However, when he regained his senses to his surroundings. Lying witn his body on the ground with his palm on the ground.
Bal looked around him tremblingly. His arms shook and he couldn't help but lost all his previous strength. Now his face once again touched the familiar dull and grey land.
He closed his eyes, Bal knew he can do nothing even if he crawled back to his feet and returned back his courage.
'Useless. Ah, useless. I didn't know a monster could be this many. All this time, we were just being fooled. So foolish.'
Bal didn't know how many times he had been muttering the word 'fool' all this time. All he knew is that, they were all finished.
'Even if I don't die now. It will just be a matter of time. Might as well as take a nap since I'm already lying. Tonight, this ground will be my bed.'
...
Juan sprinted out, leaving afterimages of a trailing shadow behind him. From one roof to another, he keep on dodging the shadows rain like attacks on him.
At the same time, his red circled eyes keep on searching around for any embers that remains upon the wreckage burned houses.
'If I can find an ember, with my clothes on and the houses around. Creating a friar blaze is just a matter of seconds....clothes?'
Juan's red circle eyes suddenly widened and his breathing couldn't help but skip a bit.
'When did I had a new clothes? I remember getting roasted dead back then. My clothes should have long since incinerated to ashes.'
'Don't tell me my clothes recovered like me? But how could that be possible? No! It's no longer impossible in this world. Everything is possible.'
Looking down, Juan found himself cloaked in smokey shadow.
In his eyes, his shadow covered body outlined the shape and form of a set of clothes he wore but wasn't familiar with.
'Its different from my usual clothes. Hmm, as long as I have one. I'll study it later, first is to survive— ugh, damn!'
Juan moaned as he found his left feet got entangled by three snaked like shaped shadows just as he landed on the ground.
'Ugh! I'm too reckless! I got into my thoughts too much that I forgot to focus outside. Still, even if I can still dodge now. It won't last long, I'm still running in a dead end.'
Seeing that Juan has been captured, the countless shadows who has been surrounding him far away I'm moved.
Simultaneously, they jumped into the sky like an arc and doved straight to Juan like a hail of black bullets.
'I can't escape!'
From the initial three, now there are nine shadows transform into snakes entangling him. This made him further away from moving.
In the next second, the countless raining doomsday like shadow bullets plunged deep and drown Juan amidst them.
There's no dust, nor any wind shockwave rippling out because of the impact. Shadows don't affect matter, they are immaterial.
Only a vicious black globe of wobbling shadow the size of a mountain remained. However, it might be because of size. The formation immortal crumbled.
A vicious black sea made made of aggregation of shadows flooded outward from the target's area. Causing the houses to sink under the shades.
"Ah!"
"Ah!"
Bal and his now awakened partner also saw the scene of a human shaped shadow being besiege, entangled, and drownwd by countless shadows filling the sky and ground.
In the next moment, before they could think straight. Bal and his partner subconsciously closed their eyes seeing the black flood rushing on them.
...
'This is it for me... I got resurrected, gain magical abilities, and now I got killed again. Just how useless am I even at this time?'
'First I died because its my time as an old man, then being burned to crisped by fire, and now drowned in the shadows?'
'Didn't I already told myself that I want to change? If I acquired a super power or something, I want to use that as a base and achieve all that I desire.'
'But now what? Here I am, still useless. I can't move, I got too arrogant and feel too deep in my thoughts during my escape anf search for ember.'
Looking at the vicious darkness around him and feeling the absolute restrictions on his whole body.
Juan could feel something seems wants to devour in the dark yet he couldn't move, see, nor know where it truly was. Drowsiness slowly attacked his mind.
'I want to fall asleep. Aye, once I closed my eyes and falled in. I'm sure, there will be no resurrection this time. Looks like my luck can't even solve my lack of survival skills.'
Slowly, Juan's red circled eyes closed halfway. No matter how much will he concentrated with his mind.
He can't stopped his eyes from feeling heavy and wanted to rest for the night. Still, he resist yet the sleepiness only get heavier and heavier.
Just when Juan was about to give in. When his red circled eyes was about to fully closed. A thought suddenly resounded in his mind.
'Hey, hey, hey...why do you give up immediately? Tsk, tsk, tsk....this is why your easy to bully. Your mind is too weak to fight for your own selfishness.'
The already groggy Juan immediately answered despite the sluggishness of his mind.
'How about....you solve my predicament?'
Juan felt like he was just talking to himself. In face of death, he thought he was just hallucinating for a hero to save him.
'It looks like dying many times has already wear down your heart and soul. Even after acquiring magical abilities, you only felt some joy and a little sublimation.'
The voice answered him. And then the voice continue.
'But that's it. Your Juan after all, a weak and coward man with social anxiety in the heart. Anyway, I'm here so don't worry you would be dying this time.'
'Hahahahaha. That fire back then was truly beautiful. Unfortunately, my mind is too preoccupied by those flames and shadow monster at that time.'
'This time, let me show you a bigger one. A fire that doesn't just burn houses, but a whole village! Burn! Burm! Burn! Let the blaze spread and cover the whole realm!'
'I, Juan II! Will fight this battle with you. Let this shadow monster be the first monster of this world to be trampled under our feet!'
'Let the whole world know and fear my existence!...'
Slowly, Juan's consciousness plunge deep into the oblivion of sleep after hearing the voice shouted those exclamation.
However, this time, he wasn't hopeless. Instead, Juan only felt light in his heart after hearing the other voice has recognize his reliance on the latter.
"Despair? Throw that away! Let their be light starting today!"
Bang!
In the next instant, the darkness that drowned Juan's eyes before was immediately illuminated by a raging sparks of purplish pink fire.
'Juan' opened his red circled eyes and suddenly started laughing.
"Ha ha ha...ha ha ha...ha..hahaha!"
Amidst the purplish-pink flame, Juan stood in the center facing the sky wildy laughing while the blaze spread out in rage fueled by the sea of shadows that had drowned him.
"Ha ha ha, I didn't expect my main personality to once again need me. However, this time I won't die with the likes of you again."
"That is because I had this power! This fire! Your weakness! This might be magic! Fire magic? Ah? Hahaha! All of you get incinerated for me!"
Juan raised his right palm and a ball of smokey shadow ball the size of a basketball immediately condensed above him.
In the next seconds, the shadow ball lit up and blaze into a big fireball. Juan then throw the purplish-pink fireball in his hand to the shadows far away.
Bang!
The fireball landed with a bang upon contact with the shadows. Then as thought an ember meeting a gasoline.
The small fireball immediately burst out set the whole twenty meters area into ablaze in just a second, and it's still spreading!
Seeing this, 'Juan' eyes turn into crescent moon because of happiness. Even jumping from side to side wanting to let out the joy to be seek outside.
"Ha ha ha, wonderfu! A sea of fire, this only happens in books and stories in my past life! Today, I finally saw one with my own eyes! And I'm the one who caused it! Ha ha ha."
'Juan' who was jumping side to side suddenly leaned forward with a serious face and streak out of the place leaving only his trail.
"Enough with the chit-chat. I'm gonna go get serious real this time."
When Juan was moving around into a shadow streak. He carefully avoided the fire around himself seemingly afraid he would get burn by his own cause.
Suddenly, two shadow ball lit up into fire ball in between his two hands above his palm while he was moving around.
The two fireball was thrown out into two different directions, causing explosion and the spread of fire to accelerate once again.
Although it might feel long when it was said and describe. In reality, since the appearance of purplish-pink fire bursting him out of the sea pf shadows.
It was only several seconds since the time passed.
More and more fireball keep on being thrown out by 'Juan' like a madman.
"Man! This sure is so exhilarating!"