Modern World Warlock

Right after Sabelio showed his deformed body to Megan, he prepared himself to attack her and was surprised to see the woman bolting towards him.

'How can she move so easily!?' Sabelio pondered, knowing that the umbra he released would have made any ordinary person freeze in fear.

However, in Megan's eyes, Sabelio's umbra wasn't even a tenth of what she had seen flowing from Dante, so she didn't feel afraid of the old man.

In the blink of an eye, the brunette jumped and landed a flying kick on Sabelio's chest, pushing him back against the walls of the cathedral.

Still, even though Megan expected to break a few of his bones, she noticed how strong his body truly was, as the man was simply pushed back without receiving any significant damage.

"How…?" Sabelio muttered.

"You can control umbra!?" he continued, widening his eyes in disbelief.

Megan didn't respond and kept a serious gaze, taking out a dagger from her waist and crossing her arms in a combat-ready pose.

Sabelio, still shocked, decided to test the woman's mettle, pointing his palm at her and generating an arcane pentagram behind him.

Megan detailed the arcane circle, which slightly wobbled while producing a red glow, and compared it to the ones that Dante created, looking uniform and static.

'His umbra control isn't refined enough…' Megan pondered, not allowing the old man's spell to scare her.

"Shadow bolt!" Sabelio exclaimed, producing a shadowy mist to accumulate in his palm before shooting it at Megan.

The brunette bolted forward toward the projectile, shocking Sabelio for a brief second as he couldn't believe the girl's fearlessness.

Megan had seen the shadow bolt spell a few different times when Dante used it at the lab, and she remembered him saying that it was a weak spell.

When the projectile got close enough to her body, she waved her dagger to one side and accumulated her umbra on it, deflecting the entire shadowy orb to the side of the cathedral.

Sabelio gritted his teeth and widened his eyes again, confirming that the woman before him could indeed control umbra. However, she wasn't a forged warlock like him.

After Megan caught up with Sabelio, she sliced horizontally and caught his arm, making the man take a quick step back and boost himself with umbra to distance himself from his opponent.

"What the hell are you!?" Sabelio asked.

"Hmm…" Megan pondered for a moment without moving from her combat stance.

"Beats me…" Megan replied with a cold tone.

She knew that Zac was always excited to know what "class" he had become after making the contract with Dante, and she was present when he discovered that he was a dark warrior who would eventually become a berserker.

However, Megan couldn't care less about what title represented her, so she never bothered to ask.

"I only wanted the power to take what belongs to my family… If it makes me a dark warrior, a fake warlock, or a demon… I don't give a shit," Megan continued, her severe voice ringing in her opponent's ears.

*Tch!* Sabelio clicked his tongue with frustration.

"If only 'he' thought the same as you…" the old man muttered, his voice laced with a hint of sadness.

"What demon did you make a contract with!?" he continued.

"None… I didn't have to sell my family and friends to a demon," Megan replied.

Sabelio exclaimed that it was impossible to make contracts with anything other than demons and that she had most likely summoned a powerful demon to help her.

His words made the brunette even angrier than she already was, feeling like Sabelio was insulting Dante.

"If I had known that you had the guts to do something like this, I would have collaborated with you…" Sabelio said.

"To think that Alan's granddaughter would summon a demon… heh… heheh," the old man chuckled, his laugh slightly deranged.

"He is a human," Megan uttered, her words instantly silencing Sabelio as her tone got a bit raspy from anger.

"Wha-...?" The man asked with confusion, seeing that the umbra flowing from Megan had risen to double the amount it was before.

"I said… he is a human," Megan repeated, taking a single step that made her appear in front of Sabelio in the blink of an eye.

The old man gasped and pointed his palm at Megan, but before any magic could be produced, his forearm was severed by her dagger with a swift slice, which Sabelio couldn't even perceive happening.

Blood gushed out rapidly from Sabelio's arm, making him boost himself with umbra to move away from Megan and jump atop the beams holding the cathedral's roof.

"Ugh…!" Sabelio grunted as his demon heart glowed slightly brighter, pumping with force a few times as his severed hand regenerated.

Megan widened her eyes with a bit of shock since she had never seen magic that could heal someone so quickly, and the man wasn't using any healthstones.

'It must be that demon heart giving him these abilities…' Megan thought, keeping her gaze locked on her opponent.

When Sabelio clasped his hands together, the brunette winced, recognizing that pose from Dante.

"Shadow whip!" Sabelio exclaimed, generating a single shadow strand that appeared between his palms before getting directed at his opponent.

Megan avoided the first lash and vaulted a few times to prevent the continuous whip strikes from hitting her.

After reaching the wall, she used the structure to boost herself and leap on the beam where Sabelio stood.

At that moment, the man panicked as he couldn't protect himself from Megan's attack and moved his hands frantically, destroying the timber foothold and making them land back on the ground.

Debris landed around them and produced a cloud of dust that shrouded them for a moment. Instantly, the force of the clash between their umbra dispersed the dust, showing the two unleashing a barrage of attacks on each other.

The benches of the altar room were either destroyed or flung to the sides, the pillars were being demolished, and the windows were shattering.

Suddenly, they felt an ominous force that made the two combatants freeze in their spot as a sense of impending danger loomed over them.