"Hah… I jinxed myself."
"I literally jinxed myself." I say while looking at Orion's 15-meter-tall body with fat surrounding everywhere like obesity within obesity.
"What the fuck is that?" I hear Marva's voice behind and find her just a few steps back. "Did you do that?"
"Did I d- Okay, how can you even ask me that?" I tell her, "That's not possible, it only happens when people are on mental breakdown and lost all the doors to-"
"I did it." I nod and look back, "This is the second time that I've fucked myself."
"The first one went unsuspectingly fast… but somehow I don't think this will be like that." I say.
Marva walked ahead and stood in front of me as if guarding something, "You go take care of the others, I'll fight this guy."
"What'cha doing?" I ask, "Do you really think you could beat that guy?"
"Do you think you can?!" Marva said and readied her needle like sword for what's ahead.
"Yes! I made him like that, that kind of gives me a degree of taking care of things belonging to him."
Orion couldn't wait any longer as he screamed at us. Surprisingly, he grabbed the left part of his stomach, ripped it and threw it at us.
"Long range attacks, got himself an upgrade huh." I say as Marva jumped in front of me and slashed at the flying meat with her white glowing sword.
A soft, volume like sound swiped at the meat and it exploded around us.
Before it could hit Marva's face, I grab her and shield her in my chest as the meat spreads around.
"Henry, what are you-" Before she could ask, Marva heard screams around us.
"What is this! What is this that burns so much!" A soldier said as his armor quickly dissolves and the meat burns into his body.
"The pain! It's going… why is it going inside? Argghhh!" A Bandit said as he rolled around on the ground, trying to remove the meat like substance to no avail.
"Just as I thought, Acid." I say as Marva's face losses color.
"Oh… if that hit my face, I would have died."
"Or worse, disfigured."
"Extremely" She says as another meat attack with acid for flavor falls towards us.
I quickly take her in a princess carry and jump away. The large meatball misses us, but it breaks over and spreads around, attacking friends and enemies both.
"Marva, I'm gonna need you to back away for a sec. I can't protect you and fight him at the same time."
"What? I don't need you to protect me." Marva said with her brows raised. Then slapping my hand, she flashed away.
Marva flashed before Orion's large figure and stabbed at him. But it was fruitless.
The small point regenerated quickly and Marva stepped back to avoid a punch coming to her.
Marva again flashed in and behind Orion before doing it multiple times as a lot of tiny but penetrative wounds opened up over Orion's monstrous body.
Again it was fruitless but she was still doing some damage to him while remaining away from danger.
"Hm… She really didn't need my help." I think again, "But she definitely did the first time."
"Okay, no more breaks." I put my hand back to pull out the brick sword, "It's time to go for realz-"
"Where's my sword?" My hand tries to grab something but I find empty air. "Did it fall somewhere?"
Looking back, Keira was calling for me from the higher ground. On her hands was my brick sword as she jumped up and down to showcase it.
"Can you throw it to me… wait a second, we're too far awa-" But without waiting, Keira already threw it hard. The Large Sword flying above with astonishing speed and height.
"Oh! That little woman really has some strength in her." I say as the sword intends to not only come to me, but surpass me.
"Oops! SORRRY!" Keira screams to me.
"It's alright." I quietly murmur while smiling ahead, "The throw was perfect."
I ran ahead as the sword flew above me and surpassed at one point. Smiling at the prospect ahead, I jump up and my body almost flew as the wind crashed at me.
But with power backing me, I stayed above and came close to the brick sword as I grabbed it before falling down.
As I was falling, I saw Marva's body flashing and zipping around, but that wasn't a problem. My aim's just that good.
She also worked as a good distraction as I came within attack range.
"FIERCE FORCE!" I screamed and startled both fighters, but it was already too late.
Both of my hands grabbed the brick sword tightly. The veins over my hands exploding above as power coursed through them.
"HAGH!" I quickly raise the large sword and bring it down upon Orion.
"ARKGHHNNN!" His retched scream escaping as my sword invaded his left shoulder and cut down until it hit the ground.
Orion's 15-meter-tall body didn't stand a chance against me and my sword as the left side of his body from the shoulder to the leg, fell to the side.
Orion's scream itself breaking out and terrorizing everyone.
Marva and I backed away while closing our ears from his crude screams.
"I think he went on OVerdrive!" Marva said.
I don't say anything while blocking my ears as I saw Orion throbbing around.
OVerdrive was the term used when a person using a sigmat ring goes crazy. Not only does his mentally go crazy but the ring itself gives dangerous and uncontrollable amount of power to the user, making him extremely dangerous.
I already knew that when I saw him inflating to titanic height.
But his height wasn't the only problem.
My eyes curve down as it saw how quickly his regenerative factor was working to heal him. I had cut him down in half but that wasn't enough to kill him.
"Shit! That things still alive! How powerful did OVerdrive make him?" Marva asked as she gritted her teeth through Orion's scream.
"It definitely did some favors for that guy." I say, "I have a plan!"
"What?" She screamed at me as Orion's screams made it harder to hear.
"I'm gonna punch him."
"Haha" Marva laughed, "It's because of the screams… I misheard you say, you wanted to punch him." Updates are released by novel{f}ire.net
"Nope" I smile ahead, "Just enthusiastic."
"You cut him down to half and that didn't do shit."
"Why? What does it have that your previous ones didn't?"
"I'll be going 100%."
"…Are you trying to make me horny?" Marva asked, "…Because it's working a little."
I laugh at her words. This is why I tolerate Marva.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Concentrating all the strength in my body to my right hand, leaving just enough for movement.
On the surface, it doesn't look like my hand went under any transformation because it didn't. That's the beauty of Fierce and Fortified Force. They don't bring additional strength but the one hidden inside you.
I look up and see Orion screaming, this was my chance.
I ran ahead, going too fast for bandit or anyone to trouble me. As I close in on Orion and jump, I see a shadow over me, Orion's punch coming.
'Shit! The bastard was waiting for me.'
But a sudden flash of light and his hand was falling. I smile at Marva's leaving figure and look ahead at Orion's crazy one.
"Time to Uncrown the Usurper!"
I punch it straight to his face.
"FORTIFIED FORCE 100%!"