I Was Not Meant To Exist

Silence enveloped one of the reception rooms in the human palace, that silence was followed by the foul and fishy smell of blood scattered across the floor of the room.

Alex stood side by side with Katarina and Aril, they faced the blood scythe whose arm had been severed some time ago, blood still continuously flowing from his arm.

Alex whispered to Katarina, his voice only heard by the two of them.

"Five minutes left..."

One of Katarina’s eyebrows lifted, she glanced at Alex.

"Why are you in such a hurry, to the point of constantly reminding the time..."

Alex chuckled, scratching his temple.

"Hehehe, I’m afraid I won’t be able to help after those five minutes..."

Alex then glanced at Aril who was on Katarina’s left.

"Hey big boy...just focus on the finishing blow...I’ll look for the right opening."

Aril glanced at Alex who whispered, he also whispered back.

"Wouldn’t it be better if I’m at the front, I can also use my talent."

Alex nodded agreeing with what Aril said, he cracked the bones in his fingers.

"That’s true, my friend. but you’ll collapse first before you can defeat that guy."

Alex slowly stepped forward toward the blood scythe.

"You and Katarina also have stronger attack power than me...so just make use of that. I’ll give my best."

Katarina chuckled seeing Alex who kept moving to the very front and kept supporting his friends.

"Have you always been like this?..."

Alex’s ear twitched, he knew what Katarina meant, and only they knew what they were talking about.

"Of course..."

Katarina nodded in understanding, while her blue eyes looked at Alex’s back that was slowly moving away, she whispered to Aril.

"Let’s trust him again this time..."

Aril nodded agreeing with what Katarina said, he would do anything to kill the one who killed Teresa.

The two of them also charged behind Alex.

The blood scythe who saw them approaching again also moved, the blood coming out from his right arm he turned into a blood blade.

Alex who saw what the blood scythe did immediately took out a flat stone with a symbol engraved on it from his smart bracelet.

He channeled a bit of mana into the flat stone and threw it toward the blood scythe’s face.

One of the blood scythe’s eyebrows lifted when seeing the flat stone flying through the air toward him.

He only tilted his head to avoid it without knowing what would happen.

The flat stone infused with a bit of mana passed the blood scythe, but when the stone was right behind his head, it shone.

The blood scythe who realized the light glanced back, but something happened at the same time as he looked.

From the glowing flat stone emerged a green kinetic wave that slammed into the blood scythe’s back, the explosive force tore his black robe and made him fall forward.

He gritted his teeth as his gaze fell to the floor without knowing Alex was already in front of him.

Alex who saw the blood scythe about to fall immediately lifted his left leg, the tip of his toes aimed straight at the blood scythe’s right knee as a straight kick.

The blood scythe gritted his teeth, his right knee bent after being kicked by Alex.

He fell forward almost kissing the ground, Alex who saw that immediately tried to attack again.

But the blood scythe directed his right arm which had a blood blade, his blood slowly turned liquid again, the blood from the blood scythe shot toward Alex.

Alex’s black eyes widened seeing that, he channeled mana into both his legs and stepped back, but the blood from the blood scythe kept targeting him, until finally the blood wrapped around Alex’s left wrist.

The blood scythe smiled widely seeing Alex successfully caught, but his smile didn’t last long as Katarina and Aril were already near him to attack.

He began pulling himself using the blood wrapped around Alex’s left hand, his body flew toward Alex, leaving Katarina and Aril who couldn’t attack him first.

Meanwhile Alex kept trying to cut the blood wrapping his left hand with the changing sword that he turned into a short sword.

Cold sweat dripped down his forehead, he felt something approaching and tried to look at it.

There the blood scythe pulled himself using the blood wrapped around Alex’s left hand.

Alex exhaled, from his black eyes reflected the blood scythe who was getting closer.

He finally decided to dismiss the changing sword, he also chose to firmly grab the blood scythe’s blood with his left palm, a strange sensation hit him when he touched it for the first time.

The blood scythe formed another scythe in his left hand, he swung it at Alex.

Alex’s body twitched, his first soul core responded to the danger, he slightly stepped back to avoid the blood scythe.

With that simple movement, the blood scythe only cut through the air, passing Alex just like that.

Alex gritted his teeth, he pulled the blood that bound him which was connected to the blood scythe’s right arm.

Alex’s pull made the blood scythe turn his body, he immediately attacked again feeling that it was an opportunity.

Alex who could clearly see the slash immediately directed his left arm toward the slash, but right when the slash was about to hit him, he pulled it back which made the blood rope wrapping his hand fall into the path of the slash.

The blood scythe’s slash directly cut his own blood rope and freed Alex from the binding.

