31 Thats A Damn Contradiction (1/2)
The Lich clearly heard Arima's provocation, the flames in his eyes burned stronger, he moved his skeletal hand and pointed it Arima, a black smoke shot out from his hand and flew towards Arima.
Arima saw the small attack and frowned, he chose to teleport away. The black smoke exploded in a dark cloud.
”Death magic, as expected” Arima murmured ”But, if it's death magic” He smirked and flapped his wings. He charged towards the Lich.
The latter opened his mouth and eerie shout resounded, the ten wendigos protected him and met Arima head on.
”[Communis humane nature uirtutem] (Superhuman strength)” Arima chanted and his muscles became a bit bigger, then he clashed head on with a wendigo, fist to fist. The result was the wendigo being pushed back, one of his comrades attacked Arima from behind and waved his claw, Arima turned around and blocked with his left arm, he took out Ira and shot at the head of the wendigo
Soon, a few other of those undead attacked, one tried to bite Arima and was crushed by a knee, the other punched and was kicked and the last one was just shot before he could do anything.
”Eighth level” Arima said. All of those wendigos were at this level ”Tch, you're lucky I don't have Karma” He clicked his tongue and complained ”But you could say it's fair, after all? I'm the worst opponent you could find” He grinned
The Lich was observing the fight going on between Arima and the wendigos and his flames wavered a bit. Something that should be happening wasn't, that's what the Lich was thinking.
When Arima repulsed the last wendigo, he looked at the Lich ”Surprised? Normally, when you fight a high cla.s.s undead you have to always protect yourself from the death magic that they produce, but I didn't” Arima said and grinned. The Lich and even the wendigos, who possessed a basic intelligence, were listening to him.
”But, death is my friend from long date, you'll have a hard time troubling me with that” Arima said
”What do you mean, human?” Surprisingly, the Lich talked, his voice sounded like an normal old man with an eerie voice
Arima was a bit surprised, he didn't think that the Lich would have enough conscience to partic.i.p.ate in a conversation with his enemy.
”Let me show you” Arima said, the whole area was instantly flooded with mana, Arima chanted and him and the undead were instantly transported in another dimension.
”…What I'm supposed to do while waiting?” Lanya was left alone in the empty place and murmured
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The Lich looked around ”Is that some different dimension?” He said
Arima smiled ”As expected from a Lich, you must have lived long” He said, it was after all the first time someone saw through his magic. Even Jorga didn't understand it.
”Now, be my judge, you'll be the first one who'll see this” Arima said and chilly smirk formed on his face. A dark mist surrounded him and engulfed his figure
At that moment, the Lich was already astounded and his 'flames' became more agitated. The gathering of dark mist suddenly dispersed along with Arima, the latter was nowhere to be seen. But the Lich looked behind him and saw a black coat floating with the wind, he looked higher, he saw a skeletal hand, covered in gray scales, holding a gun, he looked even higher and saw a skull right in front of his face with blue flames in the eye sockets, looking at him. On the back he saw a skeletal tail and a pair of ash-grey wings.
The skull had his bones moved in a grin, it was extremely disturbing. But the Lich had his expression doing the same and he began to laugh, the other skeleton in front of him also followed.
”I must say, I never saw a human holding the power of an undead without being one, that's a d.a.m.n contradiction” The Lich's voice became extremely happy for some reason
”I don't know about that” The other skeleton responded, his voice sounded like Arima's but a lot more eerie ”To be honest, I just got some insights from your subordinates there. When I felt their aura touching me, I got an idea. Becoming an undead, if I could do that then maybe I could gain a quasi-invulnerable body and also nullify the toll put on my body by some of my techniques” He said
”I understand, death magic won't work at all on you” The Lich said ”But, that's not my only strength!” He shouted and the aura of the tenth level totally crushed everything in the surroundings. Even the wendigos were pressured on the ground and then their aura, along with their life force, flew to the Lich
”{I'm not imagining things, he just absorbed their life force, right?}” Night asked in Arima's mind
”{Yeah, but it's different here, he's not like me. Since the beginning, the life force in those undead was his, so he just took it back}” Arima explained ”{Anyway, are you ready?}” And asked
Night sighed in his mind ”{You maybe got rid of the toll on your body but the one on my mind is still not resolved}” He complained
”{I've got an idea for that, we were going in the wrong direction since the beginning. We just need to share half of the toll on each other's spirit and it should resolve the problem of spirit exhaustion}” Arima said
”{…Why didn't we think of that earlier?}”
”{I don't know}” Arima grinned ”{But it's time to go}” He said
The Lich in front of them had already became twice bigger, his bones also began to s.h.i.+ne.
Arima also began to change, his skeletal figure became bigger and his bones turned silver and his aura raised to the tenth level
”[Death G.o.d's body]”
”[Agnitio vultus unum centum]”
The two chanted at the same time and their respective transformation finished. They laughed at the same time and charged at each other.