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 269
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9-17. As If It Mattered That Much
The strongest ally has arrived!
I sighed in relief, while Amariaz smirked faintly, scoffing through his nose.
Now it’s three against one…!
Arnicc’s skills were overwhelmingly powerful, but Tekeris’s skill completely nullified them!
If only he had told us earlier that he had such skills.
Had I known, I wouldn’t have rushed in alone.
…Well, maybe I still would have.
Tekeris burst into hearty laughter and snapped his fingers.
In the next moment, the wall behind us was spectacularly destroyed, and a mass of flesh flew into the room.
“This is…!”
“Iubora-san!”
Debris and sand dust scattered toward Arnicc.
He calmly raised his hand.
“‘Air Shock.”
Whoosh… BOOM!
The vibrations in the air shattered everything heading his way.
Yet, only Iubora remained intact, frozen in place.
“Ugh… grrr…!”
“‘‘Air Shock’ stops even your own movements. Make sure it doesn’t graze you.”
“It can’t even graze me?! This guy’s skills are all instant win or what?!”
“He must be heavily blessed by the gods or something.”
Amariaz turned away, visibly annoyed.
The cause of all this trouble.
Regardless, his skills were a massive pain.
Honestly, it’s been quite a while since he drank that weird liquid, hasn’t it?
And yet, he’s still brimming with energy?!
Amariaz had inflicted damage with ‘Air Pressure’ and ‘Barrier,’ but it wasn’t nearly enough to be fatal.
If we had just been able to hold him down a bit longer, the covertly dispatched ‘Air Pressure Swords’ would have landed…
But even those were obliterated by ‘‘Air Shock.’
That skill is seriously broken.
At this point, though, I’ve had enough!
“Tekeris-san! Do you know a skill called ‘Ripple’?”
“‘Ripple’? Never heard of it.”
“It’s a skill that generates ripples in anything. Solid objects get forcefully warped and shattered.”
“Hmm, so the sand at your feet is a remnant of that?”
“Exactly.”
Amariaz explained in my stead.
Tekeris nudged at the sand below him, left over from the use of ‘Ripple,’ with the tip of his foot.
This man understands things quickly.
Perhaps it’s because he possesses a skill that allows him to create new skills.
That said, Tekeris-san also had a skill to cancel out ‘Ripple.’
Using it would allow us to get close to attack.
Or so I thought… but apparently, that was out of the question.
The skill Tekeris used earlier, ‘Nullify,’ could neutralize any skill, but it’s classified as a high-tier defensive skill and has a cooldown.
So it can’t be used repeatedly.
“However, don’t worry. I also have plenty of ranged skills. Just made a new one, in fact.”
“You made one just now?!”
“Observe. Unlike in the distant past, now there’s only him. I can handle this alone.”
As Tekeris calmly raised his arm, Arnicc sprang into action.
Apparently, Tekeris was an opponent he couldn’t afford to ignore.
Realizing he needed to close the distance before being attacked, Arnicc moved swiftly.
Amariaz and I immediately moved to intercept him.
Amariaz generated countless ‘Air Pressure Swords.’
Right after, I launched a ‘Explosive Fist.’
The sand on the ground was kicked up, forming a cloud that obstructed vision.
Amariaz and I could sense where Arnicc was through his presence, so visibility wasn’t an issue for us.
Amariaz’s ‘Air Pressure Swords’ locked onto their target, exploding in perfect succession.
Yet, Arnicc’s movement remained unfazed.
It was as if he was cloaked in an invisible shield.
His focus was singular—Tekeris.
“‘Compressed Ripple.’”
He clenched his fist tightly and then suddenly opened it.
A small globule of water shot out, rapidly expanding into ripples.
“Don’t panic. ‘Recoil.’”
Thud…!
A sharp, dull sound resonated.
The ‘Compressed Ripple’ launched by Arnicc dispersed in an instant. At the same time, blood trickled from Arnicc’s mouth.
“Hmm, this is still too weak.”
“‘Heal.’”
After casting a healing spell on himself, he wiped the blood from his lips.
That last attack had collapsed his lung.
What does he mean by ‘too weak’?
A normal person would have been dead after just one hit of that.
Clatter.
A solid object fell to the ground.
I glanced at it and saw a tablet-sized slab of stone lying there.
“…!”
“‘Tablet of Chaos.’”
Iubora, regaining mobility, made his move.
Cracks formed on the fallen slab.
The moment it shattered, countless tendrils emerged, surging toward Arnicc to ensnare him.
This skill consumed a significant amount of Iubora’s magic and was a summoning skill.
Even Iubora himself didn’t know the nature of what he summoned.
But it was precisely because of its unknown origin that it held potential.
In fact, the tendrils emerging from the tablet continued to move, undeterred by Arnicc’s ‘Ripple.’
“Awesome! Iubora, great job! Amariaz, let’s go! Sync up!”
“Got it! ‘Air Pressure!’”
“‘Dust Guillotine!’”
Amariaz’s ‘Air Pressure’ immobilized Arnicc.
Seizing the opportunity, the creature summoned by Iubora bound him completely with its tendrils.
The sand beneath Arnicc surged upward, forming a guillotine blade aimed at his neck.
Just a moment more.
A blink of an eye, and the fight would be over.
Or so we thought.
“Don’t underestimate me. ‘Greater Air Shock’”
BOOM!
Everything was blown away.