Chapter 345: Special Chapter VI - Jericho's Push (part 2)
Feeling the sense of death right in front of her, Jericho quickly panicked and jumped back.
"Do you see now how pointless this is?"
I said with a rather heavy voice, and the grinning look that was on her face somewhat disappeared, replaced by a more worried one.
"Good… I was worried you were going to fight me half-heartedly!"
Jericho said loudly and started dashing forward again. Her moves were quite fast, but in this mode, I can literally see her in slow motion.
I simply dashed forward and stopped next to her, on her left.
Her eyes couldn't follow my movements at all. I simply stood there not doing anything, but she could feel death coming for her at any moment. Her eyes are wide from horror and her breath becomes uncontrolled.
Right there and then, Jericho changed her trajectory and leaped away, very close to crashing to the spectator's barrier. She floated in the air for a while and watched my transformation from afar. She knows that I am purposely concealing my pressure, and she knows that my strength is nowhere near her current one.
So, she began powering up.
VWOOOMM…!!
As she floats in the air, her entire body becomes brighter and brighter. Her lance was nowhere to be seen, and her hands were slowly moving towards one another.
She clapped her hands together and quickly poured magic energy into it, and the glow from her whole body quickly transported to her hands.
Powerful wind and light magic collided into one of her hands, and is ready to attack.
Seeing how powerful this attack is, I am very certain this is Jericho's ultimate attack. Plus it seemed to be taking a while to make, and she is putting her all into this.
Okay then… let's see just how powerful it is…
After a while, Jericho finished pouring energy and ready to form the attack. She opened her palms together and formed a ball in between the two. The ball of wind and light looked pretty dazzling between her palms, similar to a crystal. But, it is extremely powerful.
She turned her gaze into me, and she disappeared.
She disappeared into thin air. Her whole body, as well as her powerful ball.
FLICK!!
She reappeared on my left magically, and her powerful ball is very ready to attack the defenseless me. She used her light cloaking technique to get her immediately next to me, as well as moving incredibly fast using both forms of her magic.
That was… insanely fast.
She lifted her hands and threw the attack. The ball began glimmering even brighter, and my whole body became cladded in bright white light.
BLAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The large beam of light and wind magic quickly attacked me from point zero, all the way until it went through the ceiling. The force of the attack throws the whole spectators who are very near with the beam into a tantrum. It is just so powerful, it's not even human anymore.
The beam lasted for ten full seconds, until it finally ran out of energy. Jericho, who is completely out of energy, fell and dropped to the floor. Tired and exhausted from magic energy, she slowly turned her gaze back to the smoke.
Her eyes widened the moment she saw the silhouette standing behind the smokes.
I am still standing there, unscathed. My left arm that is covered by the black shadow scales looks completely normal and undamaged, but the clothes on my shoulder got wiped away.
She glared at me as I turned my gaze to her, showing how I am completely fine.
"That's… Not possible…"
"Nothing is impossible, Jericho. And next time, attack my right side."
Jericho noticed that I am simply unscathed, and she can only sigh and stare downwards.
"Alright… your win."
She said while gazing downwards, and I turned my gaze to the referees at the commentator seat. The commentator noticed that Jericho is not standing up again, and she immediately stood up to announce it.
"W-Wow!!! W-Winner… R-Rize Violet!!!"
The crowd turned wild immediately. Some of them asked some questions as to how I wasn't wounded at all, but they still cheered anyway.
The answer... is my wing.
The devil transformation made my left wing become extremely powerful. It was made out of shadow magic, and thanks to the devil transformation, the shadow magic became multiple times more powerful.
I simply covered my left side with my wing, and it literally blocked the whole attack by itself. Jericho's most powerful attack, probably rivals my basketball sized firebomb, was easily blocked by my wing.
This devil form is truly godlike…
I took a deep breath and let it out. The devil transformation disappeared, and my body returned to normal.
I slowly walked to Jericho who was still sitting on the ground. She seemed to be out of energy, and she lazily turned her gaze upwards to me.
"Did I… do good?"
She asked me as I kneeled next to her, and I nodded to answer.
"Yes. You did… way better than what I expected."
"Heh… I'll beat you next time."
"Okay, continue your dream."
I said as I turned around. Behind me, the healers are already approaching her. I can hear Jericho laughing as the healers brought her away.
And now, the commentator is finishing up her sentence. Obviously, she is just saying random gibberish, so I ignored her.
I turned towards the far end of the arena, where a certain person who was watching my battle was standing.
From his condition, it seemed that he had been healed.
Arfius is glaring at me firmly. His burn wound is no longer there, and his wounds have been completely healed. He also has changed into a new set of clothes, probably so he can run out again to watch my battle.
The battle… has been set.
Wednesday.
We will decide… who is the strongest.