Alex who saw the blood scythe’s attack fail again tried to counter it, but the blood scythe moved faster than him.

He directed his severed right arm toward Alex’s face, the blood that previously wrapped Alex now turned liquid again, and from there a palm-sized blood bullet shot toward Alex’s head.

Alex’s black eyes widened, his expression showed he was not ready to receive that attack, but his first soul core helped him move his neck to the right.

The blood scythe’s shot only grazed a bit of Alex’s black hair and his left ear, making Alex grimace.

Alex who hadn’t had time to prepare after that attack was attacked again with a horizontal slash from the scythe held in the blood scythe’s left hand.

The horizontal slash aimed at Alex’s neck, Alex’s first soul core responded, it made his body bend backward.

But that sudden attack still touched the skin of Alex’s neck, the slash looked quite deep but no blood came out from Alex’s skin, there was no mark indicating the blood scythe succeeded in cutting Alex’s neck, there was only the sound of Alex’s heartbeat echoing in his ears.

The blood scythe tried to attack Alex again, but Alex saw a figure from behind the blood scythe.

There Aril came charging from the blood scythe’s blind spot, he immediately hugged the blood scythe’s waist from behind.

The pushing force generated by Aril’s embrace made the blood scythe pushed forward, bringing him closer to Alex.

Alex who saw that immediately directed his mana-infused left fist toward the blood scythe’s face.

The punch made a sound like bones cracking, the blood scythe’s nose bled.

Meanwhile Aril tightened his grip on the blood scythe’s waist, he shouted while lifting the blood scythe.

"Huarghhh..."

The blood scythe’s body was lifted into the air, Aril immediately directed him backward, making Aril’s body arch backward.

The blood scythe who couldn’t respond could only remain still as his neck slammed directly into the floor, cracks appeared on the floor followed by the sound of the blood scythe’s neck bones breaking, blood flowed into a pool where he landed.

Aril rolled his body and immediately stood up, he charged the blood scythe again.

Alex who wasn’t far from him also attacked the blood scythe while gripping the changing sword, as did Katarina who saw it as an opportunity.

The three of them attacked from three directions, while the blood scythe whose body became stiff could only stay still as he was surrounded.

His red eyes trembled violently, his body convulsed, his blood kept flowing into a puddle on the floor.

But Alex, Aril, and Katarina who saw that didn’t care, they kept charging, until their feet stepped into the pool of blood on the floor.

Alex’s eyebrow twitched when his first step touched the pool of blood, a vision of death flashed quickly in his mind, that vision triggered his first soul core.

In one breath, Alex lifted his left leg to kick Aril who was closer to him, even though Aril’s punch was almost reaching the blood scythe whose neck was still stuck to the floor.

At the same time, Alex channeled mana into the changing sword and turned it into a pillow, he immediately threw it hard at Katarina’s face in front of him.

In one breath of Alex. Katarina and Aril’s footing left the pool of the blood scythe’s blood.

And in the next breath, the blood scythe’s blood writhed and quickly turned into spikes of blood that pierced upward.

Those spikes pierced several parts of Alex’s body, but Alex managed to avoid his vital parts being pierced.

Alex’s heart beat fast, his ears rang loudly, and his black eyes reflected the blood scythe who slowly rose and choked him.

A breath came from the blood scythe, his foul breath reached Alex, his neck that should have been broken now looked fine.

He glanced at Alex’s body that didn’t move after being pierced by his blood spikes, he chuckled seeing something interesting to him.

"Your body is full of holes but not a single drop of blood comes out, huh?"

Alex’s ringing ears made him unable to hear what the blood scythe said.

His black eyes didn’t look at the blood scythe, he focused on Aril and Katarina who had managed to escape from the spikes, they slowly tried to stand, their lips moved as if speaking but Alex couldn’t hear them.

The blood scythe’s brow furrowed realizing Alex wasn’t focused on him.

"You’re quite brave, aren’t you?....."

The blood scythe gripped Alex’s neck tighter, but Alex’s face showed no pain.

"...you’re not even in pain."

Alex remained silent not knowing what the blood scythe was saying, his black eyes again saw someone behind the blood scythe, there Katarina released her blue fire to burn the blood scythe.

After seeing that Alex chuckled, he finally spoke for the first time even though he still couldn’t hear.

"Got you, bastard..."

The blood scythe’s lips twitched hearing what Alex said, but warmth suddenly spread across his back, he realized something was approaching and tried to avoid it.

But Alex who was still pierced by the blood spikes immediately grabbed the blood scythe’s neck back.

He pulled the blood scythe’s neck toward his face, a shout of determination came from Alex.

