"I'll tear you apart... piece by piece."
'This wasn't supposed to happen-'
Irene dashed towards me at a speed that greatly surpassed her previous attack, however now that I could use Mana, I could calmly react to her attacks. I didn't even need to use my Demonic Eyes to predict her moves.
She launched a powerful hook with her right arm, I used the back of my hand to alter its trajectory. However, my hand froze the instant it made contact with her, I produced a pitch black flame by casting my Fusion Magic. The heat made her jump back, however, due to the sudden outburst of power, her hand was burnt.
I was holding back a fair amount, but so was she. But I could tell that out of the two of us, I was holding back more. But it seemed she had some sort of trump card. Or that was what my instincts told me.
As of right now, I had no reason to kill her. So I'd try my best to not do any serious damage.
I used flash step to close the distance between us and I swung Edge Of Nightfall at her throat, she blocked it and used her other arm to send a blow to my stomach. I stomped on the ground, creating a powerful shockwave, flattening the ground beneath my feet and creating some distance between us.
"You're similar to Valier, but there's one detail you forgot about. His eyes were burnt out over four years ago, if he was alive, he'd probably be blind and a cripple with severe brain damage considering the amount of damage he took to the head. And it's not like you Britannian cunts would go out of your way to save someone like him."
She took a deep breath and began circulating Mana around her body in a way different from before. Previously, the temperature around her changed, but now her own internal temperature was changing.
I used my Demonic Eyes, something was odd. Although she certainly wasn't capable of beating me, there wasn't a reason to get injured. I looked at her blood flow, the flow of neurons, the flow of her Mana and the flow of electrical signals throughout her body.
She aimed a kick at my head, but by the time she had gotten to me, my fist had already connected with her stomach.
'One inch punch.'
I performed a one inch punch and sent her flying with it, she rolled on the ground for a while before digging her sword into the ground to stop herself, however she still ended up a hundred or so meters away from me
"What the fuck? How did you even do that?"
Irene was downright flabbergasted by my attack, well honestly, me generating that much force with something like that must have been shocking to her
I condensed my Dark Flames into my eyes, a bright black light began to be produced from my eyes, which were now glowing. The Mana around me began to heat up along with my eyes, the intensity of the concentrated heat began to dry up the air around me.
Irene instinctively created a wall of ice in front of her, she then expanded it and created an array of ever growing Frost spikes that rushed towards me.
I then released my attack, my heat vision easily melted through every layer of her defense, however, just as it was about to reach her, I closed my eyes to stop the attack.
But something was wrong, I quickly looked up into the sky and opened my eyes. Black light seeped from my eyes and disintegrated the clouds nearby, and the rest were pushed away by the sheer force of my heat vision.
'I can't stop?'
My heat vision tore through the sky, my heat vision didn't stop for a solid ten or so seconds. But when it did, I stumbled and nearly fell over.
"Fucking hell, I suppose after not using Mana for years, my control over it must have weakened. Well fuck it, but anyways, I suppose we should stop wasting time and get a bit serious about this."
Irene sheathed her sword, she then reached for it again but her hands were trembling. She didn't know what to do, was I a friend or a foe?
"If you draw that sword, I'll have to start going all out, and with how poor my control over Mana is, I don't think I'll be able to stop myself from killing you. But if you'd just fucking listen to me, I'd be able to expla-"
"I don't want an explanation, I just have one question. Are you my brother, or some sort of illusion or perhaps a shape-shifting monster? In my opinion, you're probably the result of a Rune bearer's ability. After all, I don't really see why they'd heal Valier after inflicting those injuries on him."
I took a deep breath, and looked her in the eyes. But before I could reply, I felt something land behind me. A dust cloud was formed and I heard the sound of steps coming from within it. With each passing second, the steps got louder until I could finally see someone.
"Ah."
"Ah indeed, you fucking Pencildragon cockroaches."
Edited By: WorthyAdversary