TM: Vengeance of the Indomitable and Crazed Shades

"They are necessary sacrifices for the greater good..." Xalier used his Unique Ability to disappear and reappear in front of Antanasia and slash at her torso.

Since now they were close together, their energy pressed against each other, Antanasia's black and Xalier's red energy fought for dominance as they took turns attacking.

"Uh..." Antanasia blocked with her katana, then laughed out loud.

*HAHAH* "I knew you were just another hypocrite!"

"..." Xalier frowned, what she said brought distaste to his mouth, while he twisted his longsword to hit her side, he asked. "Do you know how many of us died in this war?"

"What are...?" Antanasia was surprised by the question, she didn't understand how this was brought up.

As she blocked the sideways slash, she tried to answer. "I don't know... a few hundred thousand, maybe a few million?"

"Not... even... close..." Xalier's slow words caused the nonchalant Antanasia to quiver, while her cut was blocked with the same black dagger that he used to stab her.

As they arrived at a stalemate, both of their hands occupied and forced against the other's, they looked into each other's red eyes while their aura of energy bombarded and exploded.

At that moment of stalemate, Xalier's voice shot through the sound of explosions. "Over 300 million have died since the start of this cursed war... And the same goes for the elves..."

"This...!" Hearing the unimaginable number, Antanasia froze for a moment.

"..." Seizing the opportunity, Xalier gathered energy and pushed her away.

"Uh!?" The shocked Antansais reacted a second too late, and Xalier's leg was already raised when she tried to move to defend herself.

As the kick arrived at her open chest, *OUGH...* blood gushed from her mouth.

*BUMm...*BAng...* "Ugh... Fuck..." Blood flowed from her broken chest, as she flew through a few hundred trees.

'What the... hell...' *bang* A fallen tree hit the ground beside her.

As she stumbled up to her feet with the support of the tree that stopped, her energy went through her body for a checkup.

'Fuck... most of my ribs are broken...' She touched her chest with it blood flowed onto the ground, *cough...*cough...* 'My lungs are almost completely crushed... this motherfucker was hiding his strength...!' Realizing the situation and the danger, she decided to retreat.

'I need to get away...' With a jump, she rose into the sky and began to flee.

"..." Xalier looked up at her with a nonchalant look, he was still standing a few hundred meters away. Saying nothing, he just vanished.

"Uh!?" As Xalier reappeared before her, she become shocked, 'This is not Transcend...!' she realized that his movements were different from the normal too late.

Xalier kicked her in the face and sent her back to the ground, *BANG* a huge cloud of dust arose from the creation of a small crater.

"My and Elah's dream is to stop this never-ending horrible war, and no one can stop us!" Looking down at her from the sky, Xalier's words sounded determined and domineering.

As she wobbled to sand up, her blood smeared the ground red, she shook from the pain but still stammered a few things.

"Even with this... power... you can't stop... this war... even your father, the previous King, couldn't do anything... the casualties were too many... elves and vampires can't stop it, even if the King orders so... there is too much hatred between them and us..."

Looking at Antanasia, Xalier frowned and said a sentence in a rather harsh tone." Maybe you're right, we didn't start this war, so we can't stop it..."

He turned and looked up at the sky. "From the Heavens they see war, but on this earth, there is only carnage!" This was the first time that Xalier actually raised his voice.

"You...You're… insane!" Upon hearing this later sentence, Antanasia felt a chill run down her back.

"No one has ascended in thousands of years, and even if you do, you can't defeat them!" The strength in her words slowly returned as her black aura seeped into her wounds and slowly healed her.

"We'll see when we get there, but until then, we can't let anyone stand in our way!" With the fished words, Xalier disappeared.

"Fuck! FUCK!" Recognizing the impending danger, Antanasia dropped her two katanas and grabbed the one that was still on her left side.

And right at the moment of contact *UGH...* *AHHH...* horrible pain shot through her arm and body. Her pained scream was so loud it shook the earth and the sky.

*HUFF...* She tried to calm herself with an exhale and as she did, red markings began to appear on her right arm, the markings were the same ones as on the katana's scabbard.

"...!" Appearing in front of Antanaisa, Xalier stopped for a moment, understanding what the blade was he tried to prevent its use.

'Let's disarm it...' He grabbed her elbow and tried to push the blade back into its scabbard, but instead of succeeding, *Ugh* the red marks travelled to his hand and he felt the same pain.

*Ugh* 'It feels like my hand is being chopped up and my muscles are being chewed...' Since this was the first time for him he trembled for a split second.

"Uh..." But he quickly suppressed the pain with willpower and without wasting a second, stabbed his longsword through Antanasia's stomach.

"..."

"Ugh... You fucker..."

Looking into each other's eyes, Xalier was emotionless, but Antanasia was full of anger and rage.

As the marks crept up her neck, her voice turned to sound distorted. "I-I have my own... dream to protect!"

