Beatitudes

Episode 49.

The outcome of the s***h was already set in stone as the s***h drew a faint visible line on the beast’s behind and nothing more than that.

A faint line was all that was drawn on the back of the beast, and since Isaac needed to have been close to land a strike, he could clearly see signs of the line of s***h and a sufficient area surrounding it harden like clay in a lit kiln.

His eyes widened as surprise and confusion filled it with words of astonishment leaving it involuntarily, “What the…”

The scene was seen by the others watching as different expressions were displayed,

Hiya remained quiet with light flickering in her eyes while Harry  paused slightly in surprise before grinning as he yelled lightly, “Now you know how I felt, these beasts are so unpredictable…”

Adam  on the other hand had an odd expression on his face as a sigh escaped from his lips,

Meanwhile Isaac who had paused in his steps was forced to jump away as the horse like beast came charging right back with its pointed horn leading the charge, while he successfully evaded the charge he took another swing at the beast, his flaming sword landing a strike directly on its hairless back.

But the same occurrence took place as only a line proving the landing hit of the attack was shown on the beast, while it immediately visibly hardened.

But Isaac had no time again as the horse like beast grew increasingly infuriated at the creature before it that dared to constantly attack uselessly, it felt annoyed and frustrated.

Hence it forced itself to make a quick turn as it used the strength in its thick hind legs to support its rise to a towering form with its two front legs swinging forcefully, Isaac stared at the now towering beast with malice in its eyes as it dropped its front legs down with a heavy force accompanying it.

His eyes widened as he realized he won’t be able to properly avoid it at this point, he gritted his teeth as he waved his two arms to his front raising it above his head as a burst of flames erupted from his body quickly gathering to his front before congealing into another sword looking slightly like the first sword coated in flames, it was a passable looking sword with a blurry appearance but it was nevertheless a sharp looking sword. He crossed both swords in front of him as he held his ground against the descending hooves.

The horse like beast front legs’ descent continued unceasingly as it took no heed to the two crossed swords in front of it, no fear in its eyes as the two muscular legs of the beast landed smack dab on the shield of fire, a pause occurred in that moment as neither side backed down from the collision, remaining firm in their footing, but that only lasted for two seconds as a screeching sound broke the silence.

Those watching could see that the sound was coming from the crossed swords as cracks began to spread from the point of the horse like beast’s hooves collision on the sword congealed from flames. Another second passed and Isaac breathed out heavily as the sword finally reached its breaking point and shattered into pieces before dispersing into the void, the line of obstruction between the two broken, the hooves of the beast continued to drop down with force without a drop in strength but Isaac had borrowed the force of the shattering sword when he noticed he could no longer hold on to push himself back several feet before pausing, successfully evading the pounding attack.

The front legs of the beast landed on the ground as the attack caused the ground to tremble beneath their feet, a slight tremor passing through Isaac as he stared at the beast panting slightly. He looked down at the sword coated in fire, the flames on it now only dimly burning, his eyes widened slightly in surprise as he noticed faint lines of c***k on the sword despite being coated with flames. He couldn’t be sure whether the sword was lacking quality or the beast’s strength was that a little more than expected, he just hoped the sword didn’t surprise him during the battle, the beast was a pretty troublesome one. He looked into the beast’s eyes as his brows furrowed slightly, he couldn’t be sure but he felt he could see a strange gaze in the eyes of the unexpectedly more intelligent than usual beast, a gaze that seemed to show contempt and disdain for him who had not been able to land a substantial attack on the beast.

Slight anger rose within Isaac as he grew indignant, ‘an oddball of  a beast like you who is clearly not normal and you look at me with contempt, let’s see how long you can keep that gaze on your beastly face’.

A sulky Isaac shook his right hand wielding his sword as more flames gathered around it, returning it to his former blazing mass.

A calm looking Adam  was currently receiving a full battering of words from Horace, trying hard to keep a straight face.

