"Skree!" With two shrill blasts that tore through the air, two Magic Spears shot toward Gerard, one after the other!
There was no doubt about it! Although Gerard fought back with everything he had, the Magic Spears still slashed across his left cheek and right leg!
"Thud!" With his thigh wounded, Gerard could no longer hold himself up and dropped to one knee! Crimson blood instantly sprayed across the ground like a fountain!
At the same time, bright red blood slowly trickled down his left cheek.
"D-damn it..." Between his excessive blood loss and his massive expenditure of magic power, Gerard knelt there like a dying dog, gasping for breath. Worse still, the blood loss had probably left his physical strength severely depleted!
By then, even the things before Gerard's eyes had begun to blur into overlapping images. Pushed to such a state, his life—his once-glorious life—could well have ended there...
"Ha! You really are useless!! Looks like I—" His wings beat fiercely as he hovered over Gerard's head. Looking down at Gerard, whose consciousness was already fading, he bared his teeth in a grotesque grin. "Really shouldn't have expected anything from trash!!!"
"Cough, cough! Cough, cough, cough—urgh!" Below him, Gerard suddenly covered his mouth and coughed violently, then spat out a mouthful of blood.
Perhaps because he had coughed out the blood clogging his throat, Gerard's previously hazy consciousness cleared considerably.
"I can't lose..." Struggling to lift his body, Gerard staggered back to his feet. He raised his head and stared defiantly at "Achill," who hovered above him. Powerful golden magic surged around him once more as he roared hoarsely, unwilling to surrender, "I can't lose!!! I absolutely cannot lose!!!!!!"
"Meteor—eer!!!" Golden magic erupted! Like a rocket blasting upward, Gerard hurtled toward "Achill" in the air, cloaked in dazzlingly