Regain: Revenge of the Greatest

Earl Gideon heard someone. He’s in so much pain, but he remembered that Talzer was about to kill him.

“Elalios, stay here”

It’s a familiar voice. It’s a pleasant noise for him.

‘Son, is that you?’

Like every time, hearing Kael’s voice, he always remembered his son. He wanted to ask Kael, but he can only do it in his mind.

“Lord Gideon, drink this”

He heard Elalios’s voice. Elalios expressed his concerns. He urged the Earl to drink something. The Earl trusts him, and so he opened his mouth.

Each drop that the Earl swallowed burned his throat. The pain seemed greater as he sipped what Elalios offered him. But after the suffering, he felt his body warming up, embraced by the effects of the healing potion. He slowly opened his eyes.

“Elalios..”, the Earl muttered.

Elalios nodded. “I’m here, Lord Gideon”

Earl Gideon forced himself to sat up, while Elalios assisted him. In a distance, he saw Kael, faced against the dangerous demon he resented.

The Earl was terrified. He wanted to stand back up, but the healing potion wasn’t able to cure his injuries completely. He mustered all his strength, but there’s no strength he can muster in his limbs. Helpless, but still desperate, he moved his eyes towards Elalios.

“Elalios.. save Kael”

Elalios smiled. “That’s not necessary, my lord”

The Earl wanted to reprimand his disobedient servant, but he was too weak to even be angry. He voiced his request once again, but Elalios didn’t listen. Instead, his disobedient servant pointed to the fight between Kael and Talzer. Witnessing the fight, Earl Gideon was astonished.

‘This is bad, I’m not in my strongest to deal with this insolent child’

The fear was growing on Talzer. His opponent was getting closer. Kael strolled towards him, like what he did when he was against the Earl. A child walking up to him should not be a bother to him, but he knew, Kael was different. He witnessed the capability of the child when he encountered Kael in the forest. Kael knew things about the demons. It’s safe to assume he knew how to eliminate them.

“You’re smiling before, what happened?”, Kael asked. “Should demons be afraid of children?”

Talzer was infuriated. His demonic pride was ruined.

“You’re not a child, you’re a monster”, Talzer said.

The irony amused Kael, but he focused himself immediately. “Don’t worry, I can’t kill you”

Kael’s words filled Talzer with suspicion.

“But I can prevent you from moving again”, Kael said. He stretched his hand forward.

[Flame]

Kael produced several flames floating around his hand. He made his command, and all of his conjured flames combined together, forming a single bright fireball. Then, he made his command again. The ball of fire started spinning. It spun faster, going smaller over time. Eventually, he was left with a tiny spinning ball the size of a single grain of sand.

Talzer can only see the slight glimmer of it. Even though he wasn’t aware of what’s going on, he felt he was in danger.

“Release”

Talzer heard a bang behind him. He wasn’t able to register what had happened. But then, he felt the breeze of the wind passing through his left leg. He looked down and saw a hole in his leg, drilled clean from front to back. He can smell his flesh, burned by Kael.

“Release”

He heard another bang. His left leg almost gave out. A second hole pierced through adjacent to the first one. Another shot and his leg will be cut off entirely.

“I think that’s enough”, Kael said.

Talzer was terrified of the implication. The child wanted him to see what will happen to him after the fight.

“No..”, said the demon.

The image of him incapacitated, unable to do anything he wanted, made Talzer panic. He looked at the child. Kael was waiting for what he will do.

[Dark Force]

A barrage of dark orbs come rushing towards Kael. He was about to dodge, when he remembered that the Earl and Elalios were behind him.

[Speed Boost]

Kael prepared himself. He must intercept all the dark force that Talzer created.

[Defense]

The orbs exploded. One on the left, then another to the right. One by one, Kael intercepted the dangerous magic. He thought that he caught all of the orbs, but, as he glanced back to the people he wanted to protect, he saw that a dark orb was about to hit them.

Kael pushed the ground quickly. He tried getting to the dark orb, but he was a bit short to reach it.

“Elalios!”

Elalios couldn’t keep up. When he heard Kael’s voice, he was hit by the dark force. The orb exploded. He was thrown back, his face crushed by the destructive magic.

Kael went to Elalios trying to wake him up. Elalios was bleeding, unresponsive to his voice. He knew that the mana available to him was not enough to heal Elalios. Without thinking, he hurried and used up his remaining mana.

[Full Heal]

‘This happened before. I failed again’

[Restore]

“Elalios, wake up”

[Life Blood]

Kael was out of mana, but Elalios was still not totally healed. He knew that time is of essence, so he did what he felt was his best course of action. Once again, he modified “Late Cost”.

Special mana pathways formed in his body. He made the world his mana vessel once again. However, he felt some pain, as the mana pathways grew in his body. He was without pain when he created the pathways for the first time, but worrying about such trivial issue could only waste his time.

Kael glowed with a blinding white light. The Earl witnessed it, and his usually blank expression faded. His awe was evident on his face.

“Kael?”

Kael looked at the Earl. This time, he didn’t become Lucien, but the Earl knew that he became a different person. Or, to be more precise, the Earl saw the truth.

“I’m sorry, Lord Gideon. I will explain everything later”

[Life Blood]

Kael managed to fully heal Elalios, but Elalios was unconscious. He healed Earl Gideon completely, and looked at where Talzer was. The demon was missing.

Seeing that the demon disappeared while he was distracted, Kael was angered. If there is something that he genuinely hate, without a doubt, it’s demons. He will not let a demon escape from him.

[Spatial Sense]

A wave of light radiated from Kael. It travelled throughout the territory of Cleron. He saw all the people of the town, and everything that the light touched. In just a second, he saw Talzer.

‘I see you. You won’t get away from me’