Chapter 21 – The Awakening of Death
As the swordsman clouded by the Abyss stood above the Reaper of Death, a Monster never seen before, he unsheathed his Odachi out of the Abyss. The Monster too prepared spikes enveloped in ink-black liquid, rotating faster and faster. Hundreds of spikes aimed at one man, ignoring all the others below. One Sword against hundreds.
When the armor made by Kage fully manifested, it looked like a true demon had been summoned his fearsome mask, black and purple tainted armor on his arms, legs, back, abs and chest. It was a light armor capable of blocking the strongest of attacks, due to its light weight it enables him to move freely.
By the time Kage prepared himself, the monster had already accelerated the hundreds of spikes to the speed of sound. The Soldiers and servants of Noon and Dawn were about to witness a historical fight between two Monster out of hell.
“GET COVER!” Revel shouted out loud.
Every soldier started searching for a cover to shield themselves against the unfolding exchange, but it was too late, because the battle had already begun.
Kage set his right air onto the air before him, soon after following the left. Gravity pulled him to the ground, creating a crack in the ground.
Covered by dust from the fall, Kage hid behind it.
The accelerated spikes were launched by the Monster one by one. It knew the exact position of Kage behind the dust, as if he sensed him.
The moment the first spike was to hit Kage behind the dust, he stepped forward at the speed of sound, closely evading every incoming spike by a grain of sand.
As he got closer the Monster blasted out a wall of ink liquid against Kage.
“This one is faster.” Kage noticed.
The Monster accelerated the speed of one of the spikes that headed towards him to confuse him, but Kage had noticed the change.
He tries dodging the spike by stepping to the right side, but gets caught by it, nonetheless. One small part touched him and that was all it took to stick to him; it flew down his left arm completely stealing him the ability to move that hand.
The wall the Monster had blasted was already before Kage, about to hit him.
“Huuuuhhhh.” Kage took a deep breath.
Kage entered his deep concentration form. He started noticing every little movement of the Monster.
“Abyssal Nexus”
His whole body gets enveloped in a power that looks like the starry sky, and he vanishes from the spot he stood, successfully dodging the wall of ink.
The Monster looked upwards the second he vanished, and blasted a spike to the roof, just when it was about to hit the ceiling, the power from before appaired, clouded in the starry sky Kage appears on the spot, he used his void step.
The spike hit Kage right at the left upper chest, it went right through his armor into his flesh. Because of the impact of the spike, he gets blasted against the ceiling and then falls to ground.
“Is he dead?” one soldier asked.
“Nobody of us could survive that.” Another barked.
“But he doesn′t seem ordinary, right Revel?” Namel pointed out, while looking at her.
-He is right, the speed he moved at and that energy. He could almost compete with Nacht’s leaders. Where did he come from? – Revel thought to herself.
He pushes himself up, though in pain, that in the moment does not matter to him, because he is smiling in pain. His once clear mind gets clouded by thoughts from within, screams of death himself would be better than this.
“Kill.” He says in a menacing way, while his entire left half being immobilized by the ink liquid, blood streaming out of him like water.
He lifts his right hand to the wound.
“Abyssal Nexus”
Out of nothing a tape appears that wraps itself around the wound. His purple eyes glowed through the mask, filled with the intent to kill. His sword lay far ahead of him, between the Monster and him.
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Kage stretches out his right hand to his neck to crack it, and then it falls.
In the same moment he jumps into the height, he points his hand behind his back, and it begins glowing in purple.
A wall of stone rises behind him, by his powers. In his jump he launches himself off the wall he created towards the Monster, he got so fast that his vision got blurry. While on the fly towards the Reaper of Death, he grabs his sword that lay between them, with a swing to the back he exerts all his might and launches the sword towards the Monster.
The sword began spinning, but before it could hit it, the monster blocked it with the ink-black liquid.
Behind his back Kage had already prepared another sword, and the next second, he finds himself in foot′s length before the monster. Kage slows down a little and bursts out a bit of power from within, blasting the incomplete out of his way to the monster. He hit the ground and placed his left foot forward.
In the same motion he swings his blade back. At the same time the Monster jumps a little back and prepares to slice Kage with its crawls on the foot.
“You thought you could get away?” In one quick motion Kage closed in the distance again and slices upwards with all his might parrying the incoming craw attack of the beast. The Monster paw gets blasted into the sky, but not even a scratch of the strike remains. The sword of Kage even broke in at the edge of the blade.
Right after that, he strikes at the monsters’ opened spot the chest, but the moment the sword hits the scales of it, it breaks into pieces.
After two strikes of Kage slashes, the Monster stood there unshaken and unharmed. The drools of the Monster flew out and he heightens himself before Kage.
“I see. Let’s try this.”
“Abyssal Nexus”
His unmovable left hand covered by the ink liquid started glowing in purple from below. In the same motion he stations his foot onto the ground.
Time seemed to flow slower as they stared at each other.
The black liquid in the sky, which was blasted away, flows right back between them, to block his attack.
“He is finished now” One soldiers takes note off.
Cracks on his left hand began forming as light of purple shone through it. He forces his left hand to move back. The Monster starts roaring from the opposite side.
At the same time Kage swings his left hand towards the monster covered in armor and the liquid between them. The moment his hand lands on the liquid it seemingly gets stuck.
