Fate/Inheritance

Author's Note:

I know this is late and such but… I'm BACK!!!

Before a certain someone grilled me in getting laid and such I'm going to answer you now… I still haven't so please don't rub it on me jacka#s! I'm currently 100% energized with only a huge de-buff of depression so I will distract myself by writing furiously. First and foremost, yes I took a slightly long vacation being dragged by my old cohort everywhere; I also realized how someone like the Hound of Ulster in the Nasuverse enjoyed fishing. Aside from those things I had a hard time typing in a phone so in my frustration, I borrowed a laptop from an old buddy and will start furiously in writing tonight.

I also noticed that I had a LOT of owed chapters so I will start on cleaning them first before I announced my chapter release schedule for the summer… So to not wait anymore… here is the long awaited chapter!

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"Damn it, that was pretty tiring!" Yamada complained while observing the slowly dematerializing energy construct. His energy already exhausted, the only thing he could do is pray that he successfully finished the guy.

"You should had done it on the first place boy!" Laz complained while he tried to catch a breath.

"Shut up old man, I was not sure that I would get him with that!" Yamada huffed in annoyance.

"Look, the dragon head is already vanishing!" Agnes quickly noticed a sudden change pointed it out.

"Hmmm? Ah Crap! Run!" Yamada, who heard her suddenly noticed a sudden change inside it bolted quickly in panic. The other's, realizing what he meant quickly dragged their tired bodies but they were a bit too late.

*Boom!*

They did not even took three steps when the energy construct suddenly deformed and where its neck had been, a sudden and quick expansion took place that in a single moment, the energy construct explodedand the resulting shockwave sent them tumbling a few meters crashing to debrees,corpses and more corpses that are animated by vile magic.

"Gahaakk!! *cough* geho… Great! It did not work!" Yamada annoyingly shouted in anger while observing the giant silhouette being hidden by a thick smoke. Examining himself, he saw that aside from superficial wounds, all he had is some internal injuries due to over exerting himself and a very scant amount of internal qi he barely recovered from firing that move.

"It clearerly did not work brat!" Laz annoyingly said while smashing a nearby undead with his axe.

"It's not the time yet for those stuff ol– *ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRR*" Yama tried to answer back only to be interupted by a powerful roar that created a powerful squall of wind filled with malice and killing intent.

[Damn you human!!!] The undead's roar of anger echoed out throwin them back to the ground. Looking back, they just saw just in time for the monster to be visible when it forcefully teared apart the smoke by its sheer roar.

Observing carefully, they saw that the undead commander had not gone unscathed from that powerful move. It's non dominant left arm had gone limp and have even nearly been dismembered from its body. It'sonce baleful and tattered black armor had been further damaged especially at the place where the only visible scar had.

With cracks and missing parts in the armor, it made his inner armor visible and the pale and cold skin sometimes observable from the obviously raging body language.Its helmet had also a huge hole akin to a cracked egg at it's upper area in it's right side. Reaching at its nose making his ragged and twistedly rotting face slightly visible. Especially that burning red ghost fire replacing its eye socket making even Yamada have a slight goosebumps crawl on his spine that even when he saw once a more powerful and mythological fire giant made him him jokingly relate it to a burning man.

Even the giant sword was not spared, it that was clearly mentained perfectly even by its undead owner had countless cracks and nicks in it. Clearly it had been heavily damaged and had been made into a make shift shield by the undead inside the energy construct. A clear testament of how that piwerful attack's magnitude had damaged such a fine weapon.

[I…I… I WILL KILL YOU BASTARD!! I WILL TEAR YOU TO PIECES THEN RIP YOUR SOUL APART! THEN…." The undead roared dementedly in twisted rage, repeatedly cursing countless words amidst his charge that is trampling everything in its path on sheer force. Fallen logs, Giant Boulders, and corpses where being trampled at his raging charge.

'Tch…. Im already running in fumes huh…' Yamada thought while sensing his remaining qi. Even if he pushed himself more, the only thing that he could do is stop the raging animated corpse in a few minutes and the other outcomes after that is either being decapitated or dismembered by that thing or die due to f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y squeezing his internal qi and even his life force to death.

He can even feel that his abnormally resilent body due to that one year hellish training he had at the first world will not stop that thing from murdering him that it may even try on making him swallow a huge amount of its vile energy if its necessary.

In that single moment where his thoughts had wondered a bit, he noticed that somehow or another his companions in this suicidal mission had encircled him and guarded him tightly akin to protecting a VIP.The mages quickly erected various defensive spells andthe once who wielded their cold weapons from swords, spears, axes till the bows they carry encircled him and stood ready for the incoming onslaughts. Startled, Yamada asked what is their reason in protecting him when they could had easily ran away and left him as a sacrifice. The only answers he had gotten was…

"Shut up brat!We ain't leaving you!" Laz angrily said while decapitating an undead orc.

