“Damn it! What the hell was that?”Back to the battlefield…Arran and the others had just recovered from the aftermath of the horrors self detonation. Having gathered together, they all overlooked the center of the explosion, deep in thought.“It looks like the horror self-detonated,” Sable said.“Well, no kidding wise guy. Way to state the obvious,” Pamela disparaged.“All in a day's work..” Sable responded without care.“That’s enough you too,” Joyner cut in before Pamela could respond preventing their banter from escalating.“Focus on the battle.”The others ignored the two clowners and pondered more serious issues like…“Why did the horror self detonate? It couldn’t have been to take us down with it right?” Beatrice asked.“I doubt it,” Arran replied.“As powerful as the self detonation was, it wouldn’t have been enough to finish us off at all. Not with us fully defending ourselves.”“It could be that it wanted to save its own skin,” Alec suggested.“At the cost of ending its own
Bang!There was a collision and a powerful impact wave swept through the surrounding space causing a storm of spatial winds to blow about, pushing Joyner and the other Aeth away and forcing them to squint.Urgh!Your Highness!Arran!Prince Arran!At once, cries of surprise and concern calling out to Arran came together as the Aeth looked at the point of impact where Arran had been standing.Shit! Save His Highness!Sable was the first to rush into the fray, his palms flowing with psychedelic light as two long swords formed in his hands. Without waiting for the impact waves to settle, Sable was prepared for an all-out attack.But then, a figure came flying out of the storm, white silvery wings flapping powerfully behind him with a red-black scythe in his hand, the half moon blade looping around him like a cradle.Seeing Arran’s figure Sable paused in his tracks while the others beamed with relief at his safety. But Arran’s voice rang urgently in their ears warning them.“Everyone, don
While Arran was fighting the revived horror, the others had already gathered some distance away from him, observing the battle taking place. Among them, Joyner had an arm around Alec’s neck while his other hung limply by his side, blood dripping from the cuff of his sleeve.Joyner’s face was pale as Alec supported him in joining the others. Seeing him like this, the others were concerned and Pamela asked, “How are you doing? Is the wound alright?”“It’s fine,” Joyner replied.“I’ve already applied a coagulant to stop the bleeding so I’ll be fine.”“I don’t know man, are you sure? It looks infected to me,” Sable said referring to the black lines that were snaking up Joyner’s arms and to the rest of the body.”Joyner reassured, “Don’t worry about it. It's to be expected from a dirty creature but I’ve got it under control.”Joyner was not merely performing lip service and trying to reassure everybody. While the ambush has been unexpected making it so that he could evade the attack by bec
[Shattered Meteor] was a dimensional refracting technique. A technique that could distort time and space allowing for instantaneous execution of moves in a single moment. It was how Arran could perform multiple slashes in a single second.With this technique, there was no upper limit to the number of moves one could execute, allowing for two, three, ten, sixteen moves, and upwards. Thus when combined with [Dark Curtain] and [Sever], a truly bloody scene would unfold.The body of the horror after being hit with [Shattered Meteor] was torn to shreds and with [Sever] taking effect, not a single piece of flesh remained intact on the horror.But Arran didn’t stop there, he went on to perform another round of attacks using [Shattered Meteor]. His goal was to reduce even those broken pieces of the horror into even smaller pieces to prevent the horror’s healing factor from coming into play. Even if just to slow it down, as long as Arran could land enough hits, he would be able to use the card
But while the Wellingtons were effective in dealing with the flesh wall, they couldn’t take care of all of it because it was really too long. The flesh wall was already as huge as several districts in a large metropolitan city like New York making it too large for any one of them to handle alone.If not that the flesh wall was very weak and vulnerable to their attacks much unlike the nigh-invulnerable horror, it would’ve been a much greater threat to the Aeth than the horror was. So although the Wellington trio managed to deal with a large portion of the flesh wall, a greater portion of it managed to slip through the other side to rush toward the horror.But before it could get to the horror, the flesh wall was blocked by Sable who stayed close to Arran’s battle zone to gate-keep the area.Seeing the flesh wall — at this point it was less like a wall and more like a mound — after seeing the flesh mound rushing toward him, Sable stood steadfast and blocked their path. In front of him,
While everybody fought their own battles, Arran focused on dealing with the decadent horror sparing only a bit of his senses to observe their progress. When he saw that everybody had things under control and wouldn’t allow the mound of flesh-skin to approach the horror any time soon, Arran renewed his efforts to finish off the decadent horror now that it was weak.[Shattered Meteor: Eightfold Slash!]Once again, Arran executed another eightfold slash of Shattered Meteor on the decadent horror slicing its countless body parts into even more tiny fragments.Not a single part of the horror remained intact after the full onslaught of Arran’s attacks. But it has taken many attacks using Shattered Meteor to achieve the current effect which has taken some time. It would have taken less time if Arran could execute more slashes using Shattered Meteor but the current limit of the number of slashes Arran could perform was eightfold.Still, with the help of [Sever], arran saved a lot of time. Sti
As the light appeared on the battlefield, it left just as suddenly and quickly leaving only a few stunned Aeth watching everything in awe. Finally, they recovered their senses and everybody immediately looked at the center where the light had originated from. There, they witnessed the figure of Arran looking ever-dashing and handsome.After taking some time to take in Arran’s handsome visage, the others quickly shifted their gaze somewhere else. This was where the shredded pieces of the horror’s body had been previously. And indeed, there it was in the same position as if it had never moved at all.But something was different about the horror that everybody was now seeing. It appeared… lifeless.That was it, the body of the horror appeared deprived of all signs of life and vitality — looking like a piece of statue — like it had been dead for a very one time.This was the best way to describe the horror. Currently, it was left with only its head and a part of its torso. One of its arms
“Is it over?”After the shock died down, the others came to their senses and finally, went over to Arran’s side asking if the battle was finally over. But just as Arran was about to answer, his eyes widened in disbelief as alarm bells started blaring inside his head once again.“No it’s not… watch out!”Arran only had enough time to call out in haste before turning around with his scythe swinging, aiming in one direction. But it was already too late.Just as Arran called out and took action, a blur of motion zipped past his eyes shooting toward the corpse of the decadent horror, reaching it instantly.The others were also alarmed as they noticed too late that something had moved past them without their notice. If not for Arran’s warning, they might not have even noticed it until it was too late.Fortunately, they weren’t the targets if not no one knew what would happened if they had been ambushed.The others felt bad, but none felt as bad as Arran did currently.Damn it!“What the hel