Chapter 35 - The Reaper to the Rescue? Part 1
POV: Alan
“Alan… I’m sorry…” [??]
“Dad!...” [??]
“Alan, please…” [??]
Everything is dark, then suddenly a little window let the light enter but it was still dim.
Through it I could see outside, and my body began moving on it's own, I had no control over it.
‘What’s going on here? Did I not die? Wait where am I?’ [Alan]
What I saw was dead bodies of monsters everywhere and a few human, however that was not what attracted my attention.
In front of me was Eril and a little girl who looked vaguely familiar…
‘Ah, is that Haliel? How long have I been sleeping for her to grow that much. And Eril, I see, they fund each other… then wait where had I been? Why is Haliel crying- wait why am I attacking her!? No, what am I doing!? Stop! W-why? What’s going on!?’ [Alan]
It feels cold, it seems like I’ve been frozen and then a grey toned person showed up in front of me.
I can’t hear what’s being said but Haliel looks angry… wow she’s gotten so much stronger.
“Huh?” [Eril]
“!” [Alan]
This shady guy suddenly attacked Eril and she began bleeding nonstop then this person healed her and impaled her to the ground.
‘How dare you! Why did you do that! I’ll fucken kill you! Like I wasn’t torture enough! This fucken bastard! Why are you laughing!?’ [Alan]
After impaling Eril this bastard knocked out Haliel too and began killing the group of people in front of him.
From the ten standing there, only Blaze and two others managed to escape, the others were shredded to bits.
‘You! Once I get out of this I’ll fucken kill you if it’s the las thing I’ll do!’ [Alan]
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POV: Yoichi
In an instant everyone became a puddle of blood except for me, Symond, and Blaze.
We barely managed to dodged his attack when suddenly Haliel’s [Frozen Death Blossom] began cracking and looking at it you could see a red glow covering Alan.
“Oh, perfect. Looks like my puppet is finally breaking free. Good, now I won’t have to chase you, I’ll just sit back and watch, Hahaha. Hey get them!” [Shade]
“...” [Alan]
‘Hmm? Something’s strange, he isn’t screaming and running wild like a while back? Why is he just standing there staring at the Shade?’ [Yoichi]
“Oi! Didn’t you hear me? Kill them!” [Shade]
He looked our ways but when I saw that his eyes were somehow like they were filled with life again.
He still didn’t move and just stood there looking at us as if trying to understand the situation.
“Hey, what’s going on? Why isn’t he attacking us?” [Symond]
“Tch. Damn did that ice do something to it’s head? Huff, let's see…” [Shade]
“You…” [Alan]
Suddenly Alan disappeared from the spot and the next thing we knew he was smashed into the ground, stuck in a crater in his shape.
“!” [Everyone]
“Gah… what the? You should still be under my control why-? I-it can’t be!” [Shade]
We have no idea what was going on inside his head but we noticed that Alan’s body was starting to rot, though very slowly.
‘Right! He was dead for more than seven years of course he should’ve been decomposed quite a bit. Since his perfect body is starting to decompose then that means he’s no longer under the influence of the Shade. We can use this!’ [Yoichi]
“H-hey! You’re Alan right? Do you understand me?!” [Yoichi]
“W-what are you doing?!” [Symond]
“And who may you be? Can’t you see I’m busy dealing with this bastard!?” [Alan]
“A-alan, your back to your senses?” [Blaze]
“Yes, though I have no idea what’s going on in the first place… but it looks like you took good care of my daughter. Thank you.” [Alan]
“A-alan, I’m so sorry I couldn’t come back in time…” [Eril]
“It wasn’t your fault don’t worry about it… I’m just glad my two beautiful girls are together again… but it seems I don’t have much time left…” [Alan]
“Kuh! I knew controlling a level 100 intelligent being would be difficult but to actually be able to break free from it? Guess I’ll have to destroy another precious toy…” [Shade]
The Shade got away from Alan’s grip and flew into the air and glared intensely at us.
“Since it’s like this I won’t be needing you anymore. [Shadow Lance]!” [Shade]
“Not this time bastard!” [Alan]
Alan was fast and was already in front of Eril protecting her from that attack, or so we thought.
Though Alan prevented a fatal blow, the lance merely changed trajectory upon hitting Alan and still pierced Eril’s shoulder.
“Ahhh!” [Eril]
“Eril!! What the! Grahh!! You!” [Alan]
“Hahaha, I see where your daughter got her personality from. You you you. Did you think my attacks are that simple? Though what’s with you to actually change my lance’s trajectory, quite impressive, but then again I chose you so you’d have to be great. Sadly I must destroy you now.” [Shade]
“Heh, we’ll see who’ll destroy whom! Hey you there, looks like we have a common enemy, let’s kill tha thing!” [Alan]
“Fine by me, but just so you know we can’t use magic under these circumstances. I’m sure you can feel the corruption in the mana?” [Yoichi]
“It’s fine. Skills are more than enough to kill this thing! Little Haliel, I’ll be borrowing these again.” [Alan]
After going over to pick up the Swords or Flame and Darkness Alan disappeared behind the Shade as his left arm was looped off.
“Heh even attacking the same spot eh-?” [Shade]
Twisting his body in an unimaginable way, he sliced the Shade through the torso and waist.
“[Instant Regeneration]! Huff, huff. That was close… grrr. [Abyss’s Crushing Grasp]!” [Shade]
“[Radiant Stab]!” [Symond]
Using the time the Shade was distracted he managed to get in range to attack.
