Ch 20 - Master Plan (2.5): A New Me?

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When I arrived at the gate where the guards were stationed a giant dirt dome was built beside it.

'Looks like Edward started the party without me,' I say to myself as I approached the trap.

'Edward really is a good mage to be able to create something of this size using magic.'

'Maybe I should start practicing my earth element. It would be cool to build a castle or something,' I say letting my mind wonder.

'Well, that's something I can think about at another time when I can actually effectively use it.'

'But for now it's time to test out just how strong this element is against my power,' I say to myself excited.

Once I arrived in front of the dome I figured that it was as good of a time as any to enter.

Raising my hand and placing my palm on the dome I focused my thinking and prepared to test out my abilities.

Thinking that this was the perfect chance to do some experiments I first began to do some tests before making my way inside.

This will most likely fail because Edward is a stronger mage than me but I might as well try since it's a good opportunity.

Thinking about the structure and stability that the ground is, I activate my earth affinity to try to take over Edward's.

Spreading my consciousness out I think of the dome as my own and try to layer my magic over the already casted spell that Edward used.

After placing all my attention on that, I waited a few minutes before I released my hand and found out that it unsurprisingly failed.

'It seems like it's not possible to turn someone else's already casted spell into my own,' I say disappointed.

'That would have been amazing and brought an endless amount of possibilities to be ahead of me. I could have taken over attack and defense spells that might have been too advanced for me to do myself. But it's a shame that nothing at all happens when I attempt to do it. Maybe I'm just to weak at this point in time and might have to try again when I become more powerful,' I said proud of the first exercise.

'Due to my first test failing I might as well try the second.'

'Instead of taking over and making the spell my own I'll try to reverse engineer the spell to make break down on itself,' I say as I replant my palm on the dome and focus.

Rather than spreading out my consciousness I apply it to one spot and berate that place over and over.

Using the very earth that Edward used to create I dome I tried to forcefully make it cancel out and disintegrate.

After a few moments pasted I removed my hand to once again inspect if my test gave me any results.

Surprisingly it did.

A microscopic scratch was left from where I removed my hand.

I could not even see the mark that I left behind however I could sense that it was there and that it weakened the entire stability of the spell's foundation.

'It seems that Edward's spell is far to advanced compared to the pathetic understanding of earth magic that I have.'

'However, this is great news! It is possible to be able to stop someone else's spell and make it self destruct.'

'Even though what I did was unnoticeable as long as I grown in power I will have another way to stop an enemy mage,' I say to myself happy that the testing paid off.

'Well, now that that's done it's time to crash the party!' I think smiling as I place my hand to the dome for the third time.

Not even needing to focus I just release the dark magic onto the dome from my palm.

As soon as the dark magic came in contact with the earth spell it started to dissolve it.

As I watched in real speed, the wall broke down and shattered which allowed me to enter.

'Wow, this demonic magic has grown so much more powerful in such a short amount of time. Using the wind magic and dark magic to grow was an ingenious idea,' I say complimenting myself.

Due to the wall just turning into nothingness no one noticed my presence as I made my way into the dome.

When I entered I saw Greg was crawling backwards on his butt terrified, the second guard was standing some feet away with an indescribable emotion on his face, while Edward approached Greg, and the merchant was knocked out laying on the ground.

'The fuck happened in here?' I wondered curiously.

'Ehh, it's no matter, my plan worked out perfectly and now it's time to reap the rewards!' I tell myself happily.

Slowly and quietly I made my way over to where Edward was. He was shouting over and over while Greg begged for his life.

'It seems Edward is too emotional to sense my presence and the other three people are too weak to notice,' I say as I appeared behind Edward.

*POP*

Time seemed to freeze at my action.

My own senses rattled as I gave in to my true self... a demon.

*CRUNCH*

My hand went right through Edward's chest.

The blood was endlessly pouring out of his warm body as I dug my hand in deeper.

The bones from his spine were instantly turned to dust along with the flesh from his back when it came into contact with the dark magic I was supplying to my fists.

Crunching sounds were the only thing anyone could hear in the dome.

*UGH*

Edward let out his last breath as my fist made it the whole way through his body and out the other end.

Even more blood sprayed out from both of the gaping holes of his torso.

The bones that made up his rips stuck out from the front as his body was mutilated.

Even more disturbing sounds echoed as I tore out my hand.

His lifeless body dropped first onto its knees before he collapsed on his side which truly marked his death.

Both of the guards were stunned and paralyzed with fear as they watched Edward's body soak in a puddle of his own blood.

Within my head turmoil was going on. It felt like I was a wild beast that just devoured its prey. It felt like a high where I was untouchable. The blood I wanted to see flow from all the people around me consumed me.

*RUMBLE*

The pressure from the killing intent that I was releasing was causing the dome to crack and break while Greg and the second guard were turned to stone with helplessness.

My eyes let out flumes of dark mist as my body radiated with dark magic.

However, the magic was invisible to the outside world as it was contained in the force field that the wind magic held it in.

The amount of essence that was being released was immeasurable to the already abundant amount.

At that moment my wind and dark magic capabilities grew by leaps and bounds as they reinforced each other.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH" I screamed in a demonic voice as I began to lose myself.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAHA"

"HAHAHHAHAHAHAH"

My screams turned into laughter.

"YOU THINK THAT I WILL LOSE MYSELF TO MY OWN BLOODLUST?" I yelled out

"NO I WILL TAKE THAT DAMN DESIRE FOR EVERYONE TO DIE AND TURN IT INTO MY OWN!"

"YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN CONTROL ME? TURN ME INTO A MONSTER THAT WILL MAKE THE WORLD BURN?"

"NO!!!"

"I. WILL. DO. IT. MYSELF."

"I WILL TAKE THIS PATHETIC WORLD THAT I WAS PLACED ON IN AND TURN IT INTO MY OWN PERSON PLAYGROUND!"

"I WILL MAKE THEM ALL DESPAIR!"

At that declaration my senses returned to normal. The amount of dark essence that I released periodically also went back to normal. Yet my eyes remained the same.

The mist radiated out of my eyes as if it was a show of power.

The mist didn't affect me in any way other than making me look badass so uncaring of its presence I just let it be.

I was undisturbed due to knowing that the wind magic would block anyone from seeing it anyways.

Once the trans ended and I returned to reality. I saw Edward's dead body and the three other men around me.

Wanting to understand what happened to me I quickly killed the other three by sending a darkness ball at them.

'Huh?' I said to myself, 'it was so easy to do that.'

'It was always so much easier to use dark magic since it was literally apart of me compared to the other elements. Yet when I went to use it just now... it didn't feel like anything,' I said confused.

'Even though dark magic is part of me it felt like a third arm where I still had to at least subconsciously think about using it. However, now... it is like a heart beat where your body does it for you... I don't even have to think... it just happens. The magic flows out of my body freely,' I said observing the changes that occurred.

'When I killed Edward it felt like I was being taken over. Almost as if I was giving in to the dark magic itself.'

'But now with the way I can use it, it feels like I've taken control of it.'

'Just what type of magic can I use?!'