The energy that eled through Seiji felt different from before. It was hot and untrolled w its way through all parts of his body. None of it mattered to him. The odd sensatio nothing to him. Blood dripped down his arm and it was nothing. Night disappeared from his sight. To his eyes, it seemed a bright and clear sunny afternoon. He could clearly see his ehat he had to kill. No doubt or filled him.

  Seiji disappeared from the sight of the attacker. The thrown sword failed to meet its target. All he saw was several ks of earth tossed up when Seiji moved. A ripple rang out from the man’s feet altering the terrain and darkening his appearance further. g metal ah sounded off behind him. He turned around pnning to find Seiji, but he remained out of sight. Another ch rang further away.

  Beyond the Field, Seiji set down Nerine in a safe spot. Using his torn tunic, he gave her a rushed bao try to stop the bleeding. He turned away staring into the dista the enemy.

  Nerine coughed feeling lightheaded from the blood loss. She didn’t know if she would even live much longer. The sight of Seiji’s bad the blood that covered made her wonder how he remaianding. ‘He should be exhausted… He couldn’t move a moment before…’

  Seiji tightened his hands in preparation. “Don’t move from that spot. I don’t know…how muy reason is left… All I knht now…is that I want to kill him!” The damh cracked around his feet again from the pressure of his legs. “I ’t five… So don’t watch…please…”

  She opened her mouth, but had no words for him. ‘…going so far for a stranger and someohat’s supposed to be an enemy…’ He disappeared from her sight, signaling the start of the new battle. A bloody and savage battle began born of nothing but pure violence.

  Chapter 152 – Blood Soaked Night

  Pounding and g through the shitty ground turning up metal ah telegraphed Seiji’s movements, even with his speed it made him impossible for humao follow. The enemy held up two simple swords waiting for the arrival of Seiji. He baited him iing a clear target for him. A smirk lined his face eagerly anticipating the moment.

  Seiji suddenly appeared with his fist extended already. A percussive bst ripped up the crappy earth outward, throwing away ks. However, the crumbling sound of damal stopped him before reag his target. All that made it through was the force of shit wind from his flying fist. Seiji’s eyes narrowed judging his situation.

  The soldier’s smirk disappeared a little when he realized that blood dripped down his cheek. A cool breeze stung his thin wound. However, the man’s surprise didn’t st for long. His smirk returned with aed hungry appearaurning even darker than before. It made his face seem almost pitch bbsp; “So you’re able to cut me with just the force of wind created by your punbsp; Very iing…”

  After the damal fell away, the man charged forward after Seiji. An arc of shit light flew through the air at Seiji. He dodged a couple of the damn swings, but not all of them. Blood and ash dripped from his minor wounds. It forced him to increase his speed and disappear. However, a damn bst and crash of metal exploded only a short distance away. It sent Seiji reeling backwards.

  He stared up at the colpsing junk of crappy metal. It had little form left from his impabsp; He looked at his hand to find the small cuts on it and blood coating most of his skin. The image fused him. He was certain nothing sharp enough cut him.

  Quickly closing the distahe Atntean bastard brought down his two swords on Seiji’s defending arm. The ons rattled in disappoi. Ash fell down from his arm. Seiji’s arm remained safe. Failure didn’t prevent him from tinuing the onsught of attacks. Wild sshes came in from all dires in numbers impossible for the two the man wielded.

  Seiji’s raged fueled mind didn’t prehend what happeo him. All he managed was to step back with each attad stay mostly unharmed. Burnt edges blew away from the gathering at his feet, but new pieces returned after the attack.

  “I see you’re fused,” the man said between attacks. He smirked as wide as before unfazed by his challenging oppo. “Perhaps you should look at your feet more carefully. The ground which you walk upon is not so simple.”

  Gng down, the truth of the man’s words came out. The soldier’s entire Field lined with the damn swords of all make and type possible or impossible. Everywhere as far as could be seen, swords coated it all ial. The presence of an armory weighed dowmosphere. Like the man’s smirk, the Field felt soaked deeply in the dark pleasures that even the moon refused to refle their bdes.

