"Anti-magic barrier? Did you think that was going to save your life?"
"No, but it will help me end you."
"Gloat all you want I will still kill you and everyone else here."
"Right."
I pushed him more and more.
He was going to go berserk.
I needed him to stay the line.
He needed to be angry enough to charge me without abandon, but I couldn't have him powering up.
*Flashh*
His sword careened overhead.
I ducked to avoid the incoming blade.
It was massive.
It was bigger than even Oskarog.
He swung again.
I dodged again as the sword in his hands hit the floor.
A deafening crack was heard, and everyone else at the back of the room was terrified, unable to see if I had died.
I heard whispers and shouts.
"You see that boy?"
"They already think you're dead."
I decided to yell something to let Aura know I was okay.
"You sure talk a lot for someone who has yet to hit me."
"You will regret mocking me!"
"The only thing I regret is coming close enough to smell your disgusting breath."
In a rage he planted his foot and launched towards me.
A red and silver flashed by me.
The flash took with it the smoke covering the dome and my arm.
I began to bleed profusely.
This wasn't going as well as I'd hoped but nothing out of the ordinary.
Anti-magic was in play, but anti aura was not, so I flung my arm out towards the onlooking crowd.
The spectators screamed and wailed, but I narrowed my eyes.
He was sufficiently angry, he wouldn't try anything else.
I lit up my sword with aura with the remaining mana I had.
"Are you trying something you rat?"
"Trying? No, killing? Yes."
He laughed, and bent over in laughter.
I swung my aura sword at him.
He reacted to it and deflected my blade.
"Oh you're serious?"
He gave me a questioning look, as if I was never going to be able to defeat him.
"Look around you."
"There are lambs here waiting for the slaughter."
"You are no shepherd."
"Now die."
He swung his sword towards me in a downward slice.
'Isla'
'Yes.'
Although ego swords weren't fully capable of moving on their own, they were by an large able to buzz with enough force to shake off any person trying to subdue them.
'3'
I said.
'2'
She responded.
'1'
'Go'
'Go'
She thrummed her body as a began an upwards diagonal slash to disrupt his swing.
It worked and his sword was sent flying over his back.
His grip still on the sword, and his back facing me, I flanked to the right and began to charge the ugly red boar man.
"You little bitch, you think deflecting one blade is enough to kill me?"
I let him swing as I dodged and move closer towards him.
I planted a dagger in his gut.
"You right little bastard."
He pulled out the blade.
'Well master, that wasn't expected.'
'No, it was not.'
I had expected him to leave the blade in so I could activate another artifact.
I still had time to re plant it though, I had 13 other blades to stab in.
"Get over here!"
I did as he bid and lunged towards him blade in hand.
He swung and again I deflected it as I jumped onto his back and stabbed two more knives in.
I took the third and slid down his back making a wide gash in his back.
"You little shit."
"You think you can kill me like that?"
His massive cut down his back began to heal but the areas where the knives were did not.
Looks like he knew not to heal wounded parts with weapons still inside.
I planted my feet and charged him again this time being the aggressor.
He swung down and as I parried away his sword he punch me away.
His arm to my chest felt like a car.
"Not so fast are you now, rat?"
I think I heard a few ribs crack.
I definitely felt some broken ribs.
I clutched my chest with my only hand.
I breathed heavy as I felt it was hard to breathe.
I looked at Aura and the rest of the crew.
They looked pained watching me fight.
I wiped the now dried blood on my mouth away, and clutched Isla again.
'Isla when I tell you unlock them.'
'You can't you'll be nearly dead after.'
'Better to be near death than actually dead.'
'And how can you determine that?'
'His healing progress has slowed, but I still have ten more knives to go.'
'Then let me help.'
'I'll guide your movements.'
'How'
'I'll show you'
Parts of my vision were taken over.
'I didn't know this was possible.'
She had overlapped my vision of reality with parts of the mind realm.
'I can show you the moves he will take by showing you the moves his body tells us.'
'How can you do this?'
'You consented to it when you implied you wanted me to try."
'Implied consent, I see.
'Let's do this.'
"Are you okay boy? Do you need to see the recovery room?"
Oskarog mocked me.
Good, he thinks he has the upper hand.
Now I was going to rip him apart.
I stood my ground again, drawing Isla.
I once again pushed off and dashed towards him.
"Again, do you not understand your position bug?"
I swiped and parried his sword again once more.
But before his arm could get me I let go of Isla stabbed his wrist, grabbed Isla again and stepped left to avoid the uppercut.
I sheathed Isla again as I planted yet another knife into his chest and backed away.
"Not even bothering to heal anymore are you?"
"Why bother when you'll be dead soon?"
"Funny I was going to say the same to you."
"You little insignificant-"
"Man you really like saying little, but dude aren't you small for a boar demon?"
The people in the classroom laughed.
Although it was kind of hampered it still meant they were going to be okay.
"AGHHHH!"
He launched towards me a blur again of motion.
This time, though I could see his attack thanks to Isla.
A sweeping attack meant to take my head off.
