Chương 264: Chapter 247. Hallway Fight 2

" HAHAHAHA!"" You should be dead, old man!" From Pete's manic laughter, to Sarah's yell when going to attack him, I was able to sit up and look at Anna's current state. I checked on Anna's condition, she seemed to be fine, if only a little embarrassed that she was almost caught by an enemy's trick. /CRASH! / Another swing of Sarah's halberd and another wall was destroyed." Darling, I'm okay. You're shaking?"" Yeah, Anna. I was scared for a moment. I don't know what I'd do if h-" kiss...

A kiss stopped the next few words from coming out of my mouth." It's okay, Darling. I'm here, I'm okay. Let's finish this and save everyone, Darling." Anna smiled at me and then we stood up to help Sarah. /CRASH! CLANG! / They continued to clash as Anna and I took a moment to stand back up. But now that I've calmed down slightly, 2 questions popped into my head immediately upon standing on my feet. The first was answered immediately. While Pete was still standing, he wasn't uninjured. His body was still in tatters.

The deep cut that sliced his torso was still there. It wasn't getting better. In fact,... I think it's getting worse?" I've got you now!"" Sarah! Jump back!" As Sarah was about to land a crushing blow, she heard my voice and did as I asked. /SPLASH! CRACK! / Pete's flesh began to twist and fracture, like a tornado just formed in his body. Blood poured from the wound and new wounds that appeared from the sharp bones that have popped out of his body.

They obviously snapped under the pressure of all of this twisting Pete's body is doing. I'd feel sick at the sight of this, if it wasn't for the fact that I knew we had to save the girls." HAHAHA! You won't escape me! You'll die here tonight!" As his body continued to break and reform, an almost sickening mockery of Pete's voice howled at us about dying. /POP! CREAK! WIGGLE! / As Pete continued to change, black tendrils appeared from the deep gash that Sarah made. This began a difficult moment for my Wives."

What the hell happened to him!?"" This isn't right!"" Calm down, for now! Focus! He can't hurt us! He's just becoming a bigger target!"" That might be what you think, Human! But in time, you'll see it's much worse than that! HAHAHAH!" Again, crooked laughter escaped the mouth of this creature that used to be in the form of a Demon. From Pete's appearance, Sarah and Anna seemed to be panicking, my words seemed to have calmed them to a degree... But what the fuck is this guy? This feeling he gives me?

It's familiar to me... Fracks... It's the same feeling. No wonder? It only makes sense! He's his servant after all." Kill you! Kill you! I'm going to kill you! HahAHahA!" Drool began to leak from his mouth as the black tendrils twisted and covered what was left of Pete's body. He resembled a walking mass of wiggling blood-soaked eels that had sharp white bones occasionally sticking out of him like nails through a baseball bat. For some reason... I'm strangely calm?

I think it might have something to do with the fact I needed another question answered for me. Why did he try a sneak attack on Anna? It doesn't make sense? Sarah showed that she was his superior earlier, so why Anna? Something isn't right." AHHH!" Before I could figure out what I wanted to know, Pete... The creature, lunged at us like a starving animal." Barrier!" /CRASH! / I was able to stop his attack with my Barrier... Wait! There's 2 Barriers now!?

One of the Skills I got must make me capable of doubling them up in one cast now! I must've thought 1 wasn't enough subconsciously. A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation." HAHAHA!" More crazy laughter, great. Wait, now that I get a look at him... Those aren't tendrils... They're..." Vines!?"" HAHAHAHA! DIE! DIE!" Black vines... Sneak attacks on Anna and me when we weren't excepting it... Only after she was ready... I think I know what we need to do now.

I turned to my Wives, who while concerned, seemed ready to fight tooth and nail to win." Sarah! Anna! There's not enough time to explain! Anna, I want you to attack that thing using either of your daggers powered by the Nature Goddess! I need to test his reactions to them! Understood!?"" Yes!" With Anna's okay, she began to power both her daggers with the Nature Goddesses power." Sarah, our job is protecting Anna and make an opening! If I'm right, he's not ready for Anna or my Skillsets!"" Understood!"

With our jobs established- /CRACK! SHATTER! / And another attack that destroyed the first barrier, round 2 officially started for us." Sarah! Let's go!" I rush forward as Pete reels back to try and deliver another attack to break the last of my Barriers." HAAAH!" Pete yells as he sees us coming." White Slash!" I send an attack pulsing with my Holy Mana in it. / Boom! CRASH! /" RAAAARRRAAA!" He avoided it! It's just like I thought! He's scared of my Holy Magic!

