As they see the lifeless head of their sister, they go crazy.
"AAAAAH!!!"
As they scream mournfully, their bodies start to absorb the nearby miasma into them. And as they do that their black armors start to turn red.
Shit. They went berserk. As they absorb the miasma, red colored whip and spear materialize in their arms.
"I WILL KILL YOU!!!"
Spear wielding one lunges at me with a thrust. I barely manage to dodge to my right. I think their speed got increased too. Just as I jump to my right to dodge, red whip appears in front of me and entangles itself around my neck and flings me into the wall.
Just as I orient myself by shaking my head, spear skewers my gut. Couldn't help but vomiting blood. And just as I was about to get down, whip on my neck tugs again, flinging me into another wall with the spear still in my guts.
Shit, this is getting dangerous.
And just as I was getting desperate, I sense something calling to me from inside my soul. Fenrir. I suppose he finally woke up.
I let him out just as the whip gets tugged again and flings me again. But I don't see Fenrir anywhere even though I summoned him.
And just as I was wondering that, I see whip wielding succubus's shadow crawl up from beneath her and bind her, stopping her long enough for me to get free from her whip around my neck. But just as I land on my feet another spear pierces through my chest and pins me into the wall.
Shit, this is getting annoying. Just as I orient myself again, I see the spear wielding one running up to me with another spear in her hand. Just as I saw that I put my left arm forth and pump vitality into it. As I do that my left arm expands outward and entangles the succubus just before she manages to skewer me again.
She waves her spear around, breaking my branches. But more she struggles like that, more vitality I pump into my arm. Soon my branches imprison her whole. After covering her in my branch prison, I start to tighten it around her.
While doing that I look to the other succubus and see her struggling with her own shadow. And just as I got distracted for a moment, I feel another stinging feeling on my left side and see red spear breaking through my branches and piercing into my left side.
And as soon as the spear pierce through my side, it starts to extend again, skewering through my sides. As that happens, I immediately tighten the branches even faster.
CRUNCH
As I tighten it harder, I hear bone crunching from the inside. After few seconds, red spear skewering me starts to dissipate into red miasma and disintegrates into nothing.
"AAAAHHH!!!"
Just as that happened, as if she felt her sister's death, last one screams on top of her lungs again. As I look to her direction, I see her glaring at me with blood red eyes from behind her helmet.
Her whip turns into two daggers in her hands. With those she cut through the shadows binding her. She charges at me as soon as she got free and tackles me with all her strength.
As soon as she got on top of me, she immediately pins my left arm with her dagger to the floor. I think she realized my left arm can regrow. Instead she slices off my right arm with her left dagger. And just as she was about to stab me in the head with her dagger, she gets hit by a black fireball from behind and gets thrown away from above me.
I look to where the fireball came from and see Fenrir's head peeking out from a shadow. Shit. My right arm got amputated. And it hurts like hell. But first I need to kill this enraged bitch before she kills me.
She charges at me again after stopping. I take a deep breath, and spew fire just as she starts charging me. And that was a wrong decision. As she doesn't stop and keeps charging through the flames and tackles me again.
But this time as she tackles me, I punch her in the temple. My second mistake. She just endures that and brings down her dagger at my head.
Just as she does that, she gets enveloped in a dark fog. I swerve my head to my right and see the dagger stabbing floor next to my head. Shit! That was too close. Now that she is stationary, I will my mana to take a shape of spears protruding from the ground and skewer her from sides.
As I see the dagger dissipating away, I confirm her death. As if he knew she was dead, Fenrir too pulls away his dark fog.
As the fog disappears, I see her skewered with my spears. What's unsettling is not that, but her blood red eyes still glaring at me with malice and hot red fury.
I suppose they loved each other dearly.
As I stand up, I see her body dissipating into red vapor like her dagger. Only the sword wielding one's corpse is left intact. I'm sure spear wielding one's body is gone too inside my prison.
"Whoo. Thanks for the support, little one."
I say that as I look to Fenrir standing next to me. He simply stares at the door leading to the main lobby. I think he senses whatever's in there.
While he looks to the door, I pick up my amputated right arm and presses it against the wound. It thinks my world tree knew that my right arm was still intact seeing my right arm's wound is still fresh.
As I press my arm onto the wound, it gets attached back to the wound and heals itself only leaving a scar behind. I was lucky that she cut it off with a dagger. Because of that cut was clean. It was like putting the puzzle pieces together.
I sit cross-legged on the floor for a while to heal my body and relax a little. After sitting for about ten minutes I get up and walk toward the door leading to the main hall.
Whatever's behind it is responsible for that red magic circle.
While walking I look back the sword wielder.
"I hope whoever you sacrificed your lives for is worth it."
As I come before the door Fenrir melds into my shadow and disappears. Well that is convenient. Now let's see what's behind this door.
Empty hall with nothing but the red magic circle in the middle and red miasma. Red miasma is even thicker in here. So, the real one was here, huh. I suppose one in the sky is just a manifestation. I still don't know what it is used for.
I walk into the hall. And I start to feel someone's presence as soon as I step into the hall.
"You should have turned back when you had the chance."
