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บท 81: Chapter 42: Strategy To Run, Strategy To Fight (Part 2)

Dyne: "Let's get started, shall we?"

Barry: "It's already started."

Barry declares as the vines that were holding Ro still a while ago attack Dyne. The attack, however, doesn't hit its target. Ro and the Dragon look up to find the Spectre flying, almost looking like he is standing in mid-air.

Dyne: "Psychokinesis is too basic you know. It will get you nowhere."

Barry: "Yeah, I know that."

He says as the same vines are redirected towards him. The vines that seem to be attacking him are thicker but have sharp edges. They would cause heavy damage if they actually hit him.

Dyne: "Do you really?"

Dyne tries to move away from their path but the vines follow him as he tries to get away. Seeing that, Dyne sighs.

Dyne: "This is disappointing, Barry."

He says as his hands ignite and he charges straight downwards tearing the vines apart in the process. However,

Barry: "Got you."

The fire on the vines, caused by Barry's pyrokinesis, latch onto Dyne.

Dyne: "The thicker portion of the vines was not natural, was it?"

He says as he tries to cool off the fire.

Barry: "No, I bundled various vines to make it thicker so you can't see the fire on their lower portions."

Dyne: "Tch! Cunning, but that won't be enough."

Barry: "Of course not."

Barry says as his gaze shifts from Dyne to Walter and back.

Walter: "Don't worry, I'm not that much interested in fighting you. I would rather avoid it if I could."

Barry: "Don't make me laugh. You literally came here to kill me."

Walter: "It's more like I have to kill you. I don't particularly want to do it. It's not something I take a lot of pleasure in."

He says as a creepy smile forms on his lips.

Ro: "I don't buy that."

Barry stares at the two of them as he sees the fire extinguishing on Dyne's uniform as the Spectre stands back up.

Ro glances at the dragon at the same time the dragon glances at him and they both nod.

Ro: "Barry, focus on that Spectre. We will make sure to keep that Walter guy away from you."

Barry, despite knowing that they would be no match for Walter, agrees to their proposal. There just is no other option. He knows there is no way he is winning against both Dyne and Walter. Even if all three of them go at the two of them combined, Walter would probably come out on top, even if Dyne falls. The best way to deal with this is to defeat Dyne and threaten Walter by putting Dyne's existence on the line.

Dyne: "Well, seeing as how you have let me cool off the fire without attacking even once, I suppose you have some other tricks planned."

Barry: "Maybe I do."

Barry says as he disappears right in front of their eyes.

Dyne: "Teleportation? Isn't that dangerous at a time like this?"

However,

Barry: "Who the hell said anything about teleportation?"

Barry's voice comes from behind Dyne. Dyne understands at that moment. It wasn't teleportation, but Energy Manipulation. In the time he let Dyne cool off the fire, he was gathering enough energy in his legs and his arms to run so fast that it looks like he disappeared. He used that speed to get behind Dyne.

Walter, seeing that, smiles.

Without paying attention to him however, Barry put his hands on Dyne's back and uses pyrokinesis. The result was Dyne being set ablaze from his back to this head.

Dyne: "AAAAHHH!!!"

Dyne screams as he falls away from Barry having his back literally erupting in flames.

Walter: "That would really hurt."

Walter says as he glances at Dyne and then at Barry.

Dragon: "Yeah, too bad you can't help him."

The dragon says as snakes suddenly appear out of the trees and the ground to bind Walter.

Walter: "Now this is peculiar."

Walter remains unfazed no matter how many snakes bind him though. But in the next moment, Ro comes running towards him and puts his hand through Walter's body.

Ghosts are, more or less, energy so they can move through solid objects like it's no big deal if they try to dilute themselves in the atmosphere. However, what happens when a diluted body that could pass through solids is condensed while it's going through the solid. Since ghosts are mostly energy and generally feel much less physical pain than a normal person, they may be able to cope up with it, but what about their targets?

Walter: "AAAAHHH!!!"

Walter Schmidt, the strongest man on earth, shouts in pain, as blood comes out of his mouth. Ro, trying to endure further, pulls his arms back while keeping it in the condensed form. That causes a wound almost akin to a hole in the stomach to be opened up on Walter.

Walter: "GGAAAHHH!!!"

Ro immediately steps away from him.

Ro: "I hope that worked."

Dragon: "From the looks of things, it did work. My turn next."

He says as he motions the snakes to go at his wound and bite him. The snakes follow through and inject him with their poison directly in his wound. Ro tries to look away in disgust at that scene but doesn't, so as to not miss anything.

