God of Tricksters

"…" The Original Theo squinted his eyes as the Magic Bullets were truly blinding. However, he wasn't someone who would allow Theo to move as he wanted.

"Infinite Darkness." The Original Theo muttered in a low voice. Suddenly, his body emitted a wave of black energy.

When it reached Theo, he could see that the world had turned black. The blue sky became lifeless gray and the white cloud turned black. The ground was now filled with dead grass.

"How about playing in a horror movie instead? You seem to be talented there." Theo smirked, taunting the Original Theo again.

"Shut up!" The Original Theo shouted while waving his hand down.

Suddenly, the Magic Bullets he summoned earlier turned black as if they were influenced by this power.

"!!!" Theo felt something wrong in the Magic Bullets and immediately leaped into the air as the Magic Bullets suddenly flew forth and curved to his position, trying to harm their own master.

Theo looked at the bullets for a moment and snapped his finger. The Magic Bullets that turned dark earlier suddenly regained their light and Theo controlled them again to fly toward the Original Theo instead.

The Original Theo lifted his finger and the Magic Bullets turned black again. Theo, of course, wanted to use his Reality Power to remove the influence, but the Original Theo seemed to have another plan as he summoned a black substance from his hand.

This time, the black substance actually devoured all the Magic Bullets before they could explode.

As the skill's name implied, it devoured his Magic Bullets until he could feel no trace of them anymore.

Theo took out the spear for the first time and pointed at the Original Theo. It seemed that the latter didn't have his weapon.

They truly had the same thought because before they clashed, both of them had planted their Covenant Seal on this land, trying to utilize the energy from the land to use their Order.

The Original Theo used a portion of the energy while clapping his hands, sending forth a black bubble toward Theo.

Meanwhile, Theo gathered his Order into the tip of his spear and thrust the black bubble.

The two powers clashed as black and golden energy split this gloomy world.

Theo's Reality Order tried to remove the black bubble from its existence, but Theo noticed something during the clash.

"!!!" Theo narrowed his eyes and hurriedly jumped back to regain his distance while observing the black bubble.

"You won't be able to do anything!" The Original Theo smirked, looking down on him.

Theo had seen this a few months ago.

'Now that I think about it, the Poison King has done the same thing. And it seems to be the base of Authority as well. What kind of power do I want for my Reality Order? If it's the Frost Saint, he wants the ice that can freeze everything, including time. For this Order, I'm sure that my original self wants to devour everything like that of a black hole where light can't escape. That's why my Reality Power is sucked into it too…' Theo observed this devouring power while frowning.

On the one hand, Theo was wondering about his desire for this power. On the other hand, he didn't believe that he would be skillful enough to utilize it unless he gained enlightenment which wasn't going to happen here.

Hence, Theo only had one job to do. Defeat his original self with the current power he had.

Theo clenched his fist while looking at the Original Theo.

The latter suddenly felt the Magic Power gathering on top of him and immediately waved his hand, using this black substance as his roof.

However, it seemed that he had underestimated Theo because when the Magic Power erupted, the shock wave was so strong that it turned the area into a huge crater with only the ground beneath the Original Theo unaffected.

"…" The Original Theo became even angry because Theo was making a face as if telling him, "Come on. That was just a joke, but you still had to protect yourself. I'm embarrassed if you claim you are the original.

It was clearly a provocation to tell the Original Theo that he better die so as not to embarrass himself.

No matter what, unless he could kill Theo today, he had to hide himself since Theo's prowess had been known to the world. Even if he told the world that Theo was his clone, not many would believe him. Most of them just considered him as the fake trying to be the original or this whole plan was just an urban myth or him being Theo's clone.

That was why the Original Theo knew that Theo had to die in this place if he wanted to live openly again.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Darkness Descent."

Theo raised his head and saw a moving black plate descending from the sky. It looked like the form of this skill, but Theo couldn't be fooled. There was no way this plate was the S Rank Skill.

Theo summoned his Irregular Guardian in the spear form and shot the small plate, trying to knock it down.

Seeing the incoming threat, this skill finally showed its real prowess. A small hole appeared on the bottom of the plate as an oval-shaped creature emerged from the hole. It had several tentacles that moved around like that of a whip.

"!!!" Theo widened his eyes in shock when the tentacles tried to stop his Irregular Guardian.

He even forced the Irregular Guardian to stop and go back because it stood no chance. Unfortunately for him, it was too late. The tentacles from this creature suddenly moved and caught the spear, sucking the Magic Power until the spear disappeared.

This creature truly sucked everything to death.

"…" Theo narrowed his eyes, thinking, 'As expected of an S Rank Skill.'

"But I'm not done." Theo smirked as he stomped the ground with all his might, causing the air to go up. 'If you want to descend, then so be it. Let's see if you can.'

Ascension Step, First Step.