Elder Blood Witcher 299 Just Because You're Juste Doesn't Make You Richt...

Talicia realises that she's the only one who can do anything to help, this thought allows her to push through the agonising pain and have a last stand. Her lively skin starts turning white and pale with her body becoming gaunt as she starts drawing out almost her entire body weight in blood. They float around her resembling dozens of tentacles, prepared to strike.

Juste "Looks like granny wants to get serious." he states, glancing at Nerissa's despairing face as he does so.

Richter "So what? It's not like she can harm us, weaklings will always be weaklings." he snarks while preparing to strike with his whip again.

This time Talicia strikes first, a tentacle of blood piercing forwards with a ruby like tip forming, acting like a spear head. It's quickly dodged by Richter who waves his whip, causing it to spin twirl around him, kicking up wind and obliterating the tentacle of blood.

After blocking the woman's attack he kicks his heel up which collides with his whip, causing it to rocket towards Talicia. She throws herself to the side, barely dodging it and sweeps her arm upwards, causing three more tentacles to attack him while he's overextended.

Richter smiles and ducks while wrenching his whip back, causing it to jolt backwards and sending the extended end flying towards the back of Talicia.

Talicia seeing the jarring smile on her opponents face covers herself in a ruby sphere to block any potential attacks, this proved to be a smart move as the whip point pierces the sphere, penetrating a couple inches inside, stopping short of Talicia's head, causing her to sigh in relief. The move isn't over though, as Richter forces the whip backwards to retrieve it's extended tip. This causing the whip to almost cut the ruby sphere in half from the force, causing the whip to fly back and blow a hole into the ceiling which allows a ray of sunlight to hit the floor.

Talicia manages to stay away from the sunlight but can feel a bead of sweat crawl down her face as the fights intensity continues to increase.

Richter "You're finished!" he shouts as he spins the whip over his head, causing it to collide with the walls of the house, the action making the antiquated house becoming unstable.

Talicia seeing this pushing a couples tentacles to support the walls to prevent it collapsing on their heads, the ruby pillars seem to stop the house from shaking but any more impacts will likely bring it down.

Talicia "We haven't done anything to you! Leave us" she shouts, almost pleading to the two arrogant men.

Richter "As tempting as that offer is, we'll have to refuse." he says as slaps the whip on the floor, more to intimidate her than anything else.

Juste "Brother, perhaps it's time to end this? Stop playing with your prey."

Richter nods and sprints forwards, his feet causing the floor underneath him to crack at the pressure. He swings the whip widely, causing it to destroy a couple ruby pillars and forcing Talicia to duck to dodge, this however was what Richter had wanted. He steps forward and sends a brutal punch to her chest, Talicia is unable to dodge or block the strike, allowing it to collide with her chest and explode out of her back.

Nerissa "NO! MOTHER!" she hears her daughters voice in the background as she feels her vision dim at the catastrophic damage she had just taken.

Talicia manages to look up into the smiling man's eyes, the smug look still ever present on his face.

"I won't let you have my daughter!" she shouts as the last remnants of blood in her body leak onto the mans hand that'd penetrated her chest. They act a needle as ruby points form and penetrate Richter's wrist. He tries to pulls his hand back but finds the woman gripping his arm tightly, he tears one of her arms off in an attempt to stop what she's doing but by then it's already too late.

The tendrils of blood had breached the skin and found the man's veins, once inside they started rapidly traveling up, haphazardly damaging everything inside with their sharp ruby-like points. Eventually they reach his heart.

By this time Juste notices something is wrong as Richter starts seizing up and shaking, he'd thought he was playing with the female but now it doesn't seem to be the case... He begins to step forwards but the house around him starts to collapse, rays of sunlight hit the floor and an unfortunate Nerissa who's face is stained with tears.

Nerissa can barely hold in her screams at the searing pain, but she manages to stay silent, instead pushing her focus on one goal. Killing these monsters! Even with most of her skin burning and muscles being destroyed she still manages to leap onto Juste's back while biting down fiercely onto his neck.

Juste "Guah!" he exclaims when he feels his life-force being rapidly drained, faster and stronger than anything else he'd ever felt before. He tries to claw the girl off of his back but slowly finds himself being burned? The sunlight! "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" he gives off a terrifying scream as his blood is drained and his body is turned to ashes simultaneously.

As this happens Talicia's attack finally concludes, Richter's body fading away into ashes, the only thing remaining is a heart inside some sort of ruby sphere that falls harshly to the ground.