[Im back. Had a bad case of the unammed_thing.mp4. So yeah, chapter woo.]
"So, why are we here again?" Ophis asks for maybe the seventeenth time this hour. "Because I don't need this town anymore, I might as well just kill Liu Bei for the hell of it and take all of the townspeople to Yang Guang's territory. It will make everything a hell of a lot easier. Plus Liu Bei's a prick and I want to slap him around a bit." Ophis smiles and laughs a bit. "Good point, he is a bit of an ass. It would be fun to beat the shit out of him for a bit." I nod as we walk up to the castle gate, I was about to raise my voice but I was interrupted by an old man walking towards us.
"May I ask your business here young man?" The old man says, his hand wrapped behind his back. I would've described him as feeble if my instincts weren't sending off danger signals every second, there is no way he is simply an old man. "I am here to have an audience with Liu Bei, so I would be grateful if you moved out of the way." The old man sighed before looking at me.
He then launched at me and tried to stab me in the throat with his hand. I grab his wrist and toss him over my shoulder but he landed on his feet and slid back. "Oh? My client told me you knew how to fight but I didn't expect you to react fast enough. My name is Li Shuwen, and I have been given order to kill you. Forgive me." I grab the kama's off my back and form them back into their glaive form. "I expected to meet you sooner or later, Li Shuwen, but I expected you to be a bit more rabid. After all, I heard you used to be a spearman like myself, a beast on the battlefield, but it seems that you are nothing more than a pathetic old man. Now let's start fighting before your bones start creaking, I'd rather not finish this fight when you're in a wheelchair."
He doesn't say anything and runs at me, I swipe at him but he ducks underneath the swing and strikes up at me with his palm, I dodge to the side and raise my foot before bringing down my heel on his back. He groans and rolls away, dodging my stab. "Hurg, perhaps I underestimated you, I expected you to just be some cocky man who knows some stuff. Seems you know what you're doing, oh this makes my old blood boil!" He runs at me again, he stabs at my head but I dodge and elbow him in the stomach launching him back, I run at him and kick him in the head before stabbing him in the stomach with my glaive. Instead of groaning he laughs and grabs me. "This is what I needed! A life or death fight with a talented man such as yourself, now let's fight without restrictions!" He yells before he punches me in the throat, grabs me by the arm and throws me away.
I stand up and grab my throat and regain my breath, I look back up at the old man only to see the hole in his stomach regrowing and stitching itself back together. "Fine then, let's dance old man!" I yell as we both run at each other. He strikes at my heart but I grab his arm with my left hand and use my other hand to punch his elbow and break his arm, making the bone pierce through his flesh. He pushes through the pain and elbows me in the stomach causing me to stagger back a bit, he takes the opportunity to palm strike me on the chin. I move to the side and dodge before using my darkness magic to blind him. I then slap my hands on the ground and raise myself up on a pillar of dirt, using the time to start a spell.
"Strike, Kaminari no Hashira!" I yell as I bring down a pillar of lightning unto him, scorching his body and burning off his skin. Yet he still somehow gets up, his body regrowing from the ashes on the dirt. "So, mind telling me how the fuck you are still alive!" I yell from atop my pillar, he chuckles and jumps up to me. "Magic!" He yells as he punches me off the pillar and into the air, he uses the pillar as a support and jumps off off it towards me. I smirk and pull out my wings and fly around and then above him, I infuse myself with a fire and air rune and dive bomb him, turning us into a meteorite. Right before we hit the ground I flap my wings so I don't turn myself into a puddle of tomato sauce. Sending him into the earth and leaving me with a few burn marks. "That's three lives old man, I wonder how many more you have."
"Oh trust me, I have plenty more left!" He yells as he runs out at me and strikes me out of the air, before slamming both of his fists on my chest, cracking some of my scales. "Rragh!" I growl as I put my knees to my chest and kick him into the air, I stand up and throw a ball of fire at him, I sharpen my nails and wait for him. He does what I thought we would and runs towards me again, I dodge to the side of his punch and slash at his neck, cutting it off, yet his body still moved and kicked at my side. I took the kick and elbowed his knee, snapping it in half before sharpening my nails and shoving my arm through his stomach before using lightning and shocking him from the inside.
I let his body fall to the floor and prepare for him to revive again, but nothing happens. Then something strikes me in the back of the head and launches me into the ground then the thing starts pelting my back with multiple blows, cracking some of my scales again. I roar and flip around and kick the thing that was hitting me, it was Li Shuwen again, it appears he regrew from his head this time.
He runs at me again, I grab my glaive and cut him in half but he connects his two halves back together and punches at me, I dodge to the side and grip my glaive tight. "HAH!" I yell as I dice his body into multiple pieces, turning him into a smoothie. But he simply reappears out of the pile and runs at me again, but as I swing my glaive at him he stomps the ground and forces me too loose my balance allowing him to stab into my chest with his hand, breaking my scales and piercing my body.
"Gurgh!"
"Hahaha! What's wrong man, how come this old man is whooping your ass right now! I thought you were supposed to be strong!" He yells as he continues forcing his arm deeper through my chest, but I snicker and grab his head and shove my thumbs in his eyes. I then force dark magic through his eyes and flood his body, but he laughs and grips my neck. "Oh? What was that puny ass magic supposed to do?! Just sting a little!" I just smirk. "Die."
Then a black jaw appears from underneath him and swallows him whole. I grab the arm that remained and throw it, but not destroying it, shortly after his body reforms from the arm with him breathing heavily and gasping for air. "So old man, what was that about my magic being weak?"
He just scoffs and runs at me again, but I just grab both his arms and look him in the eyes. "Magic is versatile, you know? Not every spell has an immediate effect, especially dark magic." He pushes me away and dashes back before running at me again, he throws a punch at me, but his arm passes by my face. He looks at his arm before throwing his other fist at me, with it also grazing just by my face. I look at him and laugh as he continually launches punch after punch towards my face with each punch failing to connect.
"How does it feel, having no control over your own body, you're no more than a puppet to me now." I say as I lift my hands up, which also lift his body into the air. "Dark magic is very weird. It really doesn't have a single 'type'. It has offensive, defensive, and supportive ways to use it. It can even mimic certain types of magic. Such as gravity and telekinesis magic…" I then push my hands closer to each other which makes his arms press against each other. Then I use the magic to make his arms stretch further and further. Making his arm bend in weird angle, I then make him snap his own neck with magic.
He got back up once again but the darkness was still in his arms. So I raised him in the air, as if nailed to an invisible cross. "Now, what do you think would happen if I seeped the darkness straight into your brain? Hehehehe... You're going to be my guinea pig for the next couple hours, I hope you have a good pain tolerance~. Now... stay still, little rat."