Book 3. Chapter 33

  “When things don't go the way you want them to.” Part 3

  “Dispel Ezhil!” She continued to conjure even though the amount of mana she was spending on dispersing the miasma and making it stop advancing could damage Aegir's mana circles. But it was either that, or use 'Ezhil Purification', a skill that would end up killing him.

  Although she could grudgingly admit that she was somewhat attracted to the demon king, the speed with which her pet's body was turning to stone, made her begin to doubt whether she should switch to a much more effective spell.

  Especially as she watched Tsuki's beautiful white fur turn black.

  But she didn't have time to think of a counter-attack.

  Hundreds of gigantic wind blades erupted from the god's body and headed towards Kalysto, cutting her arms.

  “Jhil! Regeneration! Jhil!” she conjured swiftly until her limbs grew back.

  “... Mmm ... interesting,” Seth murmured as he watched her ability to heal herself without screaming or writhing in pain while he kept feeding the resurrection spell with his ether, then a sadistic grin spread across his face. “Let's see how much you can take.”

  A dark mana sword materialized in his right hand and after a couple of thrusts in the air in her direction, another set of wind arcs cut through the miasma, and although Kalysto was able to evade most of them, as soon as she moved away from her pet, the miasma quickly approached Tsuki again, continuing to infect him with the black plague.

  “Shit! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She added trying to control how far or so the last spell spread by taking advantage of the fact that she was now on the opposite side of where Aegir was. Unfortunately that also meant that he was now far from her protection, and was being infected by the black plague.

  But before she could get close to Tsuki and finish healing him, Seth-Mainyu attacked again, without even moving from his position.

  “Hell!” he muttered, raising his sword above his head and a couple of meters away a gigantic fireball materialized out of nowhere, to then be launched against Kalysto, who barely had time to take Tsuki in her arms and run away.

  While successive attacks of hundreds of gusts of wind cut the ground in front, to the side and behind her.

  Making it practically impossible to escape.

  Although only a couple of seconds had passed since the first attack, Seth made sure not to give her any time to respond or teleport. Only fractions of a second to heal herself and deplete her mana reserves.

  Just at the moment when he saw that she was starting to get tired, and stop to cast a new spell, he threw his sword together with several dark mana crystals and gusts of wind.

  But Seth did not direct all his attacks towards her, but towards Tsuki. Giving them no chance to flee this time.

  The gusts of wind cut through the ground, kicking up dust and particles of dirt and rock that she barely managed to dodge as she did her best to keep her pet safe from the attacks that seemed to have no end, but just when she had to turn to protect Tsuki, Seth's sword pierced her leg, cutting just below the knee.

  Causing her to lose her balance.

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  And before she could keep the Fenrir inside her shadow, Seth stretched out his hand.

  Master, run away! - shouted Tsuki, but it was in vain, a powerful invisible force lifted Kalysto from the ground dragging her through the air as if she was as light as a leaf before the powerful wind, right in front of the open hand of the son of the dark god.

  Whose huge smirk covered almost half of his face.

  And now, where were we? -he asked with false innocence as if he himself had not destroyed more than half of the battlefield by chasing her with his continuous attacks. Ah, yes, I remember! You have something that is mine, and I want it back,” he said.

  As a wave of pain as powerful as she had ever felt in her entire life exploded throughout her body. Concentrating especially on her head which seemed to be splitting into several parts from the inside.

  She could barely make out the blurry blur of notification windows that appeared to her left.

  [Warning! An unknown entity has disabled the skill Pain Resistance].

  [Warning! An unknown entity has disabled the skill Mental Defense. All of the user's stats have been reduced by 100%]

  “Ahhhh!” Kalysto screamed, as she had never screamed before since she arrived in Elinor as the excruciating pain robs her of even her breath and ability to reason.

  And in the midst of the continuous waves of pain, the tenth seal that she had already placed on Persephone, was destroyed. At the same time a thin thread of darkness began to flow from her chest traveling through the air until it reached the palm of the hand of the son of the dark god, who quickly summoned the small cluster of energy that had been floating behind him which he had earlier drawn from a small portal.

  The cluster of energy approached timidly, merging very slowly with the wisps of darkness that gushed from Kalysto's body.

  Then for a couple of seconds as Seth concentrated on the remains of Persephone's soul, the pain subsided a bit, allowing Kalysto to think.

  Jhil! Regeneration! Jhil! She conjured quickly in her mind trying to heal her injured leg, making it grow back as she felt that between the pain caused by the enemy and the weakness that seemed to increase with each passing second due to the massive amount of blood she was losing.

  And taking advantage of the distraction of his enemy, whose ether no longer surrounded every part of his body but was concentrated on the thin threads that were directed towards the black mass that was becoming the feminine figure of Morrigan, Kalysto summoned a thin but elongated mana crystal which sprouted from the palm to her left hand and buried it in Seth-Mainyu's eye.

  “How dare you hurt me?” roared the god, letting out a portion of his magical pressure stealing the breath from everyone present, including the dark silhouette of the dark saintess, who fell to the ground losing her form as the ground began to shatter within the area of influence of Seth's enormous pressure.

  But before he could take any kind of retaliation he realized the setback he himself had created in the expected awakening of his first avatar. And he had no choice but to cancel his own display of power.

  A loud growl escaped from his throat. Making it sound more like the sound an animal would make than a person would. As he began to imbue more ether into the regeneration of his first Avatar's body.

  To then turn to Kalysto, holding her by the neck with his right hand. A scowl on his face, and hatred in his gaze.

  “I'll show you what happens to those who mess with me! I'm going to show you a long road of pain and suffering, little Kalysto!” Less than a second later, the screams of the fairy champion filled the entire battlefield as the ninth seal she had already created was forcibly broken, just like the eighth.

  As was the seventh.

  With each seal that was broken a thin trickle of dark energy escaped from her chest heading towards the levitating mass next to Seth's right shoulder.

  “Ahhh!" as the former saintess's face became disfigured with the excessive pain, the smile on Seth's only seemed to grow even bigger.

  As did his confidence.

  To the point of not noting that as he broke the sixth seal, the demon king had stolen the sword the god had earlier used to cut off Kalysto's leg, and with it, Aegir slashed the god's wrist.

  Seth's hand fell to the ground at the same time as Aegir, whose lower part of his body was wrapped in a cluster of shadows, grabbed Kalysto's body.

  Even Tsuki, lying on the ground with half of his body turned to stone, joined the attack, dozens of lightning bolts burst from the Fenrir's weak body as he tried to give his master some time to escape.

  But it was all in vain.

  Just as Aegir moved away from the god with Kalysto's body in his arms, hundreds of black lightning bolts emerged from the god's hand, crashing against the demon king's back, charring it.

  Just before Seth used the huge sword with which he had cut his hand, and threw it against the back of his two enemies as they fell to the ground.

  Piercing both bodies with the same attack.

  Just a meter away from where Tsuki was.

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