"True, even if that annoying mouth and head of yours had brought us in this hell, you gave us. It would hurt our pride if we leave you~." Axal jokingly said while he grabbed a nearby corpse and used it to block an incoming fireball.

"Hahaha~!! True…if that vile mouth and head of yours is 'slightly' toned down. You would had been a dateble little bastard~" Agnes laughedheroically while she winked at Yamada making him wince in annoyance.

"You over dramatic bastards…" Yamada said while shaking his head in resignation. "You better had already wrote your last wills you louts… Cause that guy won't just let you guys write it right now." He continued on, jokingly pointing the raging undead looking at them with murderous vibes.

[…I WOULD STRA–..!!!] The maddened undead, as if someone pressed his off switch suddenly froze on his position. It's slightly visible face also carried its stiff and warped expression like a statue. The experienced adventurers together with Yamada, noticed that the 'eyes' of the undead somehow dilated and they felt something very uncertain may appear.

Slowly, they walked backwards away from the strange sight. They also noticed that the other 'walking corpses' had also been 'frozen in place'. Yet, when they stepped backwards the 9th time…

[…!!! We–rggkk…ll–nnn!!!] The black knight, suddenly acted like someone with a very abnormal case of epileptic seizure and started squirming, twisting, breaking his every limbs in a very revolting and scary way. The spectators who had frozen at the sight noticed something abnormal.

The 'black thing' that was covering and suppressing the cursed wound it had actually spread and turned into vein-like patterns reaching for its head. Looking at such a sight, Yamada noticed the forlorn and suffering expression Theresa (Sake) had.

"What the hell!" Axal cursed rubbing the goose bumps in his arms. The girls at Agnes party even had sported a very pale face even when they saw a lot of blood and gore as an adventurer. Seeing a humanoid being that had clearly been alive before gives always a strange presence and feeling no matter how a person had danced in the battlefield that even Laz, the one who 'looked' older than the rest clicked his tongue in annoyance and spat in the ground as if ridding of something revolting.

[Krrkkaakk…k..k….] They watched, frozen and grounded to the ground in fear till 'it' had finally stopped squirming in the ground and a tense silent atmosphere had spread in the battlefield. They may had forgotten to escape at that moment nor attacked it, but they quickly snapped back from daze and prepared themselves of 'what' may happen.

They watched the silent 'corpse' in rapt attention when…

[Ku..Kuhahahahahahahaha!!!!] An unknown yet clear voice suddenly voiced suddenly was heard from it. It made Yamada's hair to stand straight as if he sensed a powerful predator is eyeing them. The voice echoes with a powerful contradiction, Yamada thought. It carried a powerful malice yet; Yamada sensed a strange overwhelming kindness to its surroundings emanating from the voice.

[Ahahahaha!!! Fascinating!!! VERY FASCINATING!!!] Now, the black knig–no whatever being had taken over it stood with a regal air and examined the people observing it. 'It' observed as if appraising a new toy with unbridled glee making the only living beings in it's midst step back in fear. Particularly, Yamada felt like he was stripped n.a.k.e.d when 'it' observed him and he saw whatever 'it' had seen was clearly expressed in it's now blackened ghost fire in what seems to be a very expressive phenomenon that one word popped out of Yamada's brain...

'Jackpot…' Yamada thought in fear when he saw 'its' eyes and what it expressed. Then, finally it rested on the trembling Sake and it's eyes blazed furiously as if 'it' recognized her.

"You…!!!" Sake angrily roared and tried to charge at 'it' in fury only to be f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y held by the other's who reflexively acted.

[Hmmmm~!!! Ohh~!!!! It's the little wife~!!! It seems you recognize my voice ehhh~… It seems you did not forget that 'night' always? Having trouble sleeping?] 'It' suddenly switched persona and started teasing and taunting Sake making the people holding her cry out in pain by the sheer strength she was exerting.

"I will never forgive you bastards!!!" She roared and Yamada noticed her pupils slowly turned red. Feeling she would turn berserk, Yamada pat her shoulder bringing her furious gaze on him and with some subtle whispers and gestures, he snapped his fingers making her faint suddenly. Noticing that the simple hypnosis he learned as a sick joke before had worked, he ignored the startled looks given to him and focused his sight at the curiously looking being and addressed it.

"So… are you the Dark Lord as the idiot you are possessing said?" Yamada said bluntly.

[Oh pretty sharp, I forgot my manners apparently… Well then…] It said and dusted some of the dust sticking on its armor and loudly coughed and finally, it introduced itself at the 'crowd' observing from afar and the once nearby.

[Greetings brave adventurers and young 'Hero'!!! I am the being who had attained immortality and circ.u.mvented the cycle of life without the Gods help! The Dark Lord that will herald a new age of prosperity to all sentient beings on the World!]

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Author's Note:

Sorry for the cliff guys >w> I was compressing the chapters forcefully so as compensation… I will say that this minor arc will be over in three to four chapters in which I will post tomorrow consecutively, and William will appear at the next chapter btw… So~… toodles? :P