Burning Soul - Chapter 188

“Path to Legend – Confirmed

Individual Theodore has been approved to ascend” It was the voice of the plane.

As the Voice echoed, he was startled by the sudden changes.

The voice continued, “Required expectation met, searching for Artifacts.

None

The attempt failed halfway, Activating skills.

Process halt!”

As the voice was going on, Theo could see Clarke getting close to him though he couldn’t move under the effect of the unknown voice.

“Skills partially activated.” He heard the voice as a surge of information poured into his mind. The skills he never knew were now right there, in his mind but unclear. That is what the voice meant by partial activation.

Though there was one skill, an interesting one.

“Harvester halted due to lack of requirements” The voice faded and the surroundings began to speed up, he had little time to do anything.

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“Unique skill – Awakening”

As he used the skill his body began to transform into some other being, he could feel a different power surging within him and his sense sharpening at a monstrous level.

He became tall, taller than the average man and possessed a strong build. His eyes were a little red and held a certain light in them, nails being grown to a certain length of 5cm. Body colour changed slightly to pale. Veins on the hands and necks were now visible. His appearance even contained two small, sharp horns on his head which were skinny white in colour

This was the power of the bloodline, the awakening skill would trigger the bloodline to mutate the body into its primal form.

In Theo’s case, he didn’t know anything about his bloodline except for the fact that it was ancient.

The energy which was surging within him was so powerful that it was not possible for Theo to maintain his balance at one particular place. He was uninterruptedly moving here and there.

He was only able to see some electrified blue coloured light around him, it was hurting his body because it was the first time when he was surging such powerful energy within him.

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The mutation was quick, the time Clarke took to reach him was longer. His attack landed on something hard, it made a sound as if it hit the blade.

Clarke was confused by the scene before him. There wasn’t the kid from before, but a demon, an actual demon.

The appearance of Theo made Clarke bite back his scream, it chilled his soul, his chest stuttered and for the very first time Clarke’s expressions looked changed; his mouth remained open and eyes widened. He looked panicked, his breath shook. But whatever may be the situation he was not ready to give up and became all ready to fight against a demon who was more powerful than him.

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Theo had mutated into Demon with his hand getting back, his mana was overflowing and the strength he lost was all back.

‘What is this?’ it wasn’t the same malicious feeling from when he had gone berserk but wanted’ too weak too. He felt strength flowing through his body like never before. Though he realised he didn’t have much time.

Using his perception he figured Clarke’s position in that instant, as he had both of his hands, he went on to use them.

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The next moment two crystal blades were storming onto Clarke as he tried to step back. He was in confusion and Theo wanted to make full use of it.

“Do you need any help there?” Milot’s uncle indicated,

‘That’d bad godammit’ Theo understood his situation right away, even though he was stronger his strength had limits both in terms of time and strength. He had to make use of it during the given time.

Judging the consumption of stamina, he figured he could not last any longer than one minute since the skill activated, and he was already 10 seconds in.

Each second counted, he began closing in on Clarke using brute force.

Mid- a fight he realised the skills he learned with Lumiere was more effective with awakening, thus he started using them.

‘Forth skill – Phantom’ Using both the swords he released the phoenix engulfed in the black flames. The skill backed him even more, using the distance Theo used a long-distance stack skill,

As Clarke was backing down Theo caught up to him and slashed down as hard as possible making him hit the ground with a great impact.

Without wasting a moment, he hit him again and again, Clarke was bracing each hit with his blade. Theo had him cornered for over 20 seconds now and he had burned half of his strength.

It had become difficult for Clarke to defend himself from such a strong attack and move of Theo. His all the attempts to attack Theo were in vain, none of them worked on him. The attacks were so powerful that just within 1 min Clarke’s energy was down and it seemed that he was going to be defeated very soon.

Theo kept all the wrongdoings of Clarke in mind and blindly threw all the skills he could to pin him down, it was a desperate moment, and he was doing all in his powers.

His attack had a hidden sub stat, for each strike his attack speed was increasing, it was getting troublesome for Clarke who was on the receiving end. His half remaining mana was depleting quickly as he needed to debuff the attacks.

Even though later the enemy wanted to interfere, Theo was slowly overwhelming Clarke, this battle was in his favour.

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’10 more seconds’ Theo was at his limit and so was Clarke, his wounds no longer healed and his defensive spell was wearing off. Theo’s attacks also affected his hands as they were stiffened and showed no movement for the time.

During all this, Theo was preparing a high tier spell again, a trigger-based spell that’d activate after a certain time. Theo was preparing his ace up sleeves spell.

‘Five seconds’ Each second felt like an eon,

At the moment when he sensed he was almost done, he activated the spell, “Platinum Sabre” He called out for the spell, in that split moment he fused his swords, and a beam of energy began bursting through the tip of the sword.

As he swung his sword vertically, the beam cut through everything in its way, right through the walls of the Ruin down to Clarke.

As the beam descended upon him, he was frozen in place, the kid whom he treated insignificantly was about to end his life.

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The burst was over and so was the time, Theo was thrown back on the ground; back to normal as his skill wore off. The fatigue and wear from using the skill kicked in knocking him out for good. He could barely keep his eyes open. He kept lying on the ground with intense breathing.

‘It’s over’ He had a sense of relief as he saw dust settling next to him, no trace of Clarke.

He knew they weren’t out of danger but he was done for, there was no way he could even lift his finger. The Awakening, even if partial, was a fearsome skill that consumed a ton of stamina, he realised.

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“That was a splendid skill to be honest!” An unfamiliar voice echoed in that hall,

‘No way!’ Theo’s expression went pale as he saw Clarke unscathed just a bit away from where he was, standing with another person,

“I never thought I’d need to trouble my client this way!

Let me repay you right away by cutting his head off.” He glared at Theo while talking to the latter guy.

“There’s no need, after all, he’s a guest.” As he closed in Theo recognised him right away, it was him,

Milot’s younger brother, Eric.