Special Chapter VIII - Monsters (part 2)

Meanwhile, in the battlefield, Arfius is fifty feet away from me, while the blast radius is nearly thirty meters. I slowly flew towards him with my flame enhanced shadow wings, all while leaning the scythe on my shoulder.

"You can't put up any defense, Arfius?"

I joked, which made him even more pissed.

"Are you trying to kill me!? Not against those!!!"

"I see... Well, I still got plenty more of those..."

I lifted my left hand and conjured five more firebombs effortlessly. Arfius glared at me with a confused and shocked expression, as if asking me.

"S-Seriously??"

"Yes... Very serious."

Man, with this King tier fire magic, I don't even have to use the partial devil transformation to toy with Arfius. I can just make a ton of firebombs to toy around.

"D-Don't be ridiculous! I'm sure you have an even more powerful attack!"

"Yes, I do. But if you can't handle these, how can you handle that?"

"Tch! Bring it!!!"

Arfius finally gathered his pride back and lifted his sword again. This time he is serious on fighting, and not merely testing out each other's powers.

I pointed the firebombs at him and shot away. Five firebombs quickly flew towards Arfius, who is augmenting his entire lightning magic and magic energy into his legs.

The first firebomb touched the ground next to him, and he turned into a blur immediately.

BAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

A ten meters blast occurred, and Arfius somehow teleported to the side, out of the explosion radius.

BLAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The other balls are also coming in contact with the ground and exploding, but Arfius is using his fastest mode right now. Dodging these large explosions is a hassle, but he can do it.

By the time the final blast occurred, he was already five meters away from me. 

He swung his powerful ice sword at me, and I quickly blocked it with my scythe.

ZRIINNGGG!!!

Out of the ground, a mountain of ice reached upwards and smacked me from the bottom. It does feel quite painful down at my butt cheeks, but it will only become more painful if I don't move.

PRAANGGGG!!!!

With a single punch, I destroyed the ice mountain into pieces. Arfius didn't care, and he summoned ten super tall ice pillars at me, but I simply flew around and destroyed them all.

While I was busy destroying the pillars, Arfius is piling up his energy and forming a single large attack. 

A tri-magic attack only he can come up with. By merging the lightning storm, wind vortex, and the ice blizzard, the magic will grab your opponent into the tornado, freezing them into ice, and finally striking them with a ton of lightning strikes to destroy them like glass.

A storm vortex blizzard… Arfius's deadliest technique.

He never planned to use it against anyone in a sparring match. But to think he is being pushed this far from a simple spar that merely began around three minutes ago...

He will have to use everything he got.

The final pillar has been destroyed, and I turned my gaze at Arfius again. 

VWOOMM!!!!

What the hell is that kid brewing?

In his hand is a simple glass ball filled with snow floating inside it. I couldn't see it very well, but the snow is spinning insanely fast.

Arfius then threw the ball upwards like throwing a coin up, and the ball went up in the air. It looks like the ball doesn't follow the rules of gravity, and it just floats all the way up.

The ball kept on going until around twenty meters above the ground, then it exploded into a giant tornado.

VWOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"W-What the hell!?"

Flying was a bad idea when fighting a tornado. My flight quickly lost control as my body was being pulled by the powerful force of the tornado that just appeared almost instantly not far from Arfius's position.

The tornado doesn't seem to be affecting the spectators, which confuses Arfius because he thought this thing is powerful enough to not get blocked by any barriers.

Whatever. He just needs to defeat his opponent.

I kept on getting closer and closer to the tornado blizzard, but my wings just won't answer me. As a result, I got pulled to the tornado without giving much of a fight.

The wind of the tornado is freezing. My whole body slowly got cladded in ice, but I quickly heated up the flames augmented on my body and the ice got removed immediately.

Looks like this isn't a normal tornado after all…

I glared upwards and cursed myself for thinking this is even close to a simple normal tornado.

The top of the tornado is a large lump of dark clouds with thunderous roars coming out of it as sparks of blue lightning stroke certain parts of the tornado. I immediately knew what was happening as those thunder strikes slowly got closer to me.

Outside, Arfius is closing his eyes so that he can control the tornado. His mind and imagination was fully moved and focused towards the center of the tornado, giving him a full view of everything that is happening inside the gigantic tornado.

His body isn't affected by the tornado at all, despite being not too far from it. So, he was able to focus.

"Right… there..."

He pointed his finger to the ground, but in reality, that finger gesture was merely his imagination.

Just as he mutters those words, a gigantic lightning strike came out from the middle of the dark clouds, straight towards me.

I had no way to dodge so I quickly formed a shadow shield all around my body, resembling a black egg from the outside.

This is gonna be painful...

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

The thunder struck the egg and even cracked through and zapped me.

The explosion from the lightning strike threw me out of the powerful wind force of the tornado, and I crashed into the walls faster than the lightning itself.

BAARRR!!!!

Seeing the wall smoking from the crash, the crowd became wildly confused.

"Wo-Woah!! Is she dead!?"

"H-Hey! That lightning was large!! Are you sure she is okay??"

"Dude, that's overkill!!"

The spectators turned insane as they worried for my well being.

The tornado disappears, but the storm is still there above Arfius' head. Seeing how he had used so much magic energy, Arfius is sweating heavily. But, he can still use that large lightning attack one more time.

Because he already knew a single gigantic lightning strike wasn't going to kill me.

He just hopes it was enough to take me down.

The crater on the wall is smoking heavily, but it slowly became visible and showing what is behind it.

When the smoke disappeared, I stepped out of the crater. Everyone quickly realized something was wrong with me. Because my pressure is thinning the air very heavily.

I glared at my left arm. The large burn mark from the lightning strike is healing itself and then being covered by the black shadow scales. The spikes on my hand also got bigger and the sharp edges on my finger became lit with blue flames.

Yeah... 

I have activated my partial devil transformation.