Chapter 103 - Aurus vs. Herellia (1/2)
”What the heck is going on?!” Although he had a lot of questions he wanted to ask Herellia at this instant, he knew what he had to do at this moment.
Survive, and calm Herellia down.
As dust was scattered thanks to collision of Herellia's blood red tendril and his darkflame barrier, Aurus was able to easily distance himself from Herellia, activating [Zenith Spirit Transcendence], which he could not activate earlier due to suddenness of her attack.
Just as Aurus was about to locate Herellia's current position, his decision was cut short as he sensed Herellia's blood red tendril moving in a sweeping manner as it got close to his body.
”[Supreme Sanguine Art: Reap].”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
As usual, due to Herellia's superior movement speed, Aurus was not easily able to path out the trajectory of the tendril, only relying on his tempered instincts and reflexes to dodge both. Fortunately, even though the tendril could reach out to whatever height Aurus was hovering at, Aurus would always fly higher before the tendril could reach him.
Currently, Aurus was now around 15 meters above the ground, only 10 more meters remained between him and the ceiling of the hall. He looked at Herellia for a bit and heard the click of a nonexistent tongue from her as she started to hover off the ground as well. Not long after, the extremely big blood red tendril that she used to attack Aurus was now split into 5 smaller and thinner blood red tendrils, but their length was still the same.
Using this time of respite to catch his breath through photosynthesis, Aurus then commanded Staff No. 2, his current weapon, to come out as he wanted to even out the playing field a little bit.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
But before he could truly summon out Staff No. 2, Herellia took the initiative to attack, commanding the 5 tendrils to spiral into one large tendril, as if the attack looked like a large red drill aiming at Aurus.
”[Supreme Sanguine Art: Pierce].”
”[Barrier of the Spiritas: Maximum Defense]!”
Whoosh!
Bang!
This time, although Aurus was not able to infuse darkflame into his barrier, the collision between the tendrils and the barrier did not destroy his barrier in one shot, but rather dimming the light of the barrier by a little bit, making him think that choosing this skill was truly worth it.
While Herellia was retrieving her tendrils, Aurus took this time to command the system through the Battle module.
”System, formulate a plan that will incapacitate Herellia to the extent that she can't attack back.”
Ding!
Not long after, a small screen on the left side of his field of vision appeared, giving Aurus the skills he needs to use to do just that.
”[Spirit Sword of Seven Hells]!”
Whoosh!
In an instant, Aurus conjured a blade from the Anima making up his body, infusing with SP not long after as it radiated a pure white glow.
”[Darkflame Manipulation]!”
Swish! Swish! Swish!
This pure white glow was then accompanied by multiple embers of darkflame that wrapped around the blade, giving the blade Aurus created a holy yet demonic type of feel.
Then again, who would care about a fight between two Inanimates?
Feeling the powerful aura radiating from the blade, Herellia could not help but intensify the aura radiating from her body as the 5 tendrils split up into 25 thinner tendrils. Without hesitation, she shot those 25 tendrils towards where Aurus was in a flower formation.
”[Supreme Sanguine Art: Bloom].”
”Take this! [Darkflame Sword of Pride]!”
Whoosh!
As the blade and the tendrils got closer to one another, their auras started to emanate from the surroundings. At first, the two of them were neck and neck in terms of intensity, but not long after, some of the tendrils making up the flower formation started to shrivel up, letting Aurus know that his conjured blade was stronger than the tendrils.
More and more of the tendrils started to shrivel up, only leaving a single one behind as the blade zoomed towards Herellia, slashing horizontally on her body, breaking the circuit of her blood red engravings as she was flung towards the walls of the hall with a bang.
Bang!
Due to the power stored inside the blade, Herellia was not only flung into the wall, she also made a decent dent into it, around 5 centimeters or so.
Looking at the screen on his left side and seeing that there were no more moves for him to do, Aurus let out a light sigh as he came closer to Herellia.
Rumble…Rumble…
Of course, Herellia thought that it was not over, trying to budge her way out of the wall as she wanted to attack Aurus once more.
”Must…protect…alliance…” Herellia muttered softly as she mustered all the strength she could at this moment, wanting to attack one more time.
”Herellia…” As for Aurus, he was just a few meters away from where Herellia was at. He tried to call out to her, but it seemed that she was still adamant on fighting against him, ignoring his call. He then infused some of his SP into voice before shouting once more, ”Herellia! Snap out of it!”