What surprised the old woman is what she could see through her ability, a skill that allows her to see the mana of others and the one in the air, thanks to that ability she can make contracts with the spirits and measure the level of strength of magical beasts and other functions that the skill brings her.
She could see the Giknus's mana directly thanks to her ability, a big surprise came when she saw that the mana had form, the same form she looked at the image stored in the sheltered crystal, but for the amount of Giknus mana made that it was bigger than the same orc which is already quite tall, and when she looked at the mana... that also looked at her for a moment only to then focus on the orc again, but the little moment when both looked at each other was enough for her to feel a death sentence on top of her and to her surprise, the spirits she made a contract became restless with fear of feeling the mana, they tried to protect her but shortly after the sensation disappeared, the spirits showed signs of respect for the little spirit that accompanies the feline.
All that left her paralyzed while looking at the two monsters that are about to face each other, showing their strength, the orc his powerful body which almost exudes the same pressure as Giknus, although its forces are different, while one is physical, the another is magical.
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Without more time to appreciate each other, the fight began with the orc launching at Alex as he lifts his club high with both hands.
The orc flew in a parabolic arc to Alex's position, just before he hit the ground, the orc struck with all his force, that caused a powerful explosion as well as a strong current of air that lifted a lot of dirt.
The orc stood still for a few seconds because his arms became numb from the impact of his attack that only hit the ground hard, Alex could not be seen anywhere.
Before the orc could notice, half of his body was burned to almost charcoal and he only managed to avoid receiving more damage by moving away from his current position.
The orc could finally see Alex falling to the ground with elegance while a little yellow fire surrounded Alex's limbs.
Alex had jumped high to avoid the attack and to be able to counterattack once the orc was distracted by a powerful flare. Alex had tried to get the fire to stick to the body of the orc by burning his mana, but the orc managed to dispel the magic of Alex by expelling a large amount of mana for a moment and then sealing his mana.
It was an instinctive movement of the orc to avoid burning, it was a suicidal movement since Alex could have consumed his entire mana in a short time, but the rapid maneuver of the orc avoided that.
*Snorting* The orc stared hard at Alex as pieces of his burned skin peel off and fall to the ground, and thus showing how his monstrous regeneration.
The orc squeezed his club tightly as a horrible smile forms on his face as he thinks about how much Alex knows and what skill he can get, thus showing his two big yellow fangs.
Without giving the orc time to heal, Alex began creating a bunch of fireballs and then throwing them into the orc, which he only dodged while trying to get close to Alex.
The orc could not block all the attacks and to solve this, he decided to smash the fireballs with his one-shot mace, surprisingly it worked, but in return, he received more burns on his body when the fireballs exploded upon impact.
Alex opened his eyes wide when he saw this, but he kept attacking the orc while he began to think of other ways to use his magic without consuming it much.
<Baseball...> Looking at how the orc hit his fireballs, Alex remembered a sport from his old life... a vague memory, but with lots of information.
<Curved shots> Alex's eyes began to glow as he discovered more uses for his fireball and fire projectile.
The orc stopped for a moment as he moved towards Alex, when he felt danger coming from him, although the increase was smaller, it was enough for him to notice the change, so he decided to see in detail what the change was.
The moment the orc stood still to watch Alex, his instincts shouted louder than Alex is dangerous.
Alex was surrounded by two fireballs which became much smaller and began to spin in opposite directions and once he felt that they turned fast enough, he threw them, but none was directed straight towards the orc, this confused it enough to see how the fireballs move away from it, but before it could react a fireball of the same size came directed towards it.
The speed was much greater than the previous fireballs for some unknown reason for the orc, but he still decided to destroy the fireball with his mace and when he was about to destroy the fireball, it raised its height and impact on his face while the other two fireballs that he thought Alex had thrown badly, hit his sides.
"Ggghk!" The orc fell to his knees while trying to support himself with his mace, the three impacts were more powerful than the previous ones and they managed to burn him internally too, now he understood why Alex became more dangerous, but as he swelled, he disappeared from his location when performing a powerful jump reinforced with mana.
The orc clenched his jaw tightly as he approached Alex at a high speed, he was appointed to use a desperate ability to see that Alex had become a threat.
*Roar* The orc let out a thunderous roar when he arrived near Alex and tried to catch him before activating his ability, but his attempt was easily avoided.
Alex almost became deaf to the scream, but he avoided this by protecting his ears with mana and moving away with a higher speed with which the Orc reached him, but as he walked away, Alex could see how the orc's body began to turn reddish and its veins were marked more on its body.
<Shit! the pig got rabies!> Alex looked a little surprised at the drastic change that the orc underwent when it grew in size and turned completely red.
The orc threw himself at Alex ignoring the flames and tried to catch him with his hands, Alex was a little surprised to see that the giant red orc moved rather quickly but even slower than him.
The orc tried desperately to catch Alex with his hands or crush him against the floor with a stomp, but Alex was quite elusive while dodging it while burning it, but the high regeneration of the orc had had a dramatic increase and it seemed that the orc became invincible since the burns healed instantly, it was triple as fast as it was before, this left Alex a little terrified to feel a little cornered by how monstrous the orc became.
No matter what kind of attack Alex made, the orc would heal quickly and chase him again as if his life depended on it.
<Two hearts... one head> Alex determined the main objectives to destroy the orc's body while dodging the orc's grip or kicks.
The environment before full of cabins and other buildings, now everything had been destroyed by the same orc that does not stop chasing Alex all over the place.
<!!!> Alex got an idea while remembering how to eliminate the other orcs.
A large number of black bubbles formed in an instant throughout the environment and every time they touched something, they bounced away slowly, this confused the kobolds who watch the combat a bit, but the answer came quickly when they saw Alex enter in one bubble and out of another.
The orc became more frantic with his attacks when he saw Alex disappear and appeared in very different locations, although Alex seemed to move well, in reality, Alex was moving without a specific direction and only got into the bubbles when he felt cornered.
But while Alex was on the run, he began to control his mana to make a powerful and destructive attack, little by little Alex accumulated the mana and when he felt that it was time, Alex entered a bubble of darkness shortly after leaving in another that was at the height of the head of the orc and when Alex left it, all the bubbles exploded since Alex dedicated all his magical control in his next attack.
<[Bite of the void]> Alex named the attack while unleashing his attack.
A powerful black jaw formed in front of Alex which threw a heavy bite into the orc and when it bit the top of the orc, the jaw became a sphere of darkness and soon after decomposing, the attack was a combination of the [Spiritual Form ] and the magic element of darkness.
A loud sound of flesh tearing the place full so shortly after the lower part of the orc (from the chest down) hits the ground without life, since the entire upper part was shattered by the jaw.
Alex had already determined that when he carries out these attacks, darkness absorbs things to destroy them, does not introduce them into his apparent personal space, because otherwise, there should be a lot of bodies or spoils of the monsters that died in his experiments, but they drop their booties on the floor.
Alex fell to the ground when he saw how the orc's body decomposes into particles, but he did not fall from relief but from the mana that consumed the previous attack as well as the pain that invaded his body.
<The consumption of mana to combine my spiritual form with an element is astronomical> Alex placed his head on the floor while feeling the wounds on his body that opened again for so much movement.
Alex watched with disinterest the loot garbage left by the orc, theirs weapons disappeared along with their bodies and left only some lingots, it was no surprise to Alex, to see that a great monster doesn't leave something very good as a magic core.