Chapter 9: Tragic Hangover

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“Schwarz, wait a moment!” Marcus called.

While Sven and Allona hold off the ghost, Marcus activates his EX-Arm.

“Activate, Brazo del Milagro!”

The gloves he was wearing gained armor parts and extended from his hand to his elbow. Marcus puts his large hand on Schwarz’ abdominal area and sends an electric jolt. It tingled Schwarz but the area felt numb afterwards.

“Turn around,” Marcus said.

This time he places his hand on Schwarz’ head. He presses his thumb on the joint area between the head and neck then sends some kind of weak electric signal to his brain.

“I’ve given signals to your brain to temporarily increase the regeneration rate of your injured areas dramatically. The jolt I gave you earlier was a pain-killer. Now go!”

Schwarz wastes no time and runs for the front lines.

“Sven, Allona, give me a boost!”

“You got it!”

“Roger!”

Sven sets up a catapult using the strings and Schwarz leaps onto it; Allona cites another Holy Scripture and some kind of electric field envelopes Schwarz’ pincers. With their helping hand ready, Schwarz propels towards the drunken ghost.

“That’s a nice move you got there! I wanna give that a try some time, too! But for now…” He drinks another shot and the aura enveloping him intensifies!

Schwarz closes in but he barely lands his attack!

“Whoops! You can’t touch me! Do you know why?! Huh?!!!”

After he misses his mark, Schwarz turns around while he was speeding away from the drunken ghost. He goes past two pillars and, with the use of the shadow on his back, he shoots a pair of black tentacles at them. After attaching them, He catapults himself once more and back to the ghost!

“I’m sorry, but I don’t even know your NAME!!!”

“You don’t?”

This time, his attack connects and he manages to put his neck between his pincers! The two continue to shoot across the place and eventually Schwarz crashes his foe on an opposite pillar. The impact made Schwarz’ pincers go straight through it and the ghost was beheaded!

“All right!” Sven rejoice.

“It’s not over yet!” Schwarz goes around the pillar and attempts to finish him off with the orange link’s chain but the headless ghost deflects the stream with his wine bottle.

Right after deflecting Schwarz’ strike, the ghost drinks from the bottle again. Schwarz reacts as well by sending another stream but the ghost quickly regenerated its orange aura once more and the chain was rejected! Schwarz tried to pound him with the pincer but the ghost rolled away and back flipped out of harm’s way.

“Whoa! That’s some crab hands you’ve got there, man! My neck doesn’t feel right for some reason so I don’t ever wanna get guillotined by those,” the ghost that just grew his head back said.

“What is with this drunkard? Schwarz, we need to end this quick! How many hits do we need to take him out?” Sven who was getting anxious asked.

“I only need one shot to his chest but I can’t do it when he still has some aura on him!”

“The attacks we’ve been dealing on him have been constantly reducing the thickness of its aura… You mean we have to keep on attacking it until it loses its aura again?” Hugh asked.

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