"Hehehe!" Omu Magre squeaked.
"Welcome to my world!" He added.
Cleb was badly hurt as he was hit multiple times by Omu Magre's tattoo-kineses curse. His newly developed curse was a domain covered with fog made from his black tattoo art all over his body, he was able to manipulate the tattoo-made fog and use it as a weapon to attack its prey inside the domain.
"Oh? Malas! Hindi naabot ng domain curse ko 'yong dalawa niyong kasama, tsk! tsk! tsk!" He said.
Marcus and Cleb were only engulfed inside Omu's domain curse.
"Kayong dalawa na lang ang aking mapupuruhan ngayon! Ha ha ha!" Omu Magre laughs devilishly.
"Well, nandito lang naman kami para patayin kayo! Walang personalan, trabaho lang! Inutusan lang kami ni Lord Val na patayin ang bawat isa sa mga tagapagmana ng kapangyarihan ni Sha Anib. Malas niyo kayo ang mauuna! Ha ha ha!" He added.
Cleb and Marcus were lying on the ground, helpless and incapable of fighting.
"Hmmm...sino kaya ang uunahin ko sa inyong dalawa? Ikaw o ikaw?"
...
Marcus POV:
If that is so...then I'm going to risk it! Let's switch and heal me! I don't care if this limited the use of my magic. Do it!
Okay!
I slowly felt that my wounds were gradually restored. I tried to reach the sword while Omu Magre was busy uttering his words.
"Hmmm...sino kaya ang uunahin ko sa inyong dalawa? Ikaw o ikaw?"
As I reached the sword, I arched and darted it with all my might at Omu Magre. He noticed it right after but was unable to dodge it and pierced right into his chest. Shocked and tensed as he gazed at me.
"Now, look who's talking?!" I said as I slowly stood from the ground.
A menacing smile was pinned on his face. Blood plummeted out of his mouth.
"Himala! Buhay ka pa!" He said.
He raises both of his hands and manipulates the haze as it creates different kinds of weapons, arching forward at me. He launched it at me.
Lady Fire!
Let me do all the work!
This is his domain, he manipulates it and makes it his weapon to attack its prey, even the floor is where I am being placed. But one thing for sure that he couldn't manipulate -- that's me! I avoided those attacks and sprinted, running in circles inside the domain. Those things are following behind me.
"Wala kang matatakasan dito!" He screamed.
"I know!" I said. Then diverted forward him. I wanted to go closer to him and take that sword, but then it flashbacks to me the time that he won against Cleb when he touched those axes and was able to manipulate them. I can only wield my magic with that sword, I'm not proficient enough to use my magic without the sword or by my bare hands. I glanced at both sides and saw those weapon art tattoos coming at me.
"Walang ka takas ngayon!!!"
I thrust my feet with full strength and jumped as high as I could I managed to avoid those things, as they crashed into each other creating a loud booming that blows near him. He took him out of the sword that pierced his chest. I slowly descended after that and umped and before I reached the ground, I arched my fist and punched him with all my strength, from above his head. From that impact of my punch, he kneeled and rocked, threw up some drops of blood, and sprawled becoming unconscious. That probably impacted his brain.
"Deserved!" I said. Then approached Cleb who was still conscious lying on the ground.
"Cleb! Are you okay?" I let out.
He just gave me a thumbs-up. I was relieved when he did that. The haze was slowly vanishing. Then, I saw Amir carrying Li at his back approaching us.
"Marcus! Cleb! Are you okay? Your wounds! " Amir said, with concern in his tone.
"Yeah, we're okay! I healed myself but this limited the use of my magic and it will take longer to restore my magic, but don't worry about it." I said.
"Let's go!" Amir said.
"But what about them? We should kill them!" I let out.
"There's only two of us! We just can't beat them! They're much stronger than us, we need to worry before they wake up!" Amir responded.
"What?" I asked. Confused by what Amir is saying.
"Light said, my power! He said that both of them are still conscious and are much stronger than us at this moment! We have to leave!" Amir answered.
