84 2.39 Battle for the Drink of Gods - Part 5

I honestly wasn't sure how to answer that. I could feel Flare like a part of me, but my consciousness was the dominant one. I could sense her strong emotions, but not her complete thoughts.

"Well, let's think about that later kid. For now, you take the lead and I will back you up."

My abilities were still unknown to me, so I wasn't exactly sure if I was the right person for the job. But since he said he would back me up, I could count on him to have my back.

At this point, it would be nice if I could test these new abilities of mine using my sword. But it wasn't around anywhere, so it might have fallen into the lake with me during her attack earlier.

Imagining Duke's and Garo's reaction when they find out that I lost it was making me hesitant to ignore the matter. But I moved on and raised myself in the air. Zagan followed me and both of us took our position.

"Looks like you two are finally ready. Now, I can be serious."

'Well, I thought you were already serious,' was what I wanted to say. But now, the time for talks was over.

I charged straight towards her, and as I did, she too came straight at me. When we met at the center, she attacked me with her favorite high kick.

The high kick here was a good idea since its range was bigger compared to any fist attack. But at this point, it had somewhat become predictable. I blocked the high kick using my left arm.

This time, I was ready for the impact, I had physically enhanced my arm and had concentrated most of my raw mana into my mana cloak. The price of this was my limited magical abilities since most of my mana would be spent on defense. But that was something I needed to do when fighting at this range.

Kicking a woman wasn't really my style. But she was no normal woman, she was a beast. So, without wasting my time on second thought, I tried returning the favor using my right leg. The flexibility in my current form helped me, but since my attack wasn't supported by momentum like hers, she dodged it easily by bending backward and caught my leg with her right hand.

"Oh crap!"

I was at the part where I had no way to escape. I was sure the slam on the ground was coming next, but before that could happen, Zagan attacked her using a dark orb like the one he used before. Unlike last time, the orb was a lot bigger this time.

She moved back and avoided it at the nick of time. His speed too had increased considerably than the last time, so dodging the attack was the wise move on her part.

"Hey Zagan, don't you have any other cool moves that we can use here?"

"This place is filled with pure mana, and we demons are the manipulator of negative energy. My abilities are limited here."

"Oh yeah, forgot that."

Humans and demi humans considered this ability to be evil, but it was just another way to create a balance in the world. Though excessive absorption of miasma leading to insanity was something often observed. Though there could be a way to avoid that.

'I should ask Zagan more about this when I have time.'

"Well, I am not the type to blame my inefficiency to home-field advantage, but in this case, she just holds too much of that. The best I can do here is this."

As he was saying that, he used both of his hands and created a long sword of concentrated darkness magic.

"Woah, this might work."

"Huh?"

Right when I was wondering how to defeat her, I got an idea that might work. That sword was the exact thing that we needed to try this.

Despite our talks, both of us were vigilant and our eyes were focused on her. She wasn't making a direct move, so she too probably was waiting for us to make a move.

[Hey Zagan, let's try something.]

As I was saying that, I created a longsword using the purest golden flame that I could muster. This was the same technique that Zagan used before. But the elements making our swords were different.

[What? Oh, that… Okay, but are you sure those flames will do the job?]

[I am sure they will get along with pretty much anything.]

[Okay, It's worth a shot. Let's confuse her with our movements and go for a diagonal strike.]

After discussing our strategy, we gave her what she wanted and made our move.

I charged straight towards her left with my flaming sword while Zagan went for the right. We knew what happened before when we tried going at her together so this time, we were prepared in case she tries to do the same. My speed had increased a lot so it wouldn't be as easy as last time. But at this point, it would be best to move with the thinking that she was way faster.

As expected, she dodged both of our attacks by bending backward. But I created a fireball in my left hand and right when she was dodging our attack, I attacked her with it.

She caught my hand before my attack could reach her, but Zagan was prepared for the next strike.

Zagan swung his Darkness sword at her, but she pulled me down and used me as a shield. When Zagan saw me there, he stopped his attack.

We weren't done though. I attacked her using my flaming sword from below, but she dodged it with a backflip. And as she did, Zagan went for the third strike. But before he could get to her, she moved backward and distanced herself.

"Coordinating, huh?" she said. Despite all the efforts we put in our attacks we weren't even able to faze her a bit. "Well, I figured you would be plotting something like that at this point. Let's see how long you can keep that up."

'She fell for it.'

I charged at her diagonally while Zagan moved right to the position where I was standing before. As expected, she was confused since this attack wasn't as coordinated as earlier and there were a lot of openings. When I reached closer, I jumped. And when I was right above her, I attacked her using my flaming sword.

She didn't try to catch me because she knew it would restrict her movement too and give both Zagan and me an opening to attack.

When I was keeping her busy, Zagan attacked her using a darkness slash. But his aim was off, so she didn't bother to dodge it. But right when it was passing next to her. I turned around and slashed out with a burst of purest golden flames, aiming right at Zagan's dark slash.

When they collided, a huge burst of dark flames appeared, and engulfed her within itself, trapping her inside a huge block of magical ice.

: Aftermath