I Was Not Meant To Exist

Inside the palace banquet hall, the sound of heavy impacts continued to repeat, targeting the giant double doors that led out of the banquet hall.

Every time the impact sound was heard, the door was being rammed from the outside. The servants pressed themselves against the giant double doors, they held it with their bodies, but every vibration made their hearts beat faster.

One of the servant’s hands began to touch the giant double door, his hand trembled as the push from the outside forced his body backward, a cold sensation spread across his palm, he gritted his teeth.

The sound of the door being battered became the only sound in the palace banquet hall, they did not know what was happening outside the room, but with the condition of the door that kept shaking, fear began to spread through their hearts.

After an unknown amount of time, the giant door finally went silent, there was no push or impact anymore, and there was also no sound heard from behind the door.

The servants still held on with all their strength, but their bodies that were used to holding back the impacts slowly relaxed, they looked at each other, but no sound came out from them.

That silence continued, a silence that should not happen in a palace that was being attacked, a silence that felt more deadly than the sound of explosions, but silence also occurred in one of the palace rooms where there was a staircase leading to the second-floor corridor.

Its silence was accompanied by the metallic smell of blood from the mutilated bodies of the servants.

In one corner of the room, Alex stood side by side with Katarina, he whispered slightly to Katarina, while glancing at the bodies of the servants, his black eyes looked cold, his jaw slightly tightened.

"Was he the one who killed Aril’s mother?"

Katarina only nodded upon hearing Alex’s question, her cold blue eyes were not disturbed as she looked at the blood scythe in front of them.

Alex swallowed his saliva, he looked to his other side, there Aril was still kneeling on the ground, the anger in his eyes had not faded even though his body was injured.

Alex shifted his gaze toward the blood scythe, there he stretched his body, the sound of bones cracking could be heard from all over his body.

Blood flowed from his neck that had previously been cut by Ken, that blood slowly changed into two blood scythes in his hands.

As soon as his scythes were fully formed, he immediately stepped toward Alex.

Alex took a deep breath, he tried to calm himself as his blood began to heat up, he lowered his stance, his heart beat faster than usual, he spoke to his friends.

"I will open a gap..."

After his words, Alex ran toward the blood scythe first, Katarina followed him and was also followed by Aril even though his body was still injured.

Alex’s black eyes reflected the blood scythe that was now closer in front of him, the sound of Krystal echoed in his head.

’It’s time for the second soul core to debut, right?...’

Alex smiled faintly upon hearing what Krystal said.

’If possible, I don’t want to use it, because it hurts a lot afterward....’

A fast swing of the scythe was directed at Alex, it was so fast that in the reflection of Alex’s eyes it only looked like a line.

Alex’s first soul core responded, he slid on the floor to avoid that fast swing, the blood scythe’s attack only hit the air as Alex slid on the floor.

The blood scythe’s eyebrow twitched, his gaze shifted downward where Alex was sliding.

Alex directed his hand toward the blood scythe’s right knee, he pulled it while still sliding on the floor.

The blood scythe lost his balance, his right leg was pulled by Alex, his red eyes trembled, he swung his blood scythe at Alex who was still pulling his leg.

But Alex did not move, he only smiled faintly, because from behind the blood scythe’s back, a blue laser could be seen.

Katarina was already there, she made a thrusting movement toward the back of the blood scythe’s head with a blue laser blade, the blood scythe’s body hairs stood up, he moved as fast as he could to avoid it.

But the smell of burnt flesh could be smelled as Katarina’s blue laser blade sliced the blood scythe’s neck.

His red eyes trembled followed by his lips twitching.

The blood scythe did not let himself just be attacked, he swung the blood scythe in his left hand toward Katarina.

The blood scythe swung at the same speed as when attacking Alex, a line was reflected in Katarina’s blue eyes.

Katarina’s eyes only widened seeing the speed of the swing.

Meanwhile Alex, who was still holding the blood scythe’s right knee, began to pull it harder to move him away from the slash that was directed at Katarina’s face.

That slash only hit the air and gave a small gust of wind to Katarina’s face.

The blood scythe clicked his tongue seeing his slash fail again, he directed his gaze toward Alex.

