Chapter 9 - One eyed Man Beast

Flying tens of feet above the ground. Eric feels the power pumping through his veins. Or his feet. Either point of view is acceptable. That fire roaring beneath his feet gifted Eric with much needed courage, draining his self doubt by each glance he had on the fire. His eyes widened in amazement and his adrenaline rose up along with him the first time he had a quick glance of the fire beneath his feet, he was left bewildered.

A moment apart, he felt something different developing in his body in a flash. As if he was losing control of his own flesh and bones, his actions were no longer his. His eyes kept flashing, one time turning burning red in colour, the second time turning normal, then they turned red again. This constant change repeated several times before Eric lost complete control of his body, Eric fought it as much as he could but wasn't successful. He doesn't even know what he is fighting. Himself?

He spread his arms wide open as he flew in mid air, started spinning and fire came out of palms. The fire beneath his feet started the process and the fire on his palms continued it, a tornado forming tens of feet above the ground. The fire didn't take time to explode in size. Spiraling quickly around Eric, in a blink of an eye it transformed into a huge tornado like form, making it all the more terrifying. A tornado made out of fire. what a baffling view to witness indeed.

Eric flew up until he reached the top of the Fire Tornado, stopped blasting fire out of his feet once he reached it, joined his palms together where each finger of his hands touched each other. Much like a clap, without actually doing a hard clap that is, it was more gentle.

He started falling down from the sky, with his hands deep in the blaze of the Tornado, forcing the tornado to split each second he is falling down from the sky. The Tornado deforms heavily as it splits as it is of course given no other choice. From spiraling elegantly in the sky to deforming into a more wild, spread out and even a considerably more dangerous form. Imagine a Tornado being split vertically in half like a fruit tart. That's how he split the tornado with his current hand positioning which sank down deeper every second he reached the smaller areas of the tornado.

He lightly fell on the ground as if angels carried him down, afterwards using the highly deformed tornado he split in two, controlling it like he grabbed the bull by the horns and knocked him down. He used it to his advantage instead of making a quick show for everyone.

"Eric! Do you even know what you're doing? Why did you deform such a destructive Tornado?!" He heard Mogranius yell from the background but wasn't able to respond as much as he wasn't able to control his own limbs.

"That Tornado could of been our way out of here Goddamn it!" Mogranius whispered to himself as he glared at Eric while moving his head from left to right for a while, obviously displeased. But he also felt dumbfounded when he glanced at this technique. Even Akareas didn't use it. Could it be that Eric doesn't know anything about Fire Controlling? Yet again if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to throw an expert move shot in such ease and perfection at first try.

The raging fire above him roared enough to make everyone in the scene burn one sweat after the other, but that fire, it is completely under his control. It floats above him as if it were dancing in mid air. And as he disconnected his palms, moved his hands down hitting the ground with them, it made the two former Tornado pieces separate further from each other in a flash, as if the Fire trembled along with Eric's hit on the ground. It started flying towards the ground at a speed which no one in the scene could comprehend. Reaching the ground in staggering speed, it quickly deform into a wild usual death bringing fire. After that he moved his hands up again and hit the ground once more, which made the Fire redirect itself. From going straight down to moving straight horizontally forward.

Te fire followed shortly after, flew at rapid speed over his shoulders heading towards the ill.u.s.tratio Guards who were rushing in the scene, tens of them already over the debris who acted as a Barricade. That fire singularity burned over a hundred ill.u.s.tratio guards in seconds, some on the Barricade, some behind the Barricade and the Barricade along with them. The road is clear now. It didn't just burn them. It obliterated them. It completely dismembered their bodies, burned them into ashes then burned their ashes as well as it rolled down all the way to the main road, breaking the big wooden main gate down as if it was nothing. He burned every living creature to be seen on that main road leading to the main gate. Except one.

