Chapter 203 - Man down

Noticing that the two other Fire Controllers didn't yet spot the Arrows, Eric threw upon himself the responsibility to dismantle this Air attack. So he decided to do something a bit bold to face these undoubtedly life threatening Arrows, using the Bear Claw.

This is tremendously risky because he can terribly miss such as shot. For example, swinging before time. He would be showered with Arrows! Swinging too late might not even be an option here! Taking a look at his two companions first, and looking back at the arrows some of which were flashing in the sunlight, he blazed into action.

Fire broke from his hand and shaped into a bigger hand. As described many times before, it shaped into a Bear Claw. In order to make up for a few inches he might be missing with his desired swing, he leaped as much as he could without breaking Fire out of his feet.

Taking a right swing at the Arrows, he managed to hit seemingly half of the Arrows before he had to tumble forwards in order to avoid being hit by some that he missed. Not a second too late either, he even felt an arrow ripping a portion of his shirt at the very bottom while he was tumbling. Thankfully it didn't meet with his skin! That little jump earlier saved him from several arrows even though he just managed to jump a few inches high. 

The arrows he managed to hit however, had their Iron Tip burned to the point of making it rain liquid Iron and their slender wooden bodies were tossed on the side of the road about 10 meters away because he didn't manage to hit those wooden slender arrow bodies from one end to the other, he managed to hit roughly half of theirs at most.

While a few of which he just managed to break their Iron tips of instead of a portion of the Wooden bodies(Or tails.) as well, twirled in mid air a few times and were even set into a blaze. But since it twirled rapidly in the air, the fire on them shut down. Good thing too, because several of them dropped around him once he stopped tumbling and a couple even hit his head. It would be disastrous if his hair were set on Fire, he just grew back the eyebrow he lost back when facing the Calidum Lutum in the Underground Town of Lan Zhe.

Moving on, when he stood up on his feet he found out that the Army is roughly 15 meters away. This is a dangerous distance so Mogranius moved in the battle and did something he doesn't quite usually doo power move wise. Breaking out a Bear Claw he dragged Eric back and threw him all the way towards King Michael while he himself was blasting Fire through his feet to enhance his leap towards the enemy. Using the Bear Claw while he was in mid air however, caused some problems with stability. Eric didn't manage to land on his feet because of it but still didn't suffer any permanent damage.

"Fire Shield!" Mogranius yelled once his feet connected with the ground. A short sentence indeed but it was still clear as a stream of water, Mogranius was about to shake the ground! How would a Fire Controller do that you might ask? Well, do you remember the Atomic Fire power move?

King Michael acknowledged what he meant (But didn't know what move Mogranius is about to try, obviously.) and burst into action. Seeing that Eric is near him even though he is on his back, King Michael started off the Fire Shield with a clap accompanied by the traditional sumo squat and shaped a 5 inch thick Fire Shield with ease around himself and Eric too. Such thickness would be tremendously hard to do and maintain for an Expert(Level 4) Fire Controller, not to mention anyone with a lower rank. To make it even more difficult, the Fire Shield spaned 10 feet wide. That takes a lot of Stamina.

Seeing Eric safe, Mogranius finally started blasting Fire from his hands once more to prepare for the final shot. These Soldiers are too close already, there isn't any time to waste. Afterwards he blew Fire from his feet and started flying backwards in order to avoid the Army and in the process of the retreat, he started forming the spherical formation of Fire in between his two hands who were half a foot apart.

To super charge this compressed blast, he used part of the Fire coming out of his feet to fly and the other part to fill the sphere. Naturally, he would also blast Fire out of his nose to speed up the provided resource, but there isn't much time to waste and blowing Fire from every possible body part would require a bit more concentration. He is multitasking on so many levels, he can't go any further. So he blasted Fire just out of his mouth instead. 

He only had a couple more seconds to spare as the Soldiers were getting closer and closer, to the point of being 5 meters away even though he was flying backwards. But to unleash this Power move, his feet have to touch the ground, his hands too. So he stopped blasting Fire from his feet, met the ground and punched it with both of his hands with all his might.

Lucky enough, he unleashed it just before a Soldier was about to land a strike against him. This power move saved him because once it hit the ground, it sunk a foot deep and zig zagged its way forwards. Pushing/throwing away any rock, dirt and person for that matter, in front of it. The Soldier that was about to attack him, was blown an inch above Mogranius' head. He saw his reflection on the narrowly pointed Sword once he ducked to avoid it and the feet of the Soldier flying on the left side as well, separated from its owner's body.

Knowing that the Atomic Fire move wasn't charged enough to travel at least 5 meters (With information based on previous attempts.) he turned around and blasted Fire out of his feet in order to avoid the Blast's explosive Radius, but it wasn't enough.

Going through a few Zig Zags, the Blast arose from the ground and unleashed its final potential. The moment it arose just an inch out of the ground, it exploded. Not giving anyone closebly, time to escape regardless of Race or faction. Since it wasn't charged long enough, the spherical Compression of Fire didn't manage to push through the Ground for a long time which resulted to this early explosion. Therefore, its blast radius partially hit Mogranius' back to the point of tearing apart his thick black robe on the back Area.

Luckily, he is in one piece and just sustained some rough burn marks. His flesh didn't tare, that was at least a good side out of this explosion survival. He landed on his own feet even, feeling capable that he can withstand this burn enough to get out of here.

The explosion only caused a couple of cracks on King Michael's Fire Shield, it wasn't really anything to worry about but it proved how dangerous this power move is. As for all of the Soldiers that became victimized by the explosion, their limbs started falling from the sky. I'd like to say that those were the least disturbing body parts everyone saw flying around. But no, the Human body isn't just made out of Limbs and bones after all. 

The Blast Radius victimized at least 40 Guards and heavily injured at least over 20 and knocked many others off of their feet. Since the impact isn't too strong once the Blast finishes its most deadly blow, it doesn't quite reach out for anyone who wasn't in the blast radius. As if it was a controlled explosion set with boundaries and firm limitations.

"Let's move!" Shouted Mogranius, Ignoring the sensation of pain on his back and started blasting Fire out of his feet. Best described unlucky, the moment he was a couple of inches above the Ground, an arrow flew right above his left shoulder and didn't hit him but another one did on the right shoulder and messed up his orientation.

Age isn't by his side, his back just got burned and now an arrow too? He flew a couple of meters away and then got tossed to the ground, refusing to scream in pain and show weakness to the enemy. Glad his self feeding ego came in very handy this time.

"Shit!" Whispered King Michael and was forced to break the Fire Shield in aims of springing into action to help Mogranius, but he helped differently.

He took a few quick steps forwards while blasting two Fireballs on each step in hopes of fighting off the upcoming wave as much as he can under limited time. They barely managed to kill 100 men so far, the Army is far from being defeated and their waves won't stop just yet. The Fire Balls he unleashed were around 10 foot each as if he had a Stamina 5 times bigger than Mogranius'. Terrifyingly beautiful to see but they sure proved useful too!

The Fireballs didn't just burn the flesh and bones from the opponents, but also completely obliterated their solid Heavy Iron Armor they had on. He even burned their ashes after it too! As if deleting a person from history.

He continued to unleash Double Slicers after but this time they were horizontal instead of narrow. Which covered a lot more people this time in one row, but the slicers didn't manage to cut through several rows at once since its durability is tested with more people this time.

"Grab Mogranius and get out of here." Yelled King Michael as he stopped blasting Fire and took a quick glance at Eric. "I'll hold them off!"