Chapter 37: Chapter 37
A/N: Its like 11pm, I'm running on pure caffeine and I'm about to go to sleep. idk abt how coherent these sentences are or how many grammatical mistakes I may have made. But if smth don't make sense drop a comment and I'll do my best to explain, unless it's a spoiler. This chapter is like 2000 words, this'll be a one off.
I pulled my hand out of the bandits body and shook the blood off my hands. I didn't bother forming a weapon, I got into a basic stance and prepared myself for the upcoming fight.
I took in a deep breath before speaking, "I'm not like her, so I won't try to keep you guys alive."
Without any delay, a man with a halberd rushed at me, he thrust his halberd at my leg, at the same time a man with a scimitar went for my arm.
I did a backflip, kicking the halberd users jaw, at the same time I used the momentum of the flip to wrap my legs around the other man. I then grabbed his face, and tugged on his skin, his skin came off rather easily. Before he could even scream I quickly snapped his neck.
I jumped off of him with a series of acrobatic movements, at the same time I grabbed the heads of the two nearest bandits and pulled out their heads, their spines were still attached. Blood danced about their spines as it dripped down unto the floor.
I infused their heads, and spines, with Mana I threw them each at some of the nearby gunmen. However before my 'Spears' hit them, a few of them managed to shoot their guns at me, I dodged the bullets with relative ease.
I repeatedly used flash step to close the distance between me and the ranged weapon users, I still hadn't been hit by them so they were starting to lose their composure.
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After a while, I had finally killed every single ranged weapon user among their ranks. And on top of that, I had also managed to kill around thirty extra. So I was only left with around twenty or so bandits, I walked over to them and only did basic attacks, punches, kicks and jabs were all I needed against these guys.
Soon after only one remained, he had a look of fear in his eyes. He had black hair and brown eyes, he had lost a leg from one of my earlier attacks and was using his sword as a crutch.
"The boss is beyond these doors, when he comes out you're fucked-"
I kicked his head off before he could finish speaking, I looked back at Iris. It had been just over an hour, so the poison had started to wear off, as such she was able to make herself look at me. I could only see one emotion on her face.
Fear.
Overwhelming fear, but when I looked at her I could tell that I wasn't the source of her fear. At the same time, I understood that she felt another emotion.
Worry, she was worried... about me?
I turned around on pure instinct, my senses were telling me to run, a hand rushed at my face and grabbed it.
'I need to kill him.'
"You sure you're human you fucking demon? What kind of crack are you on? Seriously..."
He put more force into his grip, my mask slowly started to come apart. I grabbed tightly onto the man's arm, I put as much force into as I could, the man's grip loosened a bit.
Before I could figure out what happened I crashed against a wall, blood spewed out of my mouth.
"You fucking Demon Child, aren't you like 8 or something? The information told us that the Princess would be accompanies by someone around her level, but you probably surpass an average knight. You're on an entirely different level to that sorry excuse for a royal. I watched that entire fight you had with those pawns, your movements tell me you've got a lifetime of experience."
Information? Was this a setup? I had many questions but I didn't have the time to find the answers right now.
I took a good look at the man infront of me, he was lightly tanned, he had blue eyes and dirty blonde eyes. He had a fairly lean build, he was top less, he wore a pair of simple navy blue trousers.
I didn't bother replying to his words, I immediately started increasing the rate of cell replication with Mana. It wasn't a very strong form of healing but it did the job for now, the bandit boss hadn't even drawn his weapon.
I had less than half my Mana left, my situation wasn't the best right now.
"Demon Child, I think that's what I'll call you from now on. It's a fitting name for a child who was able to kill over 70 grown men before his balls dropped."
I started taking deep, controlled breaths, I had to properly manage my oxygen circulation. I wanted to use 'Hazy Moon' right now, but it was too risky. If he managed to dodge, I'd be screwed, and in it's current state, 'Hazy Moon' isn't even all that. It's only good against people in my Mana Class or below, and in some cases slightly above.
I need something that isn't too taxing on my Mana, an enhancement technique, yeah something like that would be useful.
I waited for a moment before I sighed, I wasn't a hero who was protecting a damsel in distress, so there was no way I'd unlock some sort of hidden power.
