Hunter and Prey

"HYDRO DOME"

The man loudly shouted, and instantly, a Water-Like liquid appeared above him which slowly took the shape of a dome.

The dome's radius was around 3 meters, and the man was in its center.

Leus was very impressed by the Skill, so he closely inspected it, of course, without stopping the rain of attacks.

'That's a defensive Skill... interesting, I've never seen anything like that before'

The dome surrounded the man from all directions, leaving no gap for attacks, and the liquid was rapidly spinning clockwise.

'Fascinating!!! ... The dome is nullifying my attacks'

As soon as Leus' Lasers would pass through the dome, they would disappear, and depending on the speed of the Daggers, they would either completely change direction or slow down a lot.

Leus decided to try all sorts of attacks on the dome

'Looks like he can't attack me while he is inside his dome ...'

'It's a defensive-only Skill'

Leus started by throwing Fireballs

'As soon as the fireballs hit the dome, they evaporate'

Icicles, Spears, and Daggers, all reacted in the same way. Either breaking, changing direction, or slowing down.

In all cases, the attack would lose a lot of its power that even if it passed through the dome in one piece it'd be too weak to deal any damage to the man.

Wind-based attacks like Grim Storm don't pass through the liquid, Instead, they revolve around the dome in the liquid's direction.

Darkness attacks like Plague Arrows were too weak to penetrate the liquid, so they just melted in it, when that happens, the liquid became darker, but that's it.

Leus enjoyed trying new things

'Man, this is such a cool Skill!'

'Fire-based attacks evaporate into nothingness, Earth and Ice get weakened, thus almost nullified, Wind-Based attacks don't even pass it, Darkness works somewhat like Wind, so they're useless as well.'

Leus wanted to try more attacks, Like Hydraulic, but when he was about to begin his experiments he heard a loud voice calling him from behind, on the edge of his Blizzard

"BOSS! BOSS!"

He looked back in confusion, only to see one of the red-haired guys who were escorting him shivering from the coldness and waving frantically at him

"BOSS! Come out of this! We can't come in! BOSS! BO-"

Leus inwardly facepalmed then shouted loudly

"GET OUT OF THE BLIZZARD AND WAIT FOR ME"

He quickly looked at the man again who was still in his dome and sighed

'Sadly, it's time to end this'

Leus used the Abstract of Hardening, covered his entire body with very hard and sturdy stone-like materials, and slowly approached the Dome.

The man looked at him in amusement

'Is he trying to suicide?'

Normally, The Dome is impenetrable.

First, the liquid spins so fast that it'd cut anyone who tries to enter it.

Secondly, Leus is a Mage, entering a very confined space like this makes absolutely no sense as Leus will lose his biggest advantage, range.

Even if he can fight with the sword, being in an environment that's controlled by the enemy isn't really the smartest thing to do.

'Overconfident brat.'

Leus extended his right hand forward to check if he could enter the dome, he pushed his hand inside and quickly took it out

'Hmm'

He deeply inspected his hand

Small cracks appeared on the rocky cover, but there were no injuries

' ... Abstracts are weaker than Skills'

'Arno said that I'm on the same level as Felix, who is stronger than this man'

'So I assume that my Abstract is of equal power as his Skill.'

Leus smirked

'If I enter fast enough, I'll be fine.'

Leus took a couple of steps back then used the concept of Levitation and hovered in the air for a couple of seconds

The man looked at him in confusion

'What the hell is he doing?'

Slowly, Leus' smirk turned sinister, and he created a big Fireball and launched it at the dome.

Naturally, the fireball evaporated instantly, but it served its purpose.

A thick cloud of smoke appeared between Leus and the Dome, along with the Blizzard, they made the view out of the Dome foggy.

Thus, it Made Leus disappear from the man's view for just a couple of seconds, and that was all that Leus wanted.

In these few seconds when Leus was surrounded by the smoke, he felt that unique feeling again

'Like I belong here, around the smoke'

He felt a closeness and a strong connection to the smoke, but he didn't let these feelings cloud his judgment.

'There's no time to dwell on this.'

He activated the Abstract of Illusory.

When the smoke disappeared, multiple versions of Leus surrounded the Dome, and each of them penetrated it from a different angle.

Very quickly, the man's expression turned from confusion to shock, then from shock to terror as all the versions of Leus entered the Dome at the same time.

He had no way to tell which was real and which was fake.

'I can't see the aura of any'

And he couldn't sense anything in his Domain because Leus was using the Abstract of Concealment.

The man was surrounded by Leus and 5 illusions.

The hilt of his sword was tightly clenched in his hands, placed close to his waist, and pointed at one of Leus' versions' chest and throat.

With a horrified expression on his face, not knowing which version was real, he kept spinning in his place.

"You don't have to do this"

When Leus heard that, he wanted to laugh, but if he laughed then the voice would come out only from his real body, revealing his location, so he only smirked and raised his hand.

Each version of Leus aimed its fist at a different spot in the man's body

His head

His neck

His chest

His abdomen

His side

His back

The man instinctively protected his face with one hand and his stomach with his sword

The menacing smile didn't disappear from Leus' face.