Chapter 553 (2/2)

With burning eyes, the left head shouted, “Lightning Bolt.”

Randidly snorted; he had seen this trick before. As the energy took a second to build up in the sky above, he used Gravity Affinity to destabilize the point of formation. It fizzled, but the spell was completely dispersed. Seeming only to remember now that Randidly had developed a way to overcome this trick, the left head swore quietly under its breath.

Now it was Randidly’s turned.

“Incendiary Eruption.”

A crack opened in the ground beneath the ogre’s legs and superheated lava spewed upward, searing the flesh on its legs. It screeched in agony, and the center head began casting a healing spell while the right continued to cast Wind Blades to cut its way out. But Randidly wasn’t interested in giving them that chance.

“Incendiary Eruption. Incendiary Eruption. Incendiary Eruption. Incendiary Eruption.”

Again and again, Randidly cast the spell, slowly burning away all the flesh on the ogre’s legs, and the continuing the assault until its bones cracked and crumpled from the heat. This had the negative side effect of burning away a lot of the Spearing Roots, but Randidly was ready for that eventuality as well.

“Grasp of Lava, Grasp of Lava.”

Now that it had fallen to its knees, its feet having been burnt to nothing, Randidly could produce huge hands of lava from the ground to grip onto its body. This burnt away the rest of the root spears, but they were no longer necessary. They were just used to keep the ogre still enough that it could get to this point.

The ogre’s screams grew increasingly loud, so much so that the ridge shook with the force of its shouts. The right head appeared to have passed out, even as the center head was shedding tears while continuing to cast healing spells. The left head kept trying to use lightning bolts and cold snap, but both could be destabilized with the use of Gravity Affinity and proper timing.

Eventually, even the left head ceased casting spells and just looked at Randidly with pleading eyes. The burnt flesh had reached its waist, and the bones of its thighs had been revealed after everything else was burnt away. It was broken.

But it was not dead, and Randidly was out of many.

His body was trembling as he felt a strange overexertion that he hadn’t encountered before. He supposed this was the result of using more Mana than his body could handle. He smiled bitterly as the rage departed from him, and just left him feeling slightly ill.

True, the being in front of him was something that would kill him if it could without thinking about it, but it was also an intelligent, living being. What he just did was torture.

What he did was lash out because he was upset about something. He took his anger out on an innocent party.

What he did was childish. And it probably proved Neveah right.

As Randidly turned away, there was a small ding and a notification popped up. Most notifications Randidly had learned to ignore, but his eyebrows rose when he saw this one because it had been a long time since he had obtained a notification for a Path.

Congratulations! You have unlocked the Great Path, Wrathful Dual-Mage (Plant and FIre) 0/1000. As the first person on your world to unlock a great Path, you have received the Skill Blessed Instincts ® Lvl 1. Because you are the first person in your Cohort to unlock a Great Path, your Skill has been upgraded to Weaver with the Threads of Fate (L) Lvl 1.