Although I manage to walk away from a prominent potential place that causes trouble when I step out, I don't exactly find friendly faces around me. The church guys look shocked that I managed to escape the realm, but they just as quickly try to kill me with their spears as soon as I step foot outside.
Unfortunately for them, now that I'm in the real world, I have access to body enhancements that don't require me to do anything, so I barely dodge their first wave of attacks; that is when the main guy talks with a surprised look.
"You defeated one of the most overpowered abilities in this world like it was no big deal; I'm quite impressed, I must say." The fat guy says while hiding behind a wall of bodyguards who point their swords toward me.
"I promised I would kill you, so I will!" That is all I say before I prepare to fight, even though I have no idea how to do this without a weapon and with a low stamina and SP bar.
"Shesh! You are definitely Okina's kid, no doubt about it. Violent down to teeth like mother like daughter!" The fat man mentioned the name of my pre-assumed dead mother, but how could he have known them? My curiosity grew with the drop of that information I had to know.
"How do you know my mother's name!?" I ask immediately, causing the man to break out laughing.
"The pope wanted to add you to our forces! Did you think we wouldn't investigate you? I know all about you, kid." The fat man makes a fair point that I failed to remember; of course, they would investigate my past, and it would only be logical for them to do such a thing.
"Why try to kill me if you spent that many resources on me already?" I also had to know the main reason for the attack; there had to be a reason behind it. Yet his answer is nothing but confusing.
"Why would we let our opportunity to kill you go like that? Stop playing tough! We know you're weak right now; if you were at peak power, you would've already launched an attack on us." Damn it! The fat man was wise; just like he said, I had nothing to use right now. All my bars were concerningly low.
"Maybe I'm just trying to get information out of you before I end you; I wouldn't be so confident!"
"HA! Try your best girlie. After you survived that attack, and now that you know we are the ones responsible for it, we can't let you go! The only way you leave is in a coffin straight to the holy city." The main guy calmly sits in a chair near him as he signals his men to come at me again.
Without a weapon and a meager amount of stamina, all I can do against the men coming at me is run away and try to dodge as many attacks as possible. Still, even though I try my best to dodge all the attacks, some do eventually land me tearing up my dress and digging into me with each attack that touches me.
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I can feel the swords slowly chunking away at me as they slowly cover my body in minor bruises and cuts that eventually become more frequent thanks to my stamina bar about to reach absolute zero anytime now. What could I do? I asked myself as I kept on running.
[Available ready-to-use spells]
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Damn it! I didn't even have any MP available to cast meaningful spells to help me out of this situation, slowly sealing my fate again. Yet then I remember what I did back in that mirror realm. Of course, I don't have access to magic! I broke my regulator apart back there! Damn!
As the realization hits me, however, I can't help but feel like I should try to cast something anyway in hopes of using my body as its power regulator; it has been enough to depend on a trinket to control myself! It was now or never!
"Darkness magic!" The soldiers soon begin to target my face as soon as I start trying to cast some sort of counterattack that I don't even know if it will work. I guess the fear of me casting something serious is too much of a risk to them, but that doesn't stop me.
"Covered in darkness!" One of the soldiers, in particular, comes directly at me, and he manages to tackle me with enough force to launch us far away from the rest. The soldier gets on top of me and grabs their sword to push it against my neck, but just when the blade is about to hit me, I finish the last line of the first spell I ever used.
Soon, it feels like time slows down once again when I feel the sudden rush of dark power coming my way, and this time, without a mediation device, it all rushes straight into the spell without limitation, going above my number barrier with ease.
{危急存亡 (Kikyu Sonbou) - Yugo Kanno}
"FULL COUNTER!" As soon as I finish my spell and the sword is inches away from chopping my head off, the tip of the blade suddenly vanishes through what looks like a portal. As soon as the blade disappears into a void of darkness, I feel the flow of dark power inside me once more, and it's accelerating.
I can see the blade in the dark void and the following positions I can summon it out of, so naturally, I pick the option that would deal the most damage. Another small portal-like black hole appears mid-air, aiming straight at the guy's neck, and suddenly, his blade reappears with the same level of strenght against his neck.
The guy can't even process what I just did to him as his blade penetrates his neck and chops his head off clean, covering my face with his blood. Finally, the fat man looks distressed once he sees the power of my darkness and the ever-growing oppressive feel of it around me.
Yet I'm not done; now that I feel the flow of dark power, I can feel just how many times I can perform the same spell, so I soon stand up and prepare to counterattack my enemies by rapidly firing Full counterspells with only needing to say the last part of the spell.
"Full counter! Full counter! FULL COUNTER!" It only takes three more guys to die at my hand for the rest to step back and finally rethink their strategy.
One of them dies when they come at me, swinging their sword sideways, so naturally, their body ends up cut in half. The second one dies when he follows right behind the first with a samurai top-to-bottom cut, which turns him into sliced butter. The third one only dies because of the range of the second guy's weapon more than anything, but it's all enough to frighten the remaining soldiers.