Chapter LI - Blue Flaming Monster (part 2)

"Hoo? Interesting... very interesting!!"

His smile is getting worse and worse. He is getting very hyped up by my taunt, and I can tell it can only mean negatively. 

He struck his sword to the ground and lifted both of his arms with his palms facing upwards. Then with a single flick, his whole arm is covered in big ropes of blue flames.

VWOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this... is the King tier fire magic. The brilliant blue fire, a fire so hot that it can melt steel from just a touch.

The bright and brilliant blue flames slowly ate his whole body, creating a whirl of blue flames. I can tell that those flames don't hurt him, but instead strengthen him. Because somehow his pressure became much stronger behind those walls of flames.

This... is crazy. That amount of flames can melt even my whole body very easily. I have to be very careful.

"Don't let me down, Rize!!!"

A single sprout of blue flame came from on top of his whirl. And the sprout grows bigger and bigger, moving towards me.

After a few seconds, I can finally study its final form.

It's a blue fire dragon.

"Woah! It's the blue dragon!"

The crowd shouted when the long blue dragon took its form while quickly approaching me.

With a single leap from my fully enhanced body, I jumped forward and dodged to the left. Using my swords, I spun my entire body and clawed the hell out of the blue dragon's right body. The flaming dragon quickly dissipated as I closed the distance between me and Jonus in less than two seconds.

Just when I thought my sword was about to slice his head, a single block of flames came out from the whirl of blue flames.

No, it was his hand... What?

He blocked my sword, enchanted with Intermediate magic, with his bare hand. He pushed the sword from the blade, making me jump backwards a few meters. 

A simple push like that?

The whirl of flames slowly dissipates, showing what Jonus has been doing the past few seconds. And I can finally see clearly what is going on.

His whole body, from top to bottom, is cladded in blue fire. Covered from the bottom of his shoes, all the way to his sharp hairs.

The flames looked like they were taking a form. After a second, I can tell that the form the fire is taking is an armour, a cool looking armour formed out of blue flames.

The way his eyes are glaring, is just creepy.

He is hyped. Too hyped.

"Well, aren't you looking creepy."

He laughed when I said that, but then he looked back at me and pointed at me.

"You are too."

I touched my face with my left hand. I'm smiling... crazily.

I can't control my facial expression anymore. The teeth are showing that I am very much enjoying this just as much as he does.

This battle is... so much fun.

"Woah..."

Klane suddenly spoke out on the spectators seat, causing Fran to question.

"What? What is it, Klane?"

"For all the time I have been a receptionist to the Office, the only person that I have ever seen made Jonus this bad... was The Greatest Magician."

Both Hod and Fran were surprised by her remark. But certainly, whatever is going on, Jonus is taking Rize seriously. The two of them can't help but feel a little worry of where this is going.

Jonus slightly moved his hand downwards. The sword that was stuck to the ground was pulled by thin air, flew straight to his palms. He lifted the sword and pointed it at me while holding it with two hands.

The sword quickly got eaten and covered by blue flames. And now what was once a red bright sword, is still a red sword, but with a hint of blue flames here and there covering and strengthening it.

His immense pressure is also no less than what he was showing off before. He really is powerful.

The heat that he created made the ground around him smoke. It's not melting because he wants it that way. But the way the ground smokes, means that whatever item that touches that ground will be the one to melt.

The heat and pressure also affected the spectators. But after seeing the battle, they decided it's worth it to withstand these pain and watch.

Jonus looked at me with his biggest grin, and I glared back with my grin of addiction.

Faster than lightning, the two of us disappeared from the eyes watching.

BAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sounds of sword fights no longer sound like metals clashing, but more of a chain of explosions. The clashes that were coming from two of the most powerful people in the kingdom moved the heart of everyone who was watching.

VWOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The force of the clash this time was even more powerful. It managed to push the spectators even further.

""Hyaaaahhh!!!!!--""

Valey and Cony are screaming, while Hod used his ice magic to create a magic energy cover around him and Fran who was covering Klane with her body.

The clash got even more intense as we got closer to the walls.

BAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He really is fast. The flames on his body didn't just make him faster. It also made it harder for me to focus due to the heat.

But... this is fun.

I was on the defensive previously, but now, I'm slowly going on the offense. Using my two swords as an advantage, I gained more hit chances at him than he had over me. He had to dodge while all I simply had to do was defend and attack.

After a while, I was able to make him turn all his attacks into defence. And now he is defending and dodging.

"Tch!! Haha!!"

Jonus laughed as he realized the tide has completely changed, and I have fully adapted to his fighting style. However, it was never that easy.

The blue dragon-like flames are still wild. A single touch from it can easily melt my skin away, and it's so annoying forcing myself to be so utterly safe like this.

Slowly... very slowly, but surely, I pushed him to the corner of the arena so that he couldn't move around well. However, I did not realize he could use the wall to his advantage.

BLAARRRR!!!!!!!! 

He sliced the wall with his arm of flames, dropping the wall on me. I simply leaped out of the way when the wall dropped and created a smokescreen.

Nice try, but I'm also good with smoke screens.

I closed my eyes and focused my senses. I can feel the heat coming from the left. Approaching very fast!

I quickly lifted both of my swords and guarded his attack. But, he had enough momentum to push me over, and I was thrown meters away from the smoke.

Just when I finally had a stand on the ground, he came out of the smoke. Instead of his whole body, he focused the flames on his arms and legs only. And now, his moves are getting even hellishly faster.

BAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried jumping away, but he chased faster than my speed. In the end, I couldn't run from him as he kept the pressure on me.

... I just have to fight with all I've got.

Using a ton of magic energy, I conjured a flaming burst on my orcish sword and struck his defence. The burst of flame appeared like an explosion, and I swung the gigantic red fire to him.

"!?!"

BAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The swing made of a gigantic red fire caught Jonus off guard, and he quickly used his own blue flames to protect himself. However, the impact of the explosion was more than enough to push him away. 

Jonus got thrown away tens of meters from me, and it seems like that impact just now affected the both of us.

We both finally had some distance, so we took a temporary breather. Neither of our faces is letting on. And yet, neither of us had shown our full strength.

He simply stood straight and lowered his sword, and I realized he wanted to do something new.

"This is fun and all, Rize..."

He covered his face with his hand. And all of the sudden, a blue flame conjured in his face, covering his entire face like a mask.

"But sadly... I will go all out from now on."

The force of explosions suddenly comes from around him, throwing everyone in the arena into a tantrum. Cracks on the walls can be seen getting bigger and bigger. This arena will not hold for long.

The whirl of blue flames around him gets even larger this time. I can feel he is doing something incredible under those waves of blue flames.

The whirl finally clears. And just like that, his blue armour is gone. No, it was replaced and upgraded. 

And what was once an armour, is now his entire body.

He had completely become... a blue flaming monster.