I squeezed my shoulder in pain from the insane attack that Rei had just fired at me. I saw the mana up close and now I was slightly reluctant to attack, the blast rei fired had multiple tiny explosions layered onto the outer edge of it, making the attack faster and way more destructive. However, now was not the time to be afraid, if i don't attack i would be killed along with the guards. "Rei, I'm giving you one last chance. Go back home."
Rei ignored me likely because i did the same earlier. "Damn, your petty." I wasn't allowed any more time to speak as Rei thrust his blade forward, I paried it with my dagger and threw one of them at him. It stuck into his right shoulder and returned to me. Why hadn't he used his beam? I looked closer and realised he was sweating heavily. "That beam has a cooldown. Doesn't i-" I was forced to dodge as a beam shot passed my head. A 9 second cooldown.
I dashed forward and parried another swing, tring to smack my dagger hilt against him to knock him out. He dodged it at the last second and thrust forward again, he began charging it and I had no choice but to use up a lot of mana for the teleport spell. I lInked a chain with some of my mana I had set up beforehand and let it take me there. I appeared behind him and stabbed his right shoulder again, my blade tore into his muscle and he finally lost grip of his blade. I took the opportunity and attempted to knock him out again.
I was met with the end of Rei's blade and was forced to step backwards as the beam ripped a hole in the side of my chest. I screamed out, I had never felt such immense pain before and was vomiting up blood. I surrounded the wound in extra mana and acted fast, dashing forward and dodging the beam again. I jumped at him and grabbed onto his left arm, twisting his wrist as hard as i could in an attempt to break his grip. We entered a power struggle and I started to condense more mana into my hand. He responded in kind but I was better at it.
I forced as much into my hand as possible and finally broke his grip with it. His curved blade fell to the ground and my hilt finally connected, it took three good hits before Rei was knocked to the floor. "You fucking monster..." At that moment Eleanor rushed into the scene and immediately began to heal my wound. I was able to stop the bleeding but the pain was undeniably the worst id ever felt. I had damaged something I shouldn't have and it was refusing to heal, a slight bit of my heart had completely disintegrated. My body instinctively moved the remaining mana I had to my heart and my will to live shone through, in that split second I had learned how to heal after my mana fused with a small bit of Elenors.
My heart was fixed completely and my flesh along with all of the veins that had been destroyed were being repaired at a slow rate. I was about to pass out and turned to Elenor. "Take us both to Rei's house. Everything is fine now." I passed out at that point, the world faded to black and my irregular dreams returned.
This time it was not the woman in front of me but 2 men and a woman, they were wearing the same type of padded armour that Rei was wearing. This was not my memories or a dream. "Thank you for stopping Rei." The woman started speaking. "He's not a bad person, he's just misunderstood I guess. I can't tell you the full story but Rei has gone through so much that he became detached from society." I tried to respond but i was unable to, it was like my mouth was taped shut.
"I'm only going to ask you one thing Ryan, let Rei travel with you. If he starts being stubborn just mention that name Akari. We've run out of time , please do us this favour." My eyes snapped open and the curved blade was already pinning me down to the bed beneath me. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now, asshole." I was no longer afraid of his empty threats. "Would akari be happy that your doing this?"
I stared him in the eyes, he had now completely frozen, his confusion was only barely showing through his facial expression. "How the fuck do you know that name!?" He was clearly frustrated, I wanted to confirm something with him but that could wait. "A group of three came to me in my dreams last night to talk to me, and a short female with blonde hair and light green eyes asked me to travel with you. I'm guessing her name was akari?"
He withdrew his blade from my face and placed it in its drawer. "So you want me to travel with you?" I looked at him confused about why he was asking. "Well. Yeah, the more the merrier right?" He sighed deeply and walked up to the bedside.
Ocean Dwellers is my first novel, it follows an amnesiac named Ryan Leto who finds himself in a deep sea apocalyptic world. After finding out he is from surface world he sets out on a journey to go there and recover his lost self.
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