Red to onyx, onyx to red go Axel's eyes as he eyes the ambushers left standing. Three of the hooded ambushers waste no time in attacking him with their magic spells. Axel looks at the incoming attacks and calmly says, "Dark magic: Call of the Abyss". Within a millisecond, a blob of darkness forms in front of him and starts spinning in the clockwise direction, thus sucking the spells into it. The blobs then suddenly start spinning in an anti-clockwise direction and Axel says, "Dark magic: Reply of the Abyss". The spells, which had got sucked in, shoot out. But this time, they are coated with a bit of dark magic. The counter attack is so fast that the other ambushers fail to react in time; while the original trio, who had cast the spell, fall to the ground, unconscious.
Axel coats his legs with fire and concentrates the fire to such an extent that it gives him an explosive speed. Simultaneously, he extends his arms out to his side, thus knocking out two of them after hitting their chin. While the ambushers are distracted, I take the opportunity to send my essence at one of them, saying, "Wind magic: Gale Thread" and take control over his body. My puppet starts to panic. I don't waste any more time - I flick my left middle finger and the guy holds another guy in a chokehold.
"H...Hey! W...what are y...you doing?" asks the suffocating guy. The guy I am controlling replies, "I DON'T KNOW! MY BODY IS MOVING ON IT'S OWN!". I flick my left middle finger again to tighten the choke. The guy passes out, and I command my puppet guy to let him go. Suddenly, someone grabs hold of my puppet and knocks him out by hitting his neck. He then throws a knife at me, which I quickly dodge but ends up losing my control of the puppet guy. I swiftly surround my essence on the flying knife to perform the gale thread again and fling the knife back at him. He moves to dodge it. But as soon as the knife comes near his side, I flick my right index finger and the knife, without any delay, changes direction to move perpendicular to the initial direction, and stabs him in the arm. He lets out a painful cry. I rush towards him and after making sure that I have reinforced my legs with essence, I jump and kick him square in his nose.
I look around and I'm shocked to see that Axel has wiped out everyone except the ambusher's leader. Right now, he is glaring at the leader. I have spent so much time with Axel, I can confidently tell that right now, half of his brain is paying attention to the leader and the other half is thinking of numerous possible ways to take him out. The leader shoots sand shards at him and Axel dodges them while capturing stray ones in the black blob hovering about him. Axel coats his legs again and with an explosive speed, he covers the distance between him and his opponent. They engage themselves in hand-to-hand combat- the leader making sure that Axel doesn't touch him. Axel rapidly coats his right arm with fire and concentrates the fire on his finger in such a manner that the flame on his finger is nearly turning blue. He says, "Fire magic: Blaze" and tries to jab his finger to the leader's shoulder. The leader steps back a bit. Axel quickly coats his left hand with dark magic and says, "Dark magic: Erebro Jab!" and jabs sharply at his opponent's gut, thus sending him flying into a tree.
I let out a sigh of relief, assuming that the man has been knocked out. The darkness recedes back into Axel's body. To my surprise, the leader gets up and says, "I must say, the name 'The Black Knight' and 'The Flame Dancer' are fitting for you, O Ashen One!".
"You know, I am not familiar with those names. What happened to the simple title of 'The Phoenix of Dragon-Heart'?" Axel asks sarcastically.
"You do know that with your power, you can make the whole world bow down to you. Why dont you join us?" asks the leader.
"No, thanks", Axel says deadpanned and continues, "Look who is asking! You are barely standing, and you have the guts to ask me to join you".
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Romulus : The Rise Of The Demon
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