The situation was terrible for Peter. Killing a bunch of birds or dogs in self-defense was quite easy. Killing a human, well a demon with a human soul, was not. Peter had a couple of ideas on how to defeat Edgar but all of them were extremely lethal. And while he said to Sophie and Tianne he had a plan, his only option was just to drop a shit ton of rock on Edgar until he was dead.
“Hey Edgar. You wouldn’t be okay with just banishing Tianne ? ” Peter asked.
“Listen to me, Peter. I chose Hell to be with my brothers in arms and what killed them ? A fucking Primordial, the first I’ve ever met, and why, for the fun of it. So I was going to let you live because I do owe you my life but you chose to forfeit it. So I won’t concede and I will kill Tianne to make an example.” Edgar said loudly.
Well, Sophie was right, he is a stubborn one, Peter thought.
Edgar rushed Peter, fists raised and horns lowered with a clear intention of impale the Primordial.
Peter focused on the ground under him and used his stick to ask the ground to move on the side. The ground obeyed and Peter felt some happiness from it. Was the ground really conscious ? Edgar could not change his trajectory enough and missed Peter by a large margin.
“Edgar, I know you think I’m young but I still defeated packs and swarms of beasts. Are you sure you will win this fight ?”
“Stop talking and fight !” Edgar shouted, charging again this time more slowly.
Peter shifted the ground faster trying to move around the huge humanoid goat in large circles. He felt the power flowing but this was not a hard volume like before, his body was getting more and more accustomed with the small flow going through his legs.
“Edgar, I’m pretty sure I can do this all day, you know, being a Primordial and all that stuff.” Peter said with a smile.
He knew bad mouthing Edgar was not going to work but going for a kill was not easy for Peter.
“Yeah, well, my warm-up is over. Time to get serious.” Edgar said before jumping with great speed toward Peter.
In a last instant reflex, Peter leaned back while raising a large dirt wall in front of him. The wall was brutally smashed as Edgar passed through it and Peter fell on his butt.
“You shouldn’t have messed with me.” Edgar said, raising his fists before felling them on Peter.
Peter quickly ordered the ground to send him under Edgar’s legs and past them to dodge the impact and, then, he launched himself a little to get back on his feet.
“Okay, okay. I’m trying to not kill you in case you didn’t notice. Can’t you just concede ? ” Peter said, creating and sending a small volley of pebbles with some speed towards Edgar. Peter was still trying to not use too much power and those volleys, while not really powerful, were really low on the power consumption.
“Stop insulting me.” Edgar yelled, slapping the volley away.
Peter focused on three of the pebbles of the previous volley and accelerated them quickly on Edgar. These pebbles went to Edgar’s arms dealing a hard blow on it.
“Argh ! You low blow cunt.” Edgar spitted towards Peter. Edgar clenched his fist and Peter could see the fur grow back on the impacted spots.
Peter waved his hand sending two volleys of pebbles at Edgar. That fight was a good opportunity to learn how to better use and control his power but he was not seeing how to end it without killing Edgar and could still resolve himself to do it.
Edgar sidestepped the volleys and rushed back towards Peter head down with horns in the front.
Peter raised his stick using the ground to launch himself above Edgar and putting a large rock on the trajectory of the goat demon. The impact was quite noisy as Edgar almost totally destroyed the rock.
Peter landed with ease, the ground helping him to stay stable. Edgar was quickly recovering in front of him. Peter hit the ground with his stick and raised it creating five rocks the size of his head. Waving his stick, Peter shaped them into five spears and, with his free hand, he indicated Edgar.
The spears obeyed their master and launched themselves towards the goat demon. The speed was way lower than against the spear. Peter wanted to deal some damage and slow Edgar. Killing him was still not an option yet.
Edgar raised his arm readying his guard position. Suddenly, his horns grew in a spiral forming a couple of shields in front of him.
The impact of the spears on the shield was impressive. Each rock spear destroyed a part of Edgar’s shields with its sheer speed before crumbling.
Edgar was now a little trembling as his shield horns fell and new ones grew back straighter.
Peter was also a little exhausted. The trick with the spears used more power than expected and it was taking a toll on his body.
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Edgar bellowed. From the palm of his right hand, a sword emerged. The blade was a cut horn while the handle was a bone. From the middle of his left arm, a spiral shield, similar to the ones he previously had, grew. Edgar’s fur started changing, becoming longer and turning from a light brown to a deep black.
“Stupids Primordials. You don’t even have a week of existence and you’re forcing me to take out my weapons.” Edgar yelled at Peter.
“Hey, I told you you could simply banish Tianne and me. You didn’t listen. It’s not too late to come around and just let us go.” Peter said with a little arrogance.
Edgar laughed loudly before looking back at Peter.
“Peter, when I told you you are too inexperienced, it was not about your power. It’s about your determination. You never killed someone when you were human. I can feel it. It's a warrior instinct. So can you kill now ? I think not and I will end you.” Edgar said with a smile.