  Everything was out of sight for Nerih the pain and night making it difficult to see. However, she saw the man that attacked her long enough. It worried her. ‘Who is he? I’ve never seen him before in the barracks. I thought I knew all of the MPs statio the South Gate. And his Field…’ She didn’t uand how someone so powerful could hide withiroops without anyone knowing.

  “Since I have you here… I only grant this privilege to those that I’m about to kill. You take my h you to the grave.”

  Seiji moved to attack the bitch, but an array of swords came up poi his nebsp; It halted his a. “I have no need for your damn name. You’re the ohat’s going to die here.”

  The man’s smirk widened further, pleased to see the defiaill holding. “I’m very gd you still have plenty of fight left in you. It’s quite b taking an easy kill. Otherwise, my skills dull.” He leveled his right hand at Seiji, pointing the bde at his nose. “But in all seriousness, yoing to die. And I always give those I sin the name of the ohat killed them. That and it gets really awkward using generiouns to identify me.”

  Exhausted of patience, Seiji grabbed up a damn sword from the ground and swung it at the man. “Enough talk!” However, his eyes narrowed in fusion to find his hay.

  “Tsk,” remarked the man. All of the bdes around Seiji moved in closer to restrict his movements further. “Really now, you should know better than that. Not all of my swords in my Field are actually real and even if one was I make it disappear before you do any harm with it.” The man pressed his sword’s tip to Seiji’s nose drawing up a thin line of blood. The man held back a ugh while watg his target squirm. “Holy already, the name—“

  Seiji jumped up and grabbed the sword bde by his teeth. He ripped it from the man’s hand, but it disappeared from his mouth a moment ter. In the moment, Seiji spun his leg around knog all of the ons out of the way. He finished by ramming his fist into the damh. A faint fsh of light surfaced just moments before the explosion of earth bcked everything out. Seiji followed up by throwing the ks of earth at the man.

  He jumped forward as a helluva lot of swords tried to e up at him, but earth got in their way. His hand gripped the hunk of earth and smmed it into the man’s fabsp; Seiji railed his arm through crushing the man into his Field of ons. The force from Seiji’s hand pulverized the k into powder leaving the man’s face stained brown. Still holding his hand to the man’s face, Seiji leaned down to speak to him. “I don’t care! I could kill you in an instant, but I’m going to make yret your as with pain before I kill you!” The swords ah bent a little with Seiji applying pressure to the man’s face.

  The man’s eyes flipped an annoyed gre off to something unknown (fihe name’s as, this’ll probably be the st moment of edy in a while, so cherish it…). as focused his vision ba Seiji. Swords drew up taking swings at him. Blood and ash fell around him, but Seiji's stubbornness kept him on top of as. The pressure on his head felt like it was going to smash him in. It actually stole away his smirk when he felt the taste of mortality and the ble of Seiji’s unwillio accept anythihan what he promised as.

  A ring of light rippled through the Field underh as. The smirk returo his face with deadly darkness following it. “You know at the ter my power is at its zenith!” Swords flew in from multiple sides ripping up everything in the way. Blood sprayed across as’ faly worsening his presence.

  No longer held down by Seiji, as stood up. He dusted off his bck leather clothes that pletely covered him. In the night, it made him almost pletely disappear. However, it seemed to be the first time his presence peeled back to be seen. A gnce over at Seiji made his eyebrow lower in disappoi. “I’m a little surprised. You made it out with only taking that much damage. That’s some speed and toughness…even with my first upgrade…”

  Seiji narrowed his features noting the dition of his hand. Ash still fell from his hand c a spot at the ground amongst the bdes. Blood slowly dripped down soaking it crimson. The tips of his right pinkie and ring finger were missing. A normal person in such a situation would scream and perhaps even colpse to the ground. However, Seiji wasn’t a normal person and in his state that took his unusual status to new levels. All he did was ch his fist together and swing unleashing a shockwave of wind at as.

  The swords of his Field erupted up to block the ining attabsp; They shredded to pieces as though they were nothing but the wind. Several more walls of ons rose to dampen the effect to nothing. “That’s a strong fist even at that distanbsp; So you’re a reverse Field type?”

