Chapter 6 - Duel of Monsters part 2

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In the middle of the totally devastated living room, an overwhelming tension had settled as two powerful mutant beings were preparing for a duel from which only one of them would come out alive. Alcina and the Thanator were only ten meters apart, each looking at the other with the same merciless gaze. The countess prepared her long claws while her enemy, having transformed her forearms into bony blades, rubbed them against each other as if to sharpen them. Her daughters having fled for safety, Alcina could fully concentrate on the fight and was determined to slice this armored jester to ribbons.

The Thanator charged first and its blades collided against Dimitrescu's claws in an explosion of sparks. Eye to eye, the two entered into a struggle of strength, each pressing with all his strength to make the opponent retreat and falter. Suddenly, components of the Thanator's armor, like small transparent pipes on the shoulders, began to inject some sort of strange green liquid into the creature's body. Despite her superhuman strength, Alcina then felt that of her enemy becoming more and more important to the point of starting to overtake her and begin to push her back. So this liquid increased the creature's abilities? Bad news.

But Alcina did not allow herself to be intimidated by this unexpected event and pretended to give up by stepping back, narrowly avoiding a slash from the blade. She grabbed the Thanator by the throat, lifting him off the ground and slamming him on the ground with all her might, shattering the ground and creating a small crater. 

_"I will... make you... understand... what it costs... to challenge me!" growled the Countess, knocking the Thanator's head against the ground several times.

Taking advantage that her adversary was on the ground, Alcina held him down by strangling him, and with her other hand, made her claws appear and brutally gouged out his eyes, causing foul black blood to flow. Alcina continued, wanting to pierce the Thanator's belly with all her might to eviscerate him like an animal, but the claws managing to pass, with difficulty, through the metal of the armor.

Despite taking this damage, the Thanator showed no stamina debuff. With one of his blades, he pierced Alcina in the ribs, making her wince and moan in pain, then pushed her away with a brutal kick in the stomach. Her back banging against the wall, Alcina dropped to one knee, seeing her blood seep from her wound in her right ribs, but saw her regenerative power working and closing the flesh, leaving only bare skin under the torn fabric of the dress. The Thanator rose to his feet, and with dismay, Alcina could see that his eyes had also healed thanks to an accelerated and equally effective healing factor.

_"Oh give me a break..." Alcina breathed annoyed, but being far from having said her last word.

The Thanator activated his gravity control power again on a perimeter around him and specifically targeted the Countess. The ground cracked and creaked violently as the gravitational wave spread, lifting furniture and objects caught in its radius. Alcina grabbed a cupboard and threw it with all her might towards the Thanator, but the gravity wave crushed the cupboard and tore it to pieces before it reached the target. Alcina was then caught in the powerful embrace of the wave, and thrown against a wall, then blocked by the invisible but very real grip of the power of the Thanator who reached out his hand towards her, tightening his fist little by little. Alcina gritted her teeth, trying to resist as she felt the gravitational force tightening around her more and more in an attempt to compress her.


Meanwhile, being the only survivor of his group, Mathias had returned on horseback and at a gallop in the direction of the Dimitrescu castle. Traveling at full speed through the muddy and damp streets between the houses of the abandoned village, carrying with him the man from the helicopter whom he had taken prisoner, Mathias gasped, observing with horror the black smoke rising from the castle, but also the disturbing presence of several other large black helicopters flying over the area.

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