The Third Party - Chapter 40

Ken’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

What are these twisted humanoid creatures, monsters, doing. Who am I kidding, will my question be answered if I stay here? Then again if I engage now, wouldn’t that just alert them of my presence.

Maybe I should have taken some information from the previous one, but that would be unlikely, I’ll get wounded if we had delayed its death, hmmm… Meh, guess I’ll just have to wait.

I wonder if the others studied the corpse earlier, I’ll try contacting them. ‘Arcane Magic: Telekinesis, Telepathic Connection.’ Hmmm, it’s taking a long time to connect, well the distance is pretty far out so, it would likely be this way.

This is a spell that I have already applied, it’s like a system that connects all eleven of us telepathically, allowing each one of us to send messages through the connection. Should I add the concept of translucent connection?

‘You’re putting more monitoring spell or skill on them? Can you at least give them some privacy?’ -White-

‘Oh, is this inappropriate? It is, is it?’ I reply.

‘Of course, if only those kids know about this, I’m sure they’d react in so many ways than one.’ -White-

‘Ah, hehe, you’re- (!).’

‘Ken?’ The connection’s online, and it’s Allen who responded.

‘Allen, has anyone of you tried to check on the corpse of that humanoid creature?’ I ask.

‘Yeah, Icarus checked on it.’ He replied. If you’re wondering how we’re communicating, through our head, we’re just staying still, concentrating, okay that’s just nonsense, anyway.

‘Did he gain any intel?’ I ask.

‘I think he did, connect with him.’ He said.

‘Okay-‘ UGH!!! What was that?! Damn! It severed my connection with Allen, ‘huh?’ I look up at the sky, and it’s now the color again of dark and red, but this time, bloody red, the features looks to be clearer, I think this is a barrier.

Wait gotta figure out if they noticed me, I looked at the nine, ugh, they’re channeling a spell, except for one, it’s just standing there, looking at the rest. Phew, good thing none of them noticed me, my flight spell is still active though.

How is that possible when my communication spell got dispelled and not my flight spell? Strange, let me try any transmuting spell. ‘Wind Magic: Surveillance Sweep.’ Something’s wrong.

UGH! Red lightning electrocuted me, *GASP* Blasted, that surprised me! Luckily it didn’t really damage me much, now to- KYA! A dark blast passed me by.

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“MUST YOU BLAST SO MANY DARK ENERGIES!!!” I shout at the one who was just observing his comrades chanting.

“Who are you?” It talks?! ‘Illusion Magic: Invisibility’ How did it know that I’m here, isn’t my concept applicable to those that I focus on?

“Come out and fight, or are you a coward.” Oh yeah, and then get myself killed? No thank you.

‘Fire Magic: Fire Blast.’ I chanted exploding the area around him, I flew up to give myself some distance. What?! He didn’t get hurt? Wait, is this a he or a she? Anyway, it’s staring at me, What?! Are you kidding me? This one still sees me?

“You’re tricks won’t work on me, so give up, it’s pointless to fight.” it said. But I’m invisible, how, okay never mind, I don’t need to wonder about this anymore, I just need to fight this creature and be done with it, but I’m not gonna dispel concept or illusion.

“Oh, I’ll still fight you, Water Magic: Tidal Surge!” a magic circle appeared behind me, and summoned water that passed below me towards it, as water blades formed inside rushing together with the water, some water blades flew out of the water and soared the sky.

There were dozens of water blades surging and flying, the wave hit the creature smack down along with the blades, the water dispersed, but they’re still unscathed, awwwwwwww, no fair. I flew to the right to avoid any assault, and sure enough, a dark explosion occurred seconds where I was.

“You’re efforts are futile, surrender.” it said, a surge of darkness energy blasted from him everywhere -I’m just gonna refer to this guy as a him- and hit me, pushing me back a little, I braced myself from the impact.

“There you are.” shoot my cloaking spell is gone, and I’m falling ‘Momentum Magic: Flight!’ I pushed myself back onto the air.

“Don’t care!” I said childishly. “Earth Magic: Earth Spikes!” I casted, as spikes protruded on their location. I flew to the left this time, damn, it flies too!!!

“Like I said, it’s futile.” He said.

“Yeah, yeah, still I’m not gonna let you destroy this forest. Wind Magic: Scythe Cut!” a crescent shaped wind blade flew towards the guy.

(Blink)

Huh? Where’d he- UGH!!! He went behind me and, he struck me with… his fist or magic? Gotta make some distance. ‘Arcane Magic: Blink Zone’ (Blinks) Huh? The distance is very small! Gotta Fly!!!

