Cursed

Now I was in trouble, they would arrive in about 30 seconds and I had no plan, there was no way I could stop the impulse of a hundred demons.

I tried with all my strength to think of a possible solution, but before I had an idea, I got a small clue, although the spears were weak they were causing small cuts that bled, slowly threads of blood were running in my direction, I did not understand why the blood was so vigorous but only the fact that it came through the air, but I needed solutions and this was a quite feasible one.

Concentrating all my attention on absorbing most of the blood, right now the demons were closing in and were about 50 meters away, the first wave of demons to arrive were those with a humanoid form, they consisted of about a quarter of the demons on the road, some carried weapons: from axes to daggers, others lacked a weapon but could use their own brute force, and even some had bones protruding from their skin which can be considered weapons as well, I could not underestimate any of them cause it would spell the end of me.

When the first demon came to my position executing a lunge with a dagger I grabbed my claymore.

The dance had just begun, and only one of the two sides could move again.

My body was already full of Blood Qi, I was surpassing my limit, I might lose control, but if I didn't try it I would lose my life, both destinies were problematic to me in the end, and if I lost control I might not be myself again and become a killing machine eliminating my consciousness, while I was controlling my mood, my claymore hit the demon's dagger. The last one came out shot by force, the hand that had the dagger along with the demon himself flew.

"Ah, it's a home run..." I whispered as I laughed, as you walked on the edge between life and death everything became so clear and simple that I even had time to laugh a little and remember my former world, but when the blood that had splashed from the claymore cut entered through my skin my expression changed and I was brought back to reality.

Again this feeling, I had already felt this in the barbarian village just before I lost control, I was passing my absorption threshold when something began to cloud my judgment, but this time I could see something strange, the black fog was gathering to get into the pores of my skin.

"Damn it, I have to do something to fix the fog..." I murmured while holding the pain, normally Blood Qi generated pain when entering my body, but after so many battles and the help of Berserker's Heart the pain was suppressed a lot, sometimes becoming imperceptible, but instead the dark fog that tried to enter my body was causing me a heartbreaking pain.

At least this time I could feel the pain, I had a chance to solve this problem, my first instinct was to attack it with Blood Qi, but when they both started interacting, The Blood Qi and the black fog became a weird Qi of jet black color, but with crimson flashes. The black smoke was formidable it could completely absorb my Blood Qi, stealing it totally from my capability, and once more I was losing control of my ability again.

What the hell can I do? I was desperate, if I lost consciousness again I probably would not live to see another day, but for some reason, I could sense that Berserker's Heart was my only way out, I concentrated all my Blood Qi into my heart, I no longer cared about fighting demons, I first had to fight to stay conscious which was my priority at this point.

The more Blood Qi concentrated around the Berserker Heart the stronger the heartbeat became, giving blows that could even make my whole body vibrate, but the black smoke was already inside my body, I had absorbed all the Blood Qi that was not around my heart, but for some odd reason the black smoke was getting stronger while absorbing all my Blood Qi, I was still trying to concentrate on the surroundings around my heart. It seems that the black smoke was going to launch the final attack against my heart.

I sighed deeply, it looks like my adventure was going to end here as the dark fog was quickly corroding the Blood Qi around my heart making it theirs, in 15 seconds it would reach my heart at this speed, the way the black fog worked reminded me of my Berserker powers, but it was much more formidable, I could only steal the Qi from the blood.

In these 15 seconds I was thinking about Rin since I had failed her again by leaving her alone, and the suffering that would provoke to my family, surely they were still looking for me, they have to be worried, they may even collapse because of me.

I sighed again, I had failed everyone again, but there is no medicine for regret, right at this very moment the black smoke reached out to my piercing through it, a chilling pain was my last memory.

But before I could continue to enjoy my own death, I reappeared in the scarlet world, the verses painted in blood still shone with a bright light, but there were also changes in this world, dark spots could be seen in the crimson sky, I immediately knew this was not over, after all he can't die that easily right?

A human made entirely of dark fog appeared in front of me, the humanoid figure was about 20 meters away, it was totally black, but the red eyes were slowly acquiring color, while his eyes were acquiring color the environment was suddenly becoming darker.

I knew instantly that I had appeared before a predator, fear was rooted in my heart, it was as some kind of innate knowledge that came along with the Berserker Heart, this humanoid formed of black fog was a serious threat even though he had no knowledge to who the figure was, but the sole fact that he knew this figure was an enemy in which he could not take lightly, This figure was enough to provoke fear among Berserkers, this feeling caused me to doubt my abilities and to fear for my life, what existence can cause such fear among the Berserkers?

Before I could think more about the dark humanoid, the red light in his eyes flickered brightly, and then he created an axe using the dark smoke and came charging towards me.

The fear caused my senses to be numb, but I reacted in time to dodge the cut with the axe, taking advantage of it to go back a couple of meters to gain spacing between the creature and I. I needed a weapon, but how the hell was I going to get it in this crimson world?

While trying to overcome the fear that blocked my senses I was thinking madly about a solution, this problem was larger than the Demon's Nest itself, there at least I would have more than 1% survival, but here I could not see a slight hint of hope of even making it out alive in this world

"Who are you and why are you here?" I asked with my head suddenly becoming filled with thoughts of doubt, I knew I would not receive an answer other than an axe, but I had to try, I needed information everything was just too confusing, the fear that came from the bottom of my soul was suppressing my very own desire to fight.

"You are not worthy to know my name, I will devour you before you can know anything about me, traitor, to think that a chosen one would reject the Berserker possession, enjoy the death you have earned" said the humanoid figure, the sound came from the bottom of my soul, I could not help but be frightened, but at least I knew something of this mysterious figure.

This humanoid made of the black fog itself is not a demon,but a Berserker, that would explain why he calls me a traitor, regarding the Berserker possession in which I had no knowledge of, but it seems that before the fault for losing control was due to this black fog.

This was all I could think about, but the fact that he might also be a Berserker rekindled my passion for fighting, perhaps if I beat him I could become stronger, and if the reasoning to me losing control is because of him, then I must not forgive him for almost ending Rin's life, even if I was guilty it wouldn't have happened if he had even existed.

I did not manage to extract more information from his words, perhaps by slowly stopping to analyze the words he had just said I could be able to obtain more information, but regardless the most important information about this figure I had already obtained.

In the end of this fight only one of us were going to make it out alive, and I'll be damned if this mysterious figure was going to get the best of me!