As the lightning strikes, both of us shook us the lightning bolt made us got wrecked together. It was like a double-edged sword that also can wound the caster. I can feel the current of electricity travel in my body, wave after wave. With a few more seconds, the spell stopped and I fell into the ground. I felt my whole body numb. And if not for the intense training I have undergone from Moonlight, this Lightning bolt might have toasted me.My clothes are also in mess and I can smell the burnt smell on my body. A few of my skin parts were burned but I feel numb. The pain is nothing. I can"t move and the only thing I can move is my eyes. I can see in my peripheral eye view that Onizuka also fell and is currently struggling to stand up. Unlike me who is prettily beaten up, Onizuka can still move but can barely stand up. He struggled on doing so and whenever he tried, he was forced to kneel again.
"F*CKING COMMONER! YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME!" Onizuka tried using his magic but it was a bit strange as he can"t seem to be able to work the skill properly. When he tried to use the skill again, it only produced a black smoke before it faded.
I breathed heavily and I can feel the looming danger from the approaching Onizuka who is walking by kneeling towards me.
"You will pay... you will pay... you will pay... you will pay!" he reached out and grab my neck hard.
Of course, I tried my best to strike him down from what he was doing but he was too strong and attacking him from this situation is not a good thing. I gritted my teeth and once again activated the spell of the Card and invisioned Onizuka as the target.
BZZZZZZTT!
An arc of lightning strike Onizuka again but this time, he was the one in the direct hit and his shadowy figure slowly blur out as the electricity once again flow in his body. Luckily for me this time, the electricity did no longer flow towards my body. Seeing that the electricity is no longer harming me, I decided to pour all of the uses towards Onizuka and him once and for all.
"GRAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Three more lightning arcs appeared from the card and simultaneously struck Onizuka, causing the shadowy look of his to fade, replacing back to his original look. His hair had already stood up and smoking and a few of his flesh is being burnt to crisp. I took the chance and used all my remaining strength to cause more damage to him. I slowly aimed the gloves-free hand to him and cast the skill out from me before I lost all energy in my body to move.
"Torrent Bullet!"
A torrent of water escaped from my hands and like a bullet, he was carried away from the water current and flew to the wall. He slump down to the ground and looked at me with a sinister smile.
"Heh, to think someone like you...manage to defeat me... Master Shadow would be happy to find... someone like you to become a vessel... of his..." Onizuka mumbled before his eyes lost all of the consciousness and life force. Then, I heard the voice of the Crystal seed in my consciusness talk.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"Hey, kid! His soul is disipating! Collect it and use it as a fertilizer for the Mana Tree so that your mana would go stronger and you can handle spells more easily!" the Crystal Seed shouted in my consciousness.
"Ugh, can"t you see I can barely move? I used my whole energy into the spell I released earlier. All my senses are numb!" I complained.
"Ugh... No choice then, let me do the work for now!" and before I knew it, my body glows blue and a strange aura that slowly shaped into a hand appeared and extended itself from my body towards the dissipating soul of Onizuka.
"Gotcha!" the crystal seed"s voice said in my consciousness before the aura hand retracted back to me and I can see a white soul that seems to be squirming.
"Hey! What are you doing? Isn"t this an evil deed?!" I complained.
"h.e.l.l no, boy. Although it seemed evil, its not. Instead, if we didn"t, that guy would just move to another body and continue to move around and do the same thing. Its not something you can call evil but I suggest you keep quiet about it because, the enemies might be going to target you from now on, and don"t worry, the soul would be purified and will be sent to the nirvana," the blue seed explained before the aura hand returned to my body and a strong surge of memories gushed through my head. Of course, these memories are not mine.
"What the f*ck is going on?!"
"Once a soul is being used, their memories will be extracted and their very soul will be purified before being sent to nirvana. Of course, the memories would be for you to use. Either use it for intel or use it for sacrifice like how I asked for sacrificial memories to raise your power. Depends on you," the Crystal seed answered before it stopped talking.
The memories keep on flowing to my head and I was a bit of confused and overwhelmed by the new memories pouring in my mind but it was very clear that there are many memories that seemed foreign and I can"t understand them as they seemed blurry but I don"t mind. Then, I suddenly stumble on a very dark memory where the perspective is from Onizuka. He is currently on a cave and everything is dark. I was about to fast forward on its memory but then, I saw a strange part.
"Good evening Lord Shadow,"Onizuka"s voice can be heard. It was like I was watching a movie in the first person view. As soon as he said those words, the whole place lit up, but it was still dark to say so because the flame is not glowing red but glowing violet and blue which is rather peculiar.
Then, a huge smoke figure appeared on the very center of the cave. I can see in the perspective of Onizuka that he is trembling but he kneel without succ.u.mbing to fear.
"You are back, bring the world to ruin, find me a host so that I can continue casting this world to chaos, where the likes of me are much better to rule. I know you can do it, and don"t you fail me. I don"t accept failures ."
The voice of the smoky figure that he called Lord Shadow is so heavy and sinister that I can feel the hair in my skin to stand.
"As you command, my lord," Onizuka answered as he lowered his head.
I was a bit confused who was this Lord Shadow but from what I can see, he was like the cla.s.sic villain seen in the manga, anime or games that I have seen so far. But what is the goal of this guy? I continued watching the scene of Onizuka"s memory and I soon got the answer from the guy himself.
"Soon enough, I would be able to take the whole world. But first, I had to take it slow. Taking the whole world is not something easy to do. I would use my ability to gather similar guys like you who will be loyal to me. Of course, people like you who are loyal to me until the end of my conquest would be the very few people who will get a position to the world I will be creating soon."
I creased my brow from what I am hearing. This guy is planning to take the world? A conquest? Then, the smokey guy he called Shadow turn its head and look at Onizuka, or rather... me? The eyes were fixated to me, it was clearly not the eye of someone fixated on Onizuka but an eye that is clearly something else.
"Looks like we had someone listening to our conversation!"