Chapter 174 A Fair Fight :(

He fell to his knees as the smoke started coming out of his body. The light inside his iris turned into a literal big red flame. He screamed in pain as the crystal on his chest shone in a red glow before it spewed bright red energy throughout his body.

The whole body of the giant started burning. He was shaking from the pain. When Rishi looked at him, a bead of sweat appeared on his forehead for the first time. "It looks like my cheering worked, but isn't it too much? How will I defeat him?"

He signed before laughing at himself. "If I cut him now, will the blood come out or Lava, let's check it out," he said, licking his lips in anticipation.

He was about to attack when he heard a loud explosion. The smoke and dust made it very difficult for him to see his opponent clearly. He was only able to see the shadow of a ten-foot giant. His whole body was burning with flames.

His eyes shone in a big red flame, and he breathed fire, setting the whole area around him. Each step he took caused cracks and holes below him. Whether the fire was surrounding him or burning him was very hard to tell.

On both of his hands were two huge machetes covered in fire. The sound of a heavy chain rubbing against the ground could be heard following him, and when Rishi looked at it again, he saw a burning chain connecting the hilts of both machetes.

The giant looked at Rishi and walked slowly towards him with his machete wielded in his right hand, pointing towards his opponent, while the other was resting on his right shoulder.

Rishi also started approaching him in his standard fighting stance; his right hand rested on the hilt of his sword while the left hand held the sheath tightly. He looked into his opponent's eyes confidently and approached him one step at a time; the shoes he was wearing had been destroyed in the fights before, so he was barefoot now.

He clenched his body and stood on his toes, with his body slightly bent to maintain balance. He didn't wait for the opponent to approach him; he jumped at him and struck him with a 'Quick Draw. Because the attack was swift, it was impossible for the opponent with such a giant body to dodge.

His sword edge made contact with his opponent's feet, creating sparks. When Rishi turned to look at the impact, he only saw a red mark at the place where he had attacked. That too disappeared the next moment as if it had never been there.

When he looked at the face of the giant demon, he could only see a sneer on his face. Instead of the despair the giant demon had predicted, a look of anticipation and joy appeared on his face.

The boy with his eyes shining in a light blue glow and his silver hair dancing in the wind, laughed for the first time since he had arrived on this floor. "Finally, finally, I don't need to hold back. I was disappointed that I couldn't use Aura in the fight."

He took out his sword and brought it in front of him. He closed his eyes, and a small explosion occurred when he opened them. His naked sword, which made just a slight movement before reflecting the moon in the sky, was covered in a strange dark flame that changed states; at one point it was solid; at another it was liquid, and when looked at again, it looked like a black mist.

A "shh" sound was constantly coming from the dark flame as if it were crying with joy. The wind around it started moving in all directions. It was making a whistling sound as if giving a warning to others of what was about to come.

Rishi smiled when he looked at the dancing dark flame increasing and decreasing in size every second. This Aura was way superior to what he had been able to call before. His all-night training was worth it; he could now call his Aura and make it cover his whole sword without constantly burning mana as fuel.

The giant demon had already lost patience when it attacked Rishi with a vertical chop, trying to separate his body in half. Rishi was aware of the attack, so he used 'Phantom Step' to dodge it before approaching the enemy and landing his 'Quick Draw+Sword Dash+Quick Draw' three-hit combo.

Three parts of the giant scratched against the sword of Rishi covered in the sword aura. The attacks created three big wounds on its body. The demon cried and retreated some steps before trying to regenerate his wounds, but found out that he was not able to do that. The mix of hot red blood was constantly flowing from there.

Enraged, he covered them with fire before looking at his opponent with his hateful stare. He swung his two machetes tied to his long burning chain towards Rishi.

This was a very unusual attack. At first, Rishi could dodge by predicting the moment of the machete, but even he didn't think that the demon would change the direction of the machete in mid-air, which resulted in one attack connecting on his chest.

Even when getting attacked, Rishi believed that by bringing his sword in between and wearing his armor, he would be able to neglect most of the damage, but the enemy was blasted back like a cannonball. His back hit a pillar, which caused cracks in the pillar before it started shaking and breaking into pieces.

Some pieces fell on Rishi, injuring him even more. He was sitting with his hips touching the ground, disregarding his injuries. His entire focus was on what happened and why he could not block the attack.

After thinking for a while, he got his answer: it could be due to the opponent having a fire with the properties of 'True Fire.' It was a property that made the attack ignore the shield and armor of the opponent.

This was the most annoying thing Rishi had ever fought against. He laughed, "Now the fight is completely fair; no matter whose attack hits, the impact will be equally bad.

He sighed and stood up, using the broken pillars as support. He used regeneration, and his wounds recovered. He steered, and his bones cracked before looking at his opponent with pity. "Pity, only I can regenerate. Let's see how long you will be able to hold on."