Bloodlines of the Ancient Pantheons

Chapter 587: DLXXXVII. I Don't Care

"Shit! He's activating my powers without my consent! It's as if the dark matter inside me reacts to his command, identifying him as its master! Something like this can't happen! Fuck, don't get away from me, go back inside my body!" Dag thought, barely breathing from his mouth with his lips dry and split due to the cold.

As the dark liquid beam slowly took shape, approaching the Xis, who reopened his eyes, it immediately interrupted its growth and slowly returned back, decreasing its volume and gradually re-joining Dag's back, as if it had recognized its true master and was obeying only his orders.

"Mhh..." the Xis whispered, who whenever he was amazed by something, always tried to retain his expressiveness, as if feelings such as anger, frustration, and hatred were not part of his being.

Dag's eyes closed due to the effort and the muscles of his arms and legs began to work again, albeit sore and chained to the ground.

Concentrating all his power on the hand he had rested on Dag's forehead, the Xis was forgetting about the rest of his body, which was very slowly resuming his motor functions.

...

"What is he doing to him? It's horrible!"

"Is that the extraction process he talked about before?!" 

The Giants of Ymir soldiers began whispering to each other, acknowledging that what was happening to their new Master must be very painful.

"He is using a forced activation of Dag's powers... I didn't think there was anyone who could do it... that abominable being is forcing Dag's body to create the matter his dark arms are made of to take a piece of them, but it seems that he is managing to hold it within himself. As he said before, the Frostsinner don't want to kill him, it's not what his superiors ordered him to do..." Kranus commented, which used all the knowledge he had learned both from the books and directly from Dag, to formulate a concrete hypothesis of what was going on.

"He must have one or more bosses tell him what to do... even if they are powerful beings, they would never send one of their greatest exponents to a planet entirely populated by humans, it would be too risky" Kron added, who, silent as usual, had his personal theory.

Kron's words made Kranus, Reidar, and Bloodfang reflect, who, like him, were carefully studying the stranger man's behavior.

...

The Xis' white hand grip became increasingly intense and the veins on Dag's forehead and face, due to the effort, began to become visible under his skin.

Inside his body, his power was trying in every way to free itself from that control, after recognizing that the external source that was ordering it to get out of Dag's body was actually an enemy. 

No longer knowing how to react and no longer having all his physical strength at his disposal, Dag raised his right arm and grabbed the Xis' jacket, pulling it towards him. 

"813666, this is the last warning. You're trying to harm one of the Xis commission members, such behavior could cost you your life" the Frostsinner said, who continued to hold his hand resting on Dag's forehead.

"I don't care... do what you want, but if I die, my power will die with me! Those who are commanding you are definitely listening to my words so... go fuck yourselves, sons of bitches! I will kill you from the first to the last and save my race, whatever it costs!" Dag shouted, trying not to lose mental control over his power, which would otherwise have been forcibly extracted from his body.

After those words, to which the Xis remained almost impassive, knowing that he could do nothing without the permission of his superiors, Dag held him still with his left hand, and with his right one, he detached the Giantbane from the magnet on his belt.

The Xis, knowing that no weapon could cause real damage to his body, stood still in place despite Dag's hand continuing to pull his jacket, trying unsuccessfully to destabilize him.

When he wielded the Giantbane, whose power had not yet been activated, Dag paused for a moment to think.

"I'm sure this son of a bitch is in touch with his bosses right now, but first he said that if scientists knew what my progress had been, they would have been very excited, so... this means that my next blow must be decisive, I must kill him by exploiting his unconsciousness, otherwise all the Xis would know about the power of my weapon! Giantbane, don't let me down and do what you were created for!" 

After thinking with his eyes closed, the young Earthly warrior slid the blade of the axe on his leg, making a superficial cut.

The blood that came out of his body slipped on the Giantbane's blade, immediately activating its power. 

At the same time, trying not to waste any more time, Dag tried to hit the enemy's neck, intent on cutting off his head in one fell swoop, but the Xis, thanks to his super-developed senses, was able to predict his move in advance, despite not knowing of the existence of a weapon capable of wounding him.

Despite believing the Giantbane to be harmless, the Frostsinner suddenly moved and Dag's shot failed, cutting off the air. 

However, the hand resting on his forehead, being in contact only through the palm, slightly weakened and with an effort of the leg muscles, Dag managed to wriggle out of the grip, escaping the Xis.

Dag stepped back and opened his eyes again, focusing on the enemy.

After only a couple of seconds, the young warrior dashed toward him, pulling out the hammer and activating its electrical powers, trying to strike the enemy first with Magni's weapon.

"He doesn't know that the Giantbane can hurt him! I will wait until I'll be sure to win and then I will try to hit him again with the axe!" Dag thought again, waving the hammer and unleashing its power against Xis man.