NOVEL NEXT Chapter 89: Am I Impatient
Though Blake couldn't be 100% sure, he felt that unlike Kate who had still been conscious of the things that were happening around her, Rehabab's consciousness had been totally repressed and his fury brought out of him.
Blake believed that for all of Lena's power, there was a limit to how much control she could have over people and he was glad for that as this berserk Rehabab, exchanged control, tactics and precision for power and also unfortunately insane battle instincts.
When Blake brought down his Katana on Rehabab, seeing the man move to defend his attack with his right arm, initially had Blake smirking as he believed that he was about to take an arm, but contrary to his expectations, what the infernal demon instead did was move a step closer to Blake and then used his left ankle to collide with Blake's weapon.
As Rehabab's ankle clashed with Blake's Katana he drove his arm backwards, this move having the tip of Blake's blade slice down his forearm.
This sudden reflexive move surprised Blake, but the worst was yet to come because just as his blade was slicing through the arm of the infernal demon, Blake realized that Rehabab's body was slightly lowered and his heavy sword was on its way to cut him in two.
"Was I impatient?" Blake thought as he realized his desire to quickly take advantage of Rehabab had left him in a position where after his attack was dealt with, he now became vulnerable to the attack of his opponent.
Gritting his teeth, Blake pulled as much mana as he could from his mana core, sending it into his blood and then having his blood burst out from his forearm and create a shield in front of him.
Right from the moment he had evolved, the first thing Blake had sensed about himself was the copious amount of blood in himself but as he created this blood shield, he could feel that he had just drained a significant quantity of it.
"This is far too much blood, but I have no choice," Blake thought.
Right now, Blake's life was on the line and taking it off that line was what was most important.
Without even knowing it, subconsciously Blake implanted his potent desire for an unbreakable shield into the blood as it left him, filling it with as much mana as he could and then a second after it formed, the clash happened.
Still steaming and realizing heat like it was powered by the sun, Rehabab's blade smashed against Blake's shield with a roar from both it and its owner, the roar sending a thunderous sound echoing through the air as the huge weapon turned completely yellow with flickers of fire leaving it.
Still pushing himself off his feet, hoping to be able to flee his position with whatever time the shield had bought him, Blake's skin singed and burnt from just being this close to the heat being released off Rehabab's weapon, the left side of his upper body turning black.
Holding back a hiss, Blake rapidly retreated surprise on his face to see the shield he had created remain firm and stay floating in the air, only starting to boil when he was already well out of the way of the attack.
The surface of the blood shield steamed and hissed and after it let out a bubble, it shattered just like the first one, its pieces being boiled to steam before it could touch the ground.
"Damn it, are those the flames of perdition," Blake asked himself cautiously looking at the spark of fire that came from Rehabab's blade, the deadly heat they gave off made Blake associate them with one of his skills he had inspected.
A frown marred Blake's face as he kept up a steady retreat his eyes leaving Rehabab to the left side of his chest which had turned blistered from being exposed to the heat of Rehabab's sword, but then as Blake stared at the hideous burn, his intuition lit up and following it, he willed the mana in his body, watching as every injury on his body healed before his very eyes within a second.
"But I don't have blood regeneration skill" Blake thought in surprise but then remembering one of the new weirdly graded skills he had gained he quickly checked on it and a portion of his status.
[Vitaliy:1199.9999]
[Vitality sacrifice: What makes Blood unique and universal, making it stand above the strength of the flesh, bone and even the soul, Life.
Blood is vitality and vitality is life, who said the flesh can't survive without the soul. Sacrifice your vitality to perform miracles.]
"Ballsy brag"
To talk about vitality in such grand nature and even put it above the importance of the soul, Blake could not help but wonder if this was the system's thought or that of a blood demon.
Rehabab had told him that he did not have any idea about the nature of demons and Blake had to agree with him.
Though Blake was skeptical about the whole vitality description, he in the end was more fascinated by how little of his vitality he had spent to heal himself, an image of invincibility popping in his head.
Quickly shoring up this information, Blake dismissed the system interface, his interaction with it having lasted less than 5 seconds and then he focused on his hot opponent.
"I really need to focus on this battle" Blake bitterly thought to himself chuckling at his pun.
After destroying Blake's blood shield, Rehabab took a step forward, stomped his right foot onto the ground and Blake seeing this, not even wasting a second sped towards Rehabab and though a small part of his mind warned him about being impatient once more, Blake buried this thought after all whilst yes he might be making a mistake what if it wasn't.
Blake could feel a tremendous amount of mana pooling within Rehabab and knowing the kind of skills this demon had in his arsenal Blake made up his mind to stop whatever technique he was gearing up for.
As Blake approached the infernal creature, he pumped mana into his Katana and covered it with flames and then while he ran he raised his left hand at Rehabab and began rapidly firing fireballs at him, his actions gaining the demon's attention.
Though the intelligent and proud gaze Rehabab had bore before he fell under Lena's control was absent, when the Infernal demon looked at him, Blake could still see the anger and annoyance he felt at his actions and though he was still on high alert, Blake felt a huge relief when he felt the accumulation of mana within Rehabab suddenly stop, a portion of it being dispersed and the rest disappear as a technique was cast.