Clash

Capiro evaded my sword and swung his claws after me I on my part evaded his attack and kicked after him only to be dodged by him

"This could be funny" he smiled as if he was still playing

"You´re right this fight will be entertaining" I smiled back and Capiro´s eyes filled with anger as if he couldn´t take my statement that I see this fight as entertainment

"Let´s see if you can keep what you promised" he unleashed an incredible amount of skills and if I had a normal sword it wouldn´t even have lasted a second I parried his attacks

"You´re quite skilled old man" I said to him and laughed a bit at my remark and chanted some spells of the fire-attribute which I countered using my water-attributed magic

"I have to admit you are skilled as well but I wouldn´t expect less from the person that was trained by, Deathbringer, her style is showing itself in your movements" he got into distance and was in the near of a throne

"So both of us didn´t showed their respective trumps," I said coating my blade into my fire-wind enchantment while Capiro took a sword from the throne and casually walked towards me

"I will send your head to your traitorous mother drowning her into despair" he began but I had no interest in this kind of speech and changed into the bow-form firing a fire arrow at him

"Dude just shut the fuck up you're costing me my time you know?" I told him firing more arrows at him till he decided to go into close combat my sword cut clear through his and I cut his arm off

"YOU!? Dammit seems like I really can´t take you carelessly" he regained his composure as fast as he lost it and he also regenerated his arm at a terrific speed

"This will be annoying" I commented and started a barrage of attacks but he either evaded them or my hits were just some small scratches that healed up immediately what also surprised me was that neither the Alda priests nor Capiros servants intervened it was as if they ignored us completely

"Oh, this? Don´t worry too much about it my servants can tell when I have fun and what it will cost them if they interrupt me so they push Alda´s priests back to let us fight" he explained as I cut of his arm for the third time

"You talk too much!" I cut him using a triple enchantment out of fire, wind and light magic. I didn´t even went all out yet I felt like even if I did things wouldn´t change that much so I kept fighting on time till Neria regained her mana

"Why I like talking especially in a fight with a strong foe. You are curious why I can keep up with you even though I am Rank 9? The answer is quite simple I also got Jobs and they boost me above your level" he said things I already knew but how many jobs did he went through to reach this level of strength?

I got into distance while shooting arrows at him and switched into the scythe-form and attacked him

"What are you now a swordsman? An archer? A Reaper?" he asked me to which I smirked

"The answer to this is simple I am a hero!" I kept changing my weapon so he couldn´t get used to my pattern anymore and I accelerated my movements with magic from now on we slowly stopped testing each other as he also adapted to me pretty quickly

"A hero? What a childish dream you have so tell me hero do you possess a divine protection?" he asked in a mocking tone

"Who decided a hero needs the protection of a god? I will keep going my own way, live my life, and when my time comes to die without regretting anything" I told him into his face as we were in close combat though I knew what the future would bring I didn´t have any intention to let anyone know about it so I went with a phrase I read in some manga

"You are right who decided so? Neither I did nor you nor anyone it just went that way at some point. But your naivety regarding how to live makes me sick choosing your own path? As if this would be possible for beings like us who aren´t at the peak of existence" he got annoyed and yelled at me for some reason and I think he now used his full strength

I also activated everything I had up in sleeve, If things go like I think then will I need Neria as a back up now' I thought and looked to my partner and got delighted she chanted a spell and a strong one on top of that

"So Capiro let´s finish this as fast as possible I have something I want to do after this is over [Divine Blade]" I activated a less power consuming all-attribute enchantment that coated my sword with an extremely thin film and it became rainbow-colored and these colors changed places with each other till I totally combined them leaving only my now snow-white blade to be seen

"So this is your ace?" Capiro looked at me and then gave a small glance to Neria who was captivated in her chant "You will learn what being toyed with truly means... ?!?" before he could finish his sentence his body got pierced by rays of light and the source wasn´t Neria

"I can´t stand back as others fight in my stead" the saint stood up and a determination was seen in her eyes that even Neria would give in in a discussion which was near to impossible

"You don´t have to push yourself," I told her but she shook her head

"This is my will your speech there gave me something to think of and I will still need time to think about it but right now I decided to fight," she said

, Huh? This little sentence about how I see my own life I more or less copied out of a manga I read long ago gave her that much to think?' I thought and concentrated on Capiro again bringing myself in a position where I could intervene if he tried to attack either Neria or the saint while still be in an attack radius where I also could fight him

"Little Saint sit back you will need all your lifeforce for what is coming so just rest now," he told her with a smile but she answered him with another ray of light which he this time evaded

"You can take that as her answer," I told him and attacked him not giving him the chance to attack the others and I could hear the Priests pushing the Servants backwards

"Things are getting out of hand as it seems huh," he said to himself and then clicked with his tongue he got into distance while throwing something towards the Saint and for a moment my concentration on him was distracted as Neria finished her spell [Rising Wrath of Sylvani] and wild storm winds were released in the underground room but Capiro didn´t humored the spell he rather used it to accelerate himself towards the saint which should be impossible even I needed 1 year to learn how to move through this spell without taking damage or being slowed down and use the wind for me yet he did it without a problem

"So little saint this didn´t go as planned but whatever in the end I reached my goal" he cut her at her Carotid artery and her blood shoot out like a fountain yet it didn´t spray instead it collected on the disk Capiro threw earlier

"Shit!!! Neria treat her as fast as possible and take her out immediately!" I ordered her and she used her wind to bring some distance between Capiro and the Saint

"Fools it won´t change what is about to happen" he laughed and I could see the blood turning black on the disk forming itself to a small ball only to be absorbed by Capiro

"This can´t be good," I said to myself while covering Neria who tried to heal the saint but what Capiro did exceeded my worst nightmares

"Demon Kings Hands activated!!!" he shouted and the entire room went quiet looking at him and the four gold-black bones in the shape of hands came out of his back

"Now you all shall die" he laughed