Infinity: Rising of the Soul Weavers

* Mr. Kitty - After The Dark *

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"Ranker Terry, please explain the situation!" said the familiar feminine voice over the radio.

"Since you mentioned they\'re not the help you requested, I\'m assuming they\'re rankers that have decided to help out," Terry said to the confused woman in the radio, "you can actually cancel the help request, they\'re doing everything by themselves..."

Ranker Terry watched in awe as the three \'rankers\' took on both alien armies.

Across the battlefield, the black haired demon suddenly stood still as he heard a voice in his head, \'show me the full potential of the power she\'s gifted you.\'

The voice was young yet authoritive and filled with wisdom. The black haired demon recognised it as his master\'s in the Demon World.

In fact, he was the one that had allowed him to answer the girl\'s call. It was surprising to see his esteemed master being interested in someone so young, let alone not of the demon race, but he wasn\'t one to question his master.

Since he couldn\'t reply to the mind link from his end, he only nodded while knowing his master was watching.

Terry who was looking at the young man with the black royal garment, couldn\'t help but widen his eyes and let his mouth hang open, "what the..."

In the distance, he could see hundreds of monsters, including giants, freeze as if time had stopped, however he knew it wasn\'t the case.

Widening his eyes even more, he could see that every individual shadow of each monster was taking a humanoid form with red glowing pair of gems where the eyes would\'ve been.

Each shadow wrapped one of its shadowy arms around its owner while the other hand formed a sword like end.

SPLAASSHH!!

In the span of a couple of milliseconds, blood splattered from every freezing monster\'s throat as their shadow\'s sharp arm passed right through them

"WHAT THE F*CK??!!!!" Terry lost it when time seemed to resume, allowing many monsters to drop lifeless on the ground.

\'Impressive!\' Hearing his master\'s delighted voice seemed to help the black haired demon stand tall, proudly, while ignoring the fact that he\'d almost depleted more than half of his overall mana reserves.

Usually an attack like that wouldn\'t cause such a burden on his body, however, the skill was new to him and so he wasn\'t that efficient in his mana use.

Also, an important factor was that he was not named. Nor was he using a burrowed body, and so he was in a weakened state.

"THAT £&££ &#_#&#...!!"

[Raven! Language!]

\'Didn\'t you see that son of-\'

[He\'s using your own skill!]

\'And that doesn\'t help my case! How can he be so powerful? I mean, I can do what he did, but I have so much experience while he doesn\'t!\'

[Then show him what you\'re capable of...]

\'Hm, I can do that... there are still approximately three hundred giants, and more than a thousand of the small claw scratching a*sholes.\'

[And the portals are still active, so probably more on the other side.]

"Copy that." Raven said as she closed her eyes and solidified her mana underneath her feet. Using her special mana control, she used the mana plates to float in the air.

"Fuuu~" Stopping at about five meters high in the air, she took a deep breath as she started activating her skills.

\'First, I have to recharge my mana reserves,\' thinking that, she activated her skills "Master of the Night", "Exhilaration", and "Darkness Recharge."

Master of the Night allowed her absorb the dark element around her while also making her strongest in the dark. \'It\'s unfortunate that it\'s not night-time already, but the smoke is helping.\'

Darkness Recharge, as the name suggests, allows her to use her dark element to recharge her mana. The skill was naturally stronger at night time.

Exhilaration was a familiar skill that allowed her to absorb charges of mana from the world energy that was abundant on the planet.

Using up two charges and keeping two for when she needs them the most, she continued charging her mana using the other two skills for a bit, making sure she had more than enough for the stunt she\'s about to pull off.

\'True Sight, Dark Zone, Proficient Mana Manipulation, Demonic Touch, Soul Hunter, Dark Hell and finally, Demonic Tentacles.\'

Using the basic level of True Sight allowed her to see every enemy in her now 360 degrees visual field, meaning nothing was hidden from her.

Dark Zone and Proficient Mana Manipulation gave her complete control over the shadows while massively increasing the power of her Dark element.

That step was to increase the effectiveness of her Dark Hell and Demonic Tentacles skills.

Dark Hell allowed her to open a portal to a deadly hell at a predesignated area, usually the ground, allowing her to trap and kill anything inside.

