My body humd with my mana, and my hair moved in slightly, almost looking like it was blowing in the wind from the seas. Mira watched over as the Lich, and I stood on a deck with an audience of the dead watching. Zombies and Skeletons watched unmoving as we stared at each other. My eyes gazed into her black and purple eyes while we waited on the deck of the Galley for the bell to chi.
The Lich was smiling as she waited to watch every movent of my body while I watched her body waiting.
A soft chi of a bell rang with the wind, but neither of us paid any more attention as I shot closer to the Lich closing the distance. The Lich was smiling, and a green orb rose from her hand as I launched myself at her, and she sent it my way with a simple gesture. Her confidence made dodge that ball by leaping to the side and launching myself forward again toward her.
Milliseconds had only passed, Lich's smile grew brighter, and I felt a chill on my spine. A staff rose in black smoke, and I leaped to the side as tendrils of smoke rose in a barrier around her trying to snatch at . I leaped back into a rift, regaining distance from her, and tossed a ball of thermite at her.
The dust lasted a second inside its sealed state before blowing open on the tendrils surrounding her. A bright flash of light blinded those unprepared, and I heard the lich grunt over the wind.
What ca next, though, as I fired an icicle behind a thermite bomb towards the Lich, was sothing that made tendrils seed to co from the Darkness and rose to spread out from the barrier, and the Lich grabbed onto the staff. Chills ran through my body, and I knew I needed to change my combat style back to close distance or anything other than long distance as the world seed to go dark.
The sky darkened, and the Lich smiled brightly, "Bunny-kin, you better stop holding back, or I will kill you accidentally!" She cried out, "WORLD OF LIFE!" The Lich suddenly commanded, and the Darkness seed to surround us my skin goose-bumped, and the Darkness surrounded the ship. I no longer could see water or the sky, and tendrils started to slither in from the Darkness.
The Lich wasn't done with sothing so controversial that it didn't make any sense what she did. Instead, more and more green lights started to dance around her, and those green lights started to appear all around the boat. Then she lifted the staff and pointed it at .
"Life begins with death," The Lich spoke, her voice very feminine and quiet, but those tendrils started to move, and the Green lights started to shoot around.
Watching all of this, I felt almost frozen. I was having trouble understanding what was happening, but whatever was freezing ended, and I felt like I was in a dire situation. I could not touch that, and I couldn't even understand the space I was in now. My mind was busy trying to grasp what the fuck was happening, but I didn't have ti to understand what this magic was.
I needed to act, and so I opened a rift. I dropped into it just as those green lights buzzed past. I appeared on another part of the boat only to see those green lights surrounding a second later as she pointed the staff in my direction.
Fear shivered as I partially understood the consequences or assud that the staff was moving the orchestra. I rifted out and appeared not far away as those lights reacted together, following where the staff pointed.
My mind whirled, and I realized I still had so advantages. My mana burst to life, and I went into a rift and appeared several feet away from the glowing orbs. The orbs moved faster and faster, and I had to move faster and break the void into rifts faster and faster to compensate.
That was when I made a mistake, and a scream ripped from my throat as I felt my skin rotting as one of those tendrils seed to catch my leg. So of it rotted away, and I rifted out and away, but I instantly realized that I had a problem. I looked around in the short monts as I moved, and I realized the area I could move to beco smaller and smaller, and now my leg hurt.
At this point, I was spending all my ti thinking of retreating. The last weeks of building new martial art with my mana were wasted as I no longer even thought that any of the tricks I practiced could work here. My mind raced, and images of rifts moved the mana in my body over and over.
I tapped into the whirlpools of imnse mana I had and jumped from place to place as the Lich smiled, making run all over the boat.
"Run, Bunny, Run!" The Lich chuckled, her feminine voice echoing in the Darkness as the Darkness closed in on slowly. Tendrils reached out slowly and crept closer and closer. My mind spun, but my head was blank of solutions.
Wasn't I a genius?
I was always a genius, wasn't I?
Wouldnt a genius be able to escape this and figure out how this all worked?
But I couldn't figure this out.
My mind was stuck on that point, and I couldn't figure out what this all was and how to counter it.
My mind blanked, and I dodged a tendril that almost caught as I conjured an image to move to, and I closed the distance.
Still, no solutions ca to mind, and I cast ice, freezing the ground. The Tendrils decayed the ice instantly—the black water decaying in front of . I didn't understand her mana or the thod she did it.
Why do I have to figure out how it works?
My mind suddenly asked this while I dodged a green ball of mana that made my body shiver as they neared second after second. I flashed around the ship that was seemingly smaller and smaller with every passing second, and I ca to a realization.
I couldn't understand everything.
I didn't understand illusion magic.
I didn't understand mana at all.
I didn't get the logic of this world.
I didn't even understand the void as I ripped into the fabric of reality to move quickly.
My mind skipped, and I used la muscle mory to dodge a ball of green light, barely with exaggerated movents before I could conjure up another image and rift out slowly, almost ending with my death. My brain was spinning, though.
Maybe I was limiting myself with logic.
Logic didn't create illusions. They didn't run on a mirage-type system.
What if mana is sothing more fundantal?
My mind didn't have ti to think individual thoughts as I dodged twenty balls of green mana. Instead, I powered my body more, and the mana changed inside of .
I no longer powered myself with pure mana and embraced a different understanding I didn't get but that I could imagine. It wasn't based purely on the logic that I held so dear. The logic I was taught in my previous world held true so well up to this mont, and my hair started to rise.
