Space.
Layers were just mirrored realities.
Hex wasn’t taught this. He discovered it. The advantage of seeing the complete path ahead beca apparent as Hex battled the Calamity.
The solutions to obstacles ca almost intuitively.
The building blocks were the sa across every layer: the Space elents.
’I bet the circle is refilled while I move through the layers.’
Every layer he moved through suffered cracks due to him forcing his way in. The cracks released the Space elents it was built from. His elental circle absorbed the free elents passively.
Hex understood this rapidly.
Despite pondering all this, his eyes never left the creature. Nor was the creature waiting for him to understand everything. That would be stupid. And it wasn’t. It was a Calamity for a reason.
Even through the layers, its intentions were clear. It was absorbing large amounts of elents and chaotic energy.
’It’s preparing a powerful attack.’
Even knowing its intention, Hex didn’t lose his calm or take any action. He already had a plan. A plan he was certain would work. Almost certain.
The only reason he didn’t take imdiate action was that his body took a little ti to heal from the injuries he sustained in order to force the creature out of the hidden layer.
’I am too used to the potent air of Wrixia. Without it, the recovery feels too slow.’
Hex smiled wryly. Inside the alternate space they were in, the lack of nature elents impacted the rate with which his body healed trendously.
But the creature seed to have completed its preparations. It ignored all the injuries and wounds inflicted by Hex and only focused on increasing its attack power.
Their gaze t.
Growl.
The creature set off. Hex sensed Space bend and adjust.
At the sa ti the creature moved, Hex sprang into action.
Second Blessing – Space Burst Fist
Hex felt his heart go wild in his chest. It pumped every bit of Space his body toward his fist. Energy, mixed with Space, wrapped around his fist.
The Bearhanded Sword – Controlled Blast
As the space bent and fused, the creature appeared inches away from his face, Hex sensed trendous heat and destruction coming off its body. It attacked as soon as it laid eyes on Hex. As did he.
Boom!
Its attack scorched the space. Hex’s attack destroyed it.
The creature sensed it at once. Its affinity with Space was high after all. Its eyes widened in terror. It scrambled back. Layers upon layers of Space wrapped around it.
But the blast of Space had bloated the initial layers between Hex and the creature beyond capacity, destroying those layers completely. The huge release of Space elents was suctioned off as soon as they freed up.
Hex’s dried-up Space elental circle thirsted for the elents. Hex groaned a little as his heart went into hyperdrive, helping the elental circle absorb every ounce of elents it sensed.
The instant refill of his elental circle sparked his next attack.
Second Blessing – Ice and Space Frost Dragon Blizzard Strike
Hex rained punches like a blizzard hitting a floating piece of glass. The release of Ice elents froze space, turning it brittle. The increase of Space elents shattered them by bloating them. The released Space elents were again absorbed, creating a perpetual cycle.
The creature shrieked. It stopped relying solely on Space to shield itself. Layers of thick, viscous lava encased it. It even splattered around. The Ice elents blocked the heat and destruction, though.
In fact, by introducing extre heat to extre cold, the creature inadvertently helped Hex. The layers of Space shattered continuously.
Soon, Hex gained the upper hand. A battle of attrition against an instantly healing and replenishing person like Hex couldn’t be won by a creature that relied on brute force and perhaps its species’ abilities to do so.
Boom!
Frost Dragon – Avalanche Strike
Empowered by the Second Blessing, his avalanche strike hit the glowing blob of lava in which the creature tried to hide itself.
The extre cold clashed with the extre heat, causing the air to vaporize and explode. The cooled-off layer of lava cracked as soon as the crust ford.
The Bearhanded Strike – Extre Dark Earth Smash
Hex slamd his palm straight at the crust, turning it to dust. His palm, empowered by the gathered Earth elents, chaotic energy, and Souldust, tore through its last line of defense and struck the shrieking creature’s chest.
Blood splattered. Its bones cracked. And it slamd into the ground, causing even greater damage. The crater ford was easily twice the size of the previous one.
This ti, Hex didn’t wait. He followed up his attack imdiately.
He repeated his attacks, freezing the Space and destroying the remaining layers behind it. The mass destruction was causing this separate Space to turn unstable.
Hex could sense it. He knew he had to leave the area. The collapse of a Spatial realm wouldn’t be easy to deal with. His intuition scread warnings.
The creature growled and tried to move. Its broken body didn’t help it, though. Hex showed no rcy.
He rained punches and kicks, each empowered with Earth elents. The Calamity struggled but its resistance grew weaker and weaker, until finally it stopped moving.
Hex stood up. His breath was erratic, and despite using Ice elent, he was drenched in sweat. The hyperactivity of his heart took its toll on his body. He noticed the loss of muscle as soon as he stood up. But there was no ti to dwell on all this. He had to get away.
He leaned over to pick the corpse but he stopped just before he touched it. He retracted his hand lightning fast. Just in ti.
A serpent-like beast, not larger than a finger, wriggled out of the mangled flesh and jumped toward his outstretched hand. Two more followed behind it.
Hex reacted faster than the beasts.
Frost Dragon – Tailwhip
Three spikes, controlled and accurate, struck all three beasts, impaling them. They didn’t make a sound. But they seed to be screaming. Hex hurriedly unleashed massive amounts of Ice elents, freezing them completely.
He picked the corpse and the three frozen beasts, just as the cracks deepened. He held the corpse in one hand but stored the three beasts away inside his robe, feeling deeply unsettled.
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