Orochi threw his hand into the air as he ran at Randolph. [変理雲具現: Ethereal Cloud Realization!]
“!”
Randolph raised his brow as he watched the storm clouds from above shoot down into Orochi's hand and he grabbed it like a sheet of cloth pulling it over himself.
An expanding and shrinking staff, clones made of hair and now cloud manipulation? A smile slipped past Randolph's cold expressionless mask. Orochi, you have a meta conceptual blessing with the power to realize the abilities of the imaginary Monkey God Sun-Wukong!
[物語具現孫悟空: Fable Realization Sun-Wukong]、 Orochi's blessing which gave him the many and powerful abilities of the fabled monkey god. A Magical Mutation type blessing created through the beliefs of mankind, one similar to Lestat's [Beast Of Gevaudan] which was also a meta concept meaning it was created through humanity's beliefs.
Orochi ran forwards swinging his [天神楹: Heavens Divine Pillar] staff into Randolph's side which Randolph blocked with his arm.
He’s faster then before! Randolph thought as he was thrown to the side by the force of the staff and Orochi chased after him running through the air itself with the cloud wrapped around his feet.
This is getting a lot tricker… but now I now know what his immortality was about. Sun-Wukong was said to be immortal in seven different ways… I’m guessing that Orochi has seven different [lifes] like in a video game. So I’ll have to kill him not one but six more times… How troublesome.
Randolph slammed into the brick wall which separated the outside world from the Dragon God Palace with a crash. From above Orochi used [Expand] on his staff smashing it into Randolph's stomach and forcing him through the brick wall into the city outside. Orochi fell to the ground chasing after Randolph, his feet cracking the earth and leaving a trail of fire as he moved.
“I said you’d die!” He screamed, grabbing Randolph by the head and flying through the air with him. They crashed into a sky scraper with such force all the glass inside shattered and rained down to the streets below like snow. Orochi, still gripping onto Randolph's head, ran him through countless metal walls and pillars until coming to the opposite end of the building and leaping through a shattered window into the neighboring skyscraper as the previous crumbled behind him.
Despite this only lasting a few seconds Orochi flew through the city of Hebi and blocks of skyscrapers. He smashed Randolph through each one of them leaving a trail of destruction until finally coming to a stop at a massive power plant where he threw Randolph to the ground.
Randolph crashed into the floor of the power plant with an explosion forming a crater nearly a Kilometer in diameter. The few bruises and scrapes he had received quickly faded as his body healed.
Orochi flew down from the sky with his foot stretched downwards aiming to crush Randolph's chest.
[Smite: Hakai!]
“!?”
The sky was filled with thousands of emissions in the form of slashes which formed a grid like pattern. These emissions flew at Orochi who failed to dodge in time, the onslaught skewering his body.
“Gurrrrah!” Orochi screamed as he was ripped apart, the amount of blood which gushed from his mangled body rivaled the pouring rain. He was flung into the sky and for a brief moment the nearly black storm clouds were cleaved apart revealing the bright blue sky above before they clumped back together.
Randolph stood up with a cough and looked at his surroundings. The power plant was very typical, a mass of machinery of chemical banks. Vehicles and buildings were scattered across the ground which was covered in large puddles of rain and mud dyed pink from Orochi's blood.
“This will be good enough…” Randolph muttered, pushing his hair back and out of his eyes.
“!”
Orochi's soul once again extinguished and reignited in an indiscernible brief second. His aura shot down onto the city of Hebi with a roar of rage. It was as if a large earthquake had struck, buildings began to collapse and skyscrapers toppled over. The large pieces of machinery and vats of chemicals around Randolph began to crumble under the insane pressure. Hundreds of Millions of pained cries from all forms of life filled Randolph's ears and rattled inside his head. He could hear each one individually and clear as day which only filled him with despair and rage. “You brat!” He yelled with a vein bulging on his forehead.
He watched as Orochi shot down from the sky blowing a hole in the storm clouds as he descended with an outstretched leg ready to stab right through Randolph.
Randolph jumped back as Orochi landed with an explosion of rubble. The pieces of concrete were easily big enough to eclipse an entire house and they flew into the air as if weightless.
“This is the first time someone has killed me twice on the same day!” Orochi laughed maniacally.
“It will be the last as well!” Randolph chided, batting Orochi further.
“You’re absolutely correct Randolph! It most certainly will be the first and last!” Orochi laughed and cocked back his arm as if to punch Randolph.
