Life Hunter

Arima saw the small attack and frowned, he chose to teleport away. The black smoke exploded in a dark cloud.

"Death magic, as expected" Arima murmured "But, if it"s death magic" He smirked and flapped his wings. He charged towards the Lich.

The latter opened his mouth and eerie shout resounded, the ten wendigos protected him and met Arima head on.

"[Communis humane nature uirtutem] (Superhuman strength)" Arima chanted and his muscles became a bit bigger, then he clashed head on with a wendigo, fist to fist. The result was the wendigo being pushed back, one of his comrades attacked Arima from behind and waved his claw, Arima turned around and blocked with his left arm, he took out Ira and shot at the head of the wendigo

Soon, a few other of those undead attacked, one tried to bite Arima and was crushed by a knee, the other punched and was kicked and the last one was just shot before he could do anything.

"Eighth level" Arima said. All of those wendigos were at this level "Tch, you"re lucky I don"t have Karma" He clicked his tongue and complained "But you could say it"s fair, after all? I"m the worst opponent you could find" He grinned

The Lich was observing the fight going on between Arima and the wendigos and his flames wavered a bit. Something that should be happening wasn"t, that"s what the Lich was thinking.

When Arima repulsed the last wendigo, he looked at the Lich "Surprised? Normally, when you fight a high cla.s.s undead you have to always protect yourself from the death magic that they produce, but I didn"t" Arima said and grinned. The Lich and even the wendigos, who possessed a basic intelligence, were listening to him.

"But, death is my friend from long date, you"ll have a hard time troubling me with that" Arima said

"What do you mean, human?" Surprisingly, the Lich talked, his voice sounded like an normal old man with an eerie voice

Arima was a bit surprised, he didn"t think that the Lich would have enough conscience to partic.i.p.ate in a conversation with his enemy.

"Let me show you" Arima said, the whole area was instantly flooded with mana, Arima chanted and him and the undead were instantly transported in another dimension.

"…What I"m supposed to do while waiting?" Lanya was left alone in the empty place and murmured

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The Lich looked around "Is that some different dimension?" He said

Arima smiled "As expected from a Lich, you must have lived long" He said, it was after all the first time someone saw through his magic. Even Jorga didn"t understand it.

"Now, be my judge, you"ll be the first one who"ll see this" Arima said and chilly smirk formed on his face. A dark mist surrounded him and engulfed his figure

At that moment, the Lich was already astounded and his "flames" became more agitated. The gathering of dark mist suddenly dispersed along with Arima, the latter was nowhere to be seen. But the Lich looked behind him and saw a black coat floating with the wind, he looked higher, he saw a skeletal hand, covered in gray scales, holding a gun, he looked even higher and saw a skull right in front of his face with blue flames in the eye sockets, looking at him. On the back he saw a skeletal tail and a pair of ash-grey wings.

The skull had his bones moved in a grin, it was extremely disturbing. But the Lich had his expression doing the same and he began to laugh, the other skeleton in front of him also followed.

"I must say, I never saw a human holding the power of an undead without being one, that"s a d.a.m.n contradiction" The Lich"s voice became extremely happy for some reason

"I don"t know about that" The other skeleton responded, his voice sounded like Arima"s but a lot more eerie "To be honest, I just got some insights from your subordinates there. When I felt their aura touching me, I got an idea. Becoming an undead, if I could do that then maybe I could gain a quasi-invulnerable body and also nullify the toll put on my body by some of my techniques" He said

"I understand, death magic won"t work at all on you" The Lich said "But, that"s not my only strength!" He shouted and the aura of the tenth level totally crushed everything in the surroundings. Even the wendigos were pressured on the ground and then their aura, along with their life force, flew to the Lich

"{I"m not imagining things, he just absorbed their life force, right?}" Night asked in Arima"s mind

"{Yeah, but it"s different here, he"s not like me. Since the beginning, the life force in those undead was his, so he just took it back}" Arima explained "{Anyway, are you ready?}" And asked

Night sighed in his mind "{You maybe got rid of the toll on your body but the one on my mind is still not resolved}" He complained

"{I"ve got an idea for that, we were going in the wrong direction since the beginning. We just need to share half of the toll on each other"s spirit and it should resolve the problem of spirit exhaustion}" Arima said

"{…Why didn"t we think of that earlier?}"

"{I don"t know}" Arima grinned "{But it"s time to go}" He said

The Lich in front of them had already became twice bigger, his bones also began to shine.

