Chapter Seventy Five: Death Cage

Looking at them, my fingers were all broken and shattered. I was tightly holding onto my sword but the force slapped it away like it was nothing.
“Oww!” I fell in a sitting position after sliding down with my back to the wall. Both my shoulders seem to have been dislocated. My insides hurt like crazy as though they were being squeezed out.
“Hah! Hah!” I gasped.
How insanely strong is he?
In that position, I caught sight of him slowly coming to the wall where I was.
Shit!! I have to get away!! he’ll crush me!
Desperately trying, I managed to stand on my legs using the wall as support.
I have to buy myself time until my arms heal and I take back my sword.
“Tentacle swords!”
After defeating the monster that fought with long sharp swords in the form of tentacles, I was able to obtain his skill. The swords come out of the ground in dozens and try to pierce my opponents.
Running alongside the wall, I looked back to see if my attack worked. The swords all got deflected by his barrier. They would aim again after that but to no avail.
With just one powerful swing, his sword cut all the tentacles I sent at him.
He slowly turned towards me. My legs crossed over. I fell rolling on the ground painfully. He held his sword vertically. The tip facing the ceiling, he aimed at me.
“Gatari!!” he shouted slashing his sword.
As soon as he did, a powerful wave the shape of a blade came from his sword. It came at me fast covering a wide range. I had no time to dodge it.
“Barrier strengthening!” I focused all my strength on my barrier to stop his attack.
My barrier glowed darker and darker as he wave was about to hit.
“BAAM!!” the sound came like an explosion. 
The wave hit my barrier dead on. Though the damage was reduced. It felt as though I took that attack myself. My eyeballs felt as though they’ve popped. I couldn’t breathe. A chilly liquid rolled down all over my body. It was my blood. It spurted out from countless holes in my body. A huge line appeared on my chest under my gear. It was a deep cut from his attack.
“UAAH!!!” I choked.
My face had swollen. All my veins were visible. My legs trembled. I couldn’t support myself any longer.
That was when my barrier disappeared. It felt so cold all of a sudden. I felt a sharp and slow pain from my waist. A sound of vibrating metal came along with it.
Looking down at my waist; a long sword 15 centimeters wide was stuck to me. It moved at a incredible speed as it penetrated my body. It was just like a slow motion. My eyes were fixed on it and following it every inch deeper it got.
As my back bone was divided into two, my mind went blank. A burning and pounding pain teared my body apart. I couldn’t even scream.
The upper part of my body separated from the lower part. The thick sword divided me cleanly from the waist down. 
My head banged on the ground with the vision of my lower half right in front of me.
Cold…………………………………………………………………………………………..

“Spinning drill!!”
I took to the air the minute I revived. I spun violently in the air pointing the death lance at my opponent. I created it to serve as a substitute for my sword before I could get it back. I had many skills that I had absorbed from my arsenal but most were from weaker monsters. They wouldn't do a thing against Undeadad. 
Spinning more violently than ever, I sent a lot of energy to my lance. The strong wind and dark aura that came from my spinning took out the light from all the torches.With my night vision, I was able to see the king clearly.
He was about to return to his throne when I revived. His back to me, he rotated in an instance when he sensed my attack. The dark room got even more darker. 
Like a tornado, the wind caused the roof and the floor to fall. 
Gathering all the energy I needed, I aimed at him with my lance.
“Spinning drill!!!”
His sword was raised with two hands. The shaft facing me, he planned to stop my attack.
“Tentacle swords!!”
His sword was dangerous. I could see the distortion in the air as it vibrated awaiting my attack. I needed to get his attention off from me. I sent the tentacle swords surrounding him from all sides. They formed a cage around him. By my command, they all thrust at him simultaneously.
My aim was not to hit his body with the tentacle swords. It was something else.
Just when I closed the distance with my spinning drill and tentacle swords, I diverted the aim of the swords. Just like a rope, I used them to hold his sword. I then pulled the sword back just as my death lance was about to touch it. That brief strong pull on the sword allowed my spinning drill to pass right where it left.
As if surprised by that, the king moved back a bit. I didn’t hesitate. I continued my attack towards his invisible barrier.
“Clear light!!”
I didn’t know if it would work or not. All I wanted was to reduce the strength of his barrier before the lance could hit it.
