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Among an immense army, a girl and an old man were mercilessly slaughtering every moving things around them.

From the forest, another one was swiftly shooting arrows, every one of them pierced through the soldiers body like it was made of paper.

Before their attack, the troops were already disturbed by the use of a wide area magic spell which killed almost 1/8 of the troops in a single instant. Thanks to this, the soldiers morale was already really low.

As their plan went smoothly, both Inkvir and the girls destroyed the enemies rations before starting to retreat. On their way they didn’t experience any real opposition and once done, they started to retreat.

Their true goal wasn’t to fully destroy the army but to force them to retreat after destroying their mind.

As they retreated, everything went perfectly until a black snow started to fall from the sky. On the other side of the battlefield, an obscure aura made its way in the sky before making the air turn cold.

Not only the soldiers, but the Inkvir’s group were also surprised by what was happening. All what they had planned was to destroy their food and retreat, yet as he felt Shina’s magic inside the shadow, he felt that something was wrong.

Inkvir : “Go back to the camp, I am going to see what is going on there !” He said before hurrying to the other side of the battlefield.

To save time, Inkvir went through the soldiers as he ran straight toward the location where the dark aura came from.

It only took him thirty-second to reach the place, situated fifteen kilometers from his previous location.

The place was tainted with darkness; the atmosphere was heavy, the ground was dead and coated by the black snow. But only one place was spared from the darkness, it was a small area of 2 meters per 2 meters and at the center laid the body of one of the young girls he traveled with… Eniel.

Seeing Eniel’s motionless body, Inkvir ran toward her and checked her condition; the girl’s heart had stopped beating.

Inkvir instantly understood the reason why Shina went on a rampage as he looked at the girl’s body.

‘She died recently, look like I made it in time. If I was only a few minutes left, then her soul would have left the body.’ He thought as he looked at her.

Laying his hands on her stomach wound, a green light emerged from Inkvir’s hand and enveloped it.

As the wound slowly closed, a faint white light slowly came out of the wound, reopening it.

‘This is ?! So that’s the reason why she couldn’t save her !’ A stronger light came out of Inkvir’s hand and made the wound close even faster, but once again the white light came out of Eniel’s wound.

The wound once again opened, making Inkvir give up on using his magic to save her.

‘This magic is the act of the Light Goddess… If I was a High God specialized in magic, it might have worked…’

As Inkvir's was specialty was the sword, his magic was only at a middle ranked god’s rank at best, yet his eyes showed that he hadn’t given up yet.

‘I hope it’ll work, it’s all or nothing for both her and me...’

From his hand, instead of a green light like before, now a purple light came out of his hand and spreaded in Eniel’s body. It was Inkvir’s life essence and the source of his power.

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I still recall the scene, how powerless I was… the tears who dropped from her watery eyes… how much I wanted to hug her body to make them stop, but as blood fled out of my heavy body I couldn’t move.

The sound melted into silence...my vision slowly lost it’s color...all my senses became vague as my conscious slowly disappeared.

Yet, here I am… I died back there, but where am I? Everything around me is pitch black, all what I can see is my body and a strange purple light enveloping my body which is restrained by four bright white chain.

Slowly the purple light is slowly eroding the chains.

I don’t know how much time passed since I woke up, but it took at least a few hours for the chains to weaken enough for me to break them and landing on the black ground.

What should I do now? Should I roam in those darknesses, seeking an exit? I’ll probably do that since waiting is useless…

But as if to answer my question, a man dug out of the ground in front of me. His body was covered by an armor tainted with blood and a black gas emanated from his body.

With a sword in his hands, the man charged at me. His armor is the same as the one the soldiers I fought were wearing.

“Monster… I’ll kill you just like you killed me....”

Unlike the soldiers, the man was fast, but I still managed to dodge his attack. Am I supposed to fight him weaponless ?... Is what I thought until my two katanas appeared in my hands.

Didn’t Verlox say something like they were linked to my soul?... Whatever…

The soldier might have been fast, but I was faster and with a quick slash I severed his head from his body, making him fall on the ground and taint the ground as a black blood flew out of his corpse.

But as I thought I was done, two soldiers emerged from the ground just like the previous one, but the dark gas on them was darker than before.

Whatever… It doesn’t matter I’ll simply cut them down, I charged at them as they muttered some curses which I simply ignored and pierced both of their chest, but I didn’t predict that it wouldn’t be enough as they tried to cut me down with a blade in their heart… Do I have to behead them?

Only after decapitating them did they fall to the ground and stop moving.

Now it’s three of them who dug out and cursed me… are they going to keep coming like this ?... What a bother, I have to hurry and find a way to go back to Shina…

This is really endless, I don’t know how many hours or days I passed here, but all I did was keep fighting again and again as the number of enemies keeps growing more and more and they keep getting stronger.

Their numbers reached the hundred before I knew it and their strength is three times the one of normal humans.

I don’t know how much time I kept doing this, but they didn’t leave me a single minute of rest… I don’t know how much time I can hold on against them, even their cursing is getting insupportable.

