Return of the Fallen Volume 8 Chapter 41
Danny and the others, to Kazuki’s surprise they had all returned and surrounded Dreunz. Before Kazuki knew what was what, Danny called out to him.
“His barrier is gone and his powers are weakening. We’ll keep him at bay and prevent him from escaping, you finish him!”
Of course Dreunz heard this as well and knew this was bad. Surrounded every which way. If he couldn’t teleport away then he would simply tear through one of these foolish beasts and make his escape. After all, he still had a great deal of strength in his limbs and his hands and leg were already starting to regenerate.
With such strength, he could go through any one of them if he so chooses.
Dreunz gave a side glance to Sasai, between him and Danny, Dreunz could tell the two of them were the weakest of the group. With lightning-like speed, Dreunz charged at Sasai and was ready to divide him in two.
Danny though was ready and had already raised his saber high above him. The black silver blade lit up with inscriptions. Swinging his sword down, static gathered in the air followed by dozens of bolts of lightning. Each one came crashing down with thunderous force in front of Sasai and Dreunz, separating the two.
Dreunz though ignored the lightning to some extent and brought up a new barrier. After all, how powerful could it be compared to his barrier he thought. This was another mistake.
As Dreunz passed through the lightning, electricity scattered and bounced around his barrier just as Dreunz figured. However, what happened next, he hadn’t even fathomed. Hidden in the lightning were separate blades of energy. He had mixed in Kai’s 3rd sword form Severing tempest and not just one or two. Just like earlier he had used hundreds, thousands of these energy blades.
One of these energy blades could do almost nothing. Since Dreunz was so powerful, Danny’s power could never hope to destroy Dreunz’s power but because Dreunz was already starting to weaken and because Danny used not just one Severing tempest blades but thousands, his energy blades chipped away at Dreunz’s barrier little by little.
This attack of Danny’s though was not slow. After he swung his saber, thousands upon thousands of energy blades crashed into Dreunz’s barrier and compounded, grew, amplified until a tiny tear ripped across the top of his barrier. With this small opening, the lightning that was still descending found its entrance and came crashing down with dominating authority.
The lightning grew and grew in an instant and the dozens of bolts of lightning became hundreds. All of this occurred in less than a second and Dreunz was stunned for almost that long. The lightning was strong but it could not kill Dreunz nor even damage him in his current state. Instead, all of this lightning passing through him stunned him fairly slightly. This amount of lightning was nothing to someone like him but it wasn’t meant to kill him. Well rather it would be great if it could but it wasn’t enough. Instead, it was used as a delaying tactic. Something that would slow him down and it worked out that way to a T.
He froze for a split second and as he took the lightning he began to move forward once more. He was already directly in front of Sasai. Reaching forward he tried to rip Sasai apart but his movement out of nowhere was suddenly halted as something grabbed at his back and pulled him.
To his horror, the hand upon his upper back was none other than Kazuki. Before he even had a chance to speak, Dreunz felt that odd sensation followed by pain in his back.
“NOOOO!”
Dreunz was just starting to get the sensation back in his hands and he turned around with ferocity.
His suns that were still in the sky came descending downward slowly but it wasn’t fast enough for him. Still, near the ground, Dreunz could not fly up because of Sasai and the others, and right on top of him was Kazuki.
“BASTARD!”
Light gathered between his palms. Willing his power forward, the element of space wrapped around Kazuki and held him in place. Dreunz fired a large beam of light energy at close range, right at Kazuki’s head. Kazuki though remained calm. Ki, Aura, and Dark energy fused together around his head and destroyed the element of space. With dangerous speed, Kazuki snapped his head backward and proceeded to break his own neck.
The powerful beam of energy should have taken his head off but instead, it passed over where his torso, and missed his head entirely.
Dreunz found this to be both demonic and shocking but what happened next shocked him beyond what he thought was possible.
*Crack*
The very next instant, Kazuki snapped his head back into place. Opening his mouth, Kazuki spit a blue flame directly at Dreunz’s face. The two were so close and Dreunz was so taken aback from seeing Kazuki break his own neck that he simply didn’t see this coming.
The blue flame hit Dreunz directly in his left eye and burned him.
“AHHHHHH!”
