Warlock of War: My Ares System

"[Freeze],"

The boy's strikes suddenly disappeared, leaving him completely defenseless as the tip of my spear rammed through his body several times.

His bones were as hard as steel, and his flesh was like trying to cut through leather, but with a boost of [Tangible Bloodlust], I was able to tear him completely to shreds.

"Huff… huff… My throat doesn't hurt as much as before, but… *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*..."

I coughed up a mouthful of blood and spat it onto the ground, trying to catch my breath as that last attack really took everything out of me.

But suddenly, I felt a tingle on the back of my neck, and a blast of killing intent practically scraped my neck with an invisible knife.

Blood drew from the back of my neck without anything even touching it… well, there was the bloodlust… and that was it.

Ting

"Get up, asshole," I heard a voice mutter from behind me, and when I slowly turned my head around, I saw Aisa fighting back the two assailants.

The other magic swordsman was nowhere near as strong as the one I just fought, but the assassin was a different story.

CLANG CLANG CLANG

Their knives bounced against each other, sparks flying across the roof top as the two swift women collided against each other.

They were nimble and really knew how to use their body to their advantage.

For each incoming attack, they would twist and distort their body to where no openings could be taken advantage of but also create an off angle to which the opposing side barely had any time to react.

On top of that, the number of feints they were using was incredible.

My eyes could barely follow them, and just as I began to gawk in awe at that beautiful spectacle presented to me, the weaker magic swordsman coated his sword in flames.

They were strong but not strong enough.

As I quickly stood up, I used the handle of my spear to block his downward swing, which had the force of a mountain.

I felt my shins almost break upon receiving the unimaginably strong hit.

"I see… so that is why you were so slow… you're somebody who focuses on strength, right?" I muttered before smiling widely and letting go of my spear before summoning my sniper in my hand.

The sudden shift in weight caused the man to slowly fall towards me, and just as he placed his right foot out to try and gain balance, the barrel of my sniper reached his lips.

"Bye, bye,"

BOOOOOOOOOM

His head exploded into thousands of chunks, leaving the two assassins to flinch from the grotesque sight appearing in their peripheral vision.

As his blood coated my face, I wiped some of it off with a paper towel I took out of my inventory.

"Need one?" I asked Aisa with a little smirk, and this made her annoyed just enough for her to actually start using more mana.

She had been trying to conserve some mana and was only using movement skills… but now shit was about to go down.

Suddenly, dark yellow lightning sparked from Aisa's eyes and traveled down her arms like lightning rods trying to absorb the shock of a massive lightning strike.

The lightning then traveled to her daggers, creating mini explosions that blew away both forearm daggers of the bone assassin.

Surprisingly, her flesh was still intact despite the forearm bones being destroyed, meaning Aisa had to put a bit more effort into this fight.

But, just as the bone assassin went for a kick with her shins extending into scythe-like blades, Aisa disappeared but not into a snow cloud… but a flash of lightning.

VWOOM

She appeared behind the assassin, who already expected this, but what she didn't expect was the sniper placed against her torso.

It was a smart choice as if it was placed against her neck or somewhere on her head, she could easily dodge it even if it was at point blank range, and with the power of Aisa's sniper rifle… there was going to be nothing left-

Crack Crack Crack Crack Crack Crack… BOOM

All of a sudden, it looked like the assassin's body distorted a bit just as Aisa pulled the trigger, and my bad feeling came to light when I saw the assassin just blankly staring at the gaping hole in the left side of her torso.

Her blown-away ribs suddenly began to regrow, and the surrounding burnt flesh from the explosive sniper shot began to fall off her body like a tender meaty rib.

"What… the fuck…." Aisa muttered as she appeared beside me with another flash of lightning.

Soon, the assassin of bones was just a skeleton that had shed its fleshy body, leaving its dark gray, almost black bones to regenerate a more grotesque figure.

Her skull shape-shifted into that of a dragon, and her ribs molded with her spine, sprouting boney wings that allowed her to levitate off the ground.

"It's sloppy," I muttered as the skeleton grew bigger and bigger, revealing way too many openings.

I summoned a small throwing knife from my storage ring and threw it right at the skeleton, which slapped it away with a flexible tendril of bone.

"They're trying to run," Aisa muttered, and I nodded in agreement.

This skeleton was fragile and most likely used as an intimation factor while the real body retreated.

How do I know this? Well… it isn't trying to attack despite its massive draconic body now perched upon the edge of this roof.

FWOOSH

I slipped my sniper into my storage ring and brought out my spear, which I then chucked straight at the skeleton.

Multiple boney tendrils tried to crack, deflect, or even destroy my spear, but this thing was a completely different entity.

FWOOSH… CRACK

And my spear then pierced the spine of this thing, causing the rest of it to crumble into pitch black ash.

"Follow her,"

"Now that you said that, I don't want to do it,"

"Huh? But we need to find-"

"I'm just kidding… geez," Aisa sighed before disappearing into a cloud of snow, her sparking limbs returning to normal.