Chapter 30: Endurance

Nysilia was looking at Samriel and the other figures near the fracture, they were distant, with their auras being black and clearly visible; by looking at those, she understood one thing, they were strong, so she got close to Dai and Sarah and said

“Ok, you two have to go to fuck away now”

“Uh? Why? We can still fight-” Dai tried to say before being interrupted

“No, you can’t. Both of you are weak compared to them and to make things worse, you are also tired.”

“But will going away be the safest choice? I mean, they arrived here from who knows where, by opening that weird fracture in the sky and they could do that again just to find us no?” Sarah asked while showing a bit of

“Well…It’s a bit more complicated than you think but let’s leave that for another time. I’ll take you somewhere else and come too once I finish with those thugs-” Nysilia’s eyes became wide open in surprise and ordered Dai and Sarah

“Get down!”

Hearing that worried voice, helped them to get the order in their head and do it without questions and they did the right thing because immediately after that, Nysilia created a scythe made out of her blood and tried to slice something behind them, but the weapon’s blade crossed with someone else’s weapon, a great sword with the silver edges, the centre of the blade(fuller) being completely black and the red hilt.

The impact between the two weapons was so strong it caused Dai and Sarah to be thrown away; when they were both up, they looked at Nysilia’s opponent and, without too much surprise, it was that Samriel guy, the same one they saw in that memory, with the same mask, but there was just one difference, the hand bearing the sword was bandaged.

His weapon and Nysilia’s were still crossed and it was emitting enough energy to cause the ground to shake slightly

“Thugs uh? You love to call us a lot of things eh, Goddess of Despair?” Samriel said.

“Yes, and I’ll continue until you’ll stop calling me by that title.”

Both of them jumped back and took quite a distance from each other

“Why should I? Oh wait, I think I know the reason. You want to be called with your FULL title right, Goddess of Pain, Death, Lies, Curses-”

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A blood bullet suddenly passed close to his mask and scratched it and Nysilia was standing there with a finger pointed at him

“Oh no….I missed…” she said with fake delusion “All your words distracted me a lot…” she sighed “But I must I say…it seems you had a lot of free time to come up with such a long title for me and to be fair, I’m touched. That means you thought a lot about me…do you have a crush on me?”

“...It’s useless, you already did this in the past.” Samriel answered with indifference.

“What do you mean? I just asked something serious and I would like an answer, please?”

“Shut up. You are just wasting my time to let the guy and the girl go away through a portal…You already did something similar during the first rebellion in the First World.” he looked at other Zonnikies and five of them disappeared shortly after.

Nysilia looked in the same and didn’t look surprised “Just five of them? Do you think Dai and Sarah are that weak?”

Samriel shrugs his shoulders “We’ll see, but now, let’s stop talking. I can sense your blood lust.”

In fact, Nysilia had a huge and wide smile, from ear to ear and had bloody eyes, showing off every bit of craziness she didn’t show off until now “....Ahaha. Is that evident? Sorry, but I really want to kill you and dine on your flesh.”

“Here is another good title, Goddess of Cannibalism. But besides that, I won’t taste that good. Did you try eating Arismis?” he asked as he looked around to search for him.

“He died too quickly to even take a bite.”

That answer seemed to have surprised him since he didn’t say something immediately.

“Was he that weak?”

Nysilia simply nodded at that question.

“I see. Well, the next ones will be stronger…and you won’t be able to see them.”

Without saying anything else, the battle started with him appearing directly in front of Nysilia and their blades crossing again but it wasn’t some kind of endurance competition this time, multiple sparkles and small shockwaves were caused by the blades crossing again and again. From one side, Samriel was waving that great sword with just one hand like it was a toy, giving powerful attacks every single time and balanced out by heavy movements that could make the ground shake at every step; on the other side, Nysilia was rotating her scythe, which now was double-bladed, with fast and elegant movements, passing the weapon from one hand to the other with ease and moving like almost like she was dancing, which was in total contrast with her personality.

Both of them were fast, almost invisible to a normal human eye but they weren’t trying to dodge the opponent’s attack because they had powers that could have quickly turned the battle in their favour but only if the opponent made the wrong move; even if a prolonged battle wouldn’t have been good at all, they didn’t have any other choice but enduring that fight and wait for the right moment to strike.

The fight continued for almost an hour and as they were running out of patience, they started using the environment to their own advantage, especially the enormous crater near them; Samriel tried to make Nysilia fall in by making her walk back under his heavy hits with the sword, but she was able to overturn the situation by deflecting the last attack and make the sword stick into the ground.

Now, it was her chance, she didn’t waste any seconds, went for Samriel’s head and-

BANG