Burning Soul - Chapter 146

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“That is cheating, does that mean I can go all out! I can, right?

I should!” As Arch spoke it came as a surprise for Aeneas,

“But…

But he was…” He looked surprised.

“Ah!

What did you think? What do you think who’s there behind me?”

Arch walked towards Ersa and pointed her with his vicious eyes. She shook her head sustainably to the statement of Arch while stroking her hairs. Both seemed very much annoyed by the situation.

The schemes which they both planned now and then were failing continuously. Ersa was very disrupted with the performance of Arch because despite possessing 10 times more powerful than his opponent he was not able to gain victory. What can be worse than this?

Besides being a loyal companion of Arch and grasping the circumstances going on, several times a thought came to her mind that it was very strenuous to defeat Aeneas and Arch will probably lose if he didn’t possess any high spiritual powers.

But Ersa was someone who loved to take joy from the sufferings of others. She had zero empathy for what the sufferer is experiencing and gets a perverted thrill in watching something feel pain and die. She viewed sympathy and empathy as a weakness to be exploited. The only people she cared about were herself and her self-interest.

‘This one’s gonna be tough as long as she stands!’ Aeneas looked at her with an irritating look.

Theo on the other hand looked no less worried.

But this time he appeared to be a bit different. His skin colour turned pale, it seemed that it contained no blood. His usually deep brown eyes were now steely grey and they were as wide as plates; he glared at them annoyingly.

Lips had changed their colour to faint black. His face showed fewer expressions. It seemed that his body was not attentive to the circumstances. Nobody there knew that Theo was possessed by some unknown being.

Instead, everyone thought that this appearance of Theo was due to an inadequate supply of diet.

“Arch, use your powers and purge this evil right now!” Ersa looked a bit irritated.

“Yeah! This will be fun!

Full equip, Al-Zoya” Arch enchanted his sword with reinforcement magic, rune magic again!

Once he was done, he took a deep breath and launched a charged attack. With such a tremendous power that shook even the air around him, almost a moment later, from where he jumped, there was a crater.

Taking such a force head-on was a fool thing. Theo, even though he wasn’t sane understood it and made a move.

To counter him he jumped in the air and increased the distance a bit lowering Arch’s brute force, low enough to take a hit. Theo blocked the hit with the sword.

Even though the force was quite low, it was still enough to overwhelm Theodore’s physical abilities.

‘Crack..!’ A sound echoed as they sparred, the crystal sword he was holding had a small bit of it broken off!

‘No way!’ Aeneas was looking at it with disbelief.

Theo stepped back and got back on the ground, “Is that all you got! Huh!

I thought you were better than that crap, I overestimated you. Let’s end your pain right here you monster!” Arch pointed his sword towards Theo and launched himself again.

This time Theo managed to counter him with something different, “Vise-Ha” Another incantation and he went right through Arch burning him to dust.

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It happened so quickly Both Aeneas and Ersa were standing with jaw-dropped expressions.

“Ehhhh!” Aeneas had wide-open eyes as he saw it, but

He knew Ersa was able to revive him.

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Just like before, she brought him back to life, a mass of life appeared out of dust right next to her.

“What the hell was that!

I can’t fight something, I can’t see Ersa, do something!” Arch had an irritated look,

“This sure is troublesome! I’ll bestow Vision upon you for the time being!”

Saying this Ersa Enchanted, “Al-Valaha”

Arch suddenly felt a wave of heavy feeling the moment she enchanted, as if everything got 10 times slower.

He showed a smug face and launched at Theo yet again.

Theo on the other hand used the same spell from before and encountered him in the same way,

“That ain’t gonna work twice!” Arch smiled with a smug look and threw a slash,

“Watch out kid!” Aeneas couldn’t help but look at the scene in disbelief, he was frustrated to be idle, but his strength was sucked out.

The strike was so fast it almost slashed him, dodged it by hair-thin distance.

“Your time has come monster!” Arch moved yet again at fanatical speeds, launching himself at Theo.

Theo dodged yet again and gained a bit of distance.

“What? You feel like dying yet?” Arch pointed his sword at him with a crooked smile.

“Serra-Himari” Theo’s incantation forcibly drew out Himari from the spirit realm, the sword he was meant to keep a secret.

But it looked as if she didn’t want to head out, the sword looked like it was getting engulfed in hellfire as well while the halo turned from golden to pitch black. Himari knew that it wasn’t Theo himself whom she was going to help, instead it was some kind of spirit who possessed his body and mind.

“Arch!” Ersa called out to him softly,

“That being is no ordinary it seems, we must take care of it!”

Archelaus launched another attack, putting more force than before, the time Theo took to draw out the sword allowed him to pile up some strength.

Theo stood without moving,

All this time Ember was suffering Aeneas managed to heal up enough to jump in a fight and land a hit or two.

Though he stayed on guard to look after Ember. She needed him to be there to protect her if anything came up.

‘Damn, Just if someone was here!’

“Si Muse” Theo again spoke something in a spooky voice and stepped forward.

The moment before Arch reached him, the incantation came in effect.

Arch Froze right where he was, in mid-air! Theo walked to him and slashed him in pieces and the incantation ended.

Aeneas couldn’t see what happened as it was the same skill Theo used in the trial to defeat Skadi. The spirit magic Himari was capable of!