BLOOD SILK - Chapter 132

Jeremy leaped at Styrmir again and the collisions of Jeremy’s first and Strymir’s palms began.

Every time they touched each other, the walls broke and the floor was shattered. The gust of wind was so strong they were shaving the walls beside them.

“Just what the hell is wrong with this boy! He doesn’t chant! But I could feel the mana-raged winds!” Jeremy’s crystal exoskeleton was shattering into bits.

Jeremy took some great damage, his fist was almost grinded by Styrmir winds, but Styrmir wasn’t also all well, his palm was bleeding, and he had several cuts on his body.

“Well well, this is what we call weaklings!” Jeremy smirked, and suddenly his muscles started bulging again,

“Shall we end this now brat?!” Jeremy spread his arms, with his chest wide open,

“Now come on! Give us your best! Either kill us in that one shot or be prepared to after!”

‘Has this guy gone insane?  He is underestimating me too much! But it’s true, my attacks are taking a toll on me now!’

Styrmir was panting, his visions were getting all blurry, and he could hear his heart beating.

“Who do you think you are fucking big?” Styrmir lowered his hands,

“Bug?” Jeremy chuckled,

“You are mistaken about something, we aren’t bugs! Do you think any crystals can have life into them with spells?

Well since you don’t have much time, I’ll tell you! We are humans!”

At that point, Jeremy’s whole body was now again covered in the thicker exoskeleton and that growing crystal skull completely covered his head.

“What the heck-” Styrmir’s eyes gaped, Jeremy’s mana was recovered back too,

“Nhahahaha, you see,

We were once the loyal soldiers of his grace, we spent decades serving him, unfortunately, most of us got stricken by a pandemic, our sickening body wasn’t going to last longer!

We gave up hope and we were only waiting for death at that point!

But then he came! He said he could save us all, but we didn’t believe him. Nobody was able to wipe out the disease from his body, but he smiled with pride there.

When he claimed he would save us, everybody cheered for him for a while but then he told us about the secret of our salvation!

It was our death! Many lowered their voices, they went silent, but I and my comrades believed in him!

After that, we were taken to this dungeon, I could clearly remember it!

That magnificent skill!”

Jeremy was laughing like a madman with his hands in the air,

“What skill? Are you saying you were a human before?!” Styrmir clenched his fist,

“Yes! We were, but then in our last moments, I was on the bed, and he came to me,

‘Are you ready?’ He said, and I nodded,

And then they turned me on the belly, and then,

He pulled out my vertebrate along with my brain!

Everything went blank for me, I wasn’t able to smell, I wasn’t able to listen, I wasn’t able to speak, I wasn’t able to see, but I was able to feel the touch and think!

All of my nerves were still alive!

After that, I don’t remember much, but when he gave me this body,

I realized I was crystalized the whole time! He preserved me as a tiny crystal! This is what people call genius!

I am grateful to my lord for this new life! So today I will kill-

Nah!

I will sever your body from limb to limb, and gift you to my lord!

Now! Try your best! I want to see your hopeless face! When you will realize that you can’t do shit but be an eternal slave of his grace!”

Styrmir’s jaw dropped, he gawked his eyes in disbelief,

“What the fuck, you goin about? Crystallizing a human alive? How is it possible?!”

“Now, now don’t waste your time talking! If you don’t want to take this chance, when should I begin?!”

“You-” Jeremy clenched his teeth, and slowly calmed himself,

“Fine then! Let’s see how many muscles you are going to use to protect yourself!” Stymir raised his right arm, and his mana started radiating a faint aquamarine aura around him, and his hair started hovering.

“That’s right, show me what you got!” Jeremy opened his arms again, with a wide grin.

[ ORIGIN WIND MAGIA ]

Styrmir opened his palm again, with his right behind his left palm projecting a larger magus circle upon it.

The magus circle was right in between Jeremy’s chest and Styrmir’s palm, the stormy winds were coming out of that magus circle, they were far more stronger than before as if a storm had made his to the dungeon,

The wind was grinding stones on the wall into dust, but Stymir was getting grazed by these winds too.

Styrmir pulled his palm back and stepped forward fighting a ridiculous wind pressure the magus circle was gushing out of that circle, even Jeremy’s dug his feet on the floor, to not fly away.

