Amir's POV:
"I am Louison, the Fourth Child of Lord Valixiur of the Kingdom Valiré with a demon curse of poison."
"Why are you doing this? Why are you killing people! Why are you devouring our blood!" I uttered.
With all sass, she rested her right arm to her waist, while she was looking at her fingernails in her left hand.
"Simple, We are demons immune to sunlight. The blood, — it's pure and rare, it doubles our potency that no other realms could ever have." Then she slowly turned her seductive eyes at me, licking her red lip.
"Anything else?" I uttered, as I was expecting more answers from her. She smirked at me and switch her posture, arms over her chest.
She deeply sighed.
"The stone. One of my brothers told us that Amodeus was engulfed in a blue crystal-like stone and the lord ordered us to find that stone from that old man and take back our brother..."
"Also, to take away the offspring's life as for sure they will interfere us from doing what we want in this domain..." She said, biting her nails and winking at me, again.
"You're handsome as hell! Wanna join us?..."
"No! Cut it off! I don't want to join your evil doings," I uttered.
Then, she frowned.
"I understand! Also, I can sense an immense mana inside you that could certainly match us well..."
"... You're an offspring, right?!"
I didn't bother to answer her, yet, I slowly raised my hand in a downturn palm and point my finger at her. She slanted her head and just give another wink. I took a deep breath and uttered a magic.
"...Oh?! Light Magic, huh?!"
Then, a short strike of light came out of my finger point and shot Louison...
"What?" uttering, eyes wide open when she vanished right in front of me, the moment the light beam struck her.
Then, I heard a giggle. I turned around and saw her menacingly smiling.
"That was close! Handsome!" She uttered.
"How? How did you able to dodge that speed of magic?" I emitted, clenching my fist.
"I didn't. It was my clone magic!" She said,
Clone Magic? I didn't even hear that kind of magic.
"Clone Magic? How can a demon like you could have magic like that?" I uttered.
"Well, we've been keeping this confidential for a long time but since I do find you attractive, I'll share it with you, but keep this within us, ... "
"... among seven children, four of us have magic. We are once half-bloods. But we rarely utilize it since we used a curse to counter magic..."
"But you, let's take this easy. Magic-to-Magic, ... "
"Clone Magic: Multiple Souls,"
Then, multiple clones of Louison suddenly emerged surrounding me. I gazed turned back and forth.
"I don't want to hurt your pretty face, just guess who's the real one here!" She gently-spoken uttered.
I left no choice but to randomly hit them with my magic. But still, every time that I hit was just a clone of Louison. They keep coming back although I hit them multiple times.
"Come on, handsome! find the real me!" She seductively uttered.
"Stop playing with me!"
While sticking with what I'm doing, random hitting them if ever I got fortunate enough to knock her.
Amir! You should stop, it will drain your mana. Use it correctly, and master the mana instinct.
What? Mana Instinct? How?
Mana-to-Mana reaction. She's using her mana instead of a curse. Now is the chance, all you need to do is to sense her mana around, and stop attacking this sort of magic! it won't work! let your mana react to her mana. Sense it! Feel her presence! Detect her mana.
Okay!
I stopped attacking the clones. I tried to calm my breathing and shut my eyes. Now, I know what this voice is talking about, These clones are just hollow, with no mana, and no energy flowing on them...
"What now, handsome? Why'd you stopped?"
...I have to achieve this mana instinct. If the mana awakening was the result of our exposure to nature's mana which causes body reactions; such as hearing voices from afar, and the awakening of dormant mana inside us, the Mana Breathing which is the total awakening of mana and discovering what type of magic we have. Hence, I deduced that I have to combine them; the breathing and body reaction to its mana.
I did Yogic Breathing and after that, I felt the flow of mana inside me and started to boost my senses to detect her mana.
Mana Instinct! Got ya! She's right behind the tree just on the left side of mine.
Now, let's switch! made me use our second magic!
Okay!
"Light Magic: Laceration of Evil, Solar Flare! " I uttered, then a sudden bright harsh light coming from the sun hit her, hidden behind the tree. Looks like this magic knew who to strike at. It just hit through the hiding lady.
Ahhh!
She cried out. Then jump off and float in the air. She was hit in her shoulder; deep cut, blood dripping on her arm, gazing at me with glaring eyes.
I smirked at her and just shrugged.
"How'd you do that? My clone magic has never been overthrown!" She uttered in annoyance.
"Guess what?! It is!" I said.
