Taking advantage of that momentary drop in control, Jahi clutched the hilt of her great sword, sheathed it in a thick layer of golden Light Mana and let out a shout as she stabbed the blade straight up into the Fiend’s ribcage, aiming for its heart in hopes of killing it right here, right
Now.
As she did that, I exerted myself mentally as I fueled more of that Lust Mana with my will to overwhelm and conquer this Ka Fiend, fighting against the red skinned brute and forcing it to fight a battle of two fronts; one physically, and another mentally.
Even if I wasn’t able to win on my end, I heard the sound of Jahi’s blade sinking into the Fiend’s flesh as she stabbed it in the chest, and I even felt the impact as she skewered it on her sword and made a mess of it’s internal organs, her magic running rampant inside its body.
The low, choked gasp of pain that spilled from its lips reaffirmed how hard that attack had landed, and as its blood began to join the sound it had uttered we all watched the Fiend closely, wanting to ensure that it was on its last ropes before we even began to think about considering this fight won.
On my end, I was more focusing on how the Fiend’s force of will was not wavering a single beat as I tried to steal away chunks of its desire to fight, of its desire to defend itself; some was more readily taken than others, but even as I stole away pieces of this Fiend’s desires for myself, it clung on stubbornly the entire time even as it was stabbed near the heart.
"Y-You... will not..!"
Coughing up some more blood, the Fiend reached for Jati’s sword and fought against the Demoness as she tried to twist it free, the dual metal blade cutting into its palms and dealing an insane amount of damage to its body as the poisonous Stygian Silver chewed away at its flesh while the Imperial Gold scorched whatever it was cutting.
Add onto that the Light Mana that the Fiend was weak against, and we were watching an uphill battle be fought as the six armed Fiend slowly began to push Jahi away, sliding the blade back out of its body and allowing it to free itself as that red energy flared around its entire form.
"Take..! Away..! MY..! BLOODLUST!"Roaring as loud as it could, the Fiend snapped the connection between me and it as the Lust Mana inside its body was swiftly routed and ejected from its mind, leaving me to stumble backwards as it returned to me with the force of that statue from earlier, sending my mind into a free fall for a brief moment.
Agony wracked my everything as I clutched at my head, the sudden reflux of energy giving me a severe case of whiplash that made it impossible to function at all as I stood there like an idiot, incapable of anything at all as the Fiend won the battle against me.
A battle of wills and a battle of desires resulted in me becoming stupefied for a heartbeat as the Fiend’s desire to shed blood dwarfed my current abilities, the suddenness of my attack doing nothing at all like it had to that Tza Fiend before; no, this Ka Fiend was determined to fight and draw blood no matter what, and as it continued to roar it proceeded to do just that.
Pushing the sword out of its chest, the Fiend forced Jahi backwards and opened up space for itself as it swung all of its arms outwards, five of them crashing down towards the Demoness while the last one collided with my side, sending me flying through the air as it swatted me away and removed me from the current fight.
The force of that blow easily snapped my arm in a few different places, sending multiple waves of scorching hot agony to my mind yet again, while my ribs and even my hip fractured in multiple spots too, adding to the pain as I flew through the air.
When I landed, that pain only grew in intensity as I rolled for a dozen feet or so, each rotation and bounce sending a new, fresh wave of scorching hot pain searing throughout my nervous system as I was turned from a fully functioning person into a very much not functioning one in a mere second.
And yet, the pain - as great as it was, and as much as I felt like my right side was made from magma now began to recede slightly as a myriad of healing spells landed on my prone form, giving me a brief moment of capable thought as I too cast my own healing spells, accelerating everything by another factor and allowing magic to do its wonders.
My bones began to set while the tears in my muscles started to knit back together, and I felt that mind numbing heat ooze away as it was replaced with a torturous itching as my bones started to reconnect as well.
While I was taken from the fight, Jahi had been punched as well, her shield absorbing most of the blow, but it still dealt an absurd amount of damage as she too was sent skidding back a few feet, her arms undoubtedly fractured by the mountainous impacts that had cracked the ground she stood on.
Blood wept from both of our orifices as the internal damage made itself known, and the Demoness coughed out her own vitae as she glared at the Fiend in front of her, who was taking this moment to heal up as well.
It had happened so quickly that most of the others weren’t able to react, but considering I felt many different spells layering over my body, I knew the Death Jackals were not amongst the many as I reluctantly pushed myself to my feet, ignoring the throbbing in my arm that made it hard to think and brushing past my body’s screams as I scooped up my blade and made my way back to the Fiend.
Anput was dashing in and out of the Fiend’s attack range as she sought to capture most of its attention, allowing Leone to support Jahi as the Vampire healed and buffed her at the same time, her wand moving frantically through the air as she worked as fast as she possibly could.
A few others joined the Jackalkin as she leapt above a slam and stabbed her sword down into the Fiend’s outstretched forearm, sliding her blade between the bones and using her magic to snap them as she disabled one of its limbs for the time being.
"I AM THE BLOODLETTER!"
The deafening roar became a physical wave of unadulterated violent energy as the Fiend grinned at Anput, not bothered by its broken arm and uncaring of the various cuts and punctures it had taken as it just doubled the red aura around itself, smacking away one of the Death Jackals and cocking its fist back at Anput for another strike.
"YOU CANNOT STAND AGAINST ME!"
Its fist was shrouded in an almost corporeal blood red shell that just oozed power and death, and the grin it wore only widened - like its eyes - as it roared "NONE HAVE SURVIVED THIS!" before punching down at the Jackalkin, forgoing any finesse or technique as it just bunched up its muscles and exerted as much power as it could in this simple attack.
Slowly descending down towards the Jackalkin, the strike seemed comically incapable despite its appearance, but that was what made it so terrifying as we all leapt away, trying to put as much space between us and it as we possibly could, but no matter how fast we thought we
Were...
It was still far too fast for the distance it needed to travel, and as this ’Bloodletter’ punched the ground, we were enveloped in a storm of blood red lightning as its fist collided with the ground, stealing away our breaths as the entire world became red.
There was nothing around us as the ground simply exploded beneath our feet, and the air itself became charged with a sticky, bubbling energy that stung our skin and clogged our lungs, and just like how it had appeared comically slow, the time it took for us to be sent flying backwards was comically fast.
Once more I was rag dolled through the air, but this time I smashed against a wall and broke through it before colliding with a second, and I knew the embrace of pain once more as the entire square was turned to rubble.
The bodies that had littered the ground were made into paste, the unlucky guards and civilians still within the blast radius suffered that same fate, and those of us who were of a higher stock then them... well, we barely fared better.
The healing spells I had been given were working overtime as I finally came to a stop, and they returned to knitting bones together as I tried to breath, only to barely manage to do so as pain collided with me a moment after I stopped moving.
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