For minutes, the monstrous giant man kept on destroying and smashing everything in the factory... looking for .
Every ti his mace smashed tal, a factory machine, or a wall, I couldn’t stop shaking with fear.
I gasped every ti his footsteps ca closer.
Even though he had destroyed the device that told I was here, he never thought I could have escaped after that, he never gave up.
Even the white light that filled the entire factory and the shockwave it brought with it couldn’t make him leave.
Even when it got dark, when I could no longer see anything through the tiny holes, he kept going.
He was literally... obsessed with finding .
"I’M GONNA GO CRAZY! I’M GOING CRAZY! NO... I’M ALREADY CRAZY, CO OUT OF HIDING! I’M GONNA MASH YOU TO THE GROUND!"
The fact that he didn’t... find yet... was a miracle in itself. That he was destroying everything around him and randomly but still didn’t co across ... for minutes...
I was too lucky.
But then...
"I! SAID! GET! OUT!"
The factory shook like it had never shaken before. And... this ti I couldn’t help my eyes widening when I realized where the sound of crashing was coming from.
No, it wasn’t the whole factory that was shaking.
It was... the piece holding the floor I was standing on.
"AAAAAHHHHH!"
His roar of rage filled my ears, the workbench I was hiding under shook even more violently.
Then... I suddenly felt lighter.
"Ah..."
No...
I didn’t lose weight.
The ground I was standing on... was no longer there.
I was in the air, falling.
I quickly protected my head with my arms, strengthened my body by spreading my mana throughout my body, and tried to make my fall harmless by twisting myself in the air.
When I fell to the first floor in this way, first, a slight pain spread throughout my body. The force of the impact jolted my body... but I didn’t seem to be seriously injured. Luckily, no pieces of tal had fallen on .
It was just that...
"FOUND YOU!"
With a height of over two ters, a mace that looks bigger than himself, and a large belly that never stays still because of the fat underneath it...
"DIE!"
The giant man I had been hiding from until now was there in front of .
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I couldn’t help pausing involuntarily when a street that seed more damaged than the others caught my eye.
My brow furrowed, I walked down the street, curious, and what I saw... although it didn’t affect much, was definitely a sight I didn’t like.
The whole street was in flas. The sll of blood and burning that filled my nostrils was much stronger here. The streets of the city were already littered with corpses... but here they were more nurous, more... dismbered.
And right after that...
"Agh- Aaagh- Aaaghrrrrgh!"
I heard a scream.
It was coming from the right side of the crossroad in front of , just behind the building.
I squinted my eyes, I rushed toward the scream. Maybe it was still soone who could be saved... who knows.
But when I turned around the corner, I saw the person who was screaming and... the person who made him scream...
And that’s when I went rigid.
"This is..."
And as my eyes widened, I suddenly felt dozens of different emotions rising up inside .
But soon, each one of them faded away one by one... disappeared, collapsed into the depths of my being.
Suddenly, my body began to tremble uncontrollably. I tried my best to control myself, it was so hard to stay where I was...
Saligia... Ah, Saligia...
I thought you couldn’t surprise anymore...
I thought I was now prepared even for the ’unexpected’, like this attack.
But... they did it again.
Again, as always, I sohow managed to encounter sothing I literally did not expect.
But... there was one big difference this ti compared to previous tis: the reason why I couldn’t stay calm...
No, it wasn’t out of fear.
No, it wasn’t because I saw sothing I didn’t want to see.
No, it wasn’t because I was about to lose my temper.
Rather... it was excitent.
"Oh..."
The real target of my gaze, the figure in the midst of all this chaos and flas, finally noticed .
His violet eyes slowly fixed on mine. The lifeless corpse he had been holding by the collar, which had just been screaming, slipped through his fingers and fell to the ground.
His whole body trembled, just like mine.
Again, not from fear or anything like that... but again, like , from excitent.
"You... you’re him, aren’t you?"
