The Gaunt Figure (PT:2)

In the dark cavern Daedalus stood, standing surrounded by the ghastly fog. The gaunt figure again standing before him spoke "You can no longer escape, now except your death." the word 'Death' rolled off of the gaunt figure's tongue with a vile pitch causing Daedalus to almost flinch back.

As this happened the gaunt figure once more stretched his hand forward, a beam of black light shot out of his hand. Reacting, Daedalus moved swiftly to the side, however by some level of unluckiness the beam passed through his left shoulder. Being injured Daedalus looked at the wound to find a pitch black corruption slowly starting to corrode his skin, flesh and bone.

To avoid dying to the corruption that was slowly seeping across his skin Daedalus swung Icarus in a smooth arc. As he moved Icarus back into a ready position the sound of something solid could be heard hitting the floor. He had cut off his own arm.

The gaunt figure seemed to be surprised at Daedalus' decisiveness but didn't say anything before attacking again. However in that moment of hesitation from suprise Daedalus had dashed forward using the Darklight Swift Steps technique. When it registered in the gaunt figure's eyes that Daedalus had rushed forward, Icarus was already cutting through his arm aiming to cut him in half.

The gaunt figure only barely managed to jump back in time to not be cut in half but Daedalus could only feel disgusted. The gaunt figure's flesh was so fragile Daedalus felt like he was more of a corpse than anything else. The gaunt figure saw this and said "I will return in the future, until then do try to stay alive. I want to be the one that kills you!"

The gaunt man said the last words with a vile spit which felt like Daedalus had a sword jabbed into his ear. That gave enough time for the gaunt figure to jump on the dark dragon like creatures back and escape. When Daedalus came to that realisation he stomped his foot in anger at letting the gaunt man go.

Yelling Daedalus aura exploded outwards removing the vile black from the cavern and surrounding area. With the black fog gone Daedalus could feel his senses going back to normal, that's when he realised that he had only fighting at about half capacity compared to normal. Before he could become only more enraged however, Daedalus heard the desolate cries of women.

Running towards the source Daedalus realised that it was the still chained women. With no hesitation Daedalus removed the chains. To his shock and horror the chains had runes that burned the soul while keeping the body and soul alive. He knew that with every moment you would be bound by them you would be in the utmost agony.

After being unchained Daedalus made sure that all of the woman where safely on the ground before pulling a small carriage from his space ring. After that he carefully placed the sleeping woman into the carriage and started making his way towards the nearest kingdom.