Chapter 56 (1/2)

\ Before the gate is opened /

I'll have to be very careful,' Shin thought.​​

Looking Acnologia in the eye, Shin teleported in front of him to punch him in the ċhėst.

Reacting quickly, Acnologia swung her right and clawed at Shin's fist.

*BAM*

This collision created a shockwave and both were propelled a little further.

It was only a punch but I could feel the difference in power between the two of us, thankfully I have a very strong body.

Shin didn't wait a second longer, he returned to Acnologia's side to clean her up with blows to which Acnologia responded immediately.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BAM*

*BOOM*

Each blow was so fast that you couldn't even see their movement.

Each blow had so much force that the shock waves swept across the landscape.

In the sky or on the ground, the fight was going on everywhere and every terrain was suffering the consequences.

Now they were both on solid ground in the middle of a completely destroyed and burning kingdom.

Acnologia's body began to glow and in the light Shin saw that Acnologia's body shrank to a human silhouette.

In this place, a man stood and Shin recognized him because it was Acnologia's human form in the anime.

Except this time he had shorter hair down to his neck and looked younger and less mȧturė than in the anime.

He was wearing torn soft black trousers, a white t-shirt in bad shape and a long black cape.

”This form would be more suitable,” Acnologia said coldly and without emotion behind her words.

”Mmph, a weapon won't help you, Celestial Phoenix” Acnologia said coldly with a bit of sarcasm.

Shin didn't answer but remained focused on Acnologia.

Acnologia took the first initiative and arrived in front of Shin in an instant.

He moved his claw-like hand towards Shin while Shin blocked with his spear.

But when the attack was blocked, Acnologia twisted and kicked Shin in the ribs.

Shin put his left arm in front of his ribs to cushion the blow.

Shin's body flew through several houses before landing hard on a stone wall.

When Acnologia tried to walk towards Shin, he felt pain in the hand he had attacked with and in his left leg.

He saw cuts there and blood spurted out.

”You may be more skilled in this form but your defense is more fragile without your scales to protect you” said Shin.

”!”Acnologia was surprised by this fact. It's true that so far, Shin hadn't broken through his scales except with the powerful magic attack so he was confident but he didn't think that without his scales, Shin would still be able to inflict damage like that even without scales.

”...I underestimated you... But don't overestimate yourself too much for simple cuts” Acnologia said with a deep and strong voice.

At that moment, Acnologia thought about using her healing magic but Shin wasn't going to give her the time.

Shin reached out his hand and threw 4 fireballs at her.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

He brandished his spear in the air and inserted his magic power into his spear.

”!!” Acnologia wanted to dodge but found himself unable to move.

As he watched, he saw Shin's unoccupied left hand with a ball of black magic in the centre of his palm pointing to the ground and as he looked down, he saw that his shadow was frozen.

Shin had completely blocked Acnologia's shadow with dark magic to immobilize it.

”Tch” A bead of sweat appeared on Acnologia's forehead as he raised his head to face the spear.

He waved his hand at the spear as a ball of concentrated magical power appeared in his palm.

*BOOM*

The ball of magic power and the spear collided and the magic power burst out in all directions.

”Mmph, you thought you could get me with tricks like this, Phoenix Celeste?” declared Acnologia arrogantly and sarcastically.

To Acnologia's surprise, Shin responded with a smile, a voice of little concern and also a bit of sarcasm.

Suddenly, Acnologia saw from the corner of his eye a strong light shining.

Looking down, he saw that he was no longer immobilized by his shadow, but instead of a ball of black magic, he saw a ball of pure white magic flickering with a blinding light.

Shin had taken advantage of the fact that Acnologia was busy and focused on his spear to stop his dark magic and use his light magic instead.

However, this change happened in just a few seconds and Acnologia had not had time to notice or react.

The ball of light fired a beam of light at incredible speed.

As the beam of light came towards Acnologia, intentionally or by chance, due to the fact that he was no longer immobilized, he lost his balance a little and was able to narrowly dodge the beam.

But he couldn't totally dodge it and the beam hit and cut all along Acnologia's torso and continued to the cloud and pierced a hole in it.

Taking advantage of his surprise and imbalance, Shin increased the strength of his spear's grip and put more force into it to corner Acnologia.

”Celestial Phoenix!!!” In a fit of rage, Acnologia planted her feet into the ground creating craters in the shape of her feet and put even more force into her arm which was against the spear.

”Aaaaaaaaaaaah!” x2

The two screamed with force, the ground around them sinking under the pressure as their strength increased further.

With a bang, Shin's spear cut through the concentrated ball of magic power as Acnologia's arm continued to be pushed forward.

The spear released a terrifying slash of magical power as it continued to cut through the ground beneath it.

Both were motionless, one with the spear tip against the ground and the other with the arm brandished towards the ground.

”......”

Then out of nowhere, a deep, filthy scratch mark appeared on Shin's torso and blood began to spurt from the wound.

While for Acnologia, the beam of light that had hit his skin cut through his entire torso, leaving blood smeared across his torso, as well as burns all around.

Furthermore, on her arm that had gone against Shin's spear, countless cuts also appeared and bled.

”Ah-” Shin ġrȯȧnėd as he spat out blood and his spear disappeared from his hands.

Acnologia had blood flowing from his mouth but less as he had more wounds however it was less than Shin's.

The clean cut on Acnologia's torso was painful and burned to death but Shin's wound was much deeper and the blood that flowed from it was abundant.

'It hurts!...A wound like this is too big, almost lethal, and I'm losing too much blood. If the fight continues, I won't be able to concentrate on healing. But I would have to finish the fight right away and in this case, I have no other choice...'

[Warning, the master's vitality is low, you must heal yourself!]

”'Ahahahahahahahah!!! This is the first time I've been hurt and hurt! I congratulate you but you are wasting my time!!!” Acnologia laughed grimly but said the last sentence angrily.

Acnologia's body glowed and expanded as he transformed into his dragon form and flew into the sky.

In his dragon form, the wounds were still all visible but adapted to the size of the dragon.

Anticipating that Acnologia would attack, Shin reached out with his right arm towards Acnologia while wincing in pain and fired another ball of light towards Acnologia but this time it was much more focused.

Acnologia was disturbed by this small ball of light because, unlike the other one, it did not form a beam, but he remained on his guard.

When the ball arrived at high speed several meters away from Acnologia, it stopped and then burst into a great dazzling light.

”Aah” Acnologia was dazzled and for the little he could still see, the dense blinding light made it impossible to see down to Shin.

And after a few seconds, the light dimmed.

But through it, green flames erupted and a scream was heard.

”CROAAAAR!”

A Phoenix emerged from the light as it charged straight towards Acnologia.

”ROARRRR!”

Taken by surprise, Acnologia roared as he collided with the Phoenix.

The two struggled but Acnologia swung his jaw and bit the Phoenix's neck.

A sound of satisfaction and arrogance could be heard from Acnologia only there was a problem...

Nothing was coming out of the wound, no blood.

Furthermore, as he looked, he couldn't see the scratch on his ċhėst either, and despite Shin's incredible regenerative abilities, he knew he couldn't have healed this near fatal wound so easily.

As he thought about this, the Phoenix began to fade into the air.

At that moment, Acnologia realized that he had been tricked!

When he went to look for Shin, he suddenly felt a huge burst of magical power!

Turning around, he saw Shin flying with his wings on his back.

'Thank you Irene' thought Shin because it was Irene who had taught him the enchantment to make a clone.

”This is the end Celestial Phoenix! Your wound is overwhelming you and you are weak! Just standing before me right now must make you feel unbearable pain! Give up and die!”