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Chapter 41|| Draden's blood activate

Ryyla stomped and shouted cursing at the panther while at the same time puffing her cheeks in a rage.

Could a magic treasure be so powerful, Sen thought to himself.

The panther stood off to the side motionless while smoke continuously wafted off of his body as though he were a blazing fire that had just been doused with water. His once black fur gave off a metallic sheen and looked to be harder than diamond. His body was now at least 3 feet taller and bulged with rippling muscles and the once white spear now appeared as black as the night with many visible small cracks running up and down the length of it. It too grew in a size matching the panthers body type exactly.

The tip which once emitted a blue glow now shone with a dark reddish hue. The panther no longer spoke, he looked sinisterly toward the elf and the boy and a maddening glint appeared within his eyes. With a leap, he vanished right before their eyes and instantly reappeared in front of ryyla causing a small trace of shock to fill her face.

Before she could even react a fist with the weight of a mountain crashed into the middle of her face, sending her rocketing into the sky knocking her several miles away into a nearby mountain. With the impact, a nearby forest was flattened. Trees splintered from the top down to their base. Many were either uprooted or cracked, bent and twisted a full 180 degrees.

Nearby rocks and boulders were completely shattered causing plumes of dust and debris to blanket down onto nearby villages, causing massive destruction and death. Rivers churned violently sending pulsing waves onto the land drying them up to their very core and the very mountain collapsed in on itself sending a quake and tremor throughout the ground.

Everyone in the city could clearly feel it and even though Sen was floating in the air and couldn't feel it directly he could easily see some nearby buildings shaking violently or collapsing. Witnessing this, he couldn't help but have a face full of bewilderment and fear, never before has he seen such utter chaos, never before has he felt such power.

His entire body began to shake and a cold sweat quickly pooled down his back and face. Every hair on his body stood vertically and his body felt the pressure emanating off of the panther, almost like a boulder atop his chest he felt as though he were being crushed from it causing his breathing to quicken a pace, but even breathing became quite difficult for him like all of the air was starting to disappear. Panic was starting to set in and he knew it. He wanted to escape, fly away as fast as his body could take him, but the events had left him paralyzed.

He couldn't help but notice his body descending to the ground, he struggled to maintain flight, but the pressure the panther emitted was just too overwhelming. It was as if the magic surrounding sen was cut off from him by some unknown invisible force until finally with terror both of his feet touched the ground, he flew no more. Panicked, sen couldn't help but curse himself.

"Dammit, dammit, why me? why can't I fly?"

The panther turned and looked at Sen with pure disdain. The distance between the 2 was no more than 20 steps and with a demeanor of complete dominance the panther began to walk leisurely towards sen. Each step the panther took cracked open the ground causing small fissures and cracks to split open, sounding as if someone was constantly pouring an endless supply of rocks and rubble on top of other more rocks.

Sen could only watch with a pale expression while the panther got closer and closer until finally with one last step the panther stood directly in front of him. Looking up, sen couldn't help but see the panther staring directly into his eyes with that same maddening glint he looked at ryyla with right before he killed her.

Like a giant looking at an ant right before it would crush it, this was the look the panther gave off. The panther said nothing and sen couldn't say anything right now even if he wanted to. The panther slowly rose the spear high above sen's head preparing for one strike to end him. Sen cursed furiously within his mind "Damn, damn, to die like this. To die in this way, I haven't even done anything yet. Fuck, is this how my life ends, fuck, fuck, fuck."

The panther gripped his spear tightly and with one clean stroke he swung down once more with the force of a mountain. Sen quickly shut his eyes and waited for his demise. He could feel the wind from the strike before the blade even reached him and with it death followed immediately after.

The end

Or so he thought, but that's just it, he continued to think. How could he be dead if he could still have thoughts, but maybe he did die and now he was simply a spirit or a ghost that still retained his memory. If so, then why could he still feel the wind from the strike. It was then that sen noticed that the wind did not come from above him, but instead from directly behind. Right on his back was a gale of ferocious wind. "Did, did my magic save me? did I unconsciously use wind magic and block the blow?"

This was when sen felt the ground beneath his feet give way and split causing a small crater to form under him. Shocked he quickly opened his eyes to see something absolutely unbelievable. The blade from the spear was literally 2 inches above his head, seeing this he cried out.

"STOP!!"

But the funny thing is the blade was stopped, it had been stopped, it was then that he heard it.

"KUKUKU."

It was unreal, he clearly heard his teachers voice his brain was having difficulty registering what was happening. He then looked at the panthers face and a clear sign of struggling appeared on him. He was gripping the spear and pushing down with an extreme amount of force, but the blade simply wasn't moving. Sen finally looked at the spear once more and at the blade that should have cut his life out of existence and at the end of it, attached at the tip, was a beautiful slender palm caressing it as though it were a flower.

