32 Chapter 32: Strategies

Our attacks were effective against the lizard. But it's still not enough to reach the regeneration threshold of its Infinite Regeneration. We've been fighting the lizard for minutes and trying any type of attack on it.

"Sword Wave!"

"Electrocution!"

I slashed my flaming sword and released a fast and sharp wave of blue flame towards the approaching Indestructible Lizard. After being cleaved from snout to tail, the lizard was toasted by my sister's Level 5 Lightning Magic spell.

The two halves linked together and merged. The burned skin restored to its gray hue, and the lizard continued its charge toward me. I levitated myself fifty feet above where I was standing and cast a Level 8 Earth Magic spell below it.

"Rupture!"

The earth below the lizard's track shook and cracked. The ground split in half, and one of the limbs of the lizard fell into the crack. The fissure opened wider and longer until it reached a width of ten meters at the center.

The lizard held on to the edge, but the earth immediately crumbled due to its weight. With nothing to hold on to, the lizard fell off until it was sandwiched between the narrowed depth of twenty meters.

"Gravity Field."

Using a Level 5 Force Magic spell, I increased the gravitational pull of the rupture's area by tenfold. The lizard sensed the sudden increase in its weight. It tried to resist the pull, but it pinned its body even deeper inside the fissure.

"Your turn, Sis!"

"Level 8 Lightning Strike!"

Sister raised its dazzling katana to the cloudless blue sky. A large golden magic circle suddenly appeared a kilometer above the ground. A second later, a lightning bolt flashed from the magic circle at the speed of light.

With her Blue Lightning still activated, the lightning released had a bluish-white hue and struck directly at the pinned lizard.

"Okay."

With a clap of my hands, the two plates converged in a slow manner. The fallen trees inside the rupture make a snapping sound as the earth collides. The lizard didn't move an inch as it let the earth crush its scorched body.

"Soil Compaction. Soil Reinforcement."

After the rupture had closed, I cast two Level 2 Earth Magic spells to the ground. The earth's level above the closed rupture lowered by a few inches. Then the earth hardened and changed its hue to dark terracotta. With that, the lizard has been buried twenty meters below.

"This will buy us some time. Let's make a plan while we restoring our mana and stamina."

"Do you have a plan?"

"I have several… but I am not certain of its effectiveness…"

"We won't find out unless we try it."

"Yeah, you're right. I want to try something, so here's my plan…"

"Hmm… Uh huh…"

I whispered my plans into my sister's ears. I explained to her each of the plans and their detailed execution. We devised strategies on how to defeat the lizard in all the ways we knew how.

"It's about to surface."

We discussed the plans for a few minutes, and the hardened earth drew lines. With a thunderous noise, the lizard finally resurfaced and fell headfirst to the ground violently.

With its claws on the brick-like soil, the lizard raised its massive, cursed body slowly to the ground. Making a perfect subterranean entrance.

"Are you ready, Sis?"

"Of course, Raphael. I am always ready."

"Then, execute Plan A."

"Blue Lightning!"

Sister clad herself with flickering lightning of a bluish-white hue once again. She lunged herself towards the lizard, surpassing the speed of sound, wielding a blue blade in her right hand.

"Folded Slash."

Sister used a Level 6 Sword technique and slashed her katana seven times in a second. She sliced off each of its limbs, severed its tail, cleaved its waist, and decapitated its head. Sister parried each part after slicing and scattered it in several different directions.

"Ice Coffin."

After the sliced lizard parts bounced off the ground, I immediately cast a Level 7 Water Magic before the parts merged. The chopped parts instantly turned frigid and turned into a solid ice cube.

"Now then, Inventory."

I tried to store the ice cubes in my Inventory but it didn't work. I didn't have to think deeply about how it rendered itself useless and came up with a single conclusion.

"Even the severed part is alive?"

Then, the ice cubes began to smoke. The interior of the cubes began to melt, and the severed parts started to move. The water inside the ice boiled, and the ice made a cracking sound.

(It's colder than liquid nitrogen, you know?)

