Beatitudes

Episode 57.

The s***h was forceful and heavy, a pretty clean deep cut that showed the strength behind the swing and marvels of the glowing white sword. But that wasn’t enough to release all the burning emotions within Isaac that was currently still rising. His face grew extremely hot as he roared indignantly at Astral,

Isaac: Can’t you at least give me some face and a little time to show off to those watching from the real world, how am I supposed to live with you breathing down my neck!

Astral ignored his anger and instead poked harder at the already red hot faced Isaac

Astral: You don’t use words to show off, you use your actions, just like the swing you just took. Using up precious word count like that… try not to say such cringe inducing words next time at least…

Isaac: “…”

The scathing reply he received made Isaac shut his mouth as he made the decision of never back to Astral  when he had an advantage, it was just too painful…

Regardless of anything though, now was not the time to say anymore as the other beast had reached a distance close enough to attack while the first one had ceased to roar in pain as it stared at Isaac with a resentful gaze and a sliver of fear mixed in.

The real battle against two ferocious beast seeking to tear him apart was just beginning…

The two beasts prowled around him as they casted wary gazes around him, especially after witnessing the sword in his hand cleanly slice through and leave a deep wound on one of them. They were ferocious and unreasonable but they could also smell dangerous and formidable opponents, and though he himself might not know it, their olfactory senses smelt a sizeable of danger from the young man in their front.

Isaac rapidly grew tired of the procrastination as he nimbly waved the sword in his possession with slight skill. He smashed his right foot on the ground as he shot forward at the beasts himself, the beasts also grew restless as hunger and anger once again clouded their sense of judgement and they also charged forward depicting quite a showy and forceful sight.

A distance of a few meters was quickly covered, Isaac reached their very front as he swung his white broadsword in a wide arc, seemingly generating a tiny bit of wind pressure as it moved. The beasts abruptly paused in their charge to avoid the swing after which they also swung their paws, generating even more winds around their paws, one could see that Isaac’s attack carried more sharpness while the beasts swinging their paws carried more force.

Watching the paws swinging closer, Isaac breathed in slightly as he placed the shield in his hand directly in front of him, aiming to receive the two swinging paws with his own strength.

BANG! BANG!

ROAR! ROAR!

The disparity in strength was immediately revealed as Isaac could only slide back with gritted teeth as he left deep trails on the ground following the two beasts smashing their paws consecutively on the white shield in his hand.

But the spikes grown out from the shield were not for show as the moment both paws each landed on the shield, blood was splashed as the pain from mindlessly causing injuries to themselves elicited deep roars of pain from their mouth. They stumbled backwards as their injured paws settled unstably on the ground, clearly feeling uncomfortable.

Currently one watching the scene from the side would easily see the wide gash  wound on one of the beast, as well as the bloody paw prints left on the ground as the beasts moved backwards one paw following the other.

Isaac smiled faintly despite the slight throb in his arms, before he broke into a slight chuckle at the lacking intelligence of the beasts, he mumbled in a playful tone,

“Hehe, Got ya…”

The night was brightened fairly enough by the four moons hanging in the sky, if one looked to the left side of the ongoing battles, one could see a ferocious battle going on.

A berserker was currently in a heated battle with a green skinned lion, a clear depiction of the ferocity both side had to display.

BOOM!

A loud clashing sound was heard as man and beast met with a smashed fist and a swiped paw. Surprisingly, unlike the scene with Isaac, where he was pushed back several meters. Harry  only shifted back slightly as he stood his ground, red energy fluctuating all over his body.

He grinned savagely, already fully immersed in the battle when he heard the deeply pained roars of two of the current beast he was engaging.

He head abruptly turned to the direction of the sound as he glanced at the scene, the split second spent looking was enough to cause his eyes to widen. But he was abruptly snapped out of his reverie when he felt turbulent winds approaching him, he looked back to his side in time to find a paw coming for his face, the lion currently in battle with him completely oblivious to the plight of its fellow kind as it pounced at Harry  once again.

He was forced to dodge away as his mind swirled dazedly in thought. He was completely unaware of the fact that Isaac had taken the attention of two of the beasts since he last saw Hiya tackling two of them. And from the current looks of it, the beasts were already beginning to suffer pretty badly in his hands.

He wasn’t too surprised by the fact that he managed to inflict such a heavy wound, but he was definitely taken slightly aback when he realized he had done such deeds as he took on two beasts...

He smashed another fist towards the beast as he blocked off another attack, using the force to draw some distance between him and the beast… while he was currently taking on only one…

Not that he had a notion to always do better or that he felt competitive towards this slightly odd friend of his. But he nevertheless didn’t mind a little comparing, he didn’t want to be the one to burden the team or drag them down after all, he didn’t want that for any one of them as well, of course.

He looked at the beast that was currently once again charging towards him as he breathed out, his expression finally turning slightly serious.

He had actually been testing out the full extent of his berserk strength earlier as he battled with the lion previously, but now it was time to end to get serious. With a slight ripple and disturbance in the air around his right hand, a silver axe appeared within his grasp as it hit the ground hard. He didn’t want to riddle the beast with wounds and thus substantially weaken it due to that, he had a certain penchance for a rigorous and taxing battle after all, that he happened to figure out quite easily about himself.

But now, he would reluctantly have to speed things up a little.

Adam watched silently as a slight curve was turned upwards on his lips.

Horace: I can finally see a shadow of the valiance and bravery he once had… how refreshing it is.