I Was a Small Fish When I Reincarnated, but It Seems That I Can Become a Dragon, so I Will Do My Best - Extra Chapter 259
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9-7. The Burning Angel
Enyy, still engulfed in flames, swung her spear.
Houen, puzzled as to how she could still move in such a condition, decided to observe for a moment.
He’d always had sharp eyesight.
Looking intently at her burnt, blistering skin, he noticed something strange.
While her charred skin remained unchanged, her muscles, contracted from the heat, were regenerating at an extraordinary speed.
Critical systems like her vision and respiratory organs were also healing, apparently through a continuous use of her “Recovery” skill.
This skill consumed vast amounts of mana to restore the body, meaning constant use should eventually lead to mana depletion.
Yet Enyy was maintaining it, her entire body healing persistently.
Though it had been less than a minute since she caught fire, Houen’s “Absolute Inferno” was relentless, continuing to scorch her flesh.
In another three minutes, her mana would be completely exhausted.
“Urggghh!”
“This is insane…”
Enyy gripped the end of her spear and brought it down.
Houen, already suffering from deep cuts across his body, reacted, but the sudden, sharp pain caused him to flinch.
This made it difficult to evade, so he braced himself, positioning his spear defensively.
Crash… crash, crash, crash, crash, crash!
After blocking the initial blow, he endured six successive impacts.
Her “Multi-Strike” was even more powerful than before, forcing him down onto one knee.
Enyy withdrew her spear, raising it toward the heavens.
Recognizing the incoming attack, Houen slapped the ground with his palm.
“Holy Spear!”
“Inferno Pillar of Doom!”
Flames burst from the ground beneath Enyy.
Almost simultaneously, her “Holy Spear” launched, gouging out Houen’s left shoulder and blowing away his arm.
Houen was thrown back slightly, clutching the stump of his missing left arm as he endured the pain.
“Rrrghhh… damn it all…!”
Dying would restore him, but he lacked the will to take his own life.
Yet if things continued, he might die from blood loss.
As his body grew colder, he looked toward where Enyy had been, noticing the ground around her was glowing red-hot.
The recent “Inferno Pillar of Doom” was smaller in scale, but its firepower was concentrated in one area, making it more potent than ever.
Hopefully, this would finish her off, he thought.
Just then, Enyy toppled forward out of the flames, her body charred black.
It seemed he’d finally done it.
(Motherf—)
As his consciousness faded, he fell asleep right there.
When he woke, he’d returned to his child form, so he took out clothes from his magic pouch and dressed in an instant.
“Alright! I ended up dying… oh well!”
“Houen, look out!”
“Huh?”
Something was hurtling toward him.
It was barely visible, a slight distortion in the air.
The next moment, a dull thud sounded as Houen was sent flying by a powerful punch.
“Ughh!”
“Didn’t make it in time, huh? Sorry, Houen! You’ll have to die once!”
“You too, huh?!”
“As if, you fool!”
A torrent of water collided violently with invisible air.
Ouren was maneuvering using a platform made of “Multi-Water Spears” while controlling “Infinite Water Manipulation.”
Through only the movements of his eyes and hands, he matched Fuuril’s “Wind Fist” head-on.
This feat wasn’t easy to accomplish, but something within Ouren enabled him to achieve it.
He summoned a massive water serpent, “Water Dragon,” with the KageOrochi.
Against Fuuril, elemental attacks like fire or lightning weren’t effective.
The reason was that “Wind Fist” ignored and pierced through them.
Therefore, it was better to use solid elements like earth or water against him.
The invisible skill was extremely troublesome, with hardened air coming at him from all directions in an instant.
Ouren, who had never relied on sensing presence before, was struggling against this attack.
“’Earth Dragon’! Rise up!!”
“’Wind Sword’!”
The massive Earth Dragon, its mouth wide open, surged up from directly beneath Fuuril. But Fuuril reacted with incredible speed, immediately slicing the Earth Dragon clean in two with his skill.
Huge chunks of earth scattered across the ground.
“!”
“‘Mighty Roar’…!”
A silent roar cut through Fuuril. Hitting such a fast-moving target with this skill was difficult, and Ouren had been waiting patiently for the right moment. Fuuril, momentarily distracted as he dealt with the Earth Dragon from below, had briefly shifted his gaze.
It was Ouren’s chance to strike.
With Fuuril temporarily immobilized, Ouren swiftly drew his blade, the Hakuryu-ken. The roar had created just enough time for him to do so.
“Finally caught you, you slippery bastard…!”
“…! Tch!!”
“There’s no escaping now. I’ll finish this quick…Heaven Split!!!”
Fhyuu!
Zlaaaaam!!
The razor-sharp slash cut through Fuuril, powerful enough to split clouds, ground, and air alike. The impact was so strong it altered the very landscape. Fired up as he was, Ouren’s full-powered Heaven Split destroyed everything in its path, leaving a massive canyon in the earth and shattering a mountain, sending magma soaring through the sky.
“…Did I overdo it?”
“You totally overdid it, idiot Ouren.”
“My bad.”
Watching Fuuril’s body tumble into the canyon carved by Heaven Split, Ouren and Houen bumped fists in a shared victory.
“Well, guess it’s time to head over there.”