Chapter 9 - CHAPTER 9 : Gehenna

Cool sterile wind blew through Damian's hair causing him to regain consciousness, his blindfold was gone and worse of all he was hanging upside down with a kind of thread that effortlessly dug into his skin.

Two rapidly spinning discs appeared on his palms and he launched them and the thread got cut but destroyed the discs, Damian skillfully twisted himself in the air and landed on his feet and palms to reduce the impact, he saw his blindfolds on the floor and quickly picked it up.

" So you are the enemy of progress " the voice of a boy said on top of a tree branch, Damian couldn't see him as it was a really tall tree and it was almost getting dark, " The order of Witchcraft need them dead and you intervened and killed both of my pets " the voice said.

" FOR THAT DIE " the boy screamed, * Tsk *, " Arnold your letting your anger get in the way of everything " Another voice said still a boyish one but more calmer, " If we kill this prodigy and use his blood for rituals we will become much stronger and gain the puppeteer skill " it continued.

Analysing the situation at hand Damian glanced at the corpse of the fiery leopards that lay dead one with an opened skull and the other blinded in both eyes and probably a damaged brain.

He did multiple quick backflips to the creatures and placed his palm on the bigger one, " What is he doing, Sly dismantle " the first voice said triggering a spider that was hiding in the shadows to pounce on Damian.

Slowly blood levitated to the air and began swirling around Damian forming a deadly spiral saw like tornado, the spider that couldn't stop itself and just watched as it collided with it's inevitable end.

The blood tornado subsided and turned into a fifty inches thick halo hovering above his head, the leopard he touched was now pale and shrunk to the size of a normal leopard without it's flaming fur.

Damian walked up to the spider and repeated the same exercise he did on the leopard but this time it remained unaltered, his opponents were shocked to the core, " Quick Aden call your tamed " the first voice said.

The blood halo reduced as a bit of it wrapped around Damian's hands and turned into his hands into two terrifying solid blood claws, in an instant he closed on the tree were the two boys stayed and proceed to scale to the top with his blood claws.

As he got closer he could see an average looking boy with black hair and normal eyes dressed in a long coat with a wizard hat on his head, Damian sank his claws deep into the bark of the tree and projected himself to the branch the boy stood on.

The boy was drenched with fear and couldn't move giving Damian the chance to land a clean killing blow ripping the boy in two half dividing his upper body from his lower half and watched with a bloody smile as the body plummeted to the ground.

While he was getting his fun the sound of something flying towards him with a high speed assaulted his ears informating him of an attack, he swiftly ducked and spun an outstretched leg at the attack who was obviously the second boy.

Aden lost footing and tripped, hit his head on the thick branch and also dropping from the sixty meter tall tree to the ground, Damian thought the boy was dead as he created a mini crater as he landed.

Damian jumped off aiming to land on Aden but to his surprise he got up and started running into the deeper area of the forest, Damian smiled as he landed and watched Aden scurry away as he absorbed the blood from the other boy.

' I have never seen such an ability…, to manipulate blood at will, impossible ' Aden thought as he ran holding his side that cascaded with blood due to breaking his ribs from that fall.

Suddenly a long red limb like extension shot from someone behind him and landed in front of him, another one followed after that and a human shadow crossed him and floated infront of him with the help of two blood limb like extensions.

Damian had gone full doc ock mode with thick four extension coming out of his spine, " Let's make your death quick shall we " Damian said after a long time and outstretched his hand at Aden but before anything could happen a large rhinoceros jumped from behind Aden and charged at him.

For Damian it seemed like time slowed down and he couldn't do anything as he watched his stomach get pierced by the rhino's horn, his perception of time return to it's original flow but he was temporarily paralysed.

" You think you can kill me, I have spent three months training my self as a lower wizard of the Zayden Echelon, initially I decided to use the Silver Twins to gain additional potential but it seems if I kill you I shall gain a far stronger potential " Aden said spinning his staff while surprisedly standing on the rhinoceros's back.

Fortunately Damian heard the sound of rushing water, a plan began brewing in his mind, he just hoped that they would reach the stream and just as he hoped it seemed like they were heading directly for the stream.

It took about three minutes to reach the destination, the rhinoceros smashed him on the bark of a thick tree before flinging him about throwing Damian of the horn successfully, Damian landed by the side of the water panting desperately as he checked the hole in his tummy.

* SPLASH *

Another sound alerted him of an attack but he was to weak to move and got chomped

on by the jaws of a large spikey crocodile, the croc pranced about leaving Damian enough time to time of a plan, he let all his saved blood pour and spread across the ground.

The croc flung him to the sky and waited for him to fall back down before catching him with it's jaws, " Are you ready to die " Aden said in an excited voice not caring about his injured side, " I can't die again " Damian said.

First Aden suspected nothing but soon the ground began growing into intensifying blood spikes that shot out of the ground and impaled the croc as it's under was not covered in iron spikes.

The rhino was a bit safe as it's entire body was encapsuled with a hard metal but this had it's perks and debuffs, the rhino agitated charged at Damian who by then had gotten out of the dead crocodile's jaws.

He ran up to the stream and waited for the rhino to reach the needed point, it closed in on Damian grunting wanting to impale him again but Damian sidestepped letting it fall into the stream.

Luckily for Damian the stream covered the rhino drowning it in minutes, Aden who was astonishing at his epic failure just stood at a spot aiming to beg for forgiveness, Damian knelt near the river panting his body riddled with holes and his clothes left in only shreds.

The spilt blood slowly returned to Damian's body creating a stud imposing armor which helped him regenerate his bite marks and the hole in his stomach, " So a coven of witches sent you to kill this prodigies and now you decide to kill me " He said in a scary voice devoid of emotions.

His hand trailed to his face as he slowly walked closer to Aden who was quivering and walking backwards until his stumbled on a stump and fell, " Stay a…way from me " Aden stuttered waving his staff at Damian.

Damian kicked the staff out of Aden's hand and held his blindfold before taking it off, Aden was a little surprised as this guy infront of him never took of that blindfold and now he's taking it off that meant he had a secret the held behind the blindfolds.

Damian opened his eyes…, for the second time in this new world he opened his eyes, his dual coloured eyes of crimson and cyan, Aden froze in his spot, " Well before you go…, I will destroy your coven " he said pointing his hand at Aden.

" Demon " Aden said as a blood projectile went through his throat killing him instantly, Damian smirked as he put him blindfolds on, he took the bloodlines of the rhino and croc, transformating into a half rhino hybrid he carried the corpse of Aden, the crocodile and the rhinoceros.

He got to the point where he fought the leopards and dropped the bodies before transformating back into a human, fatigue coursed through his body but he had to take this guys back to the village.

Getting the spider, leopard and Arnold together he made a deep incision on his palm and placed his hand on Arnold who was at the middle of the placement, ' Primordial Demon Technique… MERGE CREATION '.

The bodies twitched for a second before floating to Damian's eye level and collided together, a purple steam sipped out of their bodies blocking the rest of the procedure from Damian but soon it cleared and a boy with scarlet hair lay on the floor.