Chapter 570: Last one standing
Sam looked around even tried to use his eye technique, but he couldn't find any trace of Noah and at the same time, his spiritual sense is telling a different story and that is Noah is everywhere around him.
This is some high-level technique and looking at the similarities of her technique and Kumar's technique he was amused. He has some conjectures, but he didn't think much of it.
As he was thinking, Kumar already neared him and started attacking. Every spear is extremely fast and leaving a lot of after images behind. The spiritual energy is taking a form of spear and zoomed towards Sam every time Kumar stabbed towards him.
Sam used his staff to continuously block and his extreme dexterity and the speed of the light element, it is quite smooth for him to dodge and block. But he could see that the attacks from Kumar are far stronger than before and even when Sam struck back, his armor is defending most hits.
There is no way he could damage the armor with normal attacks and he has to use void style with this staff if he has to do so.
As he was contemplating, he jumped to the side to dodge an attack and kicked a tree to jump higher and launch an attack, but all of a sudden, the tree trunk became soft and his foot was struck inside the trunk. Sam frowned, but before he could free himself, the branch extended and pulled him closer to the tree and a spear was about to stab him in the heart.
Sam exploded with spiritual energy as he twisted his body forcefully and the whole trunk is mangled and the spear missed the heart, but it left a deep gash on his chest and torso because Sam twisted to the side.
The only thing that is not covered by his coat is his chest and it was always attacked perfectly when he was stuck.
Sam cursed himself when he saw that the bleeding is not stopping. This is almost like the bleed effect. His body's natural healing is being disrupted. But he is not worried, he started healing himself and at the same time slammed the staff at the tree and cut it in half.
As he landed back, but the roots of the nearby trees are launched at him.
He knew what went wrong. As he was fighting he forgot that he is in the forest created by his opponent and let his guard down. He just fought like he was in a normal forest.
Now that he already suffered, there is no way he would forget. When he saw that the roots are launching at him, his body transformed once again and partial fire element fusion activated. He held the staff straight and stabbed its end into the ground.
A huge flaming explosion occurred in the ground and a large crater appeared. Kumar who was about to hit Sam with his spear was also blown away.
The dust settled and the crater was revealed. It was deep and large and the surface is covered with molten soil.
The roots couldn't disturb Sam for a while as when they reached they disintegrated by the heat of the nearby soil.
He swung the staff and a large golden crow made of flames flew over towards Kumar. The attack covers a large range and it contains a lot of power so Kumar couldn't dodge it and could only block it.
Sam didn't stop there, he turned to the side and send another golden crow made of golden flames and a lot of trees started burning.
Noah who is in the dark felt like her soul is burning and was quite surprised. Generally, normal flames do not have much effect on her forest at all, but the golden flames are burning rapidly..
Sam already noticed the anomaly of this forest when he got caught, the trunk was extremely resistant to elemental energy and the best way to break out is to use brute force. And that is what he did, but he was still unwilling to believe that his golden sun crow flames couldn't damage these trees and was delighted to see that they are really burning.
Although the wood element energy is trying its best to regenerate the trees, Sam is already satisfied with the outcome.
Now, he has many possibilities of dealing with the forest and Kumar.
Sam's body once again transformed. He closed his eyes and is trying a new thing, the fire that caught on to Kumar is barely extinguished and that guy is still trying to catch his breath, as for Noah, she is busy recovering from the burned trees.
In this time, Sam is trying something he never tried. All of a sudden, his body became normal and his left hand was enveloped with golden flames and the right hand was enveloped with a fierce wind.
He is trying to fuse with two elements at the same time, but it was hard, so he is using the partial fusion on both hands with different elements. He held the staff in his hands and the staff was also enveloped with two elements.
At this moment, Sam's legs are enveloped with the silver lightning, This is not partial fusion, just normal usage of a warrior-mage skill.
As for why he chose the lightning skill this is the second-fastest. He looked at Kumar who is back to fighting condition and ran deeper into the forest.
He leaped towards a tree and landed on a branch, but the tree was charred black as lightning stuck it. Sam swung his staff and from one end the Golden flame crow emerged and on the other end, a wind roc emerged. Both of them are launched towards Kumar. But this time, the two birds are not large, rather they are smaller than the first attack.
But they are flying together and when Kumar dodged it, he saw them crashing into a free and a large fire raged. The wind element is assisting the fire element like crazy and the fire is spreading faster than usual.
Sam didn't care anymore and laughed as he jumped forward. The trees couldn't catch him as he kicked every branch that came at him with the lightning that charred the trees and he threw attack after attack at Kumar who is dodging them by hair's breadth.
The forest is burning and Kumar is not completely devoid of damage. Even though Sam's energy is draining, there is no way he would stop.
He decided to burn the whole forest down no matter what. He is not going to lose to these two people. Not in a million years.
Sam could almost see the edge of the forest. He turned around and stood on the spot as he threw fire crows all over. The forest is burning too fast.
All of a sudden, the forest disappeared with a flash and Noah appeared before him with a ragged look, Kumar caught and he is equally damaged as Noah. Even though he could dodge most of the time, there is no way he could dodge every single attack.
He took the full brunt of the crow and roc combination making him feel sore all over. Even his armor was not able to do anything and slowly the armor started becoming transparent.
Sam could guess what is happening even if he doesn't know anything about that armor.
Kumar's armor is going to be finished.
Sam is also panting a bit by now. His energy is almost out. If he has to do some normal battle, he would be able to do it, but if he has to deal with another major attack, it would be difficult, he has to take out the energy cells.
But judging from the appearance of the other two, there is no need.
Sam is now standing normally as he held his staff. His fire, wind, and lightning are invisible at this moment, he deactivated all the transformations and stood there calmly as he gazed at both of them.
"That was a good fight, but we have to put an end to this, don't you agree?"
The two opponents immediately got tense and looked at Sam carefully.
Sam started spinning staff. He hit the ground with the staff vertically and it bounced back, he spun it once and hit the ground once again.
As he repeated to play with the staff, Noah and Kumar could see that silver sparks are flowing all over the staff. The more he played with the staff, the more the concentration of the sparks is growing.
When the intensity of the sparks grew to the point they could even feel it from a distance, they understood that they are done for if he hit them with that. But they couldn't flee or dodge. They are definitely struck here and could only count on luck as they used all kinds of defensive methods they have on their hands.
Sam held the staff and his whole body was covered in silver lightning, he swung the staff in Noah's direction and didn't wait to turn around and swing it towards Kumar's direction.
Wolves made of lightning appeared. One of them dashed towards Noah and the other towards Kumar. Both of them are standing on either side of Sam and both of them waited for the bull brunt of the attack.
When they crashed with the opponents, it is as if lightning was striking from the sky and a loud rumble could be heard all over.
When the dust cleared and the flashes disappeared. Sam is the only one standing with the staff in his hands.