The two monsters stood back to back in the center of the grand hallway one faced Niss and Curt, the beast construct. The other, a disgusting floating brain with an eye bolted into it was facing Lys and Siarra.
Curt was still supporting Niss with one hand, trying to continue to circulate his healing aura. Niss had forced them to action as soon as he could move even though Curt wanted to him to stay put.
'Trust them. Trust them. Trust them Niss.' He told himself.
"Curt were finishing this thing before we get to them." Niss stepped away from Curt, summoning his chains and wrapping his arm and his kama.
"Okay, I wont stop channeling healing just don't get to far from me." Curt assumed a confident stance, once again pushing up his glasses. He grabbed the mace he carried with him off his belt and kept one hand free to clutch the amulet that let him heal within a short radius.
"Sighhhh," Niss let out a long and deep breath.
Standing in a wide stance feet apart, no shirt on, his chest rose and fell as he concentrated deeply for a moment.
"Launch me." He said without looking at Curt.
WHOOSH!!!!
Niss went flying through the air towards the beast, he was angry, he wouldn't lose like this, he wouldn't lose again ever, he wouldn't let his friends get hurt, he built up his rage at this messed up world, silently unraveling all the pain of his life from his birth until now he subconsciously pulled forth every painful emotion he had ever felt and poured everything into his fist.
He was a flash of light, from where he stood directly to the front of the beast there was only a lightning fast streak of red, black and purple.
BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!
Landing an uppercut directly below the beasts beak, its head shot upwards. The front of the beast was blown a meter into the air it's front paws lifting off the ground its head thrown back, revealing it's neck.
SWISH!
SLASH!
WHOOSH!
SHINK!
With a few merciless and deadly swings Niss cut deep into the beasts throat before it slumped forward unable to land on its front paws it's head smacked against the ground beside Niss.
"ppfffttt." Niss made a dismissive and belittling verbal expression to the dead beast before raising his eyes past it to look at the messed up flying brain creature.
"Your turn." he mumbled.
Siarra and Lys were completely out of mana, if they tried anymore spells they would fall into backlash and surely die. They were backpedaling knowing that Niss and Curt would get to them as fast as they could.
WHOOSH!
Black blood sprayed all over Lys and Siarra covering their faces and drenching their fancy robes.
THUNK. Splat.
"Sigh"
Niss stood atop the blue brain, no longer floating, it had the kama pierced all the way from the cerebral cortex through the front of the brain and the tip just barely poked out of the lifeless eye.
Niss was covered in the black blood as well, it dyed his pants black all the way to the waist band which was soaked with his own red blood. He was shirtless and his muscles still rippled underneath his skin from his aura infusion, he looked like a crazed warrior with the chain hanging down from his arm connecting to his kama still imbedded in the brain. His purple eyes shone brightly and his fluffy hair tousled around before his eyes flickered and his body swayed, falling limply backwards off the top of the dead brain.
"Niss!" Siarra shouted as he fell out of sight, blocked by the dead beast and the brain.
"I got him, he just passed out." Curt responded.
"Jeez, he always does this." She said.
"Well we have to admit he is really impressive when he pushes his limits like that." Lys said to the both of them.
"Well its dangerous!" Siarra tried to plea with them but they just laughed it off.
"That's who Niss is. He would die a thousand times before he let one of us die." Lys smiled at his passed out body as she said this.
"I guess you are right." Siarra said taking a peak at Niss shirtless.
"Accckk! we gotta wash this blood off it's nasty!" Siarra yelped trying to redirect her thoughts away from the stunning man in front of her.
"Yeah, yeah, give me a couple minutes and I'll douse us with some water." Lys sat down to recharge her aura.
"Okay, we are gonna have to wait for him anyways so we might as well make ourselves comfortable."
....
'Niss, you pushed yourself after getting a really painful injury.'
'Hmm? What does that matter, you said I wasn't gonna die.'
'Tsk... Yeah well you wielded your mana differently in those last couple attacks. Did you notice?'
'I did, it felt.... real.'
'Yeah, hang on to that feeling.'
'Yes ma'am.'
Drifting away in his thoughts while he slept Niss tried to identify the feeling that Nyx mentioned. He knew what it was,
'I was bringing my emotions and personal experience into wielding my magic, it made it feel real, more powerful, more impactful... I'll have to figure this one out later.'
He slept for a couple hours, he didn't exactly suffer from backlash, his mana was mostly depleted but he passed out from pushing himself past his pain and exhaustion.
...
"Ohhh? Niss you woke up so soon? I thought for sure you would be in backlash for the next six hours or something." Curt said as he noticed Niss opening his eyes, trying to sit up.
"Nah, no backlash just exhaustion." Niss looked down at himself, he had some spare clothes on. "Uhhhhh, Curt? D-Did you change my clothes?"
"Yeah, you were soaked in more than one kind of blood so I stripped you down and threw on some of the spare clothes from Siarra's special bag." He smiled at Niss.
"O-ohh, well thanks. I can tell you spent awhile healing me too, you sound tired and my wounds are almost gone." He replied.
"Yeah, my turn to get some sleep while you recharge your aura, the girls are playing with the artifact we got out in the courtyard." Curt half laughed as he said this with a smile.
"Awww, classic." Niss smiled back and propped himself up into the seated position to start gathering mana again.
"Wait, I didn't even notice, I'm in a bed. Hahaha!" Niss started laughing strangely.
"Yup! we cleared out a few of these old servant rooms to rest in." Curt smiled again.
"I assume you have your own room, yeah?" Niss asked.
"Oh, yeah we all got a separate bed to rest in." Curt was a little confused but was starting to put it together. "Niss.... I like girls you know."
"Yes of course man, never doubted it." Niss chuckled with a bit of relief.
'The girls are already crushing, I couldn't deal if it was Curt too hahaha.'
'There is nothing wrong with that you know.'
'Oh yeah Nyx, I know, it just isn't for me that's all.'