35 Wonderful Feast Part 2 (1/2)
I don't know how long he had been doing it for, but as I Look back over I could see something strange going on with Otis. His blood is moving it formed into a strange shape straining my eyes trying to get a good look I make out his blood formed into a magic circle.
Unnerved by this I take aim at Otis with my Glock firing every bullet I had at him intending to stop whatever he was doing to no avail. Most of the bullets hit him yet, Otis somehow still clung to life.
The spell activated shooting forth a mass of meaty tendrils that came from I don't know were barreling right at me. With my right leg broken I use my left to support myself as I move out of the way
The meaty mass landed on Clement's body picking him up and tearing him apart, each tendril grabbed a different part twisting and pulling raining down guts and blood on me. Then each tentacle formed a dozen mouths biting off different parts and ate it. The gnawing and crunching sound of bones and the squishing sounds made as Clement's brain was flung and pulverized scared me.
Not wanting to be next I take the few 2 rounds left in my Desert Eagle and shot Otis one bullet hit in his stomach the other one his neck. Seeing that monstrosity finished with his meal and that I'm going to be next I pull out the small Derringer I took from Vincent's body out of my pocket and fired the only enchanted bullet left in the chamber.
The meaty mass lunged at me wanting to eat me luckily it was slower than a bullet. The enchanted bullet tore through Otis splitting him in half and splattering him on the wall the meaty mass was affected by the death of Otis it hissed loudly before toppling over in a wave of blood and meat that covered me.
Everything Otis summoned got sucked into the ground leaving nothing behind not even Clement's body that it ate. Despite me being covered in that monster I found my self clean when it left it was all like a bad dream. That left plenty of evidence lying around to prove it was not.
Alone, at last, I hope myself over to Otis's body to eat his soul since he just died it would be easier for me. As I maneuver around the acid spots hopping on one leg and make my way toward Otis's body to eat his soul I see Otis's soul is far more chaotic than Clement's when he died. I think of a reason then come to a reasonable conclusion it was spell backlash.
The beginner book for magi had a segment on it if a spell is forcibly stopped, fails, or if some attempts a spell beyond what they can handle. They could wind up attached by there own spell, get a headache, suffer internal or external wounds, have parts of there body corrupted morphing into some hideous creature, have there soul damaged, or just outright die.
What you suffer mostly depends on 3 things the strength of the spell, the strength of the magi, and environmental factors. Damage or interference from enemies is included in environmental factors.
In short spell backlash is nothing fun and should be taken seriously Luckily what happened to Otis can't spread to me what he suffered while severe left no kind of side effects that could hurt me.
If something remained I would have to abandon eating this soul which I would hate to do because I'm not the kind of guy who's too high and might to not take something just because it's free or cause someone else could use it more.