"Get up and fight princeling", The queen drawled as she stalked towards him, Haze blinked repeatedly, trying to get his eyes to focus on the witch now advancing towards him.
He pushed himself up on all fours and felt a bolt of pain shoot through his head.
He checked his profile and his heart sank.
[Here's your profile]
[Name: Haze]
[Level: 1]
[Rank: Human]
[Strength: 18]
[Speed: 18]
[Stamina: 10]
[Senses: 10]
[Hp: 3/10]
[Exp: 100/100]
[Skills: Seer]
[Status points: 6]
[Gift: immortality]
His hp was dangerously low, Haze wondered what would happen if his hp dropped to 0, if he would die or enter an indefinite coma.
He turned on his seer ability and looked at the queen.
[Name: Moriah]
[Level: 6]
[Rank: 3rd generation demigod]
[Strength: 63]
[Speed: 69]
[Stamina: 70]
[Senses: 58]
[Hp: 9/10]
[Skills: Shadow control]
Her health was still extremely high despite the fact that they had been fighting for a while now, all his attacks had been useless against her.
He wondered why Hades sent him on this mission knowing that he would be terribly outclassed. Perhaps it was because Hades had something important to attend to, something so important that he didn't have any choice but to let his poorly trained son go to retrieve his ring for him.
Maybe he didn't want the ring as much as he acted like he did, in that case, he wouldn't mind if haze came back empty handed.
Or maybe he just didn't care about his heir enough that he was willing to send him on a suicide mission. A pang of hurt flashed through Haze's hear.
He hated to admit but he was glad to have people who seemingly cared for him and Hades had seemed to care for him at least to some extent, how else would he explain the gifts? Believing that Hades didn't care about him now reopened wounds from his previous life where he mattered to nobody in the slightest.
Thinking about his former life sent a bolt of anger through him and he looked at the Queen, he knew by now that he was no match for the Queen of the shadows and could not defeat her by strength or skill, what he needed was a series of intelligent moves that could affect her quickly and fatally.
The Queen watched him crouched on the ground, at first to her he looked like a pathetic child, lost and confused.
But now, something had changed in his demeanor and posture, there was something rabid and feral about him.
This angered her greatly and she reshaped the sword in her hand to form a sword, she rushed at him and stabbed the spear at his head.
Haze saw the spear attack and knew he had milliseconds to react, his sword was beside him on the ground but the extra seconds it would take to pick it up might cost him his head.
So he left the sword on the ground and rolled away just in time to avoid the spear, it lodged in the ground, cracking it with a tremendous amount of force.
Crackkkk!
Haze struggled to his feet, his breathing was ragged and he was now without his sword so he couldn't block any attacks.
The queen realized this around the same time he did and a smile crept up her face. She pulled her shadow spear out of the ground and aimed it at Haze's arm. Haze tried to move out the way but his the spear pierced his arm and the spear sank in with a soft thud.
"Arrggghhh!!"
Haze heard a guttural cry of agony as the spear entered his arm, it took a moment to realize the sound came from his mouth.
The Queen smiled with cruel delight as she pulled out the spear from his arm and stabbed at his right arm. Haze tried to move out of the way this time as well but the spear sank into his arm and this time it went clean through bone, shattering it.
Crackkkk!
Haze screamed again as pain shot up his two arms, they dangled uselessly beside him and he couldn't move them no matter how hard he tried.
Still, he didn't allow himself sag to the ground and sob like he wanted to, instead he stood tall and faced the queen as she pulled the sword out of his arm and aimed at his hear, then with all her strength, she drove it into his heart.
"Arrgghhh!!"
Haze shouted as the shadow spear pierced his rib cage and entered his heart, pain like he'd never felt before shook his body violently and his eyes closed slowly as the darkness began to swallow him.
The Queen didn't pull the shadow spear out of his heart this time, she left it in, standing over him with a smile on her face.
"No hard feelings son of Hades but if you inherit your father's battles, you'll inherit the punishment too", She walked off.
Haze's breathing slowed down, then stopped completely as he closed completely.
****
Elena barely had time to dodge the attack, she moved her body out of the way to avoid the lunge, then she aimed a blow to the back of the head of the princess but Neesha had quick reflexes, she twisted her body and blocked the blow with her wrist.
Neesha stepped back, locking eyes with Elena for a moment before snarling and rushing at her again.
Elena shot two blasts of fire at her very quickly but the princess moved like a ballerina, dodging the blasts and leaping at Elena.
As she descended on Elena, she gave a flurry of stabs with her knives, Elena blocked the stabs, managing not to get stabbed.
"You're a hard nut to crack", Neesha snarled through gritted teeth.
"Maybe you're just not good enough", Elena replied with a smirk.
The princess growled and lunged at her again.
Elena shot blast after blast of fire towards her, but the princess dodged them and advanced on her.
Then the princess gave Elena a kick to the stomach, sending her flying back.