[Inspection Ability Activated.]
Brunos stared at his opponent and while keeping an eye on her actions, he hurried to read her stats.
Name: Amellia Brooks.
Age: 472 years old.
'What the fuck?'
For some reason, staring at those three numbers brought fear to Brunos's conscious. If she was two times his age, with ability like pyroknesis, did it mean she was stronger than he had assumed?
Age comes with experience.
Some people might not have interesting abilities, but able to fight and defeat strong opponents because of their experience. Their wisdom.
To make matters worse, despite being that old, Amellia was equipped with such a destructive ability. Was she even equipped with only that one?
Brunos swiped his eyes downward to check if she had other abilities.
Thankfully, she didn't have any other strong ability except for Super Flight which didn't scare him. Lilyon had made her wings fragile. She could not use it against him at the moment.
He fixed his eyes on her.
She was moving her hands in a circular motion, a sun-like ball floating inside that circle.
Keeping an eye on her, Brunos continued his inspection. He skimmed over her stats to check if there was any other useful information.
At that moment, he saw her hands slowing and knew she was ready to launch the ball in his direction.
'Deactivate inspection ability!' he ordered the system.
Before it could be deactivated, he saw something frightening.
[Absorbed souls: 99, 981 Human souls. Needs 19 souls to win a special title. Queen Sucker.]
Did it mean she had tempted almost 100,000 men and sucked their souls?
According to Brunos's memories, a succubus would go to earth and arouse a man if she wanted to eat his soul.
If she had made love with such number of men, how many dicks had entered ah...
Brunos coughed.
He could imagine how wide her...
'No no! Focus!'
[Inspection ability deactivated.]
As if deactivating inspection ability meant activating Amellia, she pushed her hands toward Brunos. The basketball fire ball cut through the air threatening to turn him into ashes with only one blow.
However, thanks to his slow motion vision, Brunos was able to see it clearly and step to his right side.
"I thought it would be something..."
Amellia didn't arrow him to finish his tease. She sent a double, one trailing behind another.
Brunos jumped back where he had been standing before the first attack.
"Is this what you got?"
Amellia had created a heat barrier around her. Brunos could not attack. He could only defend.
Even if there could not be a barrier, it would be a suicide mission to approach her without knowing all her cards. That's why he teased her so she could be enraged and use her ace.
She stopped using both her hands to shoot the balls. Almost in a second, she would produce a ball, split it into two and throw them separately. This allowed her to send an endless stream of fire balls.
To her surprise, Brunos was dodging them casually as if it's a game he had played a million times.
Left right. Left right.
"Hey, are you a fixed bow? You can target legs, head or... or maybe... ha!"
The thought of it reminded him how many of them she had welcomed into her cave.
'She's a beast!'
Due to his Super Speed, dodging fire balls was starting to get boring. But everything has a price. Using her ability would probably exhaust her, weaken her barrier and give him an opportunity to attack her. That's why he was determined to keep on dodging them.
As if realizing that her attacks were weak, Amellia increased the pace.
Left right. Left right.
'She is changing strategy.'
Brunos jumped left to dodge one ball, then right to dodge another, but there was a third one waiting for him.
'Be careful,' he told himself, bending backwards. As his right hand touched the ground, Brunos felt the temperature above him rising. He then saw the fire ball passing past him.
Not wasting an second, he lifted himself back to his former state and stood frozen for a second.
The balls were so many. He didn't have where to run. Suddenly, a thought of flying slipped into his mind.
'Why isn't it working.'
Did Lilyon's spell affect him too? Maybe it affected an area so the ones within it could not fly.
'What do I do?'
Three balls approached almost at the same time. Out of instinct, he fell to the ground and rolled backwards to put more distance between them.
To his bad luck, he collided with a stone.
Wait!
Was it a stone?
Why was it soft and wet?
Since it was not big, Brunos lifted it to toss it aside so he could resume his rolling. Surprisingly, it was a black haired head.
"Huh?"
Blood dripped from the neck and fell into Brunos's mouth.
'Yuck!'