Normally, targets inside the area of effect would be vulnerable to any sort of attack as they\'d be struggling to free themselves from the hell opening underneath their feet.

And by the time they\'re fully submerged underneath, they\'d be dead.

Demonic Tentacles allowed her to condense her dark element into tentacles that would strike at her enemies.

Demonic Touch and Soul Hunter were like the icing on the cake. They allowed her to steal her enemies\' vitality and absorb or destroy their souls as she wished.

\'Alright, here we go!\' she thought as she opened her eyes, revealing the crimson rings surrounding each of her golden pupils, and spread her mana across the battlefield.

WHOOOOSHHH!!

A huge rift the size of a cruise ship opened up behind her, throwing a dark shadow and covering a massive portion of the city.

All of a sudden, enormous shadowy tentacles penetrated the rift and came rushing out. There was about a hundred of them, and each one was the size of a cargo train.

Everyone who saw the spectacle was dumbfounded, including the two demons.

The tentacles didn\'t wait as much as a second before charging over to the many monsters.

The moment a tentacle would touch any living being, their vitality and own soul would be attacked, weakening them and almost killing them.

The final blow would be the enhanced version of Dark Hell that, thanks to Proficient Mana Manipulation and Dark Zone, would suck the target in into the tentacle itself, erasing every trace of them having ever existed before.

The slaughter only lasted a few seconds, in which it looked like a massive dark Kraken was running amok in the city.

The portal closed after that, giving the illusion that the world has just become brighter, while it was only the extra darkness that had left.

All of the remaining monsters were killed by the aura emitted by the young girl. It was similar to how she had once killed Lady Luck\'s assistant.

\'Phew! Who knew that would take so much mana.\' Raven thought to Kayla as she descended to the ground of the now quiet battlefield.

Feeling the air playing with her silky hair, she instinctively put her hand on top of her head to check if she still had the baseball cap on.

[It flew away the moment you activated that skill and the rift opened, and I thought it\'s obvious that you\'d loose so much mana, that was a mass destruction skill...]

\'I mean, yes and no... see I used two skills in particular that would help fuel my mana the more I killed.\'

[You mean, Demonic Touch and Soul Hunter?]

\'Yea...\'

[But is it not obvious that the mana cost will be larger than whatever you might gain?]

\'Well, ok sorry Karen, everyone makes mistakes. We live, we learn...\' Raven thought with a sarcastic smile as she bent slightly to pick up her baseball cap from the ground.

\'To be honest I didn\'t think I\'d find you so soon, my dear cap, haha.\' she thought while adjusting the cap on her head.

[Um, anyhow, do you want me to save the previous skill combinations for future use?]

\'You can do that?\'

[Yea, what do you want to name the first combination? "Master of the Night", "Exhilaration", and "Darkness Recharge."]

\'Um, Mana Recharge..?\'

[Noted, second one? For "True Sight", "Dark Zone", "Proficient Mana Manipulation", "Demonic Touch", "Soul Hunter", "Dark Hell" and finally, "Demonic Tentacles."]

\'Err, I\'ll go with Dark Kraken.\'

[Alright, all set. You can now see them on your status page as Skill Combinations. Also, once one of the involved skills is evolved, you can update the Combination or continue using the old effect.]

\'Wait, did I not gain any points for what I just did? I destroyed every monster on the freaking battlefield!\'

[Um, sorry to break it for you like that, but this is not a game where your skills would evolve whenever you use them once or twice.

[Your understanding of the skills must increase substantially for the skill to evolve. On that note, you\'re so close to evolving many skills, just keep up the good work.]

*sigh* Sighing in disappointment, Raven walked away from the two portals.

***

"Ranker, what was that?" the feminine voice said again on the radio.

"..." Terry had no idea how to describe what he\'s just seen. "Don\'t you have access to the satellite images and recordings?"

"Not unless it\'s absolutely necessary..."

"Well, I- I don\'t know what to say... There was a small girl, and suddenly a huge portal opened and boom no monsters left."

"Wait what? I want you to describe the girl please."

"Um, she was small, with a cap on her head, crimson hair of sorts, like it-"

"Was it crimson-purple?"

"Ah yes, I thi-"

Hearing the sound of the headphones hitting the desk, Terry knew the woman on the other side had already left.