What!?
Ingrit, looking baffled.
"Are you for real?"
[Condition: Your revival mean death of another living being. So, taking a life is essential.]
[Once you have killed one of those two, you will truly earn the right to living freely. Otherwise, you will die]
[It yours life or theirs. The decision is yours
]
Those men heard Ingrit's voice, and turned their head.
The one that stabbed him looked flabbergasted, because he knew the wound he delivered to him was nothing short of fatal, enough to kill him.
But there he was, standing like nothing had happened. Even the bloodshed had stopped.
"How is this possible? Just who the hell are you?" Feist widened his eyes, and wore a heavy expression as he asked him that.
Ingrit was slightly leaning forward, and his head a bit lowered. He sighed, then looked up at them, saying:
"I would like to know that myself."
[Notification: Your power has awakened]
As soon as these words appeared before Ingrit, he got enveloped by a purplish energy.
Being perplexed by this he thought to himself:
Huh?! What is this energy.
Ingrit could feel an ample amount of calming energy flowing inside his body. It was more than a calming feeling. It was as if this energy was always inside his body, waiting to be unleashed from its latent state. He was getting overwhelmed by this energy.
His eyes became lively as he grinned, and said with excitement on his face:
"It's cool ! Now I have power like Lightning Clown!"
He closed his eyes, and exhaled. He could feel energy was reaching to every parts of his inner body from his heart. Oddly, his hair was turning white. He slowly opened his eyes, but as ill-luck would have it, he saw a fist violently approaching him, not being able to dodge, the fist connected to his face, and hammered his face so violently that it made him fall on his back, making an impact. Blood flew out of his nose, leaving him in state of concussion.
He was at a lost. Because, everything happened so fast that he couldn't even comprehend what had happened. He tried looking ,but his vision was blurry. His body wasn't also moving. He just laid there helplessly like a prey.
Feist was sneering at Ingrit.
"What a fool you are! You know, you would be dead now if I had used my black sphere instead of my fist."
This guy is no ordinary guy. This is why I didn't kill him just now. I need to first report this to No.1.
Feist thought.
The moment he saw Ingrit getting enveloped by that purplish energy, something came back to his mind. It was a memory that didn't belong to him. In this memory he saw a gigantic silhouette with large wings standing, it was as if he was facing off against someone. Seeing that and getting the same feeling from Ingrit made his body move on his own, and punch Ingrit. Since, that memory didn't to him, he thought that might belong to his lord, the one who bestowed him a glimpse of his power.
That man turned his head, looking at his new ally ,and smirked as he said:
"Show me what you can do,Thot or something."
Feist pointed his right index finger at concussed Ingrit, and said:
"If you can kill him you will officially be one of us. Besides, it would be interesting to watch two inexperienced power holder fight each other."
"I will do as you say", Thot said, looking serious.
Meanwhile, Ingrit was freed from his concussed state, and tried to get up. His face was a mess. Due to nosebleeding his lips, cheeks and chin were covered in blood. He leaned on his right hand as he sat, groaning.
Suddenly, he saw a purplish screen appeared before him.
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[Status]
Name of the holder: Ingrit Cloudines;
Age: 17;
Status: Amateur;
Power obtained: 5%;
Name of the power: Dracid;
Abilities: Sphere of Dracid, {more to be Acquired};
Coin: 0;
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HP:1500;
MP:2000;
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Strength:140;
Intelligence:167;
Agility:170;
Vitality:150;
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Extra abilities: { click here to know}
===
What's that supposed to be?
He thought to himself while groaning in pain, holding his nose lightly with his right hand. But he didn't have any time to keep looking at it. Because, Thot was already Infront of him, staring him down.
Ingrit was looking at him with his helpless eyes, then quickly side- glanced. Thot then made a stomped with his right leg, but it didn't work. Because, Ingrit dodged to his left, and turned his whole body, then grabbed a pebble with his right hand, without Thot noticing. After that, he slightly glanced at him, and threw it hard in a attempt to hit his left eye, thinking even though it wouldn't be enough to deliver him any fatal damage, but at least it might buy him some time.
