If Kisa was conscious she would have been certainly happy, but she wasn't. She was hanging in the air from the frozen tentacle.
Her face was blotted, the hair was falling on her face, her hand wasn’t moving, the dress was torn from place to places, left shoe was nowhere to be seen. The dripping sound was coming from the pool of blood under her toe.
After the breakthrough one punch was enough for the captain to break the frozen tentacle. He laid unconscious Kisa on the ground and poured a potion in her mouth. The colour of the potion was little different from the typical healing potion, rather it was an elemental healing potion. It recovers synergy as it heals the wound.
She was gurgling the potion out the captain was forced to close her mouth. It was the beauty of the potion, as long it’s in the mouth it will get absorbed into the body.
“Captain please move aside.” Mayumi with a serious face. He didn’t know what type of power she really had so he compiled.
“Are you really sure you could do that?” Mayumi slowly asked.
“What? What are you talking about” The captain asked?
“Sorry, I am not talking to you, I am talking to... Sorry never mind.” Mayumi said without looking back.
The captain was surprised. What was she mumbling about? Is it really her true character?
He had seen a lot today, nothing could surprise him more. The temperature around him started to drop. Mayumi was now blazing in a flame of pale blue. The closer you get the colder you feel.
He never heard about this type of flame. No just him even the upper echelons might not hear about the 'Abyssal flame’. No matter how many elemental the blue old man had produced none could inherit the chilling property of his flame. Though they had many other properties of the flame, that wasn’t enough to make them famous.
The blue flame started to dance in a weird way. The black ‘Nether Flame’ which Kisa used to fight against slowly started to sip out of Kisa’s body. The black flame cocooned itself around Kisa. The cocoon started to vibrate. Mayumi’s blue flame transformed itself into a tentacle with a sharp deep blue tip at the very end. It’s started to poke around the cocoon in a rhythmic pattern. Slowly the cocoon started to beat in the rhythm of the blue flame, the tempo was raising. But all of this was interrupted from the thunderous roar.
“So you had awakened?” The incoherent mingled voices sounded again.
‘It’s a nightmare’. There was no way in hell he could fight that monster. The captain looked at that girl. Though some time ago he was thinking of a way to protect the girls, now he was hoping that the girls could protect him. As a mercenary, the survival comes above all. The blue tip tentacles were still poking the black cocoon. Black cocoon is beating violently despite being cracked.
“That blue flame is really beautiful. The synergy is so pure, the report was true after all.” The incoherent voice thundered again.
“It’s even had healing property.” This time a single voice spoke
“I want it.”
“Me too”
“We are going to get it”
“Kill that black witch”
“And that insect too”
“Are we going to eat them”
“I will if they taste good”
“I don’t want to taste the black witch.”
“STOP IT” The incoherent sound spoke again “those guys going to cry for sure this time.” And the laugh echoed.
The captain was speechless. He couldn’t help but ask “What type of monster is it?”
It over 5 meters. The bodies stopped wiggling and turned to a mass of blob. But the blob is embedded with different types of faces. All of those are mumbling.
The captain thought for a moment, took a deep breath, smiled and went towards the blob.
For starter the captain wasn’t even someone with strong attack power, now he even didn’t have the shield. Even the captain didn’t know how much longer he could hold on even as a meat shield. But he walked.
“What are you?” The captain shouted as he closed in.
The blob looked at the captain, as he looked at it. The captain couldn't see any eyes or ears.
“Do you even hear what I am saying? Can you even see me?” The captain shouted.
“Buying time won’t help you at all,” The incoherent voice said and swung its tentacle.
The captain put his hand on his chest mimic the position of holding a shield and used [Shield Charge]. To his surprise, he is more than 20 meters away, before even he could rejoice another tentacle came in. He jumped, suddenly he could see another 2 are coming from both sides. Somehow he was able to dodge, but the barrage of attacks didn’t stop rather it increased. And the inevitable came. He was thrown in the air with a deep wound on his chest despite wearing a demon heart armour. He slammed into a tree, it cracked. He could see another 2 was cursing at him. He braised for impact but it didn’t come.
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Before opening his eyes he could hear the sound of something heavy falling beside him.
It’s the part of the black tentacle. It’s started to wiggle towards the blob and fuse with it as it reached it.
In front of the captain, someone was standing, as it’s already dusk he couldn’t see it clearly. The person was holding a sword.
“Captain you can rest now. I will handle it from now on”
“Kiria, is that you?”
“Please captain it’s not the right time, so please move.”
“It’s a hunter, there is no way you could kill it, run away quickly” In the heart, he was in debt to Kiria who died protecting him, so he thought it’s his chance to clear the debt. ‘But why is he holding a sword? On the top of that an old cracked sword?’
“Please captain move from here”
“But.”
“MOVE” the captain didn’t think that Kiria will shout at him. Nonetheless, he dragged his wounded body away.
“Why did you stopped? Come first I don’t have all day to fight with you.” Kiria spoke.
“Another insect, too many insects” the incoherent voice spoke with disdain, for some reason the blob attacked him all the tentacles It swarmed around Kiria like bees to a flower.
