Requiem Of A Failed Hero

Chapter 385 Vessel Of Balance

?”What are you?”

Raith asked, looking at the solid darkness that floated in front of him. Its eyes were gentle and cute, dangerously innocent.

The thing glided closer to Raith with a wide grin parting its mouth.

Raith wasn’t sure what to think of this new development. A friend or a foe, he couldn’t tell yet. But one thing he was sure about was, this thing here… is… or was the seed of greed he suffered so much to plant in his soul.

‘So it shouldn’t be harmful right?’

But there was a reason Raith knew he should have his guard up. And that reason was none other than the fact tha…

He paused and belatedly took to note, his surroundings.

“What the hell?”

Raith’s eyes widened with shock. This place had become a plane on its own. A soul plane?

The sky was vast and seamless, a crimson star bathing everything in a red ethereal glow, the surface he was standing on was smooth like paved road, but it bore a reflection of him and the sky. The place was shrouded in darkness undoubtedly.

But much of it retreated into the distant horizons and edges because of the crimson star hanging above.

Raith looked up, he knew what that is. He knew what this is. The borders encroached in darkness, the ground like plane of water, reflecting the crimson star and its star that sat like a lonely goddess.

The darkness in him, the light which wasn’t a light as he had thought but was rather an illumination cast forth by something he didn’t know yet… and…

Raith looked up.

‘…the source.’

It was a really beautiful place.

Everything in him had taken a form and settled down. The slight pain of being torn apart too was gone. Raith felt himself again… no… himself was not what he was feeling. He felt way better than he had ever felt ever since he could remember.

Three different mystical things took root in his soul, settled and were growing in the vessel of his body. He had no idea what they were but he felt very peaceful.

Maybe now he would be able to channel his energy.

He closed his eyes and left his soul plane. Opening his eyes to reality.

Thard – Harl’s lips curled upwards.

“Took you so long fool” .𝒎

Raith slowly looked at his hand.

“I’m brimming with power.”

Not just that… the pouring blood from his wound was becoming crystalline, the pain was reduced and the crystal seemed to be merging his flesh. It felt very good and not so good at the same time.

Raith’s eyes glowed up regardless. Would it be safe to say he had somehow gained some kind of healing powers.

“Now, that you have successfully channeled your energy. You should be able to do better with your attacks. Just like how you have made your energy reach every area of your body, you can also extend it to your sword and attack with it.”

The asura snapped his fingers and disappeared.

‘What does he mean? I haven’t even channeled yet…”

Raith’s body was filled with so much power because darkness, light and the power of the red crystal had found balance in him. Naturally reinforcing his body ten times better than before.

Now, he could take off one of those three energies and…

Raith paused the process just as he was about to start. He felt like that was not what he was supposed to do. The role he played in the essence of these three entities of power was balance. So what did it speak of him, if he takes of one and not the other. .

Currently, each entity had taken a role, a prerogative in his soul. Raith as the vessel also needed to do the same. Balance.

‘…maybe, just maybe… what I should do is merge the three energies?’

However, that was not doable now. Not when this monster here had been freed from its frozen state.

‘What did he do… did he freeze time…’

Raith wondered as he prepared himself for the onslaught of the monster.

It was currently turning around, trying to face him. And as it did… it shot forward, causing the whole depth to shudder with tremors.

The monster rushed at Raith with its elephantine legs, heavily carrying its tremendous weight. As it closed the distance, its large mouth opened wide, raking the ground and sucking it in with an invisible force.

Raith lowered his leg, pushing his weight down. He shot into the sky and rolled over the monster as he began to descend. The monster’s tentacles followed Raith’s. Lashing at the air.

But Raith’s movement had become sharper, less savagery and more refined. He easily battered away the tentacles witj his sword, no matter how many times they lashed towards him, the result was the same. His speed was like weaving lightning and each crashing let out a thunderous roar.

The force of his blocks were now even stronger, as the tentacle stubbornly strike at him, very few meters away from landing on the monster. Raith spun his sword, clashing the tentacles with a coiling impact that made it go stiff for a second.

He held his sword high up and as he landed on the monster, with all his might, he plunged the sword into the monster’s… it broke?

Raith’s eyes widened in shock. The sword did not make it into the monster’s skin, instead it broke.

Raith was slapped away by the monster’s tentacles and flew into the wall of the cliff. The whole place shuddered with a mighty quaking.

The monster turned to where Raith had crashed into and plunged its tentacles in that direction, it’s pad end, widening with a vicious screech.

It crashed into the wall creating clouds of dust. Raith flew out of the cloud and landed on the ground, almost falling to his knee. He picked himself up and darted towards the monster, its second tentacles descended on him like an heavenly whip.

Raith jumped away. It smashed the floor, sending splinters of stones. The other one had its fangs stuck in the stone it had ferociously lashed at I’m hopes to shred Raith’s skin.

So, the monster was stuck with only one tentacle to use. Raith ran and slid under the the tentacles as it swiped toward him, he rolled and bounced to his feet not reducing his speed of motion one bit… all those drills were helpful after all.

He clenched his fist tightly and as he got so close to the monster’s forelimb… then smashed it.