Dragon: "Well, I guess it's not common for you to encounter such gruesome things."

Ro: "It's not."

He says as he readies himself to repeat the same trick he just did.

On the other end,

Dyne: "AAAAAHHH!"

Dyne's body continuously burned as he screamed in pain. In trying to get away from Barry, Dyne had ended up going deeper into the forest away from Walter, Ro and the dragon. Barry, however, had followed him.

Barry: "My first attack confirmed that your armor has no properties that would protect you from getting burned. That should have been obvious but I just had to check once, who knows what upgrade you people would have come up with?"

He says as he raises his hand to point a finger at Dyne.

Dyne: "AAAHHH! GAAHHH!! EEEHH!!!"

Dyne tries to control the pain so he could try to counter attack but he is unable to. On the other hand,

Barry: "Now then, the moment couldn't be better than this."

Barry says as he uses photokinesis on Dyne to show him illusions.

Barry: "Witness the most horrible sight you'll ever see in your life."

Barry declares as he sends the burning ghost on a trip of mental torture.

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I don't know what to say to her right now and it seems like both Sona and the girl don't have a clue either. As she look at us one-by-one, she sighs and says,

Sneha: "I bet that bastard predicted this would happen."

She is probably referring to Ethan.

After saying that, she looks straight at us and says,

Sneha: "I want to go inside the tomb."

What she says surprises all three of us.

Sneha: "And I can't do it alone. The only way I'll be able to enter the tomb is if someone Ozyllus approves of comes along with me."

She says as she looks at me.

Sneha: "That's why I am here, now what about you?"

She plainly gives the reason for her being here without us even asking. Was I feeling nervous for no reason?

Sona: "We are here to go inside the tomb as well."

Sona answers her as she takes a glance at the girl. She doesn't immediately understand, but does so pretty soon.

Girl: "Um, well … I suppose it would be okay if we could bring her along with us."

Both of them turn to me.

Kais: "I don't have any objections."

I say in a casual manner. If they are so okay with all this, then there's no need for me to be nervous either.

Sneha: "Well, when are you guys planning to go in then? You know about how the time is working right now, don't you?"

All three of us nod.

Girl: "Yes, that's why we need to go in right now."

Sneha: "Hmm …"

She turns to look back at the forest as she seems to wonder about something.

Sneha: "Okay, I am on board."

She says as she turns back to us. I wonder; was she worrying about Ethan? Where is he anyway?

Sona: "Well, let's get going then."

We all step in front of the entrance of the tomb. I don't think Sneha knows what is inside. So at this moment, none of us know what's inside. In which case, we can come across anything in there.

Sneha: "Well, I am ready to go in."

She says in a slightly bored tone.

Sona: "Yeah, me too."

Sona says in a rather casual tone.

Girl: "Yes, let's go."

The little girl says in her usual cheerful manner.

Kais: "Yeah sure, lead the way."

I reply in the calmest voice I can come up with. As the girl steps inside the tomb, she is followed by Sneha, Sona and finally me.

Whatever we will find in this tomb, I can only hope it helps us. But I am not so sure it will. For some reason, I just can't take the picture out of my head, the picture of Ozyllus smiling somewhere at this development, and the picture of Abyss being sad.

I can just hope that these pictures in my head are not actual expressions they have at this moment, inside The Cage.

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บท 82: Chapter 43: Fire (Part 1)

No matter where he looks, there is fire. There is only fire. No, fire would be too mild of a description of it. A more accurate description would be inferno.

Dyne: "No way. This isn't true."

The Spectre, Dyne, falls as he sees this scenery, as he sees all the other Spectres slaughtered.

Dyne: "This is … just impossible."

He says as he looks at the inferno around him in disbelief.

Dyne: "This is … an illusion. It has to be. There's just no way, something like this just isn't possible in reality."

He denies what he sees. He has to.

Dyne: "After all, we are the strongest army in the entire world."

This is not wrong.

Dyne: "We could defeat any army in the world. We can even defeat the whole The Dragon Alliance by ourselves."

This is not wrong either.

Dyne: "We could even … even defeat Walter … "

He notices something that catches his eyes.

Dyne: "if we …"

He lowers his gaze to look at it.

Dyne: "fight together …"

He says as he gets a good look at what had caught his sight.

Dyne: "This … is just plain absurd!"

He denies it. He can never believe it. The psychic hailed as 'the strongest man in the world' lies dead in front of his eyes.

Dyne: "It's unreal!"

He drags himself back from that scene, that unbelievable scene.

Dyne: "This just doesn't make any sense."

He says as he tries to look away but is unable to.

