The Alpha's Keeper

CIX: Immortal?

Without waiting for a second, Nate used his new powers and the strength he had acquired to throw the javelin at such power that he would fly across the room and crash into the man’s chest. He recoiled with the javelin inside him, and a loud scream ran through the entire place.

With his right arm, he took the javelin and ripped it from his body, throwing it to the side and embedding it in a wall. His chest did not show any injury.

“You are immortal?” Nate asked with eyes wide in surprise.

The man smiled and shook his finger, and then he said, “That is a wrong concept. Immortal is the one who cannot die... I am not alive. That is why death is a concept that does not apply to me.”

Nate was a bit confused and getting ready to fight. He said, “Then what are you? Are you undead or something?”

He shook his head again as he smiled. Seeing Nate, he said, “I know it’s hard to believe, but the truth is that I don’t exist in this world. My existence is an absolute negation, like the exception that proves the rule, all life is finite. Therefore something without life cannot be finite... that’s me. The improbability!”

Nate listened to him carefully and took a halberd out of the shadow, and he said, “Don’t be offended, but that’s complicated. I’ll call you Joe!”

And with speed he advanced, the halberd turned rapidly on his head and on his sides, and when he attacked the man’s head, he fell back, Nate was surprised, with his ability not to die, dodging attacks seemed quite unnecessary, but he had done it, with force He attempted a lunge, and the enemy’s hand deflected it before turning his own hand into a huge praying mantis blade.

The blade descended with speed until it embedded itself in Nate’s shoulder, which simultaneously buried his spear in the creature’s stomach, they both separated, and Nate saw his shoulder wound to heal, and without fully understanding what was happening, he observed the man who ran towards him.

Nate’s wounds healed quickly, but that subject’s never manifested. When he advanced, Nate prepared to receive it, but he changed his legs into horse legs so quickly that when his gorilla hand took Nate’s face and I dragged him along the floor and then threw him towards the wall Nate barely could react.

The impact against the wall was strong, and Nate felt how his wounds opened and closed again, he thought about moving, but both arms of that creature stretched easily to land on his neck, he forcefully took the wrists and broke them, but that did not prevent that creature approach him at full speed and with a rhino horn on his forehead invert Nate’s face several times.

Nate’s head reverberated off the wall over and over as the young half-vampire in the shadows pulled out a sword that pierced the creature’s abdomen, knocking it back. Nate was breathing with difficulty, the pain in his face was total, and his wounds, although they were beginning to heal, still caused a great amount of suffering.

In front of him, the creature laughed. Nate suffered to regenerate while he was in perfect condition. And looking at him, he said, “You know the blows and stabs if they hurt me! But clearly not as much as you. In my case, it is more like a puncture rather than a real pain.”

As he said that, Nate’s body became a shadow and the surprised creature smiled as he widened his eyes behind him, and with a big hammer in his hand, Nate said, “Let’s see if this hurts you unhappy!”

With brutal power, he hit him with a hammer that almost tore off his head. His body went flying at full speed towards the wall, and crashing into it, he let out a scream of pain, Nate changing the hammer for a huge bow, took two arrows, and I shot them instantly.

He smashed one on the wrist of that creature and the other on the ankle, two more for the other two limbs, two more for the chest, neck, face, and legs, with the arrows Nate tried to drive it hard into the wall when pulling out a torch set the last arrow ablaze and hurled it with such power that the creature’s body caught fire.

While this burned, Nate ran at full speed to get out of that place. Edith was right. That creature could not die. They had to find a way to end its existence because it was impossible for him to kill it.

While running, Eleonor suddenly said, “Nate! Seraphim needs you! Hurry up!”

She sent a mental map showing him the place where Seraphim was and terrified Nate started up, and he could in no way allow something to happen to Seraphim. What he had done with that man promised to hold him for a few minutes. He just hoped it was him. Long enough for Edith to find a way to assassinate him.

As Nate ran in terror to save Seraphim, Joshua received the mantle of witness from him. He was more interested in running to join the battle than in all that being a witness entailed.

However, before leaving, his mother had said, “Now, as you are a witness to the moon! The following is customary, and the moon will grant you a miracle. Use it wisely, son, and you can do whatever you want. It is the gift of a god. A real miracle!”

Joshua stopped and thought of his father, he thought that perhaps he could revive him, but the anguish that was sniffing in the air did not give him the time to think, after the battle, he would consider it, and with speed, he decided to run towards Edith to prevent him from that creature could get to her.

That being that could not die would soon face the Alpha.