Chapter 80 - Mana Eater (1/2)

I could tell Lancy was putting all his power into the strike, Sweat was starting to run down his face as he was trying to move his sword but this was the only chance I had. I focused all my Ki into the palm of my hand allowing me to touch the blade, I wasn't going to let go.

The problem was this left My whole body vulnerable. I didn't have any Ki protecting any other parts of my body. My face began to burn, it felt like it was going to melt off.

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The notifications kept sounding off in my head, as more notifications sounds came. The fire started getting weaker.

”What is going on!” Lancy shouted as he tried pulling back the blade.

Lancy then started kicking my body, again and again. I started to cough out blood but I wasn't going to let go until I had absorbed all of the fire.

”You dog, why won't you just die!” Lancy was still hitting me trying everything he could to get me off the sword.

Finally, the notification sound stopped. I let go of Lancy sword causing him to fall back a little. I was badly hurt, my gauntlets dented beyond belief, I could feel a warm liquid between the gauntlets, most likely my bones were broken inside. My face was now half burnt from the fire and a few broken ribs from the kicks.

Everything I did relied on this one moment. There were two things I was unsure about. First weather mana eater would work on a beast crystal weapon. If I took the elemental attribute from the weapon it would basically be useless. Now that this worked, I needed to check one more thing.

I punched my two fists together and started to focus. The gauntlets started to shine an orange-red and were getting hotter. Until eventually, flames covered my entire arms. From my shoulder to the outside of the gauntlets, to even the fingertips, it was all wrapped around in flames.

The second thing was if I was able to infuse my Ki with the elemental attribute. In theory, Mana and Ki were the same things. Just how people used mana to create fire. Now that I had fire Ki and mana. I could use this to activate the cells on my gauntlet and create a fire weapon of my own.

”You really are a demon, we were right to try to get rid of you.”

Lancy tried to use his sword to gather the flames around my gauntlets, but his face dropped. Mana eater was a skill that absorbed the fire. It didn't suppress it or borrow it. it was more like stealing and adding it to my own body.

I dashed over towards Lancy and knocked the sword out of his hand then grabbed Lancy by the face and lifted him in the air.

”No!No!No!” Screamed Lancy

First Lancy's face began to melt, then his entire body was burnt to a crisp. The power quickly faded from my body and I collapsed to the ground.

Gary started to slowly walk over towards me, he wasn't in the best of shapes either.

”Ray! You're burnt, you're arms and face. We need to take you to the hospital.” Gary said with tears falling down his face.

I wanted to reply but my lips had been partly melted together.

Then suddenly, Shadows started to form I could vaguely see a human figure, then the shadows started to get clearer and Sir K appeared.

”Gary where are the attackers!” He said urgently

”They're all gone” He replied, ”But Ray needs help.”

Sir K then quickly examined the scene around him. There were fire marks and ashes everywhere. The trees were formed in a circle but had gone a slight black colour due to the fire. All that was left of the attacks were their equipment.

Sir K went and picked up an object of the ground. It was a piece of the red mask that Lancy was wearing.