“Heavy house!!”
The heavy house was meant to increase the weight and strength at which the lance will hit.
The blade of my lance made contact with an invisible wall. His other leg was in the air moving backwards. He would dodge my attack the minute it lands.
I pushed more powerfully. The invisible barrier pushed me back. It tried repelling the attack by focusing on the point of impact.
It will all be for nothing if this attack fails. I sent a massive amount of energy to the tip of the lance. Slowly, it began penetrating the barrier.
“HIYAAH!!” I pushed with all my might.
“CRACK!!” the barrier sounded.It cracked at the spot where the tip of my lance pushed through. Seeing that, I once again added all the energy I could to the push.
Just like a glass, the shattering sound got louder and the barrier collapsed in pieces.
It was no time to celebrate. All I did was take out the barrier. The sword tentacles holding his sword had already been severed when he pulled back. An attack from his sword was due any minute if nothing is done.
I continued pushing despite destroying the barrier. My aim was his rib cage.
With all my violent spinning, his left hand immediately blocked his ribs after I destroyed the barrier. 
I was certain my attack will destroy his hand when the blue ring he had glowed powerfully. As if creating another barrier, he held the tip of my lance strongly. The sword in his right came at me from my left side.
His plan was to stop my spinning drill then cut me with his sword.
“I wont let you!!” 
My spinning was slowed. I let go of the lance quickly and made my way to his ribs. 
“Lance barrage!!” I shot consecutive death lances at the unprotected ribs.
The shots came out from my chest just as the lancer did when I took out his hands.
The lances flew at him with speed. Getting to his backwards bent body, some passed through the gap between his ribs while some hit and shattered a few.
It was after a single lance shattered the center where the ribs meet that his weak point came in view.
Covered by his rib cage, just above the stomach level was an orb. A black orb glowing faintly just like a crystal.
I knew instantly what that meant after he let go of the initial lance he blocked and pulled out the one that was about to hit that orb. It was his core.
“Undead cry!!” he shouted after pulling it out.
Like the sound made when scratching a glass, the screech was so powerful as he cried out. Multiple voices screeched together with him. The sound was painful to the ears. They cried in agony.
My head jumbled up instantly. The cries filled my head. A vision of corpses appeared before my eyes. Piles of corpses dumped together calling out to me.
It was insanely terrifying. I forgot all that I was doing. The cries were about to make me go crazy. I felt a sudden powerful pull on my neck. I couldn’t tell what it was. The vision in front of me was different from what was going on in reality.
I was being pulled at incredible speed when a swift pain reverberated throughout my bones. It was the wall.
The king used the cries to make me hallucinate. He then used that chance to throw me to the wall. I was so far in his range right below his elbow that his long sword couldn’t reach me. He had to use the other hand to throw me away.
I returned to my senses after hitting the wall.
I planned on dashing right back at him the minute I slid down from the wall when he grabbed his sword with both hands and stuck it to the ground “Death cage!!”
My eyes were focused on him when the field around me lit up. Gray magic circles appeared from all directions. They were so big I was completely enclosed in them. They formed a square shaped cage just like a room.
It felt incredibly hot inside the magical cage he made. I thought of forcing my way out of the circle by crashing on the one right in front of me when the sound of metals clanking together grew stronger.
It was truly a death cage. Countless swords pushed out of the circles aiming right at me. All were of a size bigger than me.
“No………….!!” 
There was no escaping for me. The swords came from above, below, left and right. With little or no gap between them, I was left with no choice but to defend myself.
Using every last bit of strength I could summon, I made my barrier glow darker and darker. 
“Heavy house!” I took hold of the ground strongly.
The monsters I defeated have all contributed to increasing my defense against physical attacks. But with that many powerful swords which are more powerful than all the monsters I’ve fought, my defense can only reduce the damage I will take.
The attack caught me off guard. I had no idea he could do something like this.
“KAAM! KAAM! KAAM!!” The swords rapidly hit my barrier.
“AARGH!” the pain was even greater than I thought it would be. Even though it had been reduced by my barrier, the rapid attacks tore every inch of me.
Every time a sword hit, a vision of a dying person came to me. The last vision I saw was of a warrior being impaled to death by countless opponents.
Everything became silent after that.
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