Folon's Demise

It had no eyes, nose, or ears. The only thing on its face was a gigantic mouth with something dangling inside of it, the skin was covered by the faces of its foes, and most had fearful expressions on it.

There was no lower body, only the large blob-like upper body that connects its head and its tail which had a line of spikes going in the four directions.

The long arms had sharp claws that reached the walls and it was also the only way for it to move. That monstrous being covered their body in countless faces of their foes, with a smell similar to a terrible plague and ear-piercing roars.

That monstrous being took the name, "Folon's Demise" since those who escaped called it that, and now, his face shall join its skin soon enough.

𝗛𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝘁ō

The monster made its first move, it raised its right hand and tried to sweep the arena with its claws but I forced my body to move then thankfully, I managed to jump out of the way but it caused me to fall again.

I was in a stalemate, there was one health potion and a couple of bandages left in my bag, I could either drink the potion and stop me from bleeding out and would allow me to fight but I know I would still sustain damage later on by that mysterious attack that put me to this state.

I had to make a choice but it was an easy one, my hands reached for a health potion and immediately drank the rest of it all then spent the longest ever minutes in my life dodging desperately. Minutes passed and my leg has now restored its muscles reducing the amount of blood I was spilling, however, the skin and other things such as tissues haven't regenerated yet so I was still bleeding but it was enough for me to fight.

My body had slight scratches and other kinds of wounds, I was also panting heavily and felt like collapsing but I steadied my feet. I ran to the entrance and in quick succession, I took off my leather armor and packs and left them near the entrance.

As I walked, my leg felt very painful but I ignored it for now and looked at the monster, it was waiting for my move for some reason, so I quickly took off my bag and as I stood up, my hand was holding something but I put it in my pocket for later use.

What was left on my body were jeans that had many holes from the claws, the white long-sleeved shirt that also had holes on its chest and sleeve area, and my three weapons. The finely made longsword and my silver sword were sheathed in my left waist while my long knife was on my right shin.

I once again drew my longsword and finally, the real battle began.

I charged at Folon's Demise and in response, it raised its long claws and tried to crush me but I dodged to the side and before it could raise it again, I landed on its hand and ran towards his head.

The hand was thin so I carefully ran while the muscles on my thigh screamed in pain, the regeneration was slow since I was still running, then the hand tried to raise its arm and tried to get me off but I stabbed my longsword onto his skin and dangled from the sky.

The face on its skin that I stabbed contorts in pain but I wasn't disturbed by it and looked down instead, I realized that I was quite higher than expected and also that its tail was preparing to shoot its laser at me.

I swung my body up and pulled my longsword out then my body started falling onto the erected tail, twenty lasers came at me and I readied my longsword in response to that.

All of the lasers were going in the same direction so I slashed the beam closest to me and used that to move my body away from the nineteen lasers, the one I slashed soon hit the ground and disappeared.

I twisted around and looked at the lasers that were curving around in various directions before homing into me again.

As I fall, my death perception picks up on something, and immediately knew that it was the hard-pointed tail on me so I turned around and struck the tail with my sword dodging about twelve lasers that hit its body.

"GRAHHHUIHHUIH!!!" It roars. My eyes fell on where the lasers landed, there were only small burnt spots on its skin and it didn't even bleed. The faces attached to its skin sizzled and smelled like old rotten meat and with its already filthy smell, made my stomach feel unpleasant.

And as I fell, I sheathed my longsword and drew my silver sword then raised it at a horizontal angle and as I did that, the hands of the monster tried to crush me.

The silver edge didn't burn its skin but pierced it slightly nonetheless, after a couple of seconds, I slash the skin to disconnect from it and I start to fall.

Soon twenty-one lasers passed me and nine hits the wall and disappeared while the others curved around. The hands started to be raised to the sky but I looked up behind me instead, the remaining lasers were coming down to me so, I bit the handle of my silver sword and drew my longsword to parry them.

I sidestep the two then a dash back to make another two miss their mark then a parry followed by a ducking to miss five of them. The fourth was a dodge to the right and then to the left followed by a parry to the side and then I twist my body slightly but it still hit my left shoulder slightly and for the final one, I dash to go behind it and parried it to the direction of where two fists that were about to fall on me.

My aim was true as it hit the right arm and in quick succession, I stepped to where the right hand was going to land then dashed back as fast as I could. Due to the laser hitting my hand, the delay was enough for me to dodge that fast attack.

I passed between both arms as they slowly parted ways while sheathing my longsword; silver sword in hand, I stabbed as hard as I could in its right arm, and thankfully, there was a reaction, as it start to sizzle then immediately after that, I pull it out and dashed to the left and dodged three lasers, one hit the arm and the other two hit the ground next to it.

I took a glance at the blade before quickly sheathing it, there was a clear change in my edge that a naked eye may not see in the heat of battle but I easily saw through it due to the slight change of shade.

5/7 of it was a bit dark and the 1/7 of it at the very tip had a very dark color on it, probably blood since a small amount of dark liquid came out as I pull it out.

I sheathed my sword and made a mad dash toward the mouth, I drop my body a bit more and focused on running instead which proved to be fruitful as I easily dodged twenty lasers. One foot stops my running and I start to slide on the ground due to my momentum, as that happens, I put a hand on my longsword and then slashed above me to the right then left then a laser hit each arm.

It began to open its mouth and felt an incoming death before I ran, I sheathed my longsword again and grabbed my long knife instead and threw it towards its mouth but sadly my aim was not true, it was nowhere near its mouth and instead bounced pathetically from its thick skin.

After immediately seeing the result, I ran to the left and used my left hand as a cover, my body drops low slightly, ready to make quick adjustments and it finally started.

There was a small sound on my left shin then to the side of my stomach and finally on my left shoulder, then it goes silent for a short amount of time. During that, I looked at my major injuries, the left shin had a small crescent shape on the side where it bleeds slowly, the side of my stomach had a shallow cut, and finally, my left shoulder also had a crescent shape on it, there were various shallow cuts on my body which wasn't worth the mention. Looking beyond me there were multiple cylindrical objects everywhere that I couldn't make sense of.

Now I was on a timer, and every time I move, that timer goes faster so without wasting any more time, I jumped beyond its arm and ran towards its mouth, it was this time that it also recovered and twenty-three lasers came toward me. I outrun most of them and the last three, I parried toward its mouth which in response, the monster roars and closed its mouth but it opens after knowing that there were no more lasers but that was a costly move for it.

I am finally closer to the thing dangling inside its mouth and finally what it was. It was a man, possibly the one called Folon. But I entertain that thought any longer as I enter its mouth and slashed him diagonally.

There was no damage but soon a limb fell out instead, I only got to look a moment before a massive shockwave pushed me out.

After a couple of seconds, I landed roughly on the ground and then slid on the ground before being stopped by the grass wall. My body hurt so much and I was starting to be exhausted but I stood up.

The moment I thought of that, was the moment I needed to use it. I grab a familiar bottle from my pocket that contained a familiar liquid.

It was a berserker potion and without hesitation, I immediately drank it all, as always it tasted like shit but all the pain started to go away, and as my lips parted from the bottle, I spoke.

"Now your name finally makes sense, if I truly want to kill you, I would need to kill Folon first. Now I don't know who he was but it seemed he died inside of you for a reason."

I said to the monster with cold yet tired eyes and in response, it starts to scream.

"I'll take that as confirmation then," I said before running toward it with my longsword in hand.