Standing up Hector brought his hands in front of his face and wrapping all the shadow his essence could allow him to gather he formed twi large gauntlet on his hands.
Staring at the serpent he couldn't help but feel more disgusted,the serpent had a head in form of a large circular maw with hundreds of row of sharp teeth's dripping with venomous saliva and a smooth Brown skin running all through out its body up to the other end and the beast also has two pair's of black wings some few distance from the middle part of the beast,the beast was huge towering over him like an omen of death
'Well let's make sure I don't die again,I am getting accustomed to dieing any ways,it isn't that bad of a thing'
Shaking all useless thoughts out of his head Hector dashed towards the beast as the beast also seemed to finally notice him and was now moving towards him with great speed that was quite unnatural for it's size,but considering the wings it was possible
Stepping to the side a few meters from colliding with the beast yo avoid getting chewed on by it's circular maw he then quickly pushed himself forward and rained a couple of punches on the beast before retreating to avoid the beast robust tail from smashing into him
Not giving the beast a second to rest Hector immediately charged forward again and this time transferring the other shadow gauntlet to his right arm he drew force from the ground guided it through his feet abdomen up his chest and out of his right arm,he punched the beast in the side,launching it away some distance fromthe shore into the river
Dashing towards the beast Hector jumped and landing on it's wing he produced both of his hands with gauntlets again this time making the fingertips very sharp,he grabbed onto the beast front pair of wings pulling it forward while exerting all his force to push the beast in another direction
'Let me take this off you for the time being'
Just as he felt the wings giving way and seemed to be finally coming off the smooth scale of the beast,the beast dived underwater sinking Hector with it while also going in a direction opposing the waves of the river
'You bastard,just when I was about to complete my favour to you'
Hector though now suffocating from lack of oxygen making his lungs to continue collapsing while also being threatened of being thrown off the beast's back,he continued to pull on the beast's wings and now he could see fetid black blood seeping out of the wound formed by the wings tearing off the body.
The more time he tried pulling the wings off the more time he continued suffering from the vast effect of suffocation
'Just a little more,just a little,there it is'
Hector finally pulled the wings off the beast but by that time the beast was already very deep into the ocean and here there was even less oxygen for Hectors lungs even if he could breath and with how far into the river they were he could hardly see anything added to the fact that the waves had not stopped it's effort of slapping him off the beast's back.
Immediately grabbing onto the the beast other pair of wings this time not to tear it off but rather to avoid been thrown off the beast
'This bastard can swim,walk and fly,why do I always have to find myself in this situation'
Undoing his gauntlets he transferred the shadow to form a large circular helmet around his head,removing the water in the helmet he was now finally able to breath but now he was vulnerable and he could only hold onto the beast's wing and hope that the beast would return to the surface soon
The beast continued diving futher and further into the river,crushing Hector's hope of suvival
Making a decision on the spot Hector inhaled as Much air as he could inhale and then dismissed the the helmet and forming his gauntlets again but this time he made them to be more sharp at the tip of his fingers
The cool yet suffocating water rushed at his face again the minute he dismissed the armor, straining his eyes to at least see for a little while,Hector let go of one of the wings then stretching out his fingers he stabbed the shard blade-like fingers of his gauntlet into the beast,though he was met with a little resistance, the gauntlet pierced through the beast skin and lodged itself deep into it's flesh making black blood to flow into the river making it even more darker while the beast body shuddered as a scream muffled by the water vibrated through the water surrounding them
Withdrawing his hand from the beast body and attempting to stab again bit then he noticed something the gauntlet seemed to be wearing off and taking a split second to take a look at his essence he saw how fast it was depleting
'This baatard's blood is corrosive,well that means I just have to kill you faster,let's see who dies first'
Hector grinned,transferring the other shadow gauntlet to the other hand he raised his hand up again and returned to stabbing the beast deeper and deeper,which was now forming sort of a hole in the beast's back,after another stab he felt his hand hit something grabbing onto the something and at that point all his essence depleted causing the shadow gauntlet to shimmer and then dissipate into the water
Grabbing the something with his bare hands,it felt warm and cool at the same time but somehow soothing to touch but that was the least of his problem now as the something refused to be ripped out of the beast body and the black blood was assaulting Hector's hand threatening to corrode it off before he could rip the thing off the beast's body
'This is your damn heart right,well allow me keep it for you,will you'
Straining all his muscles and quickly getting suffocated again he was finally able to pull the something from the inside of the beast and with that the beast gave a muffled screamed that could be hardly heard in the water but still made the water around it to vibrate and then Hector could feel the body of the beast go limp as it wings drooped and it's decent into the river got faster
Bringing the black long hexagonal slightly rubost shard to his mouth he bit down on it to hold it in,his hand was now magled up and had holes caused by corrosion in different places going up to his shoulder
He finally realised hold of the beast's wing and tried swimming upwards, though it was practically impossible with one hand he was an assassin after all and he had been through various circumstances and so with a little bit of patience and professionalism he finally got to the shore practically out of air
Getting out of the water just enough not to be swallowed by it he dropped the black shard to the ground and took in a long,deep and large amount of the sweet fresh air the bastard beast had deprived him of
Just sleeping on the shore of the river enjoying the serenity of life for some time and then after fully recovering himself,he brought the shard forward to examine it with his healthy hand considered that the other hand was slowly killing him and did not seem to not even be healing itself.
Staring at the shard for a long time trying to discern what it really was he decide to set it aside and take a look at an interesting thing he had noticed.
Closing his eyes and concentrating on his core he could a little amount of dark particles
flowing through his core and he could feel his connection to the shadows grow stronger even if it was by a tiny bit.
Channeling this dark particles through the pores in the cores which he had noticed them go through the essence helped itself and flowed out circulating through the abdomen region.
Though Hector had being getting a hang of the circulation stuff but he could only continue the circulation up to his abdomen region and from that spot on he seemed to allows lose control of it, but he felt that if he could control it further he would be able to harness immense power from it,as he could feel his abdomen region grow more reinforced whenever he was doing the circulation.
His hand started to feel more light and less painful and so he continued trying to circulate the essence and when he finally got tired of the circulation and he was now feeling hungry.
'Seems even this thing takes up a lot of energy'
Just as he was about to cancel the circulation he saw something, sort of a seal etched just outside of his magical core floating aimlessly above it.
Stretching his senses towards the seal he slowly tried to reach for it and then essence exited from his magical core and entered the seal causing it to glow and then Hector felt something tear off his body and appear in front of him.
Opening his eyes he saw sort of a dagger,sort of the kunien he knew in his world but this one was a bit larger and had a longer hilt
Grabbing the kunien Hector suddenly saw words forming in front of his eyes and as he read it his eyes widened
[You have received a weapon: Aquaeel dagger ]