Chapter 39 Brutality

The scream caught everyone that was left in the cave completely off guard, even the bear stopped feasting on one of the soldier's flesh. Everyone was looking at Lucas, curious about what he would do next. The pressure of the bear vanished, replaced with an even stronger bloodlust. Robert wanted to say something, but he couldn't even open his mouth. Lucas stood up and turned around, 'What is that?!'

Lucas didn't look like himself anymore, his eyes were replaced with scary blood-red pupils, that seemed to seep out of him, making crimson tears, creating an aura of bloodlust around him.

Yet his hair was bright yellow, which started to shine so brightly it turned white, giving a strange but striking image. "AAAAARGH", screaming his lungs out he rushed at the Demonic Bear. The screams hurt the remaining members of the group, they had to cover their ears or they would start to bleed.

The bear was pressured, but not to the point it couldn't move anymore. It tried to swipe Lucas away, but the moment the bear almost made contact with Lucas, he shot his hand forward to block the bear. His muscles bulged out of his skin, stretching his skin to the point it got destroyed, revealing dark black veins. Blocking the bear's strength was not an easy task, but Lucas didn't feel anything. His mind was gone, he only felt anger and hatred towards the world.

He didn't have any energy left in his core, but that didn't seem to matter anymore since he was using the energy in the surroundings. This was basically suicide for any normal mage at his level. Using the surrounding energy was only possible if you had a mental sphere with strong enough willpower to force the surroundings to bend to your will. Any interference could break his mind.

Using his other arm he let his muscles bulge out of their skin, completely destroying it in the process.

BANG

Hitting the bear squarely on the head, it flew to the back of the cave. While his right hand punched the bear, his other hand had been collecting the mana in the surroundings to create a flaming ball of fire. While the bear was flying to the back of the cave, the fireball flew after it. The bear moved its head slightly, dodging the ball of fire by a hair's width. Thinking it had the upper hand by dodging the next attack, it regretted its decision immediately.

BOOM

The fireball hit the coal that was located on the wall, combining strong heat with coal can create an explosion and toxic fumes, blasting the bear back to Lucas. Its back was caught on fire and the hide started to burn to a crisp. Whether that was intentional or not wasn't clear.

Letting out another battle cry, he pursued the bear. The monster realized that fighting with strength wasn't a good idea against such a strange human. It summoned the dark spears again and shot them at his new opponent. Lucas didn't bother dodging them, he also wasn't in the mindset to think about anything, Lucas wasn't in control anymore.

With pure willpower he transformed the surrounding energy to become infected with Light runes, lighting up the entire cave. The darkness was dissipating in the air, but the remnants of the spears still made it through. But he couldn't care less, he rushed toward the bear with his bare hands, letting his bulged muscles get hit with the dark magic. It hurt like hell, yet he didn't stop running.

The bear was shocked at the display of courage to face darkness head-on and wanted to rush at Lucas again. The bear swiped his claw downwards while biting the only escape route, it was a simple tactic for a beast. If his prey stayed, it had to block his claws, if he dodged he would face his jaw. What the bear didn't expect was that Lucas never stopped running, the claws that came downward were too slow. Lucas bashed against its body tipping it over, he started to bite the neck of the bear. Trying to tear off its hide, but he didn't make too much progress, the bear pushed him off its body almost making Lucas lose a few teeth. The blood running between his mouth and over his chin created a scary image for the bear. His aura was extremely imposing.

Lucas jumped the bear again, but this time his hands were completely black, he forced dark energy inside of his own hands. This should completely destroy them, yet they stayed whole. He grasped the head in his hands and let his muscles bulge out of their proportions again, crushing the monster's skull.

The bear's instincts started to scream, it needed to get rid of Lucas right away. Using its claws and strength it hit and pushed Lucas, yet he stood steady, his hands were stuck against his head. Turning around didn't help he held on, the bear tried to bite Lucas in the face, but the only thing he bit on was a stream of fire that came out of Lucas' mouth.

CRACK

The skull got crushed, and the bear was dead, but Lucas wasn't done. He started to punch the bear even harder now that it couldn't fight back. His hands were fully broken and almost destroyed, his face was a mess of burns and blood. He kept punching it and it didn't look like he would stop at any time soon.

"LUCAS! Calm down!", Robert tried to calm him again but didn't know if he could hear anything in that state. "Don't touch him!", Liam ordered Robert to not move, Lucas didn't seem like his usual self, it was better to let him vent whatever he needed to. Not long after Lucas lost his energy, his hair stopped glowing, returning to his normal blond, though it was filled with bear blood. His eyes also came back to their normal state, revealing yellow pupils with a glint of red inside.

His hands were shriveled up like all the blood and energy were sucked out of them. The bones were broken, the tendons snapped.

He fell to his knees in a pool of blood, falling unconscious.