Chapter 176 - Meeting The Master (1/2)

(Jane's PoV)

As soon as he used his true form, the rotten and disgusting smell as a result of his evil deeds all these years permeated through the air. It was so disgusting that I really wanted to throw up right away. However, I held my ground and willed myself hard. I had been training hard under Siji's hellish training to overcome this kind of distraction during a fight. Smell, pain, and vision illusion were something I needed to guard against.

It was a good thing that those men were not affected with the smell, but Tom and Sanji were the exceptions. Sanji, who was resting a bit far away from us, had started to empty his stomach. The sight of him retching made me feel sorry for him. Tom was no better than him. He distanced himself from the monster and puked.

I gave Siji a look and he nodded. Both Tom and Sanji would have a hell of training to ignore this kind of things later. Heh, just the thought of the two of them being tortured like me lifted up my mood. Hah, finally I wouldn't be the one who experienced that hell!

Since my mood was getting better, I spent no time to finish the monster in front of me. Waving my right hand, my spiritual power rushed forward like clamps and attached themselves around the monster.

”Bind.” I softly said as my opened palm closed tightly. The invisible rope connecting the clamps to me tightened up around his body.

He roared to the sky as he struggled to get free from the clamps and ropes. My eyebrows twitched in a frown when I felt the rope around my hands trembled as an effect of his powerful struggle.

”Tighter.” Siji said as he watched me struggling with the monstrous evil thing.

I exerted more force and pulled the rope tighter around his body and another roar was heard. Was it because it was my first time dealing with this kind of shadow or this shadow was just too hard to tame?

He didn't cease his struggle. As expected of a super old shadow, his power was not to be triffled with.

Instead of feeling suppressed by his imminent power, I gradually felt excited. This kind of powerful enemy appeared in front of me, did he deliver himself to be my sandbag? This kind of enemy, I was free to let out my whole power, right? Then, let's see how much he could stand it.

With this kind of mind, I poured out my power into the invisible rope. At the same time, my left hand moved and countless invisible clamps rushed towards him from all direction. My White Army Men had stepped back for a second before they rushed forward again and worked together with me. It looked like they were dancing around the big enemy, but the swords in their hands slashed towards the struggling monster.

Roar and grunts were heard continously. ”Just give up.” I said calmly.

”NO!” He stubbornly refused.

I sighed. Well, I had not finished testing my new set of martial arts, after all. Since he refused to give in, I should have just gone and tested some moves that I learned from Siji. Too bad his body was too big to fight one on one with me.

I was smirking, but based on what Siji told me after that, the lights in my eyes showed the evil design I had on the shadow.

I rushed forward, just in time when the men flew backwards and created a barrier around the monster. Five men carrying fire approached and stood in the inner side of the circle. The others stood back and guarded the perimeter as I planted all the handles of the ropes in the ground.

Fully concentrating on my task at hand, my hands moved again and all the fire flew up to the air. Those tiny little fire balls, with just one blow of breath and a simple command, lit up all the ropes in a big blue fire.

Of course, the fire was under my control. I could easily make it reached the shadow quickly, but I also could slow it down.

”Do you give in now?” I asked calmly.

”Never!”

I sighed. My fingers twitched and five lines of fire shot towards him and burned his wrists, ankles, and right middle finger. Painful groan and roar reverberated in the forest.

It didn't last long. Those five lines of fire left five burns on his body even though I only burned him for five seconds. It looked painful, but he gritted his teeth and refused to give in. This time, rows of swords came and stabbed his big body. Another howl of pain was heard.

”You should change him back into his human form before you can take a peek inside his head.” Siji reminded me.