My Beginning After the End

Ashber Pt. V

As my body started to change, scales growing all over me, runes appearing on me, my hair changing color, and my power increasing, I started to heal each of them at the same time from here, closing all their wounds, healing as much as I could.

I then activated "Scarlett Eyes" and my eyes became blood shot, allowing me to see and feel movements easier.

I started to build up wind mana again around my body and increased the flow of the blood inside of me, so that I could go even faster than before.

Before I do anything, let's replenish a little mana.

I activated my ring from Wren, absorbed mana at a high rate, then canceled it out as more mana built back up inside of me.

"Okay, who should I help first?" I grinned, excited to fight a Retainer again.

I made the blood flow in me even faster, increasing my speed to its limits, then I vanished.

"Aya." I spoke to Aya, landing next to her. "Lyra, I presume." I faced the red headed, actually okay looking Retainer.

She titled her head at me. "How do you know who I am?" She then shook her head. "It does not matter, thank you for coming to me, this will make capturing you much easier."

"If Agrona wants to capture me, he is going to have to do a little better than this." I vanished before her, swinging the blood sword I had manifested at her body.

The Retainer's eyes widened at my enhanced speed, barely dodging my attack as mana started to be manipulated inside of her, but I disrupted her core, and the spell she wanted to use, didn't come out.

I kept on my attack, shooting my blood sword at the open handed Retainer who obviously wasn't an up close fighter. She was just managing to avoid my attacks, like just managing, a split second sooner, and it would be the end for her.

I stopped my attack as the Retainer backed away from me. "Aya, are you feeling better?" The Lance was jumping on her feet, I had healed her wounds, making it so she could fight on.

"Yeah, I'm good to go still." She responded. "Is Arthur and his bond doing, okay?"

I nodded my head, staring directly into the eyes of the Retainer before me. "Arthur seems to be winning, and Sylvie is holding her own, but does need help." I conjured an ice spear, and shot it at the Retainer, wanting to see this vibration spell that could disrupt the mana in my attack.

I felt it form, and then she shot it at the spear, and it disappeared. "Distance spells don't work on her." Aya said, but I waved her off, knowing that they would.

"You really can disrupt the flow of mana." Lyra looked at me curiously. "So, what my mentor told me was true."

"Oh shit!" I was taken aback, I honestly didn't know that, or just forgot. "You are Cadell's Retainer, that's, that's weird, you're so weak." I was confused a little about that. "Well, after today, Cadell is going to need a new one."

"I also heard you are a little crazy, thinking you can survive three Retainers, tch, you are a child, a mere child." Lyra started to build up mana, but I disrupted her core. "A mere child with the powers that could rival the gods."

"Not yet." I shot at her, swinging my blade, disrupting her core in the process. She managed to dodge my first swing, but I extended the tip of the blood sword like a snake, toward her ankle as my blade came down.

Seeing it, she quickly spun away, and I shot at her, swinging, and swinging, and swinging. Lyra was fast, I see why Aya could not keep up with her, but I was faster. I pushed my blood movement inside of me to its limit, activating "Blood Acceleration" to its fullest potential.