God Ash: Remnants of the fallen. Chapter 254: Ambushed and Ambusher (2)

Staring at the creature, Cain could only co up with a single plan...

'I will have to kill it in a single blow...'

Despite his confidence, Cain knew killing such a powerful creature with a single blow would be impossible. The creature was just as strong as the {Abyssal Realm-Walker} he had battled against previously. He suspected it was even a bit stronger.

Killing it with a single strike wasn't very likely, but he wasn't alone this ti. This ti, he had the help of a very powerful friend...

If he went all out imdiately, it would be possible to kill the beast in one fell swoop. Thinking over the plan, Cain nodded his head in satisfaction.

'If things go south, I can always use {Spatial Jump} and try again later, although it would only get harder.'

Letting out a sigh, Cain turned to Ignis who had a contemplative look on her face.

"I need you to buy ten seconds, perhaps a little bit more. You need to last as long as you can— without dying of course."

She imdiately frowned, "What did I say about suicide missions?"

Cain rolled his eyes, "Relax... As long as we do this right, you have nothing to worry about." Then he smiled and spoke in a strange tone,

"Or are you telling you are scared of the beast?"

This seed to strike a nerve in her, as her deanor changed instantly.

Without saying another word, she turned back to stare at the creature with anger and bloodlust in her eyes.

Nodding in satisfaction, Cain spoke once again,

"Be ready on my signal..."

Seeing her nod, he relaxed behind the boulder they were hiding behind. It was not ti for him to make preparations.

Opening his status screen, he scanned through his list of skills for the one that could deal the most damage in the shortest amount of ti.

An idea struck his mind as he ca across a certain set of skills he had obtained not too long ago. The evolved form of the {Art of Fire} skillset he had been building on.

The abilities in the skillset were the {Fla Orb} skill, then the {Implodong Star} and the {Vampiric Star}.

All three skills were interconnected, yet unique in their own way. Cain suspected the only reason the system grouped them together, was that there were very few differences between them when viewed through a magical lens.

{Fla Orbs} absorbed fla mana and compressed it to form a spinning ball of very hot flas that could pierce through solid defenses. However, the energy stored within the orbs of fla was still very volatile and if not controlled properly, it would result in dire consequences.

{Imploding Star} was the phenonon that occurred when the energy within the {Fla Orb} had broken past a certain limit. The surrounding space wouldn't be able to handle the heat and pressure caused by the reality-warping force of the {Fla Orb} and would be forced to give way, producing a very destructive implosion.

{Vampiric Star} was so sort of middle ground between the two skills. Unlike the previous two, {Vampiric Star} couldn't do any damage by itself.

It was a bank for storing a lot of fla energy and releasing it all in one annihilating conflagration. The skill was not only very powerful but also very dangerous. Just like the {Fla Orbs} it absorbed fla mana, and like the {Imploding Star}, he compressed it to the point it affected the surrounding space.

However, without a limiter component, the magic circle was free to absorb as much fra energy as it wanted as long as there was fla energy to absorb. It borrowed this concept from the {Fla Orbs}. However, it achieved sothing the two earlier skills couldn't.

Stability...

With the {Vapmiric Star}, Cain was confident he would be able to bring almost any foe down as long as the environnt was suitable and he had enough ti to chant.

However, he planned to take it a step further...

Since he wanted to make a bang, he decided he would go all out...

'The first thing I will need is to gather enough fla elental mana. I can use {Fla Orbs} to gather that, I think...'

'Then I will need to get close enough to deliver that strike. With Ignis drawing so attention, he would have a relatively least ti.

"We move in thirty seconds..." Cain said out of the blue.

"Ehn..." She said with a frown. It was apparent she still wasn't pleased with the idea.

Chuckling a bit to himself, Cain began making ntal preparations. To ensure the plan worked as he envisioned It, he would need to take every small detail into action and respond quickly should any problems co up.

Soon, the thirty seconds were up...

"Now!"

It is dashed out from behind the boulder. With the speed of a moving train, she ran at the creature with her top speed. Clouds of flas danced at her ankles, making it seem as though she was running on clouds.

The ground beneath her turned into puddles of magma with every step she took. In the blink of an eye, she was already upon the creature.

It didn't show any signs of panic. Instead, it sidestepped Ignis' deadly attack and whipped its stinger forward.

Jumping back as fast as she could, Ignis was ready to jump back when she was sothing that made her skin crawl. Before she could do anything about it, she was surrounded on all sides by a group of {Bloodeyed Death Beasts}.

'Fuck! It was suspecting an ambush?! What kind of creature is this?!'

Cain fought the urge to ask this question and focused on what was happening. Without getting any ti to rest, Ignis' was bombarded from all sides.

