Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 26: The Imperial Army, part 4
Force Teleportation's. It wasn't Xavier who was the target of the teleportation, but Reinhart did it to Hekiel along with Dermyus—'s black lightning and at the same time he teleported himself. Reinhart suspected Xavier would be able to withstand forced teleportation if the spell was broadcast to the commander. That was why the others were the target of that spell.
If that wasn't enough to show Reinhart's ingenuity, the numbness Xavier felt on both of his arms would be enough. Reinhart's martial technique cut off the blood flow, but this time he slowed the blood flow on his hands while blocking the commander's attack. Unfortunately, just as the injuries from the black lightning dissipated in an instant, the effects of the Reinhart attack were as well.
And, at the same time as the loss of those effects, the black flames engulfed the black lightning perfectly. Xavier himself was surprised by that. He did not expect his black flames to consume black lightning as easily as ordinary flames to obliterate a piece of paper. Did this happen because black lightning considered black lightning a part of him?
Xavier wasn't given much time to think about the reason behind the ease with which black flames could obliterate black lightning. The golems had already attacked him. Each of the golems had been armed with two black lightning spears. Dermyus cooperated with Hekiel. They are good, praise Xavier as he spreads his black flames bobbing in all directions, but less quickly.
At the same time, two black fire swords manifested in Xavier's right and left hands.
The black fire wave destroyed many golems that could not dodge, but the number that could dodge was far more. Xavier used both of his black fire swords to destroy the attacking golems. He did not even care about the black lightning spear at all: the spears instantly ignited the black flames even before the black flames touched him.
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Dermyus could only silently watch his black lightning spears being engulfed in black flames so easily.
Black lightning was the strongest lightning, and the high density he made on his spell should make it difficult for black flames to swallow his lightning. In fact, what happened was just the opposite. The denser the lightning, the easier it would be to swallow a black flame. It was a mistake he made his black lightning more deadly. That's far from effective.
“I don't know how he did it, but clearly he can overcome the effect of my attack.” Reinhart, who was standing beside Dermyus, said. “I know my attack works, and I'm sure he just felt both of his arms go numb. However.. I do not understand how he can eliminate the effect.”
“Hekiel, we replace,” said Dermyus while pulling out his greatsword. “Me and Reinhart will attack, you prepare Plan B. My black lightning was ineffective against him. We do as usual, Reinhart.” A whitish blue lightning bolt instantly wrapped around Dermyus' body and his sword. “Don't take too long, Hekiel.”
Along with Hekiel's nod, Dermyus darted in a flash of lightning toward Xavier.
Reinhart was at his side in an instant when the great sword clad in whitish blue lightning Dermyus struck Xavier's black sword of fire. The sword was made of Orichalcum coated with adamantite, but the density of Xavier's black fire sword could not be underestimated. Rather than a black fire sword, the sword looked more like a pitch-black plasma. The sword cut Dermyus' sword like a butter knife.
If Dermyus had been a little late turning his body into lightning and darting past Xavier, he would have fared the same as his fallen sword and been engulfed in black flames.
Meanwhile, along with Dermyus darting out in the form of hot blue lightning, Reinhart had already teleported to Xavier's back. His palm that was open and shrouded in thick mana was already pointing towards the nape of Xavier. That's a dangerous blow. If exposed, death could be sure to meet Xavier. Unfortunately for Reinhart, his hand pierced through Xavier's body which had turned into fire.
“Hekiel,” calls Reinhart right after she teleports beside Sixth Commander. Even so, his eyes focused on the black flames chasing after the whitish blue lightning—both were the embodiment of Xavier and Dermyus, proof that the two had already reached the highest stage in their manipulation of fire magic and lightning magic. “It looks like Xavier also has sensory magic. Give me a hundred golems; I will disturb him until you are done with your preparations.”
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Fire cannot be faster than lightning. Lightning is naturally an element that is eleven twelve with light in terms of speed. The difference is in density. The denser the lightning, the slower he was.
However, although Dermyus' self-realization lightning speed could not be matched with natural lightning speed, Xavier in his fire form was quite slow. Instead of helping, this actually inhibits it.— is clearly visible from how the distance between Xavier and Dermyus is growing.
Xavier came out of his fire form with both palms that had fused together and a puffed up chest. Dragon’s Breath, inner Xavier while spitting out his favorite fire spell—but this time with black flames, not blue.
The black flames surging about shattered everything before him, making the black flames even bigger and wilder. The fire hunted Dermyus away in his lightning form. Wherever Dermyus went, there was Xavier's black flame.
At the same time, dozens of golems appeared to surround Xavier from the side and rear—ada was also the one at the top. However, before Xavier's black flames propagated obliterating them, the golems disappeared and appeared elsewhere. Xavier immediately understood that Reinhart wanted to attract his attention and ignore whatever Hekiel was trying to do.
As Xavier breathed out, his hands stretched out in unison, and a moment later a wave of lightning destroyed everything around the commander. And it doesn't stop there. The lightning was hunting down everything that could be hunted down and destroyed. Be it the earth pillars, golems, and even Reinhart to Dermyus.
Then, just as a wave of lightning filled the space, the two palms of Xavier fused together. Lightning Devastation, he whispered, and instantly everything around Xavier was shattered in a violent burst of lightning. It's like the Point Zero that Zorex used to release, but in a smaller yet more deadly scale.
The effect of the destruction lasted for more than a minute until it completely subsided, and by then the three commanders that Xavier was fighting were no longer at all as far as the eye could see.
However, Xavier did not need to ask where they were. He already knows. He also felt the three teleport.
More than that, the trembling ground gave a direct answer to what was about to happen. The ground on which Xavier was grounded decreased rapidly, while on it had created over ten thousand earth spears that shot out sharply. More than that, far up there, a huge chunk of earth fell from the mouth of the hole. And that chunk Xavier knew not one, but dozens. Hekiel dropped them one after another.
“Not bad,” whispered Xavier with his right palm raised upwards. “Not bad.”