Burning Soul

With a quick speed up buff, he was running at a lightning-fast speed towards the enemy.

Accel: Enhancing user’s attributes for 12 seconds by 20% at the cost of 20% mana essence.

Looking at him, the kid took a step forward to face him. He took out his staff and began chanting a ground distortion spell.

Shapeshift: Allows user ability to manipulate the element Earth at his will

As Theo closed in, he seemed to have gotten to slow down, but he wasn’t, the ground below him had turned into a rolling carpet making him slow down.

“Childish spells! Can you not do any better?” This angered him even more, ‘Leap’, another spell and he quickly moved to a safer spot, in a sideways motion.

He was using unusually more skills, causing him to run low on Mana Essence not that he cared at the moment.

Taking him on a distance wasn’t a good idea, as the Warlock being a caster, specialized in Magic Attacks that needed distance from the target. Theo had to close the gap between them, and that too quickly. He realized that he had learned some new skills, and also due to increased strength, he wasn’t feeling tired yet.

He used ‘Accel’ again to close in, but this time he used ‘Boost’ along with it, making him move faster.

This startled the Warlock. With clear irritation on his face, he jumped a few steps back in order to gain some distance.

This gave Theo an opportunity as he used another skill,

Diamond Slash: Generates a Halo on the weapon of users to strengthen the attributes by 12% as long as the user keeps slashing

Both the daggers in his hands gave off a crimson red halo. If he had not used some skill to get out of its way, he might have had to take that attack head-on.

“Not yet,” Theo yelled and activated another skill,

Shadow step: Allows the user to enter shadow domain through a subject’s shadow and emerge from another shadow at the cost of 5-10% mana essence depending upon the duration

He literally vanished from his spot and appeared right in front of the enemy, startling him. With ‘Cross Slash’, he surely was at a disadvantage.

A burst of smoke appeared right where the kid was, the blades cut through the smoke, but to Theo’s surprise, he cut down just some smoke. The enemy vanished.

“What the hell? Where did he go?” He complained with an irritating look.

…

As he looked around, he heard a faint voice, “Look behind.” Startled he looked behind, that warlock was standing right behind Catherine who was using her spell on the elven troops.

He tapped his stick on her head and with a crushing speed, she fell to the ground and passed out.

Hell Gravitas: Advanced form of Gravitas spell causing up-to 40% more damage

Right now, even Naomi who had just finished off the last of the Dark Elf fell a chill in his motion. Their enemy seemed not any everyday enemy.

She joined up Theo and stood while looking at the scene with anger. They had two of their allies pinned down and that also without any great resistance.

That Warlock looked right in the eyes of Theo and gave the same crooked smile again.

“I so damn want to kill him right now.” Theo was boiling with anger now, “Somehow get him engaged in a fight with you, I’ll make it quick.” He didn’t even look at Naomi as he said so, she understood what he meant and moved right away, “Be careful.” She spoke.

After getting at a safer distance, she used one of the most formidable skills of paladins,

Night Reign: Upon casting it causes a cloud of smoke to engulf the target making it lose eyesight for a brief amount of time

Suddenly her surroundings started to turn dark, her sword gained a dark halo as she started to activate the skill. This was a 5th tier magic skill and needed much more Mana than any other skill, thus was also considered as a final blow skill. She is using it only to take him on, which meant she had a great amount of trust in Theo taking care of the rest.

To counter her, the enemy also prepared a lightning spell, seemingly a tier 5 as well. She was chanting with her eyes closed, just as she opened her eyes, a sudden burst of energy hit her surroundings. In a split second, she had charged on the warlock, the ground shook as she leaped towards him, that skill on her was carrying a formidable amount of power. That kid was not joking either, he also released his spell on her in that instant.

Both of them clashed releasing crazy amounts of energy. In all this chaos, the enemy lost track of Theo who was planning his move.

Just as she got his attention, Theo used ‘Accel’ and ‘Boost to close on him from behind, he also made sure to keep using his stealth skill while closing in. As he got close, he began chanting. Hearing this, both Naomi’s and Warlock’s eyes widened.

He wanted to flee but was blocked by a binding spell. Looked like he couldn’t pin down Cate for much longer.

“Get him!” Of course, she couldn’t hold him all day long.

The spell Theo was casting was blood magic, ‘Oh great lord of death whom all the laws obey, I Theodore command, come forth and free the tainted. Come Reaper!’.

“Reaper?” Naomi shouted out loud hearing his chant. He had used high-level summoning magic, calling out reaper. A freaking reaper, who drags souls of living beings to Hell.

…

Just as his chant finished, a huge magical circle appeared right beneath the warlock. Lots of runes started to spear on that circle, which then started to bind him. Naomi stepped back and Cate also released her binding spell as it was no longer needed. The warlock was now bound by the runes of the magical circle.

A moment later, a huge shadow appeared out of it. It was a reaper who was holding on to a giant scythe and had no face but two burning eyes. Looking at them, even Cate and Naomi could feel the hellish pain.

He looked at the Warlock, who was standing in great agony, “I hereby sever your soul foolish one” Saying this he pulled his scythe back and sliced him in a single slash. To everyone’s surprise, there was no bloodshed, but a small halo came out of the warlock’s body which then was collected by the reaper. The whole scene was just jaw-dropping, both Cate and Naomi had shocked expressions.

Before the reaper left, he looked at Theodore and said something only he could hear, “This is the beginning of the end.”

He couldn’t make anything out of it as he spoke. After saying so, the reaper went back through the circle. Once the circle vanished, Theo felt a bone-crushing pain building up throughout his body, yet he balanced himself and walked towards Vivian who was still lying unconscious.

…

“What spell was that? How could you perform a summon?” Cate asked him, even Naomi had the same question on her mind.

Summoning was not a small task; it took a lot of Mana Essence and no one had ever heard of a summon being able to call a reaper. “I don’t know, I just heard a voice and I followed the chant and it just…. I don’t know what caused it or how it happened…. That voice kept chanting and was telling me to follow her voice… It was Blood Magic I guess!” He wasn’t sure of the details too, but the last part of his explanation really intrigued all.

“Blood Magic you say? Anyway, we’ll look into it later, how’s she?” Cate replied as she looked at her ally being unconscious.

A moment later, sylph returned, meaning she had dealt with the summoned wolf. She was followed by Nuae who was carrying a healing potion. Looking at him Theo couldn’t hold on to his anger any longer, “Where were you? What if something bad had happened? And where is Aeneas?”

“Relax kid! Besides I heard you pulled it off with no problem.” Nuae replied with an awkward smile as he handed the potion to Cate.

With the help of Sylph’s powers, she successfully was able to revive Vivian’s health.

“She’s just knocked out, will be fine. Besides, where is Aeneas? Wasn’t he with you?” Catherine asked, looking at Nuae.

“The thing is…” Before he could finish, Aeneas walked in, but he looked no good.. He was drenched in blood and a lot of it.