I released my 'Draconic Intent', it started making some nearby objects shake, the boss bandit looked at me with confusion. But it was only for instant, but despite that, I could tell that I had unnerved him. My 'Draconic Intent' surpassed killing intent, it was a weird thing, even I didn't fully understand it.
The man released his own killing intent, however my 'Draconic Intent' acted as a shield of sorts, it released a shockwave of pure force that made the surrounding walls and floor crack and almost collapse. I looked back at Iris, she seemed to be on the verge of loosing her mind from our little clash.
'Tsk, If I possessed even a fraction of my full power making several cities dissapear would've been easy, but I've reduced to this state. How annoying...'
"Haaa, I suppose I can't hold back anymore, huh?"
I rushed at him, but before I could react the man released a barrage of attacks at my vitals. My liver, my heart and my lungs had took many blows, he the punched me in the stomach, blood spewed out my mouth and down my mask as he sent me flying into the wall. There was a giant crater where I made contact with the wall.
I forced myself to get up and formed 'Edge Of Nightfall', I held it in a reverse grip. I used 'Flash Step' to close the distance, the man's eyes widened momentarily, at the same time he covered his arm in flames and reached for my face at a speed which I could only barely perceive. I formed several black spikes at my feet, they weren't very many in number due to me wanting to conserve Mana. But they made the man move back, the spikes weren't actually that strong. But an experienced fighter is always cautious, I was using his experience as an opportunity.
At the same time I swung my sword at his neck, but he simply caught my sword with his hand. I immediately made it dissappear and formed Gungnir immediately, I went for his shoulder, but yet again he caught my attack. I had predicted this, I used my momentum to jump onto the spear. I lept into the air and with a series of quick and precise acrobatic movements I wrapped my arms and legs around neck. I started chocking him, making sure to use all the Mana in my body. He got up and went over to a wall, he started bashing me against the wall, a bit of my mask fell off and revealed one of my eyes.
The wall had received some serious abuse and there were now multiple craters on it, all of them from be being hit into it. There was a crack running through my mask, but I didn't have time to worry about that. More and more blood kept flowing out of my body, bits of rubble embedded themselves in my body. I held onto him for as long as I could, but I could feel myself losing my consciousness.
I could also feel myself running low on Mana, I had been using full body enhancement the entire time, I hadn't considered the possibility of something like this happening.
With some of my remaining Mana I formed a dagger in my hand and raised it high above my head. I stabbed it against his chest over and over, the man started slowing down, he slowly hut surely stopped bashing me against the wall. After the tenth blow, he finally fell to the ground. I got off him, but I fell down face first as soon as I did. I forced myself to get up and leaned against the wall, I felt shards of stone stab further into my back. I had several shattered bones, I took off my mask, I looked another direction and vomited blood.
I had multiple internal injuries, you wouldn't believe it but, being bashed against a wall over and over while stone shards and entering your body can cause internal damage! And I had also received multiple blows to my vitals organs, I shouldn't be alive right now. I started performing controlled breathing, at the same time I accelerated my regeneration.
I needed to think of something or I was going to die...
"Haa, haa..."
I looked around and saw Iris standing up, she had a look of surprise on her face. I didn't understand why, was it that surprising that I lost? There wasn't something on my face right? I reached to touch my face, surprisingly enough I felt my face.
Wait...
"Shit."
Iris walked over to me, I wasn't sure as to what she was going to do. But to my surprise she picked up my somewhat broken mask and did her best to fit it on my face, she placed a hand on my body and started using healing magic.
"Consider this me returning the favour. I don't like you at all, you're the type of person I hate the most. You were willing to to do this to other people, with your power those people could've been immobilised or knocked them out but you slaughtered them. But, even then... I can't let you die, I owe you far too much to even think of letting that happen."
She took a deep breath before continuing.
"Elder Sister Claire told me about a dream she had. She wanted to be 'A Hero who saved everyone' when she was a kid, before this, I wasn't sure if I even cared about that dream of hers. But now, after I've seen the gruesome deaths a person can suffer I think that I want to inherit that dream, but don't be mistaken, I'm not actually too bothered by these guys' deaths. It's just that, there are people out there who can be saved, good people who deserve to be saved are suffering fates' worse than these scum. I... want to save those people."
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