He's right Marcus! We need to leave now! Besides, I lost half of my power because I healed you! We can't just take them down that easily! Probably they've reached their limit of devouring your blood.
After Lady Fire uttered those words, I nodded and agreed.
"Okay, But I can't carry this big guy!" I said.
"Seriously?!" he mumbled. I heard you!
Amir looked at me with dismay, then turned his gaze at Cleb and checked his pulse.
"He's still conscious, crutch him. Support him in walking! Hurry up!" He demanded.
I did what he told me and let Cleb support me by crutching at me.
"Come on! Hurry!" Amir urges as we are distant behind him.
"What?! Can't you see? Cleb is bigger than Li! How can I supposed to piggyback him just like you did from Li?!" I urged. Annoyed by his such demand.
...
"Not so fast!" a sudden utterance was heard behind me. I turned around and the roasted girl was alive despite having burnt.
"Silk Demonic Curse; Silkworm,"
She spat up lots of silks out of her mouth. But it's not just mere silks -- but it merges into one big worm.
"Chase them!" She commanded the worm and hunted after us.
We are distant behind Amir and we can't catch up with him, also, the worms are coming after us, so I decided to divert our path from Amir.
"You're so heavy!" I grumbled. I hid Cleb in shrubs and covered him with dead leaves and grasses so that the silkworm monster couldn't find him. Meanwhile, I headed back to the place to take my sword, I stealthily did it my way so that no one would notice. As soon as I arrived at the place, no one was there, I wasn't that surprised because I somehow trusted Amir's intuitions. I saw my sword on the ground, and as soon as I was to step out of the tree to where I was hiding, Lady Fire stopped me.
Stop!
What is it Lady Fire?
This is a trap! Stay here!
My sword! You know that I can only wield my magic through that sword!
This is a trap! I can still feel them! The silkworm monster might be following Amir. But those two are just near here.
But I insisted. I stepped out from where I was hiding and hurriedly took my sword.
Above us!
As Lady Fire notified me, I looked above and saw Omu Magre diving above me and arching his sharp claw at me. I held my sword swung it laterally and vaulted upward to welcome him with my sword.
"Tattoo Slash..."
"Blaze Cut..."
...
Amir's POV:
"That Marcus!" I let out, he changed direction and never followed us. Yet, that worm monster made from silk was hunting us. Carrying Li slowed down my pace, so I had to think well in this situation.
"Li, I'm sorry! But you're slowing me down." I let out. Put him down and laid him down on the ground, hiding him inside the cavern that I had seen earlier.
I sprinted back outside the cavern to find that silkworm monster that was hunting us and kill it. I kept on looking until I reached an open space. I suddenly heard a rumbling sound underneath, then a hideous monster came out of the ground; a grayish-slimy, silky one-eyed worm monster. I stared at it and saw the girl suddenly arising out of the monster's slimy epidermis, menacingly smiling.
"Hello! Hahaha!" She laughs childishly.
"You're are top-tier evil!" I said.
"Ow!? Should I thank you?!" She responded.
"No! I just want to compliment you...because..."
I smirked, and she raised an eyebrow at me.
"...this is the last time that we'll meet. I will be sad..."
"Sad?" She reacted.
"...Yes, because this will be your last moment living in Alvenrass,"
"What are you saying?!"
"Oh!? I'm saying that --"
I slowly lift my arm and point my finger at her. I suddenly felt the urge to anger at what she did to Li.
"You will be missed..."
Light beam...
In that instant, I blow her monster in one shot and slowly turn into thousands of silks.
She fell under after I killed her monster and no reluctance hit her with another light beam. But she
miraculously able to duck it.
"Lucky..." I let out.
Then she quickly attacks me. But I managed to dodge it as I was able to activate my mana instinct.
"You will be dead!!!" She yelled.
"Silk Demonic Curse; Silk of Death!"
Thousands of sharp silk threads came out of her hair and launched forward at me. I dodged it as quickly as I could but some caught and scraped me.
"You can't escape from me!" She said.
Another sharp silk thread came after me but I matched it with my both solar flare and light beam.
