Full Assault (Part 2)

A loud clash rang out. Streaks of red and blue shot out from the devastating impact. Andre noticed that he struck the shield that protects Nephiri.

"When that lion fired his magic, she dodged. She's weak to Dark Magic, right?" Andre said to me with telepathy.

"That artifact she's wearing is weak to Dark Magic too, Andre. Keep at it and it will lose power." I responded.

"In that case..." Andre smiled. "Let's do this one."

*Wroooh...*

Andre summoned a spear of darkness to strike at the shield. Nephiri moved out of the way, causing him to miss.

During that moment, she turned around in the air and fires her beam of light at Andre. He also turned around to throw his spear of darkness at her.

*Pzzaoow!*

*Bwooom!*

The projectiles missed each other, heading towards their targets.

Nephiri blocks his dark spear with her shield. The spear explodes and the shield cracked and lost some its brightness. Andre used his Blood Arts to create a shield out of his own blood.

He angles his shield to the right side to deflect the beam away from him and preserve his shield.

*PZZZING!*

*KRRRSSH!*

He managed to deflect the beam to hit the ground, but his shield could not fully protect him as most of it broke.

"Urgh...!" Andre grunted and looked at his arm showing charred flesh and bone.

"Despite my resistance, it's still bad." Andre said.

*Wrooosh!*

He summons his dark spear again, took flight, and continues his assault on Nephiri.

*CLASH!!*

*CLASH!!*

*CLASH!!*

Andre's assault continued and the shield protecting Nephiri began to lose power.

*Swirrrch!*

Andre turns his hand into a large hand with dagger-like claws.

"Have some of THIS!" Andre yelled.

*CLASH!!*

With one swipe of his claw, he knocked Nephiri back. He sped past her, faster than he thrown her and struck again.

"Here's another!" Andre yelled.

*SMASH!!*

"Aaagh!" Nephiri was sent flying back with her shield shattered, my monsters jumped back before she hit the ground.

*CRASH!!!*

*KKKRRRRRRK!!*

She hit the ground hard and grind to a halt.

"To think my artifact would break so quickly. He's strong, but the strange part is that the Dragon Tyrant in the air above is watching me instead. Is Azaron a subordinate of that dragon?" Nephiri wondered.

Andre dove downwards towards Nephiri to perform a fatal blow to finish her off, but Nephiri refused to go down so easily.

*Vreeee!!*

A pale blue-green energy gathered onto her hands and grew in size rapidly.

"Aether Magic!" Andre gasped.

Ashley, who is in the air finally finished preparing her Tempest Magic and sees Andre's position.

"Now, Ashley!" I yelled.

With my command, Ashley Activates her Tyrant Aura and fires her Tempest Magic.

*BZZAAAOOWWMM!!*

Nephiri noticed the Tyrant Aura and activated her Heroic Aura and then fired her Aether magic in response.

*KRA-ZOOOOOM!!!*

Andre, who is on his way down, saw the beam coming at him at a blistering pace. Andre twists his body to evade the beam's trajectory.

*VWA-BOOOOOMM!!*

The beams collided, emitting a blazing light show in the very center of Nyctala, turning the eternally dark and purple atmosphere to a blinding midday.

"Wooaaaah!!" Andre as a result was sent flying by the shockwave of the collision and stopped himself. When he looked, he sees nothing but white, yellow, and purple.

"Damn, it's bright, I can't see anything." Andre said, covering his eyes.

During the beam struggle, Ashley notices that despite her Tyrant Aura, she is losing to the Aether magic and slowly becoming more disadvantaged.

"That's the power of a Unique Magic...!" Ashley grunted. "Andre, hurry! I'm starting to lose in this beam struggle!"

Andre dashed down to the ground and skids behind Nephiri. He crouches and hold his spear behind him.

"Let's see if that spear is like the one in the game!" Andre smiled. "Spear, drink my blood!"

The Sanguine Crucifixion glowed red in command of his words. The spear then shot thorns in his hand, drawing blood

*Stab!*

*Swirrrrl...!*

The blood Andre drew flowed to the blade of the spear and became an extension of that blade. His blood then twisted and formed into a shape of a lance.

*Bvoom!*

Andre dashed forward and thrusts his spear with all his might. His aim? The heart.

Nephiri looked back and see Andre rushing towards her with his spear. Then, her shield glowed again.

*Voom!*

*CLASH!!*

The shield blocked Andre at the last minute, but that defense was short-lived.

*CRASH!!*

The shield breaks and his spear finally made contact.

*SPLURCH!!*

"GUH!!" Nephiri vomited blood from the spear and her Aether Magic quickly faded.

Blood continues to pour from the wound, ebbing away from her life. She tried to speak, but the organs that wasn't ripped out were severely damaged.

The heart still beats, even outside of her chest. However, it will not be long before her demise.

Andre walked in front of her and picks up the heart with his cape covering his hand, knowing that her Holy Blood deals damage to him on contact.

"See this, elf?" Andre said. "The moment you bared your fangs at me..." Andre's eyes glowed red with malice.

Nephiri tried to reach out to take back her heart, but Andre continued with his short speech.

"Is the moment your life is forfeit!" Andre declared.

And with a squeeze...

*SPLURCH!!*

Andre crushes the heart, spraying the blood all over on the ground. Nephiri's death soon followed after.

She then falls to the ground, lifeless, unresponsive, dead. Andre pulls his spear out of Nephiri's body and rests it on his shoulder.

[Rank XZ target slain. 10,000,000 EP acquired.]

[Level 2.7 Hero slain. 8,000,000 EP acquired.]

[Ultimate Skill acquired for Azaron Bloodhail. Hero Slayer.]

[Unique Skills acquired for Azaron Bloodhail. Aura-XV, Weapon Ki-XV, Tyrant Spirit.]

[Azaron Bloodhail has become a Tyrant.]

[You have reached Tyrant Level 2.]

[Unique Skill acquired. Tyrant Seeker.]

[Za'trika has reached Tyrant Level 3.]

[Unique Skill acquired for Za'trika. Tyrant Seeker.]

Level 3 Tyrant? When she killed two heroes, she never got a level up as a Tyrant, but mutated in the process.

I didn't even evolve as well. But that's fine, that's one threat down.

*Flap!* *Flap!*

Ashley descended from the sky and walked towards us and the corpse.

"That wasn't so bad as I hoped." Ashley said, putting her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, we didn't even lose a limb or anything." Andre said, turning to me. "That Soul Master skill you got there carried us, Alden."

"If she knew I was there, she would've became serious right in the start. Especially that Ascension skill." I said.

Andre began draining the blood of the slain hero to his own, knowing that the skill Holy Blood cannot activate if the user is dead.

[Skills acquired for Azaron Bloodhail. Holy Resistance, Lightning Resistance, Silver Resistance.]

"Oh, yeah. The spell you mentioned before, where is it?" Andre said.

"It's already done, thanks to Miura, Espada, and Islero." I replied.

"Yeah, I sensed that when I was in the air." Ashley said. "Now that she is dead, what are you gonna do with that black ball of death?"

"I'm gonna keep it, we have another hero to slay." I answered.

My signaled my beasts to come over and I sent them to my Isolated Space.

I grabbed his coffin and took out my halberd.

"Let's find the hero and kill em all." I said.

We walked away from the corpse to find and kill the next hero. For Nephiri, her heart is destroyed and her blood completely drained, there is no way for her survival unless she has Resurrection. Since she doesn't have one, there was no need for me to use Soul Master.

*BREEEP!!* *BREEEP!!* *BREEEP!!* *BREEEP!!*

Oh, what now!?