“AHHHHHHHHHH!” Kage shouts out loud.
The Light in his palms get hotter and brighter, the giant wall between starts cracking apart, the ink like liquid only gets more and more with time, as it corrupts the green liquid.
The ink supports itself and heals at the same time it is damaged. The new liquid starts flowing onto Kage, up his wrist, arm to his chest. Half his face is already covered by it, while he struggles to succeed. The armor on his left hand has long been broken apart to pieces, the liquid creates small spikes inside and those drilled through his arms. His vision gets blurry as his body gets enveloped in the liquid.
“Why am I so powerless? Why is this always happening to me?”
…
“What are you doing?”
Kage looked to the right side, everything around him seemed to slow down, in a colorless world he only saw black and white. There stood a person before him. He couldn′t remember who it was or even if he knew this person. It seemed colorless, so I couldn′t make it out. The person had long hair with otherworldly and godly clothing. It slowly walked up to me and whispered into my ears. And a female voice sounded in it.
“You are not what you are supposed to be yet.”
-“I give up…” his eyes were lifelessly looking down.
“You need to try harder”
-“I tried.”
After a little stop she continues.
“Its time to confront yourself. Because you′re the only one holding yourself back. You need to fight the being inside you and remember who you are. Too change the future I lived, that is your only choice.”
- “What does she mean by fighting the being inside me to remember who I am? And to change the future she lived?”
“Remember you are not alone, I′m always close by.”
…
The person disappeared into mist and time continued flowing normally.
“That person is dead.” Namel states.
Kage′s both legs were already covered in that liquid only his right arm was still free.
Kage slowly puts his right hand on his left hand that is covered up. He starts pouring his energy from his right to his left hand.
-This is not enough. I need more power.
In that moment Kage had a realization and closes his eyes. The Rings of the Abyss could normally only devour skills based on energy and the liquid was something else, it was a force of the dungeon that had been corrupted.
- “I won′t give up yet”
- “I′ll just try a different way.”
The 10 rings of the Abyss on both his arms began glowing.
“Devour”
The green liquid around that hasn′t been corrupted yet gathered itself behind Kage as it got absorbed by the Rings. They began glowing vividly.
“This should be enough to break off a piece of you!”
The liquid that spread on him cracked apart and fell to ground, freeing his hands, he punches against the wall of ink, for it only to break apart into many pieces. He smashed right through the wall, hitting the head of the Monster. It gets blown away and a small piece of armor on his head breaks down.
Kage stood there with his whole under body covered in blood, his left-hand having holes in the many little spikes in it.
“I said I would break off a piece off you.” Kage said with a smirk on his face.
The Monster starts growling and starts running towards Kage in the same motion, with each step the cave starts shaking and even though he has heavy armor it is as fast as Kage.
-I noticed something while I was close to that Monster, it has no eyes. So, it must sense me in some other ways.
Kage creates two long swords in each hand and crosses them in an X-LIKE shape. The Monster launches itself at him with his mouth open. Kage too rushed to it and right when they meet face to face, Kage smashes down on him in an X shape. In the same motion he swung his sword again and smashed it against the Monster. The sword starts falling apart as he continuously slices against the armor only leaving small scratches behind. The sword in his left hand broke first, but he didn’t ′t care and continue with his right one pushing the Monster further behind. The Monster flies back a few steps due to Kage′s slash, he then lifts his sword and jumps at the Monster from above. The Monster followed his example and turned his body. His tail with a spiky boulder attached to it heads right to him.
He slices down on it with all his might and sends the boulder against the ground below, creating craters in the ground due to the impact. Pieces of his sword start falling to ground, but his mysterious purple power envelopes his blades and repairs it continuously to keep it from breaking apart. He again lifts his blade to prepare for an downward slash.
Pieces of his crumbling armor fall to ground, his skinny body covered in his own blood. The cloth underneath torn to pieces. His long black hair flying in the sky as his eyes glowed purple.
In that instance his slashed down on his enemy, the Reaper of Death. Right after the impact he jumps back, and the whole area around the Reaper gets covered in dust. Right after every liter of the ink-like liquid gets sucked into that position.
Every soldier stared at the scene before them in awe and fear for both monsters.
Kage sword start reconstructing itself into a katana like sword and he enters a sword sheathing position with it, staring right into the darkness inside the dust.
Blue flames like lights light from within the dust. Sounds of the moving of rumbled stone.
…
Everything gets dark around Kage and his heart starts beating unbelievably fast.
-A voice sounded from within.
“Shadows…”
“Kill…”
“All Shadows…”
“hunt down all the shadows!” The voice screamed inside him.
…
Kage gets irritated and confused by the sudden increase in power of the voice and stares as if controlled by something into the dust.
A shadowy mist starts leaking out of the dust. The blue flames grow larger. A roar sounds through the entire cave, shaking the dungeon to its core.
“RAAAGGGGGHHHHHH”
The dust disperses right after due to the shockwave it had created. On the Rumbles there stood the reaper of Death enveloped in the ink-liquid acting as its strengthened armor and out of its mouth the drooled blue flames. His Tail and armor were enveloped in those flames of hell.
“This is impossible.”
- Nomel, Ravel and every soldier present thought.
End of chapter 21 --------------------------------------------------------------------To be continued