*Blough...* From the shout, blood spilt out of Antanasia's mouth. She trembled with pain as the markings slowly covered her entire body and as even the whites of her eyes turned red, her eyes glowed up with rage.

*AHhh..* She stopped shaking as she screamed while pulling out the cursed blade.

"Uh...?" As Antanasia slashed at Xalier with her pure black katana, he got surprised by the great strength boost.

Pushing himself off, Xalier landed a few meters away from Antanasia, frowning from the extreme pain on his cheek.

'This cursed blade is more dangerous than I thought...'

'A dozen more wounds and I will die from its curse...'

*UGRR...* As Antanasia growled she looked more like a beast, veins streaked all over her body and her teeth elongated and sharpened into fangs as she squeezed them to endure the pain.

"I'm sorry... I have underestimated you too much..." Loosening his battle stance he stood in place.

"In exchange, let me show you one of my... trump cards..." With the words, he closed his eyes.

*UghR* "Fuck!" Noticing the change in the atmosphere, Antanasia rushed to him and cut one, two, three, more than a hundred cuts in a few seconds. A giant cloud of dust rose from the attacks.

'What is...?' Since nothing could be seen, Antanasia relied on her senses, '...my attacks are blocked...?' feeling the sensation of hitting something hard she stopped.

"...!?" As she stood in place, something hard pushed her blade, sending her flying out of the cloud.

*UGhR* 'This strength...' As she flew several hundred meters, her arms trembled from the pain of the strong hit.

When she finally got her foothold in the air, she looked back at the cloud of dust, looking for what had pushed her.

A strong gust of wind came from inside the cloud, making it retreat...

'What is that...!?' Wings of energy appeared from the fog like dust. Back feathers seemed to burn with red flames.

'Transformation...?' After one of the wings flapped, it stretched out to clear the space while the other one covered Xalier's body.

'Why do his wings have feathers...?' As Antanasia questioned herself, the other wing also started to stretch, and a second later it finally showed Xalier's body.

"..." The first thing she noticed, Xalier's long raven-backed hair turned whiter than his skin.

'What the fuck is this!? This is not a normal vampire transformation!'

Xalier opened his eyes and instead of having the blood-red glow, they turned purple.

A few seconds passed and strange black-blue flames appeared around Xalier's body, completely covering him.

'Blue fire...?'

As Xalier stood there the ground began to burn around him, the flames had no smoke, which made Antanaisa think of something, 'No smoke...? Don't tell me... Spirit Fire!?'

The flames were eerie and generated such heat that even Antanasia, who was a few hundred meters away, could feel it.

'What?!' Antanasia's hand holding the cursed katana began to tremble.

'Why am I shaking?' When she looked back at the ground, she realized.

'He looked at me...?' Xalier only turned his eyes to look at Antanasia, but her instinct screamed danger.

'World Crossing, Phantom Step...' Xalier disappeared, but this time without warning, there weren't even signs of any movement.

'Fast!!' Until now, she could still follow his movements to a certain extent, but now she could only see the images that were left behind.

*Ughr* When Antanasia raised her hand to block the oncoming attack, she successfully did so, 'What...?' which surprised her, but then...

*AHHH...* The blade didn't break, but her arm couldn't withstand the attack.

Her right hand was completely destroyed, and the bones in her arm were broken and shattered, now it wasn't an arm, it looked more like a piece of bloody minced meat.

"NOT YET!" When the black katana fell with a piece from her arm, she grabbed it with her other hand.

Holding up the bloody katana, she tried to attack the image she saw, but instead of a successful attack...

*Chop* Her pupils dilated as she saw her left arm fall. Blood oozed out of what was left of her arm.

"Fuck..." As she realized that there was no chance, she stood still...

"..." She stared at Xalier in front of her with a lifeless gaze, she didn't scream, blood flowed like a fountain but she didn't do anything, it doesn't matter now...

"..." Xalier, looking at her with emotionless eyes and raised his arm.

*BANG...*SLICE* "..." As he lowered his arm, the clouds in the sky, the forest below, and everything else that stood in the way of the cut split in two.

"I did get stronger..." Xalier looked at the near-mile-long crack.

*OUGh* Antanasia fell with great force, her body created a larger crater than before.

Descending to her, Xalier saw Antanasia's almost completely split body.

"Let's end this..." Looking at her still-beating heart he raised his sword again, this time to stab and destroy her head.

"Please..." Hearing her words he stopped for a moment.

"Please, take my sister to a safe place...you're the King...you can do that, right...?" Antanasia begged for the only thing that worried her in this cursed life.

"Alright, don't worry!" Xalier answered without much thought.

"Thank you..." She closed her eyes and said nothing more.

"..." Seeing this Xalier brought his sword forward without further word.

'This is the end...' Antanasia felt the air hit her face from the thrust.

"..." She shuddered a little, as she remembered a girl who looked almost like her, but a tad bit younger.

'Sorry, sis...' As she frowned, a teardrop rolled down her face.

*Boom...* Upon hearing the explosion, Antanasia was shaken.