My sword kept swinging as my body continued to move forwards. I couldn't lose now, or not only would Celeste kill her own father, but even my own mother who would get in the way. I cannot… I cannot simply let her have her way after everything she had done either!
Our weapons clashed once more, as Celeste was gasping for air, her eyes filled with hatred as they looked into my own eyes.
"Why are you so dead set into stopping me from killing that bastard?!" She asked furiously. "I've killed so many people now… Do you think it'll suddenly make a change in my mind if I kill him? Other than feeling happy to have avenged my mother, there won't be any other feeling!!!"
Celeste's shadows gathered around her body, encompassing her physique, and reinforcing it. Using such newfound power, she pounced towards me and attempted to pierce me once more with her spear.
I have to parry this!
Even if I tear down my muscles!
My sword erupted with divine flames out of the blue, as Alice, Naturia, and Ignatius combined their magic power into one and infused it into my sword.
However, although I managed to parry Celeste's spear, my sword was barely hanging on it, gaining dozens more of cracks. At any point now, it might end up shattering.
I gritted my teeth furiously, as my eyes began to flare with flames.
Celeste was almost at her limit too, gritting her teeth angrily.
"Just… give up already!" She said furiously.
"NO! I won't!" I roared even more ferociously, as I suddenly raised my leg and kicked her stomach!
Celeste flew into the airs and then fell into the floor, rolling over. The rain pouring from above the skies covered the entire floor with rainwater. My bloody wounds were being washed away by this water, as I was gasping for air, trying to stand where I was.
I looked at Celeste's eyes, they were filled with frustration.
However, a smirk surged in her lips.
Suddenly, I heard the scream of Furoh behind me, as he forced himself to move, emerging as a mimicry of Pyuku and trying to shield me from Celeste's spear, which used some sort of shadow spell to merge into my own shadows, attempting to pierce my back!
The spear easily pierced through the weakened Furoh, reaching my back and piercing through my spine, lungs, and barely managing to not get into my beating heart.
I fell to my knees, vomiting a mouthful of blood, as I felt like I couldn't breath any longer. My mind was immediately beginning to get buzzy, my thoughts… were fading away.
I heard the scream of my mother in the distance, as she roared furiously against Celeste.
An enormous flash of light emerged from within mother's soul, as the last spirits she wasn't using to fight the surrounding monsters emerged from her soul, attacking Celeste at the same time. A furious lion made of holy light with a beautiful white mane, and a small wolf whose fur seemed to be made of pure gold.
"Familiars…!" Celeste muttered, however, a smile surged in her lips, as she suddenly grabbed a red orb from her pocket, imbuing it with her shadows. "I have already thought about this!"
She threw the red orb into the ground, shattering it and making it explode, generating a large quantity of red smoke that began to weaken the spirits. Celeste melded into this smoke, using shadow magic and what seemed to be the power of True Demons through her artifacts to defeat both of my mother's last spirits.
"Spirits are very weak and delicate creatures…" Celeste said, as she pierced the head of the lion and made it disappear. "Their power often depends in the magic power and mental stability of their masters…"
Suddenly, a phantasmal entity emerged behind her, resembling the silhouette of a demon, but made completely out of black and red fog. Its eyes glowed bright red.
"You're too weak now, Faylen…" Celeste said. "Or should I call you "Holy Elven Priestess"?" Celeste smirked mockingly as she suddenly pointed her hand at me, trying to bring back her spear to her hand.
But it didn't go back to her hand.
Celeste looked back at me in disbelief, I stood up again, barely. And I held into her spear piercing my body with all my strength, without letting it go.
"You're still alive?! This is… there's no way you can still be alive!" She said. "What sort of monster did you gave birth to?!" Celeste looked back at my mother.
"Sylphy…" My mother looked back at me in disbelief.
"There's… a single problem… with your plan, Celeste…" I muttered, looking at her eyes, as my own eyes turned bright red.
[System Modification has been forcefully activated.]
[System Owner]: [Sylph Naturia Bravo]
[Magic Circle]: [Tier 2: Rank 8: Elemental Magic Circle]
[Physique]: [Tier 2: Rank 3: Yggdrasil's Eden Physique]
[Status]: [Curse: Healing Wounds] -> [Curse: Furious Wounds] [Strengthening Venom] -> [Maddening Venom]
[Class]: [Spirit Master]
[Subclass]: [Fire Magic Swordswoman] -> [Undying Berserker]
[Strength]: [150] -> [450]
[Charm]: [-200] -> [-500]
[Subclass]: [Undying Berserker]
A Special Class that can only be unlocked by incredible special conditions. It is capable of channeling all the damage dealt over the user's body and enhance their physical prowess and agility. Each wound increases Physical Strength and Agility based in how lethal they are. The more blood is lost, the stronger the [Berserker Aura] becomes, enhancing the user's body capabilities up to a max of +500%.
Additionally, the user is capable of channeling this agony, pain, and blood into a powerful [Berserker Maddening Charge] that deals +250% Damage and ignores -50% of the Target's Defense only once every 24 hours.
[The Effects of [Undying Berserker] have been activated.]
If I have to use every trick below my sleeve, so be it.