Arima also began to change, his skeletal figure became bigger and his bones turned silver and his aura raised to the tenth level

"[Death G.o.d"s body]"

"[Agnitio vultus unum centum]"

The two chanted at the same time and their respective transformation finished. They laughed at the same time and charged at each other.

The Lich conjured a black scythe and, without Karma, Arima created a huge katana with thunder magic.

They clashed with their respective weapons, each time their weapons clashed, either a lightning would fly and destroy a small hill or a ray of darkness would disintegrate the ground and form a crater.

The Lich wielded his scythe like a whirlpool, and from the tip of his blade, a dozen of black spheres formed a circle and were launched at the same time at Arima.

The latter raised his weapon with his two hands and swung it, he conjured "Aeterna" and clashed with the dark spheres, the explosion created a black dome surrounded by lightning.

Both Arima and the Lich were chased out of the dome by their own attacks. They looked at each other with their "flames".

The Lich gathered his mana and a sea of darkness appeared behind him, he kicked the ground, followed by a tide.

Arima did the same and the air around him became filled with thunder, he clashed one more time with the Lich.

Their weapons clashed, countless times they were destroyed but they conjured another one at the same time. The huge waves of magic following them were also fighting each other.

Then, thunder rumbled, the Lich looked at the sky and saw thunder clouds condensing a huge lightning sphere in the sky. He did the same, and the ground became covered in darkness, some of it began to condense in another sphere.

Arima called Ira and changed the bullets while fighting, when he fired, the bullet flew to the Lich and exploded, the undead was surprised by the weapon but he still protected himself with a shield.

Arima took the opportunity and gathered and great amount of mana and magic in his sword, he teleported just in front of the Lich "[Terra Aeterna]" He chanted and swung his katana which now had lightning around it.

The Lich quickly reacted "[Blood Harvest]" He chanted and his scythe gained a hint of red and a black aura surrounded it. He blocked Arima"s sword with it.

The consequences were much worse than before, the clash caused an earthquake, the ground just vanished for at least ten miles around them. At the same time, the spheres that were being condensed suddenly transformed in two beams that flew to each other.

That another clash created a strange black sun in the sky covered in darkness and thunder. It was obvious that this sun was extremely unstable.

The two fighters looked at that sun and acted immediately

"[Hades]" The Lich chanted the name of the G.o.d of h.e.l.l and became a red light that flew towards Arima

"[Zeus]" Arima did the same and became a bolt of lightning and charged at the undead.

They both used their strongest displacement magic, they knew that if they could stop the other from defending himself from the sun, they would gain an obvious advantage.

Their max speed now went around eight hundred meters per second. Two colors, black and red, just kept clashing and creating shockwaves which created a depression on the ground.

This situation lasted for ten seconds, in that ten seconds they gave around a thousand blows to each other. And then, the black sun exploded and covered everything.

The nova that ensued became bigger and bigger, it split apart the clouds and rewrote each crater on the ground.

After a minute of intense explosion, only a fifty miles" radius crater was left.

In the middle of it, Arima and the Lich were looking at each other. Both of them had their clothes in tatters. Although they had no problem of physical endurance, no pain and no blood, they still were at their wit"s end.

Both of them had at least some ribs and an arm broken, which were already being restored, because they were using death power, they didn"t need life magic, like the latter can heal living beings, the former could heal undead beings.

"If things continue like that, we"ll take at least a day before finishing this" Arima said

"What do you propose?" The Lich asked

"What about we prepare our strongest moves and use that to determine the winner, the one who can"t withstand it lose, well, there"s also the case where we both die" Arima said with a smile on his skull.

The truth is that Arima wanted to finish this fight quickly, not because it was a bother to continue but because his mana would dry out because he kept the dimension active.

"I"ll respect your choice, you dressed this dimension to keep away obstacles, I"m sure you already used more mana on keeping the dimensional connection than I have in total" The Lich said "Let"s do it, no matter the result, it was fun for me to meet a human as frightening as you. My name is Koden"

"My name is Arimane. Me too, it was fun" Arima answered and jumped before standing in mid-air.

The Lich did the same "Let"s go, Arimane!" And shouted in excitement

"Sure, Koden!" Arima responded

And then, they both gathered their magic for the last attack.