Enderflas.
Eren felt like the green flas had a mind of their own. They were so powerful in intent that they were practically able to incinerate any object they encountered.
The green flas carried Eliza's wrath. They easily overpowered Eren's fire-elent spells by incinerating the orange flas themselves.
And this was when Eren was keeping things restricted to Adept rank where he was most comfortable using his spells. As a result, Eliza's attacks were also restricted to the sa rank as his.
The butcher had just broken into the Expert rank. If he chose to face his opponents while using his original rank, Eliza would have a significant advantage. She would have a much more capable platform to express her individuality through the Enderflas.
This was why Eren decided to make use of the option the Life and Death Altar provided him and kept the battle limited to the Adept rank. He wanted there to be tough opponents for him. But empowering them too much would prevent him from learning from them.
This peculiar fire-elent Ability from the dragon half-blood was so strong that the green flas would sotis get pixelated, affecting the rendering of Nightmare Domain as a whole. It indicated that the Life And Death Altar was having a hard ti rendering the Enderflas based on Eren's mories as their foundation.
Eren had realized by this point that his biggest hurdle in confronting Eliza was the Enderflas. He suspected one of the major reasons the Witch of Enerflas could punch above her weight and still manage to win was because she had unlocked an exclusive Ability for herself.
Even normal water-elent spells didn't work against Enderflas. The water bodies of the water-elent spells would have most of their mass evaporated as soon as they ca into contact with the green flas.
Eren tried various spell combinations. He made full use of his multi-elent compatibility. And after doing everything, he ca to a singular conclusion. Eliza's intent-based magic was just too strong.
***
"Fuuuuck!"
As a response to the Enderflas, Eren cut off his own flesh and skin to get rid of them quickly. He then healed the wounds to stop bleeding. The peculiar thing about the Enderflas was the fact that they would refuse to extinguish themselves under normal circumstances. Thus, the butcher had to suffer self-inflicted injuries from ti to ti to prevent the Enderflas from hampering his moves.
Blitz Steps. Swoosh. Clang.
Another round of close combat exchanges began. He had already invoked his summoner class, preventing the wraiths and dragonkin from approaching him carelessly.
The butcher's summons put up a strong fight against the wraiths. Especially the undead. Dragonkin beasts were easily kept at bay with his earth-elent summons. But eventually, the wraiths and the beasts would slip past Eren's summons and manage to hurt him at the most unfortunate of tis. He could do nothing to avoid that as the wraiths were supposedly endless in numbers inside the Nightmare Domain.
Eren was also trying out his ranger class in the battle against the nightmare creatures surrounding him. Plus, he was refining his close combat skills slowly by duking it out against the Witch of Enderflas.
Eren soon found out that his ranger class was basically useless inside the Nightmare Domain. First, he did not have class-supporting spells. Second, the Nightmare Domain was spatially restricted. So he couldn't create sufficient distance from his opponents anyway.
Plus, every ti he tried to create distance, Eliza's green flas would surround him from all angles through the use of her fire-elent spells. So he stuck to using his summoner class for the wraiths and his close combat class for Eliza.
***
Eren's seventh day inside the Life and Death Altar.
Ti flew by and Eren kept on fighting. He couldn't say that he enjoyed his ti spent in the Nightmare Domain. However, he took solace in the fact that the whole experience had taught him a lot.
Eren had left no stone unturned in his battle against the monstrous prodigy that is Eliza.
This was even though what he imagined her to be might not be completely in sync with reality. He was sure that the real Witch of Enderflas would be even more of a monster than what he was currently fighting.
Still, fighting with Eliza and experiencing the Enderflas made Eren understand a lot of his shortcomings. He ca to realize that the Trump cards he thought he had against Eliza would be of little use to him if he didn't refine them.
He also ca to realize that he needed sothing to counter the Enderflas if he wanted to qualify to fight Eliza. Sothing that would at least lessen the Enderflas' insane incineration rate, if not outright neutralize them.
Normal spells of any kind or any elent wouldn't work on the Enderflas. He hadn't used his Sin Series Abilities on Eliza. That's because he didn't feel comfortable showing that he had the Sin Series mark inside the Nightmare Domain even though the Life And Death Altar was supposed to be automated by a self-sustaining array chanism.
However, Eren could feel that his Sin Series Ablities weren't a viable counter to Enderflas in any way. The wrath, gluttony, and lust mana weren't ant to neutralize the green flas.
Eren made full use of the opportunity provided to him by the Life and Death Altar, which other participants considered punishnt. In their defense, most of them had nothing to gain from living in their nightmares.
Eren was the only one who had found so use for his nightmares. As much as he denied their existence, one could say that his masochist tendencies had enabled him to find light in the dark.
When Eren completed seven days inside the Nightmare Domain, all of his opponents vanished into thin air. Eliza's image also blurred before disappearing from his vision completely.
Eren felt a cooling sensation all over his illusory body in the next mont. It was as if his hurt soul was receiving so kind of nourishnt.
When Eren blinked his eyes, he was back inside Sage Loxley's den once again. Only a few seconds had passed in the real world from the mont he had "died" inside the den.
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