“[Instant Regeneration]! Kuh, huff huff. These lowlifes wants to kill me!? Fine then [Abyss’s Rampage]! Hahaha see how you’ll deal with this!” [Shade]
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From the shadow arm that stretched out of the portal came a creature of complete darkness.
This was the creature that the Shade calls Abyss and it is a perfect match.
RROOAARRR!!
“Tch, I’ll just send it back to where it came from, [Thousand Slashes of the Inferno Asura]!” [Alan]
With a Slash Abyss went up in flames and shrieked in pain before it vanished, only to pop out of the shadow again.
“Haha, he’s not that easily killed.” [Shade]
“Hey Blaze I hate to say this but we might need you to endanger yourself once more…” [Yoichi]
“Heh, it’s better than dying here like this. I’ll take that risk.” [Blaze]
Blaze transformed back into his Phoenix form and flew into the air, breathing down a jet of fire at Abyss to keep him at bay.
At the same time Alan had already begun his assault on the Shade.
“[Limit Breaker], [Chaos Fire], [Sonic Boom], [Lord of the Darkness Flames]!” [Alan]
After using multiple self enhancement spells Alan used his also humongous amount of skills.
“[Shadowstep], [Thousand Slashes of the Inferno Asura], [Dance of Death], [Oblivion Slash]!” [Alan]
The Shade that was acting all high and mighty was now shifting through the air trying to get away from Alan but everywhere to teleported to, Alan would already be there and slashes at him.
“Aahhhh! [Instant Regeneration]! [Instant Regeneration]! [Instant Regeneration]!” [Shade]
“Thinking of running away!? You're gonna have to run much faster than that if you want to escape my grasp!” [Alan]
He could not be seen now, only a blur remains to tell you that he’s still their and with each stroke of his blade, it means death to the Shade.
If not for [Instant Regeneration] the shade would’ve been long gone.
But with this exchange in the air me and Symond still had to help Blaze take care of the Abyss.
“Alright Blaze back us up with your fire, we’ll engage it now! [Hero’s Dash], [Holy Light]!” [Yoichi]
“Let’s kill that thing, [Crashing Lunge]! [Holy Light]!” [Symond]
With the [Hero] skill [Holy Light] we can add the Light element to all of our current equipment and also give them a dramatic increase in strength but consumes constant mana as each second increases the strength ever more until the equipment break from not being able to contain all that strain.
With Light element of the [Hero]s that shreds through the darkness as if it were nonexistence is now pointed at Abyss but it showed no fear.
The first few attacks were completely blocked by the Abyss but slowly we pushed it back.
Without the Shade’s magic to heal it, the wounds inflicted on the Abyss began dripping blood that drains the life out of anything it touches.
Looking down at the puddle of blood beneath it, the surrounding grass all withered and died even the trees nearby had its leaves turn black.
“Blaze fire. We need to get Haliel and Empress Eril out of here, that things blood is definitely not good news.” [Yoichi]
With my words, flames rained down on Abyss as me and Symond carried Haliel and Eril back to where our troops were watching us.
“Take care of these two and get the Empress healed right away!” [Symond]
“Master shall I come with you? That man seems to be helping you now so it should be safe enough right?” [Nari]
“Sorry I can’t risk losing another friend. Besides we still aren’t entirely sure if the [Reaper of Flames] is freed from the Shade’s influence.” [Symond]
“That was the puppet you were talking about!? That thing is no puppet he’s a monster! About that, we’ll be having a talk about that man once this is done and some explanations too!” [Lener]
“Well, I’ll just say this ahead of time, like it or not that Reaper is the one helping to save your Kingdom right now. Though I doubt Brinas will ever be able to become a habitable place again after Abyss is taken care of.” [Yoichi]
After that short exchange we quickly went back to help Blaze fight the Abyss.
“[Genesis of Light]! [Vanquisher of Darkness]!” [Yoichi]
“[Holy Bash]! [Heaven’s Purge]!” [Symond]
Following our relentless exchange of attack the Abyss finally let out a bloodcurdling screech and became like a dog forced to a corner with its tail tuck in between its legs.
“I’ll let you live this time! But mark my words! I’ll definitely get you for this! And next time you won’t have this Reaper to protect you!” [Sahde]
With the Shade’s scream, we look in his direction to see that he had lost both his arms and is in a horrible state.
Alan too was not in favorable shape either, since using his mana, his body had decomposed even faster and now he was falling apart.
“Get back here you fucken bastard! I’ll take you down with me! I swear!!!!!! Ahh!!” [Alan]
He couldn’t move anymore but judging by what the Shade is saying and how their fight was earlier it could be assumed that it was the Shade’s complete and utter lost.
Even before we became focused on Abyss, Alan was already forcing the Shade to constantly keep healing itself just to stay alive.
“Heh, looks like Shades can run out of mana too. Look the corruption is fading!” [Symond]
“! I just realized that! Then let’s quickly end this! Face the Light of Punishment, [God’s Decree]!” [Yoichi]
“Virtue of Light, [Tempest Strike]!” [Symond]
Without enough corruption to feed it strength Abyss let out a roar of defeat but as it exploded into a cloud of black mist and faded away, we knew that it was still alive.
“Looks like… this battle will have a round two. Though when and where is yet to be decided.” [Yoichi]
“But for now, it’s our victory…” [Symond]
“Yeah!!!! We won!!” [Soldiers]
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PS. I decided to make this a two part chapter since there will be some explaining and stuff afterwards, and also because I feel like I could've done a better job so I might rewrite this or change some stuff before I write the next chapter. How is it so far? If you guys like it then I'll just revise it a bit or not at all and if you guys also think I could've done better I'll try to make it better so please tell me what you guys think.