“Argh!” Jake screamed loudly, and his broken bones snapped back to their place, and his flesh slowly healed as if nothing had ever happened to it.
Starborn’s physique was truly out of this world.
“Round two!” Jake kicked off the ground and threw a powerful straight punch towards Mars, as if it were executed by a professional fighter trained in the art of fighting.
Mars didn’t move and allowed the punch to hit him in the cheek. The punch pushed his head to the side, and his feet slid on the ground for a few meters.
“Ptui!” Mars spat out blood from his mouth and wiped the blood off his lips. “I wonder what your future would have held, Jake, if you hadn’t encountered me. But now it’s all mine!”
He grinned sadistically, crossed the distance between him and Jake with one quick stride, and punched him in the face.
Smack—Jake was sent flying across the wasteland, and he soon crashed into a nearby rock, not moving afterwards as if he were knocked out of the cold.
“Magic Bow!” Apollo jumped in the air, and a golden bow with an arrow appeared in his hands. He then aimed it at Mars, pulled the silvery string, and released the arrow.
“Uranus…” A forcefield appeared around Mars’ hand, and when he was about to punch, a crimson light suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking his sight of the arrow and Apollo.
“?” Mars frowned, and at the same moment, the arrow pierced through the light and smashed into his chest.
The arrow cracked in the middle and vanished into golden pixels.
However, a small cut appeared on Mars’ chest, dripping blood.
Although the wound wasn’t severe, it was still a cause for concern because it showed that Mars was vulnerable to their attacks.
“…”
However, Mars stayed silent as if he wasn’t bothered by the small wound.
From the crimson light, three figures emerged. They were Leon, Henri, and Loki.
“The Silver Death!” Leon screamed, dashed through the ground like silver lightning, and slashed Mars with his blade.
“Ugh…” Mars let out a small groan and was pushed back a single step.
“Two Cross!” Henri, wielding two daggers, moved at incredibly quick speed and caused two small cut wounds on Mars’ shoulder before skipping away to safety.
Loki’s eyes shone brilliantly, and then a dozen illusions of himself appeared all around Mars, all holding a black whip and lashing out at him with a flurry of quick and deadly strikes.
“Argh!” Mars crossed his arms and tanked the whiplashes with a grimace of pain.
A whirpool of crimson light suddenly appeared behind Mars, and from there, Damian appeared briefly and cut Mars’ back with his long black nails before disappearing back to the crimson light.
As more and more small wounds appeared on Mars’ body, his eyes stayed cold and unyielding.
“Your fun is over.” Mars suddenly grabbed all the dozen whips, then pulled the illusions towards him and destroyed them all with a single punch.
“Ugh…” Loki grunted and did several hand signals, which created a small magic circle below him, and a bright light burst out of it.
After the bright light vanished, Loki’s feet lifted off the ground, and he was able to fly like a bird.
As he soared high into the sky, he created several magic circles and shot several fireballs out of them, sending them flying towards Mars.
Mars formed a straight hand and slashed it across the air. “Neptune’s Wrath!”
A powerful invisible slash flew out of his hand and destroyed the fireballs, but that wasn’t the end. The invisible slash continued flying towards Loki.
Loki’s eyes shrank as the invisible slash came at him at a speed way higher than he was able to fly away.
However, like a guardian angel, the crimson light engulfed him and teleported him back to the ground.
As Loki’s feet touched the ground again, he nodded in gratitude towards Damian’s direction and then turned his green eyes back to Mars.
“You’re bothersome.” Mars turned to Damian and pointed his finger at him. “A reject, a distasteful Half-Vampire. Hated by ‘both’ of his kind.”
Mars’s voice was laced with disdain.
“Yeah…” Damian replied, his voice filled with a hint of defiance. “Black Heart Pirates is the first place that made me feel like I belonged somewhere. However, unfortunately, you were there. Without you, being a pirate wouldn’t have been too bad with them.”
“There isn’t Black Heart Pirates without me!” Mars shouted and lunged at Damian with a fiery expression. “Black Heart Pirates is me, and only me!”
Damian’s eyes widened, and he quickly moved his hands into a combat stance.
As Mars threw a powerful right hook, Damian quickly used the crimson light to dodge the punch and then appeared behind Mars, his black nails at striking distance.
“Tres Stab Cordis!” Damian shouted and stabbed his nails into Mars’ back.
However, Mars’ figure suddenly started to vanish as if he were a ghost, about to pass into the afterlife.
“Watch out, he is using illusion magic!” Loki screamed from the top of his lungs.
“I got this!” But then Ors created a black magic circle in front of him and shouted. “Anti-Magic, Nullification!”
As the spell struck the area near Damian, a figure started to appear from the thin air, who was already throwing a punch towards Damian!
“?!” Damian felt the pressure of the punch nearing him. ‘I can’t dodge it in time!’
“Zero Impact!” A soft shout sounded across the air as a white-haired young man appeared in front of the punch.
As Zero threw his own punch, it stopped Mars’ powerful punch in its tracks for a split second.
However, that was enough for Damian to teleport both him and Zero out of danger’s way. They appeared near Loki, both unscathed.
“…” Mars silently watched as his punch hit the last remnants of the crimson light. Again, his attack had failed, and it was all because of Damian and the legendary Vampire Light.
Swoosh—at that moment, several golden arrows smashed into his body, causing a loud explosion and sending him flying several meters.
However, Mars then flipped over and landed on the ground with a thud.
“Hmph!” Mars lifted his hands above his head before smashing them into the ground. “Earth’s Might!”
Crack—the ground cracked like a broken window and sent everyone flying away as the shockwave swept across the ground.
The ground shook violently, causing the rocks to fly away and the broken buildings to tremble.
Some distance away, Ambrose and the Death King were in a heated battle. Their weapons continued to clash in a flurry of sparks and light.
“Your friends won’t last long.” The Death King teased him while, rather effortlessly, he fought against Ambrose.
It was clear he wasn’t using all of his strength yet and was just playing around.
“…” Ambrose narrowed his eyes.
It was true, and he knew it.
Even though Mars was injured in the fight against Tyrannus, his strength level was vastly above that of any Black Heart member. It was only because of Damian that they had survived this far without any casualties.
‘I suppose I have no other choice.’ Ambrose reached out to his inventory, pulled out an ugly, smelly green whistle, and blew into it loudly.
Whistle—as the whistle echoed throughout the air, green smoke began to appear in the air.
‘Yughragh, I need your help!’ Ambrose tightened his grip on his swords.