I sheathed her and raised a knife with my only hand, and watched as it caught his arm and I along with the knife were dragged along for the ride.
I managed to let go as he began to stop and place it in the lower right abdomen.
He was hurting.
But so was I.
Breathing was getting harder.
And with no access to mana, neither of us could heal.
I placed my hand on my chest to restabilize myself and spoke.
"You look like a off brand porcupine."
That got a few more laughs out of everyone.
"I. Will. Spill. Your. Intestines. All. Over. Them."
"Now, no getting huffy with me mister."
I wagged my finger at him.
He charged at me again.
'Duck and roll Lucas!'
And I did.
His sword narrowly managing to slice my right abdomen as well.
He smirked.
"Look at you."
"Yes look at me, I look like a normal, if not injured human, you look like a torn up train engine."
That one got some real laughs out of people.
This time I took the initiative again.
I parried his sword to which he smiled, as he simply brought it back towards me.
Unfortunately, I wasn't standing there anymore.
I stabbed my eighth knife into his right elbow before jamming a ninth into his right shoulder.
He dropped the sword into the ground and it created a hole as it sheathed itself on the concrete.
"Awww. Does baby need his toy?"
I mocked the red giant.
"You. YOU WILL NOT MAKE A FOOL OF ME AGAIN."
He was going berserk and using the last of his mana to do so.
I needed to stop him.
I lunged towards him and without a sword all he could do was swing.
So he swung at me and connected with my torso, but not before I managed to jam a knife straight through his hand.
!0 knives in.
3 left in the artifact slots, and 1 on the ground.
I drew Isla once more as the red boar man couldn't sustain his transformation.
"You. What did you do?"
He screamed at me angrily.
"Well, you lost your edge, no berserker mode for you."
I pulled my eye with my finger as I put my tongue out.
"I will carve you like a pumpkin and display your guts like a bouquet of blood and gore."
"Ew dude. Gross."
He once again launched towards me, no sword in hand.
'He's trying to grab you Lucas.'
'I noticed that too'
I slid underneath him and stabbed another knife into his calf.
'Do you have enough stored mana to release another aura slash, only one more, and anymore and I can't release that.'
'Okay.'
I swung Isla and behind her threw a knife as hard as possible.
Oskarog swatted the aura slash taking serious damage to his left hand but the blade passed through undetected until it had collided with his chest.
12.
He rushed me again
'Lucas!'
I saw.
I was unable to dodge or parry this one, I just had to block.
Isla could survive the impact, I didn't know if I could.
Oskarogs rushdown hit me.
I used Isla to offset some damage to my arms, but being one handed hindered me quite a lot.
"You're about to die rat!"
He squealed.
"You sound less and less like a person and more and more like a pig."
He made a grinding noise with his teeth and rushed me again.
'Lucas you can;t take more than one more of these blows.'
'I know.'
I sheathed Isla again as Oskarog charged me.
i held out the knife like a flagpole, waiting for Oskarog to impale himself on it.
Naturally the big oaf, managed to do so, but I was severely injured at that point.
My body had several cracked ribs, a few bruised ones if I had to guess, I had a missing arm, probably some severe head trauma, and many cuts and bruises of varying sizes all over my body.
"You. Are. Almost. Dead. I. Can. Smell. It."
"Gross dude, I need to take a shower after I kill you."
He made a sound halfway between clearing his throat and grunting.
It broke into a scream, and he charge me again, but this time.
'Isla'
"Are you sure?'
'I don't have another choice.'
'Yes master.'
Isla unlocked 2 seals raising her power up to the 6th tier.
My body was feeling sluggish but empowered. I felt fast slow if that helps.
I parried his last attack and grabbed the final knife.
"You are dead."
I ran towards him, and ran towards me.
I cut off his only non-knifed leg, his left, as he fell over.
"I win."
I stuck the final knife in his forehead as I walked away from the still alive demon.
"What are you doing?"
"He's still alive!"
"Kill him!"
"Do it!"
I put my hand into the empty knife case and activated the artifact.
The knives began to carve a bisection.
I split the demons legs from it's upper torso and arms.
"You aren't human."
"You aren't much of a demon either."
He gritted his teeth, and called out for his master.
"Prince, save me."
"He can't hear you."
"In fact, he thinks you've already won."
"How did you?"
"You think you were the only one doing impersonations?"
"While you thought you had killed a professor at the academy, it was me, and I had an artifact that stops my heart."
"So while you killed me, we had professor Ramos, the real professor Ramos become you."
"We had him send things over like: When the dome comes up, I've won, but I'll need to lie low until I can leave the city."
"Did you really think that your demon signature was masked?"
"You didn't even actually kill him, so you were a massive walking target."
He started to crawl away.
So I stabbed him in the back.
"No escape, demon."
I held the artifact again as it removed his arms from his torso.
"Now here's what you're going to do."
"I'm going to crush your miasma center, so you can't heal, and I am going to use these other artifacts to torture you for information."
"You will die, how much pain you are in when you do, is completely up to you."
"Fuck. You. I. Will. Never. Talk."
And so I crushed his miasma center.