Alex, who realized he would be attacked, began to stand slightly but his left leg was directed toward the back of the blood scythe’s knee.

Alex’s left leg kick made the blood scythe’s left knee twitch and bend, his left knee finally touched the ground.

Katarina raised her left leg, her movement was very free because she wore black pants instead of the dress she usually wore.

Katarina’s side kick hit the blood scythe’s face, the blood scythe’s body was pushed backward.

After that attack, Alex and Katarina immediately moved away.

The sound of footsteps was heard fast and heavy, from there Aril appeared whose body was full of wounds.

His brown eyes were directed at the blood scythe who was still kneeling after his face was kicked by Katarina, Aril gritted his teeth.

He directed his leg at the blood scythe’s body, a straight kick infused with mana landed on the blood scythe’s body.

The sound of bones cracking from the blood scythe was heard when Aril’s leg reached his body.

He was thrown backward, blood came out of his mouth, but his expression did not show pain, instead he smiled.

He performed a backward roll to hold his thrown body, the blood scythes in both of his hands were held tightly.

His expression became crazy when he saw Alex, Katarina, and Aril.

He tore his chest without hesitation, fresh blood flowed heavily from his chest.

Alex, Katarina, and Aril grimaced seeing what the blood scythe did.

But the blood scythe only hugged himself tightly, and from his embrace he released dozens of horizontal slashes made of blood toward Alex, Katarina, and Aril.

The three of them were frozen seeing the dozens of blood slashes coming out from the blood scythe’s body.

Alex’s pupil shrank, a breath came out of him.

’Damn...’

His first soul core that should have made him avoid the attack was not used.

His heart beat fast until the sound of it echoed in his ears, his hot blood flowed through his entire body.

Alex stepped his foot forward in front of Katarina and Aril who were still frozen.

Katarina’s blue eyes widened, her voice that came out quickly became stuck when she saw Alex’s back.

"Alex..."

Alex did not answer, he only covered his face with both of his hands, and dozens of blood scythe slashes targeted his body.

His hands, stomach, thighs and various parts of his body were hit by those slashes, the cream shirt he wore was torn showing his body.

The slashes that should have left wounds on Alex’s body now only tore the clothes he wore.

The blood scythe’s red eyes trembled seeing his attack did not give any effect to Alex, he laughed loudly.

"What is that? How are you not injured at all?"

The confusion experienced by the blood scythe was also experienced by Katarina and Aril behind Alex, because not a single drop of blood came out from Alex’s body.

Katarina began to approach and looked at Alex’s body that was not scratched at all.

"Are you okay?"

Alex only stood silently, the hearing of his ears was blocked by the sound of his own heartbeat, hot blood continued to pump throughout his body.

Alex smiled as if he did not feel any pain at all.

"Of course..."

Alex swallowed, he scratched the back of his neck, he whispered to Katarina and Aril.

"Don’t be too nervous, we will defeat him in ten minutes...."

Aril’s brown eyes widened, he looked toward Alex, while Alex only chuckled seeing him, he raised his finger making a small gesture.

"If more than that I think the chance will be thin..."

Katarina who heard that whispered to Alex, only the two of them heard it.

"What is this? Is this your power?"

Alex nodded slightly while glancing at Katarina.

The blood scythe who felt his excitement continue to be fulfilled began to laugh loudly, he covered his face with both hands, while Alex, Katarina, and Aril only stayed silent.

The blood scythe showed his face again with a wide smile.

"You are quite unique... it seems you will become a suitable souvenir for them."

Alex spat on the floor as a response to the blood scythe’s words, he looked at the blood scythe from head to toe.

"Too bad you are not a good souvenir for me..."

The blood scythe chuckled seeing Alex’s answer.

Alex wanted to speak again but Krystal’s voice shouting in his mind stopped him.

’Your ten minutes have already started, idiot!!’

Alex chuckled, he took a deep breath to calm his heartbeat that never calmed down.

He immediately charged toward the blood scythe again, this time he also summoned the changing sword from his soul.

Katarina and Aril followed him again from behind.

The blood scythe only stood in place, he waited for them to come with both scythes in his hands.

