Dark Magus Returns

Out of the countless battles that were taking place around the battlefield, the closest one to the Dark Magus and Heino was between Beatrix and Impress. The battles had several pockets of space due to the large amount of movement that would take place.

And, there were those who were just afraid that they would get hit or hurt by the powerful Qi that was being used nearby.

Beatrix was finding it hard to find a way to beat Impress. Thanks to the weapon given to her by Raze, she was able to last this long. She was phasing in and out of attacks.

Even creating opportunities to strike at Impress's body, whether that be her head, her heart, or anywhere else, but the power of the sword she was holding, the sword that was giving her the power of immortality, it was seemingly impossible to beat.

Large-scale attacks had been used by Beatrix, and she had even focused on attacking the hand that wielded the sword, thinking that maybe if she could break it away, it would stop the healing.

However, no cut was large enough to even stop her from holding onto the sword, and there was now another major problem brewing.

"What is it!" Impress said with a laugh as she dived right at Beatrix, who quickly phased through her attack and her body until she had reached the other side.

When Beatrix reappeared, she saw another strike coming for her head, and she had to use the ability of the sword again.

"You're getting slower, I can tell. You're finally running out of Qi, energy…no, that can't be it, this feels different, this feels like something else altogether, what is it?"

Beatrix was trying to create distance, but she knew what the problem was herself: the curse of the weapon. Each time she used the phasing, she was growing older.

Even if it was yet to be visibly different for her, she could feel it in her body. No longer could she just block attacks or move out of the way, using the phasing when it was truly needed.

Now she was needing to use it to avoid even easier strikes she would have blocked before. The issue with that, the more she used the item, the more her body would slow down.

What else could she do though, let Impress strike her down and for her to lose the fight?

'I thought…I thought I would have figured out a way by now, figured out a way to get rid of her, but I can't!' Impress thought. 'Now all I can do is rely on the power of the weapon to even survive, but eventually doing that, I'll just die.

Do I let her strike me, do I just keep using the curse until my heart can no longer beat? Is this really how Impress will live…she gets to live freely as head of the Dawnblade clan after everything she's done!'

Impress was screaming in her head as she delivered another strike after phasing. One filled with powerful Qi that struck the top of her head right through until her sword hit the ground.

Yet Impress, even in the middle of being struck, went out to strike herself. Beatrix had phased, moving back, and as she did, she let the phasing end slightly quick, and the tip of the sword had cut across close to her collarbone.

'Crap, I tried to use as little of the phasing as possible to buy me time, but that's useless as well…should I just give up then?'

Losing determination, Beatrix was at a loss of what to do, unaware of what was happening so close by.

Heino on the battlefield with Raze had just used his special ring. He had hit Raze, aiming to detach his soul from his body. That was what the ring did after all, but there was a grave miscalculation on Heino's part.

Something he didn't know, something he couldn't have known: that in Raze's body, there was more than just one soul attached to it.

The power of the ring, at that moment, had removed the blood woman. She felt herself being rejected out of Raze's body and being flung out across the field.

Her body was a floating ball of energy in the sky. She could see that she was far away from where Raze's body was in the distance and couldn't believe it herself.

'How…how could this have happened…? The power of that item, I didn't even know there was such a thing…I have no idea what that ring does, but there's a chance I can't even return to the original body…' the bloody woman thought.

This was the feeling that Raze felt, why he had felt lighter than before, and after learning of Heino's explanation, this is what he had believed had happened as well.

To test that, he tried to speak to the bloody woman, but there was no answer, there was no reaction whatsoever. The bloody woman didn't speak much, but in this situation, he imagined she would have done, and yet there was silence, confirming his thoughts, as well as his narrow escape.

What was worse for the bloody woman was she could feel it. Although she was a powerful ball of energy now, it was fading away; her energy was turning into nothing or becoming part of the world of Pagna.

'If I don't do something quick…I will be gone from this world forever.'

The blood woman started to search as she looked through the area for what she could do.

'Think, I have to do something, but I can't just attach myself to someone weak…but I can't be too picky either.'

As she looked around, she had discovered a battlefield not too far from her. In a desperate attempt, she rushed ahead, attracted to a particular feeling, the thought of death.

"I will just have to use you for now!" The bloody woman thought as she had entered into Beatrix's body.

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