Scrifice Ritual

"Who are you?" The reaper asked in an eerie tone.

Evan surprised it could talk, answered smugly.

"Evan, Evan Monapart"

The reaper's eyes widened hearing the name Monapart, but it wasn't talkative.

It teleported beside Evan. Evan could barely react in time. He dodged to the right, but it was too late. The scythe went down and cut Evan's left arm off.

Evan didn't look good. His blood colored the entire scythe red. At the same time, Alexander was struggling on the ground. He wanted to get up and help, but his body didn't listen to him.

The reaper didn't let Evan rest. It attacked again, making a horizontal cut on his chest.

Evan lost balance because of his severed arm and fell on the ground.

Not wasting a second, the scythe pierced right through his chest and heart.

Alexander watched Evan being impaled by the scythe while his body contracted and tightened itself. He was biting his lips hard, and he could feel the taste of blood in his mouth.

'Come on! GET UP!... FUCK!... FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!'

Alexander raised his body by sheer will and rage. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. Even while standing, he couldn't move or fight. The only thing left was to watch the reaper as it raised the scythe and pierced Evan's body in the chest over and over again.

The reaper wanted to make sure Evan was dead. It wouldn't risk letting its guard down in front of a Monapart. Alexander couldn't understand the reaper's actions until the scythe suddenly stopped.

Evan, using his still attached hand and with a giant hole on his chest, grabbed the scythe. The mark on his arm started spreading, and his whole arm became covered in tattoos.

He slowly raised his body while holding the scythe. The tattoos seemed to become alive as they spread through his body.

Alexander, smiling with relief, relaxed and let his body fall.

(!) [ Warning! ]

(!) [ 'Heart Offering' Is reacting to another curse ]

'It's reacting to Evan?'

He had to find out more about his curse and Evan seemed to possess a curse as well. Maybe he could teach him something. He didn't want to die for not asking.

Evan was being strengthened by his curse becoming several times stronger and Alexander wanted to learn how to do the same.

The reaper saw Evan get up and immediately retreated leaving the scythe behind. It created another scythe and teleported behind Evan attacking again.

This time, the reaper couldn't even scratch him as Evan dodged perfectly and punched the skeleton.

Evan didn't waste his chance as he destroyed the reaper's bones. In the meantime, his body started healing. His arm didn't grow back but the hole in his chest closed.

The reaper felt the pressure but it could see Evan was still severely injured and crippled.

Evan used shadow steps again, now way faster than before he could easily keep up with the reaper. Its bones weren't as sturdy as the giants so he did a lot of damage.

After losing half of its bones, the reaper started draining the energy around. The trees, the grass, the dirt... Suddenly, everything turned gray. After using the energy to restore himself, it drew even more energy destroying almost half of the purple forest.

Evan didn't wait and attacked viciously, but the reaper recovered more than the damage he could cause.

Things turned sour when the last portal destroyed itself. The reaper absorbed the ridiculous amount of energy from the portal growing his power even more.

Evan changed his plans and rushed to grab Alexander as he ran away. They couldn't fight anymore, so the only option left was to escape.

Finishing absorbing the energy, a black fog left the reaper's body and formed another reaper... It was multiplicating.

The same thing happened a few more times. Alexander and Evan were only alive because the monsters had to stay still while multiplicating. After fifteen minutes, four reapers were chasing after the two.

Evan wasn't fast enough to run away and he knew it. But the forest lost a lot of energy with the reaper's draining and they were able to leave it now.

After running for almost an hour, the reapers almost reached them when they arrived at a canyon.

"Make sure to survive"

After mumbling to himself. Evan Threw Alexander down the canyon and ran to the opposite side towards the reapers.

Suddenly, a scythe appeared beside his neck. He dodged by crouching down. Then, another scythe smashed his left side and he was sent rolling crashing into a tree.

Evan was trashed around by the four reapers. If he still had his two arms perhaps he could fight all four, but he had to lose enough blood to activate his curse, and losing an arm was the fastest way.

At the same time, in the canyon, Alexander was hanging on the side of the wall. His sword was stuck in the wall. He didn't have the strength to hold it, but since the curse wouldn't let him go, he wouldn't fall.

'Okay, I got this' Alexander tried imitating Evan and control his curse as he did.

Evan told him a little about the power of souls before and how to use a little of his own soul power, but it was all just theory, he never practiced before.

He searched inside his body and quickly found the energy related to the curse. He did exactly as he saw Evan doing and used the energy inside his soul to control it.

It was very hard to learn everything at once. But he didn't need to do much as he only pushed his soul power into the curse.

The curse's energy and his own merged together and he didn't know what to do after that.

(!) [ Warning! ]

(!) [ Curse 'Heart Offering' is evolving by the host's will ]

(!) [ 'Heart Offering -> 'Sacrifice Ritual' ]

(!) [ sacrifice Ritual: Once every five minutes, the host will lose one of his senses in exchange for power. The selection is random. the host will die after losing all his 5 senses ]

(!) [ Sacrifice Ritual is taking effect ]

(!) [ Sense of taste lost ]

(!) [ All status raise by 50% ]

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Author Notes: This fight is really fast and on point. I tried to make it as relevant as possible without all the useless explanations. But I would really like some feedback on it. Which is better, this one or the one in the second chapter? That was what I consider a detailed fight.

-Do I explain more or do I make it fast and relevant?