Chapter 4: Death (IV)

Though the attack was a series of chain reactions as a rift along the land began to spread open. Large cracks formed as electricity flared out of each crack and straight at me. Dodging towards the left, a second chasm along the ground formed and electricity flared.

Dodging that, that I rain along in the middle, aiming straight for the beast. With a terrible glint in my eye, I leaped into the air with my blade raised high ready to strike down.

I was no longer here to survive. I was here to kill.

In unison, more shards of ice formed from the rain and sliced through more of the panther resilient skin as the beast did nothing but focus on the chasms of electricity forming along the ground.

Oh? So it couldn't multitask. The third set of an electric rift formed as it became more powerful than the rest. Leaping towards the right, A tiny flare of electricity singed my skin as I gritted my teeth in anguish.

Nearing, it batted its claws as I felt a whisk of heat against my skin, barely missing my shoulder by nearing inches, and with that, and I coated my sword with a final coat of mana as everything went down together.

At lass, its spite that shimmered in its eyes was gone.

Immediately, like a bull it attempted to throttle me off, to shake and yet I let it happen. Leaping off the creature, its taurine eyes felt dull. On the ground, I could only watch in glee as it tossed and turned, desperate to find as me as I had longed leaped off.

Slashing the hair once more in a formation of an X, two twins sets of aura flashed out into the air as in unison, sliced through the side of the beast, as more agony radiated all throughout.

Blood splurged more out of every pore and wound that had ice had jammed into as the beast howled in agony. Yelping it took paces back as dozens of ice shards stood out likes crimson pines. Its fur was now matted with weeping blood.

And again, more droplets of water froze into ice converting on the beast, I aimed at abhorrent places of the beast. More and more ice flew at it as it had become to look like a pristine porcupine with no way to dodge or remove these shards of glass. Its eyes blended as droplets of blood fell from its eyes.

Its eyes still burned with the sorrows and anguish that it had experienced in a lifetime and the fury that it once embellished was gone. Pity, hope, and confidence when there is only death is always something I had admired from rankers. But now, I found that this beast lacked it.

Swiveling its head once more, it bolted through the demolished treeline with its charcoal tail between its legs. Did it want to leave after attempting to kill me?

"Where do you think you're going?"

And with that, contractions of mana leaked out. Ice shards that hovered above merged together. More and more became one as it they merged together.

Mana flooded out as strings of azure visible mana flooded through the air. A glacial circular staff of ice formed as it gave an icy blue aurora. And towards the top was a glimmering and jagged point of ice— a pristine spear.

It settled down, as it hovered down to my hands as I grasped it as it glittered with a niveous frost. The spear was incredibly light and with me swinging my shoulders to test the waters, I found it a comfortable technique to use.

Already, the panther had already managed to run a tremendous distance, but it was incredibly easy to see the trail it had left.

With a powerful throw, the glacial spear flew through the air as the blades of wind whistled sharply. After trials of blue mana subsided as the spear pierced through the back of the panther and burst through the other side.

A powerful flare occurred outside of the wound such mana poured out of the spear and out into the now visible wound. Blood seeped through the hole in the panther's back serving to form a web of crimson ink but then finally fell along with the panther with a dreadful thump.

It was dead.

Everything was over, I could finally breathe in relief— at the fact that I had killed a powerful beast but as if my ability had evolved.

Placing my hand out, a puddle of water instantly froze into a tundra cold pond of ice.

So everything wasn't a lucid dream.

Shaking my head, my newfound ability was real, and it no longer felt like a forlorn dream.

Sighing, the triumph and the satisfaction that I had soon received left too quickly leaving me with a sorrowful grave.

All while the night sky rained heavily reflecting the grievous mood.

Looking around, the grim residence of the forest had been soaked as the thorn trees and decrepit landscapes gave everything at a momentous rest.

Looking down, I inspected myself noticing every wound had faded away before my awakening. The burn mark earlier had mysteriously vanished and any blemishes that I previously once had faded into the abyss.

My skin felt as soft as silk to the touch and any malignant signs of wounds were gone.

What the? I didn't ask for this…

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 4: 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 - 𝕰𝖓𝖉

And soon the amethyst blue night invades the late summer skies as it's filled with the river of stars.

The vast shroud of the night sky can only avail a glistening crescent moon.

Waning and waxing, the spectral moon soon reveals itself from the palace of clouds it hides behind.

And yet merciful luminous colorful constellations flowed blissfully throughout the northern skies.

Surely, the forest's spirit had begun to repair its shattered soul as the subtle chirps of the forest's crickets began to emerge from the locks of verdant grass.

Serenity was all it wanted.