"I can't feel her Manna anymore..." Fa Jin slams his fist on the floor of the chariot cart as he sobs, tears staining the wooden floorboards. Qiang stands next to him, still grinning like a madman.
"Don't lose hope in elder sister." He says, Fa looks up at him with an angry look, "what do you know you weak-spelled animal?!" He yells standing up and looking Qiang straight in the eyes, getting dangerously close to his face.
"Calm down, young master Fa, we shouldn't lose hope so quickly!" An elder tugs at Fa Jin's black robe, Fa Jin turns to the old man before the chariot is abruptly thrown slightly forward before stopping, the windows of the cart break and decapitated heads of the horses and the charioteer fall inside, everyone pauses in shock as they stare blankly.
Helena stands up and tells everyone to leave the cart, the elders stand up to leave but upon getting to the cart door their heads fall from their shoulders and their bodies are reduced to nothing but pools of blood. Helena bursts a hole through the side of the cart letting everyone else along with one other elder go through safely, looking disgusted.
"Pretty smart for a girl, you used those elders as cannon fodder, didn't you?" A man says from atop a tree branch.
Ezra recognises him as the same Principle who stood next to Aisha during the fight on the wiermrest river, "i'm not the same as you, so don't lump me in with you!" She says, forming a sword out of water.
"Oh, but you are, i've seen the way you slaughtered those children on the mission with me! You enjoyed it!"
Helena looks away in shame, "no matter how much you try to deny it, you're the same as me, maybe even worse!" He laughs hysterically, visions flash in Helena's mind, memories when she destroyed a family with Asmodius, the screams of a young boy's cries as he sits in a pool of blood, surrounded by the corpses of his brother and sister. A young child who's life was robbed, just a small child, slaughtered, due to his father's debts to Mammon. And Helena, standing before him with a crazed smile, what was she thinking? Why did she do this with such excitement? She questions herself.
Her water sword dissappears, guilt and sorrow on her face and her head laying low, she had lost her will to fight.
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"Fret not, dear Helena! Join me in murdering these low-lifes! Just think about how much fun we had in the past! Just you and me, the best of friends!" He puts a hand on his chest, leaning in with a smile.
"No... I will be better... I have to be better..." She looks up at him, "i will kill you with my own two hands, to make up for everything i've done!" She creates two water swords.
"Oh? So, you will simply throw everything away?!" He yells and jumps down, "Fine, then i will have to kill you too! Show me how much you changed then, but know that you will never escape the lives you took, you will never wash the blood off your hands!"
Ezra and Fa try to get in front of her but she stops them, "i will kill him myself." She walks forward, water enveloping her body, spikes made of surging water pertruding from her legs and arms, water coating her whole body as a form of armor. Water then trickles down her face in streaks from her eyes, wings from the same, each feather like a water droplet as well a crown adorning her head made if water as well.
Asmodius laughs when he sees the transformation, "still incomplete i see? Your transformations still need work... But i guess i'll play with you a little."
His body is enveloped by blood, forming an exoskeleton, his blood forms fly-like eyes and wings and his lower body becoming similar to that of a centipede.
"Face me now! My ability shall slaughter you!"
Asmodius' ability, "Absolute Bloodshed", flips all his blood and coats it around his body, allowing him to use his Hemokinesis without the downside of having to hurt himself as well as altering his body and giving him different capabilities.
Helena immediatelly uses "Tide Splitter" to send a wave of water to destroy him but it simply breaks his exoskeleton which repairs itself after and creates praying mantis arms form him.
"You abomination..."
"Am i? I would say i merely improved my body." Says Asmodius with a distorted voice.
He sends slashes of blood towards her but is quickly blocked with her wings, she sends a rain of sharp water arrows at him but it still does no damage.
"I suppose this is a stalemate then, isn't it?" She says with a sigh.
"I guess so..." He begins to laugh again, "Hemokinesis, Supreme art: Blood Fountain!"
The whole area is surrounded by a giant sea of blood, blood falling from the sky like a fountain. Ezra, Fa and Qiang try to move but they are stuck in the blood, along with the Jin clan elder.
"So... How do you like this?" Asmodius says with a smile, as he sees Helena fly up to escape the blood fountain, "have you forgotten i have wings?" She says with a chuckle.
"No, but do your friends have wings?" She looks back at them fearfully, "in one minute, this blood with turn acidic, and anyone trapped will be melted, is that understood?" His transformation dissappears and he returns to normal.
"Sadly, i can't keep my true form active anymore due to a loss of energy, but how long to you think you can last in the blood fountain? Remember, the timer has already begun." He grins widely.
TO BE CONTINUED...