His instincts told him to act fast. "Tricks won't save you!" He roared before slashing through one of the images with his claws.
But his hand t nothing—the figure dissipated like smoke.
The real attack ca from behind.
Victor's greatsword whistled through the air and carved into the Drakenar leader's back in a brutal arc.
A deep gash tore open, sending the molten-skinned warrior flying several feet before he crashed against the rock formations surrounding the battlefield.
Victor landed gracefully and grinned as he wiped sweat from his brow. "Ha! I knew having a weapon would up my ga!" He lifted the sword and dramatically kissed it.
Then he tasted blood.
His own face contorted in horror. "Ack—" He coughed and spat, nearly retching on the spot.
"Okay, bad idea. Never doing that again."
Mr. Revenant was still recovering from the shock of watching his son toy with a Drakenar warrior and was about to yell at him when Victor rushed over.
"Dad, go find a proper hiding spot! I can handle this."
Mr. Revenant imdiately shook his head. "What if you need help?!" His father's voice wavered with desperation. "I can't just leave you out here—"
The words barely left his mouth before a shadow lood over them.
The Drakenar leader's eyes burnt with rage as he erged from the dust with his molten blood dripping onto the ground and making a sizzling sound.
He snarled. "You little pest…!" His arm lashed out in a blur—straight for Mr. Revenant.
Victor reacted instantly.
His blade sang through the air, intercepting the attack. The qi-infused edge sliced through the leader's side, hacking deep into him.
The Drakenar growled while stumbling back. He snarled in rage and swiped at Victor, but the boy was already on the move.
Victor used Phantom Mirage Steps, vanishing and reappearing rapidly—dodging attacks while luring the Drakenar away from his father.
"You think I'll let you run away again?!" The leader howled before conjuring a volcanic trident.
He hurled it forward—straight at Victor.
Victor twisted mid-air, dodging the attack as the searing heat grazed his side. He winced but didn't stop moving.
Then, he saw his opportunity.
A chance to end this.
He stopped running.
Planting his feet firmly into the ground, his qi surged. The atmosphere itself seed to tremble.
A great pressure spread across the battlefield, causing the surrounding air to distort.
The Drakenar leader hesitated.
Sothing was wrong.
For the first ti, he felt a strange, foreign energy swirling around Victor. It wasn't mana. It was sothing else. Sothing older. Sothing powerful.
And, for the first ti—he felt fear.
"W-what is this?!" his gaze flickered as the invisible force surged stronger.
Victor lifted his greatsword as Qi swam across his entire body. He took a familiar stance. The stance he had learned from Lingyun's spirit.
The Drakenar leader gritted his teeth and conjured another volcanic trident.
This one was even stronger than before. Its's heat warped the air around it as he flung it forward with force.
But it was too late.
Victor swung.
"Shadow Crescent Strike!"
A massive crescent-shaped wave of shadowy qi erupted from his sword—ripping through the air like a tidal wave of destruction.
The attack collided with the trident mid-air—
And shattered straight through it.
The Drakenar leader had just enough ti to widen his eyes before the shadow crescent energy slamd into his chest.
A four-foot-long diagonal gash ripped across his torso, causing molten blood to spray into the air as his body was sent hurtling backwards and crashing into the rocks.
For the first ti since the battle began—
The Drakenar leader looked stunned.
He clutched at his chest wound as molten blood poured through his fingers.
'What… was this?'
This wasn't mana.
This wasn't anything he recognized.
This was sothing else entirely.
And it terrified him.
Victor didn't wait for a second before swinging at the creature again.
The Drakenar leader pulled itself up and jumped out of the way to evade Victor's strike.
Victor's grip tightened on the greatsword as he took a deep breath. This bastard was finally scared.
The Drakenar leader, who had been so arrogant before now began dodging his attacks.
His glowing red eyes darted around, avoiding every swing of Victor's qi-imbued blade.
Victor grinned. "What's the matter? I thought you wanted to crush just now?"
The Drakenar leader growled but didn't respond. He could tell—this human boy was weaker than the Warrior he killed earlier.
Much weaker.
And yet…
Why were his attacks so damn dangerous?
Every ti that strange energy surged through his blade, it beca deadly. A single direct hit would damage him severely.
This wasn't mana.
And that terrified him.
"Kokiri silnalu bork!!"
The Drakenar leader snarled sothing in its native language, barking orders.
Suddenly—
The others attacked.
Victor's eyes widened as more Drakenar leaped toward him with their claws raised.
"Ah, hell."
SLASH!
Victor decapitated the first one before it could even react.
A second lunged at him from the side—
He twisted mid-air and sliced straight through its torso, severing its upper body from its legs.
Another ca from behind.
Victor spun on his heel and thrust his sword backward, impaling the Drakenar through the chest.
Blood gushed as he ripped the blade free, turning just in ti to cleave another's head in half.
They kept coming.
Five more...
Then ten...
Then even more...
Victor pushed forward, hacking, slicing, stabbing. His blade beca a blur of destruction. He wasn't just fighting anymore—he was slaughtering.
Then—he slipped.
One of the Drakenar managed to land a crushing blow to his side.
The force sent him flying with his sword slipping from his grasp.
Victor hit the ground hard and skidded across the blood-soaked battlefield.
"Shit—!"
He barely had ti to react before another Drakenar was on him.
It jumped towards him—
Victor raised a hand and conjured up a Wind Gale!
A powerful burst of wind exploded from his palm, launching the Drakenar off its feet and through the air.
His eyes darted toward where his sword landed.
The mont he dashed toward it, another Drakenar appeared in front of him.
Victor raised his hand and ford a Wind Blade, slicing at the creature.
The attack barely left a scratch.
"What the—? Oh fuck I forgot..."
The Drakenar smirked before swinging its massive claw at Victor.
Victor rolled to the side and successfully evaded the strike before sprinting toward his sword again.
The leader noticed.
The molten-skinned warrior squinted as he watched the exchange.
Then he saw it.
The pattern.
When Victor didn't have the sword—his attacks were weak.
When he did have the sword—his attacks were lethal.
His glowing red eyes narrowed.
He finally understood.
The sword.
It wasn't that the human boy was strong—it was the weapon that was amplifying this strange power.
Victor snatched up his sword again and spun just in ti to cleave another Drakenar in half.
The Drakenar leader growled.
"Enough of this!"
He raised his hand and magma began to swirl around his fingers as he ford a massive, searing-hot ball of destruction.
Victor's eyes widened.
That looks bad.
By the ti the leader hurled the deadly projectile forward, Victor was already moving.
Wind Dash!
He exploded to the left causing his body to beco a blur as the ground behind him erupted into flas.
BOOOOOM!
Before Victor could breathe, he felt a presence beside him.
The Drakenar leader was already there.
'How the hell did he get so fast?!'
The Drakenar war party leader was already swinging at him from the mont he dashed toward the side.
Claws t steel and the collision sent Victor's sword flying from his hands again.
"Not this shit again!"
Victor groaned and moved to retrieve it—
But this ti, the Drakenar leader was faster.
It's clawed hand grabbed Victor by the throat... and before he could react—
The Drakenar leaped.
They soared over thirty feet into the air.
Victor barely had ti to panic before—
SLAM!
He was driven straight into the ground causing the earth to crack beneath him.
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