Episode 106 – Willpower (2/2)

Aethernea Cloe D Frost 42220K 2022-07-20

His entire vision contained only cracks

What stood in front of hi hiht of it flashed through his mind

Yet, he remembered not when and how he had cast it

It was too fast

Faster than thought

Faster than time

Faster than reality

It was an iht in front of hi that enveloped his mind suddenly lifted All emotions that wrecked chaos inside hisonly calm behind Kiel’s mind that resembled a stormy sea suddenly turned into a still lake

What am I afraid of?

Pain? Failure? Death?

So, what if I hurt? Is there a painthan the pain of back then?

So, what if I fail? I’ll keep trying until I succeed!

So, what if I die? In this world, I can afford to die a thousand times over!

His blood seethed to the point in which the hot turned into cold It boiled not froer nor hate, it wasn’t anxiety either

It was soet Determination?

Or perhaps it was simply…

Willpower

Deora’s eyes widened in shock That speed…?! Seeing a wall of earth sprout up froe and instead took several ju at the rock douy…!

Deora suddenly had a bad feeling

There was so about this person that unsettled hied to soh his spells broke down

Or ed to morph an earth shi+eld left him unsettled?

Perhaps it was the look that flashed in his eyes a o

Or maybe it was an instinct eotten this feeling earlier, he would have picked to fight the other black and blue haired dude

Alas, noas too late for regrets

Deora’s pause allowed Kiel to go on the offensive He released a large outburst offor some kind of a spell The mana inside the dome was so dense itHis mana sense received too much interference

Deora decided he couldn’t afford to wait for Kiel’s spell to finish casting and he erupted with the last of hisKiel down

He couldn’t create a large explosion because he was too close to the epicenter, therefore he sent a few small explosive airballs that should have been powerful enough to shatter the shi+eld

And indeed, several boo small tre apart like a broken egg shell

Deora sent several fireballs towards the crack, his eyes locked onto the hole, waiting to see the result

Time seemed to slon

An impact could be heard

Yet, as the loud sound reached Deora’s ears, his head snapped around, his body twisting

For the sound wasn’t the sound of fireballs hitting Kiel

No

It was the sound of earth cracking

And it caure ju Deora’s pupils to dilate and his heart to almost leap out of his chest

Deora’stowards him, but he could tell it wasn’t an illusion

This attack was too quick, too silent, too unexpected!

A glass dagger enlarged in Deora’s vision, and he forcefully twisted his upper body to dodge the fatal blow ai for his neck

His twirl ale the fatal blow by a hair’s width

Deora hurriedly jumped back, too disturbed by the close call to even remember to curse

Kiel had intentionally filled his earth dome with mana to confuse Deora’s mana sense, so he wouldn’t be able to tell that Kiel was no longer within the do an underground tunnel towards Deora He even chose the perfect moment to launch a sneak attack, all for the sake of this all or nothing shot Even Deora’s explosions were used to cover up the tre

Unfortunately, although his attack could be said to be flawless, Deora’s reaction time was the cream of the crop Before his mind could catch up with the events, his body had already reflexively dodged the blow

Deora rubbed his back with a dark face Fury burned brightly inside his yellow eyes “Congratulations! You’ve successfully pissedup in the next episode:

Kiel’s heat isolation spell he had cast on hi It couldn’t overpower Deora’s heat field

Kiel lunged towards the egg with his fingers outstretched He could al spell was struggling hopelessly to overpower the heat field Yet it was like a little pechuh trying to escape the jaws of a lupax A futile effort

Kiel’s fingers which were twisting the ring abruptly halted His head rigidly turned back towards Deora

His eyes glazed over There were originally two fingers, but they suddenly turned into four and then six

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