As Mattias is knees healed the horrors lunged before he could put react ,the first slammed him from the side to side like a flesh bag the It dug its teeth into his arm ,crunching through the skin before his regeneration could catch up. Mattias screamed catching the creatures head and then driving his knee into it repeatedly until the skull burst like rotten fruit.
The others didn't wait and jumped at his leg taking a bite out of it as even more joined and started to bites his body ,some screaming then colliding into him all at once.
Mattias twisting and tearing off his leg and arm he rolled putting some distance between them his hands regenerating the blackening again. He screamed like a mad man then slashed through one, crashing the ribs of another, tearing out the throat of the one that had taken his arm with his bare teeth.
Mattias screaming at the top of his lungs: You ugly bastard am gonna devour you all whole and leave not a drop of whatever that is in you?
A tail whipped across his back, sending him sprawling into the corpse of the wyrm. His breath left him in a hiss. Before he could rise, one horror pinned him by the chest. Its jaw unhinged, dripping red and white sludge that smelled like rot and iron.
Mattias: "Get. Off!"
He thrust his clawed hand upward, straight into its mouth, ripping through its skull and pulling out arm covered in what looked like brain matter
The creature convulsed, limbs twitching before going still.
Mattias led panting, surrounded by the a paddle black liquid, torn flesh, and faint violet mist rising from the corpse. His arms trembled, regeneration flickering slower than before.
Looking at the other monster Mattias throught"I feel… heavier… these things keep coming like ants they are needy endless if I keep going like this I will die and that bastard will take my body"
A horror lunging at him was met with his claws cutting it in half
Clap. Clap. Clap.
Manu clapped while laughing from above as he watched me struggling
Manu: "your going to get up numbered and then killed so why not just give me your body, I will save you for this ."
Mattias wiped blood from his face. "Go choke yourself... You damned thing."
Manu just smiled looked as Mattias was about to get attacked again by one of them
Manu:"let's make this more fun how about fighting them all at once"
Looking at Manu,Mattias felt genuine fear because he knows he isn't joking at all
With that facial expression on Mattias is face ,Manu smiled widely then started to sing and all the monsters turned to Mattias and started to rush at him
Mattias feeling his body shaking, took a deep breath then clenched his hands into fists. He didn't know how to fight or anything really; he didn't know why he wanted to live or if there was even a point. Yet he was going on an instinct he felt but looking at how he might actually die here he calmed himself and prepared to fight them all head on
Manu smiled, with casual interest, he watched to see if Mattias would create his own miracle and survive
with a clap as the horror now lunged at Mattias ,Manu said "let the feast begin"
The ground quaked as the horrors charged hundreds, maybe thousands, a storm of flesh, claws, and shrieks.
Mattias exhaled once. His pupils dilated as he rushed in to the horrors lunging at him.
The first horror reached him Mattias dodged then with a kick he crushed it's skull into its body aloud boom was echoing from the hit Alittle suprised by his strength again he has to dodge three more jumped at him almost taking his head as he dodged another lunged focusing again he dove his arm into its body and crushed whatever it calls a heart.
As he was removing his arm , tentacles trapped him in place as 7 more large horrors rushed to devour him his body panicing made him try to remove the tentacles quickly ripping free, he moved to the side dodging the largest of them it's claws shredding through the ground. His movements begun to get slower as this was alot
A beast the size of a carriage slammed him from behind, its claws carving through his ribs. Mattias coughed blood, twisted, and bit down on its throat hard. The creature shrieked, thrashing, but he didn't let go. He ripped until its flesh tore away in strands, until the taste of iron filled his mouth.
Another leapt. Mattias caught it midair, slammed it into the ground, and stomped its head until the ground cracked. His breath came ragged his eyes burned with black fire.
Mattias: "You damned things"
Dozens answered They piled onto him, a sea of limbs and teeth. His body disappeared beneath them. The mass shifted, shrieking and snapping then exploded outward as Mattias erupted from beneath the heap. His claws extended longer than before.
Chunks of meat and bone scattered across the black earth.
He staggered, half his body missing, but his regeneration fought to keep up bones snapping back into place skin bubbling as it reformed.
Manu hovered above, clapping slowly, voice echoing like silk dipped in mockery.
Manu: "Oh, splendid! I didn't know you had it in you, little half breed. Look at you killing them like this your more like me then I throught."
Mattias panted, his gaze trembling between rage and exhaustion. "I'm.. nothing like you ...whatever you are"
Manu: "is that so" He laughed, eyes gleaming gold. "but you tore them apart limb by limb"
Mattias snarled, charging again.
He tore through the front lines ignoring broken his regenerating limbs. His claws raked through another horror's stomach he caught the intestines before they hit the ground and whipped them across another creature's face.
Mattias: I will never be like yo...
But even he could finish his words the pull in his soul, that cursed chain Manu had placed within him tightening. His vision blurred. His body wavered.
Still, he roared through it. "what the hell are you doing"
He felt his insides burn up as the black goo poured out he had pushed his newly found strength to far and this was a back leash as he struggled to stay standing a horror hit him to the side as he layed about to die he struggled to get up again and as he tried a horror hit him down or tore a piece of his flesh or a limb
Mattias(thinking): "I don't want to die not like this I just got the power to survive after being only prey to these things I don't want to no am not going to I refuse to die to them again"
He leapt like a rabid animal deprived of all opinions he just wanted to survive and with that he slammed both claws into the horror's skull, and split it clean in two. The silence that followed was thick only his ragged breathing and the dripping of black blood filled the void.
Manu laughed lightly at his animalistic behaviour beside him a horror took a bite from his shoulder. He held it by the head and impaled it's chest holding out a severed piece of flesh torn from one of the horrors. It still twitched faintly.
As he looked at the still several horrors he felt the hopelessness of this situation and as he removed his hand from the horror is corpse he was pinned down by a different horror giving up he just laid their as more and more jumped on him devouring his limbs and opening his insides as his organs were crushed and pulled out all he could do was nothing as he felt his soul slowly get removed from his body as the chains pulled his soul
Manu landed from above and killed the horrors in the area with a wave of his wing I fused with that strange energy again crouching next to the mutilated corpse of Mattias he looked sad as he spoke "You died. I'm honestly disappointed I througt you might actually suprise me."
He smiled softly "I honestly wanted you to survive "
As the black goo started to rebuild Mattias is body his soul was still getting pulled out of his body,Manu stared at his body healing
Manu:"do something... Anything... Just don't tell me you were a waste of time"