Chapter 184 - Battle Against the Sto Form

  It’s a shame that I only use other elements as a Summoner. It would be iing to try creating a monstrous armor like that...

  I'm pulled back to reality as I dodge a heavy impact that explodes right where I was seds ago. Moving quickly to the side, I hurl a bolt of lightning at the Earth Mage. He raises his arm to defend, and my thunder is pletely absorbed by his reinforced stone armor.

  His armor is arisutor? Damn… it’s resistant to electricity. He developed something specifically for a Thunder Mage? The rock's properties have been modified to handle electricity.

  I leap backward, avoiding fragments that fly toward me.

  "Let's py, boy!" the mage shouts as he gees a massive boulder and hurls it in my dire.

  I send a sphere of wind toward the boulder, but before my magic takes effect, he shatters the rod rushes forward in his monstrous form, trying to strike me with all his might. I dodge at the st moment, and he sms the ground with a devastating impact, making the earth tremble.

  They've really studied my element... whoever’s trying to kill me has ied heavily in this.

  I keep running, evaluating my options.

  If I use the power of the Lord of the Titans and summon those golems, they won’t be intelligent enough to handle enemies of this level. Moreover, embodying the elemental power of my eyes in golem form would temporarily disable my access to that element while the golem remains active. That would only make things worse.

  Suddenly, the trees behind me explode uhe impact of a massive spiked ball hurtling at high speed. I realize the Fire Mage is missing, likely waiting for the perfeent to strike.

  The massive spiked ball stops mid-air, revealing the Earth Mage in his Sto Form.

  "He transform into a spiked ball?"

  "e on, Thunder Boy! We’ve studied your element for years, gathering all the kingdom’s knowledge about Thunder Mages. I am your natural enemy! Hahaha!" he taunts, advang with a punch that sends me flying, even through my wind barrier.

  The mage begins to transfain into a massive spiked ball, rolling toward me at terrifying speed.

  "Fire Field!" I hear a voice shout behind me, and suddenly, I’m surrounded by t fmes that leave me no escape.

  I look up to see the massive spiked ball about to crush me.

  I’m ered...

  I take a deep breath and decre:

  "In that case... I will raise my level a little more."

  I extend my hand, and the grouh me starts to quake. At the st sed, two enormous pnt-made hands emerge from the earth, rising to shield me. The spiked ball collides with them, trying to crush them with its destructive force.

  "Pay attention!" I shout, summoning a giant third hand of yellow energy that quickly strikes the ball, sending it flying away.

  More pnts begin sprouting around me, and I use their momentum to propel myself into the air, esg the fire trap and gaining a vantage point above my enemies.

  In mid-air, I csp my hands together and ihe spell with a powerful shout:

  "Pnt Art: Demeter's Forest"

  The words echoed as massive, monstrous trees erupted from the ground, apanied by a lush greehat flooded the muddy forest. It was a dispy of power, a tribute to an a goddess of Olympus. As soon as I nded on the ground, hundreds of roots emerged, ready to obey my and.

  "This is my territory," I decred firmly.

  The Fire Mage had hidden herself again, but from afar, I spotted the Earth Mage in his monstrous form, charging forward and crushing my trees as he approached. He halted a few meters away, disbelief written on his face.

  "How? How you have both pnt and thunder elements?" he shouted.

  I raised my hands, holding a metal sword in one and a yellow sword iher.

  "A Light Sword? What are you?" he asked, bewildered.

  "A High Half-Elf," I replied, letting my swlow with a bluish yer.

  “Impossible! A High Elf is practically a mystical being. They haven’t reproduced with another species for millennia.”

  "There's always an exception," I replied. “And this isn’t just a light-element sword... it's a light-element sword bined with thunder." I smiled, advang toward him.

  He morphed his arm into a bde and propelled himself forcefully at me. Our bdes cshed, and I had to reinforce my arm with wind to withstand the monstrous impact. Using my elemental sword, I mao wound him.

  He quickly retreated, then noticed:

  "My armor... you mao break a piece of it, haha!" he ughed as his arman tee.

  I pointed my blue-glowing sword at him.

  "That's the power of elemental bination," I decred, intensifying the power of my bde until it began to smolder with trated energy.

  "You're worth every !" he shouted, transf into a massive ball of spikes and rolling toward me.

  I rushed to meet him but pulled back at the st moment. The spiked ball fired its projectiles, revealing it to be a trap. I created a wind barrier to defend myself, and he desded upon me, brandishing an axe in one hand and a stone bde iher.

  We exged blows, and I used my elemental sword to defend myself. Each strike dismantled part of his armor.

  'BAM!' He morphed one hand into a hammer and smmed it into the ground, causing a devastating shockwave.

  Taking advantage of the moment, I nded a lightning-boosted kick, followed by a ssh with my blue bde. His axe shattered uhe fory sword, but he lunged with both hands, ready to grab me.

  I deactivated the elemental sword and, in a swift motion, delivered a wind-reinforced palm strike. Though it didn’t damage his stone armor, the burst of wind propelled me away, saving me from his deadly grasp.

  I hit the ground, now holding only the metal sword. I quickly stored it ba my ste bracelet a running.

  "Are you giving up?" he ughed, nding heavily in front of me.

  "I just wanted my hands free," I replied with a grin.

  I made a quick gesture, sending a pacle his way. He tried to defend himself, but the surrounding trees began to shoot high-speed roots, binding his hands, feet, and neck.

  With a and, I bent the forest to my will. He struggled desperately to break free from the suffog roots while I circled him, trolling the pnts from a distance.

  "This is my forest, this is my garden," I decred, stomping the ground forcefully. In response, a massive wooden fist, adorned with thorns, rose from the earth and struck him with full force, sending him flying away.

