Ehit may have been trapped in a mediocre body but it possessed an apostle's core nonetheless. With its infinite mana he was confident in simultaneously using all the ancient magic he knows to enhance his new body to the limit.
Though he was in a predicament as he held the same weakness the apostles did, and that was while he had infinite mana the body didn't have infinite stamina.
Staying in a transformed form for an extended period of time would destroy him. And as such he came up with a simple compromise. And that was to run restoration magic perpetually. He knew the moment he stopped the wounds would all attack him at once from the strain his body sustained, which was why he resolved himself to stay in such a form until he could be transferred to Yue's actual body.
Even if he somehow lost against Yue and Ivan he was assured in his safety, as even if his body was killed his soul would just return to the same floating orb it had been and automatically transfer to heaven.
But just because he couldn't die he wasn't going to lay on his back and allow the two who disrupted him over and over again to parade his corpse.
Ehit held the magic sword in his hand vertically in the air, seriousness marring his expression as a reluctant sigh escaped his lips.
And then, he pointed it forward.
*WHOOOSH!*
In a single second it traversed the whole length of the room and appeared right before Ivan, who collapsed to his back as the blade narrowly scathed the top of his head.
Another second later and the blade withdrew just as fast, its length returning to its former state as it appeared as normal as before in Ehit's hands.
This was the 'Divine Sword', a blade that contracted and expanded without limit. What was crazy about the weapon was also its ability to cut through space to reach its target.
Time around Ivan came to a halt as the blade he dodged a mere second ago suddenly shot at him from his 4 o'clock. Even if the physical changes he made within his real didn't apply to the world outside the position he was in before and after was one of the factors that could be changed.
And as such he made it seem as though he was teleporting without the use of magic in the eyes of Ehit. '2 meters' Ivan judged the distance with his eyes as he dove forward with his right palm open.
For a split second he glanced at the figure behind Ehit, who had billowed a wall of flames heading toward his direction.
These were Yue's flames, and their goal was to turn Ehit to ashes the moment Ivan blew his head off.
Water shot from beneath Ivan's left foot and propelled him into the air, allowing him to just barely dodge a blade that had appeared beneath his chin. The water then turned into a wall of ice, forming a half circle that blocked off Ehit's only path of escape.
*FOOM!*
And then the flames consumed him. Ehit stood there silently, a grin appearing on his face as he was bathing in flames that would evaporate the water of the eyes of ordinary people just from looking at it.
*WOOSH!*
His figure vanished once he brought his two arms to his chest. '!' Ivan turned around swiftly with his gauntlet horizontal.
*CLANG!* Gauntlet met blade once more, only this time it was in the air. Ivan sank like a boulder as the weight behind the lithe god's figure was a complete contrast to his strength.
Thankfully at that moment Yue appeared above the both of them. Noticing his glance Yue nodded and dropped the spell she thought would suit him best, she dropped on him what was essentially an iceberg.
The air became tens of degrees colder as vapor exhaled from both Ivan's and Ehit's mouths. Ivan was fine, his suit providing a near impenetrable resistance to status effects like cold or heat. Ehit on the other hand felt his body freezing, even the mere act of bending his fingers required a great deal of restoration magic to bring them to an unfrozen state.
That's when things for him went from bad to worse. Ivan moved one of his arms and both of his feet past Ehit's body, making sure they were the first things to come in contact with the structure.
He was met with Ehit's backbreaking grip but that was a price he was willing to pay.
So as Ivan withstood the pressure of a god squishing his waist like he was an empty tube of toothpaste, he closed his eyes and imagined the next thing he was going to transmute from the iceberg.
*BOOM*
The moment his hand and feet made contact with the giant frozen liquid blue sparks erupted and showed down on Ehit who clenched his teeth in pain as his entire back was being melted down to his bone from the mana within them.
Just that was enough for him to tell that something was wrong, if the residue from his move was causing him intense pain then he couldn't imagine being subjected to Ivan's actual lethal move.
In a gross act Ehit used Metamorphosis magic to grow an extra set of eyes behind his head. Only he was one second too late. The ice turned to water and encased both him and Ivan before solidifying into a boulder of solid ice.
With its layer too thick Yue was only able to see the two silhouettes of them floating before she hovered slowly to the ground using gravity magic. Her expression unchanging as she held another spell just in case the situation changed.
Moments before being restricted in the ice Ivan had cut a small hole on his thumb using the sharp bits of his gauntlets. The blood flowed and flowed, and then it kept flowing, and then it flow way too much.
The ice blue boulder became a dark red.
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