As he felt the excruciating pain on his face, Dreunz instinctually protected himself and fired off several more beams of light energy in every direction. He tried to kill Kazuki and the others with all of this but he didn’t stop there. He also took the remainder of his suns and blew them up all at once.
*CRACK KA-BOOOOOOOOM!*
The moment he did this, Dreunz gave up trying to fly away and stuck to the ground. He ran away at his fastest speed possible. Turning into a streak of light, he covered hundreds of miles in a second. Along the way he ran straight through trees and mountains but none of this slowed him. Even as the power from his master faded and his strength reduced, he didn’t stop and he would let nothing stop him as a single thought echoed in his mind.
(Must get away! I must escape!)
The pain in his eye was starting to lessen and his vision although slightly blurred, began to return. Dreunz felt a shiver down his spine at the thought of what would have happened if Kazuki was stronger in magic. He was still at the 5th stage, at the Core stage. If he was any stronger, Dreunz feared he would have completely lost his eye just then.
This thought though made his hatred worsen as he once more realized that his enemy was a mere human. Humans were supposed to be among the weakest creatures and for the most part they are. Yet it was one of these humans that had pushed him to the very edge.
(Those bastards. Once I heal, I will go to my King’s side. It is regrettable that I could not kill Kazuki myself but it is not something I can currently do. His Majesty will be able to crush Kazuki and his friends in an instant and things will be finished once and for all.)
With these thoughts, Dreunz didn’t dare stop and continued running as fast as possible. As he continued to move though, something felt odd. He had made it well over a thousand miles in only a few seconds but the more he ran the slower he seemed to get.
(What…What is happening, why am I so slow?)
It was only now when he started to really think that the pain in his back grew worse. A strange and horrible thought occurred to him at this moment and he instinctively sunk his senses into his Magical Beasts core. Once he did this, he was left terrified at what he sensed.
(My core, how did this happen? My magic isn’t condensing or gathering properly. My core has been damaged!)
“That attack when he grabbed my back! My magic isn’t working right!”
“Correct!”
A voice echoed out above Dreunz. Kazuki and the rest were all floating above him. All at once, they landed around him in a large circle, once more cutting off his path of retreat.
“Making your suns self destruct. That was definitely dangerous or rather it would have been if I didn’t already know how to deal with them.”
Danny smirked as he said this and swung his saber in a bit of a showy fashion. Sasai couldn’t help but roll his eyes seeing this but he now understood why Tozu had spoken highly of the weapon.
Kazuki nodded.
“You saw it yourself Dreunz. My friend here can really mess up the flow of energy. So much so that it basically dissipates and is rendered useless. While he was using this attack to cut through your barrier he was simultaneously using it on your suns. Danny here tends to think ahead about such things. That’s his strong suit. You on the other hand don’t, which leads us here.”
Dreunz was left flabergasted. Never in a million years did he think he would be cornered in such a way.
“You human scum! You vile evil little thing. You kill my family and dare act as if you aren’t a murderer as if all of this is a matter of fact and natural. How can you sleep
Before Dreunz said another word, Kazuki stepped forward and appeared in front of him. With his magic not working properly, Dreunz could not use his light speed to dodge.
Kazuki grabbed Dreunz’s head and the three energies gathered in his palm.
“Yes, I killed your family but you as well are one of the reasons my brother is no longer here. The difference though is that I kill to survive, while you do it for what, following someone else order, for fun, pride. In the end though, it doesn’t matter because we both do it for our own selfish reasons right?”
Dreunz had nothing more to say but he would not go out silently. He knew what would happen the moment Kazuki uses his strange power on his head. Dreunz’s eyes were filled with hatred and he tried to detonate his Magical beast core but to his dismay, nothing happened.
His eyes went wide as he realized he couldn’t even die the way he wished and Kazuki was going to get away with everything completely.
Kazuki on the other hand knew nothing of Dreunz’s thoughts. Sending his fused power forward, it left his palm and shredded Dreunz’s brain into chunky blood mud. Dreunz’s eyes rolled up into his head and blood and brain matter flowed from not only his eyes but from his ears nose and mouth as well. His entire body twitched uncontrollably for a moment before his body went limp and still.
*Thud*
Falling over to the ground…He was dead.
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