Vimesh looked up to the green-skinned Monsters and decided to not care too much about them. After making a test on his mother today and discovering her time limit, even his cowardice couldn’t make him flee to survive, so he just blankly stared at the Monsters while seeing on the corner of his eyes the guardian of dirt tapping his chin of earth.
“What… Ran, do you really want to eat these lowlifes?” The yellow guardian talked to itself. “What I am going to do with you? You become quite spoiled because of the Second… fine, we have to protect these imitations anyways.”
As the moon mysteriously gleamed even more in this location, it cast a grand shadow on the guardian of dirt. Vimesh began to tremble as he felt as if the essence of evil and darkness were emerging from its slumber.
The Shadow warped with life and a baleful aura not belonging to this world, and sixteen silvery white eyes with black slit pupils opened at the same time on it. Provoking a primal fear on Vimesh and the goblins.
Eight elongated heads with random flickering blue arrows through its body surged from the shadow. When one of them looked at Vimesh, he felt his life escaping him as if being stared by the death itself, no, it was an existence above the mere and simple death.
The snake-head lost interest on him and began an onslaught on the goblins that stayed still while being shredded, gutted and eaten. Entrails, members, and blood flew everywhere whilst the eight snake-heads had their lunch.
Some Goblins’ remains and blood arrived at Vimesh and normally he would already have fainted, but his flesh, nerves, blood, bones and even his soul seemed to be screaming to him, ’DON’T ANGER IT! DON’T TAKE YOUR EYES FROM IT! YOU WILL RECEIVE A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH!’, not permitting him to faint.
However, no matter how loud his soul screamed, it couldn’t stop the normal Vimesh’s body reaction watching such carnage and blood flying. He perceived the reaction by feeling a hot liquid forming a puddle under his feet.
The eight heads finished their feast and returned to the guardian of dirt’s shadow.
Being free from the pressure of that Monster, Vimesh almost slumped on the ground, but a stupid question coming from deep of him won over his intelligence in this moment where he couldn’t properly reason. “W-W-What are you?”
“Humm… it is a difficult question.” The yellow guardian rocked its head to the sides. “In the most purest and simple terms, you can say I am an Avatar and Ran is my counterpart.”
“Wha-”
“Before I forget, no even try to say to Jord that I can say anything beyond Lord Third or about Ran’s powers. It is not like I am threatening you, I am just saying this to save your time. Because ‘We’ and Jord are subjected by the Destroyer’s System that is much more powerful than this First Creator System. So I can’t talk with Jord or help him, and nobody can tell him about my true self. Even if you try to say or write something, you would be impeded.”
When Vimesh was trying to process everything and ignore the blood to not faint, the Grimoire said. *Vimesh Quye, this is a chance to improve yourself. Others people are being attacked by the goblins right now. If you go to the center with your mother, Dhasharan will have to follow you to protect you two and kill the goblins, in this way helping to lessen the injured by the goblins’ attacks.*
“Why would I do this?! Do you know much blood will I have to see or the fear I feel close to that shadow?!” Vimesh hysterically screamed while trying to crush the Grimoire for making such suggestion.
*How much time will you continue tied to your father’s ghost? If you don’t try to face your fears head-on, you won’t marry or act when it is time to save your loved ones! And what would your mother think of you if you had a chance of helping your friends and didn’t do it?*
This damn book!
It is not like I don’t want to save people or become some kind of hero. I just can’t!
I-
Vimesh in his disoriented mind ended up looking to the place he swore to never look again, his mother’s smiling face.
Don’t look at me with this face!
Why do you always smile even at the death’s door!
AHHH! STOP!
Vimesh’s deep and forgotten memories on the corner of his brain were reactivated and he saw his father’s large back protecting him.
Vimesh’s father was a man of few words and always did his best to protect his family. So it is as if fated that his end would be protecting his useless son.
As his father and mother’s blood coated Vimesh, his father turned to him and said his last words…
Coming back to the present, Vimesh wept and gently place his mother on his arms. Without any words, he began to slowly tread through the blood and go to the place where there is more shouting.
*Good, one step at a time. Moving forward is the only path left to you transform yourself.*
“Nowadays even an imitation wants to change his Fate and Destiny. The Multiverses became crazy, however, considering my past I can’t complain too much.” The guardian of dirt followed Vimesh while whistling. “On the day of the Third’s death, we will become one again and met the Second. This doesn’t make you even more excited about the future, Ran? I even want to sing right now!”
A horrible tone-deaf song resounded through the encampment together with cries of fear and death.
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Jord maintained distance from the fight to find a chance to destroy all the balls of lights at the same time while Ethakon and Carmina imprudently charged at the Monster Chief.
Bloody Bones stomped on the puddle of blood and three spears of blood appeared, two by themselves went to attack Ethakon and Carmina, and Bloody Bones held the final spear.
“I will burn them!” Ethakon from the sack on his waist took out a scarlet Mineral.
“Ahydrite! The revolution can be destroyed, but not the flames of my heart!” Finishing the short poem, the Ahydrite Mineral released a small burst of fire that engulfed the spears. However, it was useless because the spears of blood easily bypassed the fire and if it wasn’t for Carmina kicking Ethakon to the sides, he would have died.
The spears losing their original target went to Jord whilst Bloody Bones advanced and traded blows with Carmina and Ethakon.
Jord produced a barrier made of four metal closets to stop the spears.
