Chapter 194: Push and Pull (2/2)

Seeing that, Mo Na immediately withdrew her whip and flapped her tiny wings hard to make a swift dodge to the right. The telltale sizzle of the ball rushed past her ears an instant later, its fiery energies not even coming close to its target. Knowing that she had easily evaded the ball, she leaned forward and shot off like an rocket towards the fire elemental.

From a distance away, the fire elemental clearly saw the speeding silhouette careen straight towards him but chose to do nothing about it, even when he saw her draw what looked like a tiny dagger from her waist right at the very last second. Faced with a potential dagger through his heart, he merely stood there arms folded and blurry lips curved into a smirk; his figure, a picture of absolute confidence.

The dagger plunged into the belly of the fire elemental, and to our surprise, it passed right through the elemental as if it was some sort of ethereal apparition. Mo Na’s body lurched forward from the unexpected lack of resistance, falling right through the fire elemental along with her dagger. An instant later, her robes burst into flames but that wasn’t enough to startle the calm girl. She promptly gave her robes a sharp wiggle, and sent the flames flying away in a tiny wave that dispersed into the air soon after.

Seeing that, the fire elemental didn’t seem the least bit fazed by the ease at which she dispelled his skill, instead he gave an uproarious laugh of arrogance: “Hahaha, we fire elementals are born favored by the flames themselves, even though you devils might have some pitiful semblance of fire resistance as well, don’t think for a second that you are our match.”

Like the haughty elemental said, for the devils to hurt them or fight them was no easy task at all. Fire elementals were creatures born of the elements and could be categorized under the broad category of Elementals. There were two broad types of elementals in this world, one corporeal and one incorporeal.

Corporeal elementals were elementals who belonged to the earth element, magma element, ice element, etc. Their non-corporeal counterparts include those of the water element, the fire element, the wind element, the thunder element, etc. The difference between the two were obvious, those of the corporeal branch had a fixed body of sorts while those of the incorporeal branch couldn’t be interacted with physically as they had no fixed form.

Another difference, and arguably the biggest one, was that incorporeal elementals had the nasty trait of being able to remain permanently ethereal. Unlike undead apparitions however, their ethereal trait did not come with the side effect of receiving double damage from magical attacks. Notable, illusion demons also possess such a trait. For such creatures, they were able to remain immune to normal physical attacks while not receiving much drawbacks.

Long story short, the reason why Mo Na passed through the elemental like that was because it was in a permanent ethereal state.

However, that haughty fire elemental soon discovered that his gloating was a little premature as the seconds ticked by and the wound in his belly refused to heal up. Even more frightening was that his energy was draining out of that wound at a terrifying pace!

“You…what did you do to me?!”

The fire elemental turned towards the smiling little girl, face aghast. Never did it ever cross his mind that there would actually be a weapon that could harm it like that. Such an unhealing wound could basically be counted as a mortal wound for these elementals since their bodies would start to lose their form after a certain level of energy was lost. Should that ever happen, death was the most likely outcome.

“Hah, scared aren’t ya!?” Came Mo Na’s lovely sounding but disdainful scoff, her dagger waving about in triumph. “Try guessing what this thing is made of, why don’t you?”

The fire elemental was stumped but he dearly wanted to know the answer so he asked, eyes unblinking: “What is it made of?”

“The teeth of the Fire Devouring Fish, of course, you dumbo.” Having said that, Mo Na stuck her tongue out at the elemental and even pulled a face at the stunned elemental.

Fire Devouring Fishes, as the name suggested, were creatures who devoured the normally formless flames.

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“Fire Devouring Fish…” If elementals were able to sweat, I bet that elemental would’ve been sweating buckets by now.

It was then that those behind ran up to the haughty elemental to check on his condition. In the meantime, I hurriedly beckoned for Mo Na to return quickly. She obediently flew over as ordered and stood there as if this entire scene had nothing to do with her.

“Get behind me, quick.” I dragged her behind me immediately and reached for Shadowfang with my right hand. “Once we start fighting, I want you to be careful. We’ll do our best to make a break for it in one direction.”

“Mama, Mo Na can protect you!”

“Quiet, this is a matter between adults, kids shouldn’t meddle so recklessly.”

“Hmph, Mama’s a meanie.” She didn’t seem to take too well to my chiding and promptly snubbed me with a turn of her head. “Even though Mo Na is actually stronger than Mama.”

“…” I glared at the girl, telling her with my furious eyes to be quiet or be spanked for making me lose face in front of my enemies.

“Hmph, all Mama ever does is bully Mo Na.”

“Stop being so willful, now’s not the time.” I ruffled her hair to placate her. “Don’t worry, Papa will protect you.”