Dark Magus Returns

The struggle of what to do against Impress was real for Beatrix. She still had plenty of Qi to use in her fight, but the issue wasn’t Qi.

The issue was the weapon in her hand. Already having given it her all, with her mind and body, she knew it; she was at a loss, and it was only a matter of time, before she would either have to age to death or get cut up by Impress.

It was hard for her to think this way, hard for her to admit it, which was why she continued to fight on.

Eventually, she had backed herself away, almost into a corner. She then used Ricar’s item quickly to change the terrain surrounding the entirety of where Impress was.

She built walls upon walls, so at least Impress would have to cut through a few of them before she could get out.

Using this, she now at least could catch a break for a moment, because she could feel it; she was at a turning point with her weapon.

If she used the phasing any more now, she would age too much, to the point she was too slow to avoid any of Impress’s attacks.

As she rested, racking her head, she could hear the sound of the walls being broken down.

‘I used my Qi to use the item that Ricar gave me, but I don’t even know what purpose it served, me resting like this,’ Beatrix said as she placed her sword in the ground and leant on it.

She tilted her head back and started to look into the sky, and that’s when something had hit her. She felt a pain enter through her body.

The first sensation wasn’t through her skin but was coming from the inside. A burning sensation as if her blood had just been lit on fire.

“ARGHH! What is this!” Beatrix said as she fell to the ground and was on one knee, her hand still by the handle of her sword.

She was grunting in pain, and immediately she could see the sweat falling from her head onto the ground.

“Is it because of the weapon? No, Raze never told me of an effect like this!”

The energy was frantically moving about in her body. It almost felt like a foreign Qi had entered her and was trying to destroy, trying to take over.

“ARGHH!” Beatrix screamed again.

“Give up, let me take over, let me use this body!”

A voice had entered into her head. Beatrix was still unsure about what was going on fully, but it was quite clear that the voice was not her own.

“You should just let me use this how I want…I need to live…I need to live and get back there!” The voice continued to shout and echo.

Without realizing it, Beatrix was starting to have changes appear in her own body. Her hair was changing color; the ends were turning red instead of the bright blonde shade of her hair.

It was growing even larger in length. Her nails were glowing slightly, but her body, it also was starting to feel stronger than before.

‘But…this isn’t my strength,’ Beatrix thought. ‘It’s whatever is taking over me.’

The bloody woman had entered inside of Beatrix. At the time, she had failed to take over Raze’s body due to the injuries she had sustained, due to the failed ritual bringing her into his body.

Who would have thought that there would be two spirits trying to enter the body of the dead at the same time?

This time though, she was trying to take over. She had waited as her strength grew, but it wasn’t enough. She had been forced out of Raze’s body far too early.

In that process, she had felt it; while she was outside, part of her energy had dwindled away. It was only for a few moments, but with no body, her energy had weakened again.

Which was why she was stuck in this situation.

‘I had chosen this body because it seemed to be the strongest one nearby, but will that be my downfall now, because of what is happening?’ the bloody woman thought.

‘I won’t let you take over!’ Beatrix shouted again. ‘I can’t, not before I kill this woman. I need to avenge Ricar, I need to make sure she gets what’s coming to her.’

Both of the women had a similar will; both of them were incredibly strong; neither of them wanted to give up.

Constantly, the color of Beatrix’s hair was changing; the red from the tips was growing up to the roots, but then it would quickly be pushed back.

And then, the worst situation had occurred; Impress had broken out of the last wall and was back on the battlefield, staring at Beatrix.

She had paused for a moment as she didn’t understand what her opponent was going through.

“What…is going on?” Impress thought.

She could feel it, something that was telling her not to go ahead and strike. A powerful Qi that was shaking the entire floor.

Until the Qi had stopped, Beatrix’s head was facing down. The changes to her nails growing in length were the same.

The changes to her hair, half of it was red, the other half blonde, and finally, Beatrix had lifted her head up.

“Who…am I?” Beatrix asked.

One of her eyes was blue, the other was a dark brown.

“Oh…I remember, you…you were the one that had killed Ricar?” Beatrix asked as she picked up the sword half-heartedly and then placed it down, almost dragging it by her side.

“Right…right everything is coming back to me now,” Beatrix said with a smile.

Beatrix was born anew; the blood woman had failed to take over. She had practically disappeared, but her energy and her consciousness had completely disappeared; it had combined with Beatrix’s, turning her into a completely new person.

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