“Everybody who said they wanted to kill me is no longer among the living,” Jim replied. “If you want to go meet them as well, then you can come at me.”Nightmare_lily didn’t attack him but observed him. (How is he able to resist such a strong poison? His vivre shouldn’t be capable of protecting from all types of poisons, but I can’t deny what I’m seeing. Does it have something to do with his golden aura?)“What’s wrong? Having second thoughts about meeting the dead?” Jim taunted her and coughed some more blood.“Hmph,” Nightmare_lily smirked rather pridefully. “Do you know why they call me a nightmare? Because I can literally give them nightmares.” She wielded her wind sword with both hands and slashed at Jim.This time, Jim didn’t see or even feel any attack coming in his direction.But all the world around him turned into an apocalyptic world where Jim was being attacked by zombies that looked like Rena, Shiny, and everybody he knew, including his mom and dad. It was a horrifying,
Jim closed his eyes, and it helped him feel every presence around him all the more sharply.He still wasn’t breathing, and the vivre in him was helping his heart beat and muscles feel alive.“Be as water,” he told himself.As seconds passed, his senses utterly calmed down and became still like a lake in a windless zone.Suddenly, he felt a disturbance. A sharp spark in the space, and it made him react instinctively. He threw out a punch.BAM~!Jim’s fist and Nightmare_lily’s sword clashed, astonishing her greatly. But at the same time, Jim’s fist didn’t really block her sword but only deflected it so that his fist went on to strike the opponent.Jim’s fist landed in Nightmare_lily’s shoulder, dislocating it instantly, making her cry out. She roughly crashed back on the ground. Jim’s fist once again came down at her face this time, looking like a large boulder.Her eyes widened, and she immediately rolled to the side, even though rolling hurt like hell because of her dislocated shoulde
As Love Bullet looked at her with a horrified expression, Little Nightmare hatefully pulled the whip. “Severance Song!”Love Bullet was so shocked by it she didn’t even scream, even though she imagined her neck blowing into bits and separating her head from the rest of the body.However, someone grabbed the thorny whip and stopped the sound wave from reaching the end and blasting Love Bullet’s neck off.It was none other than Ronny. His hand somehow absorbed the sound wave, and it looked like it gave him some energy.“What the…” Little Nightmare looked more than a bit baffled because her attack was completely nullified. She saw the black shade that appeared on Ronny’s hand. It pulled the metal thorns on her whips. “You… that magnetic material… Did you integrate graphene into your body?”“Graphene? What the heck is that?” Ronny looked clueless.“So you didn’t know?” Little Nightmare couldn’t tell if he was lying or not. “That thing is very dangerous. You are going to get powerful becau
“Severance Song!”The sound wave traveled through her whip and reached Jim’s fist, but it was repelled and sent back toward her, leaving her slack-jawed.Little Nightmare was forced to let go of her wrist, or she was afraid of hurting her own wrist.The whip’s handle exploded, but it still survived the explosion because it was built to withstand such damage.She tried to touch the whip, but it was so hot.Jim was about to step toward her and release a punch, but Nightmare_lily grabbed his foot and dug her nails into his leg and released wind directly into his body.Jim felt his heart suddenly suffer from a stroke.“Now! Kill him!” Nightmare_lily shouted.Little Nightmare didn’t quite get what was going on, but she could tell that her sister did something and messed with Jim and so immediately picked up her whip and unleashed a drilling attack. All the thorns on the whip released flames and propelled the whip, and the extreme tip of her whip released red lightning. “Auger Rocket!”BAM~
Lovelace was visibly surprised to see Jim not only up on his feet but also full of vigor. “He took that attack without defending himself properly and still survived? That’s not fair. There should be a hole in his chest. How is he still fine?” She ignored Doug and turned to face him. “Whatever. This means I can fight him now. And…” She released red light out of the pores of her body, which destroyed all the floating rubble at her. “If you can build things around you, then I can destroy them all. Building something is always harder than destroying the same. So, you’ll be using more energy and stamina than me if you keep doing such silly things, my love.”“I remember you…” Jim’s body was burning hot, releasing vapors so hot that they were visible to the naked eye. He saw Doug’s situation, and it angered him some more. “You’re going to regret messing with my friends.”“I do everything out of love,” she retorted. “And there are no regrets in love.”“Love? You call harassing and hurting th
“Spider Web!”A large web of light flew toward Jim insanely fast.Jim didn’t try to dodge this time. He thrust his palm forth and created a vivre barrier which managed to stop the web, but the web began to melt into the barrier and weakened it.“Crocodile’s Tail!”Lovelace this time sent a whip-like attack that tried to blast its way through the barrier. And it did manage to break the barrier, but Jim already created another barrier.“Lizard’s Tongue!”She sent a thrusting attack this time, which broke the barrier, but then Jim caught the rope-like light that was quite hot. But his spiritual vivre helped his hand bear the heat. He pulled it, but all Lovelace had to do was let go of it.“Haha, did you think I can’t let it go?” Lovelace amusedly chortled and then said, “Love Retention!”The rope in Jim’s hands was forcibly pulled back to her, and not just that, but all the light in the neighborhood was sucked toward her, making her body glow. She looked like she was some sort of an alie
Lovelace relentlessly attacked Jim with her hands and feet. She was not good at martial arts like Nightmare_lily, but her attacks still packed a lot of power because of her light skill.However, she was not able to land a single proper blow on Jim anymore. Though she also didn’t receive any damage, she couldn’t help but be frustrated that Jim was keeping up with her speed and strategies.On top of that, she felt like her impulse was decreasing.Her Light Impulse was a gene-based amplification skill she earned, and it was not a demonic power, though the demon in her did allow her to use light in very many ways.“I’m sure I still have a lot of stamina left, so why does the impulse I gather at my arm and feet keep fading away?” as she was thinking about it, she kept the pressure on Jim, and then she noticed that his forearms look bigger. “Is it just me, or did his forearms grow bigger?”“Did you finally notice it?” Jim spoke with pain as he was having a hard time blocking all of her atta
In that moment when Love Bullet fell to the ground lifelessly, Jim really hated himself for allowing her to die.While he was battling Lovelace, he was learning and improving. Despite being on the defensive, he could feel himself getting stronger. Even though he didn’t show it on his face, he enjoyed the exchange he had with Lovelace; however, right now, all of that seemed selfishness on his part.The same selfishness that Lovelace said was equal with love.This was a huge mental blow to Jim.His arms were already feeling numb after using the War God’s reversal mirror technique. He was hoping to buy a few seconds of time to recover, but then Ronny and Love Bullet butted into his fight.Before he could do anything, one of them died, and another one was recklessly attacking the opponent.Ronny’s punch was blocked by one hand, and Lovelace clenched her fists, creating a light gauntlet around her arm. “Let me show you what a loving punch feels like!” She was about to punch him in the chin