Chapter 322 - The Verses of Victory (III) (2/2)

Tigin glanced at Sevis, then both of them jogged down the corridor that the old woman had indicated.

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Snap.

Aegin huffed as he reached up to rub his neck where the vertebrae had just snapped back into place. The tingling of his healing on his bones, muscles and limbs had been persistent for a while now. He'd had to duck into the shadows more than once to await a stray and take a few extra gulps from his prey. He wasn't all that adept at mid-battle snacking, and frankly by now he'd hoped that he would have worn Yashi down at least a little bit.

But the Djinn didn't even seem tired.

Aegin extracted himself from another collapsed building, stalking out onto the street where Yashi waited. The Djinn looked almost bored.

”What's that? The sixth building I thrown you through? You really are quite durable,” Yashi huffed, ”And you feel pain, that is quite the down side for you. Surely even you can now see whose victory this will be. You're wasting your breath”.

”You're wasting yours by talking,” Aegin huffed.

He raced forward once more, going in low and swiping his claws up towards Yashi's jugular. The Djinn managed a partial step back, but Aegin's claws went through the skin and the strange nothingness beyond it.

Strange was really the only way to describe it. Aegin had never felt anything like it. The fact that Yashi appeared to possess rapid healing abilities that barely scratched the surface of his stored energy, as well as a distinct lack of any internal organs, veins, muscles or bones was a unique phenomenon. One that Aegin couldn't for the life of him work out how to beat. It appeared absolutely nothing solid could damage him.

So Aegin had tried throwing the Djinn in the fire.

But that didn't work either. The Fire barely seemed to even both Yashi as he stepped through it.

Still, his aim was to kill time, not necessarily to kill the Djinn. So Aegin kept attacking, and as a result, kept getting thrown into buildings when he took a wrong step.

”Surely you���re exhausted by now,” Yashi commented as he twisted to the side, narrowly avoiding Aegin's claws. The Djinn could avoid him if he was concentrating hard. Yashi had been fighting Aegin for over an hour, and the new and distinctive attack patterns were beginning to fall into a pattern, ”I know you've been snacking, the blood on your chin isn't all that subtle, but you're brand new, you should be starving thanks to your untrained new abilities”.

Aegin only replied with a hiss as he twisted behind Yashi and stabbed the Djinn through the back with his long claws.

Nothing, the bastard was still standing.

Yashi sighed and turned to face Aegin, his blue eyes flashing with amus.e.m.e.nt, ”Really, I'm saying this out of concern, aren't you tired, Aegin?”

Aegin knew that blue flash, and he instinctively let his Allure take over in that moment between being awake and being pushed into a dream he'd have to fight his way out of.

Yashi froze, then ripped his gaze away from Aegin.

”Urgh!” Yashi growled in frustration, ”That was rude of you. No one comes into my head, I go into theirs!”

Yashi pushed the wind, and Aegin sailed back into another building.