"I accept your challenge, Frozen King!" – Shouted Nameless pointing his lance towards Victor's face.
The King was visibly displeased. 'This should have been the moment to consolidate my prestige, but even a not awakened outsider's kid dares to disrespect me!'
"Since I'm a very magnanimous person, I wanted to spare your life if you begged for mercy…" – Suddenly a sound of sliced air could be heard from inside the palace. A huge sword flew at high speed from the huge door and landed with its handle right into Victor's hand. – "…But after seeing your fighting spirit, I decided to kill you in the end of this fight as a sign of respect from me, Kid." – He grinned evilly.
'Bastard.'
Nameless was angry, but the fear of imminent death was now completely gone. 'Maybe I will survive…'
With this last thought his head became very clear and every single muscle in his body bulged for a second.
He dashed forward and arrogantly thrusted his spear right in the Victor's face.
Victor made a single step to dodge the spearhead. 'Haha, even if I don't use my energy, my senses are still more developed…' But suddenly the tip pf the spear slightly trembled.
Nameless's arm became covered by a web of swelled vines but he managed to completely stop the thrust and slash sideward towards Victor's eye.
"ARGHH"
Nameless was sent flying while vomiting blood. Victor managed to avoid the first change of direction of the spear and punched the boy on the abdomen.
'Damn, that bastard is fast.' Thought the boy.
Victor also wasn't happy. – "You're good."
'To think that this brat managed to stop at least half of the force in my punch by blocking it with knee and elbow in the same time…'
He had to stop marveling because the already familiar spear was about to pierce his liver. – "Here I come, bastard." – Nameless had a hideous appearance with clothes covered by his own blood and partially bloodshot eyes.
"How dare you…" – Victor became enraged but had to dodge immediately.
'First direction…left' The spear followed closely in the direction of the dodge. Victor jumped to avoid the slash on his legs. 'Second direction…up' The spearhead was thrusted the moment Victor was about to jump.
'Damn! He anticipated me!' – He couldn't dodge in midair. – "THE GAMES ARE OVER KID!"
Nameless only heard a sound of slicing and instinctively retracted the spear to defend.
He was immediately forced many steps back.
Victor was where with his sword in front of him. Nameless saw some blood on the blade. Suddenly the spear in his hands crumbled in many pieces.
"AAAAAH!"
Ah excruciating sensation of pain from his abdomen made him scream and look down. A long red line appeared on his clothes and was expanding slowly like ink on the piece of paper.
This sort of pain was something very new to him and his was ready abandon everything and surrender…But he suddenly recalled the gaze of Captain in looked in his direction. John was observing impassibly but then Nameless threw him a pained glance he smiled and nodded.
'Damn…F*ck…Ok…'
"No…surrender…" – He quietly said and took out his dagger. His vision started becoming cloudy from the blood loss.
Victor observed his internal struggle and slowly went towards him. – "You have some spirit, Boy…" – Then he turned towards the Captain John. – "Such a pity for him to die for your cause."
The boy was feeling more and more dizzy.
The King raised his sword above Nameless head.
Nameless heard the familiar sound of air being sliced apart by the sword's edge.
'Damn, my body won't move…dodge…move…MOOOVE!'
[…]
Some minutes passed. 'Is that Victor so good to have sent me to underworld without me even noticing?'
Nameless slowly opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" – Was his first question. The surroundings were blurry and the only thing he could clearly see was the road he was standing in the middle of.
There was no vegetation or animals and silence reigned uncontested.
[Follow the road!]
"What? Who just talked?" – He looked around but there was no one.
[Follow the road!]
"Show your self…"
[FOLLOW THE ROAD!] – This time the voice made the ground tremble and the road behind his back started becoming blurry as the rest of the surroundings.
"Ok, ok, don't be angry…" – Nameless could only comply and go along the road. Time to time he looked back but the blurriness followed closely behind.
After some time then seamed to him very long but could be even very short suddenly a huge building popped up in front of him.
"What a hell! I didn't saw such a huge building?'
He stopped for a moment to observe it. Suddenly one element attracted his attention.
"Through ethereal glory to eternal sublimity…" – He read the inscription above the entrance.
'Just like at Shurika's palace…But here there is another part. Pity that it's blurry.'
