Dark Light

Chapter 39 - Weakling

Crale walks to the door while smirking on his right cheek.

   "The umbrella girl and the puppet user one. Both troublesome magic."

Inside the house, Ellysa is keeping Tanasha on her right side as she knows that Crale is going for them.

    "This is not good… He defeated those three… What should I do…"

Calm down. I'm with you.

Ellysa hears the voice and chills go up on her spine.

    "That voice… I can hear it again… This is…"

Crale is almost at the door until he notices something.

    "This atmosphere…"

The atmosphere being exposed by the house is surprisingly heavy. He covers his whole body with shards and continues walking until an umbrella attacks him.

    "There she is!"

He is being pushed back while shielding himself using his two hands. However, his shards from his two hands  are starting to deteriorate. After a few seconds, the umbrella goes back to Ellysa.

    "Hm? Just you? Do you think you can defeat me on your own? Why don't you take a look at those men at my back?"

Ellysa did not utter anything  and just stood in her position.

    "You think you're strong?" Ellysa says to him as she is provoking him.

Crale smirks and is about to cast a spell.

Shard Magic - 4th Phase: Rain of Shards

Crale flies up above and shoots shards in numerous directions. Ellysa, to defend herself, blocks everything using her umbrella.

    "Do you think you can win against me by just blocking everything up?!"

    "Shut up!"

    "Her umbrella is extremely durable… No magic has ever blocked all of my shards this long. This umbrella…" Crale thinks.

Ellysa uses an umbrella technique and shoots a copy of it. Due to its incredible speed, Crale did not expect it and his left leg was cut.

Crale goes down and sits at the top of a tree.

    "This is not real! This is not true! Impossible! How did she cut my feet! It's covered in shards! I knew it from the beginning! There's something on her umbrella! There's something wrong with it! It feels that… something is living inside the umbrella! Wait-no! But it feels like it!"

Ellysa shouts at him.

    "I told you you're not strong. What a weakling."

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    "You're so weak! How can you even avenge our fallen people!"

Someone said to Crale thirteen years ago.

    "I can do better-"

    "Shut your mouth! You will never be one of the 'Ten Wings of Vengeance' if you are so weak!"

The person who said it to him leaves the room and closes the door. Crale is left at the dark room.

    "We will be forever sealed because of you! Why don't you just die?!" The person shouted at the opposite side of the door.

He puts his two hands on his ears and screams.

    "I'm not weak! I'm not weak! I'm not weak!"

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    "I'm not weak! I'm not weak! I will kill you! I will kill everyone in this world!" Crale shouts as tears flow down to his cheeks.

Shard Magic - 6th Phase: Skyfall

    "I'm not weak! This is the maximum output of my magic! In order to be the best, I must destroy each and everyone one of you!"

Crale sends all of the shards to attack everything inside the forest. However, the tip of the Ellysa's umbrella shines and absorbs all of the shards. Crale is in disbelief and falls down to the tree.

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Flashback, twelve years ago.

  "Ellysa, you are not a weakling. You must believe in yourself. To be honest, you the gifted in this family."

    "That's not true! I'm cursed! I'm weak!" She said as she threw her pillow to her cousin.

    "You will discover yourself, not now but later on. Among everyone in our family, your ability is the most powerful, that's why it is feared. But I know that one day your ability will become someone's light in the dark."

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Do better!

Crale clenches his fists and all of his shards change color into red symbolizing his rage.

    "I will not stop until I kill everyone in this world. Acceptance, revenge, peace…all of those are bullshit."

The shards gather below to assemble and act as his left leg. He stands up and looks at Ellysa's eyes with an emotionless face. He opens his palms to shoot larger and faster shards to Ellysa. Ellysa cannot catch up from its speed and his left cheek is cut.

She cannot believe it and begins to shake a little bit.

    "It's fast… I did not even see it coming…"

Crale raises his right hand and his left hand is pointing towards her.

    "Dammit! I can't duplicate my umbrella after two minutes! I've been duplicating my umbrella for too long! How can I escape from this! It's too fast for me to catch up!" She says to herself.

    "Any last words? No? Then I win. You are the weak one. So pathetic thinking that she's above anyone else. Goodbye."

Ellysa points her umbrella above.

    "It will be better if I'll protect my head! Only my stomach and lungs will be severely injured, at least not my brain!"

Crale begins to shoot it and Axia quickly comes to the scene and deflects all of the shards coming from the front. Meanwhile, all of the shards from the above are successfully blocked by the umbrella.

    "A-Axia!"

Axia is panting due to extreme exhaustion.

    "A-are you…okay…Ellysa?.."

    "Y-yeah.. thank you for saving me here!.."

Crale shouts to them.

    "You! I thought you were dead! I hit your vital organs, I'm sure of it!"

Axia smiles at him and speaks.

    "I will not let myself… die here. After those suffering… I'm no longer a weak person."

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