“You can still move? Interesting.” He said, clenching his fist, he dashed to me suddenly catching me off guard and punched my stomach.

“PWUA!” I vomited blood. I blinked myself at his back and ‘Fire Magic: Explosion!’ struck with both my scythe and magic, sending us both on the opposite direction.

“A foolish move, have you not learned from your lesson already that I don’t get hurt from measly spells.” He said.

“Figured as much, but I’m gonna do it anyway, Ice Magic: Broken Frost!” I casted, a sky blue magic circle appeared below him and encased him in ice, making him fall to the ground,

Even though this spell was supposed to be for incapacitated opponents or inanimate objects for that.

I need to figure out how to breach his defenses, until then, I’ll have to bombard him with dozens of spells.

‘Wouldn’t you run out of mana if that’s the case?’ -White-

‘Not to worry, while you were away on scouting missions, I had experimented on my mana capacity, and it turns out, I don’t run out of mana if I use elemental spells if I have my scythe.’ I said.

‘Then what about other categories of spells.’ -White-

‘Everything but my moon magic are unable to deplete my mana.’ I reply. ‘And another thing, my mana gets depleted if I use an average of over twenty moon spells.’

‘Mm, I understand.’ -White-

The conversation happened within nanoseconds, I flew to make more distance as to not stand within range of any of his abilities. I near the edge of this barrier and touch it with my hands. I retract it immediately as I felt its energies trying to harm me.

*BAM!*

The ice got broken, I turn around and held out my left hand in a pointed position, my right hand holding my scythe. “Fire Magic: Stardust Blaze!” ‘Arcane Magic: Manual Input.’ a small ball of fire flew to him just as he flew up in the air making him stop in his tracks, looking confused at the small thing.

‘Detonate.’ The ball of fire exploded in a cone shape towards him, sending him flying to the other end of the barrier, and collided with it. He’s a little bit far away as I can see some of his features from here.

“Entertain me more!” he shouted, and dashed again towards me. Not this time. Hmmm, I should turn ‘Manual Input’ into a passive skill, so that I don’t need to chant it out to take effect.

“Water Magic: Bouncing Bubbles!” twenty blue magic circles appeared around me and conjured a two meter radius bubble, this spell makes all incoming physical object to bounce back twice the force, can be attacked thrice in a row before popping, I wonder how he’ll fare with this.

“YAH!” he punched the bubble in front of him making it pop with a loud sound propelling him backwards twice the speed he dashed towards me, the shockwave also nudged me backwards, but damn, my bubbles got popped in one punch by this guy?

Just what kind of power does he possess? He kept on repeating the process of dashing towards me and attempted to hit me, but he still gets bounced back, making him plunge to the earth creating cracks, or colliding with the barrier, *chuckle* this is almost looking to be fun.

And with every other angle he tried to hit me, I’d move the bubble in its place, *POP* *POP* *POP* *POP* Huh? Four of my bubbles popped simultaneously?! Leaving me with one bubble.

“You’re spells were actually easy to evade.” He said, is that a mocking tone I hear?

“You only figured that out now? Aw, cute.” I said, his energies spiked, is he angry now?

“Doesn’t matter, you’re defenseless now.” He said, uhh, how is that even… Ugh, what’s the word? Okay, nevermind, I forgot.

“Really now? Then why are you not attacking?” I said mockingly, HAHA! Have a taste of my sassiness. Can we consider sass as a flavor?

“You’re attitude is very disrespectful, no matter, it will be your end today.” He said and dashed towards me again, I positioned the bubble in front of me to defend against his attack, but on the last second he moved out of the way to… Ahh, he’s behind me.

I smirked at him, think you could blind sidedly beat me honey? Well you’re wrong, in a split second I switched myself with the bubble using blink zone, making him collide with the bubble, this time the bubble was in close proximity of his body because I’d pushed the bubble a little bit just as he was about to punch.

I made a wink and a blow kiss making his features twist in anger even more as he collided with the bubble sending him flying backwards and colliding with the barrier, and making him bounce back towards my direction, I simply blink on his back to avoid colliding with him.

*BANG*

Oooh, that must have hurt colliding with the barrier for the second time. Lovely, the interaction happened within seconds and I’m scot free. I turn around and as expected he’s rushing towards me again in anger, and increased speed. I flew upwards to escape.

“Enchant Magic: SPEED AND STRENGTH!!!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, joyous at the stupid interaction with that twisted creature, I zoom around the barrier with him hot in my tail.

