Chapter 186 - Oh Shit

I couldn't help but be a little confused when the black figure so confidently claimed that I was the little girl.

Nonetheless, it didn't seem like peace was going to be an option, so I rushed forwards with the intention of killing.

The black figure immediately swept its giant vine arm against the ground. The grating sounds against the ground rapidly got closer.

However, I was not concerned. I waited for the vine to approach up close.

Suddenly, I leaped up into the air, doing a backflip. The giant vine coasted right by my back, stirring up a large amount of wind. Upon landing, I continued to run forward. The black figure seemed surprised and I fully intended on taking advantage of that.

The dragon head around my arm expanded, shooting towards the black figure. Naturally, it disappeared before I could snap down. I immediately scanned the area, finding that it reappeared off to the side.

Then, I whipped my wooden stake around to face him and teleport.

There was no way the black figure had the time to teleport again. That was why I was surprised when I reappeared.

As it wasn't there.

I looked at the ground and saw a miniature hole had formed along with decayed vines off to the side. An instinctual need to dodge came over me, thus prompting me to throw my body to the side. Almost immediately, the black figure burst out of the ground, with its wooden stake pointed upwards.

While keeping balance on one leg, I spun around, whipping my foot towards the black figure's waist.

A clear thump rang out along with a grunt of pain.

The black figure shot backwards. After landing on the ground, it tumbled, rolling over a few times. The moment I could, I shot forth, growing my own set of vines on my arm.

By the time I reached the black figure, it had already gone to quite a large extent. Without hesitation, I swung the thick vines. However, as they traveled, the vines decayed, prompting me to furrow my brows.

Then, my eyes landed on the black crystal slowly rotating behind the black figure. I clicked my tongue and activated my own black crystal.

Suddenly, the black figure lunged upwards, aiming the wooden stake for my head. I tilted my head to the side just enough, letting the wooden stake lightly brush against my face.

At the same time, I reached out with my own stake aiming for the black figure's abdomen. Yet, before it could land the black figure disappeared.

In the next moment, I felt a threat coming from behind me. I spun my head around to see a giant dragon head with its jaws wide open.

And right when it snapped down, I teleported, appearing behind the black figure. Without hesitation, I whipped around and let my own dragon expand and shoot forth.

The black figure didn't seem to be prepared. It attempted to step out of the way, but was a little slower than required to dodge.

"AHHHHHHHHH."

The dragon head did not swallow the black figure, but it was still able to clamp down on the arm holding the wooden stake. The corner of my lip turned up while my eyes widened.

Honestly, I had my guard down a little, which was probably not the best idea.

Against my expectations, the black figure decisively threw its head forwards to headbutt me.

I didn't hear any sound.

For a moment, everything was blank and also slightly warm. By the time I came to, I was stumbling backwards and nearly fell down. As my vision cleared up, I saw the black figure in front of me and the condition it was in.

The black figure was holding onto its mangled arm and panted heavily. It was bleeding, but the sight was rather strange because instead of blood, black ash slowly flowed out.

I laughed.

"Are you regretting it now? I can't believe you actually wanted to fight for... well I still don't understand the reason."

The black figure took several deep breaths.

"You... are not... me."

I blinked a few times.

"I guess not. But we do have all of the same memories. Well, mostly the same memories."

Suddenly, the black figure extended out its armguard, forming a giant dragon head. I got ready to dodge, but was a little confused as to why it was doing it so far away.

But I found out why soon after.

The dragon head chomped down onto the injured arm, ripping it off resolutely. As expected, the black figure let out a grunt of pain, but the entire time it was standing and also looking at me.

The corner of my lip twitched.

"You uh... really don't hold back. Or is it more accurate to say I don't hold back? This is quite confusing."

The black figure didn't respond. Instead, it dashed towards me and was several times faster than before.

I furrowed my brows before lunging to the side, just barely dodging a giant dragon head's teeth. Naturally, I wasn't going to be some pacifist, so I expanded out my own dragon head, reaching for him.

Unfortunately, the black figure's newfound speed was enough for it to dodge it easily. I narrowed my eyes before suddenly pulling my head back. A fist brushed right by my face.

It was an awkward angle, but my stake shot towards the black figure's abdomen.

However, it was able to dodge by sidestepping.

The black figure then tried to headbutt me, taking advantage of the position I took to dodge. With a frown, I decided to let my body fall down, but also swept with my leg, tripping the black figure. It was knocked off balance before falling.

In the end, both of us fell to the floor, face up.

Almost immediately, we both shot back up, but the black figure was a bit faster, thus able to extend the dragon head towards me. I hadn't even fully stood up yet, so it was a situation where I really needed to teleport.

However, instead of doing so, I stared that dragon head dead in the eyes and reached out with my hand. Like an insane person, I grabbed onto the top of its snout and pulled up with all of my strength.

I had to really strain my arm, nearly pulling a muscle, but I was able to lift myself up and out of the way. With one hand still on the dragon head snout, I used the other to thrust my wooden stake towards the black figure's face.

It shot to the left and backed off, dodging it but giving up counter-attacking.

I took a deep breath.

The black figure was faster than me, but only had one arm. Because of that, despite being faster, the attacks we launched out were more or less at the same rate.

I was dodging each attack just barely, giving me enough time to do something else, usually counterattack. On the other hand, the black figure would make sure to fully dodge, using up move time than needed to actually negate the effects.

All in all, we were essentially evenly matched.

There was a reason we both stopped using our teleportation. It took the black figure a little bit longer to figure out, but the person who teleports first will have a disadvantage as there will be a slight cooldown.

Then, the other person can teleport and take advantage of that opportunity to make an attack that is really hard to avoid.

We were essentially just trying to force the other to teleport first.

...But at this rate, we would be fighting forever.

As such, a rather dangerous idea formed in my mind.

The black figure lunged towards me seeing that I was standing still, extending the black dragon head towards me. I stepped to the side and turned so that my back was facing the dragon head, letting it fly by.

Then, I thrust forth with my stake purposely aiming it towards the black figure's abdomen even when hitting the head wouldn't be too hard.

The black figure didn't dodge this time, taking it directly. The dragon head had already retracted by this time, which he then tried to use to attack me again.

Now I teleported.

Then, I made the dragon head on my arm extend out. But not towards him, but rather the spot behind me.

Lo and behold, the black figure appeared, still in the process of retracting its own dragon head.

Then, the jaws slammed down on its body, consuming it whole.

I could feel the energy within struggling intently until eventually, it stopped.

But not because it was dead.

I could hear its voice.

"Oh shit."

I furrowed my brows.

"What?"

The black figure that was in the process of being consumed sucked in a cold breath.

"I uh... didn't know. Look, you take half the blame because you are the one that consumed me!"

Right when I was about to ask, I suddenly felt a strong pain in my head.