The dark hollow inside

Jack again gasped for air as his wound quickly healed.

He was in agonizing pain, and for a moment he couldn't even stand, or move his eyes away from the ground.

But when the pain subdued he grabbed the scythe still laying besides him and stood up with the help of the scythe.

"Insteresting, i really thought that killed you." Said Cynrad in an uninterested voice.

"Oh yes it did, but my death is all but nigh."

"We will see about that."

Just as Cynrad finished taking Jack rushed at him swinging his new scythe. But Jack narrowly missed as Cynrad jumped back. But Jack's attack didn't end there, he imedietly reversed the direction of his swing while running forward towards Cynrad. This time Cynrad had to parry Jack's attacks with his holy sword.

"Not bad, but don't underestimate me, I'am a hero for a reason after all."

Jack didn't respond. The moment of clarity from anger which was left behind by the pain has already passed, and Jack couldn't think strait anymore. So instead he just roared like a wild animal and pushed away Cynrad's sword with his scythe and then kicked Cynrad in the stomach.

But it didn't even move Cynrad a bit.

"That surprised me a little, it's good i came when i came. You could've became an annoying mosquito." Said Cynrad with a laugh.

Jack the just screamed even louder, almost impossibly loud and tried to punch Cynrad straight in the face with many times more force than he kicked him before.

This time it made Cynrad slide back a few meters as he blocked it with his hands, but he still seemed almost absolutely unafected.

"Time to stop playing games." Said Cynrad as his sword started levitating towards him.

"I have better things to do."

After finishing this sentence Cynrad rushed at Jack with the speed of a lightning and started to hit Jack with a series of blows from his sword.

But luckily for Jack he was able to block most of them. The problem was that every hit that landed cut Jack deeper and deeper.

Jack then felt something, like something snapping in his mind.

[Skill Rage lvl.1 activated]

Jack suddenly rotated his scythe 360 degrees around his body, knocking Cynrad back and destroying walls near him with the shockwave.

He then roared so loudly it didn't even remotely sound inteligent.

Before Cynrad who was knocked on the ground by the unexpected attack could do anything, Jack noticed something.

There was movement in the window of a nearby house, a little movemt, almost unnoticable. But it was more than enought to make that place Jack's main destination.

Jack rushed in the direction of the house and then jumped while running right into the window.

As he broke throught the wall next to the window, because he didn't quite land on the mark, he smiled. He smiled with that demonic grin of his. Because he now knew what the movement was.

It was a little child and his mother.

The child probably tried to see what was the comotion outside about, before being taken back by his mother away from the window.

Jack just laughed as he swinged his scythe cutting both the mother and the child from right shoulder to left waist with a signle swing.

And then he finally saw it.

Everything was slowed down, it seemed to Jack time was almost not moving, the blood gushing from the two corpses which didn't even fall to the ground yet was so beutifull.

Jack saw it all, as the blood reflected the beautifull moon, as the blood of two people mixed, the despair on the mother's face, he even saw how the separated muscles still sometimes twitched.

To Jack this was the most beautifull piece of art he ever saw, it almost brpught tears to his eyes.

After this Jack couldn't help himself so he swinged again and again with his sharp scythe making clean cuts.

Every time he swung his scythe he felt like the biggest artist on Earth, every cut making it more beautifull, making more reflective blood pour out.

But the he was rudely interupted by Cynrad jumping into the house throught the hole Jack made.

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What Cynrad saw almost made him puke. He saw the horrors of the 200 year long war, he saw mutilated soldiers, he saw tortured demons, but still, this was too much, even for him.

There was a mother and a child, cut into dozens of pieces, which were precisesly separated so it looked almost like an unfinished 3D puzzle.

But what made him even more sick was the face the demon had. It was such disgusting smug grin. As if he was a 5 year old that just brought flowers to his mother but his facial muscles were extremely tightend, and because of that the skin on his face was extremly stretched, not to mention he was covered in blood and guts.

But his eyes looked like he was disturbed from something he really enjoyed.

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"AHHHH FUCK, YOU RUINED THE MOMENT!" Shouted Jack angrily.

[Skill Rage lvl.2 activated]

"You sic- *Cynrad almost vomited here* sick bastard. I'am gonna kill you."

"Kill me? I'd like to see you try, do you remember? You sent me to my grave and yet i failed to die."

After this little conversation Cynrad rushed at Jack with his full power.

The attacks didn't seem to stop, and they were extremely fast despite each strike being powerfull enough to cleanly cut normal person vertically in half.

But to Cynrad's surprise, none of them got throught Jack's defense, and as if that wasn't enough, the blood from the corpses started crowling onto Jack's body, and into his wounds, which somehow started healing them.

[Skill vampirism lvl.1 activated]

After getting somewhat healed Jack counter-attacked by swinging his scythe at Cynrad, But Cynrad dodged.

But Jack expected this.

As Jack was still mid swing he let go of his scythe and grabed Cynrad by his neck and his right hand in which Cynrad was holding his holy sword.

"Gotcha, little hero." Said Jack with his grin

"Would you please let go of that little toothpick you have there?" Said Jack as he crushed Cynrad's right arm until he let go of the sword.

Cynrad finally let go of his sword when Jack heard a satysfying crack, well several cracks.

"Now we can have fun, don't you think?" As he threw cynrad throught the wall on the street.

Jack then jumped after him and stepped on the lying Cynrad with his right leg.

After that Jack grabed Cynrad's left hand.

"This one now looks unsymetrical to the othe one." Said Jack as he looked at the lump of meat and bones that was left from Cynrad's right arm.

"No, no, no, no, n- AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Let's fix that. We should, shouldn't we?"

"No, no, no, no, n- AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Jack grabbed Cynrad's fingers one after another and bended them in the wrong way.

"Still not quite it."

"Please - AAAAHHHHHHHH FUCK, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!

Jack then slowly crushed cynrad's palm and then wrist

"Now let's move on to the feet shall we?"

Said Jack as he stepped on Cynrad's knees, discombulating and breaking his kneecaps.

This time Cynrad didn't scream as he almost passed out from the pain, but he was still partialy conscious.

"You're no fun anymore, it will be much more fun to see what imagery will you create when you die!"

"Now, die to fill my dark hollow inside" Said Jack this time with unusually peacefull and calm voice, which seemed to almost have no emotion

"No - please - don't." Said Cynrad weakly between his hard breathing.

Jack then smashed his face in with a powerfull punch.

The fist went all the way throught Cynrad's head. Litre's of blood started pouring out, to most people this would be the most horrific scene, they probably ever saw, but to Jack every new death created the best music for his ears, the best image for his eyes, the best taste for his tongue and the best stimulation for his broken mind.

Jack just now realised, that he was much stronger than he should've been, just a while ago, his body felt lighter during the fight too. And then he realised it when he noticed the system's announcment.

[Skill Rage lvl.2 deactivated - cooldown 1 week]

[skill vampirism activated]

He probably got some new skills when he revived and they helped him win this fight.