But, it missed its mark by a hair, and hit Thot's eyebrow. He felt a dull pain, and grabbed his left eye.
Though, it didn't go exactly Ingrit thought it would, but still it might have just given him enough time to do some damage, so ignoring his own pain, he quickly got up, and elbowed Thot on his nose, using his right elbow. Now this time, he felt a sharp pain.
"Aaah."
He groaned in pain.
Ingrit didn't stop there. He knew that was the chance to take that guy down. He clinged his teeth, and with a determined eyes, grabbed that man's head and Shoved it against the building wall in the right side. His temple was violently hit. Thot fell on his knees.
"Damn that hurts, you bastard."
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He angrily shouted as he tried touching his temple, facing the ground.
Ingrit looked at the fallen Thot, and thought:
Now's my chance.
Thinking that he didn't waste any time turning around, and ran as fast as he could. After exiting the alley, he thought he would come across people. But, unfortunately there were barely any people at all except for few kids playing around, and vehicles of cloud going to their destination at full speed.
Ingrit knew he would be no match against the two of them. After all, he awakened his power just now. So, there's no way he could beat two people who has powers--one experienced and one newbie.
As he was running, he cursed himself:
Damn it. This is pathetic. But, I value my life over a fight that I can't win.
He squinted as he was running to see if they were following him. Seeing that Thot was running towards him from behind, made Ingrit's face tense.
[Notification: Use Sphere of Dracid]
[To use it: You must place your right palm above your left one with a gap of 6-10 centimeters]
Having no time to think, he did as it suggested. He placed his left palm below his right one with a gap of 6 centimeters.
"What should I do next?"
He shouted as he asked the screen.
[Visualize concentrating all of your energy in the middle point of the gap of your palm]
Since he can't run and concentrate at the same time. He looked back again, and saw Thot was still far away from him. So, he stopped, and turned around, then began to visualize what the screen told him to do by closing his eyes. After closing his eyes he took a deep breath, and exhaled it.
Now visualize.
He clinged his teeth while his face got shaded with fear and anxiety of getting killed. He was having difficulty concentrating knowing that Thot was approaching him with a killing intent, and if he fails to manifest his power then he would die.
Come on, concentrate ,damn it. Calm the hell down.
After struggling for a bit, he had ,somewhat, calmed down, and began to visualize his purplish energy flowing from his heart to both of his hands. But there's the tricky part. No matter how much he was trying he couldn't transform it into a big sphere.
The clock was ticking as Thot was closing in at a great speed. As he was running towards Ingrit, stretched his hands, and then something unbelievable happened to both of them. Both of his hands rifted till his elbows, and was turned into a silvery scissors. As soon as those turned into them, Thot put a smirk on his face covered with blood.
Sadly, Ingrit was still struggling forming a sphere. Energies were coming out from both of his palms, and colliding with each other in the middle point of the gap. Slowly, it was forming into a sphere but unstably.
But he was running out of time, as Thot was already 20 centimeters away from him. Ingrit opened his eyes full determination, and shouted:
"FORM, DAMN IT."
Miraculously, as if, heeding to his command it formed into a 8 centimeters long sphere. As soon as it completed forming, he grabbed it with his right hand, and threw it towards Thot, which luckily landed on his chest. Upon landing on his chest it illuminated him in purple for a brief moment, and then created an impact powerful enough to sent him back rolling by at least one yard.
Ingrit looked at the fallen Thot with his tired eyes, as he was losing his breath. Thinking that he might be down for good, he sat down, and rested on his knees.
But, it was far from over. Because, Thot's eyes were still open, getting consumed with rage. He did a kip up, and rose to his feet, enduring the pain from Ingrit's attack.
Seeing him stand brought a hopeless expression on Ingrit's face. As he saw Thot dashing towards him, he mustered some strength to rise on his feet, and placed his hand like before to produce a sphere.
