"*cough* That hurt!"
He vomited a mouthful of blood. He tried to get up but he couldn't muster enough power in his legs and he fell. Their fight was going on for about thirty minutes at this point. His mana reserves were lower than half and his body was getting many small injuries.
He knew that he wasn't exactly a match for the person who is in front of him. His mana was like a bottomless well. It didn't even decrease and he fired a lot of fireballs. Seeing that he tried to fight him using his fists but before he could even punch him he was sent flying by a powerful kick to his abdomen.
"He doesn't just possess bottomless mana he's also good at fighting, at least better than me."
Oscar took a deep breath and get up. His body was hurting but it wasn't something he couldn't bear. He needed to stand up and fight. He couldn't leave everything to Kairi. Except for this man, there was also a corrupted spir
"DIE!!"Oscar screamed and slashed at Howard. He tried to dodge but couldn't get away from his range. Oscar's water sword left a big cut on his torso. It healed several seconds later but he couldn't shake the terror he felt.Oscar's glowing crimson eyes locked on Howard. He could feel the intense bloodlust from those eyes. He didn't understand how this boy suddenly turned into a bloodthirsty monster. His speed and attacks suddenly improved when his eyes glowed red. He saw similar eyes filled with bloodlust in the Crueland but this was something else. These eyes made his soul tremble.He fired another pillar of flames from his mouth to block his vision. He didn't think that the boy would die after this attack. After all, he survived when he pierced his chest with a fire spear. He first fell to the ground but a few seconds later he got up but his eyes were glowing red."Die you flaming bastard!"
The moment Oscar beheaded Howard, the fire spirit stopped moving. Before it could even scream its body cracked. Its body breaks down into many shining blue particles. These were the mana that its body was made of. Some particles were pitch black but all of them disappear quickly. The only thing left behind was a basketball-sized crystal. It was mainly red but some parts of it had black marks."So, Oscar managed to do it in the end."Kairi took the crystal and rushed to the place where she felt Oscar. While moving she felt that Oscar's life was slowly fading away. She increased her speed to reach him faster. And soon enough she reached him. He was lying on the ground, bleeding out. Next to him was a beheaded corpse that is starting to vanish."Oscar!"There was a huge wound on Oscar's abdomen. He was losing a lot of blood. She gathered her mana and cast healing magic on him. His bleeding stopped and h
I was floating away. My sense of reason slipped away from me as I drifted away from the bright shore. The last rays of the sun were gone before I noticed and with them the last spark of my hope too.My eyelids trembled. My sense of reason already left me behind. Aside from that, I couldn't even feel my body now. The only thing I felt is that my being is drifting through something. I felt no coldness or any kind of warmness. I could only feel that something around me was moving.I reached ashore, I don't know when. I'm not even sure if it is really ashore. But I stopped moving. My surroundings also come to a stop with me. It was strangely dead calm.I wonder where I am? I can't seem to remember what was I doing last. I don't even know where I was.I sensed movement around me. It was several tiny creatures, I guess. I don't know how but the information directly flows to my mind. It... Is this me? Am I
This was only a few hours after the hellish night which was full of explosions. People were scared to leave their houses. Even though the sun rose high in the sky there was almost no one on the street of the city.Miranda quickly walked through the hallway and reached her son's room. She opened the door without waiting. She released a sigh of relief when she saw her son sleeping on his bed. She slowly walked closer to him and nudged him to wake him. Just a minute later he slowly opened his eyes and woke up."Mom?""Oscar, you should wake up. There are crazy things going on outside.""What? What do you mean?""You'll understand it when you saw the news. Come on."Oscar rose from his bed and rubbed his eyes. He followed his mother downstairs and walked to the living room. The television was on and the news channel was open. The news was showing a devasted land. There were many explosion craters and bur
Oscar inspected the shiny red crystal in his hand. It had black spots that gives an ominous feeling to him. Not to mention the amount of energy it held was incredible."It has some Aether in it too."This was the spiritual core of the corrupted fire spirit he and Kairi defeated. Kairi gave it to him after the battle. It was like mana crystals but not just the spirit cores hold too much mana they also have the concepts of spirits."The fire concept used by that strange man and the salamander-like spirit is was powerful. It isn't something astounding but it certainly is powerful."Oscar was inspecting the core. He didn't see the spirit itself use Aether to recover its mana but he can inspect it now with the core.His theories and research on Aether were stopped for a while. But with the help of the core, he was planning to continue. The last battle clearly showed him how weak he wa
(Oscar's Pov)Hmm? What is happening? I can't move my body. Where am I?!"Father, he came to the age. But he still hasn't awakened our bloodline power. We should do something about this!"Wait, I know this voice. He... Father. What's my father doing here? What bloodline power is he talking about?! And did he just mention the grandpa?!"Calm down, Robert. Let me inspect him. There might be a problem in his body."G-grandpa... What is happening? You died... A-am I d-dead too? Suddenly, I felt discomfort in my chest. It was similar to using mana to examine a body, but mana would give a warm feeling not this discomfort. Wait... How in the heck is this possible?! This is clearly foreign energy, and if I am not wrong my grandpa is using it."He doesn't have the hex organ. He didn't inherit our bloodline completely."He sounds... sad. And what i
"The magic is real.""There is an energy we can't see with our eyes. Its name is mana.""Your mother... She could have been healthy all along. She might have naturally possessed mana or the ability to see mana.""You can use mana to help people like your mother."Lydia shook her head to get rid of the unnecessary thoughts. No, they weren't the unnecessary thoughts, they were the delusions she feared. She sat up on her bed. The faint light of the moon was visible through the window of her room. She looked towards the moon."So today it's half-moon..."Tonight was the next night after Oscar's fight against Howard. The streets of the Daxhoull were empty from morning till night. No one was willing to leave their house. The government and the army were still inspecting the destroyed part of the forest and they were also patrolling the surroundings of the city.No one was talking but e
It was already four days since the night of the "incident". Oscar spent the last three days studying the spiritual core and his necklace. He didn't manage to uncover much but he was able to absorb spirit mana from the core and gained a bit of fire affinity. It wasn't much but his arsenal wasn't much, to begin with. He also gained a little bit of understanding about foreign energy. It had a weird reaction with Aether. With Aether, it became darker and more powerful. But it didn't last long. Soon it returned to its previous state. "This could be very well a "key" to use Aether, for me." He first thought that chasing after power was a greedy thing to do but not anymore. Aether was an energy that was barely explored. It has almost limitless potential in Oscar's eyes. Maybe even more than mana. Mana could very well replicate and reinforce natural phenomena. But according to Kairi even it has limit