Perceiving the spears stopped on the third closet, he prepared hatstands below the field while increasing their density at maximum.
Goblins has spawn through all your area.
“Die!” Carmina became more urgent with the new goblin alert and took one Bloody Bones’ spear thrust to reach close to him. Holding her knife with a maniacal grin, she cut Bloody Bones’ head off.
“Get away from it!” Jord yelled as one red ball of light burst out and another spear appeared from the puddle of blood below Bloody Bones.
Jord’s perception of time seemed to make the scene move slower and he could see Ethakon’s desperate face. Jord considered his options, the hatstands below the earth aren’t quick enough to save her because even if I destroy the lights or Bloody Bones’ body, that bloody spear can move by itself and also is able of cutting through my creations.
Then…
There is only that way that harms me too.
Jord concentrated in the knife on Carmina’s hand and put his hand over his Core, making him immobile but also capable of giving more complex commands to his creations.
Bloody Bones’ spear reached the fur of Carmina’s neck and a little of blood began to spill out- Explode!, Jord’s urgent command made a great amount of Essence Energy flow through the knife and create a mini-essence field around it that immediately exploded, and threw Bloody Bones, the blood spear and Carmina away from each other before the spear could take Carmina’s life.
“Blargh!” Jord vomited a mixture of blood and his organs.
As always, controlling the Essence Energy inside of him to do anything out of the normal caused the same thing to occur inside of him, meaning the explosion inside of his body made him lose two-thirds of his health.
“Carmina!” Ethakon ran over to the fallen Carmina without caring about the already reformed Monster Chief which ignored him.
“A man that only sees one thing in the most important times isn’t worthy of being killed.” Bloody Bones rushed at Jord while throwing spears of blood. “Don’t you think so, Lord Third?”
A chance!
Bloody Bones was coming straight to Jord, so it was easy to Jord accurately aim at the Monster Chief. He at first made the hatstands he had saved until now attack all of Bloody Bones’ ball of lights and ducked under the spears of blood.
The metal hatstands plunged straight to the balls like a snake bouncing at its prey, strong and swift. The first two hatstands reached their target, destroying two of the three red balls. However, even with two hatstands going to the same and last ball, they couldn’t destroy it.
Because Bloody Bones did something that Jord thought to be impossible until now, it used a field of Essence Energy to propel itself backward to escape the attack and moreover it didn’t suffer any visible damage by using so much Energy!
“H-How?!” Jord stammered while feeling his injuries healing.
“Oh my, could be you thought you were the only one capable of using the Essence Energy, the pure energy flowing through our souls, Lord Third? How did you think I am making spears of blood? Maybe you should consider receiving more education from your parents.” The Monster Chief with flesh tissues and one red ball of light on its eyes, said with a snicker.
“Shut up! And I don’t have parents, I am just a computer program!” Jord snapped at Bloody Bones by making him remember that the figures he could call of parents, the Game Developers, tried to kill him and destroy his palace.
“I’m sorry, it seems I have touched some forbidden topic of yours.” Bloody Bones bowed while speaking in a low-pitch tone.
“However, Lord Third. I recommend to you find a substitute for a parental figure and some kind of son or daughter. To have a family to protect is a good thing, maybe it could even make you grow even more quickly to defend them from the others. Although you shouldn’t become like that ‘imitation’.” It pointed to Ethakon wailing over Carmina’s body.
“Why am I receiving advice about family from a skeleton?” Jord said with a groan. “Let’s just go back to the fight.”
“It’s a shame we wouldn’t be able to do it, our joyous and short time together ended. You have already passed my test and killed me when you used your impalement’s weapons. But because I wanted to talk with you more, I cheated and used an Essence field which I have been prohibited by the Soulkeeper.” Bloody Bones’ body began to disappear in a cloud of white lights. “He is trying to bring me back.”
“Why are you just standing there and talking with me? Shouldn’t you be trying to kill Carmina and Ethakon or the people from the village?” Jord frowned, no understanding the Monster Chief’s actions.
“How many people do you think that exist in the Multiverses? I assure you that even the Sixth Creator doesn’t know, so for me killing one person or one million, it is the same thing. The Multiverses won’t miss them, so why bother to kill them?” Bloody Bones shrugged. “My objective from the start was only to test you. Killing you or other people was never part of the plan.”
“Even if we had continued to fight with me using more Essence, it would still be useless, I wouldn’t be able to defeat you.” The Monster Chief pointed to Jord.” Because you still have three trumps cards you hadn’t told anyone, don’t you? They are your horn, you other Core, and your Song.”
Jord widened his golden eyes and sweat began to appear on his body. “You have quite a knowledge about me. I wonder, how did you discover all of this?”
Fuck!
He is right about the first two, but what did he mean by Song?
Bloody Bones smirked with his flesh mouth dripping blood. “Goodbye, Lord Third. Until we meet again when you die and the Fourth born.” It crushed his own ball red of light and skull head amidst the white lights surrounding it, killing itself to not answer Jord.
You killed the Chief Bloody Bones Lvl 9
You gained 128 XP
+100 to Alignment
You are now Level 5
Quest: First Bloody Night
Completed!
Distributing Rewards…
Main Rewards: You gained 10 XP, the right to use Appraisal, +10 Free Attributes.
You are now Level 6
Secondary Rewards: You received the Tattoo Soul(Custom) Lv1: Oversoul. And an Inventory.