Still, I had to experint, and my mind conjured the first image and fragnted and fragnted down as much as possible. My body started to freeze, and my skin turned blue. My blood ran cold, my skin seed to freeze, and I opened a rift pressing my mind over its limits. My mind seed in chaos as I held so many images simultaneously.
Fragnts bound and broke, and I appeared in front of the Lich; my fist headed toward that tendril barrier, and the Lich was smiling.
"This is the fight I was expecting!" The Lich exclaid. "Hehehe," The Liches feminine voice echoed as the fist pressed against the tendril. "You will have to do better than that!" The Lich exclaid and shifted to point the staff at again, and the Green orbs that scared rushed in my direction, so killing skeletons and Zombies making them rot into black water.
I moved, and my image of a frozen body started to shatter, and I created new images. The rotting wouldn't affect fire. I couldn't picture it, and I didn't understand it. Logic told the fire had to burn sothing, and if I was to hold that image, the only thing I could imagine was my body.
Those orbs followed , and my mind spun quickly again. "Co on, Where is it?" The Lich complained, "Quit running and FIGHT !" That feminine voice complained.
I felt the need to confront her with everything I had as I rifted out, and I wanted to slap my head and conjure the image of fire. Every cell in my body started to heat up, and mana began to burn as I used it as a fuel source and I rifted toward the Lich, roaring as the fire started to burn my arms.
I used the sa fist and my body collided with the tendril barrier that began to rot, even the flas covering my hand. I scread in fresh pain as I dissipated the flas and I rifted away.
I made a mistake as I ca back into reality, one of the orbs was lagging behind, and I scread even harder as it hit my leg. My body spasd as the rot started to eat away at the muscles inside my leg. I clenched my teeth, and I rifted again.
I appeared and disappeared all over, and my mind was in chaos as the pain was wreaking and sapping my strength. I needed to change sothing, and I needed to attack. This Lich was doing things I didn't understand, and I couldn't understand why she wasn't introducing new factors into the situation. The walls around were closing, and those rotting tendrils were nearing.
I needed a last-ditch, and I decided that I would go for it. My hair began to turn a dark purple, and my mana turned much the sa way as I moved through the void. My arms turned purple, and the image I held was sothing of inspiration than logic. Suddenly I appeared in front of the Lich.
"Reality is broken by the void," I told her, and my image solidified in my head. It was instinct; my hands reached forward and almost looked like claws as I reached toward her as she pointed the staff at .
What happened as I fueled my body with the sa power that opened the void? The image in my head was abstract and undefined even to , even as it was solid. My fingers reached out and gripped; I felt like they gripped a fabric. I didn't have ti to do anything else but pull that fabric, ripping it to show the actors behind the curtain.
My mind was barely registering as the Lich scread with that feminine voice. Reality broke apart in front of as the tendrils broke apart, and my mana was draining faster than I had ever felt it leave my body. The Lich shattered into six pieces with clawed reality, breaking that pale blue skin and shattering the Lich into pieces of at.
Still, I held that image up until the mont that a green orb broke my concentration. I scread as pain erupted from my back, and the reality in front of started to nd, showing even in greater detail that her body was shattered as my mana drained, but then I noticed her staff aid at as it fell unbroken by what I did.
They were briefly aid at and those orbs began to hit as I reacted to late. Orb after orb smashed against my back, and I scread as my back began to decay. My legs and ass were hit, and I scread more.
"Chelsea wins!" Queen Mira declared a mont later as only a second had passed from destroying the Lich to the orbs hitting my back. I scread as the world was no longer black, the tendrils disappeared, and the blue skies reappeared.
Mira took and tossed out of the way from the orbs, which hit the ship repeatedly, destroying the ship's stairs and into the back heel.
My mind barely registered as I realized I needed to heal myself. I reached into the void and opened my inventory inside the void. I reached out to the case of nutrient bombs that I used on my journey. I pulled them out, swallowed half a dozen of them, and closed my eyes as I laid on the deck of the Galley, and I brought myself inward and began the healing.
My mana surged and forced the nutrient bombs down my throat while I sought out and destroyed the damaged areas of my body. The rotting was continuing and the affected areas needed to be removed.
I tore into my body, destroying it with fire and ice as I ripped into muscles infected with whatever the rot was. I rcilessly destroyed my body in order to save it. My focus was all over my body, tearing in my legs and back, and I couldn't help but thank the gods that none of them hit my head.
I scrambled and destroyed more and more without pause as I inflicted what would be fatal injuries to others to myself. Blood poured out of my body before I took all the rot out of my body. My leg, where I was initially hit, was the worst but also the least life-threatening. Still, I ripped it out and destroyed the rot as it tried to enter the bloodstream.
Once it was out, I began to nd my body, replacing muscle tissue and skin as fast as possible. My imnse mana helped a lot, but my whirlpools were even starting to slow down. I still constantly used my mana in order to heal and provide nutrients to the most affected areas of my body.
I lost track of ti, and I healed myself without pause. Even as my body was picked up, I felt the wind against my skin. I didn't stop healing myself and didn't let sothing like worrying voices penetrate my concentration in the least. Then more nutrient bombs were forced down my throat, and I wanted to thank whoever did so, and I continued the repair of my body.
It was a close call as I realized I had ripped out part of my kidney, and I also worked on repairing that. With a third of my liver gone, I also worked on that as well. I had a lot to heal, and I had to maintain my body's functions.
This, unfortunately, would take a bit of ti.
It was almost like the Dwarven Kingdom all over again.
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