Chapter 22 – Reawakening Abyss

  Since long ago Monsters have been divided into different categories. There exist a vast number of different types of monsters, many of which are still undiscovered. The Elements they possess determines what tactics and skills are needed to fight against them, a Shadow-type, a new sort of Monster that appeared not long ago with no way to fight against them. Even Holy power is said to be effective against them, and right now a Monster that was never seen or heard of before is standing before me, even while struggling to scratch off at his armor I suffered numerous injuries. That said Beast awakened from it′s slumber and enveloped his body in ink, blue flames scorching from his tail and spikes, even the drool flowing out it′s mouth turned into blue magma and melts the ground simply by touching it. The fear for death overcame me, I choked, grasping for air.

  I stood there covered in my own Blood, as fragile as glass, meeting eye to eye with the Reaper of Death himself.

  -In a world unknown to me. I awoke from a deep slumber and forgot the reason for my existence, my memories and my goal. I wandered around the world, avoiding the gazes of people, even so I was discovered and was named a Monster. People started calling me “Black Tear”.

  They feared me. I eventually started to fear myself. I started having imagination of what I used to be, before I lost my precious memories. Thoughts of “Why am I alive” started swelling up inside me and then a voice started tormenting, it gave me a goal, a reason to live, a reason to kill. From that day onwards it started screaming inside me to “Kill”, to erase the Shadow Monsters of this world.

  “Ahh, that′s right…I only need to follow what this voice is saying.”

  “Then all my problems will be solved.”

  His sclera inside his eyes turned black and the once white completely vanished. An ominous aura started spreading from within his meridians, that said mist spread all over his body, this mist had the color of dark purple and black. His once destroyed armor that stopped regenerating, reforming and grew stronger. Armor that of a Warrior created itself on him, it looked close to that of a samurai that lived long ago, the mask on his face changed forms too, the eyes got sharper, and a scary smile built itself on it, two long horns grew out, they were about 20 centimeters long changing colors from the beginning to the end in black an purple. His darkened aura enveloped him, it flew around him like thunder on a stormy day.

  “What happened with him? What is that murderous dark aura around that man?” Namel shouted into the room. As everyone looked at him with fear in their heart.

  The voices of the Abyss from within grew larger. Kage grabbed his head in pain uncontrollably as he continued to scream out in pain, but it wasn′t the voice of him, but of the Monster lingering within him. It′s a deep screech which blasted through the room. Those weren′t just roars of a Monster, but the anger it felt towards the origin of the Monster before him. As it screamed Kage eyes began crying out black tears. Black tears, truly a name fitting him.

  The Blackness within him, with nothing but loss of memories to offer-Tears crying out for help, that nobody could understand.

  The terrain below him cracked as he strengthened his legs, his muscles overgrew as he did, within that frame of second he blasted himself towards the Monster lingering in front of him. With nothing but his bare fists he charges towards that being engulfed by the blue flames of hell. His punch aims directly for the head of the Monster and the second it lands the Monster gets thrown back few steps by the impact. With Light cracks in its armor it stares at the otherworldly being before him, awaiting his turn to attack, but that chance quickly vanishes completely, then the armor which was covered in the ink like liquid flew onto Kage’s hand at the moment of the impact, but that ink as if evaporating completely vanished from his hands, his newly formed aura that enveloped his unconscious body guided by a being from within as if burned the ink liquid and started turning into nothingness.

  “How could this be? He burned off the ink of that powerful Monster? How is that possible?” One soldier barked.

  “Just who is this man?” Revel asked herself confused.

  The beast shocked and distracted by the disappearance of the liquid, suddenly noticed another punch incoming, that said punch hit his chin from below and carried him into the air. With not a second to rest the next Punched came. But after it regained its senses after losing its concentration, it steps back with a jump and whipped its tail with a turn against him, the end of the spike covered in spikes engulfed in flames closed in on him. He then changed his center of gravity to his back and duck down while evading its attack, as Kage jumped in close to the monster that was still in the Motion of turning.

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  He but quickly regretted that decision as he noticed the mouth of the Monster being engulfed in flames preparing for its next attack while it was still in the Motion of turning. The first to get into the position to attack was the Reaper of Death due to Kage being not in range. As he accumulated enough power, he blasted out a stream of blue magma that aimed at Kage directly. The moment Kage noticed he tried to dodge but was unable due to the fact that he was mid jump in the air and couldn′t reach the ground, but before the incoming could hit him he activated his Abyssal manipulation, which he uses to create his armor, to give rise to a small footing on the ground to carry him with a jump off of it into the sky, evading the magma. Kage soon finds himself at the ceiling of the room and as he takes footing there, he blasts himself downwards the Monster which still spout its magma through the room and was unaware of Kage successful escape.

  He aims himself right at the head of the beast with his elbow pointing forward, with his manipulation he starts forming spike like shields on his elbow to strengthen his attack. His elbow drop crushed the armor on the head of the Monster. The impact created by the contact teared cracks into the ground, while the Reaper closed its mouth that spouted magma and damaged himself by the accumulated magma inside its mouth that it couldn′t spit out due to the impact of Kage attack. The successful attack landed a critical hit on the Monster, the spikes formed by Kage were shattered after the elbow drop.