Alex’s black eyes narrowed seeing that, he gripped the changing sword with both of his hands, he jumped as if he would deliver a powerful attack with just a longsword.

The blood scythe only licked his lips with his tongue while preparing to counter.

Alex who was still in the air began to swing the changing sword as if swinging something heavy.

He did not aim at the scythes held by the blood scythe, he aimed at his wrist.

When the sword almost hit him, light came out from the changing sword, everyone was slightly stunned by it, but not Alex, his black eyes were only focused on his target.

In an instant, the changing sword turned into a giant heavy axe, the blood scythe who saw it for the first time was slightly stunned, he could not avoid Alex’s slash.

The slash that targeted his right wrist.

A burst of blood came out from the blood scythe’s severed right wrist, Alex landed not far from the blood scythe.

The blood scythe slightly turned his head toward him, but from the other side Aril appeared, he channeled his mana throughout his body.

One of the blood scythe’s eyebrows lifted, he shifted his gaze toward Aril, there Aril lowered his posture.

Aril wrapped his arms around the blood scythe’s waist, causing the blood scythe to be pushed several steps backward as he had to withstand Aril’s weight.

The blood scythe grabbed Aril’s neck with his severed right hand, blood from the blood scythe stained Aril’s face.

He kept stepping backward, but suddenly he stopped his movement with his right foot so he would not be pushed further by Aril.

Aril, who had been successfully pushing him, now felt like he had hit a wall, he kept increasing his strength, meanwhile the blood scythe began to redirect Aril’s push, he directed it to the right.

Alex appeared again from the right, the blood scythe who saw that immediately swept Aril’s leg, causing him to fall and block Alex’s path.

Alex’s eyes widened, his first soul core activated, he jumped over Aril’s body that blocked his path.

’Damn...’

The blood scythe used that moment, he kicked Alex with his left leg while Alex was still mid-air, Alex’s body twitched seeing that kick, he directed the changing sword in front of his body and turned it into a shield in an instant.

Alex’s body that received the impact in the air began to be thrown away.

Meanwhile the blood scythe who was still in a kicking position with his left leg was forced to turn by Katarina who appeared.

She directed her blue laser toward the blood scythe’s right heel which became his support.

Her slash was very smooth, like cutting a thread but followed by the smell of burned flesh, but a clicking sound of the tongue was heard from Katarina.

"Not deep enough..."

The blood scythe fell again, his right knee touched the ground right in front of Aril who began to rise.

Aril who saw the blood scythe’s open position immediately rushed again.

The blood scythe who saw that chuckled, he directed his severed right hand that was still bleeding toward Aril.

Aril’s brown eyes reflected what the blood scythe was doing, his thoughts raced in doubt seeing it.

Meanwhile Katarina who saw the blood scythe’s posture immediately shouted at Aril while trying to release her blue fire.

"Watch out! Aril!"

Aril who heard Katarina’s words hesitated slightly, but that hesitation made him too late.

From the blood scythe’s severed right hand, hundreds of small blood droplets shot toward him at incredible speed.

Those droplets targeted Aril’s body.

Aril could see them clearly, but to avoid them his body felt too heavy to move.

But suddenly a presence appeared behind him, that presence delivered a kick to Aril’s back, Aril who did not realize it fell forward and moved out of the trajectory of the blood droplets.

Meanwhile behind the fallen Aril, Alex appeared with the same shield, his heart was beating extremely fast until the sound echoed in his ears, he protected himself with that shield, but the hundreds of blood droplets still reached Alex’s body.

Those droplets targeted Alex’s thighs and legs, the impact sounded like something that could kill an adult.

But Alex still stood firm without letting out even a single scream, and without being injured, not even releasing blood from the torn part of his pants.

The blood scythe who saw Alex completely unharmed became even more interested, but the warmth he felt behind his body made him realize, he rolled to the side.

From the path he avoided, a stream of blue fire burned through.

The blood scythe immediately stood up from his roll, he looked at Katarina who appeared again.

The blood from his severed right hand began to flow even more, that blood slowly changed into a whip-like form.

He swung the blood whip connected to his right hand, the whip split the air toward Katarina.