And by process of elimination, he must fear Anna's Gods as well. Since the vines are black, I'm going on a hunch here and assuming that whatever this thing is, the Nature Goddess is a hard counter to it. But to get Anna a chance to prove my theory, I need to step up my game to make an opening." Holy Arrows!" I summon a cluster of Holy Arrows to make it harder for him to dodge. With this hallway only being about 10 FT wide, he doesn't have much room to maneuver since he's increased his size...

Now that I think about it, he also seems slower now? Is that from the broken bones all over his body or the increase in mass, I can't tell. But to be honest, it doesn't matter right now. All that matters is that I hit him!" RAH!!" The vines reach out and allow themselves to be pierced by the arrows in order to protect the main body. Sarah and I rush in with our Mana Blades attempting to hit the parts of the body that were exposed from the vines leaving to protect itself from my arrows." Hah!" SWING!

Sarah and I yell in unison as we launch attacks at different parts of Pete. /THUMP!.... CRASH! / He jumped away from our attack. He's quite agile for his size, I need to admit. Pete was a regular-sized Demon. About 7 FT, now he's grown to around 10 FT tall. This hardly seems fair." He dodged again."" Again? Did he avoid the killing blow multiple times when you were fighting in the smoke?"" Yes, he's got a good sense of danger, perhaps that's why he's made it to his old age?""

Well, it doesn't matter, tonight he dies."" Of course, My Love."" ArE YOu DoNE TAlKInG!?" Pete didn't seem to like my Wife and I speaking to each other. Didn't really matter to us. His vines weren't moving ever since my arrows hit them... I wonder what'll happen if I hit him with a Holy Flame? Something to try during our next attack. /Crackle! CLANG! / Pressure! Pete jumped at us assuming that we were too focused on speaking to each other.

Shame for him that we never took our eyes off of the monstrosity that we were fighting. I clashed my blade against Pete's sword." You've gotten predictable since the makeover, Pete." I smiled at the black mass of vines crawling around what used to be Pete." ARe yOU SURE aBoUt THAT?" The voice that sounds like broken glass seemed to have some form of confidence. I thought it was strange until I saw a change in the behavior of the vines on his body, they got thinner." My Love!"" Barrier!" /CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CRACK!

/ 3 black vines would've skewered me, if not for the fact that I had my Barriers." What!?"" Cute trick, let me show you one of mine! Holy Flame!" / Woosh! /" AAHG!" My Holy Flame hit Pete square in the torso and the flames spread out on the vines, they lit up like gasoline-soaked dead wood." RAGHHH!" Pete's screams echoed through the hallway as he backed away." That was... Effective..."" Yeah, the idea just came to me when I realized that he was covered in vines. I thought my Holy Flame might work?

Judging by the burning man in front of me, I'd say I was right on the money."" WAAAAHHHH!"" Yes, I'd say so. Do you think it'll stop at some point?"" The flames? I guess when they run out of vines to use as fuel?"" No, I meant that thing's screaming."" Oh, give it 2... 5 minutes tops." Sarah smiled at my answer. Her eyes glowed in the flickering of the flames. I could almost enjoy the moment... If it wasn't for..." GAAAAHHH!" / Bang! Thump! Bang! Thump! / The screams of a man being burned to death.

I was surprised at how long Pete had stayed standing, his screams were only growing more and more anguished as he tried to put the flame out through banging onto walls or rolling on the floor, but nothing seemed to work for him. Eventually he took to laying on the floor and yelling his lungs out as he was covered in burning, golden white flames." RAAAHHHH!" More screams painted the walls that were now sporting deep cut marks from the Head Butler's blade."

Even with all of this, I'm a little regretful that we couldn't find any answers. I guess we need to get a move on now? Let's go Sarah. We need to save the girls."" Yes, and apparently stop a serial blood sacrifice case. Honestly, why would someone wish for a power that makes them so ugly?" With Sarah's response we turned and began to walk away from the burning corpse. Our minds now were only about saving our Friends, maybe it was too all-encompassing as we were very sloppy when it came to this kill.

I found this out the hard way when I heard that grating voice begin to speak again." DiD yOu ThhInk YOu DID eNOugh!?" /THUMP! / I knew from the sound that Pete jumped at us, I began to channel the mana to cast Barrier again, when a pleasant sound entered my ears." DUCK!" Sarah and I did as Anna asked. /STAB! Click! SPLOOSH! / Sarah and I stood back up after a moment. We stood up to see a Burnt Pete free of the vines that consumed him.

The only difference, besides the burnt skin, was the glowing green dagger that was buried deep in-between his eyes. I turned to look at Anna who was exhaling a deeply held breath." Anna, I Love You a lot!" Poke! I said the first thing that came to my mind, she simply smiled as Sarah jabbed me in the ribs. While the road ahead is a bit dark and a little worrisome, somehow, I think we'll pull through this.