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My mother was too tired, this barrier she made is probably the only thing she can make right now. I'll step out of it and quickly fight that woman and her two other friends and get over this. I don't really have any time to hesitate.
I know my mother is stubborn, so she won't simply give up a life in front of her. Like this, she'll end up killing herself if she fights in her current state. The baby is already making too many contractions inside, causing her a lot of pain, and weakening her whole magic power as a result. And that's without even including everything she had done since this hell started.
I have to take her down, even as weakened as I feel. Thanks to Naturia's support and the Leaves of Life I've created over the past week, I think I can handle this, even if I end up getting cornered, I also got my Familiars. Furoh is as good as new after eating a Leaf of Life, and the Spirits recovered their exhaustion quickly by feeding on my Mana.
"Sylphy! Wait! Don't go!" My mother tried to stop me.
"I have to take care of this or we won't be able to do anything. Or do you want to give her that man?" I asked.
"Ah…" My mother looked at the unconscious man in the floor, her face filled with doubts. "If that means they'll leave and you won't die, then yeah… I can just give it to them if that's all they want…"
"Mom…" I looked back at my mom for a few seconds, I hesitated, but at the end, I kept moving forward.
"No… I have a beef against this woman." I said. "They're also the ones behind this. We'll beat them down not just because they want that idiot, but because they're the culprits behind this… It's more than just giving them or not a piece of shit."
"Hmph… I guess there were never space for negotiations here then." Said the woman, looking at me. I could notice her sharp red eyes across the holes of her new mask.
In a second, I jumped into action, jumping away from my mother's barrier and immediately starting with an explosion, concentrating a thousand of Embers into the palm of my hand and unleashing three consecutively [Fire Walls] directed towards her and her two lackeys.
FLUOOOSH!
The flames immediately were summoned. One Fire Wall impacted her directly, as she quickly stepped back and gritted her teeth. The other Fire Walls immediately stopped her two allies from attacking me from left and right, as I decided to take them down first before the main dish.
"Furoh!"
"Got it!"
Without hesitating, Furoh shapeshifted his body as a complete copy of that woman, suddenly startling the one that came from my right after having evaded the Fire Wall.
"What the…?!"
"HAHH!"
BAAM!
Furoh roared, as he shapeshifted half of his body into an enormous fist made up of many tentacles, punching the man into the ground.
"Uuggh…!"
His mask shattered with ease, as blood began coming out of his mouth. I could leave him alive for later interrogation, but I couldn't care less. This was the first time I was taking the life of another person, but I didn't even doubt for a second. I had done it before in my previous life anyways.
With a single swing of my blade, his head rolled through the ground almost painlessly, as the flames immediately began to consume his entire body. The cloak began to burn a lot but was never turning into ashes, it was an incredibly resilient material.
"Killing without hesitation… I think I underestimated you."
The blue-haired woman immediately reached me by rushing straight towards me without any sneaky trick, infusing shadows and darkness coming out of her aura into her entire body and then pointing her Cursed Spear towards me, as it flew around like an arrow, reaching my chest.
CLAAASH!
I swung my sword horizontally, parrying the spear as it was thrown several meters away with ease. It was way too light weighted, making it very easy to intercept and throw it away, even though it was incredibly sharp, chipping away the blade of my sword, which was no longer transformed like before. I noticed the blade also had many cracks, the battle against Lilith really chipped away the durability of my weapon.
"You damn kid! I'll avenge Ernest!"
Suddenly, the voice of a young woman reached my back, as another cloaked person reached me, the second of the two lackeys. Apparently the one I killed was named Ernest.
"Just as you said, this world is a battlefield… If you don't want to die, then don't fight me!" I roared back, without any doubt, even when my blood and my hands were covered in the blood of another person I just beheaded. I immediately reacted to her attack using her two daggers as I unleashed several consecutive blazing slashes using my sword.
I called this… Blazing Blade Dance!
FLUOOOSSH!
Flames quickly erupted from every area of my body as I began moving around as if I were dancing, each sword attack was a self-contained technique of its own which I merged together into a devastating continuous onslaught.
Before her blue-haired friend could come to save her ass, I quickly kicked her in the chest, making her lose balance. She was strong, but thanks to the many buffs of mother's spells, my spirits merging their power with me, and my own stat restructuration, which I just did right now, I was vastly stronger.
I jumped towards her as she was in the floor, her mask was shattered, and her face revealed a young girl of roughly 16 years of age, her face scared of my presence, even though I was way younger.
For a moment I flinched, seeing her face made it slightly different to my own consciousness, but that was a moment she used, suddenly jumping towards me, and grasping my leg, her entire body began glowing bright red.
"Don't tell me…!"
"I'll take you down with me!!!"
BOOOOMMMM!!!
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