Suddenly I hear a woman's voice from who know where.
"But this is a good thing for me. Now I can kill you myself."
After that, figure starts to materialize on middle of the magic circle. After few seconds, I see what it is. Another succubus but in a red mage's robe.
"So, are you the oldest one?"
"Yes, I am. And you will regret killing my sisters."
Ooh. She is horrible calm for someone who lost her family. Well, she may seem calm, but I can see her fury from her blood red eyes.
"If your sisters were so important to you, why didn't you save them instead of standing there?"
"Because I'm fueling this magic circle. So, I can't leave this room or else this circle will be canceled and cause the barriers to break."
So, this circle is responsible for the barriers, huh.
"Got it. But what makes you ladies to sacrifice everything. Is it for someone or something?"
"I have no reason to tell that to a dead person."
"Hehe. I killed your sisters by myself. What makes you believe that you can kill me?"
"There are a few important factors that I'm too angry to elaborate on."
Okay then. I guess I will extract the necessary information after beating her.
Red staff like her sisters materializes in her right hand and she points it at me. As soon as she does that blood ice spear shoots its way toward my chest. As soon as it gets in range, I hit it with my gauntlet expecting it to break apart.
Another mistake. It simple keeps pushing. And while I was preoccupied with the spear, red magic circle constructs over my head and starts raining blood ice spear on me. Just before the spears hit me, I put up my barrier over my head.
CRACK!
As the spears come into contact with my barrier they pierce through my barrier and stick on it.
BOOM!
While I was focusing on the spear, red fireball hits me on my back and throws me toward the succubus. I see her draw her staff in an arc and pull out a red lightning from who know where with her left hand and throws that at me.
I get zapped hard. Barely holding on to my consciousness, I try to wake myself by shaking my head, but once again she hits me red lightning and throws me away into the walls.
Shit this is getting dangerous. I didn't expect her to be this strong. As my sight gets back into its focus, I see her looking to my direction with her hatred filled red eyes.
Shit. I can't move. Most of my body is paralyzed from the lightning. And as if she knows that, she starts to chant in some language unknown to me. I think she is preparing something big.
As I realize the danger I'm in, my world tree starts to pump more vitality and get rid of the paralysis. And as she continues to chant something starts to materialize on my sides. More it gets clearer, I see it is something like an iron maiden.
Shit. She is trying to lock me up in an iron maiden. Come on, come on. I know my vitality is strong but I'm not willing to test it with an iron maiden.
Shit, shit. It is almost done materializing. As if she is getting to the finale, she starts to lift her staff up. And the iron maiden is almost finished materializing on my two sides.
As she lowers her staff, iron maiden starts closing in on from my sides. Ooh, it is gonna hurt. I close my eyes and wait for the excruciating pain to come. After waiting for five seconds I notice something strange. There is no pain.
I open my eyes and see nothing but darkness. This is peculiar. Did I die without feeling anything? As I think that I lift my arm. I can't see it, but I can feel my arm being lifted. Now that I noticed it, paralysis is almost gone.
As the paralysis disappears, I step forward and come into the light. Succubus is still standing in the middle of the circle looking at me with hatred and little bit of surprise.
I turn around and see the iron maiden. Only thing different is, darkness occupying place where I was and holding the iron maiden in place. Fenrir saved me, huh.
Don't know which trait it is but it still did the job.
"Thank you little one."
CLANG!
After I said that the darkness vanishes, and the iron maiden clamps shut. After shutting itself, it starts to sink into the ground. Huh. After the kill, it serves as a coffin too. Convenient.
I suddenly het a tingle on my back while watching it sink and jump to my left to dodge and see another red fireball streaking past me. I look the to succubus and see her pointing her staff toward me.
"Now, shall we try this once again?"
"Remember there won't be a second time."
She starts to cast her blood spear and while that I summon two more wolves. And position them on her sides.
Blood spear flies over to me. This time I dodge it instead of clashing with it and throw my own fireball to her. But she doesn't do anything and keeps standing in the middle of the circle.
As my fireball comes into range, transparent dome barrier flickers around her. Shit. This circle works as a one-way barrier too. So, that means I need to break it to kill her.
Then, let's do it.
I start to bombard the barrier with fireballs. She throws her spears at me or rains them down on me. This is getting kind of redundant. And as if she realized that she starts throwing in her red lightnings too. And those are really hard to dodge.
And because of my armor, I'm practically a walking lightning rod. But if I take of my armor her other spell will hurt me. This is a vicious circle.
"I can do this all day."
And I can't I need to do something about this barrier. So, I guess I will try that out here. While exchanging spell, I give my wolves command and supply them with necessary mana.
After few seconds they got their command, their mana starts to form a whirlwind around them. Since they are made from my mana and got their AI, they can actually execute my techniques. So, I got them to execute my fourth technique.
As they will their mana with their prewritten programming, mana whirlwind around them starts to rise up and take a shape of a white dragon with long whiskers. I have no idea why the whiskers from, but it's fine since it looks so cool and the firepower is off the chart.
But the succubus notices what my wolves were doing. I thought she would do something, but she doesn't. And that arrogance will be your downfall woman.
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