(Ray's Pov)
"Could you fucking stop now?" I said while getting thrown in the air from one place to another with just a flick of Rhaegal's finger.
The strength behind the flick of his finger was more than the goblin's strength that I had fought. Even though I told him to stop, he didn't seem to pay any heed to my words.
I was running out of patience. I was not some football that could be kicked anytime.
"What's wrong? This is a spar, did you forget?" Rhaegal said to me in a mocking tone.
"Not really, but could you at least give me a little room to breathe" I replied.
"I don't think you deserve that brat. Now come and try to attack me," Rhaegal said while pointing his finger towards me.
"Fine, as you wish, Eternal death," I murmured silently and activated my domain. As soon as I said it, the fog started coming out of my mouth and a thick mist started covering the surrounding area. Everything started to become hazy and my strength increased.
I could feel myself overflowing with strength. Soon everything became dark and the temperature dropped to 0⁰C. The cold breezes were making the temperature drop even more.
'I feel way stronger now. Let's finish this as soon as possible, I don't have much time,' I thought while dashing towards Rhaegal. I knew Rhaegal could survive this much cold easily. He is a monster who is unaffected even at -450⁰C temperature.
"Ice Prison," as soon as I said ice prison, thick ice covered Rhaegal from all four sides and he got trapped in the ice. He didn't even try to do anything to prevent it. It seemed as if he was in shock. Last time I wasn't able to read his mind but this time it was visible that he was shocked.
Taking advantage of this situation, I aimed towards his heart once again. But before my spear could reach anymore close to him, he broke out of ice and blocked my attack just by the airflow of the flick of his finger.
"Haha, this is an interesting trick that you got up your sleeve," he said while observing the surrounding area. He was fascinated by what he was seeing.
'I only got one minute left, it's now or never,' I thought while grinding my teeth against each other.
"Ice wall,"
I formed an ice wall to prevent Rhaegal from knowing my location. I was planning to do a surprise attack as it was the only way to land a hit on him.
After that, I formed a few more ice walls. The grassland was looking like a maze now. Hiding behind one of the walls, I was observing Rhaegal.
'He's looking forward to seeing what I'm going to do, ain't he,' I thought while looking at that smug smile on his face. He was enjoying my suffering.
'What a sadist,' I said and aimed for his back.
He just side-stepped my attack without even looking at me as if he already knew that I was there.
Since I knew this attack wasn't gonna work because of my past two failed attempts, I formed two spears of ice and threw them towards Rhaegal's eyes to hinder his vision but he blocked them as well.
'Why is this bastard so strong?' I thought while almost giving up hope but then a crazy idea into my mind.
'This better work,' I thought as my lips curled up into a devilish smile. I looked like the reincarnation of death itself right now but I didn't care about my appearance anymore. All I wanted right now was to remove that smug smile from that bastard's face.
Taking a deep breath in, I said, "Night of A Thousand stars,". Huge icicles around 3 feet long started to form and float in the air above Rhaegal. The number of icicles increased from one to two and soon there were more than 25 icicles in the sky and with a wave of my hand, they started to descend on earth like the shooting stars in the night sky.
The scene in front of me looked so devastating and beautiful at the same time. A month ago, I would have never thought I would be able to do such things and now here I am.
"Rest in peace, old man," I said and directed them towards Rhaegal. I was sure that Rhaegal would use at least 2 fingers to defend this attack and I would win.
"Nice try kiddo, you almost got me. If you would have formed quadruple the number of icicles, I would have needed two fingers to defend it," Rhaegal said looking towards me and waved his finger towards the incoming icicles which looked like tiny meteors. With just the force of a wave of his finger, the icicles shattered into a million pieces and fell on the ground like rainfall.
"Fuck you old man," I said in a weak tone. I had used up every ounce of mana I had. My body was shivering right now and I was barely standing on my two feet but soon my legs gave in and I fainted.
(Rhaegal's Pov)
As soon as Ray passed out, the mist started to disappear and the sky became clear again. Everything turned back to normal except the surrounding land. The destruction caused by the fight was quite a lot. There were craters all over the land.
"A fifteen-year-old mastering domain just by using it once. He keeps calling me a monster but he doesn't know that he's the real monster." I said while staring at Ray.
'And the control he has over ice is beyond amazing. Mana particles are moving to his command without any hesitation but he is still a weak brat. Can't believe a kid was trying to defeat the great me but it was fun though,' I thought and put him on an ice bed.
For others, it would be their worst nightmare but for Ray, it's the best bed in the world.
"He might surpass you one day Zander," I said while looking at the sky.
"But first I need to stop him from dying. If he wakes up like this, he might die from mana exhaustion," I said while observing the state Ray was in.
Bringing my hand a little close to his heart, I pumped a little bit of mana into him so that he wouldn't suffer from mana exhaustion when he woke up.
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(3rd person Pov)
After a few hours
Ray woke up in the den while touching his head. His veins in the head were bulging from pain. His body felt sore even though he wasn't beaten physically.
"I still can't believe that it was real, fuck this subconscious mind of mine," he said and stood up. After stretching for a bit, he walked out of the cave to get some fresh air. He was feeling very hungry right now.
When Ray used his last attack, he thought he would definitely suffer from mana exhaustion and wouldn't be able to walk for at least a day but to his surprise, he was fine.
Ray didn't know this but there are a lot more surprises to come in the future.
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