The deep cut slowly regenerated
"Let me guess! that clone magic of yours hasn't been used for a long time it only has one attribute, am I right?" I teased. The glare struck me and just arch a smirked.
"Don't test me — "
"I will!"
"Then, let's see what you've got! Taste my curse! This time, I will not go easy on you, " She spoke.
Her porcelain skin suddenly turned into a purplish tone and from a bob cut hair turned into long loose hair, also, sharp claws started to arch.
"Poison Demon Curse: Poison Smog,"
Then, a smog appears, purplish and malodorous, suspended in the air making the area heavier and darker that I can't almost view the surroundings. I covered my nose for I can't sustain the odor that came from the smog.
Amir! Be careful this is poison! The area was suspended by this poison, get away from here!
I nodded. As soon as he said those, I hurriedly backed away from the area where the poisonous smog is, as soon as I get away from it, I saw Louison from above descending towards me arching her claw at me.
Don't let her get too close to you, she had the poison curse! Everything on her is poison!
Okay!
By my reflexes, I somehow manage to dodge her attack, then she ascended after that. She's not that fast compared to the last one that we encounter; Omu Magre. She's coming back, dodge it, again. She kept doing it over and over. I was tired of dodging it so I counter it with a light beam that could hit her.
"Tired already, handsome?" She uttered, then laughs.
"Not yet!" I said,
"Then taste this..."
"Poison Demon Curse: Poison Rose Petals,"
Then suddenly, after she uttered those curses, a heavy cloud emerged mid-air, and instead of a raindrop, rose petals came and started falling from the cloud. I was awed by this curse, this was serene and beautiful. Rose petals started to fall to the ground, I raised my hand in upturned to catch some petals and gaze at them with amazement.
Amir! Don't hold that! It's poisonous! Wake up!
Then, the petals started to liquefy right at my hand and turned into an acid base and heated up. I was flabbergasted. The curse effect lured me from holding it.
Argh!
"Hahaha! See that? My curse lured you from its beauty! Now, taste my poison!"
My hand is burning from the effect of the poison.
I gazed at her and saw her descend and attempt to attack me. It feels like I was freezing from where I stood. She's coming forwards at me.
Amir! Let's switch up, again!
Okay!
After I switched up with him. I didn't realize that I was saved by that attack, I saw myself flying mid-air, leveled Louison right now.
"Oh?! So, you're flying now!"
"Yes, It would be fair for both of us to have an aerial battle, right?!" I said.
"Then let's have it fair and square!"
She flew forward me, arching her claw. As inched closer to me, I was able to dodge her attack at the speed of light. Then, in a split second, I was right behind her now, and with no uncertainty punch her right off its rear. She groaned from that force I did. After that attack of mine, she immediately turned around and did a counterattack by scratching me with her talons, but I was able to dodge it, again. I already have the speed advantage but doing this repeatedly would exhaust my body. I have to think of a move to counter her. I'm now way above her head, she noticed it immediately and lifted her head to gaze at me, and no mercy stomped her face, forcefully, making her fall on the ground. I descended after, she was unconscious, and slowly walked toward her, but then I felt a sudden pain in my hand that was earlier affected by its curse. It is swollen right now, purplish and reddish and I have multiple craters on it.
"My hand!" I uttered,
It's badly infected. If Li could be here so he could heal this. But then I noticed Louison suddenly moved, walked forward, and forcefully stomped multiple times her head making her pinned at the ground and creating a crack in it. She was bathed by her blood. Face almost unknown. Sprawled. Yet, I stopped. For I sense something behind me, I didn't pester to look back, I dodge it like I earlier did, and to my thrill — I saw her standing there facing her sprawling body that I simultaneously stomped. She gazes at me with a menacing smile.
Clone Magic: Total Soul Clone, ...
She uses her magic. This time, another type of magic. I thought it only has one attribute but she kept it hidden from me, she has something up her sleeves. Q
"You're playing smart right now, Louison!" I said, then just arch a smirked at her.
"I should live, I honestly can't beat light magic... from its range, speed, and power..."
"... Light Magic is one the strongest magic in Alvenrass, together with Time, Space, and Dark Magic. Which I bet could counter yours..."
"So, I need to think well for my next action to live and not be dead this early..."
"You're a good one too. That light magic suits you!"
I slowly walked forward to her. She was standing there with arms over her chest. I halted right in front of her. I took a deep sigh.
"Well, let's have a deal..."
I smirked, and her eyebrows arch.
"What?" She said,
"You're scared of my magic, right?..."
She flinched.
