adonus, and without waiting to see if it was effective he launch an attack directly to the base of his feet, trying ti hit the part where he through the Vanguard may be solid.

[Bump]

[Bump for Bex]

The battle now stood in stand hold position.Adonus took no interest in disposing our bunch off.Instead for some reason,he gave us an opportunity to test our strengths.What glory or pleasure could his wretched mind savor from this vile act?

The motive to his actions was beyond me.Either he was baffled to realize that his comrades were no more,or either too strong to mind himself being hurt a little.

Although he looked more different than the rest of his allies who died in this battlefield.The ropes of muscles intertwined and knotted perfectly.The being itself displayed a certain divinity to it.

The puppeteer seemed impatient,as he went for yet another second strike to success.This time he distracted the vanguard...with a rock.
It was difficult to point out the vanguard's line of sight,but before the rock would manage to make physical contact..it crumbled.Crumbled to pieces,and within another fraction of a second,to dust.
As for the puppeteer,he stood face down on the ground,a few inches away from the vanguards feet.
The vanguard maintained his nonchalant demeanor.his head still facing forward,his arms still folded,his composure still maintained.

I took this time to notice that the vanguard was yet to release its archangel form.Was he toying with us,knowing we had fallen weak and weary,tattered and stressed,from our earlier encounters?

"You had your chance mortal"He said,as he stepped forward,ignoring the puppeteer.Inches closer to us now,this monstrosity awaited the others to test their strengths.

Rewards, here I gooooooo:

Daisuke: 8 SP, 5 MP and 750,000 Drachma
Bex: 9 SP, 7 MP and 1,000,000 Drachma
Doriandet: 6 SP, 5 MP and 550,000 Drachma
Totoro: 5 SP, 4 MP and 380,000 Drachma
Pyoh: 6 SP, 5 MP and 550,000 Drachma

Also this is really rough, so please, please complain if you feel something unjust happened!