"ARGHHHH"

He slammed his head into the blood scythe’s, making the blood scythe dizzy as blue fire engulfed both of them.

Warmth spread across Alex’s body which quickly turned into heat piercing his skin.

In a nearly burned state, a sword slash freed Alex from being trapped.

After that slash, a short brown-haired girl immediately pulled Alex’s body into the shadows and moved away as the blue fire grew larger.

The explosion of blue fire became like a giant bonfire in one of the palace reception rooms.

The shadow that moved away from the fire slowly released Alex, the shadow also reformed into Reva’s body.

The two of them rolled not far from the blazing blue fire that burned the blood scythe.

Katarina immediately approached Alex, her face looked disbelieving, because what she saw was Alex’s body completely clean without wounds, the only thing visible was his torn cream shirt and his ripped black pants.

Alex smiled widely seeing Katarina who was just staring.

"You really wanted to roast me, huh?"

Alex stretched his body which felt no pain, the only thing he worried about was his abnormally beating heart.

He glanced at Reva who saved him, he pinched her cheek hard and shook it.

"You’re useful too...short fuse."

Reva’s face turned red, she hit Alex’s hand.

"Damn it! Let go, bastard! Should’ve just let you burn there!"

Alex ignored Reva, he just stood looking at the large blue fire still burning, Aril and Ken came approaching them.

But Alex just stared at the blazing blue fire.

’Did it work?...’

Krystal’s voice echoed in Alex’s head, the only voice he could hear amidst the loud beating of his heart.

’10 seconds left...’

A rough breath came from Alex, he held his waist with both hands, his eyes closed.

’Damn...my body is full of holes, it must hurt so much, right?’

Krystal laughed dryly hearing what Alex said.

’I am sorry for the pain you will experience’

Katarina who only saw Alex’s back stayed silent until a whisper was heard from beside her, Ken was there whispering.

"What is that idiot doing, Katarina?"

Katarina stayed silent for a moment, she exhaled.

"I don’t know..."

Katarina looked at the blue fire she created to burn the blood scythe.

"Just be ready to leave quickly..."

Ken and Reva who started to stand nodded, while Aril still stared at the blue fire, his hands clenched.

Katarina who felt everything was over was about to turn away, but a bad premonition stopped her, she turned back again.

There, the blue fire she created slowly died out, and a figure wriggled inside it.

That figure formed both hands, and when the hands appeared, a gust of wind swept the entire room causing the blazing blue fire to gradually extinguish, the room became silent instantly.

Katarina and the others could only stare, while Alex exhaled in annoyance.

He slowly opened his black eyes, there on the scorched floor, a figure formed from a mass of blood, the figure was entirely red, and a wide smile was carved on it.

Alex massaged his forehead, while Krystal spoke in his mind.

’Run! Five seconds left...’

Alex ignored what Krystal said, meanwhile the figure standing where it had burned now directed one of its hands toward the five of them, from its hand came blood knives that moved quickly toward them.

Katarina prepared her blue fire, but her movement stopped when Alex took out the changing sword.

Alex channeled a bit of mana into the changing sword, he turned it into a one-arm shield.

Krystal’s voice echoed in his mind.

"Three..."

Alex moved his shield as the blood knives approached, the knives hit Alex’s shield and he brushed them off like they were nothing.

Ken whistled seeing Alex acting cool, while Reva only looked with a strange expression.

But Alex didn’t know how his friends reacted, he only heard Krystal’s voice.

"Two..."

Alex swallowed, cold sweat poured more heavily from his body, his heartbeat became more uncontrollable.

He dropped his shield to the floor and slightly glanced back.

"Hold him for a moment...."

Alex’s sudden words made the others fall silent, Katarina who heard him stood still, they didn’t answer him.

Only Krystal’s voice was heard in Alex’s head.

"One..."

After Krystal’s voice disappeared, Alex’s body twitched for a moment.

His heart that had been beating abnormally for ten minutes suddenly stopped, the ringing in his ears disappeared leaving only silence.

Slowly from Alex’s exposed skin due to his torn clothes, lines began to appear, those lines slowly released a red liquid.

And in an instant, the sound of something bursting came from Alex’s body, now the wounds that were previously unseen for ten minutes appeared all at once, blood sprayed from all over Alex’s body along with pain that came simultaneously.

Alex’s scream was heard restrained, his body trembled violently, the wound on his thigh made him kneel.

"Keugh..."

His friends behind him could only stare, Katarina whose blue eyes were fixed on Alex unconsciously wiped the blood splattered on her face.

She glanced at the blood now staining her palm and looked back at Alex who was now slowly collapsing.