Chapter 236: Cannibalism.
"If that is what it took to overcome these two then I would gladly give my life, I knew this was a possibility when I offered my hand as his ally!" Dr'ul caught the fists of her two aggressors and spun out of their way, clasping her hands and spreading her mana across everything she could perceive.
"However, I have realised through this ordeal that I am unwilling to see any of my brothers and sisters die, not here, not like this, so I am reserved to create the destruction needed to break my vessel!" She pulled her hands together and the stars started vanishing one after the other.
"That said; I do not intend to die by their hand, I still have a rematch with Sol to look forward to and compared to him these two are nothing special at all!!" Dr'ul erupted in a ball of majestic crimson and orange flames catching the two Emporium warriors off-guard after they had attempted a pincer attack.
"I will not fall by the hands of the Emporium's dogs!" Drul emerged from the burning ball and grabbed one of the retreating men by his throat squeezing until her hand made a fist beneath his head severing it from his body with his eyes pulled and his tongue swollen. "None but the Godslayer have the right to best me, I will never yield!" She flashed him from her hand and turned to the other.
"You keep sending your weakest and underestimating the might that we possess I say keep sending them, every dead Emporium mutt is one less to bother them," Drul turned to the bulkier of the two that had managed to escape her clutches earlier.
"Impossible," The man seethed. "How could a mere Vatui have this much power?" He clenched his gifts and ground his teeth impatiently.
"I need to warn the others-" his eyes lost focus of Dr'ul's image for a fraction of a second and at that moment his head was nearly severed when she struck with het sword, but probing to be more nimble than his dead counterpart he evaded the blade getting a gash across his throat and spinning out of her way and holding the wound revealing black blood seeping through his fingers.
"PowerPoint?" Dr'ul paused and raised her guard again; that drug was dangerous, whatever they made it with was so potent it gave them limitless potential, she had been pushed to use this much power without facing it so she knew she was in trouble but how much trouble she was in was only revealed after the man vanished from her sight and her right arm was torn clean off her shoulder taking the sword with it.
Renia held her mouth in shock when she saw this unfold and she remained mute about the events she witnessed when her brothers asked her what was happening, she attempted to leave once more but Dr'ul raised her left hand and summoned her sword again, landing on a random piece of debris and taking a knee, spitting up golden blood.
"Do not come, Renia," She warned her.
Dr'ul's power was her own weakness because she physically wore her mana, it embodied her; which meant that whatever she lost was permanently taken from her, until she could replace it, so losing an arm was in effect losing a massive amount of her overall power.
On a greater scale she still had a lot more to spare, but as she regrew her lost limb she could feel her power diminish slightly.
[Energy readings have dropped]
The warriors's AI scanned Dr'ul while he was in retreat and he stopped and turned to her again, she hesitated to attack him even though he was retreating, she had become wary of him since he activated PowerPoint, and even though she hadn't exerted herself any further there was a noticeable drop in the energy readings she emitted as soon as she regrew her lost limb.
"Maybe," He mused, concentrating with the aid of his suit on the blood within himself and forcing his heart to stop beating, and his lungs to stop pumping oxygen throughout his body.
The veins in his face and neck stood on end, and the black in his eyes started flowing away as his blood vessels ruptured when he forced his body into a state of adrenaline brought by depriving it of its ability to properly function, in a sense, he was in a state of emergency.
It could only last for a minute at max, but the payoff was power unlike anything else. "I'll kill this one and retreat with her body, forget harvesting she is too powerful to be left alive...!" He leaned forward and the shoulders of his suit burst open from the pressure of his muscles expanding beneath it.
Dr'ul's eyes widened in shock when the man's fist appeared before her, mere moments ago he had been far out of her sight and almost at the edge of the galaxy, but his return shocked her because of the power that it came with.
She managed to dodge his fist, but even in the vacuum of space the power that came after it blew her away and tore the platform she had been standing on asunder.
Before she could right herself or raise her guard a second time he came at her head again with his hand in a piercing motion and although she evaded his strike at the last second she was still left with a slice across her cheek.
"He is after my h-" Amidst trying to right herself the man caught her by her hand and stepped in her side, tearing her limb off with a roar and ripping it in two with his other hand.
"He figured it out!" Dr'ul raised her leg and kicked him square in his chin in an attempt to escape his range before he could strike at her again, but the berserker tanked the blow with his head snapping backwards and grabbed her ankle spinning several times and tossing her towards the invisible wall of the universe they inhabited.
They had already been fighting on a scale that made perceiving the damage dealt and received incalculable, but when Dr'ul hit that barrier and thousands of giant white cracks appeared across it stretching for what seemed like an infinity and she felt a splitting headache along with her shoulder bone breaking she knew she had been entirely wrong about her assessment of the white-clad warriors who had arrived after the rest had been slaughtered.
Her arm and leg regenerated and she raised her hands in defence, but the man didn't aim for her head again, instead, he drove his fist into her stomach and tore a hole right through her body, pulling her up and smashing her over and over again before yanking his hand free and stomping through the wound widening it as more golden blood splashed around her.
"Dr'ul!" Renia emerged from behind him and locked her arms around his large body, and following her S'mael and Adonai came afterwards; S'mael holding his legs with his six arms and Adonai holding on to his arm positioned over Dr'ul's chest.
It was futile, the three of them combined had not matched Dr'ul's power so the man found no resistance when he grabbed S'mael's head and smashed his face flat into the surface beneath and then grabbed Adonai's hand and slammed him on top of Dr'ul.
"Weak, all of you!" He laughed and reached for Renia, but she avoided his first grab and sunk her teeth into his skin attempting to drain his blood, a second later she released him all on her own and retreated several paces away when she had a taste of what coursed beneath his skin.
He grinned and looked at Dr'ul again. "I will kill you first!" He laughed punching at her after she had finished healing all of her injuries, but she dodged his arm and locked her legs around his neck while Adonai grabbed his other hand once more and S'mael held on to his legs.
"Renia, take him, drain his blood!" Dr'ul screamed at her immobile sister and only a moment later blinked in shock when Renia started vomiting and punching her stomach bringing up massive amounts of black blood as tears poured from her eyes.
"She is disgusted by herself for devouring the essence of her own kind!" The man laughed at Renia, "A vampiric parasite- you are not the first to cannibalise your fellow Vatui hahaha!"
"PowerPoint is-"
"Concentrated Vatui blood so dense it turns the body black!!" He continued laughing spreading his stance and waving his hands as a wave of pure energy blew them all away. "My time is almost up..." He clenched his jaws when blood began escaping the sides of his mouth and his skin started turning purple.
"Die," He hoarsely spoke hunching and shaking when the entire left side of his face turned purple and blood started pouring from his ear as well.
"All of you..." He raised his thumb and rammed it in his eye fiddling around and pulling out a small glowing white orb the size of his iris and staring at it for a few seconds.
"Every last one of you will die, even when my death has passed, I will fight you," He laughed when the flesh from his forehead stretched and formed new cells regenerating his eye and mending the tears across his skin.
"Do not let him swallow that!" Dr'ul snapped and summoned her sword swinging at him.
He didn't even dodge her strike, he allowed the sword to cleave through his body as he dropped the object in his mouth, and even Adonai grabbing him by his head and prying his mouth open didn't help as he willfully swallowed his tongue to push it down his throat.
"No!" Dr'ul charged and rammed her shoulder in his stomach in a last effort to get him to regurgitate it but he choked and laughed simultaneously, looking down his nose at her while he grabbed Adonai's neck.
"Every last Vatui!" He gargled.