Horace: Aren’t you going to tell him now, he keeps making the same mistake and doing the same thing… You know that beast is one basically resistant to fire, the more flames you use, the harder its hide becomes, unless he can wield a substantially better quality of flames, the beast would only get tougher to beat, literally. And you know he can’t wield a better quality flame now as he is…

Adam : “…”  *sigh* I know all that you’re saying’s right, of course I understand that… but in the end he needs the pressure, I’m sure he’ll have asked for such if he had his memories fully intact, you also know and have witnessed how stubborn he can get with regards to a tough task at hand.”

“Besides I don’t feel the immediate need to do as you said, if he ultimately can’t handle it, I’ll step in. and haven’t you noticed he’s only been using his flames ever since the start, this shouldn’t be what the class, the order of will, should entail. There’s something wrong somewhere, a splash and dash of inspiration is all he needs to solve any problems he seems to be encountering… and what better way to do that than walking the fine line between the two states of existence and facing danger head on, uh?”

Horace: … *sigh*, fine… maybe I am a little too cautious, he has Astral  with him anyways…

Adam  said nothing more as he watched on, the extremely handsome youth black and golden haired youth with silvery white eyes battling against a beastial horse like creature in front of himseemingly overlapping with the figure of the greatest and strongest he had once witnessed before, majestic and mighty golden waves of energy pulsing heavily around the then fully golden haired warrior as it swept all other existences away from him in a brutal and overwhelming manner, mighty strength oozing out of his pores even as he battled against the greatest evil ever known to them, no fear or despair to be seen.

He sighed faintly at the past as he mumbled to himself, “We have to win this fight brother… we have to.”

Meanwhile Harry  and Hiya who were also still watching by the side kept quiet till Harry  broke the silence, “Never thought the beasts outside in the tainted zone could be so bizarre and wild, this particular beast actually seems harder to take down compared to the wolf I fought…”

Hiya’s eyes also flashed at this moment as a thought appeared in her mind, ‘there’s something wrong with this beast, it seems oddly resistant?”, she pondered in thought

Isaac who was unaware of the thought going through the heads of the others with front row tickets to his battle lunged forward again as he swung his sword coated in flames again and again, he felt his control over the flames grow better and better as used it to fight, but why won’t the damned beast have even the tiniest s***h wound on its body ever since the start of the battle.

He could faintly see in the setting sun that the white s***h marks that he seemingly inflicted on the beast earlier were nowhere to be found at this moment, it had obviously healed itself or something… even the unknowledgeable Isaac who had grown up in a pretty remote area and was just being exposed to things could faintly guess that something was wrong.

And so the battle continued, with the beast charging constantly at every point towards Isaac with murder in its eyes and a gleaming horn set to pierce in front of it, and Isaac constantly evading while he landing burning s***h after s***h on the body of the beast but could only helplessly watch in frustration as the beast shook off all his slashes without no clean cut s***h wound visible to him.

He yelled in his head to Astral  at this point,

Isaac: What the hell is going on Astral , why does it seem so impenetrable, its only a tier one beast, I can’t even believe the writer had given the beast such substantial strength like this…

Astral : It much not be quite as such Isaac, I think there’s something wrong. I’m not very familiar with these beasts so I can’t be sure but… I think it’s actually resistant…

Isaac: Resistant?

Astral : Yes resistant, I think its resistant to fire, to the flames you’re wielding… haven’t you noticed the constant slight hardening of its hide every time you land a s***h of your sword on it. It hardens every time like wet clay in a kiln, getting more harder to wound it… all these are the signs I used to deduce that its resistant to flames, meaning fire won’t be able to hurt it, at least not the fire that you currently wield.

Isaac could only reply in bewilderment,

Isaac: Are you serious?

Astral : Of course I am, you slow learner, I advise that you disperse the flames around your sword if you’re aiming to end this battle at all…

Isaac was very unsure about the words he just heard, but after a few more attacks landing on the beasts and producing the same effect, he ultimately paused his attacks and swiftly withdrew his control and dispersed the flames around the sword. His eyes on the beast, he had no time to look elsewhere so he wasn’t able to notice that the lines of c***k on his sword had grown, the integrity of its durability still seeming to hold though.