This might be considered the lamest battle he'd ever going to win in his entire life, but this was also the only way to win.
This spirit… It was something that no master should face and deal with! So he didn't mind having such a shameful memory, it was better than losing such a good master like Sloth or losing that dirty enemy.
"Kill him!" William felt his tails getting loose over that star, "Do it now or you'll die!"
"F*ck it!" Sloth wasn't having it easy though. He came here prepared with thorough intel about this man, knowing he was just at gold grade. But when he directly clashed against him, he was shocked to see someone on the same level of power as him.
As this was the case, and seeing how William was risking everything, even his life, to buy him little time to execute the task, Sloth didn't hesitate anymore.
He started to burn his life essence, in return for gaining a crazy amount of spirit power boost.
"Burning your life essence? Are you crazy? This is cheating! This can't be…"
The man instantly recognised what Sloth was doing, and yet he got interrupted in the middle of his shout. The technique that previously was stopped by the spirit was completed and linked this time with that enemy's neck.
Then a head went in the air rolling, while a fountain of red blood erupted like a volcano!
That man… He was dead! The man who caused all this fell just simply like that. And the moment he fell down, lots of things happened at the same moment.
"Get away! Run away fast!" William didn't want Sloth to fall under the expected wrath of the spirit. He killed the man that dirty spirit nourished, and that would turn that behemoth into a killing machine.
Sloth didn't need William's shout to get away as fast as he could. He knew the man he killed was the pawn of that weird thing William was fighting against. And even if William could stand his ground against it, Sloth's presence was in fact a liability.
He didn't get what that thing was, or why it was so deadly and indestructible. He noticed how William didn't use any of his tricks and techniques, didn't do anything but let that thing hit him one time after another.
The moment he killed that man, saw his head flying in the air, and Sloth used all the power he got and flushed away. Seeing him do that made William heave an inward sigh of relief, one that soon changed and became filled with worry.
The moment Sloth flashed away, William felt like the behemoth he was trying to stop seemed to slip away. He didn't feel its big power that resisted him during the past few minutes. And when he looked, he found in the mere seconds he got distracted with Sloth, that bright star vanished from his grasp!
"Damn!" he looked around, spreading his spirit sense, and yet he found nothing. He didn't lower his guard, knowing such a spirit wasn't the type to drop off his grudges, or let those who ruined his long time interest go unscathed like this.
"Don't tell me you plan to play a hide and seek game," William slowly said, while keeping track of anything happening all around. And yet there was a single place he didn't look at, a spot he totally missed; himself!
"You know absolutely nothing about the realm of gods, humans!" in the middle of his frantic search, the voice of that spirit came just from his body. It felt like it came from him, making William focus his spirit sense over himself, seeing something he never expected to see.
He saw the shadow at last, the shadow that surrounded him before. It looked majestic, golden and bright, grand and intimidating. And yet there were two eyes there, something that no one ever mentioned before. It felt like he was looking at a face, the face of that spirit.
"You can't harm me! You can't touch even a single hair of mine!" William didn't show any sign of weakness by seeing this. He now realised that spirit didn't hide, instead, it attached itself to the golden body that surrounded him before.
"And why should I do that? You used something that you don't fully understand. Do you think this is some sort of a bond, a shield to protect you from me? Nah, it's an application, one that will put you in line to inherit my will and power, something to act like the man you just killed, hahaha!"
"Liar!" William knew that the spirit was trying to twist facts and manipulate things. He indeed lacked enough intel about the spirit world, lacked enough understanding about Mystic Arts, but he knew what he saw and experienced back there at the Fate and Destiny world.
It wasn't just a simple link, it was like the two got connected by a higher power.
"I don't lie, and why do I need to? You are now my pawn, you'll do as I say, do everything you hated before. It's going to be fun!"
"You can't force me to do anything," William shrugged, "so keep saying your bullshit, and I'll continue living my life the way I wanted!"
"Nonsense! You applied to be my servant, and by the power of gods you'll listen and do what I say!"
"You aren't a god! Wake up!" William felt like this spirit was a bit funny. And yet from the short interaction between the two, he could tell one thing for sure.
That spirit had no power to do anything to him anymore. William didn't get why, but he was sure he and Sloth were safe, everyone else was safe.
"What are you doing? Stand away from the dead man! That's an insult!" William just moved out of habit towards the dead pawn of that spirit, and then the latter kept screaming like he was going to touch his wife or something.
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