Eren was finally kicked out of his battle trance when he landed on the ground. His mana circuits had been on hyperdrive for a long time.

Just when he thought that he had things under control, Eren watched the wyvern recuperate the wounds on his body at an accelerated rate.

Eren looked at his own body and smiled bitterly. He wasn't totally unscathed in his battle against the beast. The result was broken ribs, slash wounds around the body, damaged organs, strained muscles, and severely stressed mana circuits. The exhaustion had accumulated in his body and the muscle fatigue had set in.

Eren did not want to waste time. He took out an all-stats recovery potion from his storage and drank it up. He then used Blitz Heal to fix himself as much as he could.

Eren wanted to attack the beast while he was recuperating. But the beast didn't have much that Eren could use against him. His attacks would not have yielded him favorable results even if he attacked at this point. Plus, his condition would have worsened.

Therefore, Eren followed in the beast's footsteps and prepared himself for round two. After a few moments, the beast growled at him once again, indicating that he was ready to fight.

Blitz Steps

The lightning struck and Eren disappeared from the beast's immediate vision. However, the beast seemed ready to catch his opponent by surprise with his next attack.

The western opened his mouth and released a dense mass of mana toward Eren. It seemed like a breath attack but with a slight difference.

The dragonkind was said to be blessed by nature itself. The more they fought against tough opponents, the more they would be able to reveal their potential as emperors of the beasts.

Eren stimulated the wyvern's bloodline. During the fight, the beast was also put in a trance, allowing him to fight with all his strength. This battle also allowed the beast to combine fire and wind element mana for his next attack.

Eren was just about to launch the attack on the beast when it sent a compressed ball of mana. It was built on a fusion of wind and fire elements. The ball of mana was 9 inches in diameter and perfectly spherical.

This ball of mana looked like it had been made from smoke and lava. It had wind and fire elemental runes floating over its partially white and orange-red surface. And surprisingly enough its size started contracting when Eren started zeroing in on the beast.

Swoosh.

A unique mana pulse was released in the surroundings as the compressed mana ball started revolving around itself. In the next moment, the winds changed in their direction.

By creating a suction force, the ball disrupted mana and attracted Eren toward it. His movement spell was affected and his body started feeling the effects of the suction force.

Eren felt the compressed fusion ball with his mana sense and found out that it was about to blow up. The mana ball was using the air around it to compress it into its core. The suction came from that. And the compression was about to reach entropy.

'Fuck... This damn beast.'

Eren summoned his Bear armor to surround him knowing full well that it was about to get damaged. He then cast his go-to moves as Hex spells, elevating their effects.

Blitz Steps

Blitz Shield

Igni Shards

Alfem

Igni Chains

Eren cast his spells one after the other. He knew that the suction force wasn't strong enough to pull him closer. But he didn't want to be anywhere near the compressed ball when it exploded, decompressing itself.

Two Igni Chains were manifested as well as two huge firebirds that were so much more massive than their usual sizes. It was clear that Eren had employed an unreliable version of Alfem to just provide support rather than harm opponents.

With the Hex spell variant of the summoning spell and his strong will, Eren was able to change the sizes of the firebirds to such an extent. They were also summoned faster than before, something Eren was counting on at this point.

These large firebirds caught the Igni Chains in their claws and flew away from the compressed ball in the same direction. Eren caught the fire chains from their other end and made them ascend higher.

Eren also knew that staying unscathed from the detonation was not possible because of its proximity and the fact that it was a fusion attack. So he prepared in advance, casting Blitz Shield and covering himself in the layer of Igni Shards.

All this happened within a few moments of Eren taking action against the beast. The blast fired off almost as soon as the compressed wind ball was conjured by the beast.

Swoosh. Zoom. Boom.

The compressed ball stopped consuming the surrounding air for a moment before reversing the process. It started decompressing the fire-element-infused winds in ripples and created a reverberating acoustic effect. The battlefield was lit up by the blast as it spread out and tried to destroy everything in its path.

The winds howled and the ground cracked. The depression was the deepest just below the compressed ball's position. The subsequent depressions in the ground became the intrinsic circles for the outer depression circles that followed.

The fire clouds were conjured and spread like water escaping the broken dam. They burned the foliage and trees in their paths instantly and burned the very air that came into contact with them, making them decompress further.

A storm of dust and grime was also added to the mix. The surroundings were blurred and one couldn't tell what was happening on the battlefield anymore.

Eren had created a sufficient distance from the epicenter of the detonation. But he was still caught in the mana storm it generated. The Alfem carrying him disappeared and the Igni Chains dispersed. He was thrown in the air with critical velocity. However, the mana storm still caught up to him and damaged his body severely.

Eren started developing severe second-degree burns on various parts of his body even though he was covered in the defensive spell. Blitz Shield and Igni Shards managed to fend off most of the damage being directed at him. But they couldn't provide him with complete protection.

"Aaaaaargh!"

The Hex gear was destroyed when it faced off against a fusion spell cast by a dragonkind. There were too many elemental profundities in the Wvyren's spell for the armor to remain intact. It crumbled away and some of its broken parts were dropped on the ground. Eren only had a semblance of his previous armor on him at this point.

Eren cried in pain when he felt his skin getting burned. The wind-element mana also created various shrapnels in the air as a byproduct of the blast and elemental fusion. They tore his skin and made him bleed even more than before.

Eren's torso was somewhat safe. But his chainmail armor had been wasted. He also had various chunks of meat missing from his body. Plus, the impact of the blast was so strong that it dislocated his shoulder.historical

'Fighting with this beast was a terrible idea.'

Eren couldn't help thinking along these lines while processing the pain that was coming from every inch of his body. However, he still underestimated the beast at the moment. Because it chose to attack him right after he was sent airborne by the blast.

Kiyeeh!

The wyvern roared and got close to Eren using his exceptional agility. He sent another pair of claw attacks at him while closing the distance between them.

Eren's eyes shone with determination and cruelty when he felt the danger approaching him. Eren conjured large Sod Sparks on either side and held them in his hands, before sending them toward the beast. Of course, the wyvern managed to escape the attack unharmed. But it allowed him to escape his current predicament.

A bunch of firebirds imploded from within when Eren placed his legs over them or used them as something to grab onto midair. He quickly got out of the blast's still-expanding radius by escaping into a higher altitude zone.

"Haaaaaah!"

Eren retrieved his axes and sent a bunch of Wind Fire Waves. He landed on the ground after traveling more than 50 meters away from the blast's epicenter. The beast dodged the flying slashes and maintained a safe distance from Eren. He stayed in the air while looking menacingly at Eren. It was evident in his eyes that he was impatient to finish Eren.

Anemoi!

Eren was brought to his knees. However, he ignored every bit of pain he was experiencing at the time as he cast his summoning spells. He tapped onto his infinite mana core and summoned a herd of wind-element elephants around him.

However, this time the summoned creatures seemed to be affected by something. The soul mark on Eren's soul had reacted to his precarious condition.

The semblance of Hex gear Eren had on him allowed him to channel his will into the spells. However, unlike the last time, Eren was in control of the wrathful summoned creatures.