Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 4 - Chapter 96 - Final Gambit (Patreon)

                                                                           Scarlet

Blood of Ruin activates just like always, but this time it feels stronger than my previous uses. Probably because I leveled it up quite a bit in my fight against the lunatic’s mad army.

Everything proceeds like normal with the power boost, the blood orbs appearing in the air, the spikes, the lines, but despite all of that, I find myself staring wide-eyed in shock as the nightshade actually comes out with just its arm from the elbow on being cut off.

Somehow the nightshade managed to dodge almost all of the blood of ruin, with the lone exception of one big line that ended up destroying a large chunk of its arm up to the elbow. And even after watching the entire thing happen, I still can’t figure out how it did it.

By now the entire area is filled with blood of ruin all over the ground, the Knights having been brought up into the air long ago by Satan for their own protection. Which is ironic considering his previous attempts to kill them.

I pant in exhaustion while reaching for a potion before I gulp it down, restoring my mana to max capacity with the potion that cost more than an entire Association. Then I take in a deep breath and begin chasing after the demon again, soon finding the Noble to have slowed down a bit more thanks to its lost limb. And it also isn’t attacking me as often.

The two of us continue our little dance for a while all the way till my mana goes back to a little above 70% of my capacity again, at which point I reuse Blood of Ruin.

This time the nightshade loses a large chunk out of its side, making a very dark black blood slowly flow out into the air. But just like with its arm, the wound seals up and he backs up again, slower than before.

I barely manage to hold myself up as I reach for another mana potion and down the thing, restoring my mana again with another fortune. Then I push myself back to my feet and find the wound on the nightshade, who actually hasn’t left my sight yet, starting to close up a little.

At the same time though, the shades around us start vanishing, the creature’s little army shrinking in the process, especially as my blood of ruin tears away at their feet from the ground.

I glance at the nightshade’s feet to find a barrier surrounding them, blocking the blood of ruin from making contact.

For some reason, I feel as if I can’t take another potion. As if my tolerance for potions was reduced.

That’s not good.

I grit my teeth at the feeling of weakness all throughout my body before I quickly make a null magic field appear around the nightshade, disabling the barrier around its feet and making the blood of ruin start corroding them. But the Noble quickly vanishes, turning into darkness before it reappears outside of the field.

We continue this little game over and over again until I realize how pointless it is, since the blood of corruption on the ground isn’t condensed enough to do much damage beyond a minor burn.

“Scarlet…” Tar mutters, sounding like he’s growing afraid.

And he has some reason to, since I don’t exactly have much left to do.

I pant in exhaustion before muttering, “To hell with this battle…” and rushing straight at the Noble again and activating Blood of Ruin once more.

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                                                         High above the Battlefield

Noah slowly opens his eyes again, struggling to keep his attention on the battle as Amelia’s daughter rushes forwards once more and uses that Blood of Ruin skill for a third time. But just like with the other two uses, it only deals minimal damage to the Noble, even if this use hits it twice instead of just once.

No…

The Red Knight knows very well just from the sight of the girl who is covered from head to toe in blood, her beast form transformation having been forcibly canceled as she stands in her lycan form. She can barely even stand up straight, and he can sense the beginnings of potion poisoning coming from her.

Despite Noah’s demeanor, he knows very well how Scarlet is the last hope of humanity. If she dies here, then all of Earth is doomed, whether it’s due to the demon threat taking them over or because of the Demon King’s rage.

Is this how the war is going to end? With a lost duel? One that I’m not even a part of?

Noah grits his teeth, and out of the corner of his eye he notices almost all of the Knights doing the same. Even the Blue Knight can be seen with the vaguest hint of emotion in his eyes. Something that shouldn’t be possible.

He and the other Knights of Humanity all watch on as Scarlet barely keeps herself standing, feeling exhausted, low on mana, and still faced with a Noble in front of her. Even if the Noble is missing an arm and a leg, with a chunk of its other arm having been lost.

Silence fills the entire area as the two stand off against each other, the only noise being that of Scarlet once in a while killing one of the shades to keep up her kill streak skill. And the silence stretches on for what feels like ages to Noah.

Then something happens that surprises everyone, including the nightshade.

A large screen appears above them made out of blood showing their battle, directly beneath the Demon Moon. As if the Demon King wanted everyone to watch this.

Right after that, Scarlet’s eyes begin to glow even brighter. So bright that Noah has to squint slightly as the light shines all over the battlefield.

And to Noah’s absolute shock, all of the blood filling the entire battlefield, both blood of ruin and otherwise, floats up into the air as Scarlet coughs out a mouthful of blood with a determined and extremely pissed off look on her face.

Noah feels his mouth dropping open slightly at the sight, but it doesn’t stop there. All of the blood turns into what must be millions of blades, each filled with plagues and blood of ruin and even the blood from the Demon Moon, and all pointed towards the Noble.

With one last cough of a massive amount of blood, wounds opening up all over the Princess’s body from the overtaxing of her mind and body, she raises one arm and then drops it again.

Sending all of the blades straight at the Noble under the eyes of the Knights and Satan, along with billions of other people all over the world who are watching through the screen.

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