Broken hero

Chapter 38

"I... can't let you take him!" Anna dragged herself up, "I've done terrible things to him that'll never be able to apologize enough for...He trusted me to protect him and that's what I'll do!" Anna.

"Hahaha, in what way do you think you have an advantage over me?"

Anna's POV:

I can't beat him with physical force or speed there has to be something...

I could make him forget how to walk but I can't even touch him how will that work?!

I'll just see if I can stall for time while I'm contacting Briggs.

"C'mon Anna, I'm sparing you, don't make me hit a girl more than I need to, "Riven

"Girls are just as strong as guys, I'm no damsel in distress, I can take a hit" Anna

Riven looked down for a moment.

"...No...you're not, females are weak, " Riven.

"I'm still standing, while that "male" you're carrying is unconscious, by comparison, I'm stronger than him, he was weak enough to fall to you but I'm not going to, "Anna

"Weak? What Victor's gone through is because of you, you're not strong, you just broke him from the inside, your species are only good for emotional support and once that support shatters you're leaving the man in ruins, I've seen his past, he was a lively kid till you came along, in this fight with me do you know what he kept thinking?! Despite something being off about you and him losing he still wanted to save you. Even while I took his consciousness away and showed him things you've done to him, he wouldn't believe it! You dare call yourself strong by breaking him from the inside out?! Don't anger me Anna" Riven

"Why do you sound like you care all of a sudden?!" Anna

"Hahaha, did I sound convincing enough? I've always wanted to try a line like that but I never got an occasion to" Riven.

He smirked.

"Were you hoping that I'd give you enough time to get Briggs here?"

Anna quivered.

"Huh?!"

Riven passed his hand through Anna's stomach.

"Argghhh!" She coughed out blood.

"Hahahahaha, I'm surprised you can keep such an expression after getting impaled" Riven.

"Jokes...on...you, I...made myself forget the pain, " Riven.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot you can manipulate memories, So you manipulated the memories in your muscles to forget the feeling of pain?"

"No, you're close, I've made myself feel pain far worse than being impaled, I've implanted those memories in myself over and over again that this doesn't even make me sweat,"

"Hahaha, your muscles remember those intense pains you've felt and now getting impaled feels like you just tripped, this girl is dangerous, " Riven

Riven removed his hand from her gut.

"But either way, you won't make it alive, as pain resistance as you may be you're still mortal and you will die sooner or later due to that wound....but you've impressed me, so I'll just kill you instantly, " Ruven

He was about to take her head off when the heard a car's tires screeching.

Briggs jumped out of the car to punch riven with full strength but Riven. caught it one-handed, the recoil of that punch left a large crater-sized hole on the ground.

"Grrr!!" Briggs.

"Oh, you're pretty strong, too bad you're a trillion years away from beating me, "

He tried to punch Briggs in the stomach but he caught it and punched Riven in the face, he flew far and broke through the hotel doors.

"Hey, Anna are you alright?! You have a hole in your stomach!" Briggs.

She coughed hard.

"I'll be fine, I'm erasing the pains from this in my memory, so it doesn't hurt as bad as it looks *Cough-Cough* Victor's condition is far worse, Help him!"

Briggs looked at Victor.

"My God! What happened to his arm and leg, his arm was torn off and his leg is broken very badly...but he's still breathing, " Briggs exclaimed.

Briggs tore out a part of his shirt to tie on Victor's bleeding arm and used one to wrap around his injured head.

"This should be fine for now"Briggs

[From afar]

"Briggs if that was your strongest punch, I'm unimpressed, " Riven.

Riven was undamaged by Briggs's full-force punch.

"Is he a monster?!" Anna.

"I would have taken your weak hit head-on but the ground wasn't Strong enough and that's the only reason I even flew back, you mortals' construction is too weak, "

"The. I'll have to beat you!" Briggs.

"Bring it on!" Riven

They were a hundred meters away from each other.

"Riven!" Dr. Enoch called.

"If you use any amount of your real power here this world will start to reject you, " Dr. Enoch.

"But I haven't used any of my abilities here, they are way too weak for me to take this even half-seriously, I'm too fast for Victor's time lag and Briggs isn't even half decent with a punch, "Riven.

"What, he hasn't used any of his abilities?! All this time... he wasn't even trying,"

"That's right, I can't be using my real abilities on you guys, it would be child abuse, as in...I would have instantly won, but who wants to win that easy, right?" Riven.

"If you want to fight without problems, put on your Imitation corpse, it should restrict enough of your powers on its while also letting you have more time in this world"

"I don't want to, humph!" Riven pouted.

"Huh?" Riven looked at his hand and saw that he was starting to be transparent.

"Have you seen it? You can't keep this up, A concept shouldn't physically exist here! if you don't accept the preconditions you'll go back! "Dr. Enoch.

"Heh. Hey, Doc? They drove off while you were lecturing me," Riven.

"Then catch them!" Dr. Enoch.

"I can't, I've used up my time here, if I do anything else I may be sent back and have to wait in the Astral world, I'm not going," Riven.

*Sigh*

Dr. Enoch walked back inside and went towards his men who were waiting on standby.

"You three," Dr. Enoch.

"Yes, sir!!"

"I'll give the three of you the grace to go and retrieve the boy, Victor Edeosa, He must be brought back alive! You can kill the rest if need be" Dr. Enoch.

"Yes, sir!"

"Now then...For you, you will now receive the grace of fire"

"I accept sir!" Goon #1

He walked over to the next person.

"You...Shall received the grace of water, don't fail me,"

"Yes sir!" Man #2

"And you...you Sha receive the grace of wind, you now control all that is the air around you. Do you accept it?"

"I do! " Man #3

"You may now kiss the bride!" Riven yelled the joke from the first floor.

"If he wasn't stronger than me, I would have... *Sigh* Nevermind....You three, use your new powers and get me Victor Edeosa!"

"Yes, sir!!"

They all flew out of the building and headed for Briggs's car.

[In Briggs car]

" Anna, are you sure you're alright, your bleeding all over the car," Briggs.

"You're... I'm...fine... just...ke...keep driving" Anna said in a weak voice.

"Tch...I should have been there on time... I'm sorry," Briggs.

"It's...okay, as long as we're still alive.... that's all that matters" Anna.

They heard a loud blast sound from outside. And the car swerved.

"Arghh!" Victor screamed.

Anna looked outside the rear window.

"Looks like we've got company..." Anna.