Before he could throw it away and spit, a fire ball hit it. He immediately withdrew his hand from it.
"That was close," he said staring at his hand glad that it was still there.
Above his face, the collision led to an explosion. A mixture of smashed meat and blood drops spread in all directions---Brunos's mouth included.
"Yuck!"
He felt like vomiting. Did he have time for such a thing? Another ball was coming for his head.
When he recalled the image of the collision seconds ago, he rolled to his left.
'Damn, can't you see I've got a handsome face?'
He would rather die beheaded than bombarded. He didn't want anything that could make him ugly again.
Speaking of bombs, the ball landed nearby like a nuclear bomb, and to avoid the fragments, he jumped to his feet.
Brunos didn't know if his performance was a result of the Kung Fu moves from his father or demon techniques from... shit! He had two fathers. Oh! Uh... from the king.
He tried to glance at Amellia, but a battalion of balls in front her blocked his sight.
Left right. Left right.
Brunos was pissed when he realised that their battle was one sided, one attacking another defending. However, he thought he would use it to his advantage. Dodge as many as you can until she get tired.
Now that the demonness showed no signs of getting tired, he didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, Amellia stopped.
Brunos sighed and relaxed his muscles.
Amellia was still surrounded by heat. Unless he wanted to be barbecued, he couldn't attack. Being close to her would bend battle scores toward her.
*Slash!
Brunos turned to his right where a sword was whistling.
Morrin's look after chopping off someone's head was the same. Satisfied and triumphant.
'Why did I look?'
He averted his gaze not knowing a shocking view awaiting him.
'Oh my! Is Amellia only a succubus?'
In front of Amellia, a ball with a circumference that blocked Brunos from seeing her upper body was rotating. Soon, several small balls shot from it as if it was a muzzle of a machine gun.
Brunos was able to dodge the first round with ease.
The second one came in a hurry to eliminate him.
Luckily, he had put in some distance.
Third round came even more faster.
The speed was increasing round after another, making Brunos's super speed become inferior.
When it reached at a point where Brunos could not see them in a slow motion like before, he decided to circle around Amellia with his almighty speed.
Soon, only a swirl of dry leaves and dust could be seen. Seeing this, a crazy thought slipped into his mind. Increase speed, lift more dust and leaves and then go closer to her.
When Amellia saw the swirl getting narrower and narrower, she changed strategy. From the yellow circle in front of her, a yellow tentacle emerged. As it grew longer, the circle kept diminished. A few seconds later, it had turned into a ring, Amellia standing inside it as if she was a ring finger.
Too many small balls formed around the circle, immediately separating themselves from it to allow others to form.
Where was Brunos?
Only dust could be seen.
She decided to shoot them at the same time in hopes that one of them would hit him.
The first round of those beams made their way through the dust and penetrated deeper into the swirl.
Another round followed but to no avail.
On the third round, from the distance, collisions and screams were heard.
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Morrin kicked away a head that she had just chopped off, directly lying on the ground to avoid being hit by the beams.
She shifted her gaze toward the Crimson Castle right after.
Fire balls were bombarding the pointy roofs, sending dust and stones dispersing into the air.
More roofs collapsed, more succubi screamed, and...
Why was she still standing?
Amellia was not like the low tier succubi she had decapitated. She was a high tier Old Generation. Killing her would bring war. She was well aware of it. But, considering the situation, the war had already began.
With that in mind, she shifted her gaze to Amellia. It was filled with killing intent and determination.
'I'm going to kill you!'
A swirl made it difficult for her to see Amellia, but she could see where the beams were coming from.
However, she could not just throw the sword. Brunos was inside the swirl.
'What should I do?'
Before she could come up with a plan, a gasp was heard. This time, it was not from far away, but near her. To make matters worse, it was low-pitched, almost like an incubus's.
A thud followed, then while dust and leaves returned to the ground, she saw Brunos lying down immovable.
Amellia didn't give her time to react. She dismissed the ring and approached Brunos. A smile of triumph could be seen on her face, her right hand still holding a fire ball.
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