The start of training II

For some unknown reason, I felt that the rapier was part of my body, like an extension of it, as if I had practiced and fought with that weapon countless times in my short life.

Thus, I ran smoothly at a great speed that far exceeded that of an average human. I reached where Esmeralda was in less than a blink of an eye, she was still there without moving an inch.

*Clank

I went straight for a thrust at her heart with the intention of killing her outright, but her right dagger prevented me, blocking my weapon's path to her heart by mere centimeters.

'No, not yet.'

But I didn't give up, not so easy, so I began to make a rain of thrusts that only an expert could do, they went exactly in all the vital points of Esmeralda's body with a great precision and speed that are not normal for a boy of my age, but each attempt proved useless, her daggers blocked my thrusts by little and if not blocked, I dodged them with ease.

*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*

"Well, it's my turn to attack you too, isn't it?" In the next moment, she started attacking me with her daggers. She was very fast but I felt she was holding back so she wouldn't make a mistake and kill me. Still her daggers grazed my skin and made several wounds on my body, especially my arms.

*Dry metallic sound*.

Now, in addition to dodge I began to block and although in each shock my body recoiled, I did not give in, it also began to attack again, each of my attacks was more fierce than the other, every second that passed I was adapting and being more aggressive.

In spite of my wounds that were getting deeper with each passing moment due to Esmeralda's daggers hitting me, I did not care, I did not feel pain, on the contrary, when I saw my own blood I became more fierce and aggressive, wishing with all my strength to make her also expel blood.

We went on like this for several minutes or hours. My body started sweating profusely and I could already feel my fatigue, on the contrary Esmeralda seemed completely relaxed, with a smile on her face and without any drop of sweat visible on her body.

'This... This can't stay like this '

Already feeling on the verge of collapse, but I didn't want to succumb before taking a swing at the woman in front of me, I was giving it my all, but it still seemed futile.

My desire to want to kill someone, to want to see him suffer, to want to see him destroyed, opened something inside me, something I couldn't notice but I could perceive.

'Do you want strength, do you want to kill the person in front of you, do you want to wipe that smile off his face, do you want to, do you want to, do you WANT to'?

Several voices rang in my head, each one was sinister and terrifying, full of malice and malevolence.

Despite that, I wasn't afraid, I didn't feel the desire to find out who the person was in my head making those voices, no, I didn't want that, I wanted to know if he can really enforce whatever it is now.

'Yeah, I want strength, Do I want to kill the person in front of me, I don't know, but I definitely want to see her bleed, Do I want to wipe that smile off her face? Yeah, it's fucking annoying, Do I want to? Yes, do I want to? Yes... I WANT IT!'

I replied in my mind to the sinister voice, though neither time was limit, I was at my physical limit with blocking, dodging and attacking Esmeralda, that added to that I'm in a conversation with an entity I don't know or maybe my mind reached insanity without me knowing it.

'Ha! Well, if you want, I'll give you some of my power, a small fraction of a fraction of a fraction of it' Replied the voice as I left my mind completely, feeling incomplete for some reason I couldn't explain, but in that instant something strange happened.

The next second, I was going to perform my final lunge that would possibly end with me collapsed. But unlike my other attacks, this one had an intention, but even greater than a murderous intention, it was a primitive intention, a primordial intention... The Intention To Destroy.

As a result of this, the tip of my weapon began to be born a black dot that looked like an ink that had no shape, as if from me was born the same darkness, time seemed to slow down at that very moment, as if the mass of darkness was not allowed in this universe; all the time changed, gravity seemed to suffer, space was deformed and reality itself suffered. Just like that, without caring what that thing was or why Esmeralda's face of disbelief, I went to my last rapier that was going to her face.

*Clank*

My rapier was blocked by her right dagger, but this time it didn't manage to block it completely because Esmeralda took a while to recover from her disbelief and this time my attack was going much faster than the previous ones.

The redhead's dagger upon contacting my weapon, a strange phenomenon occurred, the dagger was deteriorating not slowly, but at an alarming rate. Not even a single second passed and my rapier broke it into Thousands of pieces that quickly turned to dust and then to nothing. This shocked Esmeralda even more and, thanks to that, my rapier managed to cut her quite deeply on her left cheek, at that very moment I saw how her blood turned black and the skin around the wound was breaking, as if it was breaking as if it were a porcelain doll itself.

*Dull sound*

I could not see much more, as I immediately fell to the ground, although I was still not unconscious, just that my body could not take it anymore, we had spent dozens of minutes and even hours in giving him thrust after thrust, I was still very hungry and cold, but with my effort in the battle it was impossible not to be tired and I was even surprised that I did not fall unconscious.

Ahhh, I did it hahaha'.

I felt happy, without realizing I had a big smile on my face, it was the first time since I woke up that I felt so happy and with a big smile on my face. I didn't manage to lunge all of her head because she moved at the last millisecond to dodge her death, but I still managed to hurt her badly.

'I deserve a rest, a well-deserved rest.'

Without further ado, I closed my eyes, falling asleep immediately with a blissful smile on my face.