“Naha! Great spell! Let’s see if you could kill me or not!” Jeremy’s exoskeleton started cracking with just the wind pressure,

And Styrmir cracked the ground by setting his foot on the ground, thrusting the palm straight at the magus circle,

Jeremy suddenly stopped smiling and peered at him with his mouth open, “What the fuck are you-”

“DIE!” Styrmir cried out and thrust his palm into the magus circle and broke it,

“You mother-” a huge tornado broke out of it and drilled the torso of Jeremey, making a vast hole in his chest, shredding the whole passage behind him.

“Damn it, it took all of my mana! Guess this will be enough to take him down-” Styrmir started falling with exhaustion,

“Nhehehe…” a chuckle irked Styrmir, and he pushed his hand on the wall, to stand again, his sweat was drenching the floor beneath him, he couldn’t stop puffing out steam,

His head was shaking when he raised his head and saw Jeremy giggling,

“Just kidding!”

The hole in Jeremy’s body started filling up, as his smug was widening looking down at Styrmir,

“Compressing and manipulating the pressure and flow, then releasing it all at once, I never thought wind could be this disastrous, you made a see-through hole in me!

You know my heart got completely minced in that!”

“How…how are you still-” Styrmir leaned on the wall on his shoulder, his eyes were rolling backward, and he could barely hear anything now.

“I must say, you aimed for my heart, after realizing, that I was concentrating my mana on my skull, but you forgot one thing,

The heart is also made up of muscles!

I could create hundreds of them in this single body and place them anywhere!

Naha hahaha! You lost, you idiot!” Jeremy’s whole body started shrinking down, his height turned back to normal, while completely healing himself.

“But, you really did a number on me, this body ain’t recreating muscles at that speed like before! Well now let me end your misery!” Jeremy slowly started walking at Styrmir,

Styrmir fell to his knees, keeping his hand on the wall, and his head started feeling heavy on his neck.

Jeremy grabbed his head and raised his face,

“Hmmm, I saw eyes as you have, these Onix-like eyes, if only you had the white hairs instead of this bizarre blue-colored hair, you could’ve got a nice seat in society!

Tell me, do you have any last wishes?

Or I do have a better option, pledge loyalty to my lord and he will also free you from the limits of this world!”

“Is…my…” Styrmir whispered,

“Is my what?”

“Isn’t my dick big enough to shut you up?” Styrmir smirked,

“You!” And Jeremy pounded his face on the ground, without uttering a single word, he started pummeling him nonstop, his strikes were weaker, but his every punch took Styrmir closer to death.

Slowly all the pain in Styrmir’s body started to go numb and his vision was gradually getting darker.

‘Damn, I lost…

I am sorry Jane,

I am sorry Captain,

I am sorry  Zia, Bisca, Cecelia,

I am sorry Aaris and Melvi,

I was weak and I lost, I am sorry, I wasn’t able to-‘

I closed my eyes,

“What are you doing brat!” With this hoarse voice, I opened my voice and saw a young boy punching quicksand while half-drowned in it. I was standing staring at him in the middle of the forest,

Besides that quicksand, there was an old man with a long stick,

“You should save me instead of hitting me! If this goes on I’ll be completely buried in it!”

“Good for me! I’ll be free from you, as well I won’t have to pay for your burial! Ya hahaha!” The old man chuckled,

“You freaking geezer! Just wait once I get out of this I will kill you!”

“We’ll see about that, looking at your body you only have 7 minutes or so, I am heading to the village, I heard some nomads have the same there, let me check out, is it safe to let them stay here or not!”

“You horndog! I know you are going, hostess bars!” The geezer flinched, the boy was punching in the quicksand continuously.

“Even if I am! What will you do about it!

Well then! See you later!” He raised his step and fell on his face,

“Ah! I fell again, I am getting old, my steps are now pushing the earth instead of going forward!” The geezer laughed,

“You are just a pervert and an idiot!” The boy scowled at him,

“You’re the idiot who didn’t get that!” The old man stood up and walked away…”

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‘Now, I get what he meant by that.’

Suddenly Styrmir grabbed Jeremy’s skull with a vicious grip with his eyes still closed,

“How?”