PROLOGUE-6 THE NIGHT OF REAPER
Episode 6:- Night of the reaper
The Banquet was over. Again queen shut herself in a room of safety. Only king and his lineage was allowed to go to the room.
After the mess in room, Rei and Nazia were drunken and blacked out so their parents had to carry them. It was an awkward moment, as a drop of white liquid went down from Rei's face. All of them blushed and acted like nothing happened.
Scyures was pursuing his hobby in his room. Collecting information about nearby kingdoms and their Prince/princesses. In case he didn't got the crown he was aiming to marry a Crowned princess to become a king.
Myale was meditating in her room, her sense of presence was so strong she was able to tell anyone's pin-point location in the whole castle.
Zarita was sharpening her weapon to fight the reaper on the faithful day.
Two moons passed and finally third day came.
It was supposed to be a small fight with a normal strategy. Reaper knows her exact location so she will fight head on and destroy it's skull.
But not everything goes as planned. That night was blood moon.
All four siblings had received one similar message.
[ THE NIGHT OF BLOOD MOON HAS COME. EVERY MONSTER ASSOSCIATED WITH UNDERWOLRD WILL RECIVE A POWER BUFF. BE CATIOUS!! ]
Still Zarita wasn't scared. The worst outcome would be she had to go all out and others might know about a special skill she has been preparing from a year.
Zarita walked through the corridor passing Lanmyth.
"Hey little lemon! Where art thou going in this blood soaked moon night?"
Lanmyth forgot to turn off his High-literature translation.
"What the hell was that? Can't you speak normally?" Zarita frowned. Her one eyebrow went up and one down. She showed frustration.
"I mean today's blood moon. And at this time of night? Where are you going?" He asked.
"None of your freaking business!" She walked away.
"Hey stop!" He looked behind and yelled at her.
"Is this your manners to talk to an elder?" Lanmyth growled.
"Elder? Don't make me laugh. We all came here at same day. By that means physical age dosen't matter. And I don't like to obey orders from a pervert bastard. Who manipulated and clapped two girls in his own sibling's banquet!" She mocked him pretty hard.
"You little..!" She walked away before he could finish his words. Although Zarita didn't notice but Lanmyth threw some Nano-bots over her to spy.
The 25th hour of day arrived.
Zarita was standing in the garden big enough for a whole mansion. Wind was blowing as the rays of blood moon were casting a red glow in her face, flowing down to her blade's edge point.
A black fog soon emerged from the ground. A skull came into being and slowly out of thin air was forming bones of a reaper.
A black coat and a giant scythe was held on his hands.
SHHHHhhhhhhh!!!!!
A peaceful-painfup screech covered the area.
There were four ways to successfully kill a reaper.
1. Have a counter skill for it's smoke
2. Have a counter weapon for it's scythe
3. Have a counter it's speed.
4. Crush it's skull when in reach.
The area was soon covered in black smoke. The black smoke of reaper had two visible effects. One, it was to decrease the opponent's vision. Two, it was a make the surroundings magic blurry so the target cannot use it's magic's full potential.
From the dark smoke two glowing red eyes were seen. Like two suns burning with red flames. No one can tell if they were emitting sparks or smoke. It's scythe was pure black emitting a red aura.
There were two visible effects of Reaper's smoke. But there was a third effect.
[ The ability "flame resistance" and "Self-ignition" has been activated ]
That the reaper could burn the whole smoke with flames. The reaper dashed towards Zarita while the skull of reaper was burning with red flames.
His scythe swung cutting through flaming smoke and saw. Zarita was evenly matched with her blade with the reaper. As for the burning smoke.
Her ability Flame resistance was working efficiently and the ability self-ignition set her body on flames as her overall stats were supposed to be increase by 10%.
Another ability of reaper was to decrease opponent's fighting variables by 10%. So the buff and nerf evenly matched and the effect was nullified.
The reaper swung it's Scythe again and a screeching sound was reverberated in the collision two strong blades.
"The scythe of Reaper" against "The Paladin's chant".
The reaper disappeared in black smoke and emerged from her behind.
[ The ability "Mantis's blades" is activated ]
Two invisible blades blocked the attack from behind her and then Zarita jumped back two get a good state.
A sweat went down Zarita's temple.
They both stared in each other's eyes just then, Reaper activated an ability that they both had. An ability exclusive to dark killers.
[ THE GRIM REAPER HAS ACTIVATED EXCLUSIVE ABILITY "DEAD, LUCK, AND BLOSSOM" ]
[ THE ABILITY "DEAD, LUCK AND BLOSSOM" HAS CHOSEN KILLER'S INTENT AS THE BASE ]
The grim reaper's smoke disappeared. Soon the ground was clear with only a skeleton covered in a black coat and a scythe in his hand was visible.
