Luna Rising

FORTY-THREE

The intense fight continues for the last thirty minutes. There were times when she had me in my blind spot, and I would counterattack twice as hard at her. We were in a deadly battle that was equal in strength. This is not to see who is more substantial but who will die. It's a rise or fall situation.

And the person who will rise will be me.

I know Hexia won't give up killing me. She has that ambition, especially unleashing half of her magic to fight me off. I would have ended her with the power of the Spirit Realm, but that would be too easy. I want to fight off Demir's first elite fighter before encountering others.

I have to make sure to find their weakness, what are their strengths, and the type of magic they can do. My fierce fight with Hexia gave me the answers. Her pet has half of her magic as long the snake is alive. Hexia is invisible.

But that the snake is also her weakness.

She loves that snake and uses her blood and magic to create a monster. She was feeding him all of her anger and hatred toward my parents. Hexia probably kept the thing to hunt my parents. It's like creating an atomic bomb waiting to explode.

Her strength is her anger and hatred for those who had broken her heart. I know men are crazy when broken up from a relationship or one-sided love, but women are psycho. They do extreme and cruel things to people who excessively hurt them.

I wouldn't put myself in her shoes when Dominic hurt me. Leah made sure to create a plot making me the villain. Her evil schemes worked to the point of being killed by none other than the love of my life. But after coming back, I intend to change my fate. Instead of plotting my revenge, I lay low and chill back, then do the work of getting back at people.

That's too much work and annoying.

Hexia releases her magic, forming them into arrows as she shoots them at me. Her attacks forced me to jump backward as I unleashed my own and swung my mother's staff. The light surrounding the team crept closer to her like an arm reaching out. Hexia, too, dodged the attack, but I countered a fox fire at her as it hit hard on her back, burning a few of her clothes through her skin.

She collapses to the ground on her knee and lets out a hiss. Her malice eyes sent my way once I lowered myself only an inch above the ground.

"Foxfire?" Hexia grunts and hold herself. "How is that possible? Foxfire does not affect me! I'm of higher status. I'm considered stronger than most of the demons following Lord Demir. Not even your father can hurt me with his fox fire."

Blue-black flames illuminated my hands until the color changed to a bright white fire that could blind the eyes of those who stared too much at it. "You mean this fire?"

Hexia's eyes grew wide, shocked and confused that I had fused light and dark magic into one creating a new type of magic. I've done some other magic with the two types, but my theory would not work. A combination of inheriting the fox fire from my father and my mother's light magic can create one I call Solar.

I knew demon fox-fire wouldn't work on Hexia because she is more vital than lesser demons. So, while fighting her, I thought of it, and as expected, it worked. Solar had skin through her clothes and burned her skin. Even with her rejuvenating ability, it won't heal.

Because I killed her snake, Hexia is growing weaker by the minute. Even in that state, she still has the energy to fight.

I got to applaud her for being a loyal servant of Demir.

An elite general or not, I will take down every single one of Demir's minions. Since my father focuses on reviving my mother, he can't face his brother.