"Argh!" Kai grunted in pain as the spike retracted, going back to the dirt.
[Let control my Spirit Power to focus on regeneration, Kai!] Amber requested, and he accepted. There was no reason to reject it as he knew he also couldn't concentrate on regenerating his wound.
He staggered as he held his stomach, which had a big hole now. The black fla disappeared and was quickly replaced with Phoenix fire to tend to his wound, assisted by Amber's Spirit Power.
Even the fla that burned the ground was now gone as he stepped back, raising his head slowly with his eyes filled with hate. Only the black fla that burned the ground around the crater still remained. They couldn't be extinguished by normal ans, not even by Kai.
Massive pain attacked him, but he couldn't care less and left the healing to Amber, who now took control of her own Spirit Power and concentrated on it.
"My~ You've been in quite a predicant, no? As expected, the Ruler is really strong!"
A playful voice rang around them, not really concentrated in one place. It spread around, echoing loudly as the figure couldn't be seen.
Even so, he didn't need to see that figure to know who that was.
Still angry, Kai growled, "Alchemist!"
"Indeed, that's ! Nice to et you again, Mr. Kai~" The Alchemist dragged his sentence playfully and let out a little chuckle at the end.
"It's such a sha that our second eting is like this, but currently, the Boogeyn has more value than you in our organization, so… will you spare him?"
"Never." A groan escaped his mouth. He spat out the blood that was in his mouth and used all his capability to chant. "Life is just the beginning. Death is not the end."
Phoenix fire was now still in Amber's control to close the hole in his stomach. It was almost closing completely, thanks to Amber pouring most of her Spirit Power to heal him.
So he used the only spell he knew, but this ti he used the strongest one. While it was designed to exorcize a ghost, it was designed to exorcize the strongest one, the one with a body. So it should have so effects on the Boogeyn.
The Boogeyn was still staggering, frowning, unable to heal the wound his body sustained. Even standing up was difficult for the vile creature, but then a liquid tal appeared from the ground, engulfing his body.
"That's a sha." A disappointed voice ca from the liquid tal that slowly covered the Boogeyn's body.
It seed like the creature also didn't know what happened as it tried to peel off the tal, but it was useless. It expanded at a fast speed and got to the Boogeyn's neck in no ti.
"What are you doing?!" The Boogeyn shouted, and Kai looked at them with surprise.
He realized sothing. The Alchemist had no intention of fighting him since the start. His only reason for showing up late after the Boogeyn asked for help was to help him retreat.
"No!" He quickly canceled his chant and kicked the ground. The pain around his stomach was unbearable, but he also didn't want to let the creature escape his grasp after he realized what had happened, rembering the tragedy 10 years ago.
But he couldn't. His feet got caught in sothing hard, and he stumbled on the ground. Looking back, he noticed a silvery tal holding onto his legs, which he tore off imdiately.
He was late, though.
As he looked back, the figure of Boogeyn had fully engulfed in the liquid and slowly lted to the ground.
"Don't run, you fucker! Get your ass over here! Leave that fucker here!" Kai quickly picked himself up and leaped toward the remaining liquid.
"Ah, what a sha that I can't do that. We've spent a lot of resources to awaken this guy and destroy the cornerstones in New York. We can't soil our plan, no?"
The Alchemist replied as a small man figure appeared on the ground near the remaining silver liquid. It was the only thing left from sothing that engulfed the Boogeyn and took him away sowhere. "Let's et again later, Mr. Kai."
Bowing his body, the small figure then disappeared into the ground. Kai's hand missed, and he stumbled on the ground, rolling from the force he used to leap. His face was bruised, but it wasn't as hurt as the fact he let the Boogeyn run away.
"Fuck!" He slamd his hands against the ground, cracking it. His voice shook from the disappointnt, mixed with anger, before it eventually died down. "…fuck."
His body felt heavy. Amber's voice had stopped earlier. His wound was already closed, so he didn't know why she stayed silent. He could still feel her inside him, so he tried to call her with his remaining strength. "Amber? Hey, say sothing."
No reply ca. Usually, she would reply as soon as he called for her. It was his fault for losing himself in anger and hate, and he beca worried as ti passed, but no reply ca from Amber.
"Hey, say sothing, Amber!" He raised his voice even though he was tired and hurt from the previous fight. "Hey!"
But still, no reply ca. Her Spirit Power felt like it was about to deplete completely. He knew what would happen to soone if their Spirit Power got depleted. They lost consciousness.
The question was, would Amber also go unconscious if her Spirit Power got depleted when he fused with her? He didn't know. So he canceled the fusion right after that because he was too worried about the Phoenix girl.
Fire spiraled out of his body and turned into a humanoid form of Amber. She looked fine, with her body intact and the others. But her breath was heavy and erratic, uncontrolled.
Kai's expression turned into horror. It was all his fault.
If only he didn't use that black fla when he wasn't ready yet. If only he had just followed her suggestion. If only he worked hard enough to control Spirit Power better. His bad control of Spirit Power wasted many of his and Amber's Spirit Power in the fight, leading to this.
If only…
There would be no end to that. He gritted his teeth as he held onto her body. He tried to feel her pulse, and it was there. aning she was just unconscious and tired.
"Fuck… Now we returned to 0 again. Those bastards! I swear I will kill those bastards if we et again."
The Alchemist. He thought he was just soone who had his own ambition and wouldn't ss with him. But based on what he said earlier, it seed like the Alchemist, and his organization was responsible for the concurrent events that happened to him.
"nto Mori…" He muttered the na of the organization that was responsible for all these shits. "I will fucking destroy those fuckers. Especially that fucking Alchemist."
Losing his cool was a mistake. But at least…
"Robert. I am counting on you, man. Find those bastards for ." He muttered.
At that mont, he felt a familiar presence. It was a bit cold, but he rembered it pretty well. In fact, he rembered this presence from the mory he had just gained or returned to him when he lost control earlier.
He rembered everything that happened 10 years ago. The truth was that he had forgotten for so reason. And he knew the Boogeyn's goal, too, thanks to that.
A relief washed over him as the presence made herself known from the sky. A woman with blue hair tied in twintails with a fierce gaze wearing golden clothes with intricate details appeared with splendid blue wings on her back.
He recognized her 10 years ago. The mories of her were sothing that couldn't be forgotten. She was the girl who cried with him when he lost his parents. The one who was missing from his dream because he had forgotten his mories until now.
"I'll leave myself and Amber to you… Dragon King."
He let his body fall to the ground, fainting, as his Spirit Power was also depleted almost completely in the previous fight.
The woman smiled warmly as she descended in front of him.
"Leave it to , my future husband." She responded with a soft voice as she saw two people cuddling with each other, unconscious, in front of her. "You've worked hard."
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