The dark guardian

C43

—I had immobilized your body and I don't know how you can still move, it's a bit strange what happened to your body—he looked at me through his mask—oh, I understand why you can move—he pointed to my arm, he was totally healthy—that spell you just used is a healing spell that involves the regeneration of muscle fibers it's something like a puppet with strings, this technique should have been known in the last century, but seeing that you can use it is impressive, I guess that this will allow you to fight as if nothing has happened. I guess that's a big plus knowing that you 're too young to use it, you seem interesting after all. Maybe ... even great!

- great? - We were face to face - that is a very generic term to describe it, for me this spell is more than a way to protect or defend myself even if I am turned into a corpse I promise that you will not defeat me as easily as you think, Kaskade , do not think that I am an easy prey that you will hunt without any effort.

"I take back the word great, you're just a fool wanting to be killed," he scoffed, "I had never known to be dumber than you."

Immediately a gust of wind surrounded my body showing him my sword, it gave me a stronger aspect.

—not bad, you are a more interesting boy than I thought, maybe in reality I won't kill you and take you with me alive maybe after all I can adopt you and give you the life you didn't have, that would be an opportunity that you had never had presented, I do not think that this time you will refuse my proposal.

I remembered what my master told me a long time ago, something that would set the course for this battle, but it was very dangerous.

When you fight, you will realize the true strength that takes hold of you, Kai, never draw your sword against those who deserve life, those who have hopes and dreams ahead of them, your power was designed for those who have done injustice in life, than those who have taken advantage of good people. The day you use your power for good and truth, you will realize what is in your heart, you will have a reason to live. There is nothing better in life than giving life for good. Do not let hate blind you and try to do acts that you will regret in the future, until then I will always be in your thoughts even after death. But first of all I will give you this sword, the luminous sword of truth, it will give power to the one who possesses it correctly. If you get to sleep well after so many workouts you will have reached the pinnacle of power. You must take good care of it, once you have mastered it well, that sword will never be separated from you.

The battle was over , Kaskade used a kind of boomerang attacking again and again, I could dodge all his attacks, but that was no guarantee of being able to save me from the power of this monster, I felt that he was just testing my power, it was a kind of of fun.

—why do we better avoid this fight before I kill you?— he turned his boomerang—come on, accept the deal I gave you, it's a very juicy deal, don't you think? Although right now I can think of many things to take you with me without killing you, but I hope you don't mind experiencing hellish pain—I slow down the pace of his boomerang—perhaps you 're interested in me showing you one of my methods—he began to laugh.

I'm at my power limit, I don't think I can last long at this rate. Sorry master—I got up—I still don't understand the feelings that drive me to continue fighting and I still don't know what it is I want to protect? —my body wobbled—but... there is something I never forget—I took my sword—and I think I know very well. I'm sorry master, I fear that once again I will have to disobey your orders—release my hidden power.

Thousands of rays impacted from the sky to the earth on my body, lighting up the whole place, I was preparing myself for the final touch.

"What the hell have you done?" Kaskade was surprised. "What happened ?" How could he have such a sudden change? And where do I get so much power? I have never seen anything like that! But that's perfect—little by little the place where we were fighting was falling apart from my mighty power.

My appearance had changed, now I had a stronger armor and a very white color, it looked like a divine armor, my sword looked very different, it was bigger and more luminous.

—I see that you are absorbing all the power that surrounds you, what do you plan to do with it? Do you think that with that you will defeat me? - he mocked again and again - but I must admit that you have reached the limits that a human could never have reached

I immediately attacked him, with just a slight push I had taken, the ground above my feet had shaken . I didn't know the extent of my power as I had never used this forbidden method before.

—You're fast, but I can still dodge your attacks—I dodge the first one, but instantly I was on top of him again— What?— He flinched, but I managed to hurt him by making a huge explosion.

—Pray that I have mercy on you—I stopped to watch the smoke dissipate—perhaps I can let you live as long as you get out of here right now and I will never see you again in my life.— the smoke became less— come on, deny yourself and I promise you that my next attack will be lethal—he was on his knees panting.

—Don't sing victory!—he shouted with too much fury, his body was bleeding and one of his arms was mutilated—a simple human cannot come to my world and try to beat me like that—his body was reeling—if you want it, you'll I will attack with a power equal to what you have given me—he began to laugh like a madman, but he had placed himself in a slightly strange meditation position, his body flashed an almost blinding light, but a huge monster was formed, it was a monster of sand with big fangs.—you can behold my great baby.

