Something strange happens while I try to restore Lord Auri with my power, and I suddenly feel a bleak feeling over me. I can't understand the feeling at first, but it all makes sense when I think about the times I felt like that before, that heavy mana flow from an individual. IT COULDN'T BE!
My hands start shaking as soon as I remember the face of that despicable man, the one who destroyed my home country, the one who killed the Witch Queen like she was simply made out of cheap parts. I try my best not to shake too much, but I can't stop it. I'm doing so out of fear. I could feel his presence as if he were beside me already, but I didn't see anyone nearby.
Then it happened: I could hear someone trying to speak next to me from very far away, a faint voice that said, "I'm coming for you," I obviously freaked out. I turned around extremely fast to check my surroundings, but nobody was there. All I could hear now was the fight outside the mansion; was I just imagining things?
Yet once I manage to calm my nerves and return to Lord Auri, I can't help but feel that presence quickly moving toward me for some reason, only leaving me with the option to run outside to look toward the direction I felt the pressure coming from, yet once I look that way, I can't see a thing.
[Prayers Incoming, transforming into usable Holy MP]
The system voice distracts me for a moment, but by the time I look back at the general area of the pressure, I suddenly see a tiny dot quickly coming my way at an unimaginable level of speed. I couldn't even react fast enough to summon my dark sword and shield in time before that man I feared materialized right before me seconds later.
Julius was standing right before me in what felt like a flash. Behind him, a loud noise and shockwave followed, which violently destroyed the defense line once it hit alongside a considerable amount of the Lord's mansion, all just blown away by the insane amount of flight speed of this man.
"You've been enjoying yourself?" Says the despicable guy as he drops a corpse next to him. The person he dropped looked like some of the witches I used to see back then, but that didn't matter much right now, did it?
"Why are you here? I have no business with you." I try to get myself out of whatever trouble the man wants with me, just to be met with aggression as he throws me outside the mansion with an instant hit to my stomach.
My body flies back at a tremendous amount of speed until it crashes against one of the Lord's protective walls, practically impaling my body into it. I don't even have the time to scream as the pain takes a little longer to get to me than his punch did to me.
Blood gushed out of my mouth seconds later; I started having trouble breathing thanks to the extreme strenght of the punch, which took all the air out of me. My eyes are wide open, and I am staring right toward Julius, who, in an instant, disappears just to reappear before me, grab me by my hair, and pull me out of the hole in the wall.
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"You're weaker than I expected, geez, to think I thought of you as a real threat to me; how dumb, of course, you could never beat me AHAHAH!" Julius says while holding me in the air by my hair, which hurt like hell, yet I still couldn't even scream appropriately as I was still trying to recover from that first blow.
"Anyway, I'm gonna kill you now, you little bitch; nobody takes the spotlight from me and lives to tell the tale EVER!" Was he serious? He came back just to enact vengeance on that little stunt I pulled back then on him? Was he going to kill me for such a petty cause?! I REFUSED!
"You're a grown-ass man beating a little girl. Does that make you feel manlier?" Without regret, I soon uttered what I thought would be my last words, accepting my fate to die at the hands of a genuinely overpowered monster.
"YOU BITCH! You just had to rub it in, didn't you?!" I can instantly feel another of Julius' hands on me, but this time, I can also feel them behind me as their hand goes through my abdomen, penetrating my flesh like a spear would a piece of thin paper.
My hands instinctively touch Julius's arm, trying to remove it from me, but it's, of course, all futile. I can see it in that man's eyes; he was enjoying the moment I panicked and tried something stupid. Julius was having the time of his life watching me slowly die with my body stuck to his arm.
"Come on! Make more of those desperate faces of yours! Let me see you in deep panic as you die! How many seconds have you got left? Uh!?" Julius soon places their left hand over my face just to pinch my cheeks like many other people have done before.
Am I going to die like this? Is this really how I go out? Not even able to fight back? Man, I didn't try hard enough. I should've known that a danger like him wasn't dead. I should've been training as hard as possible whenever I had the chance; maybe if I had done so, I wouldn't be so close to death; perhaps I could {sigh}
I look up into the purple sky as I start accepting my fate until I feel a little something surrounding Julius's arm around my abdomen. Without explanation, his arm is soon forced out of me as he is also repelled without me knowing what exactly I had done, which only seems to piss off Julius even more.
[Darkness Override]
As soon as Julius's arm leaves a hole in my abdomen, that hole quickly refills with new flesh. My body feels a little off until I see what is happening inside my body. The darkness finally returned to me at the perfect time, just when it couldn't have any better, but even with it, Julius still managed to fight it off.
"Tsk! Damn, that power of yours is problematic, you shouldn't even be able to recover from that, but that shit just kicks in when it's most needed. I hate it!" A now furious Julius soon used tremendous magic to destroy my darkness barrier, which annoyed him even more.
"Come on, man! We can talk about this! AHHHGG!!" Julius doesn't even give me a chance to talk more as he quickly kicks me hundreds of feet away in anger. Once I'm in the air, he kicks me up even more, and then he kicks me back down as hard as one can, throwing me against the floor harder than a meteor.
"You want to talk about it!? Yeah!? You've humiliated me twice and want to talk about it!?" Julius soon begins to brutally hit me in the face, smashing it against the floor over and over as he slowly but surely remembers to use healing magic not to kill me so fast as he wanted to inflict as much pain and damage as possible before he did.