'How is this place connected to Shurika…How I'm connected to it…'
Some questions started brewing inside his mind, but the quick advancement of blurriness made him go immediately on.
The insides were dark, and nothing could be seen but suddenly, in the same moment when he stepped inside the door behind him closed and a appeared a row of, illuminated by the light, podiums.
[Choose only one!]
The same voice appeared in this hall.
Nameless slowly walked forward near the first podium. On top of it he saw something like a golden sun. Majestic and dignified were the first two words he could think about to describe it.
Above the second podium there was a drop of blood floating right in the air. It seamed to be a pure amalgamation of malice and evil to Nameless.
The third podium had a tear drop floating above it…
The fourth one…
The seventh one…
The tenth…
[…]
"Just how should I choose?! They all seam good to me. Damn it all…" – Suddenly in this moment he heard a crackling sound of a burning flame. Nameless followed the sound leaving behind some podiums.
"That's at least somehow different."
On the other podiums the object exposed was motionless, frozen, but this one was a huge burning flame. 'Such a beautiful purple flame…Hmm?'
Another difference was that the flame wasn't burning above the podium, but it was already consuming the podium itself.
Covered in a web of cracks it was about to crumble.
"Hei, Voice, I choose this one!" – From the moment he saw the purple fire he was sure about his choice. 'At least it's different from other things here…seems more powerful.'
[Place your hand on the podium!]
"What? Wouldn't it burn me…?" – Then he sighed. 'Whatever…' And he placed his hand on the podium which suddenly crumbled into finest dust. The fire instead started burning inside his and was slowly absorbed inside.
"Voice, but what is this thing that I chose?"
[Your BLOODLINE!]
"WHAT?! My bloodline? What do you mean…" – Everything became blurry around him and the hall disappeared.
[…]
Victor slashed down. He was already rejoicing for this kid's death. 'No one can disrespect me! NO ONE!'
But he suddenly froze. Instead of the sound of the sword cutting through the flesh he heard something entirely else.
*Clang*
A metal hitting metal.
Captain's eyes were open wide. – "That's impossible!" – Then he started laughing.
The rest of his men were also surprised.
"The Kid managed to awaken his bloodline. James will be happy…" – Mumbled Doctor.
Victor's sword was stopped by a simple black dagger. Its blade was covered by a beautiful purple flame. Nameless whole figure was burning.
He looked directly in the King's eyes. Victor's pupils shrunk. The only thing he saw were purple flames. He sensed that they were slowly eroding his own energy.
Victor wanted to pull back the blade.
Suddenly the flames surrounding Nameless's body converged towards the dagger and were absorbed by it.
He felt extremely weak in this moment but still he knew that he had one last thing to do.
"[Attack]"
The moment purple flames entered the dagger he felt its consciousness. It asked for his purple flames and promised to hurt Victor in exchange.
Suddenly behind his small body appeared a transparent body of an extremely huge creature. The only distinguishable trait it had were its tentacles.
*WHUUUUUUUU*
It made a sound which seamed originating from the bottom of the sea and grabbed Victor with one tentacle.
The next moment the tentacle started burning with purple.
Victor screamed from pain.
These flames used part of his own energy to fuel itself. It was like if his own flesh was forcefully torn away from his body.
"AAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!"
"[GOD'S VESSEL!!!]"
An extremely massive amount power erupted from his body accompanied by five pairs of massive wings, and vanquished the tentacle holding him. His eyes became completely azure and emotionless.
He floated towards Nameless.
'Damn! I'm about to lose consciousness…'
Victor pointed at him with his sword and shot a ray of blue energy from its tip.
*BOOOOOM*
When the dust subsided, there was a figure with his hand extend. Behind him on the ground was Nameless.
"Your Godly Majesty! You lost." – There were some clear notes of anger in Captain's voice.
Victor, possessed by the God, floated motionless.
"You indeed won, Ocean Lord. I shall grant you the passage towards the Fourth Island."
"I'm grateful to you!"
"Be grateful to the luck of the boy behind you! Tomorrow morning you will leave this island, Outsider."
He gestured for the remaining God Guards to follow him and flew inside the palace.
The audience also leaved the square.
John looked towards the boy still unconscious, laying on the ground.
'An interesting boy!'