Chapter 1964: The Italian Side Job -Final
Chapter 1964: The Italian Side Job -Final
The Human Shield wept when they saw the incoming attacks from the particular humans that seemed to have some hope of defeating the Void Warrior. Yet at the same time, they were obliged to aid the victor who had enslaved their bodies to his cause.
Thus, with reluctance upon living once more through the energies of the void, they cast their magic, creating a series of barriers while sending a variation of projectiles toward Rex and Kraft. Incidentally, none of them matter as with that reluctance came with hope. The hope of struggling against this particular Void Warrior who kept them here in this abyssal world for eternity.
To them, they feel that Hell might be a better place than a place where there was nothing but emptiness.
And because of that struggle, the magic barriers and projectiles were delayed and this gave the Fox 'bullets' an edge that the Void Warrior Spartakus had never thought of. It pierced through the human shield and moved to make contact with his body. At this point, the bullets' movement and the slowness in creating the barrier had caught Spartakus off-guard.
Simultaneously, he believed that these bullets should not be any more painful or deadly than he had suffered before.
Oh, he was so wrong.
As the bullets went into his gigantic body, they not only did significant damage in twisting and turning every piece of sinew, blood vessel, muscle, and perhaps organ through their path, but the foxes did the impossible that there was no way Spartakus could have think of.
Each and every one of them had decided to transform from the bullet form upon doing a certain amount of damage back into their physical human forms.
Surely, this will not create a dent or a minor wound in that Void Warrior's peak perfect looking body, but with chi, the Foxes were able to regular their circulatory systems to not breathe for a minute or so as they wreaked havoc within his body.
So long as he did not have a spell or a defence mechanism to block those humans from messing around with his body, he had to tolerate the slow death that they were about to give him.
Well, slow was subjective as that was the perspective of Kraft who was standing there soaking all the projectiles along with Rex as Spartakus tried to find a solution to the problem that had becoming to be a threat to his life.
All Six of them returned to their human form had already took out their weapons from their storage rings and started unleashing scores of techniques as if this was a warm up section for them.
Surely, Spartakus had already felt the danger but there was no way to know where those humans had been moving throughout his body. Unlike a cultivator who can sense the dangers that their body could be in using chi sense, Spartakus do not have such abilities despite being exposed by them on varying occasions in the past and enslaving heroes up to this day.
Arrogance could be the crux of the issue that ultimately brought to his untimely death.
Without knowing where the humans were within his body and they keep changing locations to confuse him such as Kiyu who had been running around throwing timed bombs to screw with Spartakus' senses, it was a matter of time before he fell.
Kraft and Rex also knew the demise that was coming for him and they too did not relent with their offensive the moment they finished blocking each wave of damage coming towards them.
Ke Mi using the System Rider also feels that the end was nigh and started to do her attacks of her own especially when she was preparing a few tunes in preparation for such a turn of events.
Waves of chi and Void energy combined flew out of her Zither which subsequently transformed into a silhouette of a Giant (or given her perception of giants based on what she had known of them through the Dungeon World.) Huge silhouettes of giants smashed into the Human Shield and it prevented Spartakus from reacting properly.
There was nothing that he could do as he was the kind of person who used strength to win and had no way to fight against trickery employed by the foxes. So, in a desperate attempt to possibly get out of the situation he was in, Spartakus assumed that killing Kraft and Rex would solve the problem.
If those humans were able to turn into pieces of metal to fly into his body, then they must be minions or summons of the pair of humans standing right in front of him to defend themselves from the attacks.
So, without much hesitation or life in him, he quickly executed one of the strongest but simplest skills he could dish out in that short amount of time. The void energy that pulsated through the spear vibrated, causing the spear to grow bigger.
Kraft and Rex avoided the first strike as Spartakus threw a quick and heavy thrust but they never expected that the void energy transform the spear into something similar to the homing void energised beams that they had been avoiding.
The metal and humans stuck on the spear split into two and went to separate ways to chase after Kraft and Rex. With that, the human shield that Spartakus was holding had been put to full use as the shield suddenly started to show its true form by spitting out a rope like string of humans out from the shield and towards Kraft and Rex.
They were all holding void shaped weapons in order to hurt the duo and also casting magical bolts at them.
However, all of this was merely a distraction.
Kraft and Rex both smiled as they did not expect the Void Warrior does have a simple mindset. Perhaps the stereotype was true that all warriors only have 'muscles' in their brains. If Spartakus could learn how to count, he might have known that 6+2 does not equate to 10. There were two more missing and they were Evon and Pei.
And that was when the Spartakus found out about it, it would have been too late for him to react. Pei was already flying high up behind his neck with Evon covering her in a veil of energy that cloaked her presence using his powers while he was in Fox form.
They did not know how a normal cloaking spell could work against his senses and seeing how the Void World could slowly eat one's energies, it was best to have someone to continuously cast the veil spell to ensure that one could not be detected.
Hence, the idea of Evon clinging to Pei's shoulders and casting a veil to keep her presence unknown to the Void Warrior. Unlike most cliché stories when the victor shouted 'I GOT YOU!" in hopes of catching the enemy unaware and showing the enemy that they had the upper hand in this situation, Pei merely kept quiet and sliced the Void Being's Neck as swiftly and hard as she could.
It was only when she saw the entire neck being sliced into two and fall to the ground, she let out a peace sign to the rest as her moment of victory. Yet Kraft and the others were not going to stop there. They were Foxes with a relative amount of experience under their belt. As much as they trick their enemies into their plans, they too have to be wary of the enemies' way of doing things.
Kraft immediately called upon Jin and the System Rider immediately stopped playing the tune as a card flew out from his pouch of cards via chi manipulation and Ke Mi was swapped out of it.
"Thank you, Ke Mi. You did brilliant today as always." Jin said as he bid her goodbye and welcomed someone who was familiar with this world that they were in.
"Here I thought I might come in when shit hits the fan. But looks like I have a brand new respect for all of you." She chuckled as her form changed Jin's humanoid form into something more grotesque too. There might not be any crocodile head but it was embodied in his chest armour. While the butterfly wings came out on his legs instead.
Thank goodness they were not physical in nature and were akin to holographic nature. But rather than wasting time looking at his appearance, he zoomed towards the Void being headless body telling the rest to come out of it before he unleashed the last attack at him.
That was when Kraft and Rex understood that cutting his head might not have been the solution but a process they had to go through and it was a good call that Kraft had quickly asked Jin to emerge and turn action.
"Thank you all for helping me to clear this as soon as possible!" Jin said as the crocodile design that was on his chest suddenly turned more real as if a 3D shape of the crocodile head was rising out of it. During that time of emergence, a void energy ball was being charged and accumulated.
It was not until the head had fully emerged out of it that Jin released that sphere of condensed void energy towards the headless body.
Finally, it was done.
The body was sucked into the void energised ball as well as the human spear and shield. They were by Farasha's explanation an extension of Spartakus too. "He really has a bad match with your pals. With normal conditions, humans could never last more than 30 seconds."
"Heh, that was what she said." Jin blurted out but Farasha had no idea what he was talking about.