Chapter 135: Blood Frenzy (1/2)

”Stay your ground!” Castor shouted as soon as the illusion broke apart, revealing the charging mass of the enemy.

When compared to the cavalry force Castor's unit clashed initially, the numbers of the enemy only increased. Without counting the losses from the clash before, it wouldn't be a stretch to claim that Castor's force was outnumbered ten to one.

'But those guys don't have me,' Layn thought, spreading the newly found energy across his entire body.

With what was going to happen soon, Layn did not need to treat this little magic he recovered sparingly. Rather than that, the habit of spreading his mana around was aimed at keeping him sane later on, when his blood saber would stuff him beyond what should be his natural limits.

”Stay your ground!” Castor shouted again, repeating his order. Layn glanced at his face. As expected, below the layer of confidence that he as a commander had to display, Castor appeared to already make peace with what the overwhelming disadvantage of numbers dictated for everyone in the plain.

According to all the rules of logic, there was no escaping the inevitable. With just the simple math, the quality of Castor's troops couldn't match the disadvantage of their numbers.

In other words, this nameless plain was where Castor had no other choice but to rest his head along with every single man of his unit.

”I wonder why you didn't sound the retreat,” Layn suddenly spoke up, breaking the formation and approaching the commander without care.

”Go back to your... Or fuck it. You are not one of us, so I can't ask you to risk your life for our cause,” Castor said, quickly changing his initial intent.

”Well, that's not exactly true,” Layn said as a gentle smile appeared on his lips. ”But I don't think we have the time to talk this through right now,” he added as his head turned towards the approaching enemies.

The illusion broke when they were roughly a hundred meters away from Castor's unit. However, while most of them went by foot, their speed wasn't slow at all. And as for now, the clash between the two forces appeared to be inevitable.

”The hell are you talking about?” Castor asked, clearly distracted by Layn's words away from the battle.

”Well, just keep in mind to leave me alone for a day or two once I'm done, okay?” Layn asked, swinging his crimson saber a few times. ”Dang, it doesn't fit that well. Let's try something else,” he said before closing his eyes for a moment.

The next moment, the single blade in his hand suddenly multiplied before dropping to the ground, only to hang on what looked like a chain attached to the back of the original saber.

”That's more like it,” Layn said, glancing towards the approaching enemy once again. They were now only twenty meters away or so. ”Well, it's time to get back to work,” he added before lowering himself on his knees.

Layn jumped forward. Straightening his legs in a single go, he even went as far as to add a little bit of mana to further his lunge. Then, in the middle of the air, Layn took aim and threw one of his sabers forward.

Hit.

The blade slid through the simple armor of the enemy as if it was made from a paper mache. Once it sunk into the man's chest, a cortex seemingly appeared in the middle of the man's body, sucking all the blood he had to offer.

Pull.

Using the mana that the blood saber converted the enemy blood into, Layn rooted the corpse into the ground before pulling on the other saber, instantly appearing beside the corpse.

”Hello everyone,” he said with a huge smile on his face, kicking the dried-out corpse away to free his weapon. Layn swung his right hand to the side, depriving two more people of their heads.

The surge of mana in Layn's system followed, bringing him back to the average amount of energy he would keep on a daily basis.

The blood weapons were insanely taxing to get invoked. Many of the weaker mages would easily succumb to the burden before actually managing to pay the price of invoking them. By itself, the weapons weren't all that strong either.

In the end, there was only a single reason why anyone would bother to use this forbidden spell.