Chapter 112 - #111 Death Tagool (2/2)

[Energy: 1070/1515]

Normally, one cost only 150 energy but I strengthen it instead of summoning another one.

*Booom!* The enormous explosion as the result of my attack and curtain of dust was everywhere making it impossible even for me to see its figure.

I heard a sharp sound and suddenly, a black beam o energy pierced through the curtain of dust, aiming straight at me.

This attack caught me off guard and I didn't dare to act surprised and instead, I let my sword suck even more of my blood since I didn't know how effective are my flames against that black beam of energy.

[Health: 530/780]

”HAA!” I shouted at top of my lungs while swinging my sword down in a vertical arc, releasing an enormous crimson slash of energy.

*Screech!*

The moment, two attacks met, my slash easily cut the beam in half and continued straight through it right at the beast.

*BANG!!!*

Despite negating its attack, the energy still exploded due to being interrupted like that but its explosion was some distance away from me and it was definitely weaker than before so I had no problem escaping its damage.

I stopped maintaining my wings and landed on the ground since I felt a sharp pain in my brain, most likely due to an abrupt loss of blood. After all, that attacked drained me of one-fourth of my health. Still, to think that it would be able to survive such an attack that drained so much of my blood. But I guess it's understandable considering its strength and also the momentum of that slash was greatly decreased by cutting through its attack.

I quickly recovered in case it would try to attack me right away but when I saw that it was also recovering, I decided to attack it while it was still resting.

I can make numerous slashes of that crimson energy just by consuming 50 points of my health but that previous attack drained everything and used it in one attack. Also, it looks like this danger beast has big resistance against fire.

I thought and slowly summoned back my wings while running towards it.

[Health: 480/780]

I once again filled my sword with my blood and started sending slashes at its limbs. Before my attacks were able to hit it, the beast was done resting and punched a few of those attacks away except for a few of them which have caused only superficial wounds but none of these attacks were meant to truly hurt it since I already expected such result.

While it was busy protecting itself, I closed in on it and appeared in the air right in front of it while sending a horizontal slash of energy aiming at its neck. In this attack, I used all the remaining blood in my sword so the power of this slash was several times bigger than previous ones.

When the beast noticed my sneak attack, it already had no time to protect itself with its hands so it opened mouth and sent a quickly gathered beam of energy that couldn't be compared to its attack before but it was still able to make my attack slightly weaker.

*BANG!*

The beam of energy once again exploded right in front of its face but it didn't as much damage as my sneak attack. The blood started pouring down from its neck but such dangerous beasts are very tenacious and the wound didn't even reach half of its entire thick neck. Still, it wasn't any superficial wound either. It was apparent that if it didn't rest and try to recover any time soon it would die after some time from the blood loss.

The blood also started pouring down from the corners of my mouth but it was just to indicate that I wasn't faring any better than my opponent and that I lost a lot of blood. Still, I had yet to use many moves and I am in no way in the same condition, I can keep on fighting without resting for days while it will die in a few hours at most.

Our destructive fight made strong wind and a lot of trees were plucked out of the ground and leaves were flying everywhere one looked at.

Anyway, it will be much harder to cut its head off now that it figured out my sneak attack. It will be much more careful and even if it's not the most intelligent species, this lesson made the beast learn it hard way.

Anyway, I am quite surprised by its defenses and raw strength. Not to mention its beam like attacks that are extremely destructive...The only thing this species lacks is the agility. It's not exactly slow but definitely not the fastest Danger Beast I have ever seen. I wonder if I could make an armor-like Teigu from its materials. The one similar to what Gai was using...

Anyway, this isn't time to think about that...

I thought and focused on the fight once again just to see it once again resting, most likely slightly stunned from the explosion and my sneak attack that aimed for its neck.

I was contemplating what kind of attack to use since my flames were almost useless against it and even if they did make a lot of damage if used with a lot of energy, it would only destroy materials. As I was about to move out to attack once again, I stopped and quickly caught flying leaf near my head, and an idea instantly struck me when I looked at the leaf in my hand.

I threw the leaf imbued with my energy towards its skin but even the tip of the leaf didn't penetrate it. The beast itself continued resting as if it didn't even felt my attack.

...As I thought, but I already expected as much. I just wanted to try it out of curiosity. I am becoming stronger each second I am more and more injured so it doesn't stand much of a chance if we could be said to be equal in our peak conditions.

”Still, there are already so many spots that are no longer covered by your thick and tough skin...It would be shame if something invaded your body through those spots~” I said while my eyes widened a bit and a slightly sadistic smile appeared on my face without me even knowing about it.

[Energy: 967/1515]