Oh no! The big bad dragon is doing a big fireball with fancy magic! Fucking bastard, I will show you magical.

The necromancer continued to funnel his magic into the spell. He never got to test it before, but now was as good as a time as ever. And according to few books he stole with him, this spell would be strong enough to wipe out an entire army.

Althought the spell would need a lot of mana and time, he already had the mana and he doubted that the monster could reach him from so far up. Or so he thought.

The tower of flesh leaned back, and out of its mouth a massive pillar of bone crawled out from its maw. With wide undead eyes, the necromancer saw as the pillar somehow turned from a mouth belonging to a worm to that of a hand belonging to something humanoid.

It grasped the bone pillar that only now showed its speared tip. Its surface moved as if there were countless worms digging through its body. It slowly changed its body and ended up sharing a form similar to that of an arm. Four fingers and a thumb, with the maw in the middle of the palm. Its grip changed, and with movements horrifyingly quick it launched the spear.

The winds created by the strong movement pushed away at the acidic mist below, showing the melted down earth. The necromancer didnt have enough time to react as the spear pierced through the magical ball. It actually hit one of the symbols covering the ball, creating a sound like pushing your finger into a cup of slime. The necromancer held back a non-existing breath and stared at the pierced ball, while Vita on the other hand gave a middle finger to the undead magician.

At first, nothing happened. Vita was also looking at the ball, bored that nothing cool happened. So it only made sense to spice it up a little.

With a snap of my fingers and a flick of my wrist, back to- yeah I cant bother. Guess this would be a good experiment to see what would happen if one of my own cells died.

Just as the necromancer thought the primitive attack didnt work, he had to take a double take as the spear started to expand from the middle. Which was also the center of his spell. He watched as the spear somehow managed to balloon outwards and then explode while inside.

At first, nothing. For the briefest of seconds, there was color. Then, white.

Nearly all of Vitas sensory organs were destroyed. Eyes were popped and then melted shut by skin and other materials covering Vitas surface. Eardrums were pulverized and 99% of neurons were destroyed. The expanding sphere of pure energy continued to move outwards, the trees were turned to mere atoms and any living organisms close by suffered the same fate.

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Then it exploded. The sphere lost its shape as all of the energy went wild, pushing away all of the melted down material. Dust flew with such speed that it fused into other objects before being blown away by the mere shockwave. And as the shockwave continued to move, a massive mushroom cloud rose into the air.

The explosion was even heard from far, far away. Not to mention the cloud that was created was visible from far away.

When it finally finished, there was little to nothing to see as that perticular part of the forest was turned into a flat hellscape. Ash was falling down like snow and the sky was grey. There were odd pits with still burning material that reached a dozen meters into the sky.

Of the two who fought, there wasnt much.

Only the teeth of the bone dragon remained and even they were cracked and broken. Surviving something so devastating while being so close to the source was impossible. Only someone, or something, with enough endurance and tenacity to rival the gods could survive such an attack. Even then, they would be left with only a tiny strand of life left and die on a later date.

Except of course, for Vita

Vitas wendigo-like form crawled out from under the crust of melted earth with great difficulty. Looking around, Vita was slightly confused.

Huh, this wasnt were I was just a moment ago. That fucker made a nuclear bomb without telling me, that bastard. Hell, if I didnt have the weird bone cancers to grow around me during the explosion, I might've died right then and there. Not only that, I didnt get to check for what would happen if one of my already dead cells got any dead-er. Oh well, no point in wasting time. Oh hey, the book survived too!

Vita finally started to move from the hole after checking every cell for anomalies. It took some walking before there were any signs of forest. Tall trees were burned to a crisp on one side, with a sad amount of green on the other side. It didnt take long after that to finally come back to a somewhat proper looking forest. If one ignored all of the dead animals. And the tougher animals that had blood leaking out from their ears.

There was even one of those tall spider looking things with that eye on the bottom, but there wasnt anything unique about them. Its eye was just so-so in quality.

Hey, wait a second.

Vita stopped moving and sat down on a random rock.

I managed to survive a magical nuke that blasted away the forest. I also didnt get my ears or internals burst from the blast. If I survived something that the forest didnt, doesnt that make me better than the forest? Then clearly someone so badass would need a proper title of sorts right? Yeah, something like God King of the Forest!? No, too cringy and there still is forest left. A bit more lowkey like, The Forest King? Yeah that sounds right. Not too narcissistic, but still cool sounding. And every king needs a cape!

Out from Vitas back, long vines grew out and out of these vines leafs grew. These vines werent the purple noble color, but it was a bloody red color.

Now Vita stood at a noble two and a half meters tall, with a red cape and a crown befitting a king. Althought the cape is made out of plants and the crown out of bones.