13 Didn’t You Study This at School? (1/2)

Pasha was extremely annoyed by the unreasonable Oni in front of her. She had stayed her hands the whole time and try not to hurt the Oni too badly.

However, the foolish Oni kept on egging her into action. The cannon-like bombardment was her last straw.

Although she was not hurt, the shield energy from the specialized cape nearly depleted to its lowest level. Just a little bit more and it would've ruin her new cape.

The cape came with a set of epaulets; they were the most recent upgrade for the customized Recombinant-mobile suit. However, it was still under beta testing with issues on control. It was a newly developed technology by Celine (who else?).

Celine, with the help of that geeky Roland, managed to merge the soul of a rare mutated intelligent demonic beast into the epaulets, giving them sentience. In turn, the epaulets were the ones emitting the cape-like shield behind her back. They will work synergistically together by automatically deflecting incoming projectiles undetected by the user from all angles.

It was a novel invention. His Highness kept muttering ”not Jarvis enough, a bit more, a bit more” with a crazed look in his eyes before. Whatever that means. Pasha was already immune to Celine's and Roland's intermittent insanity when it comes to inventions.

However, this invention has a major defect. As long as the bombardment continued, Pasha was helpless as she could not dictate the sentient epaulets to stop protecting her. As long as she was alert, she could've evade or deflect any incoming projectiles. Celine had repeatedly asked her to take a great care for it before she embarked on her own mission.

The disc embedded with magic stones on her left gauntlet rotated as Pasha willed it. The gray magic stone was locked on a port before Pasha's accumulated magic energy flowed in. It reacted with the stone and powered her armor.

Pasha instantly slipped into a gray world full of lines as she prepared to teach the Oni a lesson he will never forget.

...

As she walked within the gray world similar to Nightingale's, Pasha demonstrated a movement akin to teleportation from Aruthos' perspective.

With a deviation of only 0.1 second, she reappeared behind the Oni.

She clasped both of her hands together and bashed it on his back with half of her strength. The large Oni was forced to bend down from the hit!

Pasha slipped back into the mist and reappeared in front of Aruthos in a flash with a mighty knee attack on his abdomen. Aruthos vomited blood while he was lifted to the air from the force.

However, Aruthos' poor ordeal was far from over!

The irritated elder witch appeared behind his back and launched another double fisted bash to his spine!

He could almost feel his spine cracked from the impact as he was plunged deep into the earth, creating a deep crater. The crater was tens of meter in diameter with dust flying around, preventing Pasha vision.

Deep inside the earth, Aruthos deeply regretted his decision to find fault with this crazy witch.He knew now he was not going to defeat her using normal methods. He needed to wager with his life to get the smallest chance to defeat her. Gritting his teeth, he resolved his heart and painfully reached out his necklace which contains a white pearly pill. He popped the pill inside his mouth and channeled his qi to spread the medicine as fast as possible.

Aruthos then bit the tip of his tongue to produce his life essence with the help of the essence-extracting pill.

By burning the life essence, he could increase his power by three-fold although it will reduce his lifespan. Aruthos particularly consumed 100 years' worth of lifespan for his attack. His injuries rapidly healed while his long black hair was gradually striped with white ones. His eyes turned red with a tinge of craziness.

He was going to bet it all with this final attack.

....

Pasha was slightly surprised when she saw the hardheaded Oni fly out of the deep crater with his injuries looked almost healed. Her eyes showed signs of praise. Her attack just now was enough to level two mountains stacked together. Others would've instantly perished.

[This little Oni is quite tough.] She praised in her heart.

[Let's see what else he can show me.]