Chapter 14: War of Thorns Part 12
As the Leader of the Sect stabbed himself, the Counts expression turned from a cool impassive state, to a panicked one.
“These bastards, they actually did it!” Before the Count could say anything else, a pillar of red light sprang from the sky, hitting the center of the macabre signs that were on the ground.
After a few seconds, the lifeless body of the Leader of the Sect began floating, as it opened its eyes and spoke with an inhuman voice.
“It has been a long time, cursed blood!” The voice roared.
“So this time, it’s your turn Titan Olympus!” The Count said as he threw Lance of his back, fixing his hair and cleaning the dust off his clothes.
Soon after this brief introduction, the body of the leader of the sect disintegrated from all of the energy coursing through it. Around the pillar of red light the bodies of those who died, and all the blood and magic from the surrounding areas, began floating upwards into the sky.
“Damn it! I can’t handle Olympus alone!” The Count turned his back to the sky, from which a massive humanoid creature started emerging, and focused on waking up Lance.
“Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!” The Count slapped Lances face numerous times, but he still wouldn’t wake up.
“Haaaah, you leave me no choice, I am going to use my trump card.” The Count said as he inhaled air.
The Count got his face as close to Lances face as he could and with emotion in his breath he screamed the name “Pandora!”.
“Where!?” As if by magic, Lance’s eyes opened wide, searching in every direction to catch a glimpse of Pandora.
“Calm down!” The Count slaps Lance, making him recover from his heightened state of alert, which allowed him to see the Titan Olympus that was now, fully visible and falling towards the ground.
“…That’s new! Is he a friend?” Lance asked, as he got up on his feet.
“Does he look friendly?” The Count asked.
“Nope! It’s also ugly” Lance said.
“That thing, is going to go into a rampage for a whole day, if we don’t stop it here.”
“How bad can it be?” Lance asked half-jokingly.
“Remember the stories of empires X,Y and Z?” The Count asked.
“Yeah, I do.” Lance said with pride of his knowledge.
“Well that thing was the cause of their demise, and it only needed a day to do that.” After hearing the Count’s words, Lance was left speechless.
“I need you to keep it busy for an hour.” The Count said, as Lance was still in awe.
“Me...keep that thing busy...one hour... I may be a resilient guy, but even for me that thing is too much!” Lance was hoping to convince the Count into changing their tactics, but to no avail.
This forced the Count to stare Lance in the eyes as he grabbed him by the clothes.
“Just try! I know I am asking the impossible, but I don’t want any more destruction to befall this land.” The Count said with a bitter sounding voice.
Lance seemed to be moved by this sudden change in attitude, and without saying a word he turned his back on the Count, staring at the giant that was at least 200 meters long landing near them.
“I will keep it down, for as long as you need!” Lance said as he ran towards the giant.
As Lance transformed into a werewolf, half-breed version, he ran with all his might towards the giant made of rock and soil. Little by little increasing his speed until the barrier of air near the speed of sound was broken.
Barely able to control his body, he was heading straight for the Titans left foot, which he planned to use as a break, unleashing all of the inertia he accumulated from his speed to ground the Titan.
As he hit the Titan’s left foot, it was obvious to anybody watching that his first attempt had failed, only managing to shake the leg a little and drawing the Titans attention.
“Hmph, your actions are equal to those of an insect.” The Titan said, as he began getting up.
“Damn it! Not enough speed, more!” Dodging the Titans attempt to grab him, Lance began running again.
Lance continued to run in circles, each time accelerating faster and faster, but each time it had little impact on the solid body of the Titan Olympus.
Annoyed by the constant attacks, the Titan attacked with a fist, which for Lance seemed slow, avoiding the impact he climbed up the hand of the Titan.
“You know I always wanted to try these abilities, but I never found a fitting opponent to test them on.” Lance said as he was nearing the Titans right shoulder.
“If my feet don’t work, then let’s try my claws! Fenrirs Ring.” For a second it looked like Lance had tripped while running, but instead he was spinning while using his claws to leave huge scars in the Titans arm.
For the first time, the Titan Olympus reacted violently, shaking his arm roughly, in an attempt to shake off Lance.
Lance slips and falls on the ground and the Titan followed up with a stomp of his right leg.
“C’mon Lance, I know that much is not enough to bring you down.” Worried, the Count watched closely Lances fight with the Titan.
Moments before the Titans stomp, Lance recovered from his broken bones and prepared himself for the impact.
“If you didn’t like my claws, you will hate what I have prepared for you next! Fenrirs Aurora.” Before he got squashed, his hair started to grow out of control.
STOMP!
The Titans movements stopped immediately after the stomp, below his foot Lance used one of his trump cards to stop the stomp, using his incredible regenerative capabilities, he grew his hair to act as hedgehog spines, protecting him and attacking at the same time.
Having its left foot penetrated by Lances hair, caused pain and an angered response from the Titan, as it grabbed a piece of land and threw it at Lance.
“Fenrirs Claw!” While still under the Titans foot, Lances claws enlarge significantly, allowing him not only to cut the land that was about to hit him, but also the right foot of the Titan.
For the first time, the Titan Olympus falters, kneeling to the ground in a pained way. This allowed the Titan to take a closer look at Lance.
“Cursed Blood, you do not know with whom you are fighting!” The Titan said, with anger in his voice, but Lance seemed unfazed by this.
“All I need to hear from you is an apology for causing all the pain and suffering of the people around these areas.” Lance said with a strong determined voice.
“It’s you, isn’t it? The one who turned all those humans into monstrosities!” Referring to the 1000 Red Coats, Lance could see the Titans face turn from an angered look to a devilish smile.
“Yes, they were indeed my toys.” The Titan replied.
Without the Titan noticing anything, Lance had cut even more of his right leg, making the Titan to cry out in pain.
“HUAAAAAAAA!”
“Oh nice voice, let me show you mine. Fenrirs Roar!”
Stay tuned for the next chapter, it is going to start speeding up to a climatic finale of this saga.