The ice shattered like a glass, and the contents poured out of it. The Indestructible Lizard's Extra Skill: Cursed Body melted the ice. With the assistance of Acid Magic, it hastened the melting speed of the solid ice.

After escaping from the freezing prison, six chopped parts flew at high speed to the torso, the biggest chunk. The severed parts connect with the torso in unison, and a brand new lizard manifests.

"It's going offensive now."

Being completely restored once more, the lizard channeled a huge amount of mana throughout its entire body. Black fog was excreted from its body, and the nearby plants and trees withered upon coming into contact with it.

"Stay away from it, Sis! It's Level 6 Dark Magic: Life Absorption."

"You save me there, Raphael." Sister leaped toward me after hearing my warning.

Some Dark Magic spells were prohibited from practice and branded as forbidden magic. Those spells were restricted due to their effects on the victim and the user himself. One of those was the Life Absorption.

It is a spell that unconditionally absorbs the life force of the living things nearby to grant the user great sustainability. Even if a person had a resistance to magic, it still inflicted little damage unless the person had an Elemental Magic Nullification, like Mom.

"It looks like we need to fight from range until we drain its mana."

"Let's do. Give me a weapon, Raphael. I want to conserve my mana." she ordered as she sheathed her katana.

"Here." I withdraw an ebony longbow and a quiver loaded with twenty-four arrows of the same ebony material.

The bow and the shaft were made out of Black Treant's wood, a string of Vermin Kaiser's metallic thread, a quiver of Ram Bull's black leather, arrowheads of obsidian, and plumes of Thunderbird. In other words, the whole set was as black as her hair.

She took an arrow and pulled the black string. She endowed the shaft with a little lightning and the arrowhead with wind. Aiming at the ominous lizard, she released the string.

The durability and flexibility of the bow made the black arrow fly above sonic speed. The magic endowed helps the arrow spin faster and inflict burns and paralysis.

The obsidian effortlessly penetrated the lizard's head and popped like a watermelon. She repeated the process three more times in just a second, aiming the chest and front limbs.

"Okay, Plan B! Sacred Light! Water Prison!"

After Sister damaged its fronts, still regenerating, I cast a Level 9 Light Magic on myself. It's a spell that imbues my next magic spells with Light Attribute. Using the Level 3 Water Prison, I trapped the lizard by containing it inside a huge sphere of water.

"Gwuuppp!"

The fully restored lizard was gurgling inside the water, not from drowning; it had an invalidation from suffocation anyway. The lizard is struggling because of the attribute in the water, the Light.

The holy water continually damages its Cursed Body, making the water polluted but gradually getting purified by the water. The ominous aura of the Life Absorption dissipated after the water blocked its source.

Struggling inside the holy water, the lizard released a greenish liquid from its mouth. The liquid then spread throughout the water until it had a green tint. The lizard poured a large amount of mana, and the water started to boil. And I knew what magic it is.

"Acid Burst incoming! Take cover!" We immediately hid ourselves behind the nearby tree.

As if reaching its limit, the huge ball of acid, my former Holy Water Prison, exploded like a water balloon. Tens of thousands of rays of scalding acid were scattered in all directions.

The blast reached for hundreds of meters. After the initial explosion, a rain of acid precipitated and bathed the area with its corrosive droplets. All the flora in the area smoked and slowly withered upon catching the needle-like rays of acid.

"Seems like Plan B doesn't work. At least we managed to cancel its Life Absorption. Are you ready to execute Plan C, Sis?" I asked leaning my back against a wide tree trunk.

"I am not sure if I can do it now. But I will give my all." She clenched her right fist, still had a bow in her left.

"That's my sister for you; I know you can do it. Not only are you her best student, but you are her daughter before all."

"That's motivate me. Now I can feel that I will be able to do it."

Following the shower of acidic drops, we showed ourselves to the lizard. The lizard is just standing over there and preparing its next attack.

"Are you ready, Sis?"

"I have prepared myself, Raphael."

"Then, let's execute Plan C, the Double Purple."