Chapter 745 Breaking The Body and Mind
Raze’s darkness had been condensed down, exploding in an area and then pushing it down further to a single spot. Right now, the power of the Dark magic would be purely tearing apart Murkel.
Unlike the tornado of Dark magic from before, this was pure Dark magic, which basis for working was destruction. This was one of the strongest spells Raze knew, the Negative Dark Bomb. The attack acted twice in the expansion and then the condensing form.
However, at the back of his mind, as he saw this, Raze was worried about one thing. He continued to condense down the attack, and finally, he was no longer able to handle the pressure.
His shaking hands expanded out, and so did the Dark energy, breaking into the air and dispersing into a large number of particles.
‘I’ve used up a lot of mana again,’ Raze said to himself, slightly looking at the ground, his vision starting to blur. Using the Cursed Qi pills in a row was already having an effect on him, and it felt worse than the last time he had used it.
His body wasn’t building up a resistance to it; it was the opposite. Each time he forced himself to use these Qi pills, the after effects were getting worse.
‘It reminds me of one of the textbooks I read about Dark magic; you can never get away from a curse.’
The ultimate downside of creating items with Dark magic. Raze still had mana left; he still had time left, but would it be enough?
As his vision started to come back, and he looked ahead, he could see something standing in front of him—a red figure with large beast-like eyes as big as fists.
Out of its back were several red crystals spiraling out like that of a hedgehog. This continued on the back of his arms and the back of his legs, as well as showing slightly on other parts of his body.
This was Murkel, but not the Murkel that the others knew. It was a different kind of Murkel; it looked more like a monster than a man, apart from the fact that it stood there on two legs.
“You ripped off this human flesh of mine to reveal what was underneath,” Murkel said, his voice deeper than before, with an odd echo. It sounded as if two people were talking at the same time but with a slight delay.
In one of Murkel’s hands, there was a portal of his Dark Qi. It looked like a miniature black hole that was continuously swirling around, and it got smaller and smaller until Murkel had crushed it in his hand.
“Your powers are extremely powerful, strong enough to even destroy my red crystals. This is a first since I faced them back then,” Murkel said. “I should apologize; this is not the same as the powers Bofan used. I can see this is your own power.”
“Your powers are extremely powerful, strong enough to even destroy my red crystals. This is a first since I faced them back then,” Murkel said. “I should apologize; this is not the same as the powers Bofan used. I can see this is your own power.”
“Unfortunately for you, my power is still able to draw yours away, and from the looks of things, you’re on your last legs.”
Murkel had used and condensed his Dark Qi. In doing that, he had drawn most of the Dark magic to one point, to the Dark Qi that was swirling in his hand. While this was happening, Murkel was constantly reinforcing his hand with his red crystallization.
At worst, Murkel believed he would lose a hand, but what felt like a final attack from Raze, he would survive and become the victor. Besides, if he lost a hand, he could always have it return.
“What is that?” Dame asked from the stand. “His skin, it’s red; it looks like a beast but in the shape of a body.”
“You should know that as a hybrid, your body has different states of transformations that it can achieve. You can just use a small transformation or allow your whole body to change.”
“The latter usually being more powerful, but in turn, you give up far more control,” Amir explained, looking at Mantis as a prime example.
At the Bonum Society, they would learn to control and work together with the inner beast inside them. The final result was consolidating into one; there were no longer two minds but having one mind as superior over the other.
When Amir looked at Murkel, he had no idea who had won out. Was the beast’s mind mainly in control, changing Murkel’s view completely, or was it the other way around? So much time had passed.
Seeing the new state of Murkel, Raze lifted his hands up, then stomped the floor, shifting forward, and threw out two Dark Pulses. They went out fast and powerful, infused with his Qi.
Murkel, at this point, just stood there and allowed the attacks to hit him. As the Dark Pulse landed on his skin, the magic hit his body and dispersed into nothing but energy particles.
It only slightly jolted Murkel’s new body.
“This is something that the others didn’t quite see,” Murkel claimed. “You see, back then it was just the Hybrid that was fighting. It wasn’t me as I am now,” Murkel said, lifting his hand.
“This body has the strength of the Hybrid but can reinforce itself with Qi, giving my body a more solid foundation, allowing my strikes to be far stronger, and allowing me to use the properties of the Dark Qi.” Murkel lifted up his foot and stomped it on the ground.
