Chapter 72

However, unexpected by the crowd, Shin did not have the physical energy to keep himself standing after such an attack and fell face-first into the ground. However, he did still have plenty of magic, so while he was falling, rose his hand for another attack.

While Riser was plummeting through the air at great speeds, a portion of the stadium ground behind him started moving, quickly forming into a sharp spike and shooting out towards the direction Riser was flying back. The spike did exactly as Shin planned, and Riser was impaled through the stomach on the spike.

Meanwhile, Shin hit the ground face first, his whole body aching, screaming at him to stop. Every breath he took shot pain throughout his entire body, sans the right side of his torso which was still completely cut off from feeling any pain.

Shin just barely was able to gather enough strength to roll himself onto his back. Looking to his left, he watched as Riser's body exploded in flames all over, instantly healing all damage done to his body except for the area where he was still impaled on.

However, that was quickly solved with one flaming punch to the spike, pulverizing the spike where he was impaled, his family bloodline quickly kicking in and healing the hole in his abdomen.

Shin let out a weak chuckle. All that, for nothing. Even now, Riser still wasn't even winded. "That ability of yours is just broken," Shin said weakly, but with Riser's devil hearing it was heard quite easily.

Riser let out an uproarious laugh. "I suppose so." Riser took some steps toward Shin, who began mustering his strength to very slowly picking himself off the ground. "Are you ready to give up yet? Your strong Shin, but with my healing, you will drop dead from exhaustion before your able to make me even break a sweat." Riser said matter-of-factually.

Shin laughed again, trying to push himself off his knee and into a standing position, but failing multiple times before he was able to. Even then, once he was standing up, he swayed around, struggling to keep his balance.

"Yea, your right. At this rate, I'm going to die much before I'm able to do any actual damage to you." Shin said, Riser, taking this as him giving up. "You know, I was really hoping I wasn't going to have to resort to this, but you're really not giving me much of a choice here," Shin said quietly, putting Riser on edge.

Shin felt down into the pit of his stomach, feeling out the lock that the doctors had put on the holy magic in his body, stopping him from using it or from it circulating throughout his body. He really didn't want to use it, as it could cause even more damage to his body, but he could already feel it. His body, it was much stronger than it once was due to the changes he recently made to it, and it was growing stronger by the second. It's why his magic was seemingly stronger than it was at the start of the fight. The simple answer is because it is stronger.

If it wasn't for the physical drain of keeping his pain receptors disabled, he wouldn't be in such a tough situation.

'But, fuck it. What do I have to lose? If I lose this fight, I die. If I use this power, there's a good chance I die. I might as well go out swinging.' Shin thought, his body suddenly exploding in a brilliant golden light, shocking everyone there.

The lock was broken, and his holy magic was once again released inside his body. In just a second, a single moment in time, the entire battle, which everyone had assumed was going to be won by Riser, was flipped on its head. For once, with the shocking appearance of Shin's holy magic, Shin had an actual chance of winning this fight.

"As much as I would like to have fun with you, this fight has drawn on much too long," Shin said, the lightning sparking around him changing from a blue hue to red, and his eyes glowing a dangerous crimson red. The natural hues of demonic magic and holy magic mixing into red.

Shin's sudden power-up had shocked Riser, and honestly, it scared him as well. Holy magic was the one weakness of the Phoenix clan's regeneration. It was the only thing capable of stopping them from healing.

However, Riser was no coward. He watched as Shin's right arm exploded in a brilliant ball of lightning, violently lashing out at the air around. If this is how Shin wanted the battle to end, then he would play along.

Drawing on all of his magic, Riser's body exploded in a torrent of flames, his wings spreading out further than they ever had before.

The red lightning arc all around Shin's body surged and he launched towards Riser. Riser, in response, did the same. All that could be seen was a maelstrom of lightning and a torrent of flames shooting off towards each other at great speeds.

Shin watched carefully as Riser got closer and closer, Riser doing the same. Fifty feet, twenty feet, the close Shin got the more he could feel the heat from Riser's flames. Just as they reached the ten feet marker, however, the lightning on Shin's right arm exploded violently, a screeching noise coming from the lightning. Then suddenly, just as they got five feet from each other, Shin disappeared in a flash of red lightning just like before.

The eyes of everybody in the crowd widened as suddenly, Shin was no longer in front of Riser, no. Instead, he was a foot, maybe two feet behind him, his arm extended out to run Riser through.

Riser's head slowly turned, his eyes wide in horror as he realized there was no way for him to dodge. He wouldn't be able to stop or alter his trajectory in time as Shin was moving at much faster speeds than he was capable of. All he could think of, was how? How did Shin get behind him? The throwing knife Shin had been using to teleport was discarded when Shin fell after kicking him into that spike.

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