Chapter 11: Heated Clash
BANG
The rabbit stomped at me with full force, only to be deflected and turn upside by the shield.
Mana shield: By creating a sign with my hands, I created a mana dome. But by controlling that dome and making it spin with high speed, deflecting things becomes much easier.
Using this moment, I punch straight to it's abdomen. Even though this looks like old armor, the durability is far higher than Gollum. But the punch is enough to send the rabbit a few steps away.
Landing on its feet, the rabbit stands up looking at me, I joke.
"Wait, you look more like a knight than a“
DIG
“What”
It blended into the ground and dug out right in front of me, unleashing a barrage of blows. I can’t dodge all out it, but I can divert it. I raised my hand up, opened up my palm, spread my leg, and went in a stance. With each of it's strikes, I will swat it to the side with little force, deflecting its trajectory.
I make these things after all, so I know it's one weakness. That is curiosity.
They possess curiosity in order to study and improve themselves; by showing some tricks to it, it won’t use any powerful attack for now.
This keeps going on for a while. I and the rabbit look at each other, undisturbed by the intensity of the fight. Sadly, I can only go for the defensive for the plan to work.
Under the helm, I can see two glowing red eyes that keep looking at me, studying me. The rabbit is actually another experiment of mine between Y-to’s Ironclad and Xiran’s Beast Men. But this one is an oddball.
“For the God of Invention”
“…..”
He shouldn’t be able to speak; is it because of the spear behind it’s back? Either way, I must wait my moment. This bastard must have deemed me weak but extremely skilled, so he is studying my movement and finding solutions for later use, or may be right now.
Before I could deflect the move, the fist suddenly stopped for a moment, making me miss it, then it’s resumed and swung its fist down to make a face and to the ground.
I got knocked down, my eyes closed, looking like I had gone unconscious. Before it has time to pull its arm out. The amulet shined and shared my current state of mind with it’s for a moment, making it sleepy.
Then, I awake grab his wrist with both of my arms, squeeze it’s arm with my legs, and immediately turn my body around, putting my knee, which has become that of a grasshopper, right above its elbow and pulling
SNAPPED
A snapping sound rang out the instant I broke the rabbit’s right arm and jumped away with full force, using it’s helmet as a foot holder with both of my legs, putting a huge dent into the helmet and flinging him away.
“KRKRKRRKKR”
It seems to be in pain; I can’t tell, but one thing is for sure: my plan works. By casting dizziness, I faked myself getting unconscious, and even when unconscious, I was still able to at least transfer my dizziness to it.
"Ah, I’m getting smarter day by day.”
“Don’t you think so, rabbit? Knight? Robot? Whatever you are-”
The rabbit, enraged, pulled its spear out, and a wave of demonic energy spread to the surrounding
The spear has been bothering me; it reek holy energy, but at the same time it emits demonic energy. That spear is something that can absorb demonic energy. Luckily, I'm using dark mana.
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Seeing the surge of demonic energy, I licked my lip.
"Yes, that will be sufficient.”
The battered mechanical beast looked at Beelzebub for a while, then, with its left arm holding the spear, hellfire engulfed the tip of the spear. The rabbit took a stance, then stabbed. From the spear, a scarlet piked flame flew toward me.
I ducked down
BOOM
The fire blast glided above me, hitting and burning the trees from behind. Not stopping, I jumped up.
From the earth, a fire spear spurted out, stabbing where my heart was. The rabbit looks around confused, then looks into the sky only to be stomped in the face. It’s head was knocked down to the ground. Falling, I folded both of my knees to strike its face. But the knees crashed to the earth instead. I stand back up and dash away. From my spot, the soil got hotter before a fire pillar erupt, revealing the rabbit.
Without wasting time, it pointed the spear at me, and then the hellfire on the spear began to grow much stronger, strong enough to melt a boulder.
FWOOSH
Fire spewed out, burning everything on sight. Beelzebub, looking amused, charged directly at the fire.
“?”