Dyne: "Who could possibly do something like this?"

He asks when there was no one to answer.

Dyne: "That's right. There's no one."

He smiles, no, frowns. He frowns to convince himself.

Dyne: "There just is no one who can create this disaster. No one in the world has the power to do this."

He keeps crawling backwards and frowning in disbelief unable to look away from the sight of Walter Schmidt's corpse.

Dyne: "That's just it. There's no one. This is not a reality. This is just an illusion."

He does not remember that he was set ablaze and is being shown these illusions by Barry. Those memories have been temporarily sealed away. But if he believes, if he believes enough that this is an illusion, then he will realize that it really is.

Dyne: "This is an illusion. It has to be. It can only be an illusion."

And fortunately for him, ghosts don't have dreams. They can't have dreams. So, the only possibility for denying this reality he can think of is it being an illusion.

Dyne: "This is an illusion. This is an illusion. This is an illusion. Huh …"

His words stop coming out as he feels a presence behind him. He feels that there's someone standing behind him.

Dyne: "No, it's just an illusion. Even that presence is an illusion."

That presence even overtakes his inability to look away from Walter's corpse. He tries to convince himself to not do it yet he can't stop his head from turning to look back. His curiosity seems to be getting the better of him.

Dyne: "Huh!"

And it doesn't turn out very good for him.

Dyne: "No, no, no, no, no, no,"

He keeps saying the word of denial as he looks at the sight behind him.

Dyne: "no, no, no, no,"

He keeps repeating the same word as many times as he could. That was just how unbelievable the sight in front of his eyes was.

One man … among all the fallen, there is one man standing.

His hands are soaked in blood.

His clothes are soaked in blood.

His face is soaked in blood.

And he has tears flowing from his eyes.

Dyne: "no, no, no, not possible. There is no one alive … who can do this."

Walter Schmidt is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world. And even he couldn't slaughter all the Spectres in the world by himself.

Dyne: "There is just no way!"

He crawls away as he denies that scene.

It just doesn't make any sense for someone to exist who can do this. If there really is someone who can do this, he would truly be … the devil.

And yet,

Dyne: "No, stay away!"

He crawls away as he sees the figure soaked in blood from head to toe coming towards him.

Dyne: "Don't come any closer! Stay away from me!"

But even as the Spectre says so, the figure doesn't stop. He keeps walking towards Dyne.

Dyne: "Damn it! Don't underestimate me!"

He shouts at that figure but it doesn't faze him. Instead, a reply comes back.

Figure: "I am not underestimating you. I know how powerful you are."

He says as he walks towards the horrified Spectre.

Figure: "Which is why, I became more powerful than you."

Dyne: "What!?"

Figure: "I saw you people destroying the world as if it's your plaything. And I saw myself being able to do nothing as you took everything from me."

He says to the Spectre whom he stares with bloodshot eyes.

Figure: "That is why; I became more powerful than you. I did so to destroy you all. I did so to stop your carnage."

He says as he steps right in front of the Spectre.

Figure: "And I ended up losing everything again."

He says as he kicks Dyne's head.

Figure: "I couldn't stop you."

He says as tears flow from his eyes and he pounces on the Spectre.

Figure: "In the end, all of you ended up destroying everything again."

He says as he bends down.

Figure: "So I, in return, stopped abiding by the rules too …"

He says as he punched the Spectre.

Figure: "and destroyed all of you."

He punched the Spectre again and again.

Figure: "And in the end, I am left alone."

He says as he kept punching with his bloodied hands. His words ringing in Dyne's ears as the Spectre's existence started to come to an end.

Figure: "I gained nothing …"

The blood on his hands couldn't come from ghosts like the Spectres but it was still there. And that couldn't all be Walter's blood. But then where did all that blood came from? The Spectre wondered that question as his existence kept fading away little-by-little.

Figure: "but lost everything."

And the answer came to him very soon. As his vision faded away, the last thing he caught in his eyes was the sight of the vampires.

Dyne: "Ah!"

He realized then. The war was over. It became the end of Spectres. It became the end of vampires. And it probably didn't end on just that. This figure, this man, the only survivor is left all alone after this war.

Dyne: "Who … are you?"

Figure: "Just someone who wanted to save those dear to him … and couldn't. My name is not important."

Dyne, hearing that, gives up and surrenders his existence. But the figure, devoid of any reason to live, keeps hitting his head.

The voices of those bloody hands hitting the Spectre's helm keep ringing and the inferno keeps burning. Surely, there will come a moment when the inferno will extinguish, and so will the sound of those hands.

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