Legendary Guardian

In his opinion Derik is one of the peak existences in this continent, Cyrus couldn't see how Derik would fail in driving away a fragment of Demos consciousness. Unknown to him, these fakes still had the power of Demigod realm beings.

"I shouldn't get involved… He will catch up later" Cyrus muttered and kept moving forward, leaving Derik alone with the angel of death to deal with.

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Meanwhile, Derik had snapped out of his deep thoughts with a charming smile on his face. He had realized the mistakes he had made in the past and he had no intention of making such a mistake again. While the life cycle was important, Derik couldn't give two shits about it. He had lots of things he wished to say to this man he once called father! He had a lot of things he wanted to show this man.

"For that reason… You will have to die here… If I can't even save this one person, then I don't deserve this strength" Derik growled as he clasped his hands and the death aura in his body surged towards John Angus, quickly taking the form of a spatial gate but this one was different. The gate was decorated with skulls, ribs, and all sorts of bones and when the gates opened, a bone-chilling wave of darkish green death aura flowed out, spreading across the room like a plague.

At first, the angel of death was slightly confused by why Derik would summon a passageway to his domain right in front of his father but then a thought popped up on its mind.

Was Derik trying to escape with John Angus into his domain, a place where not even the real Demos can invade unless given permission by Derik. Its suspicion was soon proven right as a powerful suction force began dragging the unconscious John Angus towards it. The suction force was so great that when the angel of death chased after John, grabbing him by his feet with his boney hands to prevent him from falling into the passageway, he too was struggling to remain on his feet.

Only when the angel of death had committed such blunder had Derik appeared behind him with a wicked smile on his face.

"Let me help you out here!" Derik chuckled.

Bang!

Slamming the defenseless angel of death into the portal, Derik took hold of John Angus, carefully placing him on the bed before turning his attention to the passageway he created and jumping in as well.

"It's only been a few minutes and they are doing something stupid already… Just as I thought this babysitting job won't be easy" Samael complained while robbing his forehead

Samael too knew the importance of keeping the balance and letting the Cycle go unhindered but he could also understand Derik's feelings and why he had chosen to fight the angel of death. As far as the life guardian spirit is concerned, Derik's actions were reckless but understandable. He could tell Derik was too clouded by his emotions to notice that John was already in the last few moments of his life. In just a few seconds, his life force will slip away from his body.

"He's way too reckless… Just like me and Cyrus is as calm as Demos… Are you sure the god vein didn't misplace the inheritances?" Samael chuckled.

The god realm being simply placed a finger on John's forehead and an abundant amount of life force had flowed into his body at an alarming rate, causing John to instantly look twenty years younger. Samael's actions drove away death and granted John another twenty years of life. The aura of death hovering above his head vanished, leaving Samael with one more thing to do.

Snapping his fingers, a human-shaped golden light appeared out of nowhere falling on its knees at Samael's presence. If Derik were here to see this, he could feel even more scared of Samael because of the nature of the technique the guardian spirit of the life element had just used now.

Since both Derik and Cyrus could consume souls why was Derik the only capable of using those souls to create undead puppets who battled for his sake. The only reason Cyrus is unable to replicate this magic is that he didn't know how to. Samael knew more than anybody that Cyrus foundation was lacking greatly, that's why at some point he was always inferior to Derik in the past. This was because the light angel Michael was set to look after him and this being had zero knowledge of the life element since it didn't possess it.

The life sprite is just another form of necromancy meant for life mages. Unlike the death mage who's death magic allows the soul to retain its body before death, the life magic was different. To create a life sprite, the life mage would need to use his abundant life force to create a human-shaped body purely made of life force. They could only sculpt new bodies for their sprites but this privilege was only reserved for the life mages sprite generals who are on par with Derik's undead generals.

"The balance must be preserved" Samael said as he clasped his hands together, releasing a life sprite from his command and freeing the soul.

Since Samael had saved a soul, he had to offer up another soul as a replacement, just to maintain the balance.