Chapter 226: The First Abyss (V): Wyvern

Rezar felt his back smash into the mountain, digging a bloody furrow that ruined his clothes and peeled open his back and flesh, spilling his blood all over the mountain, it was painful, and it hurt like hell, and he wasn't healing as fast as he once did, but short of his uncontrolled movements, Rezar didn't do anything else but keep his grip around the hilt of the blade and chain still attached to the wing of the wyvern. Kitagawa had taken a few steps back so as to not get caught by the sweeping tail, he looked up for a moment sparing a glance at Rezar's bloodied form and the trench he had also dug up the mountain, it was not a good sight.

*Pop! *

"Arghhh!" Rezar cried out loud in pain as his bones fell back into place, but his focus was as a sharp as ever. There was a couple of system notifications, but he pushed them all to the side, feeling a rush of energy in his body as his healing took on a faster speed than normal. Rezar shot downwards to the Wyvern, gravity and rapidly retracting chain giving him more speed than normal. The Wyvern was prepared however as it opened its mouth and spewed a geyser of green poisonous gas towards the rapidly falling Rezar.

Rezar flung the other Khophesh, letting it dig into the side of the mountain a fair distance away, then he let that drag him instead while the other blade still stuck in the wing forced the Wyvern to change the trajectory of its breath attack. And in that moment the wyvern crashed its massive jaws together, creating sparks that spread into the [poisonous green cloud, and then…...

*Boooom! *

The explosion created a shockwave that shook the mountain, with the area where the poison cloud has previously covered becoming a massive crater that exposed a network of tunnels that seemed to run deep into the mountain itself. The yanking of its wing had forced its face within the blast radius, and now one half of the wyvern's face was a huge and bloodied mess. It raised its other wing, using it to clip a rapidly approaching Kitagawa and sending backwards to smash into a boulder and then sent him rolling down the mountain to the forest of Stalagmites down below. Rezar wants too worried because he knew Kitagawa would be back, and he had scarcely come to that conjecture when three massive fox tails stabbed forwards into the side of the Wyvern, prompting it to scream out loud as a giant six tailed fox came running up the side of the Mountain.

The Wyvern turned to face the incoming Kitagawa, opening its mouth wide to either released the compressed air blast, or the flammable poison gas it just used to decimate a 100-meter radius of the mountain. Rezar was prepared to stop the wyvern as a silver blue spectral skull shot out from his hand towards the wyvern, going into its head and causing it scream out loud in pain. The spectral skull skill was a magic based attack that didn't cause any physical damage, instead it attacked your magic or mental energy directly, at least that's what Rezar felt it did, the wyvern probably had massive migraines every time that attack was used.

The skill it was about to use was cancelled as its chest got bloated for a second before going down, the wyvern was dazed from the attack, and even though it was three times the size of the eight-foot-tall kitsunes, it didn't Stop Kitagawa from pouncing on its exposed neck, his fangs piercing through its scaled neck and eliciting a cry of pain from it. It was rapidly coming to its senses as its life blood spilled over the pristine white fur of Kitagawa, and it made Rezar frantic. The wyvern knew it was going to die, so it would probably be a little bit frantic, and any animal or beast backed into a corner would do anything to take its enemy down, so Rezar jumped.

He retracted both blades and combined them back into Vita Gratia's basic staff form, and the he turned upside down, falling from the sky as the Wyvern put up a last frantic struggle trying to dislodge Kitagawa from its neck. But Kitagawa was a predator, a hunter. Even if he just had to rely on his animal instinct and not just his intellect he was a hunter right on top of the food chain, so he knew how to kill a beast, and wyvern just couldn't match up to his own intelligence and intellect. He knew how to position himself, how much force to apply and let the Wyvern's frantic attempts to escape be the catalyst that would keep ripping its wound larger and larger, and he knew exactly when to move away when Rezar slammed into the head of the Wyvern like a bullet from the sky.

*Boooom! *

The wyvern's head smashed into the ground as the horn on its head was cracked along with the scales around it. Vita Gratia was plunged deep between its eyes, as Rezar hunched over the dead lesser dragon, both his legs broken and his body worse for wear. He couldn't move and the only thing keeping him upright was his dislocated hands holding on to Vita gratia. He felt the weapon grow warm, as the soul of the wyvern was absorbed, strengthening the weapon and in turn himself. Kitagawa showed up in his Kitsune form and used his paws to put Rezar on his back, before using his teeth to grab Vita Gratia. He didn't any more prompting as he shot forwards down the mountain and into the forest of stalagmites. Right behind them were three other wyverns, much larger than the one they had just defeated, and being ridden by red skinned demons with horns that were on fire.

"Looks like we got the attention of the people who own the castle.... well it's such a shame we didn't get to say hello to them Kitagawa, but regardless…...let's get the fuck out of here please."