Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey
Chapter 76: A Night Filled With Blood [6]

-Boom

A shockwave of the blast was so intense that Isabella who cast that spell in the first place sent backwards a few steps.

Samuel who was watching all of this could not help but take a few steps back in fear, he didn't know how the girl who was just beaten minutes ago had this much power.

It's like she become a new person But it doesn't matter to him at the end, he is going to win no matter what.

Samuel could tell that that magic took Isabella 80% mana but he didn't know that she had much more mana than he could imagine at the moment.

After the shockwave died down, Isabella approached where Liz was standing.

There was a large crater formed where Liz had stood the moment ago but Isabella could not replace Liz, so she decided to head inside the crater.

-Swoosh!

Sliding across the ground she reached the centre of the crater and in few steps ahead of her was the burned body of a girl. That girl was Liz.

She knelt in front of Liz. Aside from her face, everything on her body was burned. Her white pupil's eyes have regained clarity and her eyes turn back to her normal black colour.

"I'm sorry," Isabella said to Liz, tears coming out of Liz's eyes. With great difficulty, she turned her head towards Isabella.

"Hic, Hic, ahh, Hic, S-samuel h-he use some kind of h-his ability on us."

Liz said between her sobs, she was feeling intense pain but even so, she tried to talk.

"Don't worry, I will kill him," Isabella said to Liz as she held her hand. Liz had a kind smile as she went unconscious.

After standing there for a while Isabella jumped from the crater.

-Thund

Cracked marks appear on the ground as she lands on it. Her gaze settled on Samuel who somehow had a calm expression on his face.

"Are you ready to die?" Isabella asked him, instead of replying he stood there with his one arm, and a smirk came to his face.

"We will see that you bitch." soon a fight began between them, and Samuel turned his hand into tactical he attack her with that.

"Wind magic:- wind barrier" A barrier forms around Isabella, easily deflecting Samuel's attack.

"Tsk, let's see how you Dodge this," Samuel said as he began to pour his dark mana into his tactical.

With the power of dark mana, tactical began to change, at the edge, there was a sharp blade came out.

With high speed Samuel again attacks Isabella.

-Swoosh

It came very fast. Isabella knew she could not defend herself with wind magic, so she dodged it.

-Crack

-Boom

Ground split in two where that tentacle hit.

Isabella took a deep breath as she saw that, she now knew that Samuel was just using half his power earlier when he fought her.

Indeed, Samual could not use his [Mainuplation] Ability but it doesn't mean that he is a less dangerous opponent now.

"Fire magic:- Giant Fireball." Isabella cast her spell and a very big fireball formed, she launched at Samuel who dodged with ease.

It continued for a while, Isabella always cast a new spell while Samuel either dodged it or deflected it with his tactical arm.

-Crack

-Boom

-Crack

-Boom

The ground splits into two, Trees were ripped apart from the ground. At that moment they did not care about anything other than that they wanted to kill each other.

"Let's see if you can dodge this, you bastard," Isabella said to Samuel, there were some cuts on her body and some blood coming from her nose but other than that she was okay.

Samuel on the other hand is in slightly worse shape than Isabella, already at the loss of his hand he could not properly defend himself against her.

Like the earlier fight against Liz, a fair amount of heat started to be produced from Isabella's body into her surroundings.

Samuel also understands that Isabella is going to use her strongest magic. Samuel clenched his teeth as he prepared For Isabella's magic.

"Fire magic:- Dragon Breathe."

As Isabella chanted the incantation, a mystical spectacle unfolded. Above her head, the ethereal manifestation of a dragon began to take shape. The majestic creature hovered, its presence commanding attention with intricate details that made it feel almost lifelike.

"Now attack." with that Isabella launched her spell.

Seeing that he could not dodge and couldn't deflect with his tactical, Samuel formed a dark and large amount of mana around his body.

At full speed, it heats where Samuel is standing.

-BOOM

-BOOM

The earth shook as the dragon hit the ground with it's its blast.

***

As soon as the dust cleared, the tattered figure of Samuel could be seen. Samuel took a lot of damage breathing was heavy, and there were many cuts on his body.

He also had lost an eye!

Earlier when Isabella's spell was about to hit hinge had dark mana around his body so he could save himself but he did not have much time so he could not finish what he wanted.

his face had taken a direct hit from that spell, and in that direct hit had lost an eye.

His muscles spasmed continuously and his body enlarged into a hideous-looking creature.

"Khuaa!"

Hastily touching his face with his one arm, Samuel screamed. After confirming that he lost an eye, he looked at Isabella with his other eye, who was helplessly lying down on the ground because she had almost used all mana in that spell.

"H-how dare you!!!!!"

Screaming at the top of his lungs, Samuel moved towards Isabella. He was in a state of pure rage.

Completely forgetting about his mission he headed towards Isabella preparing to kill her.

Isabella looked up at Samuel and clenched her teeth, she had used all of her mana and the from her mana storage too.

"H-how?"

All hope seemed to disappear for her, she knew that if she died Samuel would kill Lucas next.

Lucas endured this hell for her but now is all meaningless all that hard work, so she could end this all, has become meaningless.

Isabella closed her to accept her fate.

Samuel had a crazy smile on his face as he saw that Isabella was not resisting any more.

'Now, die you bitch.'

However, before he could do that, his body stopped moving. No, it refused to move.

-Shuuaaa!

-Spurt!

Spitting a large amount of blood, Samuel looked below him where a black sword pierced his heart.

"Sword art:- Celestial Parry – Starry Deflection."

A voice muttered behind him, that voice he knew very well. A cold chill runs down his spine. Samuel looks back and sees the person he did not expect to appear, it was Lucas.

he could see two emotionless eyes staring at him. He who should've been battered to the point of being unable to move was looking at him with eyes that seemed to look straight into his soul.

"I told you, that you are the one who is going to die," Lucas said as he thrust further into Samuel's heart.

"Y-kh-ou? H-ow?"

"Checkmate"

-Thud!

Those were the last words Samuel heard before his body slumped on the ground lifeless.

Stabbing Samuel's corpse a couple of times, Lucas slowly walked in Isabella's direction.

Right now she was looking at Lucas in shock. Though she didn't see clearly, she managed to see the moment when he pierced Samuel in the hearth. Fast…too fast. All she saw was Samuel's eyes staring at the sword stabbed in his body in disbelief.

Looking at Lucas who was walking in her direction, Isabella instinctively moved back, but as soon as she tried to lift her body she fell to the ground. She had no more energy left.

Soon he was in front of her.

His emotionless eyes looked down on her. She looked back, and the forest was soon enveloped in silence.

"…forget what you saw"

Those were the last words she heard before her mana completely ran out. Soon darkness enveloped her mind as she passed out on the ground.

After making sure Isabella was knocked unconscious.

After making sure there were no traces of what he had done left, Lucas walked a bit further away from where Samuel's corpse was.

He looked at all the unconscious bodies around him there was Nine body of a girl he had fought and there was an unconscious body girl in that deep Carter which Isabelle had fought.

He took out his phone from the AI bracelet and opened the chat that he had with Evelyn.

There was a new message from Evelyn. Lucas opened that message.

[ It's done, Academy Authority and Isabella's father will be there in five minutes.]

Sigh

A sigh escaped from Lucas's mouth as he read the message.

'Finally, it's come to an end.'

He turned his head toward the sky but before he did that all of the exhaustion hit him hard.

His body hit the ground As his eyes slowly lost consciousness.