“Lightning Magic: Lightning Bolt!” I casted without looking back to zone him out, and just as he did, he flew to the side as I flung spell after spell of ‘lightning bolts’ making dozens of burnt ground with the spells I casted near him.

I flew towards the cover of the trees and he followed suit. I smirked mischievously and showed him my smile, effectively weirding and further angering him out.

“Earth Magic: Earth Pillars.” earth pillar bursted forth from the ground obstructing his path, he sidestepped and I made another pop up just as he flew to the side to pursue me, and then another and another.

I kept laughing as the many other times he went on and collided with some of the pillars still chasing me.

*BANG!!!*

Oh, he broke the pillar I conjured.

(BLINK)

Huh? Where’d he-

“This is your end!!!” he shouted beside me, I turn my left eye to look at him and smirked again. I blink away to his previous location avoiding the dark beam that he casted on his fingertips, thankfully the beam didn’t pass on his previous location.

“Uh, no, I still want to live and go on adventures with my friends, oh but how are you going to kill me when you can’t catch me.” I said at his side, still in a mocking tone, he looked incredibly pissed some more and-

“RAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRR.” I covered my ears from the burst of sound, what is that, a lion’s roar? Cause it’s not so aesthetic.

More dark energies gathered towards him making him look more hideou- oh wait, actually, he looks a lot more distinct with a black armor and a cape and, is that a sword? But his face is not covered with a helmet, and it’s still twisted.

“You make a mockery of my powers, I’ll show you what demons can do to you!!!” he shouted. “Demon Magic: Agony Blade!” he casted, making the sword he was holding glow red, pointed it to me, and fired out a dark red energy beam.

*BLINK*

“Too slow!” I shouted just as the beam passed my previous position and made a direct hit on the other eight twisted humanoid creatures who were still casting. The smoke dispersed and all eight were knocked unconscious with wounds all over their body.

The barriers slowly fading out too, I look back at my opponent and sure enough, his mouth was agape at the destruction he had done. I blinked at his back, positioned my scythe on his neck in his stunned state.

“Surrender, and this will be a swift death.” I said. There was a pause.

“You cannot kill me, your puny magic cannot compare to the power I hold.” He said and blinked away still on mid-air.

“Oh yeah, then perhaps this does. Light Moon Magic: Life Moon Form.” Moonlight descended upon my figure equipping me with a robe of white with black lines on the edges, the outfit was very quite mobile despite being a robe as it closely resembles noble attires.

Don’t ask me what kind of attire, for I do not know what it’s called nor do I want to know what it’s called, minus all the frills on the arms and chest. I know that my eyes is glowing silver with a black dot as the iris since I had checked this form years ago, and my hair is white too. And white skin color.

Another thing, the robe fits with a white trench coat! (says in a singsong voice).

“Light Moon Magic: Light Beams.” twelve small silver magic circles formed around me in a circle all aiming at this creature. I pointed my scythe at him as all light beams shot at him, this time damaging him.

“Wha- How is that possible?!” he shouted.

“Don’t know, don’t care. Light Beam!” He dodged all twelve and rushed towards me, I teleported away to not get caught, and he kept chasing me, I just kept teleporting and unleashing beams after beams.

I’m actually kidding, I haven’t really tested out the firepower of my moon powers. ‘Arcane Magic: Manual Input’, I’m afraid my mana will run out faster than planned if I don’t use moon spells wisely, might as well put some homing mechanism on this one.

“Light Beams!” I casted, four light beams shot forth from the magic circle but this time twice smaller in size as the previous one, he dodged while still chasing me, but the beams went and chased him.

He noticed the beams gaining in on him and blinked away, but the beams still targeted him, he blinked just almost everywhere to avoid getting hit, leaving me to rest on mid-air just watching the five flying around.

“AGH!” finally, one managed to pass through, hit him rather, but it was only one and the rest three are still chasing him down.

“How is this power so strong!” he said, while clutching his right arm with a gaping hole almost taking the arm apart. Well coupled with the fact that I enhanced its size to be smaller but concentrated, then voila you have this result.

“You will pay for this!” he shouted.

“Yeah (drags the word), unlikely.” I replied, smirking.

“Let’s see how well you fair against’ your power.” He said. What’s he on about? He conjured a dark red energy ball and shot it towards me, I dodged with ease and by the time I looked back, he wasn’t there anymore.

“Die!” he said. He’s at my back again?

“Like I said, Unlikely.” I swing my scythe towards him but he blinked again, leaving with me the three light beams from earlier. Oh shoot.

*BAM!*

(Smoke rose from the collision)

“MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what did I say, it’s futile to resist, and you even fell from your own power, pathetic.” He said, that cackle’s so overrated. My magic circles are gone, curse you for making me dispel them, they were so pretty at my side.

