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Niuran wasn't a man of many words. Fiends tended to have their personalities shaped and warped by their favored elent. So even after Ryu said these words, and even when he attacked, he didn't react much at all.
With a casual strike, the spear flickering in and out of existence in his palm ca to et Ryu's blow.
A curious light lit in the depths of Ryu's pupils. He didn't think much of the odd appearance of the Fiend to begin with, but even he was having trouble understanding exactly what it was he was seeing.
BANG!
Air rippled around them and a layer of force stopped blade and fist from eting.
However, with an indifferent gaze that looked like a literal pool of water, Niuran's spear lost its form, flickering out of existence and suddenly wrapping around Ryu's arm.
It surged forward, appearing before Ryu's throat in the blink of an eye.
Ryu felt a sense of danger pervade his mind. He couldn't seem to see exactly where the blow would land, as though it still had the possibility of undergoing a myriad of changes. If he acted too confidently, he could end up harming himself.
'Fascinating…'
Ryu's aura flared, and he summoned the Immortal Sakura. In an instant, gorgeous spinning and fluttering blossoms descended from the skies, blocking every calculated point.
Niuran's expression finally showed so change, albeit slightly.
Still, what happened next put Ryu on the edge of his seat once more?
The Ice Phoenix Heavenly Patterns used to protect his blossom cracked and shattered like wet tissue paper.
The spear ripped a path through and pierced into Ryu's skin.
A blast of chill entered Ryu's body, and the spear was about to burst all the way in when he suddenly flickered backward, warping space around him.
Ryu blinked. He had already felt that his Ice Elent wasn't properly listening to him when he first ca across this young man, but he didn't expect that the sa would be true even when it was reinforced with Heavenly Patterns.
Less shocking than that, though, was the fact that he still needed so more ti to adjust with his Spaceti Soul Nature, as the folds of reality in this place weren't exactly the sa.
At the sa ti, the movent technique he always relied upon in battle, [Absolute Domain], couldn't be used either because it relied on comprehending the constellations and star charts of this world.
Regardless, Ryu's gaze lit up.
This Niuran was strong.
And what impressed Ryu the most was that they were both at the True Sky God Realm.
Niuran was taken aback for only a brief mont before he continued his attack.
The spear ca in waves and Ryu read and reacted. He dismissed [Immortal Sakura] since it would only be a hindrance in this battle and he had yet to incorporate the thods of the Ash Treants into it.
Ryu's body flickered with lightning and a discarded his other battle thods. Gorgeous blue scales erupted across his body and he grew in height until he t the tall stature of the Fiend.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The skies above stord, and Ryu unleashed a flurry.
Spear and fists danced, but soon Ryu's entire body seed to beco a weapon. His elbows moved as fluidly as his fingers, his knees soaring as sharply as his kicks.
In terms of power, the two seed perfectly even, especially since Ryu was warned not to use his Chaotic Silk ridians in this world lest he risk being hunted down by any and everything.
But in terms of skill…
Ryu's fist shadows filled the skies. He seed to have begun to copy the chaotic assault thods of the Fiend.
His attacks seed both real and illusory at the sa ti, and it made it difficult for Niuran to grasp. For a mont, Niuran even began to second guess his own judgnt. Had he misunderstood? Was Ryu actually just an unawakened Fiend?
He suddenly looked up into the skies as a bolt of lightning descended.
Niuran accelerated backward. One of his legs, the one that seed ford of the water elent, glowed and veins of darker blue appeared in their depths.
Lightning was obviously his perfect counter, but that didn't an that he feared it.
His mouth opened, and he unleashed a roar.
Under the sudden rampage, the bolt of lightning that had been about to fall onto a cracked, red soil instead fell into a steadily growing pool of water.
The land shattered, and the raging rivers in the distance trembled.
Ryu realized what was happening before it did.
A deep trench was suddenly cut between this location and the nearest river.
…
In the distance, Venaru and Furmalda were swiftly catching up. When they saw the changes, their eyes widened, and they looked at one another.
They knew that Niuran would only do this if he was in trouble.
They both landed on the ground at once, each on the opposing side of the trench. With a stomp of their feet, magma erupted out of the earth and the trench was split further and further apart.
In that instant, the trench connected with the raging sea and with a BOOM! a connection was ford.
The waters surged forward.
The pair of brother and sister didn't stop as they ran along the trench, making it wider and wider as they accelerated to their fastest speed. They couldn't let anything happen to Niuran.
…
Ryu's pupils constricted. They had such strong control over the elents, stronger than anything Ryu had ever seen.
Now that he thought about it, even for Ancient Beasts, elental control was secondary to the Paths they followed. Phoenixes were about Life, Death and Reincarnation first, long before they were about flas or ice.
But these Fiends…
They seed to breathe and eat these elents. They were the elents, and the elents were them.
A fiendish grin spread along Ryu's face as his aura skyrocketed, billowing in waves.
"[Earth's Gate], open."
BOOM!
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