The entire area beneath his foot cracked, and the large cracks continued forward, reaching the very edge of the arena and where Raze was standing as well. The whole arena was shaking, and the others had to brace themselves not to fall over.
“That’s… so much power,” Rayna said. “Is… Raze going to be okay?”
It was then that Raze realized, as his vision was starting to blur again, that the Cursed pill’s energy was starting to fade. He looked up at the face of his sister Safa in particular.
“No… don’t do it!” she screamed as if she could read his mind.
Forming in Raze’s hand was another Dark Qi pill.
“At this rate, I have no choice. I just have to keep taking these things until I get rid of you. Heck, if I have to take these things for the rest of my life until I get rid of you and the Grand Magus, then so be it.”
“Because if I don’t take you down here, then I’m dead anyway,” Raze said as he took a third cursed Qi pill all on the same day.
Chapter 746 5 Percent Chance Of Dying
The pain that Raze had gone through before, the fact that when he had taken a few of the Cursed pills in a row, he wasn’t sure if he would ever wake up again, was something he thought he would never go through again.
He had somewhat even set a hard rule for himself not to do so, yet here he was, having taken a third Qi pill in a short amount of time. Using up his mana the first time to send the other factions away.
Then using a Qi pill to bring the Crimson Crane to his aid, using another Qi pill once again after using all of the Dark Edge Sword Arts against Murkel. Now having used up his Qi, using his strongest forms of magic, he had no choice but to use it for a third time.
“You should know the definition of an idiot,” Murkel said with a smile that curved heavily upward, almost just touching the corner of his eyes. “You are trying to do the same thing again and again, expecting a different result.”
From just taking the third pill, although Raze could feel his mana coming back to him, he could feel a great strain being placed on his magic core that was surrounding his heart.
With each thump, a shock was being sent through his body. This wasn’t the same as last time. His whole body was tensing up with each pulsation, but he had to hold it in, so he couldn’t even reply to Murkel.
Regardless, he didn’t think it was useless. Each time Raze was fighting against Murkel, he had allowed him to reveal more and more of his powers, and he was pretty sure Murkel was now at his peak.
This was the peak of his strength, so if he could just finish him off here, everything would be fine.
———
In the stands, most of the Crimson Crane members knew what Raze had just taken. They remembered when he had used such a pill fighting against Feebie from the main clan.
“What’s with that look on your face, why did that woman scream at him!” Rayna asked Alba who was by her side.
“The last time Raze took so many pills like that, he didn’t wake up for a week or so. We honestly thought he wasn’t going to wake up, and he’s taken three of those pills,” Alba explained. “The Qi pills made by the Dark Magus have been circulating for a while, and information has been passed to not take more than one within 24 hours.
“In cases where people have taken more than one in that time, it has resulted in death.”
“And you said he’s just taken three of those things!” Rayna shouted.
Of course, Alba felt like Raze being the Dark Magus himself knew about the side effects of the pills greater than anyone, and he possibly knew how to counter their effects more than others.
Which was why he could take several pills, but she wasn’t so sure.
“Raze is out there right now, risking his life for all of us, and all of us are just in the stands standing here. He could die. I have to go help him!” Rayna said, as she was ready to be on the move.
She wasn’t as hurt as the others that had been fighting; she was perhaps in the best condition, and as a middle-stage warrior, she had to be able to do something. She had jumped down from where she was in the stands and went to kick off one of the seats.
The moment she did, she saw a figure, dressed in a strange skin-tight black suit, with glowing red energy moving through it. The man seemingly appeared out of nowhere and grabbed Rayna’s hand, pulling her down to the stands and off to the side.
“What are you doing, who even are you!” Rayna shouted.
She went to charge in again, trying to throw a fist, but the strange man had quickly blocked the fist.
“I am someone that is trying to save your life,” Zon answered as he threw the fist away.
Alba was trying to figure out where Zon had come from. In the stands, they all were now relatively close, considering half of the arena had already completely been destroyed.
When Raze had lifted everyone, he chucked everyone in the same general direction as well. So although everyone might be in different areas of the same stands, they were all relatively close.
