"What's wrong, Jack?" Chris asked in a mocking tone, feeling the warmth the [Soul Regeneration] Talent provided as his wounds began to heal at a fast rate. Chris grinned as he took in Jack's shocked expression, taking a provocative step forward, a dark gleam in his eyes.
Jack took a step back, but Chris took another forward. "Are you scared? Come on now, make this interesting." Chris fed Jack his own words, finding amusement in how the tables have turned.
A vein popped on Jack's forehead as he felt his pride being insulted, "You think i fear you!? You wish!" Jack yelled as he moved his hand in a vertical chop motion, a sharp edged water projectile flew towards Chris.
'I'm not getting hit by that again.' Chris though as he leaped out of the way, Jack grinned as he charged towards Chris while he was still mid air, throwing a water infused punch targeted at his face.
'And not by this either.' Chris moved his arm and blocked the attack, he grit his teeth as the force of the blow threw him backward, making him hit a tree hard.
His arm ached terribly as a sharp pain coarsed through it, he tried to lift his arm off the ground, but when he did the pain intensified and he let out a small grunt.
'Shit..that hurts so much.' Chris thought, he weakly rose off the ground and straightened himself before Jack.
His arm was rapidly being healed by his Talent, he figured that it must've broken as he felt fragments of the bones in his arms, being slowly mending itself together.
"How do you like that!?" Jack asked as he began to laugh maniacally, before running towards Chris again. This time multiple sharp water projectiles materialized around Jack before they all flew towards Chris, cutting through the air in quick speeds.
Chris dodged the attacks by jumping and rolling to the side, the attacks hit the tree and left multiple slash marks on them, almost as if someone were using a sword to cut the tree.
After a few seconds, Chris could move his broken arm a bit, it still hurt like hell though, so he decided to wait a while longer. Jack growled in anger as his attacks missed, he summoned more projectiles and threw them at Chris, which he nimbly avoided.
More and more water projectiles were being launched at Chris, but he avoided them all, some of the attacks were almost fatal. Jack truly wanted him dead, but he was not going to die here, not until he reunited with Misha(Liora).
A few minutes passed and Chris could feel his arm almost at top condition, he decided that it was now his turn to counter attack.
Chris dashed towards Jack, he figured that since Jack was continuously using his strongest attacks, his Magic reserves had to be low.
And he was right, Jack's attacks were becoming more slugish and more predictable, they were also slowing down in speed, making them much easier to dodge.
Chris delivered a strong punch on Jack's cheek, jerking his head back as he coughed up a bit of blood. But he wasn't going to stop here, using his other hand, he grabbed Jack's wrist and pulled him back, hitting him again on the cheek before kicking him hard on the chest.
Jack fell hard on his back, panting tiredly from both physical exhaustion and magical exhaustion. His eyes were barely opened and locked onto Chris, he didn't have anymore strength to fight back.
Chris walked up to Jack with a cold expression, towering over him menacingly. "it's over Jack, you lose. I win." Chris said, a small grin on his face "But we aren't done yet, i still have to pay you back for all you did to me."
Jack's eyes widened and his pupils shrunk as he began to experience true fear, his body started to tremble and he didn't even have the strength to stand anymore.
"Chris-" Jack was interrupted as Chris punched him square across the cheek, his facial flesh now covered in bruises and visibly sore.
"You don't look to good, let's fix that, shall we?" Chris said in an evil tone as he brought his hand up to Jack's cheek and cast [Low Heal], healing his face good as new.
Jack was confused and wondered why Chris had healed him, but before he could ask, Chris punched him again hard in the face. Realization then dawned on Jack's mind as he starting to understand what Chris was doing to him, he was being tortured.
Chris was going to punch him again and again, and repeatedly heal him to momentarily stop the pain, before hitting him again.
"Chris!" Jack shouted, but Chris refused to listen and simply punched him again. The torture went on for minutes, with Jack being repetitively hit and healed.
He had tried several times to get Chris to stop, but before he could get a word out, a strong blow would always meet his face.
The pain was too much to endure, his pride was shattered, even after being continuously healed, the pain still lingered fresh in his mind.
"Chris.." Jack cried weakly, tears streaming from his eyes. "Stop..please.." He begged and Chris finally returned to his senses, he stood up from the ground and took a few steps back.
He didn't know what he was doing, all he could remember was the pleasure he got from hitting Jack. A twisted pleasure that he had never once experienced before, and one that scared him because he feared that he was changing as a person.
"What have i done.." Chris muttered as he watched Jack continue to cry and beg for mercy, the once arrogant bully was nowhere to be seen, instead Chris felt like the bully, tormenting a small child.
'What is happening to me..this isn't me, i don't enjoy hurting people. Sure, Jack was an asshole, but he was still a kid.' Chris thought, staring at his hands.
'Since when did I have this twisted side to me? This power is becoming too addicting, it's not good for me, I'm losing myself to the power.' Chris turned his back to Jack, and began walking out of the forest.
'This has to stop, I'm not going to let this power take over me.' Chris clenched his fists as determination surged within him, 'And i'll make sure of that.'
Chris approached the village gates and stopped momentarily, glancing one more time at the Dark Woods before walking back home.