"Considering that I'm not at my full potential yet, what more if I am, right?... "
"... I'm gonna let you live right now if you want to. Not unless you want to face your demise right now..."
She's in her usual form and I can see in her eyes that she was threatened. I took a deep sighed.
"... Louison, two choices; leave to live or face your demise."
She grinned.
"That's a good deal, but..."
"...let's have one last shot! If you win, then I'll leave but If I win, you'll help me find that stone, Honey!" She said licking her lower lip and wink at the same time.
This lady here seems catching up on feelings for me or maybe I'm just assuming. But I'm not going easy to get this time. We're both playing each other's game.
"Okay, deal. Let's see what you've got! " I uttered, and smiled.
Then no reluctance gave her an left uppercut punch right at her jaw, since my dominant right hand has been badly acidulated. With that force I built she was knocked down, right after. But I knew that there's something wrong. This girl knocked down in front of me was just her another clone. I used the mana instinct and in an instance, caught her hiding under the ground — just below to where I'm standing. This lady is something else, she's good at using both her magic and curse. I used the solar flare to strike her, I pulled back, right before the solar flare could hit me, also. The magic struck underground with impeccable impact, creating a crater. But then again, peeked over and saw nothing. Her mana was present around, I can sense it, but something peculiar is happening right now —
The real body was not here! The vessel.
What should I do? I can feel her mana but the vessel was not here!
I know, Amir! We're at her domain, now. This lady is strong and clever, we need to be ready for an attack. She's up to something against you!
While her mana was still present around despite the vessel being nowhere, I keep my senses open while awaits for her in case she will attack.
"Stop hiding, Louison!" I uttered.
"I'm not. As I told you, one last shot." She said, giggling.
"Is this still magic? A total soul clone?" I asked. Although I only hear voice right now.
"Yes, it's the limit of my clone magic, the full potential of this magic... "
Full Potential?
"Clone Magic: Infinity Domain of Phantom..."
What should I do?
As I said, we're in her domain now. She controls everything around us, except for you. Those beings we've killed were just hallucinations that she rules.
Then, what should I do to escape her domain?
We can still break it. We can beat her magic...but...
But what?!
From the condition of your body, you couldn't take that amount of mana. It will collapse you. From a type of mage you are — a senior-student level, a young and inexperienced like you would be harder to wield that kind of magic.
What status could I able to wield that kind of magic?
First-Class Mage.
What!? That's three-times higher than my status as a mage right now!
Exactly!
Then abruptly, the area was surrounded by a purplish-colored smog with rose petals synching with the twirling flow of the smog. Then a silhouette of a lady has seen standing surrounded by it.
What's happening?
It's her poison curse. She manage to combined her magic and curse altogether. Indeed, she's smart and much stronger than you in this moment, Amir!
"Poison Demon Curse: Domain of Poison Rose..."
"...Taste your demise!" She shouted.
As she extended her arms and swayed over the vast of poisonous rose petals twirling and synching to the flow of smog up towards me, I didn't flinched, yet, countered it with light beam as I pinpoint it. With the immense heat radiation of the light beam, every toxic petals that passed over it burns and smoothly dissolves. She attempted again, results were the same. She was engulfed by the smog, gone. Felt her mana upwards, as soon as I look up on it, saw her arching an attack on me, dodge it anyways and uttered the solar flare. She lacks time to deviated that flare and struck here, making herself dissolve like paper burned in the blaze. Another mana of her felt underground, no reluctance with fast reflexes pointed as light beam hit her underground. I might be on her domain but it's no escape to the speed of light and the mana instinct, whenever she is, it'll hit her. She wouldn't reached close contact at me.
Made some way for me to escape from her curse, as soon as it is.
The vessel is not yet capable of it!
Do it!
The domain starting compressing as moment goes by, if I couldn't escape from this field and being engulfed by this poison smog and petals, then it would be the end of me. Fact that my right hand was numb and badly affected by the poison earlier, made me more careful to my actions and keeping my instinct intact so that she couldn't get any closer to me.
"Come on, Louison! Why so scared? Why it's all clone? Where's the real you, coward?" I uttered.
"Tired already?" She responded.
I felt her mana just right behind me, this time it's much more stronger than the previous one I fought earlier. This time, it was the real Louison, I saw in my peripheral that she arch upward her right arm and was about to claw me. But, as the light, I took advantage on it, traverse myself in a speed light going on behind her. I saw her flinched as I forcefully grasped the rear of it's head.
"Game over!" I said,
- END.