[形掌: Morphology Manipulation!]
As he threw his punch his arm stretched out in a straight line like an extending metal pole aiming directly for Randolph's stomach with a crack of air.
[Profiting Plagiarist: Polar Opposites!]
Randolph instantly slapped Orochi's hand as it came within a foot of his person marking it [Positive.] Orochi quickly pulled his hand back with a hiss and Randolph slapped one of the falling pieces of rubble to him marking it [Negative]. The sign on Orochi's hand and the sign on the rubble glowed purple. The house-sized chunk of concrete flew to Orochi with a blinding speed and smashed into him with a bang. It threw him backwards and continued to follow him as he moved further crushing him against a large vat of coolant which exploded upon contact.
“!”
Randolph appeared above Orochi as if teleporting and came down upon him with an axe kick. Orochi barely managed to throw his arms up to block the attack.
“!”
Orochis arms exploded into a mess of gore, reduced to nothing but flaps of mangled flesh and splinters of bone. Randolph spun through the air as he fell and kicked Orochi in the side, throwing him up into the air on again.
[Smite: Hakai!]
Randolph assaulted Orochi with more disk shaped emissions which Orochi narrowly evaded using his [形掌: Morphology Manipulation].
[Expand: Machine Gun!]
Orochi retaliated with his staff raining it down on Randolph like machine gun fire with constant [Expand]s and [Retract]s.
Randolph reacted by throwing a small rock out of his coat into the air before him and clapping his hands.
[Profiting Plagiarist: Baby Steps!]
The rock expanded into one of the large pieces of rubble which shielded Randolph as he retreated back. A third black ring forming on the back of his hand.
Randolph's spell [Profiting Plagiarist] allows him to copy up to three spells at a time. First he’d used [Lord Of The Flies] which created up to thirty thousand deadly locust Familiars. His second [Polar Opposites] allowed him to mark items with two different symbols being a positive and negative mark respectively. Two opposites repelled, two negatives exploded and an opposite and negative attracted. And now third was the spell he’d just used. [Baby Steps] one which allowed him to shrink large objects down to a small size for up to one minute.
Once Randolph had chosen his three spells the only way to replace one or more was to not use magic for an entire minute. A ridiculous idea in the heat of a battle, he’d need to kill Orochi another five times here and now with these three spells he’d chosen.
Randolph retreated backwards and Orochi followed him with his staff continuing to rain it down upon him like a machine gun.
[Profiting Plagiarist: Lord Of The Flies]
Randolph snapped his fingers and from behind him appeared thirty thousand locust familiars. They had the face of a man but the mouth of a lion, a crown forged from twisted thorns and the stinger of a scorpion. With a rattle the thirty thousand locusts swarmed Orochi.
“Do you think such things can kill me!?” Orochi laughed, flexing his aura. The locusts were reduced to literal dust from his auras overwhelming pressure and those few remaining buildings around them began to crumble.
“You truly don't care about your people do you?” Randolph whispered in Orochi's ear from behind.
“!?”
Orochi flicked his head around and met the front of Randolph's palm.
[Smite: Hakai] + [Negative]
SLASH!
Orochi was thrown to the ground, his face was cleaved clean in half, the flesh split open and flapping in the wind. The white of his skull was exposed and chunks of his brain sprayed across the pavement as he crashed to the concrete.
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“Bleugh!” Orochi choked on his own blood with a gurgle. It bubbled out of his mouth as his face slid off of his split skull into a mass of gore.
Randolph watched as Orochi spasmed on the ground, his whole body shaking violently and spraying blood.
I thought this place would be suitable for us since we're far from the general population but since he keeps unsupressing himself I’ll need to take this somewhere easier to contain… The palace should be good enough.
Orochi's head began to reform, his skull mending back together and his damaged flesh sloughing off to reveal newly grown skin. He shakily stood up with blood still bubbling out of his mouth as he choked on it.
Randolph came to the ground and jumped at Orochi, punching him in the stomach with enough force to launch him backwards.
“!”
Randolph appeared behind Orochi and smashed his two hands, which were clasped together like a hammer into the back of his head. Orochi crashed to the floor and Randolph came down at him with his leg outstretched intending to crush Orochi's spine but Orochi rolled to the side in the just brink of time to evade it.
Panting like a beast Orochi began to run away on all fours like an ape would and Randolph chased after him with a smile.
