Chapter 518: Fourth Fight: Stein & Bernard VS Cathyl & Vheslia 5

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CLASH!

Cathyl's axe clashed against Stein's arms. His powerful arms defied logic itself, being so resilient they were able to even take the powerful blows of a Legendary Weapon!

"What are you made of?!" asked Cathyl in shock.

"Rotten… meat!"

CLASH!

Stein suddenly used his powerful hands the size of boulders as he punched Cathyl's stomach, which was protected by an armor, away!

BOOOOMMM!!!

"Uuaaggh…!"

Cathyl fell over the ground with a loud boom! Her body was fine, but the blow itself felt like someone threw a cannonball to her stomach.

The prowess of Stein was incredible!

She felt her blood pumping as she smiled manically. Finally, a worthy opponent! Since she had grown so strong, it has been truly a while since something actually gave her a challenge like back then, when everyone fought to protect Terra against the Demon King's army and the powerful Miasma Creatures!

She jumped outside of the floor with a single burst of winds, coating herself with beautiful emerald winds that majestically made her resemble a goddess of the breeze! She looked down at Stein, as Stein looked at her dumbly.

"Fight!" he said.

"Alright, let's fucking fight!" she laughed, overflowing herself with winds and magic in her entire body, her Aura overflowed from her body, coating her axe with enormous quantities of power.

FLAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHH!!!

In a mere instant Cathyl reached Stein and began to bathe him with powerful attacks using her axe, the powerful blows could easily slice an entire mountain, but Stein… was taking them with his bare arms! What kind of monstrous physical fighter was he? He was really like The Hulk!

CLAAASH! CLAAASH! CLAAASH!

"I can't believe it, you're really a monster!" muttered Cathyl, as she gathered enormous quantities of Mana into her axe and then released a special technique, this one had even sliced apart the body parts of the Demon King back then!

TRUUUMMM!!!

A powerful vortex of slicing winds was released from her axe as she sliced through the wind countless times!

"Guuuaaaggh…!"

Stein was suddenly blow away by the powerful slicing wind vortex coming from Cathyl's axe, flowing like an endless storm of slicing attacks, and piercing through his clothes!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

The powerful slicing attacks continued constantly, as Stein's arms were already beginning to show slicing wounds!

"I'm actually getting through!" thought Cathyl, feeling excited! Only to have her hopes shattered…!

"Hmph!"

Suddenly, Stein overcharged his body with a strange Aura energy! It looked similar to the Aura that Laura had showed in the battle she had against Gwendolyn and Axitl, no, it was even greater than that! For a moment, Cathyl felt like she was facing an immense force, even greater than a whole mountain…

This aura that emanated from Stein's body was Blood or Dark Attribute, it was a completely different aura, and this was the aura he used the most when he was alive, this is the power he trained since he was young, the power to utilize the superhuman strength of someone that could only be referred as a Goliath!

Cathyl felt overwhelmed by merely facing such force, it felt as if she was facing something incredibly powerful, something she couldn't pierce through! The incredibly presence of Stein made it so her entire body felt like its own weight had increased by a hundredfold!

"Aura… Fist!"

FLASH!

Stein gathered his entire Aura within his fist in a mere second, as the streams of aura energy flashed with bright light around his enormous boulder-sized hand. Everyone in the spectators glanced at this scene in shock!

"W-What is this?!"

Cathyl braced herself for the impact, as her Aura shaped itself as several shields and her own tower shield was enhanced by her Shield Technique, putting it right in front of her and then…!

CLASH!

TRUUUUUMMMMM!!!

A massive earthquake took over the entire battlefield, as Bernard and Vheslia were also affected by this powerful fist!

"Nngh…! Aaaggh…!"

Cathyl gritted her teeth as she resisted the immense pressure of Stein's fist, it felt as if the might of a whole continent was pressing down into her shield! This was the power he had achieved after reaching the level of a Demigod!

His own fist shaped into the form of a mass of pure and incredibly potent Aura energy, which shaped into the form of his own fist, clashing down on Cathyl and sending her flying through the air!

BOOOM!!!

Cathyl fell over the floor, the massive attack left her inside a crater!

"Hahhh…"

Suddenly, Stein calmed himself down, as steam came out of his nose, ears, and the screws on his neck, it felt as if he had spent a considerably amount of energy in that massive and devastating blow!

"Hanna… did you see? I am working… hard!"

Stein looked at his lover in the spectators, as she was left speechless, even Hanna had never seen the full extent of Stein's new capabilities, being left with her mouth wide open.

Cathyl's entire body was protected by her powerful armor, but even her armor was now all crumbled and deformed, and even her shield was now shattered and fell into pieces! Stein had the power to even destroy Legendary-Grade items and above…!

However, her axe which had been enhanced and upgraded into an even higher grade, seemed to be doing fine, and it possessed the ability of Auto-repair, even the cracks it had quickly regenerated back!

Cathyl felt like her muscles were about to be torn apart, and her bones were barely not shattering… she gritted her teeth as she unleashed one of her various techniques, merging martial arts with wind magic, she generated a flash of emerald light all over her own body, this refreshing breeze began to regenerate her wounds at an incredible speed as she stood up, but it came at the cost of not only mana, but vitality.

"Hm? You survived… that?" asked Stein.

"It will take more than a punch to take me down, big guy." Said Cathyl, a smile emerged in her lips as her emerald eyes shone with bright light, she was filled with excitement to fight some more!

She was really a worthy opponent!

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