  While he was falling through the air, the surrounding trees began firing high-speed spikes, as if they were alive, obeying my ands. Seizing the moment, I leaped forward, making the wood groidly to strike him.

  With a guttural roar, he propelled himself forward, transf one of his arms into a colossal stone shield covered in spikes. The impact was brutal, shattering all the wood I had sent toward him as if they were mere twigs.

  "Ahhh!" he roared, triggering a series of explosions as he advanced. I jumped to evade them in mid-air, but he adjusted his trajectory surprisingly well, ung himself with primal ferocity.

  "Thunder..." I started to t, but I was forced to quickly jure a wind barrier. However, he broke through it with a brutal headbutt.

  “Damn it!” I shouted, feeling the overwhelming impact. A sharp horn had sprouted from his forehead, pierg through my wind barrier and stabbing into my chest. I was thrown backward, spinning untrolbly until I crashed among the forest trees.

  'BAM!' The sound of his nding reverberated through the ground, and he immediately began rolling at high speed, transf into a monstrous spiked ball that grew rger as it charged toward me like a living avanche. I quickly got bay feet, my body ag as I sidered my options.

  My elemental sword was effective against his stone armor, but he roag with crushing speed. If he hit me, it would be over.

  "Pnt Art: Green Guardian’s Gate!" I ted, and a massive wooden gate erupted from the ground, sturdy spikes sprouting from its structure. The wood was dark brown, as hard as iron, inspired by a defeeique from my grandfather, a master of the earth element. The gate bore a carved face, a fierce expression of prote.

  ‘BOOM!’ He collided with the gate at full force, shattering it to pieces, but his spiked form also broke apart on impact. I took advantage of the opening, feeliricity surge through my right arm.

  "Thunder Dash!" I ted, and a burst of electric force propelled me forward in a blink, pg me directly in front of the earth mage, who was still reeling from the impact.

  My entire arm emanated an intense blue energy, fog all my mana. With a decisive motion, I delivered a brutal punch. "Thunder Art: Geodynamic Shock!" I roared, and my fist collided with his spiked armor, pierg through it with devastating force.

  A massive fsh of lightning followed, apanied by a thunderous boom that echoed across the battlefield. The impact replicated teiergy, unleashing a wave of electricity that cracked his stone armor. The blow sent him flying backward, electricity enveloping his body, redug his carapace to scattered fragments.

  I was thrown back by the force of the explosion, but I quickly stood up, breathing heavily. I looked at my hand, two fingers broken from the impact of the punch, but the result was achieved. The earth mage fell heavily, parts of his armor missing, his body covered in cracks.

  Before he could rise, I pressed on with my permination burning in my eyes.

  "Pnt Art: Sacred Forest Flood!" I shouted with every ounce of strength, feeling mana surge fiercely through my body. The forest seemed to awaken from a deep slumber, responding instantly to my call. An a roar echoed through the air, and the grouh trembled as if the very earth was alive, ready to erupt in fury.

  A colossal tsunami of roots erupted from all dires, like a green monster emerging from the depths of the forest. The roots iwined into a twisted mass of wood, covered in thorns that glistened in the daylight, casting menag shadows as they surged forward like a wild sea. This spell required the presence of Demeter’s Forest to be cast, and now the mage was pletely at its mercy.

  The mage panicked, his eyes widening as he realized he was caught in a trap. Desperately, he attempted to summon stone barriers to halt the relentless advance of the vegetation, but his defenses were mercilessly shattered. Each attempt was swiftly reduced to rubble as the wave of roots pressed on, unstoppable.

  He was engulfed by the wave of wood and leaves, violently tossed around. The roots coiled around him like predatory serpents, tightening as he was smmed into trees along the way. Gusts of wind, born from the spell's momentum, lifted dry leaves into the air, creating a storm of vegetation that surrouhe battlefield.

  "It’s not over yet!" I decred firmly, my voice resonating with the weight of a vow. My body pulsed with energy as I eled all my mana upwards, trating the light element into a specific point.

  In the sky, a massive drill began to form. It was like a pilr of pure light, its intense yellow glow blinding everything around it. The light spun at high speed, emitting a sharp, pierg sound, while wooden roots coiled around it like deadly thorns, reinf the spell with nature’s power. The fusion of the two elements resulted in a monstrous, spiked creation, primed for the final strike.

  "FIRE!" I shouted, releasing the drill of light and wood. It surged forward like an unstoppable projectile, tearing through the air with a deafening hum. The drill left a trail htness in its wake, creating shockwaves in the air from its sheer speed.

  The mage, realizing the immi danger, rose in a panic, his wide eyes filled with utter terror. His breathing was ragged, his face etched with desperation as he frantically waved his hands, trying to raise a stone barrier i, desperate act of survival. But it was futile.

  The drill of pure energy collided with brutal force, pierg through the stone barrier as if it were fragile paper, redug it to mere fragments.

  ‘BOOOOOOOOOM!’

  The sound of the impact was deafening, eg throughout the forest like a shockwave that seemed to rip the very air apart. A blinding burst of light followed, illuminating the battlefield with an intense and almost blinding crity. The surrounding trees swayed violently, as if shaken by an unstoppable gale, and the ground trembled with sutensity that it seemed on the verge of splitting apart.

  A dense cloud of dust and stone shards rose from the point of impact, f an opaque curtain that enveloped the entire area. The air grew heavy and suffog as debris scattered, pletely obsg the spot where the mage had made his st desperate attempt at defense.

  The sound still echoed through the field, reverberating iermath, as the result of the attack became clear: shattered earth and scattered stone fragments were all that remained of the mage's defense.