To sen, this was the most beautiful hand he had ever seen in his entire life. He looked behind him to see ryyla, she was holding the blade with one hand. On her face appeared a huge smile, she was grinning from ear to ear. She was ryyla, but at the same time she was different. Her eyes which once shone a sapphire blue, her most beautiful feature were now as black as onyx.

So dark, as if the world would be swallowed by them. Sen looked into them and could only shutter. Her hair as well was covered in a deep blackness as though she had dyed it with the night sky. She was ryyla, but the aura she emitted was completely different from before. If before it was bright but tough, then now it would only be considered consuming and demonic very oppressive in nature. Sen finally realized that the wind he felt from before was not the winds of death from a strike, but the wind of protection from ryyla. How fast did she have to move to stop this blow? Sen couldn't even begin to fathom it.

Still in a bit of a daze he suddenly heard a loud shout.

"Sen! didn't you hear me?"

It was now that he recognized his teacher was trying to say something, he simply uttered back.

"What?"

He looked at his teacher as though she were a guardian angel, but then she said.

"Get the fuck out of the way!"

The panther now used 2 hands and the blade finally sunk down closer to sen's face. Ryyla seeing this quickly grab sen by his cloak and tossed him directly out of the arena, being thrown out rather quickly the pressure the 2 gave off no longer affected him and once more he flew up high into the sky. Distancing himself several hundred feet away he filled his eyes with a bit of mana, he concentrated so he could still see clearly as the two once more begin to fight it out.

The panther roared.

"You how are you still aliv..."

But before the panther could even finish his sentence, ryyla took her free hand, light and wind condensed on it almost instantly and once more a mighty gauntlet was formed on her fist and with one quick blow to his chest the panther was now sent flying high into the sky.

While still ascending ryyla instantly caught up and with a quick uppercut the panther was thrown even higher toward the clouds. Just before his body went through a cloud ryyla was already above the cloud winding up her fist. She gathered her two gauntlet-covered fists above her head and right at this moment sent them crashing down upon the panther.

*Boom*

The impact could easily be heard for miles around as her fist collided with his skull. Like a bolt of lightning, the panthers body descended at a speed unmatched. Once more a loud crack and boom were heard in a radius of several miles another crater formed under the panther causing the city wall that he crashed into to crumble beneath him, burying him alive.

Once more the ground shook with tremors as building after building collapsed. The screams of thousands were heard throughout the city. The people literally thought the world was ending they thought the apocalypse had finally come and panic and chaos erupted all throughout the city. Sen couldn't help but think.

"What is this power? how has teacher become so strong?"

Ryyla quickly descended next to the collapsed city wall looking to see whether the panther was alive or dead. The ground started to rumble and the figure of the panther quickly emerged from beneath the rubble. On his body, not even a scratch was seen. The panther looked at ryyla with a fierce expression and shouted so loud that everyone in the city could hear.

"With my spear I am invincible, you can not defeat me no matter how strong you become little elf."

Once more he rushed at ryyla and the two quickly exchanged blow after blow. Each fist, kick, strike that landed sent the other crashing through the city, it seem as if a war zone broke out with no end in sight. Sen continued to watch and although his teacher was clearly stronger her blows seemed to do no damage against the panther.

On the other hand, although the panther almost never landed a hit on ryyla when he did it clearly did something. The panthers boast about being invincible seemed to be true, how else could this whole situation be explained? Sen observed closely pouring his focus and concentrating everything he had on the panther and his spear.

"There must be something, some type of weakness or defect. I have to find it before teacher runs out of strength."

Although he didn't know where this new found strength his teacher exuded came from it was obvious she couldn't keep it up forever. So he continued to observe from a distance watching carefully at every action, every movement, from the smallest to the biggest he observed everything clearly. He watched as his teacher struck the panther and how the panther didn't even defend and then how the panther would counter. Everything the panther did seem to be wild and unfocused while his teachers seemed to be direct and precise.

"Why is this panther so strong? Right after he used his spear to summon the lightning all the sudden this major change happened, wait a minute, could it be."

Sen concentrated mana into his voice strengthing the sound by many times he controlled the wind and spoke directly into ryyla's ear. Although they were several 100 feet away from each other she and she alone heard him clearly as though he were standing next to her.

"Teacher, I want to try something. Get him into the open and back away."

Ryyla as well spoke to sen with the same method.

"What is it you plan on doing? I'm using everything I've got right now and he doesn't even seemed to be phased, what can you do?"

"Teacher, I don't know for sure, but I have a theory. Will you let me try? I think if this works we can beat him."

Ryyla was silent for but a moment she easily saw the destruction that she and the panther have caused all the lives that she and the panther have extinguished she spoke back.

"What's the plan?"

End of ch 41