Chapter 48 - Defeat

Michael immediately snorted as the flames covering his arms suddenly increased in temperature. With a violent roar, he let out multitude of fist attacks while Lucifer kicked rapidly with his legs.

His legs were like the blades of a rotor, as he kicked and his leg met with Michael's fist, he twisted his waist using the resultant force, added with his to kick with his other leg. He was riding in the increasing amount of resultant force and manipulating the force to increase his attack speed and strength!

After several battles, Lucifer had been learning and had become more experienced. This techniques was the experience he had accumulated so far.

"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM…"

A series of bursting sounds, like the sound of gas balloons being burst, rang out. Huge volumes of fire were burst apart and fell all over, covering the weeds, trees and the surroundings in flames. Like wildfire, the flames spread rapidly, forming a sort of battle ground for the two individuals.

"A rather high level defensive and offensive gene? Your luck isn't bad at all. " The youth shrieked in laughter. His body slid backwards and he suddenly slapped his palms together, forming a triangle with both thumb and index fingers.

In the next second, the flames in his two arms suddenly merged together, forming a small of orb of flames that floated right at the center of his triangular-shaped hand.

With a malicious smile, Michael sucked in a huge breath of air and then blew heavily on the ball of flames.

Instantly, a gust of flame swept forward like a tornado, a trail of fire surged out form Michael's hands, towards Lucifer like a flamethrower with very high temperature!

The flames smashed towards him before he could realize what was happening.

"BOOOOOM!!!"

The flames had slammed into Lucifer right on the chest and the raging flames had consumed him entirely in the blink of an eye. He was no longer visible!

The fire grew stronger and stronger. Quickly, the surrounding trees within ten meter radius had been burnt to ashes leaving only blackness in its wake.

Out of breath, the flames retracted back, forming an orb of fire that was only one third of its previous size in between his hands after which, it merges with his hands and then retracted back into his arms.

Sweat dripped down Michael's body. It was obvious he had consumed massive amount of stamina to produce such effect of flames.

"You forced this upon your self." Michael was incredibly angered.

He didn't want to use this move and risk losing the diary and the serum, but Lucifer gave him no choice as he was proving hard to deal with.

"Hopefully the serum is alright." He mumbled while catching his breath and watching the large raging flames before him.

"ARGHHHHHHH!!!"

Just then, a bellow rang out from within the flames before the youth. A fit figure, flames still burning here and there on his body, bursted out with ferocity and leapt from the fire into the air.

Sparks flew as a giant fist emerged from the flames and slammed straight for Michael.

"YOU!!?" The white-clothed youth turned ashen as he revealed shock and a bit of fear.

But all he saw was Lucifer pouncing towards him, his fist sweeping through the flames, conjuring up a massive wave of red and then hacking downwards squarely above him.

Michael only had the chance to cross his hands.

"KA-BOOOM!!!"

Michael's body was like a broken kite, Soaring through the air like artillery shell, destroying every thing in his way.

The trees on path were snapped in half as though they were only broom sticks, creating a path of broken trees that extended for 50 meters.

Michael's reaction speed was impressive as he quickly stabilized himself, stepping onto a tree and breaking it to half before stopping.

"A mere Genetic Soldier! How dare you…" He growled, black hair flying about madly behind him. His hands lay over each other, forming a triangular hand sign. Then, his white upper shirt instantly turned to dust as streaks and streaks of fire, shooting towards Lucifer and enveloping him.

They weren't as large as the previous flamethrower move. But they seems even more deadly.

"Die!" Streaks after streaks of red flames shot at him, each emitting sharp roars as they cut through the air.

Lucifer's eyes were blood-red. Flames still smoldered on his cloth and white smoke was billowing out of some spots on him.

After a series of moves that had exhausted and over used his cells, he was gradually getting exhausted.

He could sense that a large surface area of his body had been burnt. Lucifer quickly agitated the two energies within him that had yet to fade. The improved version of the two materials - Milky-ice Water and the he berry boasted strong healing abilities. Before long, Lucifer could feel the scorching burn on many parts of his body alleviating significantly.

As though sensing Lucifer's starving cells, both the warm but devastating energy from the fruit and the chilling energy from the Milky-Ice water activated at high speed within him and Lucifer immediately sensed an extraordinary transformation occurring within him.

Two currents were spinning in him; one was violent while the other was chilling.

He clenched his fist tightly and stared doggedly at the youth before him. Unexpectedly, an indescribable feeling arose in his heart.

Two streams of energies, one left and the other right, flowed into right leg. Then, they merged and entangled with each other at the top of his expanded foot, generating a formidable and fierce might.

Following the flow of this power, Lucifer's body arched outwards slightly.

"ROAR! SHRIEK!"

A high-pitched sound which was both like a thunderous roar and a crane's call rose to the heavens!

In the midst of this sound, Lucifer leapt up in the air and with a round house kick, whipped his right leg straight at Michael's chest.

"BOOM!!!"

This time, the massive force did not just push him backwards. Rather, his chest caved in as his body erupted backwards with a blast.

"Thud!"

Lucifer landed heavily on the ground, causing tremors throughout a ten meter radius. Black clouded his vision and faint buzzing sounds in his ears. After a fit of heavy panting, he finally straightened his body slowly staring straight ahead.

He could see Michael flee the moment he recovered. There was no way he would stay after receiving this sort of attack from Lucifer.

Lucifer stared at his figure until his cross shaped eyes wasn't able to spot his traces.

Finally, Lucifer collapsed to the ground, thoroughly exhausted.