Her body danced through the flurry of wild attacks as she used her legs, feet, fists, and even palms to lay waste to the creatures before her. There were about ten of them, all of which were very much more dangerous than normal creatures.

The worst part was that every single one of them was many tis stronger than her in terms of levels. A random touch should have been enough to turn her into at paste.

However, it seed as though she had turned into a burning streak that slipped between the bodies of monsters. Grabbing the stinger of one of the creatures, she grunted heavily as she lifted it off the ground and used it to smack another creature in the head.

However, even more creatures stabbed their stingers at her. She skillfully weaved past so of them. However, the speed of the stingers wasn't sothing she could contend with yet.

Four stingers slamd against her armor, producing a tallic ring...

Blood gushed out from her mouth as she was flung backward. Despite the weight of the attacks, the armor was spotless without a single wear or tear on it. However, it was clear she hadn't co out of the situation unhard.

Gritting her teeth, she rushed back into the ferocious lee.

On the other hand, Cain hurriedly rushed to try filling the {Vampiric Star} with enough energy.

Small rapidly spinning orbs of flas orbited around a red star the size of a basketball, slowly pouring into it as Cain concentrated.

'Faster!'

His goal wasn't to fill the {Vampiric Star} up to capacity. He just had to make sure there was enough fla energy to kill the creature imdiately.

The orbs of flas continued phasing through the {Vampiric Star} while Ignis tried to survive the onslaught of rabid beasts against her.

A sensation of heaviness suddenly ca across him. This familiar sensation told him that the {Vampiric Star} now had a substantial amount of flas stored within it.

'Not enough! More!'

Cain drained his mana like his life depended on it. Despite how annoying Ignis was, Cain didn't want to send her to an early grave if he could.

And so, his veins turned red hot as a furious amount of flas burned through his spirit and into the ball of fire floating in his palms.

'Done!'

Then he took it a step further...

Cain activated the {Fla of Darkness}...

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{Flas of Darkness} (passive): A spell that transcends its level in potency and power. You have combined the elent of darkness and the elent of the flas to birth a heretic spell that possesses the power to destroy the world.

Also known as the Evil Fla of the Sorcerer, the Flas of Darkness will consu everything in their path, including he who conjures it. The flas of darkness cannot be used alone and must be linked to a skill or spell before it is used. Boosts the magic damage of a spell or skill by 1000%. The {Flas of Darkness} will last until they are dispelled.

Costs: 5000MP per minute.

Cooldown: 3 days.

***

Light was stolen from the world around him...

A dark star, burning in all its majestic splendor floated right above his palms, filling him with pride, satisfaction, and fear.

Blood rushed into his face as he felt the urge to throw up. He was feeling a bit lightheaded due to expanding a lot of mana rapidly.

The dark star was like a tear in reality. Cain didn't know what the outco of hitting sothing with this was, but he knew it couldn't be pretty...

Cain jumped with the speed of a bullet fresh from the chamber and was airborne in a split second. He kept the large creature who hadn't engaged with Ignis since the initial attack in his sights.

The dark star floating above his head glowed fiercely with dark light. Its radiance consud the world around it with a cold heat that was almost unnoticeable.

Activating {Wind Weaver}, Cain remained airborne for a while then stretched his hand forward.

A spinning ball of black flas erupted from his outstretched hand. The fla orb contracted and collapsed upon itself violently until it began to twinkle in and out of existence.

Blood seeped through his lips as the strain of holding the skill bore down on him. Cain knew the creature had sensed him since the beginning and had orchestrated a trap in response.

Its plan had most likely been to catch both him and Ignis. However, Cain had thought two steps ahead and reversed their roles...

Now, it was really hard to tell who the ambusher and the ambushed were...

A little over ten seconds had gone by, and Cain was finally ready.

He imdiately scread in his mind,

'Run!'

The tal link between him and Ignis relayed the ssage to her instantaneously. She disengaged from the creatures and imdiately booked it.

The creatures tried to pursue, but the situation changed at that mont...

A dark star fell towards the fragnted earth...

The lead {Bloodeye Death Beast} bent its powerful limbs in an attempt to lunge at Cain and bring him down, but before it could do anything, the dark star fell onto its body like a shooting star...

There was a mont of silence...

Then a world-trembling explosion ca after. Dark fras rolled like the waves of an ocean and consud the body of the creature and its nagerie. The flas devoured everything in sight and didn't distinguish between friend and foe.

It ca upon Ignis in a flash...

She wasn't fast enough to evade the stream of black flas, but luckily, Cain hadn't left her to die.

Cain dove down from the sky with twice as much speed as he had used in his ascension. Grabbing her with an arm, he activated {Spatial Jump} and the next mont, they twinkled out of existence.

Not even a second later, the wave of black flas washed over their previous location...