17 Chapter 16 - PoH

[Self Afflict - 68%]

[Emotion Magic - 5th Branch]

[Emotion Manipulation, Emotion Change, Emotion Absorb, Emotion Storage, Emotion Attribute, Emotion Release]

Those were the skills I had made till this day, the day in which I will fight the Guild Leader PoH in a life and death match. All I knew was that he specialized in poisons, traps, and that he was very calculative. I thought of all the places he could be and after gathering news, I ended up at the 19th floor, The Hill of the Cross.

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"Come out, come out, wherever you are..." (Zhong Yuan)

"...Why are you here..." (???)

"Of course, it's to meet you, PoH."

Shocked by this, the guild leader of laughing coffin came out of the shadows in a black robe covering his face. Drawing out his daggers coated in poison, I also did the same drawing out mine.

"Say guild leader... why were you hiding here?" (Zhong Yuan)

"...To hide of course..." (PoH)

"No, no, no. I refuse to believe someone like you will hangout here." (Zhong Yuan)

Looking right into his eyes, my eyes turn cold as ice.

"You found magic?"

"...Bingo! You found me! The only other person with magic in this game!" (PoH)

After finishing his sentence, I immediately sprinted to him and launched a sonic blade at him. He jumped back and struck back by slashing with his creepy daggers but I just smacked it off his hand.

"You know... challenging a front liner without a plan is pretty much how you will die?" (Zhong Yuan)

"Oh, is that so?" (PoH

PoH, put his hands together and black gas starter gathering up. It slowly morphed into different beings, but it disappeared.

"My nightmare magic! It's gone!" (PoH

PoH, looked at me and charged up another magic attack.

"Blades of the void!" (PoH)

"...Feeling Negation."

PoH, seeing my magic realized something.

"Ha, ha ha ha! You have the counter to my magic! Tell me! Did you give up your emotions regarding fear to fight me?"

"...Yes."

"Ha ha ha ha! It's too late for us! I learned after using this magic too much, magic corrupts your brain. It's too late!"

"..."

And suddenly, PoH's body started jerking and thrashing itself, as if something inside of him was eroding. He was screaming in pain and kept on shouting words like disappear and it's just a dream.

"...who am I?"

In shock, I quickly gather up my thoughts and bind him. I then use his hand to see what was going on in his status.

[Nightmare State - 12%]

[Dream State - 0%]

Was this how he escaped his death? Was this how he could fight against me for a while? It was sad, a thing that shouldn't exist. Why was magic here so cruel compared to ALFheim's?

[Host, it's because it's a unique magic skill belonging to one person only. And being unique, it contains a lot of advantages and disadvantages]

I was surprised and I checked my status.

[Self Afflict - 67%]

I contemplated extremely hard during those very short moments in my life. Should I keep using it or not? I was in a cycle until someone woke me up.

"...Kill..me..I.can't sleep well..unless I have..drugs..." (PoH)

Not knowing what to do, I wept about my future.

"This is the very...essence of being..unique...sometimes it's better...not to be special...now kill me." (PoH)

"..."

"This magic is what took away my sanity. Destroy it before I regret it." (PoH)

I took a thick needle from my belt and inserted it slowly into his forehead.

"I'm not...dreaming..anymore..am I?" (PoH)

He died smiling and his corpse shattered into a million glass shards, swept by the wind. Taking this memory into the back of my brain, I went up the floors to meet a little girl.