Zignus didn’t know what was going on but one thing he knew. He needed to deal with this seriously or he was going to die. He never saw fire like the one bursting from the girl in front of him but his instincts were screaming at him that they could burn him to ash just like Puddle’s corpse was if he didn’t use all his power.
Ignoring any consequences that might come his way he stopped feeding every single spell he had going at the moment. The one that transferred damage from the kids in the ground to the girl now aflame, the closing of the space they were from the outside, the spell masking his mana signature and the one making people forget about things.It would probably take a few minutes still for someone who he wouldn’t want to fight to show up so there was plenty of time to flee later.
As he really let it loose, everyone from the special class minus Mia suddenly couldn’t do anything but exist. Their bodies just froze when the waves of mana emanating from Zignus hit them.
Mia seeing their distress dashed towards Zignus and kicked him, which to everyone’s surprise, actually sent him a few hundreds of meters to the side. Sadly not enough distance that his aura wasn’t affecting the people there.
“Very impressive. Who are you? You are not that girl from before.” Zignus said as he got really to fight for real.
“I am the solution to the problems of the world, DEATH!” Mia said as her voice got even more distorted.
“Then today is the day I beat death once and for all!” Zignus said as he created a portal in front of him that connects another one just a meter behind Mia and punched Mia, sending her flying in the same position he was originally.
Zignus quickly dashed towards Mia who was getting up from the group. He was going to punch her again but suddenly had to stop as the flames around Mia grew in size and potency for a moment. Once they stopped, they formed a cloak around that was still made of flames but this time they were pure black flames.
“He who reaps shall cover himself in darkness so the evils don’t see their punishment coming!” Mia said as she dashed towards Zignus.
For a few moments they traded blows. Punches and Kicks were blocked or parried by other punches and kicks. Zignus didn’t have to fear the fire anymore but the punches Mia was giving were way stronger than they should.
“I am impressed, I am actually feeling your attacks.”
“He who reaps shall ever have the face of the end as no matter how much evil hides or cloaks itself, he will come and see the evil as it is! ” Mia said as a skull mask made of green fire formed on her face. Her eyes glowed red as she looked at Zignus and his appearance changed in front of everyone there.
If one were to look at Zignus normally, he would be a white male, around 180 cm tall, short black hair, brown eyes, somewhat muscular and using a leather jacket with a hoodie on top a shaolin monk uniform made out of leather. But once Mia got her eyes on him, his appearance changed to that of a bald scarred man. Every visible part of his body had some type of scar, specially his head. It was like someone tried to shave his skin and he naturally healed from the attempt.
Zignus perceived the change and to say he was angry would be an understatement. He quickly created two portals and just threw them at Mia, who launched the same green and black fire from before at them. Once they collided, the fire consumed the portals and vanished along with them.
“How is this possible? No mortal can be this powerful!” Zignus shouted in anger. Mia responded by throwing a few small fireballs at his direction that he had to create various portals to defend with.
From their exchange before he knew he was more powerful than her and probably had more mana than her but the fire that Mia was using was too dangerous, even for him.
He could feel some panic and fear encroaching into his mind. He had to do something drastic if he wanted to finish this without suffering heavy damages. With a quick glance to the side he saw the group of kids not too far away, relatively speaking, and dashed in their direction. Mia soon followed.
Zignus arrived first at their location. He didn’t care who, but he needed a shield for the moment so he could at least try to come up with a plan. As he went to grab someone, the strange wolf monster that was following the group jumped in front of a girl, being grabbed in the process. Seeing how Mia stopped what was clearly going to be another attack on him made him smirk a little.
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“One little hostage and you just stop .One wouldn’t think you are that naive after feeling your power.” Mia didn’t respond. She just stopped a few meters in front of him and just stared at him.
For a few seconds there was silence. Mia’s face was completely covered by her strange fire mask so Zignus couldn’t see what face she had at the moment but something was making him angry. Those red eyes shining through made him really angry. It was like they were looking deep into his soul and seeing all the weaknesses that he fought so hard to eliminate while also showing them to the outside world.
“You think you are better than me? Looking at me like that. Like you can control me or what is happening? I am more powerful than you! I am in control of this situation! Nothing you say will change that!” Zignus shouted more angrily.
