"Sage mode, take over me system," I can finally whisper the permission to the system, which immediately kicks into high gear. I couldn't really control or gather darkness particles up, but the system somehow could, which was the last signal I needed to let the system try and run a defense plan against the beast known as Julius, who looked even more annoyed.
The entire ground soon starts shaking as the system works hard to gather darkness particles all over the field, quickly healing my body right before Julius, who doesn't even for a second hesitate to resume his assault on me, which he seems to have success with until the system surprises him with matching speeds and strenght.
"Goddammit, you're one annoying little fly! You're worse than any other opponent I've defeated! It's like they forgot to build in the quit!" Julius angrily shouts at me while cleaning his hands from all the blood he punches out of me.
"I will never surrender, not against someone like you. If you're going to kill me, then I don't care what the price to my mind and body will be! If it means beating you up!" The ground shakes even more violently, with little rocks slowly levitating and the skies darkening even further.
"Ugh, just accept your face already!" Julius angrily begins to attack my body with the same barrage of quick attacks, and for the most part, all of his attacks land with my enhanced body not even being slightly close to matching his strenght, simply choosing to heal the hits instead.
I can feel my body trying its best to fight back with punches and kicks against Julius, yet not even when they connect do they seem to do any damage past some little starches while he was starting to blow entire body parts and holes through my body right away.
[Ruler of Hope reserves claimed][Ruler of temperance accessing reserves]
A sudden rush of energy soon lets my body fly away a little before Julius quickly grabs my foot and throws me back into the ground, where the system chooses to try flight again while taking advantage of the dust cloud, just barely missing Julius's superhero landing.
"All you do is run!" I could hear Julius right behind me as he quickly picked up on what the system was trying to do for me, but it failed. I feel stronger than I have ever felt, yet once that guy grabs my arm and tosses me against the ground once again, I feel like even this power is not close enough to run away.
[Ruler of Temperance Reserves accessed]
Then another surge of energy comes in, but it's also not enough as Julius still surprises me with his tremendous amount of speed, which was simply too much to fight against. All the system could do for me was try to dodge and block as many hits as possible while healing me at once so I wouldn't die so fast.
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"Full counter!" The system soon tries to use one of my many cheat skills in my arsenal, which seems to backfire at first as my left arm blows up, yet once it ends up activating, it also blows up Julius's arm, surprising him and also stopping him from concentrating on his hits basically pausing for a second.
"TSK! YOU BITCH! You can't accept your fate like everyone else, can you!? UGHH! HEAL!" Julius, now angrier than ever, heals his way into another fully working arm while I'm still bleeding a lot, thanks to the system running low on magic once again. Even with all those power surges, it simply wasn't enough to keep up.
"You're the one who wants to kill me out of pettiness! Don't tell me how to be a sore loser, you prick!" I finally managed to turn the sage mode off once almost all of my MP reserves and exp from levels were consumed; if I was going to die, then at least nobody could say it was because I didn't try hard enough. I had given it my all and failed.
"What's wrong? You're finally out of fuel!?" Julius quickly comes after me so that he can resume his relentless assault. Without any sort of energy or power left to access and all of my levels gone, the first hit from Julius blows up my only other good arm, which causes him pleasure.
"AHHHHHHHGGG!" All I could do at this point was scream while people simply watched, unable to do anything to help me. Everyone that could fight simply turned around and returned to the mansion's defense as I was the beacon of power for them, and if he could do this to me, then everyone else knew they couldn't do shit to stop Julius.
"You see that? These little flies understand their place and accept it! You're the weird fly for trying to sit at the dinner table where you don't belong." Julius cruelly knocks me down, and then he cuts off my left leg first so he can cause me even more pain, which he succeeds at.
"AHHHHHGG! AHHGG! Just kill me! Just do it already!" I plead with the laughing monster as he places his fingers in my leg wound, causing me even more indescribable pain. The rest of my body twitches and moves violently, trying to get away from him, which only gives Julius more pleasure.
"Kill you? Oh no, after that little stunt, I've chosen to keep you as my little pet. Of course, you won't need any limbs, so here you go, you'll just be a stump!" What came next was the forceful removal of my other leg, which sent me into shock.
My body doesn't even feel real at this point, nor does the blood gushing out of me while the man who did it to me laughs and giggles like he was having the time of his life. "That's the look I was seeking; your glow is vanishing; you've finally lost all Hope. How sad."
All I could think of was, 'That isn't true.' I guess deep down, I felt that maybe Lord Auri or even one of my mothers would come to my rescue, but maybe there was somebody who could help me. As the Ruler of Hope, the last thing I could do was lose that which I conquered, but even now, I couldn't see any way out; I had given it my all and failed. That wasn't my fault.
It wasn't my fault to have to face a monster with the face of a man.
[Not too far away]
"Gaia, don't! I forbid you from interfering! Provoking a battle of such magnitude between Julius and me is not worth that child's life, no matter their potential." I could hear Mother on the other side of the communication way, but how was I meant just to stand by and watch the whole thing happen!?
"Mother, please! Let me help them! They're just children, and they can't even fight back! I can't just stand here and do nothing!" I send back my message to my mother while my entire blood boils every time I see the man kick and punch that little girl who didn't even look like a teenager yet without mercy or apparent reason.