One ill.u.s.tratio. This one didn't seem to be an ordinary guard. Not at all. He was even wearing a thick Silver armor which was not what Guards are clothed with. That extreme fire Eric released couldn't burn that man. Or was he a man? Because no average being could withstand such heat without perishing. Is he a man or is he not? At that moment it was hard to tell.

In a split second that man who seemed to be almost a hundred yards away, now was in front of Eric which forced everyone in the group to take a step back in shock except Eric who was forced to stay, he can't control his body after all. Looking eye to eye or dare i say "eyes to eye. Eric is full of rage and the man holds a straight reactionless face. Staring at Eric's burning eyes, he got rather more interested.

His facial reactions are exceptional though because that man's face was burned. Only one of his eyes seems to function, his lips were burned and full of scars. His nose seems to be completely cut off. And he didn't have hair on his head. Burn marks followed his head from one side to the other. His head basically looked like a chunk of coal.

Eric didn't hold back, or whatever controlled him, didn't hold back. He didn't even bother talking. He continued to blast fire out of his hands. Slapping much like a bear he kept throwing left and right slaps. Or dare i say  "fire slaps" Towards the man. Those fire strikes seemed to light houses behind the burned man on fire but Eric's target remained untouched by any of Eric's attacks. How?

The oddly overpowered creature said "I'm your superior, child. Stop trying."

Eric who suddenly started feeling control over his body again, first off felt the urge to curse out this man from the top of his lungs but kept it together. And secondly, the glow on his eyes dimmed and returned to normal. "I burned half of your army. Give up or I will find a way to burn you hard enough for your ancestors to feel the heat, you chunk of coal."

The odd creature replies with a cold low voice "Quite foolish of you to think... that this is my entire army. I control everything. This land, these people, creatures beyond your... reach or beyond your wildest imaginations. I am invincible. I am your... superior. You may go now go... dog but we will meet again. You will share a similar fate with your previous life form."

After that, the creature disappears in the blink of an eye. Like he vanished completely. Deleted from existence. Snap!! Just like that, gone!

As the creature disappeared, so did the fire Eric lighted when he kept throwing shots but kept missing his target and hitting houses instead.

Eric turned to Mogranius with his eyes widened up in shock and yelled "How is this possible? Who was this man? Is he even a man?"

"He is a man. In Fact he remembers me of my past adventures. Adventures with Akareas that is. This man was Electus level powerful. I have no idea how he got all this power but it is not normal at all. His fire powers clearly outcompete mine. And i had a lifetime of training." He swiftly explained as he grabbed Mogranius like one would grab his wife, getting ready to fly away.

"Whoever he is we will figure out. But for now lets escape this hellhole." Said Eric as he noticed what Mogranius was doing, and couldn't help giggling a little bit. Which made Woldemir feel embarrassed.

As soon as they hit the sky, ill.u.s.tratio arches and spearmen did not miss the chance to try to shoot them down, that man beast distracting the group, was all these Soldiers needed to gather up. One spear and arrow shot after the other Eric had to dodge them by sense, if he just kept flying in the same direction, he wouldn't of just get hit once but several times. The spears and arrows flew up so rapidly and constant, that one would think 1,000 Soldiers are underneath. But there are merely above two hundred and more just kept coming.

Behind Eric was Mogranius who kept blasting fire out of his mouth which reaches the arrows and spears right away and burns off the sharp tips before they even reached Eric. He had to do it several times until they reached a distance away from the radius of the Spearmen, and did it less while they were still in the Radius of the Archers. It seems like there aren't enough archers underneath them yet.

The first rounds of shots were nothing compared to the second. This time, the situation got more dangerous. Over 50 Catapults appeared on the scene. Archers can no longer reach the group, but what about Catapults?

This situation was exactly like a two men versus an army situation. Eric and Mogranius kept flying higher hoping to fly away from danger, not knowing that over 50 Catapults are getting ready to shoot. Also, Fire can't simply burn a large rock equally fast to flesh. One they can handle, maybe even 10. But 50? No no this situation keeps getting worse.

