Alsvid stared straight at death. He was completely out of essence and had absolutely nowhere to run to so he stood his ground with Nyxarios towering over him.
Nyxarios was standing over Alsvid with an imposing aura of darkness spreading to cover the area around them both. Nyxarios had wasted Alsvid's essence and was trying to intimidate Alsvid into giving up so he can take him to the location he was originally going to send them to. That was the main objective of the Ravagers. The only reason they were being this harsh about it was because the last time they underestimated their targets they almost died.
Alsvid looked Nyxarios dead in the black, featureless face as Nyxarios waited for him to accept defeat. After a while of waiting, Nyxarios wrapped its hands around Alsvid, lifting him off the ground and was about to move.
Alsvid tried desperately. He did everything he could to escape knowing that it was no use. He still tried.
Essence slowly started bubbling within Alsvid as if it was just waiting for something before it burst out. At the same time Alsvid remembered that he had something that could help him in such a situation.
Thinking back to the first day he opened his system his mind worked to remember what it was. As he searched through his memories he eventually grasped the concept.
[Class skill activated]
[Apex: Allows its user to become physically superior to any being closest to them.]
[Duration: 5 minutes]
The essence that had been bubbling within him up till this point burst forth. Alsvid had a random surge of pure strength as he burst Nyxarios's arm open. Landing on his feet he punched Nyxarios as it was sent flying.
Before Alsvid could celebrate it was like time had slowed down for him. He saw Nyxarios run towards him and throw a heavy fist towards his head. Moving his hands he caught the punch and time resumed as the whole area exploded. With his burst of strength Alsvid felt his essence being restored as he decided not to use essence for the duration of the skill.
Alsvid started playing defensive as he was blocking all the hits Nyxarios threw while making sure not to strike back. As the battle raged on Nyxarios was slowly getting bigger.
Reaching almost three times its normal size Nyxarios sung its arm downwards causing an explosion as it hit the ground. Alsvid came from the side and kicked it in the face but then it grabbed him and slammed him into the ground as they both went down.
Alsvid rolled onto his feet in time to see a gigantic raging fist heading towards him as his own strength started rapidly increasing. The area the fist covered was too large to escape so he sent out his own fist as the two collided. He managed to stop Nyxarios's momentum but the force was transferred over to him as he flew backwards.
Nyxarios raged as it aura burst out erasing anything that wasn't attached to the ground as it dashed after Alsvid.
Alsvid flipped over and landed on his feet before dashing towards Nyxarios as they clashed. They seemed to be on equal footing as they exchanged attacks up until Nyxarios slapped Alsvid across a wide area. Nyxarios followed and slammed Alsvid straight into the ground and pinned him down as it started channelling its aura through the arm towards Alsvid.
Alsvid exerted his strength and punched Nyxarios's arm with all his might managing to break free from its grip. As he went to escape an arm made entirely out of darkness grabbed onto him with Nyxarios's other two arms. The aura blew past Alsvid as they reached a stalemate.
Boom...
Alsvid exploded. The force of the explosion loosened Nyxarios's grip. From the smoke Alsvid emerged and managed to land an uppercut on Nyxarios's head before slamming and essence burst into it as it was pushed back a little.
The skill known as essence burst, unlike most people thought wasn't a beam. Essence burst is as it sounded. A burst of essence in a certain direction. Think of it kind of like an explosion with its force pointed in a certain direction rather than spread out in all directions. Said explosion would have more force and power behind it than a normal explosion. Such was essence burst.
Alsvid had gained a good chunk of his essence back and his skill had only two minutes to go. He started spamming essence burst after essence burst widening the gap between him and the creature.
Nyxarios was being affected by the essence burst even more than usual. It created multiple arms made entirely out of darkness but they were all incenerated by the essence bursts as more kept coming.
Nyxarios dashed to the side and tried to rush Alsvid before he could react but with more than one minute remaining on his class skill he whipped around and Nyxarios was met with a point blank essence burst.
More essence bursts slammed into it. Creating another gap between Nyxarios and Alsvid.
Nyxarios gathered more essence as its aura spread out of try and protect him, but, the force of the essence bursts force the aura away as it was exposed to the onslaught once more.
Nyxarios, accepting that it couldn't escape the onslaught enlarged its arm to an unimaginable size and was about to swing it when something happened.
[Skill (Essence burst) has been evolved]
[Due to repeated casting of the skill (Essence burst) the skill has stabilized into an evolution skill (Abyssal beam)]
A small, sleak and compact beam of pure black essence flew out of Alsvid's hand and missed Nyxarios by the armpit. The beam was a continuous stream and as he saw the arm come closer he instinctively lifted his arms to protect his head before he realized to turn off the skill.
Zing...
Bang...
A silent sound of slicing followed by the loud sound of something large hitting the ground. Alsvid stopped channelling essence into the skill as a surprising turn of events lay in front of him. His new skill had just sliced off Nyxarios's arm clean from the shoulder.