Regardless, Alba, a middle-stage warrior, still was unable to sense someone coming in so fast.
“You’re just going to have to trust me on this one,” Zon explained. “But I have evaluated that even if you went in right now and helped, you would die in less than ten seconds, a fifty percent chance of dying in five seconds, and that’s only because the man you know as Raze would choose to help you.”
Hearing these words immediately caused Rayna’s blood to boil. How could a person she had never met before make such an evaluation?
“If you don’t believe me, then you must believe in Raze,” Zon continued. “If he believed that any of you would have been a help, he would have never cleared you from the arena floor in the first place.”
“It is because of all of you that he has been able to get this far, but that is as far as you can push him. For his sake, it’s best you don’t get involved. I assume that he has some feelings for you all; otherwise, he would have never pushed you out in the first place.”
The others that were standing in the stands had heard those words as well. It was hard for them to imagine, the Dark Magus, the man who hardly spoke to them, who only did things for his personal gain, with a focus on gaining strength, having feelings for them?
It didn’t seem to be true, but his actions always spoke otherwise. On top of this, hearing this from Zon only made them want to jump in more to help him, no matter how little it would be.
“If you want further information, the chances of Raze winning this fight from what I have seen are less than five percent,” Zon explained. “However, the look on his face, his expression is not one that thinks he is going to lose, and judging by his own expression, he believes he has a fifty percent chance of winning this battle.”
Chapter 747 The Third Qi Pill’s Drains
With each beat of his heart, an electric pulse of pain was sent through Raze’s entire body, but he beared it as he looked straight ahead at Murkel. With another Qi pill, he had the chance to use extremely powerful moves once again.
With one hand, he gathered a tornado of wind, and with the other, his Qi was gathering in circles around his wrist. Not just one circle of Dark magic had gathered around his wrist but two.
Shifting his feet forward, Raze let out the tornado of wind behind him, which propelled him forward, hitting the ground and lifting him slightly into the air.
“Dark Ring!” Raze swung his fist out, and two of the pulses left his hand. It was just as fast as the Dark Pulse move but rather than a single line, the Dark magic extended into two rings.
Murkel looked to move, but Raze was moving his hands with them. One of the Dark Rings then wrapped around Murkel’s leg, and the other wrapped around his fist.
“Shackle!”
The Dark magic rings that surrounded Murkel’s body grew smaller in size, shrinking down until they were skin-tight around his body.
At first, Murkel was ready to get rid of them, but they seemingly had no effect on his skin, doing next to no damage.
Raze, as soon as he had landed, had two tornado balls of wind covering his hands, and fired them off behind him, sending him right in the direction of Murkel.
‘Heading to Alterian and going to the police force, there were a couple of skills that I managed to learn thanks to Harvey, Dark magic skills that even I didn’t know existed.’
The wind propelled Raze forward, and he was right on Murkel. His eyes glowed purple.
“Dark Rings, activate!”
The rings that surrounded Murkel exploded at that point, and with a heavy fist, Raze delivered a blow through the dark explosion, wrapping all of his power into one point, driving his fist right into Murkel’s stomach.
‘A hit, I can tell I hit something solid!’ Raze thought and could even see a beam of magic pass right through Murkel, but as the Dark magic started to disperse from the rings, Murkel’s strange large jagged white eyes were staring him right in the face.
“That tickles,” Murkel said, as he shoved a red crystallized hand right into Raze’s shoulder. It started to push him into the air, and was dragging him away as it was extending further and further.
The red crystal in his shoulder was breaking into multiple parts again, and Raze knew it was only a matter of time until it would pierce into the vitals of his body.
Raze, with the Dark magic on his hand, held on tight to the red crystal.
“Dark Pulse.” A beam of energy from his hand hit the crystal but seemingly looked to be doing nothing.
“Dark Pulse, Dark Pulse, Dark Pulse!” The move was repeated again and again until eventually. “Dark Pulse.”
The red crystal broke off, and Raze was able to push himself to the side with his Wind magic. The several red crystals were piercing the arena wall and chasing after Raze.
Raze was only a few steps ahead as the red crystal, moving as if it was alive, constantly tried to stab Raze, hitting the wall again and again.
Murkel was still standing in the center, seemingly relaxed about the whole thing.
