98 Ice and Fire (1/2)

Arnin couldn't help but slightly smirk at Soothing Ash's remark. ”This is good. If you weren't at least this strong, then it would have just been boring.” After he spoke, flames began to quietly seep out his body covering him head to toe.

”You want to see how strong my flames are? Well, let me show you.” He began to crazily pull power from the Seed of Neutrality. Surprisingly, the more power he pulled, the more silent it got. It was as if the flame wasn't even there.

Soothing Ash frowned slightly as he felt his Hell flame become a little sluggish. ”Interesting.” He smiled as he began to wrap himself in flames as well. Unlike Arnin, the Hell flame he had was more of an external weapon like a sword, so he was unable to create a Seed of Fire with it as it's core. At least, he didn't know how to yet, but even then his flames weren't any weaker than those that had the Seed of Fire.

”GO!” Raising his hands, Arnin blasted fireballs towards Soothing Ash in rapid succession. The latter also began to shoot balls of Soothing Flame towards Arnin. Just like last time, Arnin's Flames of Neutrality were on the losing end, but this time it took about five fireballs to take out one ball of Soothing Flames.

'This is still not good enough. Since my flames can't outmatchhis flames in a battle of power, what about when it comes to killing the other?' Arnin could already control the shape of his flames at will.

Arnin began to change the shape of the flames from balls into small needles and large spears. The needles were meant to attack Soothing Ash, while the spears were to pierce the Soothing Flame balls in one spot, splitting them apart.

Of course, Arnin was simply guessing that it would work. There was a chance that even as spears, the Flames of Neutrality would be unable to match the others flames.

Seeing spears in Arnin's hands, Soothing Ash couldn't help but frown. 'Seems like he is able to change the shape of his flames at will. This might be tricky.' He already knew that Arnin could change direction of his flames as he saw in the fight against Sword Hero, but changing form was much harder.

One needed to be in full control of his flames, plus they needed to understand the properties of their flame extremely well. Even now, he could barely change the direction of his flames, let alone shape.

”Let's see if you handle this.” Arnin swung his arm, throwing the Neutrality spears towards the Soothing Flames.

*SCRRR*

A sound similar to something being shredded resounded from the collision between the two flames. Arnin's eyes were glinting with a cold light while Soothing Ash couldn't help but frown deeply.

He squinted and saw that the spear had tore through his flames and was making its way towards him at a much slower speed. With a sidestep, he moved away from the place where the spear was landing.

”Idiot.” Arnin couldn't help but speak these words as he waved his hand, discreetly throwing the small flaming needles towards the dodging man.

*PING PING*

The sound of penetration came from Soothing Ash's body. His eyes widened as he looked down and saw long, thin lines piercing his body. He raised his head and looked at Arnin. ”So you're going to resort to trickery? I can do the same.” As blood seeped from his mouth, a wicked smile surfaced on his face.

Arnin had a look of confusion before he quickly looked down. Wrapped around his right leg was a bright blue face. His ankles were already heavily burnt, however the flame didn't stop there; it was slowly making its way up.

'This flame is truly extremely powerful in sneak attacks. Even I couldn't feel when I started to burn.' He felt a little apprehensive, however he wasn't worried about being killed by the flames.

Covering his hand in the Flames of Neutrality, he grabbed the other flames and tossed them aside. He looked at his charred ankle and began to slowly revolve his Seed of Rebirth. A white light seeped out of his finger and snaked towards Sword Hero's body. Although the latter was dead, the life essence had yet to completely dissipate from his body so Arnin wanted to absorb it as quickly as possible.

Soothing Ash saw this scene and his pupils constricted as a sense of fear appeared in his heart. 'That, what is that? How could he heal his wound so easily?'

Everyone's heart shook when they saw what Arnin was doing. They could visibly see his ankle reverting back to normal, as if there were no burns to begin with. When they looked back at Sword Hero's headless body, they found that it had become dry like a raisin.

”This is appalling! This Demonic Joker is disgusting.” A girl from the crowd couldn't help but begin to vomit at the sight.

Although most of the people in the battlefield killed, there were a rare few that had avoided killing anyone so far. This girl was a part of this rare group, so seeing such a sight was bound to sicken her.

Arnin kicked his leg and moved his ankle around for a few seconds and then a smile appeared on his face. ”Now then, let us continue.” Spears continued to form in his hand as he began to throw them towards the previously injured Soothing Ash without pause. The latter began to sense death as he dodged everything that was hurled towards him.

Even then, the spears kept coming. They were even being used to hide needles that he couldn't dodge. He was struck over and over again. ”STOP! I GIVE UP!” The previously calm Soothing Ash lost his cool and couldn't help but shout in desperation.

Facing death, even the most almighty would become fearful, let alone a kid that had yet to experience all the horrors of the world.

Soothing Ash's voice entered one of Arnin's ears but escaped from the other. Why would he stop now? He was going to kill the flaming guy and be done with this fight.

Seeing that Arnin wasn't going to stop, Soothing Flame grit his teeth as he wrapped himself with his flames again, but this time they seemed much stronger and chaotic.

'This suicidal fool really intends to pay such a price to escape?' Arnin could see exactly what Soothing Ash was doing. He released powers from the flame he couldn't control yet, just for a chance to escape.

*SOOOSH*

With a leap, Soothing Ash escaped from the scene, his flames making him look like a blue star.

Arnin didn't chase after him or even attack him since the latter would already be in critical condition after being burned by his own flames. There was a chance the latter would die anyways due to his heavy wounds.