My Beginning After the End

My Will

"Ehh, this Lesser is putting up a good fight against you, Uto." I started to project illusions all over the blood floor of myself, just looking up at him, not attacking. "Uto." We all spoke as he looked around with a smile. "You have the high ground, but that doesn't matter, cause the fact is, you are going to have to come down to me."

He nodded his head repeatedly. "Is that the truth?" A black spike shot out from the ceiling, and I sent out a blood spike from the ground, the two collided, but the blood spike broke the black one. I pulled the blood back to the ground. "How long can you do that though?" Spikes began to rain down on me, and I dodged each one, trying not to use a lot of mana, knowing that I couldn't do this forever. I canceled the illusion spell for the same reasons, I didn't have time or the mana to distract him like that.

I dodged the last one, and was hit with a sudden presence of blood, coming from a living thing, heading here. I've felt this blood somewhere before, but whose is it?

I spun and looked up at Uto and shot spears of blood up at him. He bobbed and weaved through the spell, and I fell to my knees as a black spear entered my calf. "What the?" I exclaimed, looking at where the spike grew from, it was from the wall behind me, but the spike was so small I couldn't sense it.

I looked up as Uto came flying at me, I quickly raised my arms up, using the blood around me to protect myself, and as Uto slammed his weapon into my shield of blood, the spike in my leg shot through the other end. "Ahh." I wreaked in pain, as the blood I was controlling to repel Uto budged, and he slipped through.

I watched as the smiling Uto slammed his weapon right into my chest, sending me flying into the wall, causing the end of the spike to break off, but it was still in my leg. I created a crater in the wall, that shook the cavern, and Uto flew back up before I could do anything to him.

"You are no match for me, brat, it doesn't matter the amount of blood you have, you are still just a Lesser, and will always be one." I stepped out of the human imprint I left on the wall and spit out blood. I wiped my face and looked down to wear Uto hit me.

Right by my belly button, was a black knife, impaled in me. "Haha." I gripped the handle he made it have, and ripped the blade out of me, then threw it on the ground. "I didn't see that coming." I admitted, he caught me off guard. It hurt to walk, even when I closed the wound, and sent blood to the damaged areas to heal. I bent down and removed the spike tip in my leg and started to heal that as well.

"Your healing abilities are good, of course, you can control blood, so it makes sense." Uto still doesn't think I have a chance, but this fight so far, proved something. I was stronger than Arthur, he got his ass whooped by Uto.

I felt the blood presence get even closer, maybe ten minutes out, it couldn't be Arthur, no one knows we are down here. Even the teams looking for everyone are at the opposite end of the dungeon, fighting mana beast and Alacryan soldiers. It won't matter who it is, if I can kill Uto before they get here.

"Fuck it." I started to push out mana all around me, into all of the blood, I want to win. I want to be the first person to kill a Retainer or Scythe, I want to live, I want this! The blood under me started to move, and it crawled up the walls, onto the ceiling, covering the whole cavern in redness.

"What are you doing?" There were no more shadows for Uto to use, only the ones on his belt, it didn't make him weak, it gave me a better chance to win though. I even blocked off the exits with blood, so he couldn't escape into another dungeon. "Damn you!" He shot a black spike right at my face, I couldn't manipulate the blood, because it would create shadows, so I sidestepped the spear.

"Looks like someone is a little angry." There was blood still circling me, I pushed my hand out at him, and the blood shot out like bullets towards him. His eyes went wide as the bullets spread out, and as he attempted to dodge them, I brought the ones that went past him back to me.