“I’ll take care of the ad Hound. You only need to distract his minions.”
Selene took out a tiny black ball from her Shadow Space and gave it to him.
“It’s a Black Pearl fruit. The corrupted monsters love it.
“The minions of Mad Hound are all corrupted monsters. They’ll follow you as long as you have that fruit.”
Neo took the fruit from Selene.
She nodded to him and activated her Shadow Movement Spell.
Her body turned into a drop of ink and fell into the shadows on the ground.
“She’ll search for the Mad Hound and defeat it while I distract his minions. It’s a simple plan, but I don’t dislike it.”
He unsheathed Obitus.
The minions, dozens in numbers, were small monsters of misshapen shapes.
Some of them looked like humans with twisted limbs and crawled on all fours while their stomach faced the sky.
Some had the head of a bear, the hands of a grasshoppers and the body of a beetle.
Neo kept the black fruit inside his pocket.
The minions rushed at him from all sides, their claws drawn.
He was about to react in kind when suddenly his blessing reacted.
It activated on its own.
Neo, surprised, was forced to dodge the monsters and retreat.
He jumped back to put some distance between the minions and back.
“Obitus, what are you doing?”
I did not trigger the blessing, Master…
The blessing was activated from the other side….
“The other side?”
The minions caught up to him and attacked.
Neo ducked to dodge the overhead swing.
He slashed at the minion’s thigh and kicked it away.
The one who gave you the blessing activated it…
Neo’s eyes widened.
The blessing was given to him by the Underworld.
“What does the Underworld want from me?”
There was no time to think.
The blessing was draining his Divine Energy at a frightening pace.
He couldn’t deactivate it.
“I’ll finish this before my Divine Energy empties out.”
Neo slide the sword back into the sheath.
He took the stance and wrapped the blade in Aura of Death and Darkness.
He compressed the auras and let them build up.
The minions attacked him.
Just as their attacks were about to land, Neo unsheathed the blade and slashed, too fast for the eye to see, in wide arc.
The air around him ruptured and the ground shattered.
The minions dropped at a frightening pace as the Death reaped their lives.
Neo returned the blade to the sheath with a soft click.
He looked at the corpses around him.
“It was quite easy. Looks like Selene was right.
“Mad Hound didn’t have time to refill his stash of minions.”
Neo thought everything was over until he saw his blessing still activated.
It refused to deactivate.
Master, the blessing wants you to….
“I know. I noticed it.”
Neo could hear — feel — why the blessing was going out of control.
“It wants me to give a closure to the minions.”
The minions, corrupted by the Darkness, would become a part of Darkness after their death in Underworld.
They would suffer for eternity while experiencing the insanity of Darkness.
The same madness Neo suffered while he used Darkness.
Listening to the voices of Darkness for a few seconds was painful.
Neo did not want to think how it would feel to hear the voices for the unending eternity.
“The Underworld wants me to make the minions a part of myself instead of letting them suffer under the True Darkness.”
Neo nodded.
He always planned to do that.
There was no way he was letting go of free stats.
The Darkness hidden inside his shadow bloomed.
It devoured the minions.
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The voices returned.
Neo could feel a faint presence of minions settling inside him just like everything he devoured.
“Giving the closure to the dead, huh.
“This must be the responsibility of the blessing Barbatos and Paimon were talking about.”
While Neo was focused on devouring the minions, his senses suddenly warned him of an incoming attack.
Neo blinked and an arrow wrapped in golden lightning was already in front of his face.
There was no time to dodge.
…
“Come out, Mad Hound. I know you are here.”
Selene walked through the forest at a slow pace.
She spread out her senses and kept her eyes out for any ambush.
A sound came from the above.
“Little spider, you are back.”
She raised her head and looked at the tree branches, but no one was there.
“How many times has it been? Two, three, five?”
The voice was coming from different directions every time it spoke.
Selene couldn’t pinpoint its source.
“You should know by now you can’t defeat me, little spider.”
“We won’t know until one of us dies.”
“Well, what can I say? I always try my best to kill you. You are just awfully good at escaping.
“Your friends, though, are not.”
Mad Hound’s words made her recall the horrible past.
Selene forced herself to remain calm.
Mad Hound continued to speak,
“I still remember the first time we met.
“It was surprising to meet a soul who did not want to survive and was prepared to go along with the Reapers.
“Bah, I tell you. There is no paradise. Those reapers are just lying to everybody. You should stay in the Forest of All Beginnings and enjoy your life.”
“Dying still better than watching yourself slowly become a monster,” Selene retorted.
“Well, well, well, little spider, you are talking as if it’s my fault you became a monster.”
“It is your fault!”
Selene lost her cool.
She couldn’t stay calm after the hearing the provocative words of Mad Hound.
“I wouldn’t have stayed here if you didn’t Corrupt my friends and turn them into your minions!”
“How’s that my fault? Keke, you wanted revenge and you refused to go with the Reapers until you killed me.
“It’s your damn fault you became a monster since you are too weak to kill me—”
Mad Hound couldn’t complete his words.
Selene suddenly entered her shadow.
He, hidden among the branches, looked around.
“Where did she go?”
“Behind you.”
Before Mad Hound could react one of Selene’s leg pierced his back.
The werewolf, Mad Hound, howled in pain.
“You…! How!?”
“I was talking to you find your location.”
Selene smirked.
She wasn’t stupid enough to be agitated by Mad Hound’s words.
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“Why don’t you laugh now?”
Selene stabbed another leg into his back.
“Too weak to fight without your minions? I bet you never thought I could get another teammate.”
“Pfft, I know you brought a teammate with you. He’ll die to my minions, while I kill you finally for once and all.”
Mad Hound’s words were ominous.
Before Selene could respond, Mad Hound melted like a wax.
“This is a—!?”
“A double.”
Mad Hound’s voice came from behind her.
The sword in his hand pierced her neck.
“Can’t believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book. So much for defeating me.”
Mad Hound smirked.
He grabbed one of her legs and snapped it before she could run away.
Selene clenched her jaw.
She tried to ignore the pain while searching for a way to escape.
“Little spider, O my little spider, what do you want?”
Mad Hound grabbed her head and muttered in a glee.
“Will you escape again while your teammate dies at my minions’ hands? Or will you die along with him?”
He whispered in her ears.
“I would recommend dying. I’m sick of fighting you already. We don’t need to do it anymore.”
Mad Hound twisted the blade inside her neck.