Maybe they are the souls of the soldiers I killed? If so then it’ll probably end at a moment… No, I already killed more of those ghosts than I the number I killed back then.

I don’t care what they want, but I won’t surrender until I go back to her side…

With those thoughts, I dragged my exhausted body and ran toward the enemies rank, cutting those ghosts to piece as they tried to kill me.

I somehow managed to finish them all, my body was covered in wounds and they once again emerged from the ground, even more numerous than before.

As I tried to move, I fell on the ground, unable to move a single muscle. I am tired, no matter how much I try I can’t move… Why do I even feel hungry and thirsty if I am dead ?...

But suddenly, a strange liquid entered my mouth and I felt it move all the way moving from my throat to my stomach. The horrible taste almost made me throw up.

After drinking it, my body somehow regained energy and I managed to stand up, taking my finger to my mouth, trying to find out what was the liquid from the remain on it, I finally realized.

Eniel : “ It was their blood…”

The blood of the countless bodies around us covered the ground and I accidentally drank some, but why did I regain some energy? Is it because blood is linked to magic? By drinking their blood, I absorb their magic which is corrupted by dark mana? The same as my affinity.

I don’t know the reason, all that I can do is speculation, but what I am sure of is that their blood replenished my energy. If that’s so then it’s ‘drink or die’...

It seems that I took too much time to think, the soldiers are approaching. I cut down one of the soldiers and separated his hand from his arm, taking it and retreating from the others.

With the hand of one of the dead soldiers in my hand, I was now confronted with a choice. Drink and survive or give up and surely die…

As I closed my eyes, I quickly made my choice; if it’s for her, then I won’t even hesitate to throw away my own soul.

I slowly drank the blood leaking from the severed hand and once again it’s energy went through my body, making me feel as good as when I first came here… No, I feel a little stronger.

I won’t hesitate anymore, if it’s to survive, then I’ll do anything and everything.

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At the place where Eniel corpse was, Inkvir continued to infuse his life force as his face grew paler and body thinner. A few moments after he had started, the dark mana around him gathered inside Eniel’s body.

It was the dark mana which Shina had released when she started her rampage. As Inkvir knew the reason, he didn’t interfere with it and left it enter her body.

What he was trying to do is making a god, by injecting his lifeforce into Eniel, he also injected his divine power. Being of dark affinity, Eniel’s soul was attracting the dark mana around, slowly transforming it.

It has been a few minutes since he started and the white light from the curse had almost vanished, the transformation was also almost done.

A little smile showed on his face until a woman dressed in a white robe appeared in front of him.

Her long blond hairs, her blue eyes and her generous form. At a first glance, she would seem human, but her beauty couldn’t be qualified as one a human would possess. The pressure coming out of her made Inkvir fearful.

Inkvir : “Lumenia…” Before him was the Goddess of Light, Lumenia.

Lumenia : “ Hmph, I felt like something was tampering with the power of my sword; so it was a Vec. It’s been a long time since I last saw one, are you the last one? But since you broke our rules and interfered in the mortals affair, your kind will be extinct with your death.” She said as showed an ironic smile.

The next instant, all of Inkvir's members were pierced by four golden spears, but even though he felt his body burn from where he was pierced, he continued to inject his life force into Eniel’s body.

But due to the wounds, the energy he was transferring became lower and the white light which had almost vanished slowly started to reform.

Seeing this, Inkvir infused even more of his energy, making his vision become blurry.

‘I guess it’s my end… Shieita… Roan… Will I meet you in the afterworld?... Will you forgive me for running away that day ?...’

As he was about to die, Lumenia looked in the direction where Shina who was running after Keniro was.

‘I have to save him, he have to survive until his job is done. As for the girl… I don’t like things I don’t understand.’ In her hands, a small spear made of light formed which she threw in Shina’s direction with a movement of her hands.

The spear flew at a tremendous spear...but only for ten meters before being caught by a certain man with a single hand.

From his bloodshot eyes, anger could be seen as he stared at Lumenia with killing intent, crushing bare handed the spear in his hand.

Lumenia : “ W-What are you doing here?...Veralox” She asked somewhat scared.

The man was the Dragon God who had searched for Shina everywhere in the world, but as Shina went on a rampage, he detected her mana and teleported here, only to see Lumenia trying to kill her with at her side Eniel’s body.

Veralox : “You little… you don’t even know what you are doing right? Of course you don’t ! Didn’t I tell you before not to lay your hands on dragons? Of course, a doll like you can’t even understand something so basic. If they had seen this how angry would they be…” Veralox couldn’t help but to vent his anger on Lumenia who didn’t understand anything.

Lumenia : “ Are you trying to say that I am wrong here ?! That girl may be a part of the dragon kind, but she tried to kill my hero! Anyway, what is wrong with killing a half ?! Didn’t you order for every half to die when they are born ?! Why are you trying to change your own laws? And why should I follow rules you made alone, I never agreed to them !”

