The ogre grunted as he stared down at the spear that had penetrated him. The power of darkness swirled around the spear as the ogre's already dark skin started turning pitch black around the wound.
The ogre roared as he went to grab Lyle, only to grab nothing but air as the latter had already moved out of harm's way.
Lyle stared at the demonic ogre, knowing full well that he could only use his transformation for a couple of more seconds.
One more skill was all that he would be able to use before his mana was emptied out, which meant that he needed to kill or at least mortally injure the ogre before that happened.
He stared at the ogre as another spear materialized in his hand. He had left the spear he used to stab the ogre in its body as the corrosion would be much more powerful and would spread faster if the spear was in direct contact with the body.
Lyle suddenly moved.
The ogre was currently trying to pull the spear out of his body, but even the slightest touch with the spear hurt him as the corrosive power of darkness would start corroding his hands as well.
The ogre roared once again as he grabbed the spear, but before he was able to pull it out, Lyle appeared in front of him.
He stabbed the ogre through the arm. The spear continued penetrating forward and went inside the chest, nailing the arm down and making it almost impossible for the ogre to move it since the corrosive power had immediately started working and was destroying the muscles and bones of the arm.
As the ogre was also holding the first spear with his hand, the hand was also enjoying the same treatment as Lyle's attack had moved it a bit and a small wound had appeared on the surface of the hand. It was only a small nick, but that was enough to allow the darkness to invade the hand and start spreading faster.
With his chest being stabbed twice, and one of his hands being pretty much unusable now, the ogre was in a rough spot.
Lyle, however, could not continue fighting any longer.
He had kicked the arm and evaded an attack from the ogre before landing on the ground.
As he landed, his hair turned back to normal as the formal suit that he wore disappeared. He shrunk a bit and his eyes were back to normal as well.
Lyle was barely able to move at this point. He had exhausted all of his mana, which meant that he would be unable to fight any longer for a while.
The ogre was heavily wounded, however. The spears of darkness were still there, and they would continue to be there for about 10 more minutes before dissipating.
With the spears continuously corroding the inside of the ogre's body, he would be dead in about 5 minutes maximum. Still, 5 minutes were far too long for Lyle to wait as the monster could decide to charge at him and potentially kill him during that time.
The only reason the ogre would die in such a short time was that he was stabbed in the chest. The corrosion would be able to quickly reach his heart and then it would die.
Compared to the ogre's giant body, the spears were relatively small and their stabbing through the body of the ogre didn't actually do that much damage, it was all thanks to the power of darkness that they would kill the monster.
"Incredible," Adam said in a low voice as he stared at the ogre.
He knew that Lyle was very powerful, much stronger than he was, and he knew that he had the transformations, but he never knew just how powerful he could be when in his transformed state.
But the sight that had presented itself in front of him, seeing how Lyle was able to stab the giant ogre twice with incredible speed and without even being touched, opened his eyes to just how much weaker he was compared to Lyle.
If that was him instead of the ogre, Adam would have been killed in a moment, Lyle's spear would have pierced his heart and he would have died at the start of the battle.
"Adam, it's weakened, attack!" Lyle suddenly shouted as Adam simply glanced at him before nodding.
"Be careful, it's still not an easy opponent to defeat, I won't be able to help you this time, if you die, then both of us will be gone from this world," Lyle said to Adam, but he merely whispered the second part of the sentence as he didn't want to cause too much anxiety to Adam.
He needed Adam to fight confidently, not cowardly or as a stressed-out mess. Fighting arrogantly and simply charging at the ogre without caring for your life would also be bad as Adam would most definitely die in mere seconds if he fought that way.
Adam charged at the ogre, at first glance it seemed that the young man was simply charging in without a plan, but Lyle simply decided to keep silent and believe in the young man.
As Adam neared the ogre, the monster noticed him before roaring at him. He started charging at Adam, his thoughts clouded by rage as Lyle had inflicted grievous injuries on him.
Right as the two were about to clash, the ogre lowered his back a bit before putting his shoulder at the front, ready to hit Adam with as much power as possible.
As for Adam, he actually copied Lyle.
His figure disappeared from the ogre's sight as Adam slid between his legs and even punched the ogre twice between the legs.
The giant monster suddenly stopped his charge, behaving as if he was paralyzed by the blows that Adam had dealt. Although he wasn't really paralyzed, he wasn't that far from it as the mana blasts from Adam had not only done some significant damage but had also caused an incredible amount of pain for the ogre.
Adam then quickly started hitting the ogre's legs in an attempt to destroy one with his mana blasts.
If he were successful in doing that, then the battle would pretty much be over.
He could see how the two wounds that Lyle had inflicted were spreading something inside the ogre as the skin around them was pitch black, and it was spreading.
Right now, almost the whole forearm of the ogre was completely black, while the chest didn't fare any better as about 70% was black, tainted by the power of darkness.
The corrosion would first start by destroying the skin, muscles, flesh, and bones before going deeper inside the body and starting to destroy the organs.
The ogre roared in pain from Adam's blows and attempted to kick him, only for Adam to narrowly dodge the blow before jumping back and getting ready for round two.
The arm that Lyle had stabbed had been weakened considerably and the ogre was unable to move it away from the spears. In his rage, the ogre suddenly grabbed his injured arm before pulling it away from its body.
The spear that had been stabbed through the arm remained inside, but it was taken out of the chest, which would prolong the monster's life for a bit.
The ogre's hand was no longer touching the first spear which meant that the corrosion there would also slow down.
"You finally moved it, but you forgot one thing, your skin is very dry and thin right now, your muscles are almost gone and the bones are brittle, are you sure that grabbing it with so much power was the right thing to do?" Lyle asked the ogre in a low voice as the monster suddenly started roaring again.
In an attempt to free his arm, he grabbed it with all of his might before pulling it away, in normal circumstances, this would have been alright, but these were no normal circumstances at all.
The arm was broken, the monster had broken it himself. The skin seemingly cracked open in places as dark bones protruded out from the arm.
Black blood that was seemingly coagulated started flowing out of the arm which was no longer usable.
Those were the effects of the power of darkness. It corroded everything, the bones lost their luster and in a couple of more minutes, they would have turned pitch-black and would have been incredibly brittle, so much that even a normal human could have broken them in a couple of hits.
The skin would dry out and tighten, which meant that a mere touch would be able to destroy it, while the blood would coagulate and turn black, it wasn't only blood as it was a mixture of blood, flesh, and muscles.
Not only did the ogre no longer have a usable arm, but he was also bleeding quite heavily from the wound.
Adam stared at the monster before a brief smile appeared on his face.
'I can win this.'