Manticore (Part 4)

Without losing the gap in time Nicola got rid of the broken daggers in his hands before removing another secret weapon from the ring. It was a sword that he had spent a considerable amount of time working on.

Using the mold of a Chokuto, a straight Japanese sword edged on both sides of the blade, he produced a blade very similar to those back on Earth, but with the touch of magic from this new world.

With about 60 centimeters in total, it had a metallic gem encrusted on its pommel and another black one embedded in the guard closest to the blade, the entire length of the sword was covered with runes in an intricate that looked more like a work of art, a vertical frieze in the same direction of the blade, it was charged with black, sticky energy, almost as if the blade was holding something inside.

The sword was light and cut the paw of the manticore that held Nicola on the ground, the effect of sharpening blades together with the destruction of darkness caused by the two magic cores was very efficient, Nicola rolled sideways to escape the beast's reach and attacked again with their tails, which stuck to the manticore's stinger again. The manticore howled in pain at the amputation of her claw and was turning to Nicola to take her revenge, realizing that he had the same plan to cut off his stinger.

The sword missed the clean cut just before the manticore curled its tail and prevented it from being pulled out. Even without being able to use his claw to attack the manticore, he sent jets of flame from his mouth to keep Nicola away. But there were plenty of tricks for him. He took the magic focus he got from the pile of corpses, it was focused on water magic so the water mana concentrated around him while wrapping himself in four spheres that released jets of water to counter the flames that monster launched.

The beast became more and more enraged and his bloodshot eyes revealed his willingness to kill. A cry of pain erupted from the battle behind us. The team managed to kill the other manticore and were now taking healing potions to join him quickly. It was the lime shovel for the older beast, seeing his two cubs die he lost all sense of self-preservation and attacked Nicola with everything he owned, and Nicola did the same, threw his lightning needles, and jets of water while cutting the beast with the sword.

The wounds were increasing on both sides and the stone of light was not fast enough to heal him at the same speed as he was being hurt. He conjured the fox fire against the beast and used his other three free claws to use his claw attack against it. The tails flapped against each other in the air, being reinforced by the earth element that Nicola imbued them defended against the manticore's poison attack. The armor on his chest and shoulders was no more than stony rags now.