Ascension of the Nephilim

Angelica made a terrifying gamble and resisted the power and released her form to make it look like she was defeated.

The power of the bolt coursed out around her, but her trap worked. The potent energy of Menks was enough to ensure her survival and victory! She had become the hunter in this dark game!

Her punch was not just a normal fist that crushed and pierced through the chest of Nightwing. It had the power to deflect all magic itself. Dragons were naturally resistant to magic and had a means of dispersing it. That punch killed the body of Nightwing. She could sense death happening before her!

She glanced at the dying body of Nightwing who was slowly dispersing into a pool of blood.

"I... did it!" Angelica cheered.

"Yeah... About that..." A voice was heard above as the body of Nightwing dispersed into a pile of mist.

Angelica was shocked. She quickly turned her attention to the skies above and saw another Nightwing!

"That was my blood clone. You were too eager to show your hand that you didn't notice that the one I sent was a weaker form. I still have much more blood.

Nightwing was standing up. Just above him was massive energy akin to a star-forming above him.

"As I said, I need more time to create the energy formation circle. And now, with all eight cores used, I can finally perfect and strengthen the magical attack. You don't have to teach me how cunning dragons are. I know the power of your bloodline!" Nightwing chuckled as he raised his arm.

"That won't be enough!" Angelica shouted as she regained her dragonic form and began to rise.

Angelica roared and flew to the top as she harnessed all her force and magic energy to push her out of the deep hole. But in this thin, tunneling hole, she had no place to make quick evasions.

"I know..." Nightwing smiled and prepared to release the powerful magic.

"[Star Piercing Star]!" Nightwing made the massive star shoot out sword-like energy that stabbed down.

"A sword technique?!" Angelica was stunned as she could somehow see the faint avatar of a strange being of great size stabbing out towards her.

"Why is he summoning an Ancient to make an attack?! What Crown does he wear?!" Angelica cursed out as she began to summon all her cells and all the life energy that Menks blessed her with.

The avatar that appeared was proof that the magic had surpassed peak Cardinal. It was becoming a Crown! Had the Crown appeared over the form of this gigantic being, then even she wouldn't be confident in blocking and surviving the attack.

"[Dragon Knight Shield]! [Defender Dragon's Scale]! [Defender Dragon's March]!" Angelica shouted as she released the full power of her bloodline and cast many of the spells that she could not have summoned given her vastly incompetent level of power.

Pyrekaiser Fafnir was known as the strongest knight in the Planesword despite being a half-dragon. His race was somehow forgotten many would see him as a champion knight with terrifying defenses.

Angelica's form evolved. Her right arm which had a shield grew even sturdier. The power of her cells empowered it. Her Force energy also began to grow stronger as the Blessing that she had acquired took its true form.

An avatar of a massive Thane Dragon with armor plating that looked like steel appeared behind her. She was also revealing a legacy that was rich and would be the envy of many even in the Highlands.

"Oh? Impressive... Did the Planesworld receive an ancient inheritance from long ago? To think the Defender Dragon would be your blessing!"

"With this, I shall endure!" Angelica braced herself and kept flying as she met the power head-on and reflected it to the sides.

"I'll destroy the ground!" Angelica thought to herself.

BOOM!

The entire castle began to tremble as the entire hall where they fought burst out and the potentially explosive energy began to spread out.

The ground collapsed and the mountain trembled as the energy that reached the levels of Crownless clashed.

A massive hole replaced the area around the castle as Magic and Forced clashed.

But as the area was destroyed, Angelica was shocked as the magic continued to pour out!

"How?! Without the ground and place to write the inscriptions, how can this magic continue?!" She cursed. Seeing as her plan failed, Angelica could only press higher and higher.

The destructive magic didn't push back Angelica but Angelica was actually slowly rising!

"I'll kill you when I get up there!"

The smoke and ground cleared out and finally, Angelica had her answer.

With the ground destroyed, Angelica could see the energy formation circle. It wasn't written on the ground, but was written over the skies! The blood of Nightwing was drawn into the air and along with the elemental cores, it became the energy formation circle!

"Blood magic! You are using your very life for this attack!" Angelica realized what was happening.

"Do you like it?! Be glad! You are this strong that I have to give up a huge portion of my life to harm you!" Nightwing laughed as his blood began to appear at the side of Angelica and was slowly drawing itself into an Energy Formation Circle!

"What?! Impossible! It can't be! You can't do that! There is no way for you to create magic in this formation! What power source are you using?!" Angelica refused to believe it and pressed higher with all her might.

But her worst fear happened as the blood began to glow with energy.

She panicked and allowed herself to be pushed lower so she could block the beams as they shot out.

"[Kitty Cat Beams]!"

Several thin, weak, pathetic, useless, unimpressive, small, disappointing rays of light shot towards their shield of Angelica as she flew down to the ground.

TING! TING! TING!

Comparing the damage of the rays of light to insect bites would be an insult to insects.

The rays struck Angelica to the side and shocked her.

"YOU! YOU TRICKED ME!"

"...I've been doing that for a while now. I killed everyone because I tricked them. Why are you angry now?" Nightwing asked.

"I" ll kill you!" She roared as she charged upwards.

Rising a few meters was already a chore in the battle. Many strange markings were constantly appearing on her side and many more kept appearing to her sides. A dilemma was occurring. Was this a bluff? Was this a double bluff? Or was it a triple bluff?

Her hesitation showed and she was once more being pushed down as she was unable to decide the real nature of the many magic on the side. But she knew that if she would be pushed down, she would have a hard time moving up as the enemy might shoot more and more attacks.

"He's forcing me to waste energy! He is fighting a battle of attrition! This deception is meant to trick me!" Angelica finally decided and harnessed all her might to push higher and higher.

Her figure rose and drew closer to Nightwing and could see the weakening of magic.

"I win! You lose! Your magic is faltering!" Angelica shouted as her ascension became faster and faster.

She could see the blood thinning around her and the body of Nightwing was frail as if it was being drained of life itself!

"You trickster! You pretended to be all strong, but me killing that clone meant a lot, wasn't it?! I didn't just punch through your clone! I killed half of your lifeline! Now your gamble has failed! Die!"

Nighting waved his hand and all the elemental cores flew at her and contained the raw power of the energy it was emitting.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Eight impacts struck Angelica, but Angelica pressed on.

Angelica felt her body tremble at the impact and realized that the life energy she was bestowed with was draining quickly!

"I must end this now!" She pushed and harnessed strong Force energy to make her fly forward.

Nightwing began to flee and fly up the roof and was intending to escape but Angelica's flight was not even delayed by the meteoric attacks of each core.

She punched out as Nightwing blocked.

POW!

The punch continued as the pair broke through the roof.

But suddenly, Nightwing smiled as he allowed his body to disperse into a mist with true death occurring.

"Another Blood Clone?! Where is the real one?!" She was confused. But then she felt terrifying magic shooting up on her.

Nightwing was at the bottom and had reformed another energy formation circle and shot energy to the top.

It was too late to evade. Angelica was struck by the rising sword stab and flew to the heavens as she pierced floor after floor of the castle.

The beam of light dispersed and Angelica's wounded body began to fall from the great heights she has ascended.