“Look at you now Orochi! Running like the rat you are!” Randolph laughed, Good keep going that way… He thought.
Orochi stumbled onto his two legs and sprinted around a corner out of Randolph's view.
SNAP!
The sound of hair being ripped from a scalp echoed in Randolph's ears and bloody chunks of oily black hair flew through the air towards him.
[髪形式: Hair Molded Clones!]
The hair began to congeal before bursting into an army of golems in the shape of Orochi which charged at Randolph.
Without hesitation Randolph ripped his way through the clones. He ripped out their entrails and crushed their skulls with his fist. In under five seconds all one hundred clones had been destroyed, the only thing left being the bloody strands of hair which floated in the puddles of rain.
Randolph slid across the ground as he turned the corner dodging a surprise attack by Orochi who’d expanded his staff as he turned the corner.
“Why?” Orochi grit his teeth and his eyes furrowed in a panic as Randolph launched off the ground with an uppercut that smashed into Orochi's jaw, dislocating it completely and throwing him into the air.
“Your lack of experience is showing! You’re nothing more than a spoiled brat who’s only experience is fighting those afraid to defeat you!” Randolph laughed. He found his own words comically offensive but Orochi took them dead seriously. Orochi's slacked jaw popped back into place and his eyes filled with hatred as he flew to the floor swinging his staff. Randolph jumped backwards and Orochi chased after him, swinging his staff at Randolph in a close range. The staff shattered the sound barrier with every single movement.
“!”
Randolph threw his arm up to protect his side right as the staff came for him and it smashed into his arm with a pop.
“!”
Randolph was thrown to the side, his forearm swollen and the bone shattered. It’s stronger when used in a shorter range?! Randolph thought with a furrowed brow. He came to a stop sliding across the floor as Orochi appeared above him swinging his Staff down from above like a hammer.
“!”
Randolph ripped a lead pipe out of the ground next to him and covered it in reinforcement before swinging it up to defend himself from Orochi's staff.
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The weapons clashed with a blast of mana sparks which shot into the sky like a million fireworks filling the entire horizon.
Orochi fell down to the ground and continued to swing his staff at Randolph who met it with the pipe in his hand. Though his reinforcement was undeniably unmatched Randolph was still only wielding a pipe made of lead. The pipe began to crack and bend as the two traded millions of blows in under a minute, their attacks so fast they caused a hurricane to grow around them capable of throwing the many pieces of rubble into the air and across the city of Hebi. The rain vaporized from the overwhelming heat and Randolph was pushed further back.
SNAP!
The pipe snapped in half, unable to contend with Orochi's staff any longer.
“Ha!” Orochi laughed, thrusting his staff towards Randolphs chest intending to pierce his heart.
“!”
Randolph swung the half of the pipe in his hand upwards pushing the staff to the side. He grabbed the other piece which fell through the air and stabbed into the side of Orochi's neck, blood spurting from its open ends like a geyser.
“Blurk!” Orochi gurgled as blood exploded from his mouth.
Randolph followed his attack up and smacked the palm of his hand into Orochi's jaw snapping his neck around his head a full 360 degrees with every vertebrae breaking audibly.
“Guah!” Orochi vomited, his eyes rolling into the back of his head.
[Smite: Hakai!]
Randolph shot out an emission of Hakai which slashed Orochi's chest open and threw him up into the air where Randolph flung another emission, this one separating his legs from his torso.
Orochi's soul extinguished momentarily before reviving now burning with such a visceral hatred it was unknown to anyone alive other than Randolph himself.
[変理雲具現: Ethereal Cloud Realization!]
The storm clouds above stretched down into Orochi's hand and from them he pulled out a new instrument, a Vajra shaped weapon which shone gold with a knife at one end and a ball at the other.
Randolph scanned the instrument intently, immediately recognizing what it was. The Mandate Of Heaven [天命:Tenmei].
Orochi shook the weapon in his hand and it rattled with a deafening scream akin to the cries of over a thousand birds. He cracked the weapon downwards like a whip and a bolt of electricity shot out towards Randolph who slammed his foot down sending rubble into the air to block the attack.
The electricity crackled through the rubble ripping it apart and continued to Randolph who threw his arms up to protect his head. The electricity clapped against him with a burst of current which shocked him to his core.
Orochi fell to the floor and thrust the knife part of [Tenmei] forwards into Randolph's side, piercing his coat and stabbing his liver. Orochi pulled the knife out and continued to stab at Randolphs body, in a quarter of a second he stabbed Randolph enough times to cause blood to pool beneath him.
