30 The hunter (2/2)
Time slowed down. Every second in the outside world was ten seconds for David. He jumped onto the ramparts, and ran towards bandits. They fired in a mass concentrated cloud of metal, but a haze of blue energy leaked out of David as he created a magnetic field out of his Elms by charging nearby metal pieces with electricity. As the famous saying went, there are no useless spells, just useless mages. As David stepped closer a bullet hit him on the side. Amazingly it barely went in creating a bruise. His nano bots went to work as they healed the small wound. Eventually, it was just pure skin, painted by red as the first victim was slashed, along with his soul gone. The bandits pulled out melee weapons as they circled David. A brawl occurred, as men lost limbs, lives, and their souls. David was growing stronger by the minute as he sated his gluttony for souls by reaping the bandit's lives. Eventually, David was alone surrounded by unrecognizable bodies. He saw one final person who watched all this madness.
”I went away for a few days, and when I finally come back a little brat decided to destroy the base, prepare to die,”.
The man pulled out a machete as he slashed his way towards David.
{Hostile Melee class detected, with 86 percent chance of being grade 1 human, Host be advised to have caution}
The advice fell on deaf ears as David charged ahead. The two slashed and stabbed each other. Both dripped with blood. David was utilizing his Time ability, while the other man used his superior strength. Their techniques were even causing both to sustain cuts. David slashed the man's left arm, but received a stab to his abdomen in return. It followed a saying where the loser of a knife fight dies on the street, and the winner dies in the ambulance.
They both suddenly paused as they took a deep breath. David was regaining more of his sanity as the energy from the souls depleted. They charged at each other for the final strike. David put his max power into the time crystal causing time for David to slow down to a twentieth of real time. The enemy's machete was headed in a straight path, bu David detected the feint and relayed it to Dragon who created a path highlighted by yellow for David's knife arm to travel. However David tackled the other man after exploiting the opening and pulled out his gun and pointed it to the other man's head.
”Come on lets not end this with another person not having to die,”
{Host this is ill advised}
The man smiled and said,” Yeah sure,”.
As David put down the gun, the man turned around for a final slash. However this one had blue light imbued in it.
{ Class Close combat specialist detected; skill focus strike. DANGER DANGER}
Darius was about to intervene as he was a 2nd grade superhuman, but stopped dead in his tracks as he watched the next sequence of events. David let the blade stab into his side as it cleaved his skin like a hot knife through butter, instead of dodging. Then David grabbed the man's shoulder and sucked his soul out while stabbing his heart while using the hand on his shoulder as leverage. The man crumpled to the ground, while David's wounds healed. David muttered
”I know the world is a crappy place, but I have to try when I can with impunity, right Dragon?”.