Chapter 360 - Tom The Guardsman (1/2)
”What's wrong ye scaly bastard!?”
”Why do you have to do that strange accent every time you say that?”
The dragon spirit let out a roar of rage before it began bleeding drops of black mist that fell to the ground before it formed vaguely people shaped forms that charged at Mercury and Max, Max quickly sighed before he commented
”You had to make it mad?”
”Yeah I did, here's a question for you Max, how do you kill that which doesn't die?”
Max dodged to the side avoiding a shadow forms attack as he cut it in half as he yelled back to Mercury
”How?”
Mercury showed a smile and stomped his feet a few times sending more rock spears flying up before they hit the dragon spirit's main body wounding it deeply and causing it to let out another roar in anger
”First you piss it off”
Mercury disappeared from view as the tail of the dragon spirit whipped down and landed where he had just been standing, then his voice sounded out from on the top of the dragon spirits head
”Then you exploit its openings!”
Then before the dragon spirit managed to react Mercury brought his fist down and hit right on the crown of the head knocking it down to the ground before Mercury landed on top of its head again and punched down once more wrapping the shape of the head slightly before he disappeared from view once more and appeared next to Max and clapped him on the shoulder
”And finally you finish it off, got something big?”
Max nodded before he looked a little hesitant
”I do… But it's kind of big…”
”Well I don't see anybody out here but us”
”Good point, let's do this then!”
Max closed his eyes for a moment before his red phantom horns grew longer and longer and became less illusionary before he opened his eyes again, the red pentagram patterns on his pupils shone with an eerie red light before he let out a low yell as his eyes shone brighter and brighter before suddenly a red flash of light covered the world, when it passed a fraction of a second later Max kneeled down weakly before the dragon spirit that was about to rush forwards suddenly suffered several internal explosions, then Mercury nodded and pointed towards the dragon spirit with two fingers as he muttered
”Acquire target”
[Traget acquired, powering mana forge(s)... Mana forges 6-10 offline, maintenance required… Ignition]
Mercury's mana began to warp the surrounding space creating a mirage before Mercury spoke
”Build spell structure”
[Building spell structure, spell structure #001: Negative lightning selected… Loading spell… Complete, holding]
Countless sparks of blue lightning shot off Mercury into the surroundings as a thin layer of frost formed on his body he muttered sending out a white mist
”Fire”
[Firing]
A single bolt of blue lightning shot out from his two fingers hitting the dragon spirit the next instance a thunderclap sounded out, the dragon spirit froze, literally froze over in the next few instances before it fell to the ground and shattered into pieces its voice sounded in the distance
[Cruse you Mercury! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!]
Mercury coughed up a mouthful of blood before the robotic voice sounded out inside his head
[Recoil detected, starting auto repair…]
”Yeah I felt that one too”
Then Mercury fell over backward and landed on the grass where he laid and looked up into the sky for the next few minutes before he called out to Max
”You alive son?”
”Yeah… Somewhat, every single part of my body is sore though”
”Me too buddy… Me too, it was fun though, I mean to cut loose once in a while right?”
”Yeah… So how was it we beat something immortal again?”
Mercury sighed before he spoke one word
”Energy”
”Energy?”
”Yeah it takes energy to maintain its body in this world, even more, to regenerate when we wound it”
”...I see, that makes sense…”
Mercury let out a groan as he sat himself up before he looked over at Max that was sprawled out on the grass next to him and asked
”How about we take it slow on our way back?”
”...Agreed”
In the evening Mercury and Max appeared outside of a city gate, Max asked Mercury again
”Are you not coming along?”
”Nah, I don't want to start a fight inside the city”
”But you'll gladly start it outside the city?”
”Yeah”
”Sometimes I don't get you dad… Oh well, I'll tell the girls where you are”
”Sure”