44 Chapter 44: Gemstone

" I find it quite funny, that you love to congratulate someone, yet you can't even beat me in your domain, how truly pathetic. "

Mute glares down at the cursed spirit lying face-first on the dead grass. The spirit feels Mute's cold eyes aimed at his neck until he rolls narrowly dodging a steaming hot chain. The spirit rolls onto his feet before he dashes back, gaining distance away from Mute and talking

" You finally have the courage to talk, how wonderful. "

Said the spirit cockily. Mute scoffed at his comment. The reason Mute started talking wasn't because he randomly decided that he wanted to. Mute simply believed that he couldn't defeat this cursed spirit without manipulating his emotions to his advantage. Mute started to slowly walk towards the spirit before talking.

" I usually don't talk to trash such as yourself, you should feel honored. "

Veins pop out of the spirit's forehead as he angrily waves his hand firing a massive wave of ice spikes towards Mute. Mute stares at the incoming ice spikes before freezing them, stopping their motion. The spirit leaps over the ice spikes throwing a spinning kick that Mute easily dodges before he throws a high kick that slams into the spirit's jaw rocking his head back. 

The spirit stumbles back, and while stumbling the spirit extends his right hand out, creating an ice hammer in his hand. The spirit regains his balance and swings the hammer at Mute until it freezes and becomes motionless. The spirit lets go of the hammer and throws a jab that Mute slips before Mute counters with an overhand that slams into the spirit's mouth. The spirit grits his teeth angrily before the color blue leaks through his teeth. 

The spirit latched open his mouth firing frost breath at Mute. Mute eyes widened as he narrowly dodged the attack. Mute glances at the frost breath flying past him until a kick slams into his chest sending his feet sliding across the dead grass. 

Mute and the spirit lock eyes before they both lunge towards each other and exchange a fury of blows. Mute and the spirit trade punches and kicks until Mute dodges a punch and grabs onto the spirit's right antler. Mute twists his forearm before violently snapping off the antler. The spirit yells out in pain before Mute spins and stabs the spirit through the neck with his antler. 

Mute's hand slips off the antler as he throws a gut punch that sends the spirit flying through the air. The spirit flips in the air and lands on the ground coming to a grinding stop. The spirit locks eyes with Mute as he breathes heavily. Sweat pours down the spirit's pale skin as his heart beats rapidly. 

The spirit is clearly running out of cursed energy. Mute cockily grins staring at the spirit. The spirit's hands start to twitch as his mind races with thoughts. The beautiful ice palace is directly behind him until it starts to slowly fade away. Mute stares at the ice palace confused until a wave of power energy suddenly engulfs his body. 

The ice palace fades into pure energy before it swirls in the air forming a blue ball. The spirit extends his right hand to his side as the ball flickers, reappearing in his hand. Mute watches in shock as the spirit latches open his mouth before swallowing the ball of energy.

As soon as the spirit swallows the blue ball his body starts to change. His frail body instantly bulks up into one covered in pure muscle. His pale muscles bulge out as his body grows larger. His body grows to around 6'4, and his antlers also grow larger fitting his changing size perfectly. The crown dangles from his antlers until Mute watches as the red gem rolls into the missing slot becoming the main gem. 

A shiny blue light admits from the spirit's eyes as he grins at Mute staring at him. The energy leaking off the spirit feels near endless. The cursed spirit talks, but his voice has changed. His voice used to be hoarse and rough, but he now talks in an elegant tone.

" Cursed technique: Royal Transformation "...