What the hell are you?
Those words lingered in his mind.
Because he truly didn't know either.
The Lich said he wasn't fully human anymore.
There's no time to think about this stuff. He had to deal with this fucker first.
He had never been in a fight before. Now his first fight was a life or death fight with magic.
In an instant, the demon boy disappeared.
He reappeared in front of him, claws making contact with his torso.
Ulric was sent flying, crashing through wooden house after wooden house. Destroying what little remained of the village.
Surprisingly, he came out relatively unharmed. Only some blood dripping down the side of his brow.
"You're pretty durable, aren't you? Demon boy said, his tone one of boredom. "Why don't you show me some of that weird magic of yours that I'm feeling?"
Slightly raising his hand above his head. Mana started to form above the demons head, as six curved blades of red mana formed behind his shoulders.
Ulric had never been in a fight before, even worse he was now in a battle where magic spells were cast.
He knew no spells for his abilities, he was at a clear disadvantage. But he had no choice but to fight.
Lowering his stance, he stretched both hands out, dark green energy manifested at his palms, as he screamed out the only words that came to mind.
"Toasty, Roasty, Extra bright, Turn this fool to extra burnt barbecue tonight! EXPLOOODING FIREBALL!!!"
A weak pathetic small cloud of dark green energy came out of his hands.
At that moment, he cursed The Lich in his head for not giving him some pointers on how his magic works.
That Skeleton bitch! Couldn't he have given me a quick tutorial on his powers?
His thoughts were cut short as a curved red blade made from mana sped towards him.
Ulric dodged to the side by rolling behind a wagon one of the villagers used for trade.
The second blade swiftly cut through the wagon, exposing him. The demon boy immediately appeared in front of him, a curved red mana blade in hand, swinging down at his head.
Before the mana blade reached him. The moment it entered the space around him, its surface flickered.
Cracks spread all over the mana blade. Immediately shattering the mana blade into fragments before reaching his head.
A second curved mana blade appeared in his hand. Striking down at an intense speed, immediate cracks formed around the blade, shattering into fragments aswell.
Wings spread from the Demon boys back, as he flew a bit above the ground...thinking.
He had no idea why his mana blades shattered. Until he noticed something alongside his prey.
The grass beneath where Ulric was laying. It was slowly losing its green color and started to wither away. The trade wagon he was using to support himself with, the wood was darkening.
He had a slight idea of what it might be. But he needed to make sure first.
With his fifth curved mana blade, he sent it flying directly towards him.
Ulric, with the reaction time of a sloth, dodged just in time, falling to the side face first.
The mana blade stabbed deep into the dirt beside him. Cracks slowly formed around it, before it shattered.
"That confirms it," the demon boy said as he descended back down directly next to Ulric. " Your mana...is rotting mine."
"You don't even notice it yourself...the mana leaking out of your body, it's slowly decaying everything around you."
"Thank you for the entertainment, but i'll be ending you know."
A sixth curved mana blade formed in his right hand, slowly rising it up high above his head.
Before he could swing it down, something unexpected happened.
"SPECIAL ATTACK, POCKET FENT!!!"
A handful of dirt and dust that Ulric grabbed while the demon was doing his villain speech.
The dust and dirt immediately fucked up the demons vision.
Ulric used this opportunity for the meanest right hook of his life.
His fist connecting to the side of the demons cheek. Making him stumble backwards.
"AAAHHH!!!...You little shit!" The demon roared in anger.
The sixth curved mana blade in his hand erupted with a dark black flame coating around it.
"I'll Fucking Kill You!!!" he roared as he charged towards him, eyes red with some tears leaking through, he swung the blade down. Trying to end it in one strike.
He even has Amaterasu? Its over...my life in this world is already done. Nothing he could do as he just put his hands up trying to block his face from the attack.
In that moment, his veins glowed, and his body reacted on its own. As a dark green energy erupted between his hands. Exploding between both of them, sending them both flying back, crashing through wooden houses and debris.
The green grass field, once full of life, was now a dark black field full of dead grass.
Ulric, emerging first from the debris, sensed the power in his body.
He didn't know how to control this power.
He didn't know any spells.
So he tried something.
He visualised it.
Something he saw before in an anime.
He focused on his veins. Trying to flow the power upward to his fingertips.
Emerging from a destroyed wooden house. With his red robe charred black from the earlier explosion, black flaming sword still in hand.
He felt it...something strange, something he's never felt before in all his years of life.
Looking across the field, he saw him, the one he once considered prey.
He felt the power at his fingertips, slowly lifting them. Shaping his hands as if he were holding a bow.
Dark green energy formed between his fingertips, as an arrow of dark green energy formed.
He looked calmly at the demon across from him. Aiming directly at him, he clenched his but cheeks together before saying.
Verfallzauber Arrow
It all seemed like a blur to him. He was just about to cleave this humans head off with his blade, the next moment, he felt a small piercing sensation hit his right shoulder.
It didn't hurt at all.
"That was it?" The demon boy asked. "A weak attack like that wont affect me-"
His arm holding his flaming, curved mana blade dropped loosely at his side.
"...What?"
Cracks slowly forming around the mana blade.
The demon noticed it. The wound the arrow left on his shoulder started to darken his skin around the wound. Dark veins and cracks started to slowly spread across his body.
The demon lifted his left hand, gathering mana, trying to summon another mana blade.
The mana gathered for a moment before it collapsed.
His golden eyes widened in shock and panic as the cracks spread across his arm.
"This...This isn't possible."
The cracks reached the right side of his face, making him look utterly disgusting to look at.
Without a second thought or even the chance to look away, the cracked skin on his arm and face peeled off, showing half of his skull.
Without another word, his body immediately crumbled, and his body disintegrated as the decay took over his body.
Ending him.
Silence fell over the field.
The ground where the demon boy fell slowly darkened, the once green grass crumbling into dust.
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End of Chapter 4
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