I Was Once Known King

"Naga's Embrace!", Angel shouted.

Angel's pupils sharpened like of a serpent's eye and his emerald green eyes had a faint glow as 6 spectral serpents emerged from Angel's shadow.

"Deal with those corpses for me.", Angel instructed the serpents.

The spectral serpents clashed with the reanimated corpses, attacking them with their poisonous fangs and bare claws as Angel faced Jean in front.

"The Reanimate skill must've took a lot of mana from you, give up, you won't win against me.", I said as I observe his movements.

"True, that skill is an advanced skill after all, but... it seems to me you are forgetting something important.", Jean grinned.

"Wha-", Angel freezes in place.

A barrier emerged that separated the space inside the large laboratory from the outside, making any vibrations felt or destruction contained within the barrier.

"This is quite the arena you prepared..", I smiled with slight sign of concern.

A large pile of mud trapped Angel's both feet in place.

"Asura, witness the true power of a necromancer, though incomplete, it is enough for the likes of you. Ultimate skill, Blood Pact: Trancendent!", he shouted as a transformation began.

Through the cost of the Jean's life, the skill merges the user with a powerful entity. As the transformation started, Angel forcibly broke the hardened mud from his feet and planned to stop the transformation from completion.

"I won't let you!", Angel screamed from the bottom of his lungs.

Angel released once again inside his body the immeasurable astral energy, to allow him to use skills beyond his body's capabilities. The boiling pure energy surged inside him and even started to leak from his body. Angel himself down as he once again took the form of a battle stance.

"Neural Network Overdrive..."

The skill forcibly pushed Angel's mental and physical capabilities to its limit. As time slowed from Angel's perspective, he charged his fist with the astral energy. Due to his body's limits, his body began to bleed profusely the longer he took on the state.

"VAJRA STRIKE!", Angel clenched his fist and launched it at Jean.

The fist imbued with divine pure energy connected at Jean's chest that forcibly stopped the ongoing transformation. Both of them fell from the air and landed on the broken tiles that broke from their battle earlier. Angel's skill cancelled itself after Angel stopped the astral energy from continuing inside his body.

"I did it...", Angel looked at his surroundings as laid he at the floor.

"Bastard! How dare you ruin my plans! Remember this, the Ossuary will hunt you down!", a skull lying on the floor started to speak.

Angel chuckled at the sight.

"To think you were able to transfer your soul at the nick of time.", I smiled.

"Hmph, of course I was this prepared.", he said.

"But why a skull? You could've transferred yourself to one of the reanimated corpses.", I laughed.

"What corpses!? Your damn ghost summons ate my corpses!", he shouted angrily.

"What?", Angel turned his head to look at the spectral serpents chewing the remains of the corpses.

Angel rested before remembering something important.

"Shit! The girls!"

Angel took the skull where Jean's inside is and put it inside his subspace pouch inventory before teleporting back to Tesha and Luna.

"Sir Angel! You're injured!", they both helped me walk after seeing me.

"Let's go back to guild, I want to take some rest after handing the paper completion in.", I said as we exited the dungeon and welcomed the light of the morning.