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Chapter 8 - Grasping Hope

"I see that you're getting too comfy snuggling in your pitiful fire, but unlike you. I was a daredevil who eat the ashes of junk just to save my ass"

The stage is set

Zoi Antido reacted to my playful mockery. It summoned two giant humanoid figures of the azure blaze. Standby at its side waited for my action — guarded its king, illuminated the ground as it sucked all of the natural colors

Upon a small realization, I've noticed my lack of striking power.

After the overly cautious action made by the Zoi Antido. I searched for anything useable to add to my arsenal, I ran and picked up a pickable hard stone with my left hand. Carried the wooden spear with the right hand

Just to be safe. Better not damaged my wooden spear yet, and saved it for the killing blow

...

Both of the opposing sides didn't make a single action for a goddamn one minute straight

"Oy SHEEP! you're hitting my nerve by looking stupid with that bodyguard of yours!"

I can't spend any more times to stood here menacingly

Tired of this bullshit, my hand consciously threw the rock out of anger

It hit the Zoi Antido skull

The Zoi Antido flinched

It was angered

"Uhm sorry about that"

The blazed figure responded extremely, chased me circled the Zoi Antido inside the barrier to the separated wilderness

One of them blasted a wave of blue fire so many times to protect its cowardly king. The other chased me like a madman

"WHY ARE YOU SO COWARD!? FIGHT ME ONE BY ONE GODDAMMIT!!"

Many of the flame waves almost burn me alive if the ground soil isn't tender and moist. I Throw the soil from the ground every time one of them tried to send a flame wave, but the dust cloud doesn't fully block the flame wave and I started to feel a sharp pain in some part of my skin

I tried the surprisingly-worked tactic again by picking a sizeable rock and one-handed pitch it into the Zoi Antido

It dodged the rock

The blue-blazed figures vanished as soon the Zoi Antido moved from its position

"Oh dear deer, I didn't know you can't multitask"

I take this chance and rush in

The inhuman sized deer kicked me like a horse, broken one of my ribs bone

It goes for a finishing move and made a flaming blue spear out of thin air, but I bitterly dodged at the last second as it pierced the ground

The end is nigh, I can — no, I must end this as soon as possible

Zoi Antido once again summon the hideous visceral demon in front of it

The mythical deer can't do anything while fiddled with its power. I once again risked everything to settle this fight

In the midst of materializing. I brazenly leaped inside the blue flame

The deer was shocked by my unpredictable action and doesn't have the time to react

"This is the end ..."

It didn't pierce it

The blazing blue flame from the Zoi Antido vanished, then thick crystalized hide arose from the flame. Rendered me lifeless as my glimpse of hope shattered. The deer saw me in awe — it waited for my action with forbearance. I saw myself as pathetic, this is an incoherent fight all along. My skin burned in charcoal blue. I can hold the pain, but I don't like it when everything turned hopeless ...

With all of that in mind

"How can I kill you?"

The Zoi Antido antler propelled a luminous energy backward

It made an ethereal curved bright flame from its antler end and burned glamorously — It gleamed in brilliant yellow

"You also made up your mind huh?"

The Zoi Antido finally take its first stance. It was ready to charge

"Come at me"

With its antler on the front. The deer finally made its first genuine attack. The path behind it was scorched by a vibrant glow

My wooden spear broke into two when I tried to guard the charge

The vicious heartbeat won't stop

A split second after the strike. In the air, my pulsating right arm forcefully grabbed the spearhead with the coated toxin

'Be glad that it was useful in the end'

'I won't make the same mistake'

The moment of miracle. I brutally thrust the spearhead into the Zoi Antido's neck. It savagely smashed the air and the deer body as it was bounced back to the ground with the wooden spearhead pierced still on the neck

My right arm blood vein burst. I've reached my limit. My body was launched into a tree after that — my eyes coated with blood, but I can see the fearsome deer paralyzed by the toxin in the crimson red vision. A good time to smile

It was a blissful moment

Until it twisted dark

I felt something important is leaving my body

[The User Soul is in disintegrating state]|

Dust of crystal smoke

I felt like it will be the end of it, if the vaporized blue dust has completely left my whole body

...

I can't let it go...

I have to take it back!

The knot between life and death. My dying and lifeless carcass clung to the rope. As my hand unconsciously grasped the blue dust and hold it together to keep it from disappearing

Until...

I was brought back into my own vessel

"UarghgaaAAAA"

I let out a painful groan

Everything that I hold came back to me. The overused muscles, the pain of the scorched skin, the headache from stress, the overflowing heartache ...

I have reclaimed my soul

[A possible Eous has grown in the User body]|

[The keyword [Eous] can be accessed]|

This is not enough

I need more!

"GHUAAAA"

A surge of unknown energy came from the Zoi Antido. It filled every tiny corner of my body, but it can't hold everything. The unknown energy keep surged in like a waterfall, it broke the dam and keep filling and filling

[The mana capacity has been increased]|

It still going, the excess of it pushed my wound, until eventually

Every wound on my body was healed

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