Jackson wiped the blood on his cheeks and stood up after struggling for a slight moment. "Shit...how can a single punch hurt me that much?"
Jackson looked at Devenier and smirked. "Quite the motivational speech."
"Sadly, you are all talk." Jackson said, switching himself with Alvin, who was right next to Devenier.
Jackson used the short distance to his advantage by cutting his hand with a single slash of his axe, blood spilled instantly and Devenier slightly staggered, taking a few steps back. He looked at his arm and noticed that his hand was gone. However, despite that he had quite a calm and blank expression as if he didn't care.
"Ah man, I'll have to get an artificial hand after this" Devenier said calmly. "Though, I must say, I am quite disappointed. You should have cut off my head instead."
Jackson looked at Devenier with a confused expression. "The hell's wrong with this guy? How can he be so calm? If he was truly strong, then why would he let me cut off his hand?" Jackson thought.
"You have disappointed me so much that I don't even want to fight anymore" Devenier said, turning his back and heading for the door. However, Jackson threw the axe right at him with full power however, despite that, Devenier easily dodged it without even looking.
Jackson was surprised but he continued attacking as once the axe got stuck onto the wall, Jackson switched himself with a piece of glass that was lying on the ground, grabbing his axe that was on the wall and trying to slash Devenier once again.
However, Devenier moved so fast that it looked like he was teleporting. In fact, he was so fast that before Jackson could even realize it, Devenier was already behind him, a knife pressed against his throat. "You are so weak that I didn't even have to use my ability against you."
"In fact, your life is so worthless that I won't even bother killing you" Devenier whispered in his ear. "However, I will cut off one of your hands so we are even."
Jackson clenched his teeth and started to sweat nervously. "God damn it! How is he so strong?! How has his personality changed so much? Wasn't he talking about being a hero? But now all of a sudden, he doesn't even want to kill me?"
Devenier then cut off one of Jackson's hands with the knife and left the shop, leaving everyone in shock.
"That...was it?" Alvin thought. "W-What about protecting me?!"
As soon as Devenier left, Jackson stood still for a moment to register everything but in the very next second, he started to laugh like a maniac. "Oh well, I guess it's my lucky day!"
"He didn't even cut off my right hand! I barely even use my left hand to fight!" Jackson yelled, giggling to himself.
Alvin stood up and started to walk backwards, trying to hide. "Shit! I am alone with this crazy bastard now. I have to escape, I can't defeat him. At least, not alone."
Jackson noticed Alvin trying to hide almost immediately. "Trying to run, are you?"
Alvin immediately slightly flinched once he realized that he was caught. "N-No I am not."
"DIE!" Jackson yelled, appearing right in front of Alvin, his axe held high above, ready to attack. However, suddenly, Jackson couldn't move just like before. "Fuck, the same thing is happening again, this might be because of this guy's ability."
Alvin slightly smiled. "You will never be able to hit me because I can restrict anyone's movements for 10 seconds."
"I see" Jackson said, noticing that he can move now. Alvin was caught off guard as he was busy bragging about his ability so he only had enough time to block. But it wasn't enough as both of Alvin's wrists was cleanly cut off by Jackson's slash.
"FUCK! MY HANDS!!" Alvin screamed in pain.
"Don't worry I shall end your misery" Jackson said, launching him onto a wall with a kick. "Or that was what I was going to say. However, since you have wasted my time, it would be fair to torture you a bit, no?"
Alvin realized what was going to happen, his face full of panic but he couldn't stand up and he could barely move. He started to tremble slightly and he closed his eyes in fear once he saw the axe moving towards his face.
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The group had finally left the castle, sitting on a few rocks that was right in front of the castle gate. "What are we going to do?!" Ronx said, his voice full of panic and his face completely pale.
"Hm, I have an idea" Vivian said, calmly smoking her cigarette as if nothing had ever happened. "As we all know, portals can teleport people and my ability summons a portal. However, I have never used it to teleport so I am not sure if it will work."
"It's worth a try" Zombie said, who was sitting on a rock and had his hands folded together.
"I guess" Vivian said, standing up and summoning her portal. Though, it was small, Vivian managed to make it bigger. "Who wants to go first, remember, it might be dangerous."
Cilia raised her hand. "I'll go. I haven't done much throughout this entire mission, it's only fair that I am the one to go."
"I agree" Barrett said, who was calmly sitting on a rock like the others.
"Before we go, are we all sure that everyone is here?" Alex said, looking around. "I feel like we are missing someone."
"Blake" Ken whispered in Alex's ear, though it wasn't much of a whisper as everyone heard it.
"I'll find-" Luke said, walking towards the castle's gate. However, before he could find Blake by himself, the castle door opened and Blake came out of the castle, heavily bleeding and one of his leg broken, causing him to walk weirdly.
"That fucking bitch really did some damage on me" Blake said, spitting out some blood.
"I am glad you are still alive" Alex said, though a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Elvis stood up and walked over to Blake, moving her finger across his chest, reconstructing it and healing it completely. Elvis then pointed her finger to his broken leg, which caused the broken leg's bone to twist and reconstruct, fixing it completely.
"Now that everyone is here, shall we go through the portal?" Alex said, turning his face towards the portal.
Cilia entered first and after a couple of seconds, she returned. "It's safe and it worked exactly like a normal portal."
"I see. I guess it's time" Alex said. "Time to finally defeat Raven."