“It’s okay, I can still fight, I can still fight!” Raze said as he gathered Dark magic and condensed it down into the palm of his hand.
“Negative Dark Bomb!” Raze said, as he threw it out, and it landed perfectly right where Murkel was.
When coming toward him, Murkel pierced it with a crystal that extended out from his back. Upon piercing the black ball, it expanded and covered the entirety of Murkel’s body, making him disappear from sight.
“Negative Dark Bomb!” Raze called out again as he threw another of the attacks. He could see that the red crystal that was chasing him had stopped, so he did the same as he reached out his hand.
Controlling the Dark magic, the explosion of the Negative Dark Bomb was the important part; otherwise, the energy would disperse outward. The idea was to keep the energy condensed into a single space, allowing for the ultimate amount of damage.
Just like before, Raze was condensing the Dark magic in place. Only a large black ball could be seen in the center of the arena. As he was doing this, though, he could soon see a red-skinned arm pass through, then a leg, a chest, and the rest of Murkel’s body, walking through the Dark magic, without being harmed at all.
His expression showed that he was completely unfazed.
“You really are the definition of an idiot, using those same moves against me. None of them worked, so why would they work again now that I am like this, in this form?” Murkel said.
“I can tell you’ve already used up everything you had. That was a last-ditch effort. Perhaps you thought my current form wasn’t my strongest and you could chip away at it, but it didn’t work.”
Raze could tell his mana was extremely low. He had used a large amount of Wind magic and the strongest Dark magic spells he knew. Due to the effect of taking the third pill, with his body in so much pain, it was incredibly hard for him to even use Pagna skills or Qi in this state.
It was only a matter of time until Raze would run out of mana, and taking another pill in this situation would be useless if he couldn’t get past this.
‘I’m not the nine-star mage I was. If I was, this whole fight would be a different story.’
Seeing the state that Raze was in, they all could tell he was running out of power, and there were no more moves that he could play that would work against Murkel.
Up in the arena, though, something strange was occurring.
“Are you seeing what I’m seeing?” Anna asked.
“Correct, for some reason, the look on Raze’s face, it’s still the same as before. He hasn’t used his fifty-fifty chance yet,” Zon claimed.
Overhearing the others, that was when it had hit Alba on the head.
‘Don’t tell me he’s planning on doing that…. if he is, then maybe, it might just work out.’
Chapter 748 Raze’s Last Gamble
With next to no mana left for any big moves, Raze didn’t have many options left on how to continue the fight, and that was if he could continue it at all.
However, those with the systems were able to read the facial expressions of Raze, and they could see despite him being at a clear disadvantage, he still was confident at least about something.
‘What is it?’ Zon thought. ‘What is it that you are still hiding that you think can change the outcome of this entire fight?’
Murkel was extremely confident. So far, the only person that seemed to have enough strength to take him on, the mysterious student in front of him, seemed to be out of options, which meant he had won this fight.
“You were a good test, young one. I thought that I might have needed people with me to go against the other factions, but your strength has given me confidence that I can take on the rest of the factions,” Murkel claimed.
Beatrix looked over to Ricar when he said those words. She was wondering if he was going to step in. Although what this Raze person had shown was impressive, it was hard to say if it was any less than what Ricar could perform or do.
However, that was also the issue. Maybe she would put the two of them at a similar level, and they saw the results of that already. They needed someone much stronger than that.
“We can’t get involved,” Ricar replied. “The moment this fight is over, the moment that young student’s life is taken away, we need to leave this place. We will gather all of the Light Faction and inform them of what has happened, and prepare a full-on assault.”
“Will we be able to run away?” Hannah asked.
It was hard to tell with the personality they had seen with Murkel so far. Whether he was someone that would hunt and chase down every single person who was in the area, who had witnessed what had occurred, or if he was so confident in his strength that someday he was going to take over all of the Light Factions that he didn’t mind survivors getting away.
“Look around us,” Ricar commented. “The faces of those are all allies of this individual named Raze. As soon as his life is lost, it appears that they are ready to jump in and attempt to take this person down, no matter what.”
Hannah looked around and knew he was right. Those from the Demonic Faction, those that were hybrids, the students in the Dark Faction, and the Crimson Crane that summoned.
