193 Ancient Flame (1/2)
Right after his proud declaration, the crimson gem on his forehead started to shines vibrantly. She quickly noticed that it was much brighter than the previous guy, this must be what he meant by being a 'successful one,' or so she thought. If her actual aim is to kill him without gaining any information, she would have thrown the spear piercing right through him instead of watching him transform at this moment. If she didn't repeatedly tell herself that she needs information from him, she might have done exactly that. If one didn't know better, they might have thought she was scared when looking at her trembling hands, however, it is far from the truth.
'I have already spread my awareness to the whole building yet, I sense no abnormality other than this guy in front of me. There's no way he came here with only the guy that I have killed, there must be more of them. To begin with, what is their goal for coming here? This is a high school premise, there's literally nothing interesting here.' thought Sheila while watching Rodrick transforming into what she can safely assume to be nothing but a demon. As his body slowly growing in size, his teeth have also started becoming sharper like that of a monster while two noticeable horns prodding out his forehead with the crimson gem at the center of it. When he finished his transformation, the man known as Rodrick no longer look like a human, his previous self.
\”Hahahaha! I see! So this must be the overwhelming power that man talked about! Behold, this is the power that I acquired just solely for my vengeance!\”
Even his voice has started to change into a much deeper tone, which even the man himself took notice of it, however, he shrugged it off like it was nothing. After all, it didn't matter to him of what he becomes, the most important thing to him at this moment is that his revenge is nigh. With this violent strength, he believes it is enough to accomplish it as no matter how strong Sheila is, she is still human, unlike him. Though his aura is extremely oppressive, it is nowhere enough to overwhelm her.
\”Are you done? Then be prepared, I won't hold myself back like that time in the old building. I will show you that no matter how stronger you get, you won't be able to beat me.\”
Though the man is an idiot, his formidable strength is nothing to joke around. Sheila managed to dodge his fist with ease mostly because she had seen that coming and quickly act on it, otherwise she might have been sent flying right about now. She was mostly fine, however, she still got a few cuts on her cheek due to the pressuring air around his fist.
After safely avoiding his punch, she quickly conjured a few fireballs within seconds before sending it toward him. Since she had maxed out the fire magic skill, there's no more cooldown for the casting time for a basic spell like a fireball. If it had been before, she could only fire it one at a time with a cooldown of 3 seconds before she can conjure another.
*BOOM!*
Even with such a deafening explosion, Sheila still didn't believe that was anywhere enough. And so, she soon opens fire with the APW now turned into a gun mode in her hand. With a bullet literally made out of mana, there was no explosive noise that one would have expected from firing a handgun. It's even quieter than a bullet fired from a normal handgun equipped with a silencer. After firing around 30 bullets, Sheila feels like it was enough and stopped her action as she stares at the smoke caused by the explosion in the distance.
\”Hahaha! Is that it? It's not enough to take me down!\”
With a laugh and mocking words, Rodrick easily dispersed the smoke away by simply waving his hand around. Looking at him, there doesn't seem to be any injury on him either by the explosion or from a bullet. This could only mean that his body has gotten tougher, or that his regeneration had become much faster in his current state, or maybe both.
'But that was all within my expectation. I have a feeling that he didn't just acquire horns because it was cool or anything like that, it most likely has some sort of magical effect, something like strengthens his body even further perhaps. And I had to admit that his body is definitely tougher than my own, after all, I could still get hurt if I was in his spot a moment ago. With that said, If I have to assume his level based on that, it might be around 45+, which is much higher than my level.' No matter how one looked at the situation, she was clearly the one on the losing end. If she keeps this momentum, the chance of her winning against him is as low as 0.01%, a number one would quickly throw their white flag upon knowing about it.
'Even if I have zero chance of winning, I would still fight him to death. Of course, it won't be my death, but him. There's no way I would lose my life here to a nobody like him. More importantly, I still have a few cards I didn't use just yet.' with that thought in mind, Sheila curls up her lips to a smile.
\”Hoh, you are smiling? Even after witnessing that I'm perfectly fine under your torrent of attacks? You still think you can beat me?\”