3164 Battle IV
CLANNNG RIP CLANNNG!
Another wound cut across my shoulder before I defended the attack and move my sword again, to defend against coming toward me.
In less than thirty seconds, there are thirty-six cuts across my body. Each cut is holding a massive amount of icy energy. If even a quarter of them had been released, they would freeze me for an instant.
The worse thing is the more cuts appear on my body and the more strain on it increases.
It won’t be long before it will not be able to hold off these powerful energies. Even with the help of formation in my core.
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“I am sure it will help me a lot in dealing with pesky enemies like you in the future,” it said without continuing with the attacks.
Its eyes are confident like it knew it will kill me. To be honest, the chances seemed high with the difference in strength we have, but I am not without an option.
In a couple of seconds. One of the options I had been waiting for, will come out.
It continued with its attacks while I defended. The people are fighting everywhere, but whenever we moved, they would separate.
Most could not bear the power; we are fighting with.
RIP!
Once again, its sword cut through me, this time at my chest. Touching the bone, most importantly, is very close to my heart.
Till now, I had kept it from the influence of the cold energies, but if they kept increasing, I will not be able to do it. With the latest one, there are four injuries on my chest, one more, and a whole damn bright break free.
I could barely contain those cold energies and can not afford even the slightest leak. I will be finished with the smallest leak.
I defended the attack, but the second one came and it avoided my sword. Coming directly at my neck.
‘Shit!’
I cursed and moved back to dodge the attack while my sword moved, but I know. It will not be able to reach it. It had happened so many times in the battle that I reacted instinctively; the moment I saw it avoided my sword.
Its giant blade came closer and closer to my neck, while I moved back to dodge it.
Till now, I had avoided the neck at any cost, but this time. It seemed it was unlikely to happen. Still, I will, because that giant sword will need a couple of inches into my skin to kill me.
Rip!
I could not stop the sword, but instead of cutting. It just grazed through my neck; giving my neck a tiny cut with a sword that is half as thick as my neck.
I sealed the energies immediately and moved my sword to defend against its coming attack.
Buzz!
Four attacks and one cut later. My core shook, and a flood of energy came out of it.
It felt like I had been waiting for it for days, despite being a little less than three minutes. The Grimms were too powerful, making me feel every second like an hour.
The energy flooded into me and I controlled it. Focusing more on strengthening, rather than healing, the injuries. I did not leave all my injuries; I healed some of them with the strengthening energy.
About 10% of them. Every one of them was in a fatal spot.
“Hun, it seemed like you have been hiding your strength,” said Lizardman a couple of seconds later.
“It was necessary. To deal with you,” I replied with a smile. “Hehe. Your little strength wouldn’t go to help you human,” it said with a huge grin, and the next moment, a powerful aura blasted off its body.
The smile on my face disappeared, and horror appeared in its stead. While inside, my expressions are calm.
It is a risk to reveal the strength when the energy barely strengthened me, but the one I took.
As it will help me, quickly get my rising power under my control. If I hide it and use it all at once, later, this bastard might take advantage of my loose control.
I wouldn’t have taken the risk if it hadn’t been such skilled. It could be said that it was Grimm who had forced me to take such an enormous risk.
It attacked with enormous power; freezing the tens of meters around us and forcing people to retreat in a hurry.
I did not retreat and swung my sword with my power. I did not hold back anything and would add every big as more of the strengthening energy with me.
CLANNNG
Our weapons clashed, and I was nearly shot back by the force of the attack. It also brought a torrent of cold energy, but I did not care about that, as I rapidly took the steps back, without vomiting the blood.
The strengthening energy immediately healed my internal organs and so did the faint cracks in the bones of my hand.
The injuries had just healed when the Lizardman appeared in front of me and attacked again.
CLANNNG CLANNNG CLANNNG
I defended it like before, but it attacked again and again. I kept defending while strengthening energy would heal my injuries.
Over time, fewer and fewer injuries appear on me. The vomiting stopped and also the cracks in the bones. Slowly, I begin to take fewer and fewer steps back, dispute it using more and more power.
A minute had passed, and I noticed a strange thing. It is reaching its limit; its strength is increasing less and less.
Another minute passed; it had stagnated.
CLANNNG
Our weapons clashed, and this time, its eyes widened. As I did not take a step back, despite it using all its power.
I had got enough strength to hold back against it half a minute ago, but I kept continued taking a step. So it would not hold back even a single bit of energy against me.
“It seemed like you have reached the limit,” I said to it and its cold eyes turned blazing.
“So, what you can never defeat, me,” it said defiantly. “We will see,” I said with a grin and moved to attack it.
The boost will not make me stronger than it, but I never needed to be stronger than my enemies to kill them. I only need to see the gap between our strengths, not too large, as it had been before.
Now, with strengthening energy, the large gap is shrinking, and it will reach to level. I am comfortable with it.
CLANNNG CLANNNG CLANNNG
I attacked, and it easily defended and it is the same as the next and the next one after that.
It is powerful and skillful. I will need far more than it to kill it, and I am slowly reaching it there.
As my body merges with more and more strengthening energy.
A few minutes passed, and I continued attacking it. The strengthening energy had finally been digested and I am now moving to kill it.
“Try harder, human. If this is all you have, then you can forget even nicking me,” it said and attacked me.
Sometimes, I would let it take the lead before leading it again.
CLANNNG!
I defended, and it attacked again, and I defended. Just like before. If it had any other enemy, I would have moved in front of it and pierced my sword into its chest, but it is not.
It is skilled, it will not let it happen, and I am not powerful enough to do it forcefully.
So, I have to wait for the chance.
Over ten minutes passed when I had finally seen the chance. Not the fake ones, but the real ones. It is small, but I know I could exploit it after studying its fighting style.
CLANNNG!
The attack came like any other attack and my sword clashed against it before I crouched down and moved forward.
It surprised the Lizardman, but it acted fast and tried to move its sword, but found out locked with my sword.
It had stayed that for a moment, before I moved away from my sword and leaped toward its chest, at my full speed.
“Bastard!”
It shouted while its sword moved toward me. I do not care, as I moved my sword toward its chest. I quickly begin to retreat, enveloping itself with multiple defensive skills.
PUCH!
My sword broke through all defensive methods before piercing its heart.
Releasing the burst of energy, which covered its whole body, crushing the resistance and taking it inside my core.