“!”
Randolph broke free from the paralysis and kicked Orochi, throwing him to the side while as he healed himself. That electricity is alot stronger than I’d imagined. Randolph huffed with sweat dripping down his face. His coat began to repair itself and his cuts closed while Orochi staggered to his feet with the side of his torso caved in.
“To think you broke free from it that fast! You’re like a fruit fly that just won't die!” He yelled, rattling [Tenmei] and whipping it at Randolph once more. Randolph jumped back and [Tenmei] followed him ripping the earth as it did so.
Randolph tore a large chunk of metal out of a barley standing wall behind him and threw it at Orochi. The metal crackled as it met the electricity before bursting into a spark of flames. Orochi jumped forwards this time with the ball end of [Tenmei] facing Randolph. From the ball shot out a ball of electricity which Randolph smacked away with the back of his hand. The ball flew across the power plant before smashing into a large reactor blowing it up with a mushroom cloud that stretched for miles into the air and released a shock wave that blew a crater into the earth.
“You're growing annoying!” Orochi yelled rattling [Tenmei] once again as he ran through the air, clouds wrapped around his feet. He whipped [Tenmei] down at Randolph from above and Randolph flipped backwards to avoid the attack. Orochi followed through with his attack, dragging the electricity across the ground ripping it up in the process and Randolph continued to flip backwards until he came to a wall which he then ran up.
“You look like the insect you are!” Orochi laughed, whipping [Tenmei] up the wall.
This’ll be good enough… Randolph thought, placing the palm of his left hand onto the wall.
[Positive.]
With that he jumped forwards at Orochi who threw his leg up to defend himself. Randolph met it with his own leg and grabbed Orochi by his shoulders using that as support to flip himself over the man.
[Baby Steps!]
Randolph threw a piece of rubble out his pocket and it expanded, the negative sign on it shining purple.
The rubble smashed into Orochi's back throwing him forwards and smashing him into the wall marked [positive] crushing him between them.
“Gah!” Orochi screamed, blood and chunks of flesh flying from his mouth. Randolph kicked off the ground and slammed his foot into the piece of rubble which Orochi was squished between breaking the wall apart. Orochi was flung upwards into the air and Randolph chased after him grabbing him by the head and kicking off a piece of rubble.
BOOM!
The sound buried shattered nearly a dozen times and Randolph flew across the city of Hebi clutching Orochis head tightly.
The air ripped apart around them as they soared over the city before returning to the palace grounds main castle with a crash.
“Looks like I calculated correctly…” Randolph huffed, throwing Orochi across the castles dining hall.
[Smite: Hakai!]
The emission ripped into Orochi, slicing him clean in half with a spray of blood and organs. Orochi's two halves fell next to each other on the floor with a thud.
That’s two… Randolph thought, pushing his wet hair out his eyes. The storm outside only grew fiercer, the strong wind blowing rain into the castle which had been ripped apart from the battle.
“Damn you!” Orochi growled, stumbling to his feet, his two halves now connected once again after being resurrected a fifth.
“Do you surrender? I’d prefer to end this fight now rather than drag it out more and cause indeed destruction. Though seeing as I care more about your people then you do I can only assume your pride will force you to continue.”
“Shut the hell up!” Orochi screamed. “I’m a God! How can I be in this situation! It’s impossible! I’m the reincarnation of Orochi, the man who lived two thousand years and slayed the greatest calamity! You should be bowing before me in a pool of your own blood and shit!”
He growled digging into his own face with his nails.
“Do you still believe that?” Randolph asked with a snort.
“What do you mean believe it!? Of course I do! Me living 146 years is proof enough that I am his reincarnation!”
“I see, you truly are just a spoiled brat.” Randolph smirked. “Allow me to enlighten you on two things. First you are not the reincarnation of Orochi, you are simply a Holy born at the right time in the right place. As your soul has a different blessing connected to it then Orochi had it would be impossible for you to be his reincarnation. Secondly I am far stronger and older then you as well as 1/3rd of the [Honored One]. You were never going to win this.”
“The Honored One? What the hell are you talking about, I am the Honored One not you!” Orochi argued, spit flying from his mouth.
“Don’t worry about it, It would take too long to explain and it won't matter since you’ll be dead anyways.” Randolph sighed continuing to taunt Orochi.