"Shoot!" Yelled the Guard Commaner of the Catapult operator Platoon. Only 50 Catapults require 100 people to operate them, so a Platoon could never reach 100 Catapults, good thing too. The odds of boulders hitting each other were too great in numbers that high. One Catapult after the other, Boulders kept meeting the sky in such a synchronized way that one would think of this as a huge automatic weapon.

Noticing the Danger when he gave a quick glance, he had to act fast because the boulders approaching are faster. Eric threw Stefan on the air a bit, bursted out fire out of his hand which shortly transformed and shaped much like a bear claw. With that claw he caught Stefan and without waiting long he threw Stefan far far away in speeds that made it impossible for Stefan to open his eyes and view the scenery. Which was better for him, he would hate it anyway due to the thought of death overwhelming him.

Stefan was set on fire just a little bit but he was flying towards the sky so fast that the back part of his clothes that caught on fire a second earlier, got shut down in a split second. The fire got shut down but Stefan's speed wasn't.

While Mogranius kept flying towards the sky with no signs of stopping, Eric stopped in mid air. He turned upside down, opened his arms wide and spiraled on the spot blasting fire out of his palms and forming yet another tornado as he flew down, ultimately forming an upside down tornado.

This tornado sucked in the boulders shot by the ill.u.s.tratian Catapulters like a sponge. If the shots were out of the Tornado's physical reach, the Tornado sucked it in and blasted it downwards, those who were to far away lost their momentum and started flying down again, making the Boulders hit the ill.u.s.tratio ran kingdom. He used their weapons against them, destroying tens of houses and giving anyone hit by the boulders, no chance of survival. What an embarrassment for the Capital Kingdom of Occidentis Ignis.

Without waiting for the ill.u.s.tratio to shoot the third round Eric stopped spinning, turned right side up and with a downward hand moving pose he made the inverted Tornado fly in lighting speed towards the hard ground of Crutal Kingdom.

When the fire Tornado met the ground it spread around everywhere. Transforming into a shape much like a large piece of wheat dough falling from a high distance. As satisfying it was to see, it was beyond equally as dangerous. Apart from burning 1/6 of the Kingdom, it caused an earthquake. Enough to shake the entire Kingdom hard enough to leave the ill.u.s.tratio dumbfounded. While the ill.u.s.tratio used tens of seconds to analyze what just happened, Eric headed towards the sky.

Shortly after Eric saw Stefan falling down from the sky and screaming at a high pitched voice. Much like a lady. Fortunately Eric caught him and the gang flew away from the Crutal Kingdom, leaving the fruits and vegetables behind, but what else was missing?

After an hour or so of flying, they seem to have escaped the ill.u.s.tratio's view and successfully hid from them using the large forest as a mist. They landed on the woods where no ill.u.s.tratio or other race could see them. The only people who could discover them would be passing animal hunters or Lumberjacks. But they are rare to see.

"We just escaped that insane situation in one piece. Is everyone alright?" Mogranius was staggered of what just happened an hour ago. In fact he kept getting staggered ever since he met these people.

Stefan replies while rolling his eyes

"Apart from the fact that Eric tossed me far far off of the ground, I'm alright. I handled it perfectly."

"Of course you did, we could tell by your high pitched voice when you were falling down." Laughed Woldemir loud with his hand above his chest but calmed down and added "Still you showed great bravery old friend. You left everything behind to join us. There is fight in you. I can sense a brave warrior in you urging to fight for what's right. I sense that spirit in you. Instead of kissing the clearly superior ill.u.s.tratio's boots, you broke free, every man and woman true to themselves can respect your deed."

"It definitely wasn't easy to leave everything behind like that. I worked for what i had my entire life. But someone has to step up and fight. I can't wait for a miracle to happen." He expressed with constant sighs.

"But it actually did." Exclaimed Mogranius as his eyes widened in excitement. "Eric, the fire power you unleashed back there was astonishing. I never thought that I would have the opportunity to witness such raw earth trembling power again so soon. You give me hope kid."