“That’s more like it” Kiria smiled and began to wave his sword like a whip. The Sword of his hand was a little peculiar, there was no place where the edge is ok. It’s broken from tip to hilt. It was breaking with each impact but not for once it crumbled. Somehow it’s regenerating again and again.
The tentacle barrage continued for quite a moment, but none could touch Kiria. They stopped even before they could reach 2-meter radius around Kiria, whether it was aiming for his back or leg.
“If this is all you got then, I will say it’s becoming boring. Let’s end this” Kiria suddenly raised the sword above his head and slashed. A 3 meter long vertical curved sword slash went through the air and almost split the black blob in half.
The captain who was hiding behind the tree was so surprised that he didn’t even blink.
After using the skill [Curve Slash] Kiria took his cracked sword on the left hand, cut the tip of his right thumb and rubbed the blood through the spine of the blood.
The sword started to glow bright red.
“So let’s get over with it” Kiria put the sword in the sheath and ran towards the blob. The blob already mended it together. The tentacle was coated with some unknown liquid. The liquid was giving up black vapour. Now the strike of the tentacles was a lot faster than before. So was Kiria. Unlike last time when he was standing on a fixed spot, he was dodging.
Kiria jumped left, swing right. As the tentacle got cut it was flung into the air, some drop of black liquid fall on his face, it’s sizzled as it corrodes through the flesh.
Kiria quickly jumped back, the cut-down tentacle also wiggled to the blob.
“What’s the matter are you afraid now? ARE you afraid?” The Incoherent voice laughed.
The cheekbone of the right side can be seen from outside. As Kiria touched his face there wasn’t any blood. It just bone.
“If you are not going to come, then I will come to you” The Blob Shouted and started to wiggle towards him as it continued with his tentacle attacks.
Kiria jumped back, as much as possible. He started to avoid the black liquid tentacle and cut down on the regular one, but it was to no avail. Suddenly a tentacle connected. He was sent flying.
His chest leather armour got burned, the chest muscle could be seen from outside. Kiriya kneeled down for a moment before jumped again to avoid another tentacle. He started to lose his pace.
“You can’t hide from me” The incoherent voice laughed and increased the attack speed to the extreme.
The amount of attack that hit increased, so Kiria started to cut down more and more tentacle while dodging. But it was tentacles were endless and Kiria got stuck.
The captain’s heart stumped. He didn’t realise as the main blob got smaller another one formed behind Kiria. Though kiria couldn’t see, the captain could see it clearly in what Kiria got stuck.
“Ha ha ha” the laughter of the two blob resonated.
“This insect was strong, let’s give him a proper burial” Both the blob spoke same words at the same time. It’s thundered.
The blob in which Kiria was stuck covered Kiria and buried him inside the body. After a few struggles, it stopped moving.
“ Now let’s see where the girl...” Before the blob could finish his word someone shouted. “Leave Kiria, you can take me” The words stunned the captain.
The blob laughed “What a great girl, want to sacrifice herself for others. Such noble thought. But dear that insect has already been digested. No one can survive in purple heart poison for more than a few seconds.” As the blob was saying, it felt something was amiss. It looked towards the other blob.
It already stopped wiggling. It was turned into a mud stupa. All of a sudden a part of it broke down, cracks started to cover its body. The broken down mud didn’t even wiggle like before.
As the crack spread a hand pushed itself out of the mud stupa. Then another one, then a leg and so on. Finally, a whole person came out of it. The person rather it could be called a teenager, butt-naked, without a shred of cloth came out.
“Who are you?” Mayumi asked. She was purely surprised as it’s not Kiria.
“Girl, shouldn’t you be surprised, and start shouting ‘pervert, pervert’ while looking at me through the fingers of your hand that you were using cover your eyes?” The boy asked nonchalantly.
Mayumi was so worried about Kiria that she didn’t notice before, but with the word, her face was flushed red. Quickly she turned to another way.
“Now that’s a good expression. Now you the silly excuse of a hunter. You are a piece of garbage. Didn’t you think for a moment that those guys might be using you to test the water.”
“Who are you? What are you? Are you a hunter?” the incoherent turned hoarse.
“Silly fellow doesn’t even know what hit him. Let me put you out your misery.” the boy said and turned back. Putting his butt towards the blob he put his hand into the mud stupa.
Sensing the danger the blob was trying to flee but he couldn't move, even he couldn't split himself. It was stupefying.
“Don’t even think about it. You thought you are the only one with poison? Or you thought the red colour of my sword was only for show?” the boy spoke without stopping his search. “Oh! Here you are.” The boy pulled out his cracked sword from whatever remains of the mud stupa.
The captain was stumped. Mayumi was turning her flushed face to see what going to happen.
On the other hand, the blob understood that unknowing to him he also turned into a mud stupa.
“I will give you whatever you want, just don’t kill me.” at the blob’s word he just shook his head. “I will be your slave for 50 years, no, for 70 years”
The boy smiled and said, “I wouldn't want a slave like you, A man without honour isn’t a man at all.” With the words, he swung his sword.
The mud stupa crumbled.