  The next moment backed away as the Monster rose to feet, in its rage it rushed towards Kage, flames of blue and magma leaking from it. As Kage was still in the motion of jumping backwards, he couldn′t react to its attack and the dash of the enraged Beast hit him, trying to push him with itself against the wall behind Kage.

  The newly formed armor started to slowly crack by the impact of the Monster, with almost no energy left it couldn′t even regenerate. By the time Kage was about to hit the Wall behind him, he flicked his two fingers upwards, and a square-like wall rose from under the back feet of the Monster, turning it around and leading it to crash itself into the wall himself. Kage managed to avoid getting smashed into the walls, but the impact of the Monsters dash was enough to break some of his rips causing him to spout out black colored blood through the mask, his skinny untrained body wasn′t yet trained to absorb such attacks and even a single mistake could have caused him to lose his life.

  The Monster started pushing itself up in pain as more and more of the ink like armor broke down. As the Monster stared into the eyes of the Monster standing before him, it felt fear for the first time. But Kage wasn′t in great condition either with holes over his body caused by the spikes and the broken rips weren′t his only problem. The amount of blood he had lost during the fight would have killed most warriors long ago, but due to his surprisingly strong will to live he survived at first, but ones will can′t protect oneself always, so what kept him alive? The Abyss within? But why would it keep him alive? To exact his revenge? To Kill? Kage′s body was still untrained and was that of a person that falls under the category of average by far. His ill-body barley kept itself alive with the power granted by the Abyss, but no power in the world comes for free, it consumes the emotions of the said person, those without a strong will to live would quickly go insane. But even after all this Kage somehow regained and kept himself awake during the fierce battle against the Reaper of Death. Is his driving force enough to overcome the Reaper himself or will he fall before him?

  …

  Kage deeply breathing in and out grasping for air, he stood before the Monster.

  “I barley have any Ki left, but I suppose its time to end this!”

  With the last bits of my Ki a rod slowly started piecing itself together and that soon formed itself into a blade, every bit of the purple mist that flew around me absorbed itself into the sword itself, my eyes began forming purple thunder as it radiated in a glowing purple.

  As the soldiers of the factions witnessed my last attack, they stared upon me with awe and fear. I began shouting in pain and blood spilled out my mouth with each breath I inhaled, as I concentrated my last bit of power into enhancing my muscles in every part of my body. Underneath by Eyes dark red blood came forth as I charged myself. Everything around me broke apart, the ground was no exception. My skin tore apart by the overwhelming energy inside me and with it ink like black cracks formed on my hole body. Across my chest, multiple un my abs and back, many on my arms and legs as well. There formed a black crack from the right side of my face across my right eye and down to my chin on the other side.

  The pain of your body splitting apart on multiple parts of your body was unbearable. The energy surrounding me grew larger and larger, my own Ki long since was nothing more than a empty bottle, instead the power of the Abyss within me helped me gather enough energy to finish the Reaper of Death, but the Ki that I absorbed from the abyss was but a small part, I still wasn′t able to hold a drop of it, that leading to my body breaking apart slowly and painfully. The black cracks on my body grew larger and a new crack formed around my neck, wanting to tear it off completely. The skin near the cracks disappeared and below it there is a mysterious misty ink like flesh.

  The next moment the tip of my hair started to radiate in the color of purple. It felt as if I was close before breaking through to a power on the next level, but my body isn′t prepared for that yet, so with all the power I accumulated, the beats that found itself in a lot of pain gathered all the green liquid, turning it into his own. His armor started regenerating and a thick shield like pyramid shaped before him.

  Kage took a step forward with his right leg and below it everything broke apart. His long blade radiating in a shiny purple and white color mixed in it. With his next motion he dashed forward the Monster like lightning, his path cracking the space itself. He thrusted against the pyramid and at the first contact it broke apart like frozen water, close to the and of the pyramid he slashed his blade to the side breaking apart the last defense in front of the Beats, in his next motion he rearranges his position with his sword and he lands right before the beast, he ducks down to the ground and aims with and diagonal upward slash at the throat of the Monster. The Blade slides right through its neck in a lightning motion.

  The head of the Beast slides down his body and meets the ground after. Every bit of Kage′s energy evaporates itself from the Air and he falls to ground unconsciously, with his last bit of energy as he lies on the ground powerlessly, he asks someone a question. Someone he couldn′t even remember, but nonetheless asked as if it was his first instinct to do.

  “…I- did it, are you proud of me mother?”

  His eyes started closing themselves as he succumbed to his injuries. Before they finally closed, he heard the steps of someone, that could have been none other than the people of the factions and a blurry black figure appeared before him before he fell conscious.

  System-

  -100% reached

  -restarting the system

  …

  “Is he dead, Revel?”

  …

  End of chapter 22 --------------------------------------------------------------------To be continued