604 Jack vs Torian (2/2)
”Hey!”
Torian looked back to his front, finding an image of Jack ready to unleash a spectral flare in Torian's face. The Storm Dragon roared and readied lightning to counter-attack but was suddenly overcome with a familiar feeling.
”You!”
Jack instantly retracted his claws in the most painful way possible. His thinner-than-razor claws cut themselves out of the tail as Jack backed away with a snicker. ”Now, we can fight!”
”I'll disembowel you and cause your wives eternal suffering!” Torian roared, retrieving a potion vial and chomping down on it as if the glass was nothing to his digestive system.
As the wound on his tail healed, Torian rocketed into Jack as he trapped them both inside a twister filled with lightning javelins. In response, Jack flooded the entire space with dense purple energy. While Jack was evading the countless bolts of lightning, Torian felt as if he was swimming through the thick energy and was greatly slowed.
For Jack, there was only one thought on his mind.
The moment Phoro and Dragov finished their ascension, Jack was then become a lv. 93 and could more confidently overwhelm Torian. The hero could keep up and force Torian to struggle but the disparity in level wasn't so easily conquered. By leveling up, Jack would best guarantee his success. All he had to do was stall and drag everything out until then, believing in his fellow leisure gods and that they would ask for help if needed.
”I'm tired of your games!” roared Torian. ”This is why we never bothered making Eedaj one of us, or Rikko. All you cowards can do is drag out fights and helplessly struggle against your opponents. If you want to kill me, then prove my disbelief wrong!”
Thunder clapped as obscenely large bolts of lightning fell from the sky and covered the entire twister, hitting Torian as well.
Jack unleashed a plume of spectral flares all around him, letting the attacks clash and forcibly cancel each other out. He also made sure to spit a few toward Torian. The Storm Dragon was going to get away with harming Jack for free.
Both of them finally took substantial damage but there was a clear difference between their levels of endurance. While Torian shrugged and shook the pain of the explosive flames, Jack hid his deep breaths in mad laughter. Jack smiled wide and allowed Torian to understand the seriousness in Jack's eyes. The hero then faded as if it were never the true Jack after all.
”I'm out here if you're curious!”
Torian snarled and dispersed the twister to spot Jack standing in the air just outside of the cyclone's limits.
What Torian didn't know was that Jack was putting on a front. Jack was still more than able to fight but he had indeed taken damage from that barrage of lightning. By pretending to have evaded the attack, though, Jack would be able to keep Torian from possibly trying that again or from attacking recklessly. The last thing that Jack wanted was for Torian to get reckless and abandon defense. It would give Jack a chance to fatally injure the Strom Dragon but it would lead to himself also getting fatally injured. And all Jack wanted was time.
”Want to make things interesting?” Jack asked, laughing with a raised eyebrow.