"BOOOOAA"!
Rakka let out a loud cry and raised his head up high as a red spell circle suddenly appeared above it, right between his massive antlers. The air began to grow hot as the circle started spinning and sparking.
As the circle spun faster and faster, more and more sparks were being released and a gout of flame began to form in the center of it. The gout of flame then began to absorb the sparks being emitted by the circle and change shape. A few seconds later, a sword made of fire formed on the top of Rakka's head. All in all, it looked like he had three horns now.
[Huh...].
[What?], Voxea asked me.
[I know the Burning Blade technique is supposed to create a sword of fire for the monster to use, I just wasn't expecting...that], I confided with her.
[Did you expect him to hold it in his mouth]?
[...Fair enough].
As Rakka leveled his new blade at the BullFrog, it visibly took a step back while releasing a small croak that sounded like it had a tinge of fear mixed in. Additionally, Mourga himself looked fairly unnerved as well at the [Burning Blade], he probably wasn't expecting Rakka to be able to do something like this.
Which is why I started taunting him.
"Oh what's wrong big guy? Not feeling so 'froggy' any more? Think your overgrown toad is about to croak?", I asked with a vicious smile on my face.
[Two things: One, that simultaneously hilarious and painful to listen to. Two, you know you sound like the antagonist in an action romance novel, right?], Voxea quipped.
[Maybe, but I wasn't the one who decided to throw a literal glove down and stomp on his breakfast. That being said, Rakka! Chop that frog to pieces]!
"Booaaa"!
With his sword leveled at Budo, Rakka proceeded to charge forward, leaving a trail of smoke and embers behind him. As he rushed forward, I could feel his innate desire to skewer this frog. A feeling I hope would be rather cathartic.
On the other end of the arena, Budo released a loud croak and a blue spell circle suddenly appeared right in front of him. The circle then began to gather aether and condense it into a ball of water, that then shot out towards Rakka like a crossbow bolt!
[Rakka, dodge to the left]!
My command came just in time as Rakka manged to hop to the left, narrowly avoiding the bolt of water while maintaining his charging speed.
I released a sigh of relief...right before a lot more blue magic circles began to manifest left and right like a wall made of crossbows. Behind the wall of spell circles, I could Mourga with a serious look on his face and his hands forming some kind of hand sign.
[Well that's not good].
[It appears your opponent is attempting to power up his majomonster's technique.I suggest you power Rakka up as well and have him do serpentine patterns to try and avoid it], Voxea suggested.
[Right on. Rakka]!
"Boooaaa!", Rakka cried out as formed a handsign and began to imbue him with my own aether as well.
"CROAK~"!
Accompanied by the BullFrog's cry, the countless spell circles began to fire off water bolt after water bolt like a sideways rain of death towards the charging Rakka. I could sense Rakka was a little panicked from the incoming shower, wanting to just run around the arena in an attempt to avoid it. Luckily, he had me to direct him how to dodge.
[Left]!
Rakka proceeded to jump to the left, avoiding three bolts.
[Right]!
Two odd corkscrew looking bolts flew pass Rakka, almost scratching his sides in the process.
[No time to dodge, strike it down with your sword]!
Rakka juked his head upward, slicing apart a rather large water bolt into two. I felt the blade weaken a bit, but that was fine trade-off.
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"Just a little closer...", Mourga thought to himself as the charging Ragnaceros got closer and closer to Budo.
He knew that if that technique managed to hit Budo, it would mean his defeat. Therefore, he decided to do an all-or-nothing gamble and use all of his aether to empower Budo as much as possible.
Granted, he did have a back up plan if the rain didn't work.