Shovels In Spades

Sparing not a single moment, Rimmy's colossal body sprinted across the muddy and broken field. It was hard to imagine that such a large figure could move so fast, but less than a second had passed before he was upon Mu.

Rimmy repeatedly punched the Chinese man's body over and over and over and over again. He didn't stop, no, he wouldn't stop.

Rimmy's assault only came to a halt when his core sensed that something was wrong. Abandoning his main body and making it jump back, Rimmy's core flew into the air and watched the smouldering crater made in the wake of his main body's endless barrage of fists.

A low chuckle could be heard coming from the charred pit. "Now you, you, are very, very cool."

Bloody and torn with bones poking all out of his body, Mu slowly rose from the crater. As Rimmy looked at the man and prepared himself, he couldn't help but noticed that Mu didn't seem like he was moving off of his own accord.

As if to confirm the Golem's suspicions, a tiny red skull exited Mu's ripped and destroyed shorts. A single crack could be seen just below this skull's right eye. Only the skull and Mu himself knew the significance of this new crack.

Mu's mouth moved unnaturally as he spoke again. "The system has not punished you for this surprise attack. That means this incredible... monster? Sorry, I do not know the correct term for it. This monster belongs to you and is considered a part of your potato by the system. Very cool."

Esmerelda, the red skull, sighed heavily. Were she to have a body, no doubt she would be holding her face in her hands. "Mu, it's 'power', not 'potato'. I swear to the All-Lich, I will let you lose this battle if you continue to embarrass me."

"Sorry," Mu apologized.

With that brief exchange now out of the way, Esmeralda controlled Mu's body and raised his hands up.

Rimmy could sense the energy building at the man's fingertips, so he wasted no time. The Golem's core flew to Fort Skip's walls, and with his main body, he faced both of his arms towards Mu and the red skull before he fired an upgraded version of his Crystal Shotgun, Crystal Cannon, which he had gained after his evolution.

Just as the jewelled volley of cannon balls was about to impact on Mu's wrecked body, the quickly accumulating energy had apparently reached its peak.

A ginormous wave of black and evil flames enveloped everything. Rimmy responded in the only way that he could. He used Great Roll.

Defying the very laws of physics, Rimmy's thirty-foot tall body shot up into the sky as he was curled into a ball and was spinning at an unimaginable speed. Once he was clear of the sea of fire, he changed his trajectory and aimed straight for Mu.

"That thing is insane..." Mu found himself muttering in the wake of Rimmy's abilities and versatility. 'Is Daz actually the champion of a higher god? Maybe one that isn't trying to cheat like Senior Death...'

Mu cleared his mind of these thoughts. His body had recovered to the point that he could move it on his own now.

Mu didn't possess any absurd healing capabilities, however, as a Death Reaper, he did have the racial trait Death Absorption. This trait allowed him to consume his soul power and death energy to rapidly heal his body. He did have to admit though that it had never taken him this long to recover to a self-operable state before. This only went to show how badly Rimmy had beaten him.

Lifting his war scythe from the floor, Mu charged it with his soul power and used a simple battle skill, Slice.

Rimmy's rolling body was cut clean in two. Unfortunately for the Death Reaper, Rimmy wasn't so weak as to fall apart just because he'd been cut in half.

Thousands of cyan-coloured gems spewed forth for the wound and connected themselves to the other half of Rimmy's body. Much like glue to a seal, it wouldn't last forever, but it was enough for Rimmy.

His colossal main body found it's target, however, a mysterious power switched the places of Esmerelda and Mu, forcing the red skull to take the entire force of the thirty-foot Golem's attack.

Several more cracks showed up on her skull before Rimmy was finally sliced to pieces by Mu who had now fully healed. Rimmy core was saddened and frustrated that he didn't get enough time to use Mountainous Eruption. Mu's attacks were just too quick for him to react to.

Turning to look at Daz who was now weakly standing up with his death energy limbs, Mu asked a simple question. "Is it over now, my friend?"

Daz shook his head. "Not yet." Once again, he invoked a skill mentally.

Esmerelda and Mu alike both felt their souls shake as the sky darkened. An enormous half-green half-blue skull appeared above them and was laughing maniacally.

"The All-Lich?! No! It's just a projection of a clone! Behind me, Boy!" Esmerelda hadn't ever been this serious in the time that she and Mu had been together, so he immediately did as she said and hid behind her.

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Daz watched in horror as the red floating skull erected thousands of ominous-looking wards and somehow managed to brunt the force of the laughing skull before it left a second later.

Of course, Esmerelda was not faring well. She had fallen apart almost completely. All that remained of her red skull at this point was the left eye socket.

"That really surprised me. I need to rest now. You're on your own, Master," Esmerelda said with a weak voice before she stuffed what little remained of herself into Mu's pocket.

"You have surprised me over and over again, my friend. I have a fraction of my soul power and death energy left. That skill, you must tell me about it if you survive my final attack, okay?" Mu asked very politely.

"I'm glad I managed to push a higher god's champion so far, especially one who's been cheating," Daz remarked sarcastically before he spat a mouthful of blood out onto the muddy ground. "But sure, I'll tell you all about it after I kick your fucking ass."

Mu frowned. "Why are you upset?"

"Why?" Daz glared at Mu. "You come to my home, picked a fight with me, cut my arm and leg off, destroy my best friend, endure my most powerful attack, and you have the balls to ask why I'M upset?! I really hope you don't die from this, because it's the last trick in my proverbial book, and it will teach you that fucking with me was a terrible mistake."

Daz had finally lost it. He couldn't be bothered pretending to be nice to this glorified hitman anymore. Seeing Rimmy's main body get shredded to pieces was the final straw for Daz. No matter how manipulative he was, no matter how much he desired to possess Mu as a powerful pawn, he couldn't lie down and just gloss over Rimmy's defeat with a smile on his face.

Mu just looked confused. He hadn't understood half of what Daz had said, but from what he did pick up, it didn't seem to be all that friendly.

Suddenly, Daz's attitude did a bit of a one-eighty. He was still being heavily sarcastic, but he genuinely looked very happy. "Hey, Mu, have you ever heard of Archreapers before?"

Mu didn't know what Daz was talking about. "No, I have not."

"Shame. You're about to meet one." Daz's voice was overflowing with schadenfreude.

A massive swath of very bright grey light, so bright, in fact, that it almost looked white, enveloped Daz's entire body, blinding Mu.

Three system notifications filled Daz's vision.