I'm Already Dead (2)

The clash between the two sides brought devastating damages to the surrounding environment.

Rocks crumbled, Trees destroyed, Grounds full of holes and crack signing as a great battle take place in this ground.

The death of the mage girl makes the two Khapex scared stiff, They treated this place as a playground but now they slapped by the reality after one of them died.

"Calm yourself! Treat this seriously and Kill those bastards. I'll be there in.." Screamed the senior trying to make the rookie calm down.

While the senior tries to talk to the rookie Khapex Zed didn't sit still. He scoffs at the senior's action, He takes his new throwing spear and throws it with all his might towards the senior.

The raging spear sliced through the air making a sonic boom sound, Spark of lightning can be seen on it as it thrust through the wind.

The senior has little time to react, In a split second, the spear arrived just a few centimeters in front of the senior's head. The senior was surprised, He tilts his head a little to avoid the spear based on his instinct.

The instinct-based action proved effective, it dodges the spear from killing him but it still takes a big chunk of his cheek meat off.

Just as the senior breath a sigh of relief, The aftermath of the spear brings as much damage.

The sonic boom momentum blows him away with sparks of lightning blitzing him, The lightning electrocute his face making his face paralyzed.

"Focus on me, little Khapex"

This word makes the senior angry, the veins on his face are bulging.

"What did you say?!"

The senior dashes to Zed with bloodthirst, The crow around him attack Zed as the senior attacks.

Zed desperately tries to parry the senior's and the crow's attacks but it is too much and the power behind it making Zed's muscle tremble, The difference in power between Noble Knight and Knight rank is huge but Zed with his innate strength can cover it until this day when he fights the senior, a veteran at level seven Noble Knight rank.

Zed cannot help but get scratched by the crows while he deals with the senior's attack, One of the crows scratch him on his calf making him groan in pain.

"Thirty Hellhounds Choke!"

The senior brought both of his arms upwards intense red aura concentrated on his fist and slam his fist down to Zed.

"Thermopylae Skill!"

Zed uses his Thermopylae skill to block the senior's attack.

BOOM!

The clash between the two skills produced a shockwave to the surrounding, Vical and Owin glanced at Zed and surprised that Zed can hold on that long fighting a level seven Noble Knight Rank.

Crack!

Zed is shocked, his Thermopylae skill makes a cracking sound because of the collision. Zed jumped backward to make a distance with the senior.

The senior is shocked as well, 'That's my very best offensive skill and I cannot penetrate his defense? How can a level six Knight rank skill be so sturdy?" He thought wildly in his head, refusing to believe Zed's feat.

Meanwhile, the medium build man and the baby-faced girl gain their standing. They cautiously fight with Owin and Vical.

They seem to have good chemistry, The both of them is like a sticky pair that cannot be separated.

"Blinding Light!"

A bright light appeared from the baby-faced girl staff, It blinds Owin and Vical for a second when suddenly.

BAM!

A powerful shield enhance with magic slammed to Vical's side blowing him to the sides, Vical is caught off guard because of the blinding light.

The medium build man stepped on the ball of green smoke with the attack, The green ball smoke envelope his legs rooting himself on the ground.

"What kind of spell is this? There is no such thing as a green smoke frevor!!" Screamed the medium build man in fright.

The green smoke didn't stop as it climbs through his legs, His legs started to dissolve a little.

"ARGHH!!"

The medium build man panicked as the pain get more painful, He looks down to his legs. His leg is dissolving making the muscle fiber of the medium build man exposed to the surrounding.

"Dispell Magic!"

The baby-faced girl helps the medium build man but the damage is already done, The medium build man becomes limp because of his right leg rendered useless.

"Alter Light Absorbtion!"

A light envelope the medium build man's body that shielded him from the green smoke.

Looking at this skill Owin is annoyed, His green smoke is an inherent skill that comes from his bloodline and his bloodline is weak to Light Magic making the baby-faced girl spells effective against Owin.

After having the shield, the medium build man can move freely. He looks to Vical who is getting up after getting knocked, He immediately dashes like a raging beast to Vical.

"Paladin Skill, Holy Chasten!"

The medium build man's sword glow golden, He swings his sword aiming at Vical's throat.

Vical didn't sit still, with his enhanced physique and experience he is confident in his power so he uses his bare punch imbued with his bloodline to punch the coming sword swing.

CLANG!

Vical was pushed back a little signing he is weaker in power without using any attacking skill, Vical is angry he thought, 'If I can't beat you with pure strength then I will use my speed and agility'.

"Quick-Step!"

In a flash, Vical vanishes from his spot. His speed increase dramatically, one can only see a shadow hopping around the medium build man.

The medium build man is flustered due to cannot track Vical because of his increase in speed.

Vical jumps around the medium build man as he launches sneak attacks towards the medium build man's blind spot.

The medium build man groaned after his calf is scratched by Vical's claw but the attack didn't stop, Vical keeps jumping around him and exploiting the medium build man's blind spot.

