Edana and Slem just stared at Zane, unsure about what to say, but they didn't have to. "Let's go, he said the Saint went outside. Maybe he has my diary." Zane grabbed their shoulders and turned them towards the door. Shaking their heads, they started walking towards the door of the hall, while Zane followed them from behind.
Edana and Slem glanced at the corpse of Alec and moved, but Zane stopped in front of the corpse. "Hmm..." He contemplated for a moment, looking at the shadow of the corpse.
Grinning with his sharp teeth, Zane moved his shadow towards Alec's. His shadow opened it's mouth wide, chomping down on Alec's. *Chomp Chomp Chomp* He fed on the shadow essence. After three or four bites, Zane was hit by a sudden jolt of indescribable pain throughout his body. "AARGH" He fell down on the ground in an instant and started struggling, like a fish out of water.
"Brother Zane!" Slem immediately turned back and reached Zane, with Edana following closely behind him.
Zanes wounds slowly started changing color, becoming black. "URGH" Zane clenched his teeth to bear the pain.
"What happened?" Slem panicked, looking at Zane who was struggling. Edana looked at his wounds, especially the one made from Alec's spit. "Maybe there was poison in his attacks..." She answered.
Slem immediately turned his whole body into slime and jumped on Zane, covering his body from head to toe. Struggling for a bit, Zane fell unconscious.
After some time, Zane finally opened his eyes, Slem and Edana on his side. "What happened?" He asked looking at Edana.
"We don't know... You began screaming suddenly and fell down. I think his attacks had a poison effect." Edana replied.
"Uhh..." Zane stood up with them helping him and looked at Alec's corpse. "Poison huh...." He looked at his shadow, unsettled by something. Closing his eyes and checking his condition, he found out that now he was at the peak of Heart Core, just nearly breaking through to eye level.
"Let's go.. We have wasted enough time here." He looked at his wounds and turned towards Slem, who looked tired and barely awake. "Thank you Slem.." He ruffled his hair.
He stood up and looked towards the gate. Carrying his bag behind his back, he started walking towards the door, Edana and Slem in tow.
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Outside the church, everyone was bombarding the Saint with all that they had. They threw every kind of
Thorn was kneeling down on the ground, Haskell's dead body on his arms. "No... Haskell..."
Vine appeared beside Thorn and put his hand on his shoulder. "Thorn...."
Thorn turned his head towards Vine. "This is not the time to grieve. You must use the finger, else those who can be saved will also fall..." Vine advised in a heavy voice.
Thorn turned towards the battlefield, looking at everyone who were attacking the Saint with their
Nodding his head, Thorn carefully placed Haskell on the ground and stood up. He reached inside his pocket and brought out the waxed finger.
"Buck!" He called out to Buck, who turned his head towards him. "Can you distract the Saint?" He showed the finger to him.
"Leave him to me." Buck nodded and charged towards the Saint. "Back me up!" He cried out to the leaders, his hands glowing blue from the inside.
Fixing his posture and charging his fists, he used all his strength and threw a glowing punch towards the Saint.
The Saint raised his hand up and grabbed Buck's fist. *BOOM* A shining blue light flashed when Buck's fist met the Saint's hand, causing everyone to squint their eyes and turn their heads.
The numerous eyes on the Saint's head also closed for a moment. Buck tried to pull his hand back, but the Saint's grab was so powerful, he could not get out of it.
"Annoying...insect..." The Saint spoke to Buck in his grotesque voice. "This... is a punch..." He clenched his hand into a fist and moved it towards Buck's stomach.
Although the punch looked slow, Buck had no way of blocking or dodging. The fist connected with Buck's stomach, which he reinforced with his essence at the last moment, making it glow blue.
*BAM* The fist sent Buck flying backwards and crashing on the ground.
*Stab* A blue glowed dagger stabbed into the Saint's shoulder, spilling out his red blood, which was imbued in a soft orange hue.
His eyes enraged, the Saint slowly turned his head towards the one who stabbed him from the back. It was Price who stabbed him.
As soon as he was successful in stabbing him, Price left his dagger and backed away from the Saint. But the Saint was too fast.
He appeared in front of Price and grabbed him by his head. "You..."
The knights and leaders rushed towards them, using their
"You were...the first... in a long... to injure me...." The Saint looked at him, his eyes showing a hint of amusement. Asa rushed towards them in panic, throwing short daggers made of blue flame towards the Saint's back.
"Tell... me your... name" The Saint urged Price, who could only open his mouth, no sound coming out of it. "Hahaha... a Dumb insect?" The amusement from his eyes faded away. "You don't... need this then..." He reached his free hand towards Price's mouth and inserted his fingers.
"NOOOOO" Asa cried out, now behind the Saint. She too, stabbed her glowing dagger on his back, but it was of no use, the dagger would bounce back each time she stabbed it.
The Saint grabbed the tongue of Price, who was struggling and trying to get out from his grasp. Seeing Asa behind the Saint, Price stopped struggling and signed towards Asa. "No...." Asa stopped trying to attack the Saint and looked at Price, dropping the dagger from her hand. Price was still signing at Asa, and after he finished, his eyes gazed towards her in a curve, like he was smiling.
*Spurt.* Blood gushed from his mouth as the Saint pulled his tongue out with his fingers. He removed his hand from Price's head, dropping his body on the ground. "NOO" Asa rushed towards his body and embraced it, tears streaming down her face.
"Love?..." The Saint looked at Asa, holding Price's lifeless body in her embrace. He moved towards Asa and pointed his finger at her. Asa looked at Price and smiled, grabbing his hand. *Splurt* A red line went through Asa's head, spraying out blood. After a second, Asa's body also fell down, on top of Price.
*BAM* The Saint was hit by a sudden punch from behind. It was Buck again, his mouth full of blood, but his face enraged. A blue spear also attacked the Saint from his side, which he dodged with minimal movement. Then a bolt of blue flame hit the Saint from behind. It was Lonz and Roe who came to back up Buck.
Buck once again threw a punch with his glowing fists towards the Saint, which he easily dodged and counterattacked, pushing Buck away from him. He dodged his head again, right when Lonz's spear was about to touch him. He flicked his finger on the blade of the spear, destroying it instantly.
*Bam Bam Bam Bam* Multiple flame bolts hit the Saint from behind, covering him in a cloud of smokes again. After the cloud of smokes died, the Saint was about to move towards Roe.
"BUCK! A shout rang out from afar, causing the Saint to stop on his tracks. He felt a great amount of danger from the source of the voice. Turning towards the voice, he could see Thorn pointing a finger towards him. Widening his eyes, he tried to move, but Buck was already grabbing his body and legs firmly.
The Saint clenched his bloody teeth. He was about to remove Buck's grasp, but it was too late. The black starry light had already reached him.