"Flying and swimming frog…" Theo muttered while using his Telekinesis to move around underwater before turning back into the fish form since he couldn't breathe with his human form.
As soon as he turned back, he swam forward to challenge this frog again.
"It seems that you can breathe underwater." The frog squinted his eyes, realizing it was impossible to drown Theo. However, his power was reduced to half when he was underwater because of his form.
Using this to his advantage, the frog sent out his tongue again.
Theo turned his blue ring into a shield and received the attack. Although it wouldn't injure him, the force was enough to blow him away.
The Death Avatar then emerged from his back, and purple flame covered both their eyes, sending a powerful killing intent.
"!!!" The frog widened his eyes. He felt as if he was in front of a giant that could squeeze him to death when he wanted it.
However, as a Supreme Rank Monster that had defeated countless beasts, his ferocity was enough to handle this killing intent.
His cheeks even bloated again, preparing for the second attack. The moment he opened that mouth, the pressure built up inside was released, creating a water tornado.
When it was about to touch Fish Theo, the tornado vanished as if it was never there to begin with.
Theo just utilized his Illusion Destruction and took this chance to approach the frog.
The frog narrowed his eyes as he looked at the Death Avatar on Theo's back. He still remembered that this avatar could repel his poison, so releasing the poison again might be useless. Since that was the case, there was no need for him to waste his Magic Power on it.
Instead, he poured that Magic Power into his body, summoning numerous shields that scattered around his body. With Theo's swimming skills, it would be hard for him to slip past these after all.
Unfortunately for him, these scattered fields were Theo's biggest opportunity.
Numerous Magic Bullets flew toward the shields and skillfully moved around the shields, avoiding all of them.
"What?!" The frog was stunned when he saw the Magic Bullets almost reach him. He immediately channeled his Magic Power into his shield so that he could patch the hole by creating another screen in the gaps.
"Boom."
"Boom."
"Boom."
The Magic Bullets ended up hitting the shields, creating a series of explosions. Little did the frog know, this was within Theo's expectation. In fact, he had been waiting for this.
The explosions created numerous bubbles that covered his vision, so the frog shouldn't be able to see anything within these few seconds.
A huge spear formed above Theo's head as he shot them with all he got.
His monster's sense was tingling because of the Magic Power fluctuation, and he immediately swam to the side before realizing it was the best decision he had made.
Theo's spear hit the corner of his shield and shattered that area, so if he continued to stay there, the spear would have created a huge hole in his body.
'He has this kind of powerful attack? Even my shield, which not many can break, actually shatters?' The frog thought with a serious expression. He realized the man who wanted to kill him seemed to be stronger than the average expert.
On the other hand, Theo frowned and felt weird about this fight. 'This is a battle against a Level 650 monster… How does it seem to be that easy? Is the frog planning something big? Or have I overestimated his level? Maybe he's only a level 600 monster?
'Now that I think about it, why does it feel like the monsters only have several skills? Humans can use ten skills while the monsters don't seem to have many skills… Most of the Supreme Rank Monsters I have encountered only released two to three skills at most.'
A big doubt arose in his heart. If the humans could have ten skills along with the techniques they invented or acquired like his Magic Bullets, Ascension Step, or even Thunderclap Fist, the monsters should have more.
'Never mind. I shouldn't think much about this for now… I need to focus on the fight.' Theo shook his head and punched forward while spinning his arm.
With the help of the Telekinesis and Thunderclap Fist, his arm created the same tornado as the frog earlier.
However, Theo's Control was stronger than the frog. Before reaching its target, the tornado split into two and looped around the frog, surrounding him from two different directions.
The frog now realized he was in a perilous situation. On the one hand, his barrier was enough to stop the tornado. On the other hand, Theo would take advantage of the water bubbles to launch another sneak attack.
Since the situation was like this, the frog chose to swim forward, approaching Theo. He even spat another poison ball that gradually spread around the water, making it cloudy.
The Death Avatar used its second authority to protect Theo from the poison, but the enhanced sense indicated another presence coming.
It was clear the frog was about to use the same trick as earlier, so Theo put up his shield to the side, preparing to block it.
However, the frog took this one step further. Instead of a water tornado or his tongue, the one that appeared right next to Theo was himself.
"Wh—!" Theo widened his eyes and blocked the frog's giant body with his shield.
Sadly, it only stopped his body, not his webbed hands.
Since Theo didn't want to be slapped to death like a mosquito, he used his Thunderclap Fist to stop the second hand. As for the other hand, it managed to strike Theo and knock him away.
The slap was so hard that Theo ended up crashing to the lake's wall, and his transformation was undone.
"Gah." Theo spat out air and saw the frog coming to him.
As soon as the frog reached his position, Theo used his Blink to teleport himself to the frog's back while slashing his sword.
Unfortunately, the water resistance was so strong that the frog managed to spin his body around first and smacked him again.
This was when Theo realized the only reason he could fight the frog evenly was due to the frog trying to figure out his power and attacking him from a distance.. Now that the frog had finished warming up, he fought against Theo with his body that could ignore the water resistance, instantly gaining a huge advantage.