Mia didn’t respond. She was completely still. Her cloak moving with the wind and her mask shining.
“Answer me dammit! You… You… Ah, that’s it. You think you are better than me because you don’t need hostages, right? Well, let’s remove them from the equation. First this mutt, then your friends, then your family and then anyone who knows you. After that you will be the same as me. Alone!” Zignus said madly. Almost cackling as he said it.
“What!?” Mia said in her normal voice, in a tone of innocent confusion.
“AHAHAHAH!” Zignus laughed as he pressed his fingers into Onyx's neck and the wolf went limp.
“Onyx. Onyx! ONYX! ANSWER ME! ONYX!” Mia suddenly began to shout for her companion, still not moving from where she was.
“They are next!” Zignus said as he kicked the Onyx’s body near Mia and tried to turn around to deal with another one of his multiple targets near him but couldn’t. His gaze was locked at Mia.
“Onyx, please, move… Please Onyx, do something… Anything…” Mia said as she crouched to check on Onyx. Her voice echoed all around. Her tone was one of someone who never knew tragedy begging the heavens for salvation with the innocence that only a child could have.
But no matter how much Mia begged or tried to move Onyx the wolf didn’t move. Tears began to fall from her eyes, temporarily, parts of her mask fell from her face before they quickly reformed due to the tears.
Zignus didn’t know why but he was feeling the greatest ecstasy he ever experienced seeing Mia cry. ‘This was it’ He thought to himself. In his mind Mia was broken. He could now deal with her without risk.
Mia began to truly cry. A wail of pure sadness echoed across the battlefield. As it did, Mia’s flames vanished for a moment, leaving her exposed for all to see her bare her feelings. It might have gone for just a few seconds, as it could have gone on for a few minutes. Nobody there would really know as they were unable to do anything in the face of such powerful feelings being emanated from Mia.
Following that, Mia screamed in anger like no other. Her flames came back. Her mask reformed and her cloak expanded so much it covered the sky for a moment before returning to its normal size.
After that, there was pure silence. No sound of leaves, of wind, of breathing. The world stopped at that moment. Out of everyone there, one of the most unlikely to move first did. Klaws. He didn’t have any idea of what was happening but he knew that he had to leave. He grabbed all his classmates and just ran in the opposite direction of Mia. Mia still wanted to save them so he would at least try to help, even if he thought that it was against what he thought was right in this situation.
As for Zignus, it finally dawned on him that the girl in front of him never lied to him. That thing in the form of a little girl in front of him was really death. If he didn’t defend himself from what was coming, he was going to die.
“He who reaps shall ever have his tool with him as he has job to do and no weapon shall be better than a tool for a job. Death Scythe!” Mia said with her strange voice as her sword suddenly flew towards her hand. Immediately it was covered in her flames and transformed itself into a strange scythe made out of black and green flames with the sword acting as the blade of the scythe and the snath being made entirely of flames. It was twice as big as MIa but the girl could easily hold it.
“I shall conquer death as I did before! This time once and for all!” Zignus said as he used almost all his mana to create various portals around him to serve as shield from the incoming attack.
“Heed this Evil, as you followed the path of the end! You who brought conquest, war and famine to this land shall now be confronted with the inevitably come after. THE FOURTH REVELATION! DEATH!” Mia said as she dashed towards Zignus. She swung her scythe and clashed with his portals with her fire consuming each and every single one of them.
Zignus put his all in a last desperate effort to send Mia through a portal but her cloak consumed it like any fire she generated. All his portals quickly vanished after that failed and in front of him was death.
Mia’s scythe, now without anything stopping it, finally runs its course, hitting Zignus horizontally in the middle of his chest. For just a moment nothing happened. In that moment it passed through Zignus mind that maybe he was overreacting to something he never saw as he didn’t feel any damage but only for that moment.
First it was his mana. He suddenly couldn’t feel it. After that, one by one his senses began to just turn off. Finally he felt it, a fire consuming his soul and then nothing as he vanished, not even leaving his soul behind as it was used to fuel the deadly fire.
As soon as he vanished, corpse and soul, an explosion of fire happened that barely missed the special class as it was being carried by Klaws.
Mia, now completely out of strength, fell on her knees in the middle of the crater she just created.