27 City of Ravens 13 (2/2)
We were in a deadlock neither of knew the opponent's location and neither…
The mist suddenly thinned out, and a shout sounded out. ”OCEAN WHIRLWIND!”
A big one! With my soul image manifested I prepared myself for the hit. Ocean Whirlwind is an omnidirectional attack with high power and huge elemental essence consumption.
I waited, but there was no sign of an attack coming.
”There you are!”
From the right, Novakovic's figure emerged with water blades surrounding him. With a wave of his hand, the blades were sent towards me.
I started dodging, the first one went by me, but the rest was not that easy. The blades slashed at my soul image, and with every time cracks appeared. I pumped more soul essence outside to repair the cracking soul image while trying to get away from the water blades.
The high-pressure blades he was now shooting at me were ten times more dangerous than the water jets. If not for my soul image I would've been but to pieces!
Just when my soul image was about to break, I found a gap and got out of the stream of water blades. I run while the water blades kept trying to hit me, Novakovic was still summoning more so now I had to stop him from doing so.
With a step, I broke the floor, pulled up the large tile and used it like a shield. Water blades immediately started their assault, and cracks appeared on the stone! I gathered a few rocks and dashed out while throwing them at Novakovic!
”YOU! CAN YOU STOP?!” Novakovic shouted when he got hit in the head. The water blades stopped and collapsed, and I rushed in the direction of Novakovic! ”As if I let you get close to me! WALL OF WAVES!”
With the emergence of the wave I ran through it like before, but this time took a quick turn and run behind the wave, waiting for it to dissipate. Inside of it, I saw Novakovic looking at me with an angry expression. Blood from his forehead was dripping into the water and staining the surrounding red.
The wave disappeared, and Novakovic was left defenseless. I punched towards him while adjusting my strength to knock him down.
”Blood Shield!”
Before my Punch connected, Novakovic used another spell, the blood from his forehead rushed out and formed a small screen in front of him. My fist connected with the blood screen, and like a piece of fabric it wrapped around my fist, not letting it move an inch closer.
Before I could punch with the other hand, Novakovic withdrew while panting heavily. The spell he just used was still holding my fist in place, but he was not much better. He lost a bunch of blood to create the shield and most likely even more Elemental essence to use something that wasn't pure water.
”You really are determined… are orders from Nate McDade that important?” I asked, the blood was slowly dripping from my fist while its binding force was slowly subduing.
”A little bit of blood is not a big sacrifice.” His face was ghastly and breathing heavy. The spell he just cast took a toll on him, and now he was recovering. ”I don't know how you got in his sights, but Nate is like a kid with a gun and a briefcase full of money.”
”How much? Or does he have something on you?”
”Like I said, a briefcase full of money.” He said while he unbuckled his belt. Entirely made from metal with sections that looked like small razors, he threw it on the ground, and it fell apart. Each section turned into five thin razors, it looked like there was at least 200 of them on the ground.
”I see.”
”We shouldn't make it any longer. With the power of the ocean and rage of storms, I summon the torrents of rivers, whirlwinds of the lakes and floods of the seas! With my power, I order you to take form and listen to my command as the ruler of Seven Seas! Come forth, Undine!”