Chapter 8: The Price of Awakening
"There is no greater awakening than the one that turns you into your worst enemy: it will teach you to hate yourself with elegance. "
Sans Nom Fou walked laughing wildly, hhhhhhhh. After tearing Marceau by Marceau kills him
The Spirit of Ōdachi, he went in search of other Spirits of the Blade of Nothingness. The fact of having killed several of them had not made him physically stronger, but the pain had become his engine to become wilder, crazier. The more he pushed back fear, the more dangerous he became.
But his body was beginning to abandon him. He had already lost a lot of blood because of the gaping hole in his abdomen, and his arm, which he had broken by savagely beating the Spirit of the Ōdachi, was unrecognizable. This arm, whose bones were destroyed without any mercy, looked only like torn flesh and skin. He could never use it again like before after that but Sans Nom Fou continued to laugh, hhhhhhhhh. He says: "Who will be next? "As if the injured person was not himself, but someone else.
Each injury was no longer an alert, but an incitement to madness. He felt the Ōdachi, heavy and brutal, in his hand, a perfect extension of his uncontrollable rage.hhhhhhhhhhhhh
In another area of the dead forest, Râhenhotep woke up and said to his wife Nefirâ: "It's enough. I no longer need to rest, otherwise I take my only chance to kill Ahlmaris thanks to my awake ability. I can control the Minds of the Blade of Nothing to kill him," he said. But Nefirâ asked: "Why are you in such a hurry to kill Ahlmaris? We can wait until you are rested as much as possible. "
Râhenhotep replied: "No, we can't wait for dawn, otherwise the Spirits of the Blade of Nothingness will disappear with the day. This is my only chance to kill him. "
Nefirâ thought inwardly: "This dog, does he want to kill us or what? If he can't control his Minds of the Blade of Nothing, what are we going to do? While she was thinking, she tried to use her chessboard ability in secret, or rather her dormant ability: He can anticipate one or two simple movements of those he observes, giving him a slight strategic advantage.
At the same time, his defect, the loss of control, was activated. She felt an inhuman physical and spiritual pain, unbearable, until she fell to the ground. But in this period of time, she said to herself: "So what if I take control? I agree to take control! Suddenly, his defect stopped. She then used her Checker skill for the first time. Thanks to this ability, she saw two shots ahead of what was going to happen. All this lasted only a second.
"Râhenhotep, what happens to you to fall to the ground? " asked Râhenhotep.
Nefirâ replied: "Nothing, it must be fatigue. "
But internally, she says to herself: "I managed to circumvent my defect to use my ability. What's interesting is what will happen in a few minutes, hhhhh. "
Râhenhotep says: "In time. I will take out the object that I won by the awakening of my ability. Then he took out the object: a crown named Crown of Domination. He looked at the information given by the status:
> Crown of Domination
> Type of object: Royal Relic
> Description: Forged from the will of a thousand kings, the Crown of Domination does not shine with gold, but with a luminous glow, the more servants you have, the brighter the light. When worn, it symbolizes not only royalty, but the domination of the bearer. The Crown adapts to the head of its bearer, sometimes becoming a simple floating glow or a shadow ring depending on the nature of the sovereign.
> Effects of the object:
> * Each servant linked to the carrier increases his physical power. The more the number of servants grows, the more the Crown absorbs a fraction of their strength.
>
Then Râhenhotep smiled while wearing his new crown. After wearing it, he felt faster, stronger, more enduring. He laughs: "Hhhhh, let's go! He said to Nefira. She had already anticipated this crown, but she did not know what it was for. She didn't ask anything, because she knew what was going to happen after their release.
Râhenhotep noticed that there were only two Spirits of the Blade of Nothingness left under his orders; the others were dead. He says to himself inwardly: "This is why my physical strength has not increased much. When he wanted to give new orders to the Spirits of the Blade of Nothingness, one of them pierced him. Râhenhotep was speechless, but he understood: his Awakened ability - Individuals in the radius of action feel the need to follow the bearer's orders, even against their own interest - allowed him to give only one order at a time. Then he spat blood.
As the second Spirit was preparing to attack him, Nefirâ dodged easily by using his acquired dormant ability. Although Nefirâ was not faster than the Spirit, she dodged, then suddenly jumped on Râhenhotep, snatching her crown. She says: "Now that you're going to die, you don't need it anymore, hhhhhh. She left so easily, as if it were child's play.
Râhenhotep did not accept his fate by shouting: "Me, a king! How can I lose? Then he used the same tactics as before, combining his dormant ability and class to delay the Minds of the Blade of Nothing. He took their weapons to massacre them. After killing them, he noticed that his injury was serious. He says inwardly: "Nefirâ, you have won for the moment. I, a king, Râhenhotep, will make you regret having betrayed me, you and this cursed spirit of the woods Ahlmaris. I will kill you with my own hands. "
After saying that, he was about to enter the cave when he saw Ahlmaris running, chased by the Spirit in the katana. Ahlmaris had suddenly turned to fight the Spirit. They had made more than 100 exchanges without any winner being designated. Ahlmaris was stronger than the Spirit in the katana. He ran, not to flee, but to avoid fighting many other Spirits of the Blade of Nothing.
Ahlmaris, after noticing Râhenhotep, smiled: "Hhhh, a sacrifice. Then he ran towards Râhenhotep Dit curses himself Ahlmaris. He will sacrifice to delay the spirit of the Blade of Nothing for him. Ahlmaris
Was so fast. When his hand was about to touch Râhenhotep, he used his Awakened ability: Individuals in the radius of action feel the need to follow the wearer's orders, even against their own interest.
Râhenhotep says: "Stop moving! Suddenly, Ahlmaris stopped and the Spirit of the katana also stopped.
Râhenhotep laughed, saying: "Heaven sends you to kill you, hhhhhh. "
Ahlmaris says: "What did you do to me? "
Râhenhotep says: "Your only sin is to have humiliated me. A lot happened that night, but you have to die! Then he squeezed with all his strength to strangle Ahlmaris. But Râhenhotep, despite all his efforts, did nothing.
Ahlmaris says: "Do you think your strength would be enough to kill me? Hhhhhh, what a joke! And now, what are you going to do the king? Hhhhhh! You're going to get help to kill me, you who said you're going to kill me with your own hand, hhhhhhhhh! "
Râhenhotep was so angry that he tightened his wound. He said to himself inwardly: "Am I really going to fail to kill him? Then he heard a noise coming from the sky.
Shhshhh... A katana entered Ahlmaris' skull. A flowing green blood of Ahlmaris smiled when he was killed. He thinks he was smiling at the danger he is killed by the Katana Spirit before Râhenhotep uses his Awakening ability. The Spirit had thrown his katana into the sky to pierce his enemy, a desperate attack that had just killed Ahlmaris.