TORI'S SIDE:

The cloaked figure was in a mad rage for a while as he screamed his aura blasted out and the earth around him broke apart, his eyes looked savage and without any warning he grabbed the head of the archer corpse, the head then burst open and he grabbed the soul within. The soul could be seen wailing and struggling as he directly ingested it, he did not look satisfied after that and turned to Tori. ' you're the one with the most powerful soul here, it seems I'd have to eat you first.' He said as he began to approach Tori with the sinister bone sword in his hand and an even more sinister look on his face. ' If I eat her soul it should be enough to let me escape from the monster that is coming.' The cloaked figure thought to himself as he cautiously walked towards Tori aware that she wasn't mere prey but the fact that she had failed to attack all this while made him feel that she had some fear for his power.

Before the cloaked figure could reach Tori who wasn't far away from him and still in the spot she had been since the fight had started, he heard someone clear his throat right behind him. No, he had felt a familiar aura behind him which made him to be caught off guard and let the person come so close to him. As he turned around, sure enough, there was a boy standing close to him, the look he was giving him was calm but it shook him to the core. The blue soul flame aura of the dragon surrounded him and his eyes were shining blue, it was this aura that made him unable to detect this boy before he got so close.

'Kid who killed my dragon and let you absorb its aura?' The cloaked figure asked as his killing intent flared up, he clearly underestimated Tor and felt there was no way that he could be the one that killed the dragon. Although the dragon ghost had only one third of a real dragon's strength, it was already on par with the guardian of the Soul Clan. Tori silently watched as she smiled at Tor, she could notice that the inscriptions on the bracelet were shining and the blue soul flames and dragon aura on Tor's body was becoming weaker and weaker.

'Did you just say you wanted to eat my people?' Tor asked calmly as he walked forward till he was an arms length distance from the cloaked figure. The dragon's aura had already disappeared at this point and even the cloaked figure could no longer feel it. 'And here I thought you might be something since you were able to absorb the dragon that would not follow even me unless my father forced it to, but you are just a useless kid, call the person who killed my dragon before I eat your soul. At least then you could be useful. And yes I did say I would eat these bunch of trash and I will start with that girl if you don't call that master out.' He said, as his condescending attitude was clearly at its peak. 'You're not worthy.' Tor said and as the words were leaving his lips, the cloaked figure felt an imminent danger as he formed two bone swords and blocked instinctively and just as he protected his chest with the swords, Tor's punch had landed and shattered one of the swords, while the impact sent the cloaked figure flying backwards in disbelief and he even suffered some damage despite his guard and aura being up.

'huh, it seems I underestimated you I'm going to burn you to crisp you bastard.' As he spoke the soul fire flared and was burning the area around him and he fired it as a ray at Tor who was not far from him but before the ray could hit, the spatial field mixed with Dark Matter appeared around him and absorbed the ray on impact. 'Annoying.' The cloaked figure said as he launched himself like a bullet towards Tor. As the cloaked figure closed the distance, he formed a second bone sword and large pikes made of solidified soul fire floated around him and before he reached, they launched at the speed of light as though trying to tear Tor apart. The spatial field interfered again but as the large pikes made contact with the field, they blew up like detonated bombs and heavy explosions of blue soul fire rang out destroying the terrain.

The cloaked figure did not stop but directly dove into the explosions and fire intent on killing Tor. Tor looked calm in the explosions and the area which he stood was unaffected as though the explosions were currently not happening. 'That's an interesting way to use flames.' Tor said as he looked in the eyes of the descending cloaked figure, without saying anything more, the dark matter mixed with the power of space turned into three large black transparent pikes. The cloaked figure felt a serious sense danger coming from the pikes but he could no longer stop his momentum and decided to increase it, at least he could be faster than Tor and attack him before he could use something he just copied.