The corner of his lips curved upwards slightly, and then a big... really big smile slowly appeared on his face. A disgusting smile from ear to ear, containing nothing but madness and excitent.
I tilted my head slightly to the side, and finally... all the pressure on disappeared. I smiled, just like him.
When he received the answer to his question with my smile... he started to laugh like a madman. And I laughed like that, too.
Our laughter echoed in the street.
The flas ca alive as if to join our excitent. The city... seed to fall silent for us. But, eventually, that too ca to an end.
My lips parted, I spoke slowly... one word at a ti.
"Do you have any idea... how long I’ve been looking, preparing for you?"
I channeled mana into my cane, and as it slowly transford into a sword, I felt the urge to laugh again... but I restrained myself.
Through all this chaos, all this terrorism, I had never felt the need to pull out my sword. I had faced powerful people, yes... but not powerful enough to need my sword.
This ti was different.
"Oh, wouldn’t I know! After all, I was doing the sa thing... looking for you everywhere... for a weakness, slightest mistake..."
He threw back his long, dark brown hair. As the glint in his violet eyes intensified, he pulled the daggers from his waist.
He still wore the sa daggers. I recognized them in a single glance. Daggers that instilled fear in the first ti, daggers that would have traumatized if not for the Absolute Mind.
And... even though they hadn’t succeeded in , they had done it in soone else.
I slowly pointed my sword at him. I couldn’t help widening my smile as the energy of chaos, caora, began to gather in my body as it always did, making my body able to fight.
"It is... disgusting to know that our feelings are mutual."
Slowly, he took his stance, his violet eyes on ... as if waiting for my every move. His madness was becoming more and more evident with each movent, each facial expression.
He was truly a wiera. To the very root of it.
"We had an unfinished ga last ti... we should continue it, right? And... I should pay you back for the arm you took from , that’s only fair that way, right... right?!"
To see that he still had the sa madness, to see him talking about gas... it only increased all the hatred and disgust I had for him.
But I didn’t care.
"I made a promise, you know...?"
Maybe it would put a strain on my body. Maybe it was going to put in an even worse situation when I was already crippled...
But it didn’t matter.
I activated both of my ascension skills at the sa ti, who cared what would happen to as a result?
First, my usual crown appeared on my head, then the accessories on my wrists. Dark, turquoise particles began to emanate out of my body. But instead of stopping here as usual... it continued.
Next to the crown and the bracelets, rings appeared on my fingers, a total of four rings, each containing an enormous amount of mana.
Spiritual Ascension was accompanied by my other skill, Phoenix Ascension.
My eyes suddenly sharpened many tis over, everything beca much clearer. Blue flas surrounded with turquoise particles emanating from my body. My hair grew longer, I felt it spilling over my shoulders, and runic letters began to stretch across my skin, shimring with a golden yellow color.
But the Phoenix Ascension didn’t stop there either. It too had changed a little.
And the change was that the tiny flas that accompanied the turquoise particles looked like long feathers. Likewise, the runic letters that appeared on my skin reached farther and were more.
anwhile, I continued my words.
"That I will make you suffer the maximum pain you can suffer, that I will send you to the bottom of a hell from which you will never erge..."
I narrowed my eyes, slowly breaking the smile I had kept on my face until now, and looked coldly at the man in front of .
"So... this ti, our ga will not be short."
I raised my sword slightly, my body, overflowing with mana, with power, felt like it would collapse at any mont.
But... it was worth it.
Worth every second of it.
No... I actually needed more.
So I added the caora itself to my sword, along with everything else.
And then... I used Durandal’s Aura for the first ti since the day I acquired it.
"Please... please don’t die. I beg you to hold on... so I can keep my promise. Okay?"
Turquoise-colored gusts of wind surrounded the sword. They were accompanied by blue flas. Then a purple aura... and then an extrely dense, transparent layer was imdiately added to the outer part.
I quickly brought my sword down.
Suddenly, the city under the darkness of the night glowed with a dazzling radiance. Turquoise, blue, and purple exploded together.
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