They both froze in their stance, the skeleton no longer looked like a killing machine, more like a hunted animal. And Mark looked like a warrior on his last legs. Both looked at each other with determination.
One read determination in his eyes, and the other greedy looked at with the help of the flame of the soul that burned in the skull.
Taking a step forward, Mark fully invested everything in this moment, his blood was boiling, and his chest was torn from the pain of his heart. The force with which it fought even made it difficult to breathe, but something pushed him forward. Toli determination, or hope, he did not know. Now he had a goal before which everything else faded.
The skeleton, like a beast, rushed at Mark exploded with force, this is exactly what Mark was waiting for. The bones that had previously made the skeleton stronger cracked at that moment. Mark specifically aimed at the thighs, the cracks spread more and more, when in the end, the leg that created the cracks in the ground fell off. And the skeleton lost its balance, starting to fall forward. At that moment, the skeleton's skull met with a sword made of blood. He pierced him, at that moment, when the soul flame met the blade, there was a short resistance, which ended with a pop.
Mark, almost unconscious, slowly approached the crack. She represented a gap between the world. And they are by nature very sensitive, for this reason the creatures that come from them do not go further than half a kilometer from them.
Raising the sword vertically, Mark delivered his final blow, which he did not even feel during the blow, losing the last remnants of consciousness. The sword continued its path even after losing consciousness, the passage itself was covered with cracks like glass, and then disintegrated, leaving no trace behind it, as if it had been an illusion before.
Seno saw all this, but could not get up. She could hardly breathe when she got hit. There were still black dots in front of her eyes, and she could hardly hold on. She was not allowed to fall by the determination of Mark, which she had seen earlier.
Creeping up to Mark, she saw how all the wounds were slowly healing, his face, although pale, gradually began to relax.
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Seeing this, she finally gave up the fight and lost consciousness.
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Mark woke up in his room, trying to get up he was in pain. It was difficult to say that it didn't hurt, he could make a short cry of pain, and what surprised him was the audibility of everything around him.
"So it's all over." Stupidly, he said to the ceiling. The next moment, Anna entered his room. She looked at Mark in awe. And I was glad that he was able to wake up. Earlier during the fight, she saw him run away. In her opinion, it is extremely shameful, but who is she to scold a stranger. Only after learning later from the children that they stuck around the guy, she softened her opinion about his heroism. After receiving Seno's report, she finally understood what had happened in general terms.
The girl herself received a lot of cracks on the ribs, but it's good that she received first aid on time. The bones had already grown together, and the girl was sleeping quietly.
As he listened, he noticed that everything around him was strange, the colors were brighter. The little things are more pronounced, and the head of the village Melodiya Anna is surrounded by a rapidly playing manno, the only way he could describe the air hovering around her.
- Mark from the whole village, and even more so from our orphanage, I thank you as the head, and you should know from now on you will always be a welcome guest here. Having said this, she took out a small bag, put it in the hands of a confused guy, hugged her tightly and ran away.
Mark was a bit taken aback by the speed of events, but the sense of accomplishment could not be washed out of his heart. There was a goofy smile on his face now, and his eyes shone with poorly hidden pride in his actions.
After a couple of minutes, he came out of the state of the fool, and began to return to the old question. Glancing down at his hands, he also noticed that the manno around his hand looked obediently flowing. Opening the notification history, he widened his eyes.
[Skill Acquired: Superior Human Eyes]
Without thinking, he said "Status"
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Name: Mark Plan
Isca: Blood
Class: Hagerim
Rank - 2 (2/3 activated sub-ranks)
Gift: Thirsty (strengthened version of hunger, additionally gives the ability to drain manno from artifacts and manno-related items)
Talent: ✰ (when the skill score goes beyond the norm, she is assigned a battle star)
Strength: 63/90
Agility: 70/90
Intelligence: 65/90
Manno: 85/90
Skills:
- manno flow - LV - 11/40 (B) (passive)
- medium manno release - LV - 2/30 (B) (active)
- manno control - LV - 17/30 (C) (passive)
- all language - LV - 2/50 (A) (active)
- bloody horn - LV - 32/40 (B) (active)
- natural weapons LV - 4/50 (A) (active)
- higher human eyes LV - ???(Max)(passive)(the ability to see manno, and evaluate everything through the use of limited system rights)