Bastard Homunculus: Reborn in the Corpse Pit

"It's about time! Hurry up and take this barrier down!" Instructed Jules impatiently, as Tacitus came into sight, approaching the hotel with a member of the APF escorting him.

"Yeah, okay, but you don't have to yell, you know," He sighed, getting closer to the barrier, before it disappeared in the blink of an eye as he activated his Nullification Magic.

"Oh, my, how impressive, he took it down in an instant," Mused Antel in surprise.

"Alright, let's get in there and help the others. Some of them might be in trouble, so we should hurry, before it's too late," Remarked Aster with a grimace.

"Agreed, we cannot allow any of our comrades to die," Nodded Wistari, as the ground began to approach the entrance.

"Clear the rubble away as fast as you can, we don't have a second to waste," Frowned Jules, as she glanced at Aster.

"Yeah, got it. I can't just blast it away though, that wall is looking pretty unstable. I'll have to telekinetically lift the chunks of rubble out of the way and-...," Began Aster, before trailing off a deafening explosion rang out.

The group turned their gazes up as a fierce blast erupted out from around the middle of the hotel, from inside one of the rooms.

Large chunks of concrete and shards of glass began raining down as a thick cloud of smoke billowed out, Aster quickly putting up a telekinetic wall above the group to shield them from the falling rubble.

Inside the hotel...

"Time to die, you naive fool!"

Akila bit his lower lip as he steeled his resolve, pushing down the conflicting emotions swirling inside him as a barrage of light projectiles and stone arrows came shooting towards him.

His body felt cold as he let out a slow exhale, before sprinting forward as he tightened his grip on the handles of his blades, the projectiles phasing right through him.

As he closed in on the Lancer, who began to whip his spear across at Akila's feet, Akila swiftly leapt forward, turning the soles of his feet intangible and phasing right through the Lancer, before driving his right blade back as he landed behind the hooded figure.

Akila tensed slightly as an agonized cry of pain rang out, his blade plunging into the left side of the hooded figure's back and piercing his heart. Akila's hands began shaking as he gritted his teeth and pulled the blade back out, a couple of stone arrows phasing through him as he spun around with a yell and whipped his left blade across.

"Y-You bastard...!" Stuttered the Lancer, his voice wracked with pain as he coughed out blood and began to turn around, before a choked gasp rang out as Akila's blade sliced right through the side of his neck, Akila's chest tightening as a violent spray of blood erupted out, the hooded figure collapsing onto his knees and falling over with a thud, slumping against the floor as blood gushed out of the deep wound in his neck, his body convulsing slightly.

As Akila let out a ragged, shaky exhale, he cried out sharply as a stone arrow came shooting out and plunged into the sole of his left foot before he spun around and swung his right blade across as couple more arrows came shooting towards his feet, deflecting them away.

He then reached down and pulled the arrow out, before he shot towards the Archer, who stiffened before firing out a couple more arrows, the projectiles zipping through the air towards him.

They passed right through his body, Akila putting on a burst of speed and leaping forward as he closed in on the Archer, who began to manifest a couple more stone arrows.

Akila whipped his right blade across, slicing through the Archer's bow and cutting it in half before he could finish forming the arrows, before he cried out in agony as Akila plunged his left blade straight through the man's throat.

A gurgling wheeze rang out as Akila shakily pulled the blade back out and stumbled back, the sensation of the blade slicing through flesh making his blood run cold.

The Archer coughed out blood began starting to form a stone blade, the construct falling apart before he could finish manifesting it, his eyes rolling back as he collapsed onto his knees and fell over, hitting the floor with a thud.

Akila gagged slightly as he felt a wave of nausea coming on, his breathing shaky and ragged as his face went pale, before he stumbled and heaved, vomiting across the floor as a sense of revulsion welled up inside him.

"I-I...I just killed people. I killed them...I killed them, I...I...I feel sick. I-I feel sick, I feel sick, I feel sick...," He thought to himself as he collapsed onto his knees, his body breaking out into a cold sweat as he began to hyperventilate.

His vision began to blur, the corners of his line of sight starting to darken as he gasped hoarsely, his chest tightening as he began sweating profusely.

He shook his head as his ears began ringing, gritting his teeth as he desperately tried to compose himself, a swell of conflicting emotions welling up-...suddenly, he jumped slightly as a loud explosion rang out, the room rumbling and shaking as his head darted across with a startled look on his face.

"H-Huh? What...what was that?"

In another room in the hotel...

Lloyd shot forward as he steeled himself, the Thrasher swinging his whip towards him with a powerful flick of his wrist.

Lloyd raised his left arm up, wincing as the whip struck his forearm and wrapped around it with a painful, stinging impact, before gritting his teeth and jerking his arm back, pulling the Thrasher off balance.

Lloyd put on a burst of speed and leapt forward as the Thrasher stumbled forward, before tensing and starting to raise the handle of his whip up in alarm, but he was too slow, as Lloyd drove one of his blades forward, piercing through the hooded figure's right eye and plunging into his brain, killing him.

As the figure collapsed onto the floor with a thud, Lloyd quickly crossed his blades in front of himself as a swirling blast of slicing wind streaks came shooting towards him, narrowly blocking the brunt of the attack, a few shallow cuts appearing across his arms and above his left eye, trickles of blood running down before he healed himself, the cuts steadily closing up.

He then shot towards the Wind Mage, weaving across as a couple more wind blasts came shooting towards him, before slashing at the hooded figure's chest as he closed in.

The figure quickly shuffled across to the left in alarm, crying out in pain as Lloyd inflicting a deep gash across his right bicep, blood pouring out and streaming down his arm, before he let out a sharp gasp as Lloyd struck his right side with a powerful kick, sending him flying away to his left, his left arm thudding against the barrier.

He scrambled back onto his feet as Lloyd shot towards him, rushing across to his right as the Knight drove one of his blades forward, slicing deeply through the figure's left side, blood gushing out before Lloyd leapt towards the figure and slammed his knee onto the deep gush, the figure shuddering in pain.

He gritted his teeth before starting to charge up a wind blast in his right hand, before crying out as Lloyd whipped his left blade across and slashed at the man's hand, inflicting a deep cut across his palm before slamming his foot onto the figure's stomach, knocking him back a few meters.

The figure fell over with a stifled gasp, his back hitting the floor with a thud as he trembled in pain, beads of sweat pouring down his face.

"It's over. Concede and turn yourself in, you aren't going to beat me," Stated Lloyd, pointing one of his blades at his opponent as he began approaching him.

"D-Damn it...you bastard. I'll admit it, you've won this fight...but I'll be the one who gets the last laugh!" Declared the hooded figure, as he pulled out a Spell Card with a determined look on his face.

Lloyd's eyes widened in alarm before he raced towards the figure as fast as he could, leaping forward as he closed in and drove his left blade at the figure's neck.

The hooded figure ran his Mana into the Spell Card right as the blade plunged into his throat, fatally would him in the same instant that he activated the Spell.

In the blink of an eye, an immense force burst out of the Spell Card, triggering a devastating explosion. The blast engulfed Lloyd before he could react, killing him in an instant before the force of the explosion slammed onto the barrier, the dispersed impact destroying the walls of the room surrounding the barrier, the windows shattering as the explosive Spell devastated the space...