《Slayer of Kings》Chapter 5 - The Last Battle - Part 1
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The world looked red like fire from the depths of hell. It had no meaning.
Why fight? Love? Live?
What was the point in any of that? Is this what people call regret? No one answered.
No, this is not regret Leo assured himself, but it's not like he had any choice.
Scars ran along Leo's skin deep enough for the bones to be visible cutting through his flesh. Blood filled his insides while that same blood painted his skin. The sword shivered mimicking the movements of his hand while its color reflected his hair. The shanking legs struggled to keep the body up.
Death was upon him, but he refused it all these figures that lay before him resulted from his unwillingness to die.
The ground turned into a lake of blood while the bodies of the dead float along. Heads, veins, intestines, lungs ripped off from their bodies accompany it.
Leo looked calm looking at this scene, he had seen it many times before mutilated bodies, pulverized bodies, rotten bodies were all things he saw every day.
They were nothing new to Leo just like how death was not a new concept to him. He knew death longer than anyone else... Longer than anyone else he ever knew.
"Follow me, he cannot escape tonight I shall end this battle," A voice rang across the lake.
Soon, countless figures came into vision they were lead by a man in his 20s clad in bright gold armor with a sword as white as the heavens hanging from his side. His aura that radiated from his body covered everyone present there. It was like a mountain that crushed them, but they had no other option than to fight as if they were to run away the aura would kill them.
"Leo let us end you and I both know there is no escape from this because tonight I Cao shall kill you!" Cao said with the eyes of a lion ready to jump at its prey.
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A smile formed on Leo's face. Talk could do nothing at this point it was of no use the only thing to do was rip Cao's heart out.
Leo disappeared from where he stood this caught everyone, including Cao by surprise who looked at his surroundings for Leo.
Energy fluctuations originated towards his back, but before he could react a sword came slashing at an incredible speed as it ripped open his skin to reveal his light red flesh as dark red blood oozed out. Cao's scream filled with agony rang across the lake. When the others reached Cao to help him Leo was nowhere to find
"Leo you bastard show yourself and fight me like a man!" Demanded Cao struggling to keep his pain in check.
Energy fluctuations once again rose, but this time towards his left learning from his mistake Cao slashed his sword to the left but it failed to find anyone. Fluctuations once again rose from his right, however, his sword again failed to find anyone.
"AHH," Two screams that sounded nothing like a human rang across the lake simultaneously as everyone turned their attention to the origin of these voices.
A man lay on the ground with both his hands and legs ripped out of his body, they were still near him, but with extreme pressure got crushed into a human paste. The other had his intestines ripped out. Food lay near him that showed his stomach also got ripped out. His blood mixed with urine-tainted a small part of land above the bloody lake.
A chill ran down the spine of everyone present.
Regret filled Cao as he had diverted all his attention to the two bodies because of this he failed to check his surroundings. A sword came slashing towards him there was no way for him to dodge it so he decided he would let the sword strike him, but he would also injure Leo in the process and since Leo was already on the verge of collapse, this could end him.
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When the sword neared him instead of dodging or defending he let it strike him as he needed to be closer to Leo but to his surprise instead of piercing him and disappearing like before this time the sword as it dug into his flesh got pulled up by Leo this made the sword rip through his muscles and veins as it scratched his bones, however, he was a warrior he gritted his teeth and his swords turned into two instead of one as both sliced off Leo's arm to reveal his bone and veins that hung from the opening.
Cao had his right arm completely ripped open with his bones showing. The scratch mark on his bone was slowly eroding everything near it to Cao it felt like his bones were being grinded together. Blood flowed through his ripped open skin from his back which felt like someone had poured alcohol on his flesh. Leo was not in a good condition either in fact his was worse than Cao's as both his hands were no more. He felt a burning pain in the opening as the cold wind flew into it. The veins that hung out from the opening danced in the wind. This coupled with the wounds from before made Leo feel as if he would lose his conscience any moment.
"Leo I will fucking cut off your heart and eat it!" Roared Cao. The pain of his bones eroding was too much he wanted to rip Leo into pieces. Anger and frustration filled his mind however he got no response from Leo.
The others on the battlefield trembled as their heart pounded faster and faster. If Cao who was the strongest among all of them got injured to this extent, they could only imagine what would happen to them if they were to go head on with Leo.
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