The trees swayed under the impact of the two. Night was in a terrible disadvantage, yet, it was too. night lunged forward, using the trees as cover, he struck the spawn. The black blade collided against its scales, sparks flew, yet there was no scratch, not giving it time to rest, he struck it with the lamenting edge. It wiped its tail at him, but he jumped over in time, lunging a barrage of attacks. Although not a single attack passed through, night was already in a terrible shape.
Both his mind and stamina were under too much pressure.
He lunged forward again, swinging the blade as fast as he could, in this battle, his strength was meaning less, so he only option left was to overwhelm it in speed.
Out of no where, a ear piercing wail shot through the air. Then somehow, water came out of nowhere, the spawn became twice as fast as it was before.
Its attacks became heavier and stronger. Night was completely out of options now, as he was about to summon the flames, he remembered the trait he got .
[Shadowless]
Nothing really changed, but the moment the spawn got even an inch closer, it was easier to respond. The shadows in his range were reduced only to the spawn's. But that wasn't it, i could feel its next move through its shadow.
[Release]
Shadowy mist escaped his hand and entered the spawn, its hue became darker, when it tried to attack ,him. He just swung his blade down . Blood surged onto his body, and he was constantly dodging ad plunging his blade into the spawn's body. With the last preparation down.
He jumped back as far as he could, and threw a black core. Black flames surged as a large explosion rocked the trees around him painfully.
The hex's voice echoed in his ear:
[You have slain Twilight ranked beast, tide crawler]
[Absorbing residual energy]
[Your shadow grows stronger ]
[Your flame grows darker]
Night fell down, he didn't really get injured due to the shroud but he was still hurt. Not even a awakened ranked amor could fully protect a weak human from himself.
Night glanced at the spawn, a transparent liquid fell out of its eye, the moment it fell into the ground, it just flowed, not sinking into the sand.
A tear...
it just flowed through the sand, night followed it, dismissing the blade and activating the hide enchantment. He ran faster as its speed increased, suddenly, when he got to the beach, the tear simply entered the ocean.
Nothing changed. But that was what he thought,
Somehow everything changed with just a tear.
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After staying three nights in the sapphire abyss.
Night learnt many things, like how cold darkness could truly be, the nature of being in the scape and most of all.
How the ocean cried....
It had been three days after the incident with the tide crawler, but the fear of how i could die at any moment didn't fade. It sat with me, heavy and constant, with the feeling that my very being watched even in my sleep.
Night got out of the cave and walked towards the beach, he was used to the silent but sorrowful cries of the ocean, but somehow, it felt different today...
He got to the edge of the water, then sat and watched it. He didn't let it touch him, not even a drop. He came there every night since the incident with the tear.
Something made him to, no matter how he tied to shrug it off, no matter what he did, it would never go.
Unlike the usual sounds that echoed throughout the ocean, The sea was quiet—too quiet. Not a single wave made a new sound, just silence, thick and unnatural.
It made my skin crawl.
That's when he saw it.
Mist hovered over the water, slowly creeping toward the shore. At first, he thought it was nothing—just leftover fear messing with his head. But the way it moved… it felt wrong. Slowly, he stood up, taking a step back sway from the ocean, then another...
When the mist reached the sand, it slowly took form, stepping out from the mist. A spawn, it had no legs but had arms, it didn't walk. but hovered, regardless everything beneath her was engulfed in the strange mist covering it. It was see through in some places, it didn't have a face, only broken marks was on what should have been its face.
It was still shrouded in mist, do its full appearance wasn't fully shown. The cracks revealed weirdly coloured eyes. It moved weirdly like it was searching for something.
And then , our eyes met, then the mist spread out in an instant and it was right in front of me. Its monstrous eyes staring directly into mine.
By instinct, i summoned the lamenting edge and swung my blade fiercely at it, the moment the blade collided, the spawn bursted into mist. Somehow, the mist didn't make a scratch on the shroud but entered through the gaps between the threads, it made my hand bleed. Night jumped back, his hand bleeding, he tried to hold the blade from falling, but it was.....painful.
The mist spread across the beach, night didn't think twice as he slowly made distance between it and him.
But somehow it instantly got behind him.It lunged its fist at him. Night was sent flying into the forest. Pain shot into his body as a tree stopped him from going any further.
The spawn didn't give him anytime to recover, instantly filling the forest with mist. Everything died, slowly becoming part of the mist. Then as he ran, it appeared in front of him again, throwing another blow. This time, he used his wrists fo block, reducing the force, but he was still sent flying.
Night, chose the last resort.
[Black flame]
Flames rose from his body, darker than before, it didn't burn it, it made everything break apart. The spawn looked at him, this time, he was sure to kill that thing.