Transmigrated as a Ghost

After the Dreadmouth had been destroyed as the undefiled sanctuary spell rejected its very existence, Marcus sat down now that Teivel was trapped.

He knew that there was no need for violence anymore, and for the next thirty minutes while the spell was in effect Teivel was trapped along with him.

"I am sure you already know what this spell is seeing as how it was given to me by your sister. You might as well sit down and relax, neither of us are going anywhere for a while." Marcus said hoping to get Teivel to settle down.

Unfortunately, even through the calming effects of the undefiled sanctuary, Teivel's anger was rising now that he was in this situation.

"My sister must trust you a great deal to have given one of her tier eight spell sealing talismans to you. I wonder if you even know how long it took, and how valuable the materials necessary to make that talisman you so readily used are. But if you think that this can contain me you are sorely mistaken."

A viscous aura then began to spread out around Teivel, and Marcus could only grimace since this is what he was afraid of.

Tesia had already informed him that if Teivel got serious, he could break this spell and kill everything around him.

Still, he would have to unleash his tier nine spell to do so, and Tesia said that he would suffer a similar backlash to what she does when casting a spell above her normal level.

Quickly standing up, Marcus went into his ghost form having no intention of trying to take on Teivel's strongest magic that Tesia had warned him about.

"Nothing is immune, and all shall perish. The end is inevitable and comes for all. Even the stars shall blink out and turn to dust. Everlasting is a lie, and the end is nigh."

"Demise."

As Teivel cast his tier nine death magic spell, everything went black.

Except even as the spell spread out over a large area, Marcus did not feel a thing.

As powerful as the spell was, it had not been imbued with any spiritual energy meaning it could not hit Marcus who existed beyond the physical world right now.

However, had Teivel used spiritual energy, even Marcus who was a ghost would not have been spared from this spell that meant the end for any creature that it came into contact with.

'Well, that was close.'

Marcus thought as the spell began to dissipate.

Even in his ethereal form his danger sense had gone off like never before, warning him of the impending doom should he touch the expansive blackness that had killed everything within a thousand feet.

Of course, this was actually the smallest range that Teivel could make his tier nine spell, and if he wanted, he easily could have covered the entire mountain the sky citadel sat on.

Luckily, he had not resorted to such a drastic measure in order to not kill all of his subordinates.

Unfortunately. even with the restricted range he had ended up killing hundreds of people from guards to prisoners alike.

Collapsing onto his knees Teivel was entirely worn out after using his strongest spell. But anything less would not have freed him from the undefiled sanctuary, that was now destroyed under the pressure of a higher tier spell.

'To think that pest managed to push me this far. No, it was not him but Tesia that did this. If not for her, I would not have had to resort to that.'

Pulling out a true elixir, Teivel knew he needed to restore himself and deal with Argus and the other escapees. But before he could drink it, he heard a voice that no longer should have existed.

"Wow that was certainly something. Even I would have been in trouble if that had hit me." Marcus said with a smug smile on his face.

Looking up Teivel's expression was full of disbelief, as Marcus stood there completely fine even after having been in the area of a tier nine spell.

"Impossible." Was all Teivel could say after seeing Marcus alive.

He could not think of any plausible explanation for how Marcus survived or what he could be.

At this point he knew that he must have been some type of spirit, maybe one of light, but that still did not explain the immunity to death and darkness magic.

'It does not matter. I have a job to do.' Teivel thought as he steeled his resolve.

Flicking the top of the potion bottle that contained the elixir, Teivel tried to drink it quickly, but found the bottle wrenched out of his grasp before he could.

He then saw a translucent purple arm, fly away with his precious potion and bring it over to Marcus.

"Sorry I cannot have you getting back up. You can just blame your bad match up against me and your sister's preparations for your loss. Still if you do not struggle, I will not hurt you since your sister asked me to bring you back alive."

Brining out his tendrils of shadows Marcus warped up Teivel who in his weakened state was unable to resist, and he successfully captured the warden of the Sky Citadel.

"I did not want to use this, but you leave me no choice." 

As Teivel said this a secret compartment in his shoe opened and a small vile containing a dark ichor similar to what had come out of his grimoire was injected into him.

The substance took effect immediately and Teivel's veins began to turn black, and his eyes became a sickly yellow color.

Seeing this, Marcus could feel that Teivel had become much more dangerous and tried to use his life drain specter power to weaken him.

But as he did, he received a sickly feedback as if Teivel's life was corrupted and had become poisonous.

A second later his tendrils of shadows were ripped apart, and Teivel appeared right in front of Marcus before punching him in the face.

He even imbued his fist with spiritual energy preventing Marcus from avoiding it as he went ethereal.

Being blown back and feeling his face smashed in, Marcus was completely disoriented as he flew through many walls, before getting ahold of himself and coming to a stop.

'Owowowow.'

Feeling pain for the first time in a while, Marcus could tell that just a single hit had messed him up pretty bad.

At the very least though, Teivel had no fighting skills and his punch while backed with a lot of raw strength, was pretty weak for his level.

Quickly Marcus' face recovered itself, but now that Teivel had undergone some sort of transformation and understood how to deal with him, things were going to be more difficult.

'I just need to stall until the mana furnaces are down.' Marcus thought while preparing himself.

Floating back to where Teivel was, Marcus barely caught a glimpse of him as he was flying down the hallway towards the congregation of escaped prisoner.

'You are not getting away.'

Floating through the walls Marcus went through the shortest path towards Teivel and cut him off.

However, Teivel had been prepared for if Marcus showed back up and unleashed a blast of mana and spiritual energy towards him.. Having figured out how to deal with the spirit that was immune to his magic.