The baby-faced girl is focusing on finding Owin, Her skill is a counter to Owin's skill but it will not matter if she can't find Owin.

"Gospel eyes!" The baby-faced girl tries to use the Gospel Eyes which helps him detect the fluctuation of frevor but to no avail, Owin's presence didn't leave any mark or fluctuation of frevor rendering her skill useless.

Owin's bloodline skill is not that of a common skill, His bloodline enables him to enter the astral world making him invisible to anyone that he didn't want to let see. His bloodline sounds powerful but a random attack aiming at him can still hurt him because he is not astral in his physique.

Owin's presence is a huge advantage to the clueless girl, He travels carefully to the back of the baby-faced girl and injects green smoke directly to the baby-faced girl by touching her.

The baby-faced girl feels her back is touched, She jolted and turn to her back and attack with her staff enhanced with light magic but the attack didn't touch Owin.

"Astral Engulfment"

Owin whispers lightly, The skill he chanted eat all of the frevor inside her making her unable to cast any skills.

The baby-faced girl panicked because she can't make any of her spell works, She feels like a mortal human that didn't travel the path of mage fighter. Most of the mages with their spells are weak in close-quarter combat although there are some cases that they are also exceptional too at close-quarter, Having her stripped from her frevor making her defenseless like a baby.

Owin summons a sharp dagger with an astral symbol on its handle and stabs the girl on her back throat making her die before she can even react.

In the midst of battle, The senior looks at his rookie but to his surprise, the baby-faced girl's throat started bleeding and her soul left her body.

"Sachi!!" the senior screamed with all his might, seeing the baby-faced girl fall to the ground lifeless.

The senior's face turns savage, He has a bloodthirst look on his face. One can see that he has been engulfed by madness. The medium build man also shocked because of the sudden event, He disengages from his fight with Vical and swings his sword around the baby-faced girl trying to hit Owin who already left the field to the sky.

"You damn soldiers of Lovlarix, Even if I die I will bring all of you down starting with you!" said the senior while pointing at Zed.

The senior stab his palm making blood gush out from his palm, "I Reeve Tetbald hereby offer half of my life to kill my enemies, Oh Tirtas the bringer of death to the bloodline Kill my enemies and save my comrades!!"

After Reeve chant the ritual, the temperature on the surrounding area dropped several degrees. A runic symbol appeared under him, Black crows came out below him and a hand gripped the ground from the runic symbol.

The so-called Tirtas crawl up from the ground, It has a scythe on its right hand with dark purple aura and runic symbol surrounding it, its face cannot be seen under the hood making his face an all-black abyss, and there is a pentagon-shaped symbol on his chest that glows purple.

Reeve's appearance turned twenty years older, He looks weak after chanting the ritual.

The Tirtas is so huge that Zed is only one-tenth of its length.

The pentagon-shaped symbol on its chest sent a horrifying pressure to Zed's team bloodline, They're wiped off from their transformation making them look normal.

The Tirtas glanced at Zed after suppressing his bloodline, The glance seems like it stares directly into his soul and bloodline making Zed stiff all over. The Tirtas float slowly towards Zed and slashed with its scythe.

Zed cannot move his body lest try to stop the slash, the slash didn't directly slash to Zed but it slashed in front of him.

The slash seems to open a portal to Zed's bloodline.

The Tirtas brought his hand forward towards the portal trying to grab something inside it, Its hands is full of purple aura that is raging to get inside the portal.

The corruption brought by the Tirtas' hand makes Zed curl in pain, His body turns hot, His bloodline is growling in agony because of the attack. Zed can only grit his teeth to endure the pain.

The corruption soon touched his draugar bloodline, The effect is shocking.

"AAARRGGHH!!"

Zed feels an unbearable pain that he never felt before, it seems like an outside force is sucking on his soul forcefully. Blood gushing out of his mouth like a waterfall because of the impact as he tries to remain standing unwilling to kneel on his feet.

His draugar bloodline is dragged out of his body slowly when suddenly.

GROWL!!

Zed's Draugar Bloodline roar menacingly towards the Tirtas, some kind of barrier is blocking the Tirtas' hand from Zed's draugar bloodline and knocking the Tirtas' hand back. The Tirtas seems to stand still in shock.

The purple glow on the Tirtas chest grows dimmer and dimmer until its dead, The pentagon on its chest is a sign of the power of the contract, The contract is impossible to complete so the Tirtas cannot maintain his being in the mortal world and vanish.

"IMPOSSIBLE! HOW CAN THE TIRTAS FAIL TO KILL A BLOODLINE?! HE IS DEATH OF BLOODLINE ITSELF!" screamed Reeve desperately looking at his best trump card in dealing with an enemy with bloodline fails.

That contract just takes half of Reeve's life making him in a weakened state and his rank decreased, He is now a level 8 Knight rank almost as weak as Zed's rank.

Zed wiped the blood on his mouth and said, "It's simple, The Tirtas is the bringer of death" Zed put on a mocking expression as he continues, "That means it cannot kill an undead, in short, I'm Already Dead so it cannot kill me".