'stupid.' Tor said as the pikes disappeared from behind him and immediately appeared in front of the cloaked figure which clearly scared him to death, he put up a protective barrier but the moment the pikes came in contact with it they exploded into shrapnel that tore into his barrier and ripped him into shreds. From the outside a second set of black explosions flared up and consumed the first, then it all died down. The old man was the most shocked while the guard captain was left speechless and thought he had been beaten up to the point of hallucination. The young lord had not moved even an inch from where he had been standing and that cloaked figure's torso had been completely ripped to shreds.

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'Hey you can't be done with just this right? I heard one of your guys say that as long as you have enough souls you're immortal. Don't tell me you plan to pretend and run away when I'm not looking.' Tor said as he stepped on the leg of the Torsoless figure which made a crunching sound of the bone being crushed. At that point blue soul flames flared up as ghosts could be heard howling and the cloaked figure's torso got rebuilt at visible speed but the wails only got louder. A long minute later the process was complete and his body had been rebuilt but it was obvious that he was still in shock because of the pain. 'Hey as you said I am immortal as long as I have enough souls to use, I'm sure that move just now took a lot of mana from you and you can use it a limited number of times, so how about we just leave things as it is and I leave since we have not really caused any damage for you and your people, rather we have incurred the most loss.' He continued looking at Tor with a hint of dread as he spoke, since it was obvious that he had never felt so much pain before.

'Is this how noisy he has been?' Tor asked Tori while ignoring the cloaked figure begging for truce. 'Nope, he was really haughty before.' Tori said in her usual mischievous manner. 'Where did all that talk from before go? Weren't you going to eat high quality souls?' She continued to the now bare chested figure. 'I offered a toast but you have decided to drink forfeit so don't blame me.' The figure said as his rage and killing intent burst out disfiguring the terrain some more and he launched himself at Tor at light speed but the pikes appeared infront of him again and this time since the figure had clearly done something to increase his strength exponentially he evaded all three pikes and without making any contact they followed him like guided missiles.

The cloaked figure didn't stop but instead picked up his momentum, he was under the impression that Tor would not use the pikes when they were so close and at this point he was an arms length away from Tor and slashed his bone sword aiming to split Tor in two. 'Stupid.' Tor said again as the pikes made contact with the figure and blew up into shrapnel again causing the cloaked figure to burst and large explosions rang out before quickly dying down again. This time louder wails of ghosts rang out as the figure's whole body was constructed again. This time he was wailing savagely and his eyes were red as though he was going mad from pain. He looked towards the direction where Tor was standing and terror he had never felt before gripped him, he had no choice but to beg this demon to stop this cycle, he could tell that he was unable to beat this monster that was casually standing in the spot he started the fight from.

'Please, I had eyes but failed to see the rock, please stop, I can't take the pain anymore.' The figure was on his knees begging. 'If you hadn't come into my territory and if you didn't come looking for my people in the first place I might've ignored you, but you didn't so I won't.' Tor walked towards him as he spoke but the cloaked figure even though he felt the approaching danger did not dare to react but just knelt where he was. 'I can't promise you a painless death, but I can promise you escape from this torture I'm putting you through.' He grabbed the figure's throat and the figure was so paralyzed by fear that he did not try putting up a fight. Tor used the devour skill and wails of ghosts could be heard all the way to the village and the figure's own screams were not any less ghostly. 'No don't kill him.' He old man shouted but Tor turned and looked at him with eyes that looked like a black hole and a shiver immediately went down the old man's spine before everything abruptly went quiet and Tor dropped the figure's corpse.

Tor saw a cloaked figure running away at the speed of sound in the horizon and knew that the other guards were unable to finish off the last cloaked figure. He formed a bow with dark matter as Tori appeared next to him. 'I bet you're better with a bow right?' He said with a smile as he handed the bow over to her. She took it and as she stretched the bow string it formed an arrow made of soul fire and the arow had a golden aura mingling with the soul fire. 'So you're sniping his fate is that not cheating?' Tor asked since he could now tell a bit when she used some of her ability. 'Nope, you would have used space if it was you.' She replied and let go of the arrow and then turned to the old man and pointed the bow at him as she formed another arrow but this time it had a completely black menacing aura.