—How is this possible?— I had felt how my body felt immobilized before his presence— I thought you were about to die with the blow I had dealt you.

—Well, you're wrong —he laughed uncontrollably—How can you believe that this was all my power? Obviously I have a power which I only use for times when greater power is required, this monster where you see it expels gases that will take your life instantly—the monster released from its mouth a kind of white jumó that came at great speed towards me—it's a shame you didn't accept the deal I had offered you—he smiled like a madman who took victory in his hands.

The place had filled with toxic smoke and the monster was approaching me , it was gigantic so I wasn't sure if I could stop such a thing, but I had to do it, I remembered an old technique of my teacher, it was a definitive attack, worse the cost of it is that in the end my body would suffer great pain, but I had no choice but to do it or else that monster would devour me. I stood in front of him waiting for him, I invoked my spirit in its entirety creating a luminous sphere with great concentrated power, I threw it against the monster creating a gigantic explosion. The floor had been split in two by the passage of the sphere. I fell to my knees waiting for everything to clear up, little by little it cleared up revealing KasKade 's shattered body, but he could still move.

- damn You bastard!— he shouted with great fury, with his sword in hand wounding himself. He instantly began to undergo a disgusting transformation—that was close, boy, I have one last ace up my sleeve that I had to use right now

—I should have suspected it, he has one last trick that will help him escape from here— I took my sword, but it was useless, his body seemed like a jelly all over the place, its consistency allowed him not to be able to receive attacks that inflicted damage on him.

-It will be difficult for you to do anything, in this state I am in I am almost immortal, of course this has a cost, it will take me many days to return to my original form so I will have to retire for the moment, but do not think that this battle I come to an end, I will return and in a way I will hurt you, I am surprised because you have done this to me, but you will see what will happen to me by then.

demons! This cannot be like this, suddenly I began to feel an immense pain in my body, it was the price that the teacher had told me to use this technique, my body began to bleed in multiple wounds that he had inflicted on me, Kaskade , after all I did it knowing that it would cost me dearly.

—hey, you, strange boy—the subject of Kaskade spoke to me , he was still dying on the ground—can you come here? I have something that can help you with your pain, of course, if you trust me.- I approached his body that was dying.

"Are you sure this will work?" I frowned thinking it could be a trap, he gave me a dropper which had a viscous liquid inside it "why don't you drink it first?"

—no, thank you, rest assured that my wounds will heal little by little, I think you are more wounded than me, don't hesitate to do it.

—hey, this seems strange to me, if you don't take it first I won't, I can't trust anyone here— I tried to return it, but in that moment I felt intense pains throughout my body again— okay , I'll take it.

—Thank you for leaving my lord alive—I look down—I'm happy about that—he breathed hard.

—It's strange. How can you thank me for doing that? When that guy tried to kill you and even treats you worse than a dog—I drank from the dropper.

-It is very difficult to explain and I even think that your reasoning capacity would be too short to try to understand it, but when you have a master, even if he treats you badly or even kills you , you always have to thank him and always be by his side, you humans think and feel very differently from us, now take completely what I have given you, you will see that you will improve very quickly. By the way, you should go, now that you've made that big bang they're sure to come after you.

—Thank you very much, I don't know how someone like you could help me out of this and I hope you get better too, but I'll have to go now. Do you think you'll be okay? - I analyzed his body and the truth was that he looked very bad.

"Don't worry, I already told you I will be, also when the other soldiers come the wounds will concern me, here the important one is you , so get out of my sight right now" he complained of the pain taking his arm.

" Okay, see you later" I started running under the shadows.

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Damn I feel that my body even with that antidote still hurts me, I think that even though I took it the pain will be present—I leaned against a wall—I think my miner as a hero is reaching the end—my body wobbled when walking—I just hope that Astrid, you are well, you also asked me how the others are doing—I was still walking in my terrible physical condition, I arrived at a temple that suddenly a subject with armor similar to Kaskade 's was put on , next to him he had a sword.

—I'm very sorry—he told me—but for everyone 's sake I must kill you right now—he unsheathed his sword, recited something strange and we entered a strange dimension.