Orochi clenched his teeth hard enough that they all broke in his mouth, blood came from the corner of his lips and his eyes bulged with popped blood vessels. He thrust his right hand in front of him and formed the hand sign of heaven by intertwining his index and middle finger.
[武達掌刑: All Encompassing Palm Of Buddha!]
“!?”
Randolph felt a chill run up his spine the second one that day, one which said he was in mortal danger. His observation flashed the brightest of Reds and he tried to jump back but couldn’t.
What appeared under him was a large golden hand, one infinite in size yet small enough to fit inside the room. A paradox which rattled his brain. The golden palm quickly began to close in on Randolph threatening to crush him.
A [Liminal Realm]?! I didn’t expect him to have one but it would make sense that he does… Randolph thought as he bit his lip in frustration.
He had three choices, he could either expand his own Liminal Realm and hope it would overpower Orochis, an uncertain possibility. While he was stronger than Orochi in general Orochi's Liminal Realm was a part of his blessing while Randolphs was simply something he’d created. There was a possibility Orochi's Liminal Realm would be superior to his own because of this and win the battle. Second he could attempt to escape with a Liminal Division technique but he wasn’t sure if that was possible in this situation. Orochi’s blessing seemed to be an anomaly, one which expanded as its effects activated instead of expanding and then activating its effects. If he deployed his Liminal Division technique too early it could certainly fail and he’d be killed in the aftermath.
Third and finally was the worst case scenario, he’d have to show his trump card, the one he’d been saving for later usage.
“I guess it’s this one then…” He growled with a frown.
# # #
Orochi watched as the golden hand closed itself on Randolph, “Die you stupid bastard!” He laughed.
Once completely entrapped inside the Liminal Realm Randolph would be crushed by an infinite weight. He’d be reduced to nothing more than atoms which would be burned by the overwhelming heat of infinity. A technique impossible to escape from in Orochi's mind as none had done so before. Not even those who could contend for God Pillar candidacy were able to escape the [Palm Of Buddha]s overwhelming strength. Randolph would be exactly the same, he would die here and now. Orochi would take his title of 2nd strongest and then he’d pursue Jinen Lutece and put an end to the God Pillar System all together for only he was the one fit to be considered God in this world.
Crack!
Orochi's eyes widened in horror as a large rusted, dull and weathered sword stabbed through the Golden palm of buddha.
“Nooooo!” He screamed as loud as he could with tears running down his face.
The sword ripped upwards slicing the hand apart with a burst of golden mana. The hand exploded and what came from inside of it was Randolph and a tall familiar. One which stood taller than Titan with an even more frightening appearance.
It had the overall design of a tortured man, one covered in metal bondage and scars with a metal band nailed into its head covering its eyes and ears which were stained by dried blood. Its head split open on top revealing the black skull underneath one that looked as though it’d been buried in dirt for centuries. On its back fluttered small bird-like white wings and in its hand were two items. A dull sword broken 3/4th of the way up the blade and covered with knicks and rust. In his opposite hand was a broken shield which looked like the shape of a crescent moon, it too was badly worn down by usage and covered in scars.
“I didn’t want to use him but you forced my hand.” Randolph sighed with disappointment. Sweat dripped down his forehead and he tried to contain his shallow breaths. In his battle with Orochi his mana pool had gone down barely a fraction of its total quantity. However with the appearance of the beast beside him it was cut clean in half.
[将天使の冒涜恵則: Enoch Arch Angel Of Blasphemy] A familiar of extreme power which was immune to all forms of magic. In his hand his right hand he clutched the Anti Magic Sword [理切の剣: Seraphim] while in his left had the Magic Reflecting shield [鏡像匿: Metatron].
The familiar stood behind Randolph awaiting his orders and staring at Orochi as oil black blood dripped down its face from the metal band over its eyes.
“Come!” Orochi called out in a shaky voice, slamming his foot on the ground. His Serpent slinked out from around the corner where it’d been hiding with a shudder. “You useless bastard! Where were you when I was being killed! Kill that thing before I boil you alive!” Orochi screamed, his gums flapping as teeth regrew.
“...” The Serpent looked at Enoch with wide eyes and trembled, its vision distorted around the Familiar one which defied all logic, a creature formed of magic yet immune to it. A paradox which should have not existed. Its whole body shook as it struggled to breathe, its teeth chattering while looking at the beast which stood there not moving.
“What are you waiting for!” Orochi cried, stomping his foot.