"Huh, you think you can kill us? In your dreams!" I replied.
Then, she halted.
"Hindi naman talaga namin kayo papatayin, eh! We just want our brother back. Amodeus, he was inside that stone! Kung sana binigay niyo na lang sa amin 'yong gusto namin, eh, hindi tayo hahantong sa ganito --"
"Liar! The innocent people that you killed just for blood, what about that, huh? What about the damage that you have caused to our realm?! Your brother killed most of my entire clan and I will never forgive him! Forty years ago and I'll never forget that!" I urge them to resist her stupid reasoning.
"Oh? Kawawa naman. Bakit? Nakasama ba 'yon ang ama at ina mo? kapatid mo? --"
"No, they died fifteen years after that happened, I don't even get to see their face..."
"Ohhh, fifteen years later after sinalakay ni Amodeus at niligtas ni Sha Anib ang kaharian ninyo, the time that you were born! Fifteen years after that deathly battle, and twenty-five years ago now, --"
"Oh! I remember that time!" She uttered delighted.
"What?" I uttered in confusion.
"Yes, that was the time na pinanganak ka at kasabay 'yon ay ang pagpaslang sa mga magulang mo! Ikaw pala 'yon?! OMG!"
"What? You mean they were killed?" I uttered confused. My hands were trembling from that revelation.
She nodded.
"O... -- Oh? Hindi mo alam?!..." She stopped the moment when she realized I didn't know that they killed someone because I only knew that my mother died laboring for me and my father took his own life a day after I was born. She felt excitement and leaped from it.
"Hala ka! Hangal! Hahaha! Hindi mo alam na hindi sila namatay kundi pinatay?! Hahaha!" She said and chuckled childishly.
I was stunned by it, I didn't know what to do at that moment, I was frozen to where I am standing right now. I suddenly mixed emotions; sadness, fear, anger...
"I saw that happened! Dahil nandoon kami sa pagkamatay ng magulang mo --"
"You killed them!" I emitted, as the rage slowly arose.
"No, we just watched, we didn't kill them — none of us Demon Children, but someone did! Well, try mo itanong sa ate mo at sa komadrona...dahil nandun sila noong nangyari ang krimen na 'yon!" She said, then gave a menacing smile.
I unexpectedly felt an intense outrage inside me that I couldn't let this girl get away from me, I wanted to know more about my family, that day they died, I wanted to know more. The sky turns gloomy and the wind blows in coldness as if the surge was about to come. As fast as the light, I attack her with my light beam. She manages to avoid some and others hit her flesh.
"Tell me...everything!!!" I screamed in anger
"I already did! You look for the answer! Hahaha!" She responded.
Silk Demonic Curse; Silk of Death.
Light Magic; Solar Flare.
I flash forward her and give her an uppercut punch. She flew, I jumped over her and kicked her down the ground, the ground trembled because of the impact of that kick, I even got stronger than in my past battle. Still descending when I uttered the Solar Flare and struck her. She was scorched, again. I was down on the ground and approached her.
"You're still alive..."
"...Tell me everything!" I uttered in full command in my tone.
"You..."
I arch my eyebrows at her.
"Are..."
"What?!!!" I yelled in rage.
She just laughs devilishly. I was upset and choked her with one hand while the other one was right at her forehead.
"Then, I guess I will start looking for answers! I will find that murderer and..." I gazed at her and smirked.
"You will be missed," I said. I pointed my finger at her forehead and uttered my magic.
Light beam.
She has vanished from the air. I saw in my own eyes that she broke into pieces and faded away.
I killed one, I killed the first one. I killed a demon child.

Marcus POV:
Above us!
As Lady Fire notified me, I looked above and saw Omu Magre diving above me and arching his sharp claw at me. I held my sword swung it laterally and vaulted upward to welcome him with my sword.
"Tattoo Slash..."
"Blaze Cut..."
...
"How was it? Feeling good?" I said, pinning my sword to the ground. Arms over my chest.
