Chapter 301 'That' Person... (2)
He had prepared everything, and he even got his hands on this strange statue after days of finding and boring killings.
His great preparation and devotion... everything was ruined by this one MF that appeared out of nowhere!
The mage was angry, doing his best but, when he saw the split second that boy had disappeared from his place and was now standing in front of him with his sword held in both hands... he knew something was wrong.
His spells were shot at him in all directions this time, even at the back, and he still slipped past them and was now preparing a great attack that might really be a problem.
His eyes widened as soon as he spotted him and seeing his closed eyes and this sudden pressure was something unreal in itself.
But... before he could do anything at all, he saw a flash of black-white light, and the very next second, the world inside this cave started spinning in his eyes.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l-B1n.
The finely made cave, the properly shaped pillars and places, the ceiling, and when he was almost going to see the ground, instead of the place he was standing... a vision of a headless body entered his eyes.
A headless body... his headless body... so...
What he was seeing right now was only his head, right?
There was no head to his body and there was no head to his head, meaning...
The head of this black magician falls to the ground, his pure black eyes turning white and his body falling to the ground. A pool of blood started covering the right side of the cave.
The person in dark clothing slashed his sword to remove the black blood from the blade, then the blood splashed on the ground. He looked at the blade as it turned back into the normal Katana and he put it back into its sheath.
Two black mages outside, fifteen here, and one (tier-4) black mage who didn't even get to show what things he can do... all wiped out.
And as soon as he was done with this one, he fell to the ground, coughing up a mouthful of hot red blood, his face still covered with a black mask.
It was normal how these powerful attacks would take a heavy toll on one's body.
And he was young, not that strong to use the unreal skills he had shown.
Just the fact that he was fine and just coughed a little blood was enough to show just how strong he was, and he didn't even need more than a few minutes to stop this backlash.
A dull white light covered his body, and he seemed fully recovered after that much.
He had killed these black mages who were trying to summon the demons using an ancient artifact, and that ancient artifact was sitting on the altar-like table just behind the body of this old mage.
He walked back, looked at the statue, and thoroughly observed it, and after weirdly nodding to himself a couple of times, he walked a few steps back.
His behavior was weird and there was once again that warm smile on his black, mask-covered face.
He patted his neck in a careful manner and extended his hand forward.
This was, once again, strange.
But... this time, something happened that somewhat explained his weird behavior of patting his own neck and warm smiles.
A creature crawled out of the sleeves of his black clothing and looked at him with a warm smile that looked... cute?
This was a genuinely cute creature and the ones looking at this couldn't help but have the same thoughts while looking at it.
Yes, it was shocking how this specific creature could appear at a place like this but, that thinking was after the fact that this was adorable.
This was a small snake... a snake with wings.
He was small, maybe smaller than this person's hand, less than half a meter or so.
This creature had metallic feather-like pointed scales that were almost like steel feathers all over his body.
Its body with these feather-like scales was a light greenish blue. A teal color. The feathers it had were a royal purple and lastly, its eyes... they were the same golden as him.. result of first assimilation (?).
They looked like the original ones compared to him, but they definitely were gorgeous.
Its young snake face was cute and the way it smiled at him was also adorable...
This was a creature that shocked the ones watching with the vision of the butterfly.
It was just commonly unbelievable to see this creature here, like this, with a person, smiling like this.
This was surpassing... but this creature was still cute.
It smiled and talked with him in his snake-like hissing voice, and he responded without any words as if talking with telepathy.
They talked warmly and this radiant side of this person was nothing like the cold-blooded killer he was just a few moments ago.
There was no cold, stoic expression and just the happiness of accomplishing something great.
This was their moment, and they enjoyed it like some parent and child with radiant smiles and excited voices.
It lasted for some minutes, but then he said something and nodded at this creature and the snake nodded back happily.
After that, the snake spread its majestic wings, which were just barely one meter in wingspan, and started slowly started flaying with no difficulty.
It could easily pull up his own weight, not that it would mind a few more hundred kilograms. It was a mythical creature after all.
The young snake floated almost to the ceiling of this cave and stopped only when it could see most of the cave and the dead body from that angle.
After that, its eyes started glowing with a more refined and beautiful gold than him and every single dead body laying on the ground, the fifteen mages and this old mage, turned into particles of golden light...
Every one of these particles was unique in size and brightness, and the (tier-4) old mage had some of the biggest and brightest particles of light.
And a very dull white particle of light also came out of the weird statue and started floating upward at the snake-like creature.
Though as soon as this white light had come out of this statue, it had lost all its color and became ash, almost ready to crumble down, it was better than it ever being able to summon the demons.
All these particles of light floated in the air to the mouth of this snake-like creature and the young snake slowly started happily eating these special lights.
And it didn't take it more than three minutes to finish this and after joyfully finishing its meal, it floated down to this person and he hugged it with his warm embrace.
He had a happy expression as if a mother asking her child if they had a good meal, and the snake nodded his cute-looking head while hissing with its light pink serpent tongue.
The two of them were as great a pair as the ones watching them were with their families, and maybe this bond was somewhat special too, according to what was known about this serpent creature.
Right now, the behavior this cute snake had would most definitely confuse the one watching this who knew about this creature in detail.
But it was ultimately alright as 'there are always exceptions.'
The two of them had a special relationship, and it was clear just from this interaction they had.
And after more small talk, the snake-like creature crawled back in his sleeves, and a golden light appeared on the bottom part of his neck.
He sighed after that and took a deep breath and after that, started doing something even more strange than killing all those mages.
He first erased every single particle of ash from that weird statue that had turned to dust a while ago.
Then he started messing with the blood and the marks of the fight and even finally cleaned his own blood with some strange acid-like liquid to not leave a single trace.
After that, he went to the left side, checked the place with most of the things, and picked up some good things like two skill stones and one energy core laying by the butchered beast's body.
...it was genuinely envious how people could just find such things lying around on the ground.
And the ones who just left them there were even bigger fools.
But, he took all the important stuff, cleaned up the mess, his own unique attack traces, and then, without looking at the people trapped in the back, he took out a strange hexagon blue crystal and activated it.
Talking in the crystal in an inaudible voice, he quickly finished this talk and put back the crystal, and just normally walked out of this place.
There was a smile on his face as he was walking out after achieving his goal and achieving more than he thought.
He walked out, leaving this cave all alone, with the corrupting black blood of the black mages that will slowly corrupt the air and, in a while, make the air so poisonous that the imprisoned people will just die from a single inhale of it.
Not that it will happen as he had taken the measures to rescue them, so it was alright.
They will be safe, the demon worshippers were dead, the summoning was prevented as a great tragedy was also prevented with it and, with that... a few butterflies vanished in the air, became invisible, and started following this person out of the cave who had killed the strong mages so much effortlessly.