52 Berserk

Char took a step back and rolled to the side, dodging the orc's attempt to punch him in the face. He could not simply take a step back because its reach was longer than a normal orc.

He made sure to poke the orc with his sword to keep attracting its attention so the skeleton can sneak at it and land a hit on its massive body.

"Shit, I think this orc is getting faster!" he cursed as the orc was getting closer and closer to hit him with its arm.

He could feel the wind blowing against his body every time the ax nearly hit him, it made him even more focused on the fight.

The skeleton activated its own speed-enhancing magic tattoo and dashed at the orc's side, its eyes glow brighter as they were in a dark cave.

The orc saw it coming with its sword bone and astral blade, but it was too slow to block it. The sword was about to cut in its arm, but it was not able to cut deeper than an inch.

Just like before, the orc roared as the astral blade directly attacked its soul. Its thick skin was not able to stop it.

Char might not be able to see it but he knew that the skeleton's attack was effective, he just needed to keep it alive to keep himself alive.

Suddenly the orc stopped trying to attack them, it lifted the ax from the ground with one hand, although it was barely able to swing it, it could still hold it still with one hand.

"What is it trying to do?" Char wondered while he got the well-needed break.

 He did not use the magic to revitalize his muscle, since the fight would end the moment he ran out of mana, so he tried to be frugal with it.

To his surprise, the orc pressed the ax's blade to his stomach. Different from the bone sword, it cut deep through the flesh and fat, causing blood to fall like a waterfall.

Char could smell iron in the air, but he did not have time to stand still as he felt sharp danger from the orc.

He quickly activated all of his magic. The quadruple physical boost running at maximum mana capacity, the magic tattoos activated, and the muscle reconstruction going continually instead of turning on for a split second.

Char kept dodging the ax that moved like the wind as the orc swung it with one arm as if it was a knife instead of an enormous ax. He could feel his back drenched from both sweat and cold sweat.

"Shit! That thing is going berserk on its own! We did not damage it enough, so it just damaged itself!" Char realized when he saw the orc's red eyes.

Different from the common orc, the orc's body was covered in red-colored mana, "That should be its third magic ability!" Char sidestepped another attack, but he could not dodge it completely.

His left arm got cut quite deep, he quickly healed it as he did not want to bleed out, if he let the wound bleed then he would grow weaker over time.

His mana already dipped down to a critical level, as he had been running multiple magic simultaneously at their full power.

The skeleton did not have a chance to get near the orc once it got berserk. The cave wall no longer worked against the orc as it could, but brute forces its way and cut the wall without it slowing down its attacks.

The orc's bleeding abdomen already healed, and it was nearly in perfect condition if not for its missing fingers.

The orc roared in pain as one of its glowing red eyes stopped glowing, Anne finally hit a bullseye and shot the orc's eye.

Its movement grew frantic as it just lost half of its field of vision, and madness quickly consumed its weakened soul.

Char saw the chance and went toward the orc's blinded left side. It tried to hit him, but with him outside of its field of view, he easily dodged the attack.

The skeleton followed him to the orc's left side; it tried to skewer the orc with its bone sword. It caused the orc to roar in pain, but in doing so, the skeleton had revealed its position.

The orc's free arm slapped it to the ground, smashing the lower half of its body to dust.

The skeleton's orb-like eyes looked at Char. Without a word, it threw its bone sword at him and mana started to gather toward its body, like a vortex.

"Shit!" Char, who was barely able to catch the sword with his other hand, quickly moved back as far as he could as he knew what the skeleton was about to do.

A huge explosion happened, and the cave shook, some parts of the ceiling and walls collapsed from it.

Dust covered the cave, but Char could see one glowing eyes through the dust, it looked at him before getting closer in a dash.

But a silhouette got to him faster than the orc, he could feel something covering his body, it was a strange feeling.

He looked down to find the skeleton's astral body was covering his own, "The astral body got attracted to the remaining bones," he realized.

He knew that the astral body would follow the majority of its physical body, but he did not know that it could jump from one to another when the physical boy got destroyed.

Char did not have time to ponder upon it as the orc was still running toward him. He quickly jumped to the side, dodging the orc's charge.

It blew the dust away, and he could see the orc clearly. It was bloody. One of its arms was missing, while half of its skull could be seen.

Even though it was already healing, he could see some part of its bone missing causing the orc's already ugly face to get even uglier.

The orc turned at him and swung its ax with its remaining hand. It was slower than before but still lethal.

"Fuck!" Char cursed as his magic started to fade as he did not have enough mana to sustain them. He ran out of mana!