And Edgar started rushing Peter, the shield raised in front of him and the sword ready to strike.
This was not good at all for Peter. If Edgar knew what was Peter's current issue, he would probably try to use it against Peter.
Peter raised his stick to create a thick wall around him. He saw the wall tremble as Edgar was striking it.
Peter quickly thought of the actual situation. Edgar was more aggressive and Peter’s power was starting to take a heavy toll on him. On the other end, Edgar was also exhausted by the fight. Trying to make him fall unconscious was still possible as Peter was hoping not to go for the kill.
Peter felt yet another hit on his wall and this time, he counterattacked by detonating the wall, sending a cloud of rock forward. As the dust fell around, Peter saw Edgar’s shield planted in the ground.
Peter looked around him and saw Edgar on the side of his wall, his left hand holding the top of it. He launched himself toward Peter, sword raised.
Peter raised his stick and added some rocks in front of him to protect himself but Edgar was too fast and the strike was really powerful. The first layer of rock was instantly smashed. Peter’s stick did not support the shock and broke in half and Peter felt the sword hitting his right arm and shoulder as pain was erupting in his brain.
Peter fell on his back on the ground as Edgar was now raising his sword to achieve the young Primordial.
“Any last word, Primordial ? ” Edgar asked.
Peter let himself be absorbed by the ground.
“It’s so sad.” Peter said. He felt the strike of Edgar hitting the ground with furry as Peter was now feeling himself floating in the ground.
******
Peter remembered the last time he was in the ground was during a fight with hell dogs. Now, it was after a fight with a goat demon. Peter only wanted peace. He was ready to kill beasts to obtain it but demons ? Last time in the ground, he swore to himself he will be the hell of others. Peter guessed he had no choice. This was really Hell, no morals, it will be to kill or be killed.
Peter breathed the power around him in and out letting himself be healed by it. He was feeling what was happening at the surface.
Edgar was slowly walking toward Tianne as the whole population was holding their breath. Sophie was trembling, hesitating, some knife in her hand. Edgar said something but Peter could not understand what it was.
Well, Peter thought, Edgar made his choice.
Peter absorbed the power around him and ordered the ground to raise back to the surface.
******
Edgar was exhausted beyond what he thought was possible. He was just happy that the upper world was now apparently in peace and that Peter could not kill him because he was just some random atheist rejecting the Absolute and not a criminal or a fighter. The fight would not have been winnable without that. Those Primordials really were something else in terms of power.
Edgar looked at Tianne who was lying down on the ground and started to come closer, dragging his sword on his side. Sophie quickly made a scale knife and raised it, trembling, toward Edgar.
“Sophie, don’t be stupid. I’m a warrior, a Chooser and I am a century elder than you. You are a Damned poisoner. You don’t stand a chance.” Edgar said calmly.
“You are a monster, Edgar. Tianne only wanted to support and help Tol’Osa. She risked her life more than once for this town.” Sophie said, crying.
“I could not fucking care less. All Primordials must die. Be happy that this one was too innocent to survive Hell.” Edgar said, raising his sword.
Edgar heard some loud noise behind him. He turned back to see Peter emerging from the ground, the body fully covered by rock armor with a helmet.
“So sad for you Edgar. I’m rock solid.” Peter said.
Half a second later, Peter was impacting Edgar while his whole body. Edgar felt the ground punching him from under while Peter was hitting him from the top with large rock fists.
In a desperate attempt to survive, Edgar sent all that was left of his power to his legs and jumped away.
In the air, Edgar saw a large disk of rock coming to him from above.
“What the fu…” Edgar started. But the impact stopped him and sent him back on the ground.
Edgar was crawling, his whole body in pain and covered with bruises. He had no power left, the swarm assault and this fight burned all his reserves. He looked back at Peter.
The Primordial was dropping his armor around him while slowly walking toward Edgar.
“I, I, I surrender.” Edgar stuttered.
“I don’t think you understand the situation Edgar.” Peter said with a malicious smile. “What did you say before ? You were ‘sending a message’ ? Well, guess what, it’s my turn. Do NOT FUCK WITH ME.”
Peter pointed a finger toward Edgar and a small pebble appeared in front of it.
Sophie walked between them.
“Peter, are you sure you want to do this ? You can still spare him. He surrendered. Tianne is safe. There is no need to kill him.” Sophie said.
Edgar saw Sophie be moved on the side as the ground rumbled.
“If I don’t do it, he will come back. It’s not a choice Sophie.” Peter said.
“Yeah, you are no different from other Primordials.” Edgar retorted. “All that power, and what you do with it is just killing other things, either beast or demons. So do it !”
“What would you do, Edgar, if I spare you ? ” Peter asked.
“We both know the answer.” Edgar said with a small smile while trying to bounce back on his feet. “You have to do it. After all…”
“...this is Hell.” Peter concluded.
The last thing Edgar felt was the small pebble entering his head.
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