196 Divine Intervention (1/2)

As the overwhelming light shone outward from Li, it began to vaporize all the unclean Dark beast flesh around him. The heat of the light was so intense that anything it touched, it simply blazed out of existence.

That immense heat and blinding light traveled through the length of the Dark beast amalgamation's body until finally, when the light settled down, Li found himself floating in mid-air, the entire upper half of the abomination's body completely disintegrated.

But already, it began to regenerate, the lake shimmering and squelching and bubbling as it flowed organic matter up to restore its avatar.

Li opened his skeletal mouth, and an intense stream of heat came out like an engine releasing exhaust.

Such was the ability of the [Fusion Seed].

It was not inherently a spell meant only to detonate what was essentially a nuclear explosion, though certainly, it could. It was, in reality, an immense power boost that, when planted into a capable body, could grant them the total and unfiltered energy of the sun, enhancing everything from physical stats to the power of spells.

Of course, there were precious few beings that could handle the unbridled power of the sun flowing through them, and so the [Fusion Seed] dealt continuous damage to whoever had it planted within them, the damage increasing the more they let the energy continue to build up within them until, at a critical point when they could no longer handle it, it would explode into the immense explosion that had happened on the moon when Li planted it into Ven'thur.

But Li did not want to allow an explosion of that scale to occur here. It would wipe out most of the forest. Not only the forest, but likely many of the surrounding populated human territories as well.

Thus, he had to keep the energy reacting within him regulated by consistently casting spells to vent excess power, but even to him, maintaining the [Fusion Seed] was difficult, damaging him considerably even now.

It was a double-edged sword, in essence, and it became harder to keep the power in control the longer he let it build up within him. Therefore, he aimed to utterly destroy this by using up all the energy that had built up within him, planning to shunt it into a single spell to [Fusionboost] it, elevating even a regular spell into Ultima tier firepower.

This would deactivate the [Fusion Seed] and also provide enough damage to one shot the hand.

Li then wrapped himself up in his human skin again. If he was going to annihilate this creature, he had to do it in his human to minimize the risk of being revealed. Here, the [Fusion Seed] was once again an apt choice as since it was already cast and rooted in his being, he could be in his human form and still tap into its power.

But the power of the [Fusion Seed] was leaking out, pushing through his fragile human form. Cracks appeared all throughout Li's skin, and through them, bright light shone, like he was a hollow puppet about to burst apart at any given moment.

But, in a way, his form was beautiful now. In the vast darkness of the black smoke, Li was like a single shining star, emitting light that radiated far and wide, standing strong and alone against the vastness of the dark.

Li gritted his teeth and focused on the battle in front of him, aiming to end it quickly. Intense heat surged through his body, and he had to use up the fusion energy now.

The Dark beast hand was almost done regenerating now, but Li knew he could finish channeling his spell before it was done. Although it could regenerate a hand quickly, restoring its entire upper half took a good while longer.

He raised a hand to the air, to the sky so clouded by smog so very much like that which had plagued his past world, and he began to channel the final spell, moving out all the fusion energy in his body to his hand.

His hand started to crack apart, flakes of skin falling like white snow before disintegrating, but he held on. In a few seconds, he would be done channeling, and then, it truly would be as if the heavens themselves had descended upon this abomination to purify it entirely.

But what he did not expect was that the Dark beast would have another ability up its sleeve. Before it was done regenerating, it attacked Li in the middle of his channel.

Not with its body, but with the lake. The water around the arm began to swirl and surge as if it had a mind of its own. It stopped regenerating the arm, sensing that it was a lost cause, and instead, the water itself acted like a living weapon, curling upwards in countless spiked streams that aimed at Li.