Elder Blood Witcher 337 Reima Exploding His Goo On Everyone And Everything...

It'd been a couple days since the duo + rabbit had started Hogwarts, during their brief stay they'd already made a couple friends, especially so with their dorm mates. Though the knowledge that they'd eventually have to be left behind in this world always put a damper on any interaction they may have. Reima, Ciri and Snuffles made it a daily ritual to run around the black lake in the mornings, this was noticed by a few students and their dorm mates, some attempting to actually accompany them, after the first session anyone who wished to run with them quickly relinquished that idea as the two's stamina was completely and utterly ridiculous, not to mention whatever charm they cast on that rabbit to make it float, they even thought it might've gloated at them as they struggled to keep up...

Of course when hearing about their activities some were supportive while others thought it was a "Muggle trick that was attempting to fool pure-bloods into believing that Muggleborns are not inferior than their obvious betters."... Of course, those that thought this were mostly in Slytherin, Draco Malfoy who was still receiving the backlash of being transfigured and stuffed down his lackeys pants attempted to prove he was superior than Muggles in every way, he did this by partic.i.p.ating in the daily run around the lake but only succeeded in embarra.s.sing himself when he couldn't even manage one lap. Of course, the fact that his father would hear about this was the cherry on top.

The trio didn't forget about training however and made it a point to spend a couple hours a day inside the room of requirements to train their various skills. One thing that Reima had found out was the rooms ability to produce skilful warrior golems, this allowed him to set a couple on Nerissa and focus on his own magic elsewhere. What magic did he focus on? Pyromnacy? Sorcery? The combination of both in Aderecery? Well, none of the above!

Reima instead focused his efforts on learning the "evil" technique known as the Dark Hand... As his ability to absorb the souls of those defeated seems to have disappeared some how he needed another method to top up his soul count, regardless of it's already astronomical number. As such he found that the Dark Hand would suit these purposes perfectly, not only allowing him to start absorbing souls again but also to remove some of Voldemorts souls shards from the Hogwarts Founders artifacts, if his theory was proven correct then he'd have the cleansed version of Rowena's diadam, the item supposedly made you a genius just by wearing it... Well, he'd have to test it out after cleansing it.

To start learning this dark technique he pulled out the large tome he'd acquired from DarkStalker Kaathe, as he was literally already the manifestation of Humanity he didn't think there was any danger in learning this, he even thought it might improve his ability to utilise it. The ability itself was actually quite simple, it allowed it's user to plunge their hand into a physical body and tear out it's soul, the shock of having part or all of your soul taken would result in instant death for most, horrifyingly agonisingly slow death for those unfortunate to be lucky in this instance. Another thing to note was the fact it could block attacks by forming some sort of force-field in-front of it's user, Reima wasn't really sure how this functioned but wasn't going to argue about it's flexibility and potential adaptability into other techniques.

After reading through the thick tome he'd gotten a basic idea of how to perform it, one thing that surprised him was the fact that you need to be human, or have humanity to actually use it. He had thought it would be similar to the way Miracles work, or maybe even Sorcery's.. Apparently not. He started by prodding his humanity, the part of his soul locked off by the Elder Blood's interference to release a minute amount of Humanity in order to channel it into his hand. Luckily for the well being of his friends they were not in his vicinity when he lost control over the turbulent cascade of energy that erupted from him. A scene that looked eerily similar to Artorias final fight appeared, Reima's energy "exploded" releasing a dark gooey substance that resembles the stuff overtaking Oolacile all those years ago. The stone floor of the Colosseum instantly looked corroded as some Golems that were stood around him started to mutate into horrific creatures, they started to sprint at Ciri and Nerissa but when he shouted "Stop!" they seemingly followed his command...

Ciri "Are you alright Reima?" she asks frantically as her friend had released some sort of vile looking goo from his body, even now he was drenched in the stuff.

Reima "Er, yeah... Just don't touch this s.h.i.+t or you might get infected or something... Ah, this is going to be a pain to clean up..."

However, unknown to everyone present, Reima's left eye flickers from his bright green to complete black, quickly enough that n.o.body noticed...

Reima begins to try and clean up the goo but nothing he does is able to actually remove it, it's like blood but a million times worse. After becoming irritated in his inability to clean this s.h.i.+t up for a hour or two he finally decides to "f.u.c.k it" and slams his Staff of Ma.n.u.s onto it... Only for the staff to act like a hoover and start sucking up the Humanity, he can feel the staff directing all the humanity back into the reserves of his soul...