Sparks mutated in it's eyes. Red smoke came out of its eye sockets like vapours. Soon a surge of red lightning covered it's body and it's bone became reddish-yellow. As if red blood was flowing inside of the bones.
It wasn't different in the other side.
[ The exclusive ability "Dead, luck and blossom" has been activated ]
[ The ability has chosen Rage barrage as it's base ]
Zarita was covered with yellow sparks and her skin was illuminating with yellow colour was if her skin was transparent and blood in her body was yellow and brighter than ever.
The ability [DEAD, LUCK AND BLOSSOM] is an ability that gives a tremendous amount of physical pain but in exchange it gives deadly power which is rises user's best skill to a 10x boost. And it's an immature skill which can blossom into an full fledged new skill based on user's usage of this ability. The base means in which direction it's evolving. Rage barrage meant the anger boiling within to conquer and crush the opponent.
They both strikes towards each other. Again and again. Sword and scythe swung up, down, right and left.
They both were exhausted from the strikes however. The Grim reaper regained it's stamina a lot faster.
And striked at her with a blitzing speed. Zarita jumped and barely dodged but she got the chance to crush the skull.
The scythe swung and gave a slash to her jacket cutting it split in half. At he exact moment she swung her giant blade and cracked the skull of Reaper but.
The reaper's body grabbed something. "Three star relic 'Cursed reaper mould'" was in the hands of reaper. As before deforming into dust.
It cracked then Relic and slowly from ground. One..two..ten..fifty Grim reapers came.
"Looks like I have a to give a fuck!" She snarled and yelled.
"Activate the killer skill set I personally designed " She dashed towards the army of Grim reapers.
[ THE SKILL "FLAMES OF HEART" LV 27 HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE SKILL "FREEZING BLIZZARD" LV 19 HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE SKILL "LION'S FIST" LV 9 HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE ABILITY "GRIFFIN'S CRY" HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE ABILITY "DRAGON'S SCALE" HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE WEAPON "BLOOD LUST DIPPED WRATHFUL DAGGER" IS UNLEASHED ]
...
Scyures was going with Lanmyth as he asked him to come.
"Where are we going?" Scyures asked while cracking his fingers.
"To save that split head!" Replied Lanmyth.
"What about Myale sister?" He asked.
"She has higher senses than anyone in the castle she probably has reached there!" He walked faster.
"Then why are we going she can handle it all alone?" Scyures matched Lanmyth's speed.
"If I am correct the problem hasen't arrived yet. And we have to stop it by all means. That reckless girl is about to kill us all." He was genuinely concerned.
"Why don't we just teleport there?" Asked Scyures. As Lanmyth stopped and looked at him behind with disbelief filled eyes.
..
Myale was meditating at the top of the castle in the blood moon. She had already sensed everything. She was observing Zarita's battle and was waiting until a real threat arrives.
..
Soon Zarita destroyed everyone of them but more came. This time bigger ones were there too.
A giant bear with a reindeer's giant skull on it's head. A Headless skeleton riding a horse and a witch covered in dark veils. The darkness was flowing from her feet as if she was floating over it.
They all shot lasers from their mouth towards her.
Just then, three lights coming from sky descended over the land.
The laser's degenerated. Lanmyth, scyures and myale had come.
Zarita was heavily panting standing on the corpses of reapers.
"Hey I thought I read somewhere killing a Grim reaper is as hard as killing an Angel or demon? Why are they so weak here?" Asked Scyures.
While Myale pressed her hand on the waist of Zarita healing her wound.
"Because we are strong!" Zarita smiled and proclaimed.
"No!" Lanmyth hesitated, looked around and said.
"'They all are ..how do I put it. For am easy explanation they are Grim reapers but fake." He declared.
"But if this continues. A real one might come and then we all are dead for sure." Claimed Lanmyth.
"Then choose your opponents. That skelly army is mine." Declared Zarita.
"How can you fight them all in this state?" Lanmyth looked at Zarita while other two were preparing to shield another laser from enemy.
"I have something under my sleeves!" Grinned Zarita.
"I'll take thar horse rider! He looks like a game-boss." Declared Scyures.
"I like that Bear!" Said Lanmyth.
"Then I shall finish the witch." Myale dashed towards it.
They all three scattered across. The reaper army, around 78 reapers were coming towards her.
[ THE ABILITY "DEAD, LUCK AND BLOSSOM" IS EVOLVING INTO A NEW SKILL ]
"It has to be the one I'm thinking!" She laughed.
[ THE ABILITY..
"DEAD, LUCK AND BLOSSOM"..
HAS EVOLVED INTO....
SKILL "NECROMANCY." ]