She started to wonder what this person below had done for all of them, to get them all willing to sacrifice their lives like that, for just one person.
Back at the arena, Raze lifted up his hands, and a Dark Pulse came shooting out from one palm. It hit Murkel in the shoulder, disintegrating and barely even moving his body slightly.
She started to wonder what this person below had done for all of them, to get them all willing to sacrifice their lives like that, for just one person.
Back at the arena, Raze lifted up his hands, and a Dark Pulse came shooting out from one palm. It hit Murkel in the shoulder, disintegrating and barely even moving his body slightly.
“What was the point of even doing that?” Murkel asked as he started to step forward. Walking forward, another Dark Pulse went off, hitting the top of his forehead cleanly, but once again, it dispersed, not doing anything to his body.
“I’ve got good aim,” Raze said. “If that attack was stronger, you would be dead by now.” Raze had a large smile on his face; he was almost laughing.
“I guess this is the reaction of some,” Murkel said, continuing to walk calmly forward toward Raze. “The reaction of those who know that their life is going to be at a loss.”
Raze smirked at the comment, but it wasn’t for reasons that some might think. Those words, he remembered saying to others once, being in a similar position. Naturally, with his infamy as the Dark Magus, many were after his life.
Some working for the Grand Magus, others looking for fame, and those just wishing for money or revenge. Because his path was a brutal one, those that perhaps shouldn’t have gotten hurt, had been hurt along the way.
“I was just getting some frustration out of me,” Raze answered. “I have to admit it’s really annoying that I was unable to beat you, even though I used up everything I had.”
“What a talented individual,” Murkel said, his face starting to change. The red skin was folding away, and it was almost as if his real human face was breaking through the skin.
“You were incredibly skilled, to even show an ounce of talent that Bofan could achieve, and on top of that what you were able to do now, and at the academy at your age. Finally, to admit when you have lost. I am saddened that I have to be the one that has to stunt your growth. If I was you, I would be frustrated as well, never knowing what I could have become.”
Raze then lifted his head up, looking directly at Murkel, the pain running through his body was starting to come to an end, the effects of the cursed Qi pill were coming to an end.
“I think you have it wrong,” Raze replied. “Firstly, I am not a child, secondly, I’m not upset because of that. I’m upset because losing to you means that I’m not ready to face them, and I’m a little impatient when it comes to these things.”
“Them?” Murkel said, confused. Because from this person’s words it was almost as if he was saying that there were those that were even stronger than him that this young student was after, or maybe even stronger, but that would be impossible.
“Your words are those of a person that is truly delusional,” Murkel said.
“Right, you find it hard to imagine that in this world there is anyone greater than you, but that’s not the case at all, and I will show you,” Raze said as he placed both of his hands together and his Dark magic was forming again. “I am a person that doesn’t usually take risks, but it doesn’t mean I never take risks.”
“After all, I am who I am today because of the risks I took, and right now, I will take another risk.”
As Raze pulled his hands away, in one hand he held what looked like a large cup; it was a chalice.
In the arena, Alba had a smile on her face.
“It’s as I thought, if it works, this whole fight can be turned around.”
Chapter 749 A Good Or Bad Artifact
Right now, what had appeared in Raze’s hands was a chalice. It didn’t look special, mostly made of a dull silver-like color, and the outside seemed incredibly worn as if it had been buried deep underground, but everyone knew Raze had to have brought it out for a reason.
“That’s it!” Zon said, his eyes lighting up. “That’s what he’s been relying on this time. Just what is that?”
His system could tell, as the expression had changed on Raze’s face, that this was the hope he had, the item that made him believe he had a fifty-fifty chance of winning this entire battle.
Out of all of those there, it was Alba that knew the truth.
‘That time we entered the portal, we saw Raze defeat the dimension boss and head underground. In the ruins, there were three treasures that he had selected from. One was a strange ring that he had kept for himself.’
‘The next was a rare material that was used to make the new and improved ghost blade that Raze was currently using in the fight, then there was this, the final item, the chalice.’
At the time, when the items were discovered, they were with a warrior named Graft. A wanderer that specialized in helping groups navigate through different dimensions. He had seen these types of chalices before and knew what they could do.
