1 minute earlier:
While Melissa and Raiden were busy fighting with the long haired man, Lucius and Levina was engaged in their own fight.
"Devour that man's curse."
Levina pointed at the headless body of the man, who she had killed a little while ago.
Lucius just gave her a look, widening his eyes a little, then without saying anything went near the headless body.
Then he looked at his right palm, then placed it on the man's back.
"Devour"
As soon as he said that a dark red color square appeared before his palm. Then it began to suck out dark green energy from the man's body, intensely.
As the energy was being absorbed through the square, Lucius face got illuminated in dark green color.
It tickles. For some reason absorbing that energy is making my inner parts of the body tickle.
After a while, he finished devouring the curse of the man.
[Congratulations: You have devoured the curse of an awakened]
[You have ascended to 2nd stage]
[Your curse power have increased]
[You have obtained stage ability "DEATH TRANSFER"]
[You have obtained stage ability "INSIDE DESTROYER"]
[You have obtained physical ability called "ADVANCED FIVE SENSES"]
With excitement in his eyes, Lucius stared at those words as those were floating in the air before him.
Wow! I have reached second stage! Not to mention, I have also attained 3 abilities..
Then with a pensive face, he again thought:
Let's see. Death Transfer..and Inside destroyer. I wonder what kind of abilities these two are. Is there any description of these abilities?
As if to answer his question two windows appeared before him:
[Stage ability description {DEATH TRANSFER} = With this ability you can transfer your death to someone else. To do that you must first manifest small red chip. After manifesting it, you have to plant this chip into someone's body. Doing so you will be able to avoid your death. In your place the person into whom the chip had been planted would die.]
[Stage ability description{INSIDE DESTROYER} = With this ability you can use the wind that are around you as your own element to create wind arrow by pointing your index finger at your opponent. With this arrow if you hit your enemy it will penetrate their body, then from inside their body it will create a big shockwave which would be enough to leave the opponent half-dead or completely death depending on your use of the ability]
I see.
Lucius read those texts as he thought that.
Then suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
These abilities are interesting, it seems.
Then suddenly he noticed dark blue light flashing from behind him. So, he turned his head, and saw that as Melissa had disabled the shadow eagle with her explosive orb, in the right hand of the transformed long haired man a big scythe appeared. And, he was ready to slice her with that scythe of his.
Seeing this Lucius' face became tense. Because, Melissa had no time to dodge the attack.
This is not good.
His clinged teeth slightly.
Then turned around, and pointed his right index finger at the long haired man.
The man was so focused in thought of killing her that he didn't notice that Lucius was pointing his finger at him.
Let's try this.
Inside Destroyer
As soon as he uttered it inwardly, his tip of the index finger was glowing in dark red color.
[Focus all your energy into your finger tip to create the arrow of wind]
I gotta focus. I gotta channel my energy into the tip.
The dark red light on the tip of his finger was glowing even more, and the wind around him began to gather on the tip of his index finger. Then after a while, it formed into an arrow of wind.
I did it. And now....Shoot.
Then he shoot the arrow towards the man, which silently penetrated his body. The moment it penetrated his body, it was as though he was hit with something invisible. The hit was so hard that it sent him flying backwards.
As a result of the inward shockwave his body muscles rifted a little, and blood gushed out from the rifts on his face, hands, legs and other parts of the body.
[You have used one Arrow of wind. Only one left]
Melissa Jolted a little, then turned her head with bewilderment.
After a few seconds, she snapped out of it, and composed herself, then said with a dampened smile and a gentle tone:
"Thank you very much. I thought I was done for. But thanks to you I survived."
Then she turned around, and her cheeks became a little red.
Suddenly, Lucius became alarmed as he saw a man with white hair, who's fist was imbued with dark yellow energy approaching towards him.
Crap!
He slightly gritted his teeth, as he thought that.
Then after that, he turned around and just stood there, calmly.
Seeing him so calm, the man became a bit disheartened thinking that he might be stronger than him.
Though, Lucius still didn't have a good grasp on his power, for some reason, he was calmly standing their with intense focus and confidence of a man who knew what he was doing.
The white haired man got close to him, as soon as he did that he slightly leaned his upper body forward, then pulled his right fist imbued with the energy, after that he aimed his fist at Lucius' jaw.
But Lucius, predicting it, pulled back. Then without wasting any time, he violently kicked the man's right temple, making a loud sound.
From the kick, he immediately fell and was completely knocked out with his eyes open.
Lucius with a demeaning look on his face looked down at the unconscious man, and thought:
You may have power, but that doesn't mean anything if you are not good at using it. Honestly, I am a bit disappointed. I thought we could fight a little longer. But look at you.
"Not bad."
Levina turned her head to Lucius and said that. Then, again she got engaged in her fight.
She again vanished using her teleporting ability. In the next second, another man's head fell off from his shoulders without him even realizing it.
The blood sprayed from the man's headless body, and soon fell backwards.
There was still 7 more enemies left before her and Lucius.
Lucius then slightly turned his head to see if Melissa was alright. She seemed to be fine.
She was trying to undo the effect of the paralyzer's needle.
Making sure that she was doing fine, he again turned his head and cast his eyes at the enemies that were before him and Levina.
"Ah. That chick is dangerous. I need to proceed with caution."
A man with black hair said to himself while panicking a bit.
Others were also a bit afraid of her. Since this was like a last man standing fight, so all of them were in a mindset of killing each other. But judging the situation, they thought dealing with Levina by joining with one another would be a wise course of action. So, they looked at each other and decided to fight against her together instead of one by one.
Then all of them rushed towards her getting transformed like a second stage awakened.
None of them seems to be more than 2nd stage awakened. This will be easy.
As Levina was thinking, she suddenly felt a ache from within her body. Then suddenly he fell on one of her knee.
Crap. This doesn't look good. Am I already worn out? Aah, my head hurts!
She grabbed her head.
I need to turned off my mind reader. Using it for a longer period of time hurts my brain. Also, I should wrap this fight up quickly. I am still not used to stay in this transformation mode for long.
"Are you okay, Levina?"
Lucius took a step towards her as he asked that.
"Don't come any closer. Or you will get hurt."
Levina said, being knelt on her right feet.
"What?"
Then Levina placed her right hand on the pitched black road.
"Crossbow knight"
After that, a dark red light ignited underneath her palms, then shortly after that the entire ground began to tremble.
As the ground was trembling, a statue,which was at least 1 mitre, emerged from the ground behind her and stood tall as she was knelt down.
The statue was covered with pitch black color armour and was wearing a knight-like helmet which completely covered its face except for its red eyes. It had hand no arms. Instead it had black color big crossbows in the place of its arm. The feets of the statue was attached to the pitched road.
"Now, attack."
Levina ordered with a slightly painful facial expression.