  “I’m the type that’s gonna kick your ass!”

  as smirked at the thought. It made him even more excited to kill Seiji. “Well you are one of the few that has survived my first upgrade. So I’m going to enjoy this part!” Several dozen ons broke from the surface of the Field. as maed two swords in his hands to apany his arsenal. Only his eyes reflected the pale light of the moon, turning his fato one of a demon. “The part where I slice you apart one piece at a time!”

  Fighting a demon didn’t bother Seiji. He felt like one himself. Two demons uhe moo just right to him. ‘He has no remorse or hesitation… I’ll kill him!’ Seiji rammed his fist into the ground hard, breaking the damh and turning it up. Several bdes stuto them. However, two fshes of light appeared in the sb of earth breaking it apart. as appeared oher side of the light.

  He brandished his ons at Seiji and brought ihers to float around them. “My upgraded swords slice through something as soft as earth. Yoing to need something denser if you pn on stopping them.”

  Seiji rammed his fists into two of the pieces of sliced earth. It sent ks of it into the air. He directed it all to go flying at as. However, the damn swords floating around him sliced them all into fine cubes. Seiji didn’t stop as he already held the rgest pie his arms, swinging it like a bat at as.

  The a took as a little by surprise, but his swords responded quickly. They reduced his blunt object to nothing. Yet Seiji charged through hitting all of the swords while they finished. His fist shattered them into a shitty rain of metal shrapnel. Seiji ran through, but found a barrier of swords rising with their bdes aimed at him. Then around behind him, all of the bdes he shattered already reformed and sped towards him.

  as held his smirk witnessing the eventually bloody end of Seiji with all of the ons attag him. He held ready with his swords to begin slig Seiji up at the first moment after his swords strubsp; However, his lips lowered again with disappoi. Seiji disappeared from sight leaving only a trail of blood and ash behind where the swords started their taste.

  His eyes darted around the field deteg the echoes of his field responding to Seiji. It bounced around until it suddenly moved straight for him. Each pounding and crushing quake came closer. “…so stupid…” as mounted all of his swords in front of the ining Seiji and strengthened his Field’s defensive barriers.

  ks of crappy metal flew everywhere in the face of the unstoppable train. Seiji’s movements slowed down to bee visible again, though blurred. His fists wailed ohing that stood before him. Ash and blood flew on the wind behind Seiji as he drew closer to as. His eyes carried the unstoppable will of crushing as. It ed his being.

  All of the swords directed at Seiji. Some of the bdes pierced his body and others shattered. Fshes of light blinked from him. Seiji charged in uerred with shitty swords stig through him. He sent out ah-rending roar bringing up his arm finally in reach of as. All of the muscles in his body tensed, shattering the metal that ran him through and pushed it out. Blood jumped from the wounds, growing Seiji’s iy.

  The sight made as sweat a little i seds. He recovered in time t down his swords against Seiji. Seiji’s fist ran past as only deflected after breaking off as’ sword. It saved as from the full impact, but the wake of the punch still sent him flying away. The Atntean bitch flew through the air and tumbled into the earth amongst his ons.

  A cloud of debris covered up as in his recovery. He slithered back up to his normal stanbsp; Laughter burst from the fading cloud. It didn’t even bother him that the earth shook with the stampeding of Seiji. Freed from the veil, as held his hand over his face with only his mouth visible. His ughter leaked through just as strongly. He narrowed his eyes through the gaps of his fingers before removing it. Impossible as it seemed, his features became even darker than before. “Amazing!”

  Seiji charged forward with nard for the reason for as' ughter. He ran his fist behind him preparing to take out as. I moments, he extended his arm already bsting out wind from the forbsp; His fist ran as through the stomach ripping up his clothes and spraying his damn blood from his mouth. Seiji’s fist exited the back coated in blood. His eyes suddenly flipped to his side with the touch of something on his shoulder.

  as rested his hand on Seiji, standing to his right pletely unscathed. “Making me use my sed upgrade, impressive…but you survive another minute?” The as with a hole in his chest disappeared. Then two swords appeared from below and arced through the air with blinding light.

  Blood sprayed everywhere.

  Seiji’s eyes widened in surprise as his own blood rained across his fabsp; His right arm was cut lengthwise in two parallel lines all the to his shoulder. The wide wound showered blood across the se. Seiji’s shock didn’t allow him to scream or feel the pain.