From what she had learned about it, it was able to summon someone from the Divine Realm. It would only be temporary, but it would allow them to come down, and not just that, but there was a chance since the item only temporarily brought them down, that they would have their full power for the duration of their stay.
“It has to be a special type of artifact gathered from another dimension,” Ricar claimed.
“A special artifact, like the ones that are kept by the Clan Heads?” Beatrix asked.
“Correct,” Ricar replied. “You should know that a large number of artifacts are gathered from these dimensions. Many times, there are past civilizations that seemed to have existed in these worlds. There we find items that are beyond our understanding that grant great power.”
“Most of the items gathered by warriors of lesser clans are sold to the kingdoms and empires. They pay an extremely high price for them, as it increases their power and protection against us warriors as well. It also improves the relationship between the two sides.”
“But that isn’t the case for all clans, and that’s especially true of the Light Faction.”
Out of all the factions out there, the Light Faction had the largest amount of artifacts at their disposal. It was why so many clans and factions were against attacking the Light Faction because it was unknown just how much strength they had.
Out of all the factions out there, the Light Faction had the largest amount of artifacts at their disposal. It was why so many clans and factions were against attacking the Light Faction because it was unknown just how much strength they had.
Even in the tournament today, a number of artifacts had been displayed and used, projecting the fight on display, as well as the great power of the shifting land from beneath.
Ricar, thinking about all of this, started to look around and saw an opening in the stands that would lead to the inside of the arena, and started to move toward it.
“Where are you going? I said where you go, we go together,” Beatrix said.
“Fine,” Ricar said. “But I’m letting you know, I’m not running away from this match. I intend to, against my will, help everyone here.”
Beatrix and Hannah joined up with Ricar as they were on the move. Anna, noticing this, took a glance at what they were doing and decided to keep an eye on them, but she also needed to keep an eye on the match that was going on ahead as well.
When Ricar had entered through the opening, he was in the large tunnels where stalls with no people standing by them were seen. Dropped food and rubbish on the ground from all the people that had suddenly disappeared.
“In this battle, we need to start thinking ahead,” Ricar explained as they found the staircase and started to descend. “There has to be a reason why the young man hadn’t used that chalice of his. Why he hadn’t used it from the beginning of this match?”
“Couldn’t it be that it’s just a one-use type artifact?” Hannah asked.
“That may be the case and the most likely answer, but we have to think of all the possibilities,” Ricar explained. “It could be that the item may very well bring danger, or there is only a small chance that the artifact he has will help us win this fight.”
“But seeing the artifact made me think, the artifact below the arena, it should still be present and still be active. If we use it, we can help defeat the Hybrid, or worst case, we can use it to try and trap the Hybrid in some way while we are all able to escape.
“I’m sure of it, if that young man, Raze, manages to survive this fight, then with everyone we will be able to best the red Hybrid. A coalition between the three factions will have to come again, we have to for such a large threat.”
Back on the surface, as Raze held onto the chalice in the middle of the mostly destroyed arena with flooring sticking out and crushed in places, he was looking straight at Murkel.
Murkel had the same thoughts as the Light Faction Elder: this was an artifact, but there had to be a reason why Raze hadn’t pulled it out so far, and they were both right.
There were two reasons why Raze hadn’t used such an item. First, was because Raze truly thought that there was a chance he could win the fight against Murkel.
In his head, it was a test for him, and going up against the Grand Magus. As for why he hadn’t used it straight away was because there was an extremely large risk.
The chalice was said to summon someone from the Divine Realm but not who it would summon. At least in the Lethal Bite Clan when they were summoning someone they had an idea, trying to summon someone from their clan, but Raze knew no one in the Divine Realm.
So who would come down, and if they did, what reason did they even have to help Raze? There was a very high chance that the person who was summoned could be even more dangerous than Murkel, and could end up killing them all, but he had no choice.
With one hand lifted above the chalice, Raze had cut himself with his own Wind magic, and his blood started to fall into the chalice.
Chapter 750 The Chalice Activates
The artifact that Raze was using this time wasn’t exactly a magical item, so it wasn’t easy for him to see the effects of the chalice or know how to really use it. As a researcher in the magic field, he had his ways, as mages had to learn about enchantments before they could ask them to reveal their information to themselves.
That though was a process that would take some time, and Raze had been focusing on much larger things. Truthfully, he never thought he would be using the chalice so early on, due to the chance of what would appear.