I cut one of Omu Magre's arms after that air battle with him. Blood plunges and splashes over. He snarled at me. I know this guy can regenerate his flesh, I was waiting for it. I am to my advantage right now since we are in our territory abundant in mana and I activated my mana instinct already.
Here it is! The moment I sensed that it started to regenerate, I launched multiple Invisible Flaming Blades, I jumped over him as high as I could and launched a Blaze Cut. He might be able to dodge it by repeatedly doing it, but moving slows down his regeneration. Some of my hits scrape him.
What are you waiting for? Cut the other arm, Marcus!
I know Lady Fire!
As soon as he stumbled on the ground. I speedily ran towards him and pierced my sword at his right arm. He screamed out for that, I stomped over his chest.
"So what now?"
"You will pay for this!" He uttered angrily.
"Okay!" I replied then sliced his arm.
He was armless.
...
Now his head!
I know!
I arch my sword at his forehead and was about to pierce it when he uttered mumbling...
"Tattoo Demonic Curse; Rotten Tattoo Infestation..."
A cut suddenly emerged right on the dominant arm, it was a hideous type of scar; like on the verge of rot, with an unpleasant smell on it. I covered my nose with it.
"Oh? Ano ka ngayon?! Hahaha!" He said, lying on the ground.
I was kneeling right beside him when I took a glance at him, his arms were slowly regenerating. He slowly stood up right in front of me.
You're stupid, Marcus!
You are stupid! You have mana instinct but you didn't tell me!
"How was it? Feeling good?" He said.
"...Gago!" As he attempted to scratch me with his recently formed arm. I was frozen and couldn't move right away...
But then abruptly, a flash of lightning struck at him but he was able to dodge it as he jumped away from me.
What was that?
Then, I suddenly felt a coolness caressing my hand. I glanced at it and saw a lady in a blue cocktail, wearing eyeglasses and in bun hair. I was confused at first, but this lady seemed familiar.
"It's okay, you're safe!" She uttered with calmness in her voice.
I was mesmerized by her beauty. Her siren eyes, small arching lip, and her cold voice were charming.
"You're hurt, but don't worry I'm going to cure you."
"You're a healer?" I asked. I suddenly felt a freezing point of coldness in my wound.
She gazed at me and nodded.
"Yes, I'm a Healer and also a defensive specialist of the team." She answered.
This might be the team that we are looking for. The team patrolling in the mana boundary.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Freia. Freia Hale, I'm a ---"
"Hoy! Ano? Tutulungan niyo ba ako dito?" He shouted.
I turned at him, took my sword, and got up.
"Thank you!" I said.
I run towards Omu Magre, as fast as I can and launch a blaze cut. I jumped over and struck another blaze cut at him.
"Lightning Magic; Thunderbird,"
A bird-like lightning came out of the sky and struck Omu Magre. I glanced at him and saw him floating, standing in a lightning. Omu wasn't able to dodge those three attacks.
"Thanks!" I said, as soon as I dismounted.
"Mamaya kana magpasalamat! Kailangan natin mapatay ang Demon Knight na ito!"
Demon Knight? This ain't Demon Knight!
"Demon Knight? No, it's not!" I said.
"What?"
"Incoming..."
A black slash coming through. We avoided his attacks but then I saw him coming forward to the guy in the yellow jacket
"You! He's coming after you!" I shouted.
Then, an ice-like wall emerges in front of that guy and can protect the guy from the attack of Omu Magre.
"Kidlat! Be careful!" She was utterly concerned.
"Thanks, Freia!"
"We need to take him down, we need to kill him!" I demanded.
"This one is strong!"
"This is by far the strongest Demon Knight we have encountered! He is immune to sunlight this is rare --"
"No, it's not! It's not a Demon Knight --"
"What?" uttered in sync.
"It's a Demon Child of Lord Valixiur, it's Omu Magre; the Seventh Child,"
"A Demon Child?" Freia responded.
"Our team encountered four of them, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh child, Ki Bou said they are stronger than a demon knight and mobs..."
"The only thing that we can beat them is to hit their brain or we cut off his head,"
...
- END.