NOVPUBThe statue’s punch made my vision flicker and before I knew it I was back in the square surrounded by Shadows.
"< Chaos Rune: Light and Shadows As One >" (I)
During the escape before the statue punched me making me go back to the beginning, I hadn’t wasted that time, these blood creatures don’t cause the same interference in my blood as the Blood Silhouettes did, and this allowed me to use my blood direct way to create Runes within me using my blood, I made Runes exactly for a siege situation like this.
Activating the Runes at the same time that my blood was passing through my skin already in the form of the Runes instantly created a wave of light that made all the shadows burn in Starfire, particles of golden light come out of the flames disintegrating in the air.
The previously dark square full of shadow monsters was now lighting up once again, the light was not coming from the sky but from the environment itself.
"Kill them all... kill them all..." (Blood Sin)
"..." (I)
This technique is not something I can use a lot, it used my Essence of Chaos along with my blood, this consumes part of my vitality, I also have to deal with Blood Sin wanting to force me to take care of these shadow creatures.
When I looked at the sky it was different, the sky was a dark red with golden stars now, it looked like something was moving in the sky between the stars but I couldn’t see what it was, in addition, there was also a big golden Sun in the sky, but as soon as I looked at it a crack formed in the middle as it moved.
"One eye?" (I)
"Kill them all... don’t forget our... agreement..." (Blood Sin)
Suddenly I feel danger and one of my wings makes my body turn to the side, two shadows collide in the place where I was making their first layers of darkness disappear as I use my tail to cross them both.
When their bodies were shown again I noticed the expression on their faces being different, one had tears of blood on her face and the other had an expression of despair, just being close to them was enough for these emotions to resonate with mine, luckily I have control enough of my emotions to not affect me too much.
"They’re different." (I)
I realized that Blood Sin wouldn’t let me leave or run away, but I don’t understand why she only started communicating with me after I arrived in this city, while I was fighting the Blood Creatures she didn’t try to talk to me.
When I thought about what was happening, my claws broke the two shadow creatures into 5 parts, it was then that I noticed a big change in things.
When the heart fell apart something else remade itself using its energy, a Star Fire ignited consuming the heart as it fell apart, and as soon as the Star Fire went out a red crystal scale formed before flying into the sky at a speed that disappeared from my vision in less than 1 second, as they were two shadow creatures they were 2 red crystal scales that disappeared going into the sky.
I was starting to understand a few things, it would be a lot easier to think if I wasn’t being attacked every few seconds or minutes, I wasn’t having time to do anything as more shadow creatures appeared and I realized why they are appearing now, the light that is formed in the square was weakening and there was almost nothing left now.
With no time to waste thinking I went to fight, the Shadows were more than happy to surround me once again, but with all this time I had already regenerated my scales, as there were many shadows I wanted to do the same again to get rid of several of them at the same time.
"< Aura Wave >" (I)
With my scales loose and shaped for this attack, I used my Aura Wave to give momentum to my scales, this time the shadows seemed more intelligent trying to deflect my attacks and they would have succeeded if it wasn’t even precise control over my scales making them all change direction.
The scales were all grouped in pairs with one behind the other, the first attack devastated the first layer of darkness revealing their bodies for half a second before the second scale went through the dark figures’ chest destroying their hearts.
I had little time to see their faces and with that, I confirmed that they all have different expressions like sadness, regret, hatred, fury, and so on, all negative emotions.
This time the next wave of shadowy figures didn’t wait for the previous one to completely melt away before attacking, as the various pockets of Starfire were burning the crumbling shadowy hearts, I was attacked from above by shadowy arms reaching towards me with sharp claws.
My Dragon claws grow even more with an Aura claw forming around it holding all these shadow arms before pulling them all together causing the shadows to collide with one of the city’s buildings, unfortunately, it didn’t have the result I expected, there was no collision against the building and its first layers of darkness did not disappear.
"So only I can deal damage in the shadows, the surrounding objects do nothing, I see." (I)
It seems like I can’t use terrain as a weapon, that won’t be a big problem, but it still limits my attack methods.
I run to a wider street that must be one of the main streets of the city while dragging these shadows holding their arms, passing through several side streets, I draw enough attention and with that other shadows appear and join in pursuit of me.
"RRROOOOAAAARRRRR!!!!" (I)
I concentrate my Aura and Essences in my lungs, mouth, and throat, but not for a breath attack, at least not for now, I do it to strengthen my voice as I release a roar mixed with my Aura and Chaos Essence as if it were a sonic attack that passes through every shadow in pursuit of me.
It was a type of attack that I hadn’t tried yet and if it worked I wouldn’t have been able to avoid it, my hopes were met when I saw the first layer of darkness disappear and that’s when I stopped running.
This time I released those shadows that I was dragging, launching them against the others chasing me, my hand injured by the attacks they made trying to free itself until now.
Unfortunately making the shadows collide with each other was impossible, thus reinforcing the thought that only I can deal damage to these shadow creatures.
During this time when I stopped running, I was already compressing my Aura, Authority, and Essence into my mouth, this time I would take advantage of this straight street to finish off the thousands of shadows expressed in pursuit now that my sonic attack seems to be over with its first layers of darkness.
"< Breath of the Ruler of Chaos >" (I)
The same breath attack I used against the Blood Creatures, but this time I was using it in the middle of a city, I didn’t just want to wipe out these damn shadow creatures, I wanted to destroy part of the city or destroy half of it at least to open up a bigger space for me, I could escape the city or at least get a more open area to fight without this complexity of terrain that favors these dark creatures.
When my breath attack wore off, I realized that it was far from causing the damage I intended, all the shadow creatures had been defeated, and their dark hearts were crumbling within the pockets of Starfire, but the rest of the city was reforming itself.
"You’ve got to be kidding me." (I)
The whole city was made of shadows, the cures, the buildings, and everything I could see are darkness and were reforming themselves before once again showing themselves as the parts of the city, it was as if my attack had done nothing to the city when I actually managed to destroy everything, I just didn’t expect all the damage to be reversed this way.
Soon thousands of rays of ascending light appear through the red crystal scales heading towards the sky, it was at that moment that I felt more shoulders approaching from my back, when I turned I saw shadows coming out of the windows, alleys, and side streets coming towards me.
"This is going to be a long day." (I)
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Hours later.
I don’t even know how many hours have passed, I have destroyed millions, perhaps even more than a billion, of these shadow creatures, I have already confirmed that just as the Blood Silhouettes affected my blood, these shadow creatures affect my emotions, the only difference is that the cumulative effect of the damage from the blood silhouettes before was an effect that added up to the interference with my blood, making it just a huge inconvenience.
The emotional damage from these dark creatures, on the other hand, was a cumulative damage that multiplied, if it had been anyone else I could have gone crazy with it, each time I realize more and more how much Caitlyn’s emotional training at that time was a lifesaver for me.
After having destroyed the last wave of dark creatures I didn’t feel another attack coming, I was happy thinking it could be over, but while I saw the last red crystal scales heading towards the sky.
"But what the hell is left to happen? I’ve already fought blood creatures and now shadow creatures." (I)
Unlike the blood creatures that grew stronger as the attack waves passed, but the dark creatures became more intelligent, in this last wave they even looked like the Insects coordinating together in coordinated attacks and defenses.
My body was very injured and these injuries take time to heal, without knowing what will come next, I start trying to heal myself using the Blood Transmutation Essence, a trick I learned here.
"You did very well, our deal is almost over." (Blood Sin)
"Hahahaha... how long have I waited for this... Hahahahahaha!" (Blood Sin)
"..." (I)
"(I have a bad feeling.)" (I)
