Celestial Bloodline

'Are you sleeping?'

Kyle shouted inside his head with frustration. He was a little angry. Now the situation wasn't good because he was fighting alone. 

He knew with his recovered stamina and mana, he would be able to defeat some more skeletons. Maybe in another ten or twenty minutes, he would be able to complete the 1000 mark.

-'No! Of course not!'

Bia replied with a loud voice. She was really tired because unlike Kyle and the others, she didn't receive that strange green hue from Nixen.

With a sigh, Kyle sidestepped to avoid another lava attack coming from one of the skeletons. He was going to strike back but suddenly, he felt something inside him tremble.

"Agh...Cough!"

With a cough, Kyle immediately jumped back, toward the leafless tree present behind him. A drop of blood seeped out from his sealed lips.

Kyle used his sleeve and wiped his mouth but when he saw blood, his eyes widened.

'What happened?'

With Kyle jumping backward toward the leafless tree, the skeletons easily crossed the pit and arrived at the small open area present at the end of the pit.

Kyle looked at the skeleton, he wanted to rush at them and attack but his heart started beating faster. Within a second, beads of sweat formed on his forehead.

Kyle clenched his heart as he looked at the skeletons. With each passing second his eyes were turning red. 

'Something is wrong!'

Kyle panicked, he could feel his strength leaving his body and his knees becoming weak.

'Bia! Tell me which nearest area outside the pit is empty. If not then make sure there are least skeletons! Hurry up!'

Bia who was flying outside the pit, heard Kyle's urgent voice. Because of their connection, a strange feeling welled up inside her chest. Without even waiting for a second, she immediately glanced around.

The pit was horizontal, present in between some large red rocks. Bia gazed downward toward the Volcano's edge, there were at least 500+ skeletons. The pit entrance was also filled with skeletons

-'Kyle! Outside, the pit upper left area. There's only a group of 7 Skeletons!'

Kyle heard Bia's voice, he hurriedly kicked another skeleton and threw it on the other skeletons.

With rough breathing, he jumped and grabbed a thick branch of the leafless tree. His vision was a little blurry when he gazed at the ceiling present on top of the leafless tree.

"Instant Teleportation."

Kyle mumbled under his breath. His voice was barely audible. The skeletons were still charging inside the pit nonstop. Their gaze was fixed on his body.

Under their gaze, Kyle disappeared. 

He appeared outside the pit. Kyle gazed upward, he could see the Volcano top from where smoke was coming out nonstop.

Bia who was flying outside the pit with a worried expression saw Kyle's figure appearing out of nowhere. 

He was grabbing his knees and panting heavily.

-'Be careful!'

Bia shouted when she some skeletons charging at Kyle from behind.

Kyle turned around and kicked the skeletons. Bia also hurriedly flew toward him and threw some fireballs at the skeletons.

After kicking the skeletons, Kyle gritted his teeth and started running in the opposite direction.

While Kyle was running, Bia threw fireballs at the skeletons to distract their attention. After resting for a while, she only recovered 20% of her mana but that was enough to give Kyle some time.

At the same time, Kyle didn't stop running. He clenched his chest and used the skill 'Swift steps' to increase his speed. 

Kyle only had 10% mana left inside his body after he used 'Instant Teleportation'.

After three minutes, the remaining mana inside his body depleted and Kyle stopped running. He stumbled as his knees gave in.

With a deep breath, he looked around and saw a large red boulder a few steps away from him. Dragging his feet toward the boulder, Kyle hid behind the boulder.

"Hu...huu.."

Kyle started taking deep breaths to relax his agitated heart, but no matter what he did, his heartbeat didn't slow down.

"What the ..hell is happ.. Cough!"

Kyle spoke with frustration but then again he stopped midway, and coughed up blood.

He wasn't in pain but for some reason, Kyle's body turned cold. A chilled thought continuously resounded inside his head.

'Something is going to happen!'

While Kyle was struggling to breathe, Bia took care of the few skeletons following behind her.

With a serious expression, she hurriedly started looking around for Kyle.

After a few minutes, she saw him sitting behind a large boulder. His face was incredibly pale and blood was coming out from his nose and mouth.

Bia panicked. She flapped her wings and hurriedly arrived in front of Kyle.

Kyle's expression was blank. She could see red veins inside his eyes.

With a teary expression, Bia hurriedly buried her head inside his hair.

-'Kyle! What's happening?'

-'Kyle!'

Bia shouted. After getting no reply, she started flying around Kyle with worry.

-'What should I do!'

Suddenly under Bia's gaze, Kyle clenched his hair and started shouting.

"Ahhhhh....."

He could feel it! Just now something started spinning inside his heart. 

The pain was unbearable! A loud tearing sound resounded within his body, like someone forcefully tore a piece of his soul.

"Ahhh...."

Kyle was shouting nonstop as blood started coming out from his head and eyes.

Bia looked at Kyle's condition and started crying. Due to their connection, she could feel just how much pain he was going through right now.

While Kyle's mind went black due to extreme pain. His heart stopped beating. 

In the middle of his heart, a nail-sized, drop-shaped red crystal was spinning nonstop.

The energy around the crystal, danced with joy because it had just tasted a very delicious thing.

After tasting the host soul once, the crystal increased its speed and started to spin with more vigor. 

It wanted to eat another piece but suddenly it trembled. From Kyle's veins, hundreds of tiny blue sparks hurriedly rushed at the crystal.

The tiny sparks surrounded Kyle's heart and immediately moved toward the red crystal.

Before the tiny sparks could touch the red crystal, it stopped spinning and hurriedly went dormant.

The blue sparks moved around the crystal. After a few seconds, the sparks moved back with confusion because they were unable to sense anything from the crystal.