‘Really?’ -White-

Yes, really.

“Who you calling pathetic idiot?” I said, and dusted of the dirt on my clothes since I fell on the ground. “You know, everyone should always check up on their opponent if they’re incapacitated or not, or dead, and this is where you lot lack the most.”

He stared shocked at me, then his face quickly twisted to more anger. Is that even a phrase? Better yet, is that sentence even valid? Before he could shout -which he was going to-, react or blink somewhere else, I blinked at his back, and did my initial position of my scythe on his neck.

“Light Moon Magic: Fluttering Light Scythe.” I performed sixteen slashes on him and with each slash, the power of the moon would strike him also, the outcome rendered him to a beaten flesh he once where.

“Deactivate Life Moon form.” My clothes returned to normal and the glow disappeared. I look at the dead creature and stabbed him with the tip of my blade, shook him to make sure that he really was dead, now that is how you make sure you have dealt with your adversaries.

“GRRRRRR!” Ah, they’re here, I turn around and the eight other twisted humanoid creatures are staring at me angrily, probably from the death of their leader.

“You guys were late from the party, but no matter, I’ll deal with you lot right here right now.” I made my scythe float in front of me as I did a meditating position in the air my left hand over my right, a black silvery magic circle appeared below.

I can feel the dark moon’s power, and I’m pretty sure my eyes are covered in black with a small white dot as the iris. ‘Dark Moon Magic: Death Moon Form.’ The transformation completed, as my hair turned pitch black with the image of glittering stars.

My outfit turned into an armor of black with white linings, but I’m not wearing any helmet. Now that I’m here might as well show them my other form.

“Death and wither, come join me, breath be hindered, come besiege me. Dark Moon Magic: Dark Phase.” everything turned dark hindering anyone’s sight in the area, and a single light shined upon me, as dark shadowy tendrils burst forth from the magic circle.

The tendrils turned into chains that tangled the other eight lifted them into the air, slowly tightening its grip, with a gesture of my right hand overlapping the other caused my scythe to turn upside down and finish the eight as the chains tightened even more and ended their lives.

Nope, there were no blood gushing out of their body, just their screams, but their power seems to be fading.

“Deactivate Dark Moon Form.” everything turned back to normal again, coupled with dead bodies, I approached each one and did the same as I did on their leader, and upon close inspection, confirmed that the rest are dead.

Hmmmm, Flin told me that they’re a collective clump of negative thoughts, what happens to the bodies till then? My answer came in the form of the bodies turning to ashes moments later, but their leader took quite a while to turn into ashes and fade into the air.

I wonder why it had the ability to talk, maybe because it was a high ranking one, but it looks to have the same body constitution as the others, hmmmmm… ooh gotta check out on the gate first. I flew to the place where the gate was, and there I see and feel that the energies around are turning unstable.

Just as I landed on the ground, the gate collapsed in on itself, sucking in all the dark energies everywhere, I could even see the other eight’s ashes suck into the quickly collapsing gate along with their slowly dissolving leader.

Eeehh, I don’t even wanna say how gross it looked with all the parts clear in broad daylight. I used my scythe to lever myself on the land and not get sucked in, finally the gate imploded leaving behind the destruction of its wake.

I walked towards the dull lifeless looking area the gate was at, knelt down, and felt the area. It’s almost devoid of life and mana world, thankfully, I came prepared -again-.

“Nature Magic: Forest Blessing.” A green magic circle with a radius of fifty meters appeared below me and slowly and surely, filled back the space with life and world mana. Okay done, now to wait for my friends.

“Deactivate Concept of Concealed Presence.” I look at myself at the water mirror I conjured and pretty sure the distortions subsided. Man that spell took a lot in me.

‘Yeah, out of all the elemental spells you have, this one takes a ton of your mana.’ -White-

‘Yeah, I agree, remind me again why I wanted this spell?’ I ask.

‘Because you wanted to recycle spent energy and use mana to breathe life into the land.’ -White-

‘Yeah, uwaaahh, you’re spherical shape is so cute White I could just squish you right now.’ I say groggily and made grabby hands at White floating by my side.

I giggled some more. Should I grab him, or not? Does he have a physical form aside from being a ball of white… light.

‘*chuckle* You look like you’re intoxicated.’ -White-

‘I do?’ I ask.

‘Yeah, you’re swaying.’ -White-

“*YAWN* I’m so sleepy.” before I knew it, my body was laying on the grassy field. Take care of me White.

‘Okay.’ -White-

Fluffy.

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