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Chapter 99: Chapter 99 Blood Battle
"Her entire arm came off. That’s interesting... but why stand around watching them? Victoria is going to be victorious. Do you want to wait till then before fighting?" Evelyn asked, her arms crossed casually, but her focue sharp.
Sonia’s gaze didn’t flinch. "Unfortunately, I don’t have that luxury. I just want you to know that killing you is a necessity rather than something I want to do. In another world..." she inhaled softly, "we would have been friends."
A smirk formed on Evelyn’s face but she immediately wiped it off, she was going to decimate the person in front of her, she had no idea what magic type Sonia was but she couldn’t care less.
Both women took a single step forward at the same time, the air between them shifting slightly from the mana surging in their bodies.
Sonia’s hands glowed faintly and Evelyn smiled.
Then—
A shockwave rippled from the side, Karin and Victoria were going at it but Evelyn and Sonia didn’t flinch or care about them currently.
The wings of blood on her back flared, pushing her forward like a missile. The ground cracked beneath her every step.
Karin spun her scythe with terrifying speed, the air around her sliced apart as she came in again with a furious downward strike.
Victoria’s darkness pulsed.
She didn’t dodge, with her body covered in darkness and a smile on her face she caught the scythe with her bare hand.
Or so it looked.
A thick gauntlet of shadow wrapped her arm, absorbing the blow with a dull, heavy thud that shook the room.
Karin’s eyes widened for a moment, but she didn’t back off. She pulled the scythe back, twisted, and kicked Victoria straight in the chest.
The force sent Victoria skidding backward, her feet grinding across the floor. But her expression didn’t change.
Karin growled and snapped her fingers—needles of blood shot up from beneath Victoria like traps triggered all at once.
Victoria didn’t look down. The shadows around her feet surged again and swallowed the needles whole, turning the blood to dust, she knew as both of them began fighting Karin was purposely spilling blood around the battlefield for something like this.
"You’re wasting mana," Victoria said flatly, brushing off her clothes.
"I’ve got plenty to waste." Karin grinned. Her arm twitched—and then a second scythe formed in her other hand, shorter, curved like a sickle.
"Let’s see how long you can keep up."
Karin rushed again.
This time she wasn’t just using brute force.
Victoria had faced mages who used swords for practice but Karin was too good with the scythe, and now two of them.
One scythe spun wide while the other came in from the opposite side.
Victoria ducked, flipped, attacked from behind which Karin block, her blood weapons shimmered, reshaping mid-strike to an axe, a sword, a whip—changing faster than the eye could follow but Victoria wasn’t a goddess of adaptability.
Victoria moved like a shadow, smooth and precise. Her body flowed like water through every attack, dodging, ducking and creating space letting the weapons pass by her with inches to spare.
But Karin didn’t stop, and Victoria found her opening and took it.
As Karin jumped in Victoria created a blade of darkness and slashed across her side, but Karin barely flinched like she was expecting it.
Blood sprayed out from Karin’s injury but instantly retracted, slithering back to her skin as if her wounds reversed themselves.
Karin swung toward Victoria without care forcing her to block her attacks as she was too close to dodge.
But that was exactly what Karin wanted as she attacked from the side, Victoria created a shield made of shadow but Karin merged her weapon turning it into a hammer and slammed into Victoria shield and send her flying a few meters away.
Victoria roll a little before stopping herself and standing up immediately.
"Your defense is good," Karin said between breaths, "but you’re not doing much damage."
Her hammer separated back into two scythes.
"I only need one good hit," Victoria replied. "You’re the one running out of time."
Karin gritted her teeth and slammed both scythes together. They merged into a massive double-bladed weapon, taller than her. She spun it like a cyclone, creating a tornado of blood around herself.
Karin weapons of made out of steel would be impossible for her to carry but her blood weapon weighs nothing what the appearance suggested and it still dealt the same damage and even more.
Victoria’s shadows tried to push in as she shot spikes of darkness testing it—but the whirlwind cut through them.
"I can cut through your magic now," Karin hissed, eyes glowing red. "That armor’s not going to help you forever."
