Chapter 303: X-Ace Clash (Part 21)

Point-of-View: Ariella Velle———————————————————————————

"H-Holy shit, this hurts like hell...and you did it with a Fire Skill, despite the fact that I’m immune to all elemental damage, the sheer force of your attack alone was enough to tear my arm off.

Now, this is more like it!" He exclaimed, beads of sweat running down his face as he trembled in pain, before launching himself straight towards me with a couple of sharp telekinetic bursts.

I fired out a swirling blast of Negative Energy as he began to close in on me, before he swiftly countered with a telekinetic blasts, our attacks erupting fiercely as they collided against each other, dust billowing out.

He shot straight through the dust cloud, before whipping the stump of his right arm across, the shimmer around the stump disappearing before a sharp spray of blood shot towards my face.

I quickly raised my right arm above my eyes, the blood splattering across my gauntlet before evaporating from the heat of the crimson flames with a sharp sizzle, right as I lowered my left arm as he fired out a piercing telekinetic beam, a twinge of pain erupting across my wrist as the beam collided over the part of my gauntlet over that spot in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, he unleashed a pressurized blast of telekinesis from his mouth, sending me hurtling away with a sharp gasp of pain as it collided against the middle of my chest, fracturing my ribs.

I came to a sliding halt as my feet skidded back along the arena, inches ahead of the wall of the barrier behind me, right as he rushed in towards me and unleashed a powerful shockwave, slamming me against the barrier as the shockwave crashed into me.

He swiftly triggered a couple more intense shockwaves, trickles of blood running down the corners of my mouth as I shakily concentrated Mana into my palms, before unleashing it in a couple of devastating bursts of Negative Energy as he blasted out a volley of rapid telekinetic spears towards me, the force of my blasts canceling out the momentum of his attacks before I shot up into the air as he whipped his arms out, firing out a pair of diagonal slashing waves of telekinesis across each other towards me.

I gasped in pain as the slashes sliced right through the middle of my calves, severing my feet, before I flew away while firing out a barrage of Negative Energy arrows at him as my feet regenerated.

I came to a halt in mid-air as I put some distance between us, keeping a close eye on him as I took a moment to catch my breath.

He put a lot into that last chain of attacks, it certainly seemed like he was trying to end the fight...and it seems to have worn him out.

I’d rush in and attack, but I’m feeling pretty ragged myself.

A few seconds passed as we both hung back, our gazes locked onto each other as we waited for the other to make a move, before we suddenly both sprung into action simultaneously.

I swooped down towards him as he launched himself through the air with a pressurized blast of telekinesis, before I drove my left fist forward as we closed in on each other.

"[Super Accel Flame Strike]!"

My eyes widened as he raised the stump of his right arm up, convulsing in pain as my fist slammed square onto the stump, his bicep bending sharply as the bone snapped in half, before I let out a sharp gasp of pain as he struck the middle of my torso with a crushing telekinetic burst, blood pouring out of my mouth as I got blasted back through the air.

I gritted my teeth and spread out my wings while simultaneously unleashing a burst of Negative Energy behind me, bringing myself to a halt before quickly veering across as a shredding blast of telekinesis came shooting towards me, tearing the skin across the side of my left arm to shreds, before I swung my right arm across to fire out a rapid Negative Energy slash.

A shallow graze appeared across his left side as he shot across to the right, before I zipped away through the air as he shot forward and raised his left hand up towards me, trying to pull me towards him.

As I narrowly stayed out of the line of his palm, I flung out a volley of Negative Energy needles behind me, the projectiles getting pulled straight towards him with immense speed.

As he quickly closed his fist, deactivating the Spell, I hurled a roaring blast of Negative Energy at him, which he narrowly blocked as he unleashed a shockwave, blowing it away.

I then extended out a spiky tendril of Negative Energy and whipped it across, sending it zipping through the air rapidly towards his left side.

As he triggered another shockwave as the tendril closed in on him, I fired out a piercing beam of Negative Energy straight towards him, grazing the top of his right shoulder as he veered across and zipper down towards the floor of the arena.

As his feet hit the floor with a thud, I swooped down towards him at full speed, firing out a devastating blast of Negative Energy at him from my mouth.

He unleashed another shockwave, it wasn’t strong enough to block my attack, but it diverted the trajectory of the blast just enough to miss him, before I launched myself forward with a propelling burst of Negative Energy and drove my left fist towards his head.

Suddenly, he stepped forward and swung his fist in towards the right side of my head, his fist colliding against my right cheek as I simultaneously slammed my fist square onto the middle of his nose.

My head jerked across to the left as a telekinetic burst erupted out of his fist upon impact, right as he got launched back through the air as an intense, explosive fiery burst erupted from my fist, breaking his nose as he hurtled back.

As his back slammed against the barrier, he rolled out of the way as I fired a piercing beam of Negative Energy towards him, grazing his right side by his ribcage, just below his armpit, before he blasted himself further across to the left with his telekinesis, getting some distance away from me as blood streamed down from his nose and dripped off his chin...