(***Soma POV***)
The lightning blasts had damaged Sophia heavily causing her to fall to her knees. Her skin was burnt like charcoal and blood leaked from various places. She shook in pain as a white glow enveloped her and she rapidly began to heal. Noticing this Soma turned into a flurry of bats and raced at her while Valna summoned more dark flame spears and lunched them. Sophia was forced to stop healing and dodged the spears while being chased by Soma. She had only managed to heal 20% to 30% of the damage so while her skin was mostly healed with burn marks here and there her internal organs were still heavily damaged.
The high-speed movement caused her to cough up blood and her internal injuries worsened. Left with no options Sophia split herself in 2 creating another clone to deal with Soma and the other while she focused on healing. Soma’s bats reformed into his human form and he produced a sword and charged at a copy of Sophia while Valna charged at the other. Since they looked the same even with the damage they couldn’t tell which was which so they chose to divide and conquer with Azalea stay back to provide support to whoever needed it.
Soma threw his sword at Sophia who caught the sword but moments later she received a powerful electrical shock which caused her to release the blade. Soma grabbed the sword and attempted to attack the convulsing Sophia but she teleported behind him and struck his back with her palm causing him to crash face-first into the ground. Sophia then fired light beams at Soma who transformed into mist to avoid the attack but a few beams still manage to strike the mist. When Soma reformed he had a few holes in his body and coughed up a bit of blood. Sophia flew down at top speed and crashed into Soma when the dust had settled Sophia was stepping on Soma's head pushing it into the ground as it bled profusely.
‘Damn even with all that damage she’s still got us outmatched.’
Soma transformed into a flurry of bats to escape and reformed behind Sophia but she sensed him and turned to face him. Soma’s surface wounds had already healed but he still felt the pain of the aether-filled palm strike. Soma took a deep breath and unsummoned his ice void sword which caused Sophia to look at him in a confused manner. She kept her distance and fired a beam at Soma but he dodged by splitting into bats. Soma attempted to reform but Sophia took this opportunity to launch another palm strike but this had been Soma’s plan. Soma had been slowing the speed of his ability to reform from bats in order to trick Sophia and she had fallen for it.
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Sophia readied a palm strike but was surprised when Soma reformed at twice the speed he had been showing. Soma then summoned his chaos claws which were flaming claws that he used along with his ice void sword as his main weapons during his time as Dracula. The claws held the power of dark hellfire and had the ability to increase his strength by a factor of 3. Soma imitated the palm strike that Sophia was attempting and both palms struck each other creating a large explosion of hellfire and aether to reverberate send both individuals crashing into the ground with force. Soma stood up from the blast and coughed up even more blood but he also noticed Sophia also doing the same thing meaning that he had managed to cause quite a bit of damage to Sophia's organs.
Soma rushed at Sophia and released a powerful jab but Sophia dodged to the side and tried to redirect the punch. As Sophia redirected the blow the claws suddenly released a blaze of hellfire and burned her hand. The searing pain caused Sophia to react slower than normal and she failed to notice Soma had faced the palm of his free hand at her abdomen. Soma then created a flaming orb that exploded knocking Sophia back while setting her ablaze. Soma was injured and breathing heavily as the claw on his arms started to flicker in and out of existence.
After becoming Dracula, Mathais' burning hatred for God and humanity as well as the immeasurable emotional pain from losing Lisa, allowed him to manifest the powers of Void and Chaos. Soma could use these powers to summon weapons he created to represent them. The Chaos Claws were burning red gauntlets of destruction with the power to reduce all things to ash and the Void Sword a powerful mystical sword, which represents the void in his heart and the magic in it, capable of stealing life and healing him. These 2 powerful weapons were fueled by these negative emotions but Yaldabaoth was now dead and Mina had regained her memories and was at his side now meaning that soon these abilities would fade along with the emotions.
‘Damn this is not working I can only damage her by damaging myself and I’m receiving more damage. My void and chaos powers are also weakening and soon they’ll fade. I have to end this quickly.’
Soma closed his eyes, focused on gathering all his remaining mana, and focused on his Chaos claws. The claws then stopped flickering and Soma opened his eyes to find Sophia had dispelled the flames surrounding her and created a pair of gauntlets with aether to counteract his claws.
They both charged at each other and began to brawl. Soma attacked Sophia who caught the punch easily and counterattacked while dispelling the hellfire of the claws. Sophia then punched Soma in the face with her gauntlets of aether staggering Soma enough for her to follow up with some more hits. Soma’s moves weren’t as meticulous as Sophia’s so he could dodge the attack and could only defend by using his arms to block the attacks. Soma managed to create a hellfire bomb and tried to detonate it to force Sophia back but she grabbed it and crushed the bomb. Although the bomb didn’t detonate it still gave Soma enough time to back up and place some distance between them.