Victoria didn’t speak.
Instead, she raised one hand.
From the darkness around her, dozens of shadowy figures began to rise—thin and tall, with long arms and empty faces. They stood like soldiers behind her, silent and still.
Karin’s face tightened.
"Oh. You’ve been holding back."
"I always do," Victoria answered.
The shadows charged.
Karin didn’t hesitate. She jumped into them like a storm, cutting down the first three in a single swing. Blood exploded in arcs. The figures didn’t bleed—but the ones she struck vanished into smoke, reforming seconds later.
More came from all sides.
Karin ducked low, spun, cleaved through them. A spear of darkness came for her side, she grabbed it with a blood tendril and snapped it in half.
A hand tried to grab her ankle—she turned her foot into liquid blood for a moment, slipped free, and kicked the shadow’s head off.
But they kept coming.
It wasn’t a fair fight anymore—it was war but Victoria knew what she was doing, the plan wasn’t to let her shadows win, Victoria had underestimate how the artifact made her blood magic stronger.
She had seen blood magic before, and it definitely wasn’t like this.
Karin laughed as she fought.
"You think I care about numbers?" she roared, spinning faster. "Come on, send more! I’ll cut down everything you’ve got!"
Her blood wings flared out again and detonated outward, blowing apart half the shadow army in a red wave. She jumped through the smoke and aimed at Victoria slamming her scythe down at Victoria with both hands.
This time, Victoria raised both arms.
The darkness surged upward like a tidal wave, meeting the scythe mid-strike. The impact cracked the air like thunder.
Karin was thrown back.
She flipped twice midair, landed in a crouch, her body dripping with blood. Her breaths were heavy now, but her smile hadn’t faded. Her eyes were gleaming with madness, excitement, joy.
"Gods, you’re fun," she said.
Victoria stepped forward through the darkness, her eyes glowing black, she was done testing, she was definitely stronger.
"Your weapon’s fading," Victoria said. "You’ve used too much blood."
"I’ve got more."
"No. You’re borrowing strength. The artifact keeps you alive, but it won’t protect you when your mana drops too low."
Karin’s smile faltered—just a bit.
She charged again.
But this time, Victoria was faster.
The shadows didn’t wait—they moved before she did. Tentacles of darkness shot forward, grabbing Karin’s limbs mid-charge. She cut through the first two—but a third wrapped around her ankle and yanked hard, pulling her off her feet.
She hit the ground hard.
Then Victoria appeared above her—silent, deadly, and drove a spike of pure darkness down toward her heart.
Karin screamed and crossed her weapons.
The spike hit the blood and stopped, pressing against it like iron on rubber. Then it shattered.
Victoria jumped back, watching as Karin slowly stood, blood running down her arms and legs, wings now barely flickering.
"I’m not done," Karin hissed.
"I know," Victoria said. "I’m going to kill you before you give up"
Karin’s scythe collapsed into blood. She held out her hand, panting, and the blood began swirling upward, forming something new.
A lance.
It was thicker, sharper, pulsing with red veins. She held it with both hands, aimed it at Victoria’s chest.
"Let’s end this," she said.
Victoria nodded once. "Fine, give it your all"
They dashed toward each other again with Victoria holding a shield made of shadow and a sword.
Karin’s blood Lance met Victoria’s shadow and the clash was thundering as both of them gave it their all.
Stone cracked, and some of the walls crumbled from the shockwave.
Evelyn shielded her face from the wave of dust and force that blew past her. Even Sonia took a step back, they had to stop their battle.
When the smoke cleared, Karin was kneeling, her lance broken in half but she still had a smile on her face.
Victoria stood behind her, a single cut across her stomach, blood dripping slowly.
"I didn’t hold back," Karin whispered her face turning towards Sonia as if seeking a validation for her fight.
A smile formed on Sonia’s face and she nodded. 𝓷ℴ𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝒸𝓸𝓶
Karin smiled, and her body slumped forward, still breathing. But barely.
Victoria let out a slow breath and turned her eyes to Evelyn and Sonia.
"One down," she said.
