Chapter 75: Maddening (1/2)
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”Ray Of Enfeeblement.”
Rekaz raised his shield up in an attempt to block the ray of dark energy that came at him before he had a chance to react. However, his shield did not deflect the energy as he hoped.
Instead, the energy wraps itself around him and he felt his energy slowly being sapped away from him. His knees buckled and hit the ground, his vision became a bit blurry and he slowly felt faint before the effect of the spell suddenly ran out.
Rekaz raised his head, the spell had lasted no more than three seconds. Yet, when he looked up, he saw the smile on the girl's face grow wilder as she was almost on the verge of laughing at him. It was almost like she was only looking at a pig rolling in the mud.
His anger skyrocketed and immediately hit its limit. The girl stuck her little tongue out at him and once the rangers had gotten far enough away that she no longer had to worry, she cutely waved at him before flying away.
Rekaz vision went blood red, there was nothing else he saw but his targets. Even the gray trolls that had just arrive again behind him and were still hurling rocks at the rangers didn't register in his mind.
One of the trolls offered him another bone spears and he snatched it. His dark grey skin was rapidly changing to bloodred and the same colored aura as thick and as dense as smoke escaped his pores.
He charged forward like a raging bull, determined to kill every single one of those that had continuously mocked him and were still looking down on him.
Being ostracized by his kind for so long had made him overly sensitive and gave him a short fuse and could be considered his greatest weakness. But, it could also be considered his greatest strength.
Rekaz leaped up several feet into the air and thrust his spear at the flying figure of the cloaked girl. She turned around and then smiled at him, before weaving in the air and narrowly avoiding his full-powered thrust. He then crashed back down into the ground after gliding in the air for as long as a 1,600 pounds troll could. Rekaz didn't waste any time in the ground and just shook off the fall and tried again.
While a troll could almost instantly heal all injuries and even regenerate missing limbs, that didn't mean they did not feel pain. However, Rekaz was now recklessly taking damage from his antics and shrugging it off like it was nothing. Every time he jumped, he would narrowly miss and then crash back down, breaking his legs or arm by the impact.
Still, he shrugged them off like they were nothing and kept trying. Despite his failures, his injuries were now healing faster, but he still wasn't getting faster or any closer to hitting her. He didn't know why his body wasn't reacting the exact way it should.
He was a war troll and had an unmatched mastery of the troll's innate trait of adaptation. The more he fought, the better he becomes and the more his fighting style adapts to match and surpass that of his opponent.
With this, he became the strongest troll in the Labyrinth and was sure he would've surpassed Kadiz if it's wasn't for that magic weapon that would soon be his. However, right now, that wasn't happening.
He was sure the effect of the spell she had used on him had worn off but now he wasn't so sure. Rekaz gritted his teeth and shook the thoughts off his head. There was nothing he could do but forge ahead and smash his way through. Right now. His mind was only focused on one thing, to kill her.
He ran ferociously, the other trolls and goblin riders were behind him struggling to keep up, but he disregarded their presents and kept chase. He did not care who was behind him, all his soul was focused on the ones in front of him. Arrows came flying in from the other rangers that were far ahead of him but he blocked them all with his shield.
His attacks were finally getting faster but his attempts at hitting the cloaked girl were now getting wilder and wilder and he couldn't understand why. Was she really getting faster or had she been holding back all this while.
As he jumped up into the air in a bid to launch one more attack the girl turned around mid-flight and cast a spell, ”Mist Cyclone.” A Misty tornado appeared in the air around him and threw him off course and he was sent flying in another direction and slammed straight into three goblin riders that had kept chasing the rangers ahead and occasionally shot their crossbows at them but so far they had all missed.
Rekaz soon stood up and tried to shake the pain away. His left arm was broken and bent out of shape but it was rapidly degenerating. However, it didn't look natural, his now blood-red skin was getting shriveled up the more he was in this state. His tusk got larger and his eyes got wilder and he no longer looked like he was in his right state of mind.
He suddenly took off running and leaped forward, throwing a spear at one of the rangers. The cloaked girl cast the same spell again and it redirected the spear but he did not halt there and with a smooth motion, he threw the shield at the girl and she was forced to take the attack head-on.