The slash was sucked in, going backward in reverse. The castle went back to its original shape.
"reverse damage!" I raised my hand open toward the demon, it was not my hand actually but Alaric's.
|wha..| the demon was cut in half, a bit to the left where he cut me earlier, so his heart was also harmed.
|impossible !| he shouted before his eyes turned to a grey void.
The right half fell to the ground separately and turned to black smoke while his heart was degenerating slowly and still floating in his left headless side.
*kukukuke! we got killed*
"Yes the 1th and 232 way of getting killed; pierced in the heart and cut in half!" I was looking blankly to my black hand, when making a fist and undoing it.
*And none of them, could make you die! poor little thing.*
"Now's not the time to die"
It's common knowledge that the only way to kill a demon is to crash his heart, so he already been exterminated. I can get my hand back.
"Alaric I don't need your hand anymore"
*of course*
the left hand became black smoke, starting from the tip of the fingers up to my shoulder.
"haaaaaaa!" I started walking forward in determinated steps to help me concentrate in regrowing it back.
Again, I was surprised when it didn't grow. I surely sensed it; the bones forming, the blood flowing and the muscle coating it all, so where is it!
I tried again, I felt the same feeling, but my hand is still not here.
*stop!*
|hahahahahe!| the same laugh |heh heh heeeh|
I looked up. "That should not happen."
*But it is happening* Alaric said in my astonishment.
The demon's heart is intact now, his ugly face is back and he was regaining slowly his body from the dark aura.
He was laughing half dead.
"How is this possible! his heart was crumbling"
*it's the hand*
"What do you mean by the hand?!"
His eyes regained their red flashing color, he readjusted his neck posture and looked down on me. |You dare kill me! you lowly human!| He clearly was enraged, and his body regenerated in a blink of an eye. His right hand was already up. He lunched a black slash toward me.
I skiff it to the left.
he throw an other with his left hand. It was aimed toward my head so I ducked and avoided to be hit.
He lunched another one and an another one, and another. I got through them easily, the other first time he just took me by surprise, moreover I wanted to kill him in one counter attack.
The castle was getting slashed with each hit, the ground and walls cut disappeared without a sound.
The delay between each attack was getting shorter, when he was getting furious each time he couldn't land a hit. Actually I wanted to get hit, I want to know if I could vanish and die, but I couldn't allow a demon to break free in this world, I need to exterminate it now!
|Hahahahe, I want more, mooore, MOOOOORE!| he went totally berserk.
Running and avoiding attacks has become exhausting, I need to launch some attacks in my turn.
*An opening* Alaric has sharp eyes, there was a split of a second delay in the next attack.
The digger manifested in my hand. I jumped brutally to him, cut off his right hand and landed on the sailing.
He turned his sight up to me, and looked at me with some serious looks.
|you should have gone for the heart!|
His hand regenerated instantly, and he launched a hit by the back of it when I was falling down.
As in the air, I can not go in a specific direction to avoid a direct hit, but he could. "SWAP!'"
Alaric took the body. He turned right middle air. The attack passed a few centimeters from his side. He completed the spin, stretched his hand with his first finger pointing to the demon's left chest side. He put it right above his cardiac area.
"*As you say*" and blow him to the woods in front of the open castle.
He kept crashing into the trees, forming a dug path in the solid ground. He totally got squashed.
Alaric landed slowly to the ground with elegance.
*"Didn't you say he was a 1st class demon! you totally sent him flying effortlessly!"*
He adjusted the sleeve of the white blouse under his black suit.
"*yeah! but I'm a special ranking one!*" "*Now*"
*"yeah I forgot, but what did yo..."*
A sudden slash appeared trough the dust. Alaric deflected it to the sky by his bare hand.
*"He is still alive again!"*
"*He will not die*" -he said with a straight face- "*He is now an immortal like me and you*"
*"But how!?"*
The demon though that he could take us by surprise after his last launch, so he dashed toward and tried to slice us with his fangs. Alaric took one step forward and used the momentum to pierce trough his Heart.
"*Your lack of analysis truly piss me off at times.*" He removed his hand from the crumbling corpse and retrieved the heart"*As you could give me your immortality by sharing with me a piece of your heart, that apply to all your body. And he already consumed your hand*"
When he put it like that, I finally understood.
he threw the heart down to the garden.
*"But that means he will come back even if you killed him a million times"*
"*who said I will kill him another time for ya!?*" He grinned. "*you need to end it yourself..*"
I'm back in control. I glimpsed to the demon's body rebuilding around his heart.
"But I don't know how to end him, I don't even know how to end my self!"
*He acquired his invulnerability from the essence of your hand, So just go and retrieve your hand back!* He said in a sarcastic way.