Only when he felt he was strong enough to take on someone from the Divine Realm and reach the Divine stages did he think he would use such a thing, so he never fully went into detail about learning how to activate the chalice.
However, he did remember the details that had occurred in the Lethal Bite Clan, and how a mage from back then was used as well.
“Mages’ blood is different from regular blood; even that is infused with our mana, because our core surrounds our heart, and it affects the blood that runs through our veins,” Raze said as he watched his blood dripping into the chalice until finally it had reached an indented line in the chalice itself.
The whole chalice started to light up, glowing in a yellow energy. No longer could the metal of the chalice be seen because it was shining so bright. Raze held it steady with both hands on either side; he could feel a large amount of energy from it, but he wasn’t going to let it go.
‘What is going on, what even is that artifact?’ Murkel thought. The energy was felt through his own body, and he had a gut feeling that whatever was to come would be dangerous. Hardening the whole of his body, he started to charge toward Raze.
Before he could reach him, right out of the chalice the energy beamed up, it shot up to the sky. It was shining incredibly bright and had ripped through the clouds above. When it had hit a certain point, all of the energy was condensing into a circle which was growing larger and larger in the sky.
It somewhat looked like the dimensional portals the others went in.
‘This is it, this is opening up the dimension between the realm the Divine beings are in, and the world of Pagna. Whatever comes through next, we have to deal with it,’ Raze thought.
Everything felt like it was in slow motion in Raze’s mind because he could see Murkel chasing after him, he had extended out his hand, and the crystal was enlarging, aiming right for the chalice.
Looking at the sky, Raze just wanted it to hurry up, he just wanted whatever being that was going to come, to come through, and when looking up that’s when something odd had occurred. The portal above was reversing.
It started to close up, and completely sealed, then the beam of energy came shooting back down. It looked like it was aiming right back for the chalice. However, it didn’t hit the chalice; as it continued coming down it hit Raze’s entire body.
The energy burst out from Raze, going in every direction. When it hit Murkel, it caused great pain in his body which had caused him to stop. For a moment his red crystallized hand retracted and he fell to his knees as he winced in pain.
The beam of energy had surrounded Raze and now his entire body was lighting up with the energy instead.
“What happened, did something go wrong?” Simyon asked. “Did his plan not work?”
Everyone watching thought the same thing, they were unsure, and little did they know, Raze had no idea himself what was happening.
As the energy continued to hit him, he could feel a massive amount of Qi building up from within. It was daunting, and it was clouding his mind. His vision was going in and out. Seconds felt like minutes to him as well.
Although Raze had no clue what was happening to him, the others that were watching had a picture of what was going on because they could see changes happening to Raze’s body. For one, his white hair was extending in length, it was growing.
It continued to grow until it reached halfway down his back. On top of that, his eyes, blood was starting to pour down them, running down his cheek, but when they reached the bottom, they didn’t fall off or drop to the ground.
Raze’s fingernails then started to grow in length, turning longer than they did before, and finally, the last change that was occurring to him, was his bright white hair, it was changing, as it was becoming a dark soaked red from the top to the very tips that were shining even brighter, as bright as blood.
Raze’s thoughts were that the chalice was meant to summon a being for a short moment, but then he remembered, the chalice from the Lethal Bite Clan had done the same, it hadn’t summoned a Divine being, one had taken over the body, it had used it as a host.
It was then that Raze’s mind was no longer in his body.
The pain that Murkel felt was no longer there, but when he looked up at Raze, looked up at the student that was once there, whatever he was looking at now, a different feeling took over Murkel.
The crystals on his back, the crystals all across his body, even the back of his arms, all of them were shaking, clashing against each other making a small chime. It sounded as if Murkel’s very own body was scared of what he could see in front of him.
“What’s happened to Raze? Is he okay… why did the item change him, and there’s blood coming out of his eyes, he can’t be okay, right? No one can be okay after blood comes out of your eyes!” Simyon erratically said.
Safa had tapped the side of her head, activating her god eyes, and she could see it, the energy surrounding Raze soaking in dark red color.
“That’s… that’s… that’s not Raze,” Safa said, her bottom lip trembling… “That’s the woman in blood!”