I don't know if it will work or not. But, at least I should give it a try.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
As he concentrated the purplish energy in the middle point of his palms, he screamed.
The energy was so bright that it illuminated Ingrit's bruised face in beautiful purple color. It was unstably forming.
But before he could complete it, he had to duck. Because, if he hadn't then the scissors would have chopped him in half. The scissors made a loud sound as its blade collided with one and the other.
Ingrit from that position leaped at him with his completed purplish sphere, and hit it on his face with his right hand. That made a big shockwave, and strangled Thot's neck, which killed him on the spot.
Thot, defeated and killed, sprawled on the hard ground with his eyes rolled back, while Ingrit fell facing the ground. Right after that, he heard some clicking sounds.
[Congratulations: You have earned 10,000 coins for killing a living being]
[You have unlocked a new ability called 'Wing of Dracid']
[You have leveled up]
[You have obtained 5% power of Dracid]
Ingrit, with his face against the hard pitched road, stared at those sets of words that were floating before his eyes, blankly. First of all, he was heavily exhausted for using two of the spheres right of the bat. His body wasn't still used to his new found power. So, overuse of it caused his body excruciating pain. Secondly, he just killed a human, his first at that. With all that exhaustion, physical pain, and a heavy sense guilt he was completely devastated.
Ingrit tried to ignore the pains and barely managed to stand up. After standing up he walked to the wide white pillar, which wasn't more than 13-15 centimeters away from him. After getting there he turned around, and sat with his back against the piller, stretching his legs.
"Congratulations, boy."
Feist stomped on Thot's head with his right foot, as he said that. He also added with a smirk:
"I am highly disappointed at this bastard for turning out to be such a disappointment. Both of you were new at using your powers, but you still did great compare to him."
Feist was standing before Ingrit with a excited eyes. He observed him for a while. Ingrit, on the other hand, is looking lifeless. He knew he will be killed by him for sure. And there's no way for him to prevent that. Because, he was out of strength. So, he closed his eyes, and accepted his fate of being killed by him.
But, Ingrit didn't know that Feist wasn't interested in killing him, at least not yet. Feist turned around, and said:
"You are safe for now. But remember this: I know your face. So, there's no escape from me. Stay safe until we cross our path again."
Ingrit opened his exhausted eyes in shock, and looked at Feist ,who was leaving. After he had left, Ingrit looked at the afternoon, as the sun light bathed him in yellow.
***
Meanwhile at a drug manufacturing factory:
Everyone inside had been killed brutally. Someone of them looked like they had been fried to a crisp, while some were missing their heads and other body parts. The hallway was no different. It was completely painted with the blood of those headless bodies' owners, resting on the floor.
Within that factory inside a wide room, was 5 man shaking in their boots. Four of them was shielding an important looking middle aged man wearing black suit. He was probably the owner of the factory.
His bodyguards were wielding swords. Suddenly, an approaching foot steps could be heard. As it was becoming louder by the second, it made all 5 of them gasp. Because, they all knew the grim reaper himself was approaching towards them, and there's no escape from him.
All five of them were looking at the opened door. Then, they saw Lighting-Clown, bathed in fresh blood, walking into the room not worrying about those guards at all. He looked at them with his bloody white clown mask on his face.
"Don't come any closer."
One of them said, looking terrified and shaking.
It wasn't just him who was looking terrified. Everyone was shaking, and gasping.
But, Lightning-clown didn't pay any heed to them, and was walking with a slowly but steady pace. Seeing that all four of the bodyguards gritted their teeth, and held their swords tightly. Then with a blink of an eyes, all four of their heads were flying in the mid air, moreover, Lightning-clown was already Infront of the boss' face with his body sparkly with lightning.
All of their severed heads, after flying for awhile, fell with thuds on the floor along with their bodies, which completely splattered the floor with blood.
"W-why are you doing th- this?"
The man shakily said that.
"This is my job. I do anything for money."
He said with a calm voice.
"No,wait. We-"
Before he could finish speaking his upper body fell off.