I put on a dumb face "But it dissolved"
*And!..*
"And how can I retrieve it if I can't find it even if I cut him in half!"
*Are you playing dumb!*
"You are the one that is making no sense here"
*You can regrow your hand or get it back, that's your immortality!* He said confused.
I replied even confused "I didn't know that"
*what!? A thousand years, a f*cking thousand years and you don't remember how you regenerated trough your deaths!*
"A thousand years! Are you using exaggeration! I'm just twenty years old!" what is he blabbering about!?he looked so serious.
He came out of my mouth "khhkh!", took his tiny form and sat down on my left shoulder.
He looked at me like he finally realized something he forgot.
*What day is today?*
"What day is it!" "What day is it?" My mind got blank. "What da.." "who I'm I!?" "what!?" I started panicking.
"Mom! Dad!" I looked to my left, to the sky.
"where am I? where's mom! I need mom." the first ray of sun flashed at my eyes.
"Oh hi Alaric!" "you are here to greet me!"
Under my feet was a demon manifesting in a slowly pace and my left hand was pitch black.
"I see that we have company, and my arm is missing!"
I looked at him when he shivered.
" And a cat ate your tongue."
*How can I talk to you and you look ready to murder me!*
I smiled brightly "let me kill you"
| You little shit, you dare humiliate me!| the demon shouted when he nearly regained his body |I will chop your other parts off| He was enraged, but he seemed powerless.
"Teiteiteiteite" I waved my first finger as saying no, when looking at his yet crumbling body. "You are so fucking weak!"
|You dare to keep looking down on me!|
"yeah, cause you are pitiful. So let me help you with that." I grinned evilly as I regenerated my left arm a hundred times in one moment.
His body finally got restored, he got bulk and all his features sharpened.
|Ahahahaaaahe, don't regret this after..| He went up in an insane speed and was aiming to punch me with his gigantic hand |After I blow you!|
"Yeah, you better not miss"
I backed off, his hand was up my waist. "You still so slow"
I lowered my chin in the direction of the fist and got blown to the sky.
I was flying in the air. The breeze was nice, it refreshed me when the unpleasant memories got back.
It was nice seeing the sun's first appearance, but that means I'm running out of time.
|Haaaaaa|
Several pitch black slashes were launched toward me as I'm still going up. They caused no damage, I could easily deflect them by Alaric's hand. I'm disappointed, he is just a first class demon, the weakest of them all.
This is no time to keep messing around, I want to feel mooore.
I concentrated all my energy in my lost hand, that should upgrade him to a third class.
|hahahahe! I'm feeling stronger, I feel as strong as Lord Astro| |You maybe deflected my other attacks, but can you deflect a continuous one!|
I started falling down. I saw him casting a spell under his feet.
It was a demonic circle, the elements were darkness and space, it started spinning when he opened his hand up. A dark aura was launch from beneath, it was aimed to me. it was like a black cascade going up and swallowing the entire space around it.
|This is my strongest technique, even lord Astro got injured by it| he smiled like he already won. |Get swallowed into me, and regret your arrogance|
I'm finally excited.
I looked to Alaric who was sitting in one of the table's chairs.
He gave a yes tilting his head.
I got a right wing on my back to help me dash down. I stretched the left hand and went trough the attack when splitting it to halves.
It was though, it truly did sting when the hand was fading and vanishing, but my regeneration was faster.
|That's impossible!| I crushed him to the ground along with his spell. |Akh!|
He is thin now and got stepped on. I took him by the neck and lift him up, he was clearly in pain, the spell must've been exhausting to his body.
Alaric got back to me, the wing disappeared along with the left hand.
"You say Astro! that weakling truly did beg to flee with his life"
He lifted his hand slowly and grabbed my hand that's strangling him, in a vain attempt to loosen it.
|How you dare..kkhe.. talk about lord Astro this way!|
I just tightened my grip. "As master as disciple, they say"
He was getting gray and loosing his aura.
I got my left hand back. "Guess who will end up swallowed !" He was scared to death, when he felt his powers getting sucked.
He turned to smoke and was swallowed to my mouth.
"I'm still not used to the taste"
*But he was tasty for me*
"yeaaaah" I collapsed to the ground, I used too much of my immortality, and he truly did absorbe the cut pieces of the castle. I had to return them into places like solving a puzzle.
The sun was totally up in the sky.
"Ah yeah, today is 21 December"
*So it's today again!*
"yeah, it's the day I die" ...." I will give you your physical form, you and the others"
I can't lift my view up, so I could just see their shoes when they manifested in their touchable forms.
"So take care of me" my eyes were sleepy.
I added in a fading voice "And one other thing, the laughers were just a passing by white soul"
I turned serious "You know what will happen if you messed things up, so take care of him"
*As you say* they bent down as I surrendered to the irresistible slumber.