As the flaming monstrosity hurled itself towards me, fear took hold. I could barely see that thing move. If it weren't for the white flames surrounding him, I wouldnt be able to keep track of him. And he was only getting stronger.
'I wasn't sure about it before, but now I'm sure. He's constantly getting stronger. I knew his regeneration brought some sort of benefit to him, considering how he almost wanted to get hit. But to think he was getting more physically powerful after he regenated.'
His fist hurled towards me, and so, I raised my spear in attempt to block his attack. However, using his flames, he moved downwards before moving behind me and slamming his elbow into my back, launching me further into the air.
'So long as we're in the air, I can't do much since I can't fly. Does he know that?? It can't be. The Reinhardt I know is strong, sure, but THE Reinhardt using strategies? Is this really the same, reckless man I was fighting before those flames were released.'
As Reinhardt repeatedly struck my body while I was airborne, I couldn't deliver a single counter attack. It didn't help that each blow was a little stronger than the last.
As my body began to fall back down to earth, I thought he changed targets. However, I was brought back to reality when I saw flame covered, black reaching for armoured face.
"Fuck."
As he gripped onto my helmet, I braced for impact watching as the size of his flames increased and as they intensified. The flames were all I could see as I was slammed into earth at terrfying speeds. The ground beneath me shattered on impact, small rocks dug into my back as the burns covering my body began to sting.
Fortunately, I didn't need to withstand his flames for too long as the dagger wielder finally made a move, going for Reinhardt's neck.
Without looking at who was attacking him, Reinhardt blasted the ground with those flames and launched himself into the air to avoid the attack whist simultaneously causing both me and Dagger to move away in attempt to avoid his indiscriminate attack.
At that moment, another arrow was shot at Reinhardt. It was the same kind that he was hit with mere moments ago. As the arrow flew towards him, he hovered in the air, his cloak swaying due to the wind.
The flames burning his body compressed and wrapped around his hand before he fired a gigantic blast of pure, white fire at the arrow, incinerating it immediately. The flames then dispersed, his body was however, totally burnt.
He flew down towards the ground, and set his eyes on me once more. I blinked, and he appeared infront of me, I watched as he drove his fist into my gut, drilling into my stomach and lifting me into the air.
Then, he clasped his hands together, interlocking his fingers, lighting a flame that wrapped around his body and propelling his fists into my armoured face, causing me to slam into the ground and bounce.
'What the actual fuck, I can't even counterattack cause of how much this hurts and how fast he is.'
Then, his neck twisted right around, almost like an owl's would, however a sickening crack could be heard because of this.
'He's fighting on instinct, so maybe he only targets the most dangerous threat. But who on earth would be so dangerous that he prioritised fighting them over finishing me off.'
My head was a total mess, so I couldn't properly detect any presences. Even so, there was only a single person who I could think of who could possibly be recognised as a threat greater than the combined force of the three of us.
***
'He's using those flames. I'm so glad. I don't know why, but he isn't holding back anymore. Our last fight was interrupted, I had only recently regressed and he held back those great flames. But not this time.'
I watched as Reinhardt flew towards me, his body coated in Divine Flames, he was much faster than last time. But, he wasn't the only one who had gotten much stronger.
I placed my hands on the ground, causing several earthen walls to form, in an attempt to cause the human meteor thay Reinhardt had turned himself into. However, with each second that passed, large thuds could be heard as he breached each and every wall at terrfying speeds.
I then began to circulate Lightning Magic throughout my body, using it to shorten time taken for electrical impulses to instruct my body, and thus making me faster.
Once Reinhardt was close enough, I began to reduce my body's internal temperature using Ice Magic, by doing this I could reduce the burden caused by having to fight when surrounded by so much heat. I then extended my hand, and focused.
Slowly, silver particles coalesced around my hand, slowly but surely forming a challace. I gripped it, and willed it's form to change.
"Holy Grail. Form, sword."
With that, the challace changed forms and became a blade, shining in the sunlight. And so, I watched as Reinhardt threw a punch at me. Though he was fast, it didn't matter. This man was the sort to never dodge, meaning that so long as I attacked vaguely in his direction, it would be fine.
Using Ice Magic and Wind Magic simultaneously, I made a gale off blizards which I blasted at Reinhardt. The attack was of a low output, and was immediately halted by those flames that surrounded his body, and the physical pressure and force they exerted.
Then, I thrust my sword, aiming for his stomach. However, he dodged. I swung my sword, now just wanting to test the waters. This time, my sword was blocked by his arms before being repelled by his flames.
'He's dodging and blocking. That's not the Reinhardt I know. Last time, he didn't use his full strength, but considering his personality it was definitely the fighting style he would normally use. I felt the Elven girl fire one of those soul piercers.'
That meant that he probably wasn't fully in control right now. But that worked for the best, this way he wouldn't hold anything back against me. With that, coated my hand in an ultra compressed sheet of ice, and landed a blow on his face, before being hit with significantly stronger blow from Reinhardt, only barely being able to withstand it.
I swung my sword downwards, aiming for his arm, it's silver glow leaving silver particles of light surrounding me. Yet, the bastard dodged the attack once more.
'Though, I don't think I can win against him right now unless I take it up a level.'
Blasting myself into the air using Wind Magic, I held my sword with both hands, closing my eyes to focus as I fell towards the ground.
"Holy Grail. Mode, Lancelot."