But Katarina did not care, her cold blue eyes did not waver, because she trusted her teammate.

As if answering that, a shield was thrown toward the blood scythe’s right hand that was connected to the whip.

The collision of the shield made his whipping motion lose momentum.

The whip that was heading toward Katarina would never reach her.

Meanwhile Katarina directed her blue fire which she now shaped into a laser blade attached to the back of her right hand, her target was only one—the blood scythe’s head.

The blood scythe who saw the reflection of that blade in his red eyes smiled, he raised his left hand and grabbed the blade willingly.

Katarina’s thrust was stopped by the blood scythe’s left hand, the smell of burned flesh could be smelled, but his face showed no pain, he only smiled widely.

His right hand that had formed a whip now began to transform into a sharp blood spike, he immediately directed it toward Katarina’s stomach.

Katarina who saw that immediately channeled mana into her left hand to block it.

But a distraction saved her faster.

Footsteps were heard from her side, Alex ran from there, he directed his leg toward the blood scythe’s body.

His kick sent the blood scythe flying and rolling several meters.

Alex stood beside Katarina, his heart beating as if it would explode, sweat poured from his entire body, Alex shouted at the blood scythe.

"I’m paying back that kick you gave me earlier, bastard!"

Katarina who heard Alex’s words from beside him looked at him with a blank expression.

Alex who saw that only shrugged.

"That kick really hurt..."

A sigh came out from Katarina, she looked at Alex’s body from head to toe, his clothes were torn from the attacks, but there was no blood or wound at all.

"You have more power than I thought...?"

Alex smiled faintly, he whispered to Katarina.

"Don’t say it out loud..."

Katarina nodded as she felt Aril’s presence approaching.

Meanwhile laughter came from the blood scythe who was trying to stand with one arm.

His laughter made Alex feel a slight chill, especially with the smell of blood and corpses filling the room.

The blood scythe held his face with his left arm, while blood still flowed from his missing right hand.

"Ahhh today there really are no easy prey..."

The blood scythe looked at Alex, Katarina, and Aril.

"...but that will make it even more delicious when I get to taste your fresh flesh."

Alex cracked his neck.

"I think today we’re the ones who’ll taste your flesh, bastard..."

The blood scythe chuckled hearing Alex’s words, he pointed at Alex with his severed right hand that was still bleeding.

"For you, I will make you into experimental material..."

Alex brushed his hair back, he exhaled to calm himself, but his heartbeat kept racing fast.

’How much longer, Krystal?’

Krystal’s voice answered.

’Five minutes...’

Alex clicked his tongue.

’This enemy is hard to kill, damn...’

They slowly prepared to attack again, while in the corner of the room, Reva who had started to recover tried to walk toward Ken who was only watching the battle with empty eyes.

Reva, whose lips were still slightly pale, gritted his teeth, he grabbed Ken’s collar and shouted softly so only the two of them could hear.

"Hey bastard! Snap out of it! We have to help the others!"

Reva kept shaking Ken’s body, while Ken only looked at Reva whose face was grimacing, Ken’s black eyes observed every inch of Reva’s face.

His heart that had felt dead began to beat fast again, his breath that had been dull now felt warm.

But Reva did not notice that change, he kept shaking Ken and started slapping his cheeks.

Ken who had regained consciousness began to feel the pain on his cheeks, he held Reva’s hand that was slapping him.

Reva who was surprised that his hand was held became silent, while Ken looked at him and chuckled slightly.

"I’m already awake... stop slapping me."

Reva nodded, but after that he wrapped his arm around Ken’s neck.

"You should’ve woken up faster, bastard! Maybe we already beat that asshole!"

Ken hit Reva’s arm that was choking him as his face turned red.

Reva released him, allowing Ken to breathe again, Reva walked ahead while Ken only looked at his back.

"Let’s go help the princess, the liar, and that big kid..."

Ken swallowed seeing Reva walking away, his heart beat fast without him realizing, but his awareness tried to take over, he remembered the moment he experienced earlier.

A breath escaped Ken’s lips.

"Yeah... we have to defeat him quickly."

Reva and Ken returned to the battlefield of life and death.