Under his words, Lumenia couldn’t help but be angry and stand against him, making Veralox sigh as he calmed down.

Veralox : “I see… You went past the point of no return you know? Now I have no other choice than killing you.” He carelessly said.

Although Veralox’s tone looked like he didn’t care, his eyes showed that he was serious. Having coexisted for millions of years, Lumenia didn’t think that Veralox would try to kill her until she saw his eyes.

As she knew that she was weaker than him, Lumenia instantly teleported back to Theristid capital where her temple was located, leaving Veralox alone with Eniel’s and Inkvir’s body.

Looking at Eniel’s body, Veralox still felt something close to life inside her, as he carefully observed it he discovered that her soul had almost completely transformed into a god’s one.

‘How is that possible ?... Is it that man ? Looking at his skin color he must be a Vec, being this old while he must have been a god. Since I planned on making her a High God once she grew up I might as well do it now.'

Laying his hand on Eniel’s head, Veralox observed the condition of Eniel’s soul, it was an almost black one which possessed some white layer due to the curse of Keniro’s blade. It had transformed thanks to the dark mana around.

‘She must have a hard time with those conditions, this place is full of spirit who morphed because of the mana and became evil spirits. I should give her some help.’

Stopping the dark mana from entering her body, Veralox absorbed the mana instead and injected it himself, acting as a filter to prevent the evil spirits from appearing.

‘I did what I could, the rest is up to you.’

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How many years passed since I came to this place? I don’t even remember the number of soldiers I killed, seriously I stopped counting after seven thousand, but that was a long time ago.

Since I am using their blood to replenish my energy, no matter how many come I am never tired.

Even my body started growing, I feel like I am far taller than before, my breast also started to develop so I must have spent many years here.

Four, or many five ? Since I look like a sixteen years old teenager that must be something like that.

As I was going once again to charge against the vast troop of enemies, I felt like something was entering my body, stabbing me everywhere inside my body. Yet, it didn’t hurt as much as I was here.

I suffered countless wound in this place, sometimes mortals ones, but it seems that even if my heart is pierced I can’t die.

But although it doesn’t hurt much, it still is displeasant to feel pain… How many years do I have to stay here before I can go back to her side?

As the pain slowly disappeared, the dead soldiers fell on the ground, it is the first time something like this happen.

Among them stood a single figure made of light, the figure of a girl I saw a long time ago. It was me.

Light Eniel : “Why are you trying to fight against death ?” She asked me.

Eniel : “Because I want to see her again.”

Light Eniel : “Even if you wish for it, it’s too late. You already died ! Give up already.” She said as a ball of light appeared in her hand, showing the moment where I died pierced by that arrogant man’s sword.

Eniel : “Don’t wanna…”

Light Eniel : “You can act as childish as you want, but it’s impossible. Once someone die he has to go to the afterworld, it’s how the world work. Let me, no, let US rest in peace.”

Eniel : “...Even if that’s what you wish for, I don’t want to. I want to see her again, you speak as if you were a part of me, but if you are then you should understand.”

Light Eniel : “ I do, but all that I want now is to rest. As long as one of us disagree with the other one, we are locked here.” She said with a mocking smile.

If it’s only that, then the solution is simple.

Eniel : “ Meaning if you aren’t here, then I can return by myself… I’ll have to kill you…or more precisely kill myself.”

Light Eniel : “ I am the last thing keeping you alive you know? If you kill me then you won’t be a part of the living anymore, you won’t remain human and harbor the world as an undead for eternity and without the possibility to go to the afterworld when you die.” She menaced me, but I had already made my choice.

Eniel : “If you are a part of me then you should remember, that day when I drank the blood for first time, that day I decided to throw away even my soul if that I can be by her side. If I have to harbor this world for eternity, then it’ll be by her side.” I said as I took my katanas and ran at her.

As I arrived in front of her, two katanas similar to mine appeared in her hands and she blocked mines.

Light Eniel : “ If you think that you can kill me so easily then try, but I am the same as strong as you are.”

It’s true, she is indeed as strong as I was… back when I appeared in this place.

‘Kwink’ My katanas smoothly passed through hers, cutting her torso.

Light Eniel : “ H-How?!” She said shocked.

Eniel : “ Seeing your appearance, you stayed the same as when I entered, but during the time I passed here, I grew stronger. Farewell me… May you rest wherever you end up.”

The blood flowing out of her chest was absorbed by my katanas which changed of color, turning into a dark red. At the same moment, a bright light forced my eyes close and the next instant I woke up on a battlefield.

Eniel : “ I am finally back.”

Veralox : “ Yes you finally are !... Geez please try not to die once again, I’ll leave that girl with you, I need to coordinate some little things around here.” He said as he pointed in a direction where dark mana was concentrated.

Eniel : “ ?!... How much time passed since I ?...”

Veralox : “ Who know? Maybe a few dozens of minutes? Whatever it can wait, just go already !” He said before teleporting.

As I looked in the direction he pointed, I recognized that black mana to be hers… After all theses years, I’ll finally be meeting her again.