Gollum, who just woke up and hid behind a tree, surprised by such action
“?”
Even the rabbit anger was replaced with surprise.
Emerged from the flame, a heated steel humanoid with demon wings on his right hand, dealing a haymaker at the already deformed helm. Causing it to crack, revealing part of the rabbit’s face
It’s just a normal rabbit face, except for the glowing red eye. It’s face began to distorted in anger.
“KRKRKRKRKRK”
It hides into the ground again, but this time I will make sure it regrets it.
The tortured spell is not really complex. By placing your mana on the opponent for 3 seconds. I can add “pain” to all of it’s nerves, making a good torture move. Here is the thing: I can do it as long as I touch the opponent with anything, like the ground. Sure It won’t work even if you lie on the ground because of the distance, but burying yourself with it is a different matter. Mana travels much more effectively on solid matter after all.
Taking my shoe off, I emit a large amount of mana while going on a stance.
This fools the rabbit completely; it's still hiding. Doesn't try to make a move. I channeled my mana to my feet, spread mana across the earth, and activated torture.
BOOM
A small quake can be heard beneath the ground. A few more seconds passed, and the rabbit finally came out with eyes bulging up and flopped around like it was having a seizure.
Seizing this moment of weakness, I approach it with eagerness, only for it to jump up high in the sky. Up in the sky, it stayed up there, showing animosity, and pierced itself with the spear?
The golden spear color begins to turn crimson and begins to crack, revealing flesh. And eye?
The spear suddenly fused with the rabbit, forming a black sphere station in the sky.
I look at the jumping rabbit, realize what is happening, and shout
“FIRED NOW GOLLUM”
Gollum, follow the command, aim at the rabbit, then fire.
“FIRED”
BOOM
The red energy travels to the black sphere, but the black sphere explodes, revealing a dark crimson figurine. The figure looked at the red energy and just casually slapped it away to the ground.
The figure tracks the energy, then turns to me, showing the desire to torture me to death.
The moment it descends, I can take a proper look at it. From the dust, a slender and incredibly tall dark crimson knight in full armor with spikes poked out from the shoulder walks out. Now no one could see this thing as a rabbit anymore. Its ear has become that of a demon horn. Not only did it make a full recovery, but its helmet also changed.
The helm gap is currently spewing a dark red blaze, and at the forehead are three mechanical eyes looking at random spots before all looking at me.
“S-SHI-“
It appears right in front of me then.
BANG
The blow is simply too quick for my eyes to see; I got sent flying just like Gollum just now. What worse is that thing just slapped me; if it were to punch straight, I would die.
“BOSS, I got yo-KUAH.”
Gollum indeed got met, but the force from that attack is too strong, making us both send flying. At least I have a cushion for my back; we both groan.
“Urgh”
“ARGh”
Touching my face, blood is leaking out from my nose and my mouth. It feels like there is a crack at the front of my skull. Looking at the immense demonic energy coming out of that bastard.
This is bad.
The bastard has become a low-rank demon.
“How is this possible? He is already a C-rank, but now he is much stronger, almost reaching B-rank.”
This thing is much stronger now; how is this possible? But I guess life is full of unnatural things; maybe that is a part of the universe's law too. Thinking for a while, I sighed. I know I have to use that technique some day, but to think I have to use it so soon.
“Gollum, listen carefully.”
“???
I gazed at Gollum fiercely.
“I’m about to... descend a little bit of my power.”
"Wait, you can do that?
“Not really because this vessel may break due to sheer force of it.”
“So after the fight is over, protect both my body and that thing corpse.”
“...Can you defeat it?”
“That isn’t an option anymore.”
I looked at Gollum for one last time, then said
“If you managed to do what I told you, I will help you evolve your ability and teach you a little bit.”
“???”
“Now, go somewhere and hide.”
Take a deep breath. I used this kind of imaginary technique for the first time ever.
“Imaginary technique: Beelzebub”
I let my imaginary technique take hold of my body as my mind goes blank.