The Serpent looked at Orochi before shaking its head violently and flying away to escape the battle.
“You stupid reptile!” Orochi grunted between clenched newly formed teeth which once again cracked under his jaw. His hands clenched hard enough that they bled and veins burst across his body with a spray of blood.
“I think you’re the dumb one here, Orochi.” Randolph sighed, “It saw Enoch and understood the inescapable death it faced. Now answer me for a final time. Do you intend to surrender or not? All I want is the command of the Golems, if you give me that I’ll leave you to continue playing King.”
“Playing King? How dare you…” Orochi's body trembled, his muscles flexing. He leapt at Randolph shattering the floor beneath him, only the whites of his eye visible and his mind consumed in a blind rage.
Enoch stepped forwards with a foot stop sounding like an explosion, it swung its sword at Orochi slicing his stomach open and then punched him with its shield.
Orochi was thrown backwards, his intestines forming a trail behind him. He fell to the floor garling on his blood which foamed from his mouth.
“Tell me now.” Randolph said, stepping up to Orochi who’d just revived his last time. His final life was now being lived and the thought made him only more enraged.
[武達掌刑: All Encompassing Palm Of-]
As Orochi attempted to create the hand sign of heaven his hand was sliced clean off his wrist, blood spraying.
“!”
Orochi didn’t have time to process the attack, his leg was then sliced cleanly off and he was forced to kneel on the ground.
Orochi looked up at Randolph with eyes full of hatred and rage.
“Tell me now.” Randolph commanded, his voice held the quality of an Emperor, a man who led his people and kingdom. Orochi couldn’t help but flinch at his voice and overwhelming aura, one which was dark and cold. It was a feeling similar to that of being lost in the forest at night during a blizzard. The moon light obscured by dark fluffy storm clouds as the distant yet uncomfortably close howls of wolves followed you slowly getting closer and closer as you searched for a shelter. And the wolf Randolph Sisyphus Freyr towered over the kneeling Orochi with hollow purple eyes.
“Hehehehe, Hahahahaha BHAHAHAHAHA!” Orochi cackled like a mad man, sweat pouring down his body as his gums flapped with broken teeth. “You idiot! Did you really think I’d ever give you command over the golems? Did you think by defeating me I’d surrender and obey your commands? Are you truly that unintelligent!? Do you lack critical thinking skills!? Kill me now and you'll never know the command or don't kill me and still never know. In either of these scenarios I remain victorious!” Orochi laughed with tears of laughter dripping down his cheeks.
Randolph let out a sigh and curled his lips into a frown, “I was hoping to avoid it but it looks like I’ll need to take your blessing after all.” These words made Orochi quit laughing, his eyes narrowing as he looked at Randolph in confusion.
“What are you talking about? How can you possibly steal my blessing!? Have you gone mad!?” Orochi barked.
“Hm?” Randolph cocked his back in absolute confusion at Orochi's statement as if he was questioning what should have been common sense. “Oh, that’s right. You’re probably too young to know about it.” He muttered like a light bulb clicked on above his head.
“What are you whispering about!?” Orochi growled.
“It’s considered forbidden knowledge in modern times, probably due to Francisco (El-Sabers) command but it is possible to take a blessing. In fact when I was born over 250 years ago it was extremely common. For example Enoch is a part of a blessing given to me from someone over a century and a half ago. When you take a blessing you don’t just take their power but their memories as well. You’re taking a piece of their soul and fusing it with your own…”
“Speak of it then! Tell me how!” Orochi screamed, his eyes narrowed and sweat dripping down his body.
“Well, to put it shortly.” Randolph's lips curled into a smile and he placed his index finger to his lips as he spoke. “By eating their still beating heart.”
Orochi's whole world froze as those words reached his ears, his brain went blank trying to process what he’d just been told and how that would soon come to reality. He watched as Randolph's hand casually reached for his chest moving slowly, ever so slowly closer to his bare skin.
He couldn’t move, he was paralyzed his body locked into place, nothing he tried could force his body to move no matter how hard he wanted to. He tried to scream but couldn't. He tried to jump up but his legs didn’t do anything other than tremble. He tried to flex his chest and stomach but he only soiled himself. The only thing that could move were his eyes and mouth.
His eyes looked at Randolph as wide as they could possibly grow and his mouth curved up into a frantic grin.
“Please stop.” Were the last words the Emperor Orochi ever said.