Life Hunter 53 ''Clench Your Teeth''

After their enhancement, the battle's tendency visibly fell into Arima's hands. After all, Karma was still a transcendental weapon and although it could sound like a vague a.s.sessment, it was still a weapon supposed to be above anything you could find in this world. At its maximum power, it could easily push Raal's sword.

Also, the 'One hundred parade' is Arima's enhancing magic, which needs both Arima and Night together to maintain it, something like that, of course it would be strong.

In the end, Arima was pushing back Raal. Regardless of the size of their bodies or their weapons, Arima was clashing with Raal, and by slashing at him with Karma and attacking him with lightning, he was continuously putting Raal into a tight spot.

They kept fighting for a moment with the latter on the defensive, casually destroying at least a hectare of earth with just a swing of their weapons.

At some point, Raal's grin became wider and a blood colored aura surrounded him. His sword glowed with the same light and he swung it in a really strong motion.

Arima felt something was wrong, he hurriedly gathered his lightning "[Aeterna]" And swung his sword to meet Raal's. At the impact, 'Aeterna' was released as a black sphere surrounded by a blood aura, but that same aura was growing stronger and literally absorbed Arima's attack. The explosion was suppressed and the two fighters took their distance one more time.

"I heard of that" Arima then commented "The ability that a small number of demons possess, Blood Eater" He said and Raal smirked "If I'm not wrong, Blood Eater allows the user to integrate the aura of their victims by drinking their blood, and then use them for himself in a fight, it's not really you strengthening yourself, but rather you using a secondary power" Arima smiled and said

"You're right" Raal nodded "That's what you call the Blood Eater" He said "Then, are you prepared?"

Arima laughed lightly and flapped his wings, he charged toward Raal and they continued slashing at each other one more time.

The blood aura around Raal, became even stronger and the two fell into a stalemate. Even with the earth rising to attack Arima, or the lightning falling down to strike Raal. Those attacks were practically ignored while they were fighting in close combat. Because of their last enhancement, they couldn't find time to cast a large-scale magic anymore.

At some point, even their ways to fight started to change, Raal started parring some strikes with his horns and even let some attacks reach his flesh. On the other side, Arima started using his tail and wings to variate his actions, and contrary to his opponent, he couldn't let Raal hit him once, although his skeleton form is almost invulnerable, it's not indestructible. A single swing of that great sword could break a lot of his bones and he would need time to repair them, which would give the advantage to Raal.

After half an hour, Arima decided to do something. The snow star pattern in his eyes glowed and revolved once, without Raal noticing. He then swung Karma with all of his strength, to clash with Raal's sword that was coming vertically.

The result was that both him and Raal had lost the control of their weapons for a second, Arima blocked Raal's horn with his tail and then gathered a huge amount of lightning and fire in his skeletal hand. Raal, reacted quickly, his fist became enveloped in a blood aura and he added as much spirits he could call in that short period of time (Like, less than half a second).

After that, the two fighters punched at the same time, because of Raal's size, Arima had his whole upper body punched, while Raal gained himself a b.l.o.o.d.y hole on the abdomen.

They both were sent flying by the strike and were suddenly separated by more than a hundred miles. Arima then called back Karma in his soul and took out Ira in his left hand. Thanks to his wings, he regained stability before his opponent. His skull and ribs that were broken started recovering, fortunately, the injuries as an undead are different, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to heal the aftermaths of Raal's attacks so easily.

He started firing with his gun without any inhibition, ten shots left the muzzle every second. Each bullet was in adamant.i.te and were enhanced by the results of Karma's transcending, additionally, the ones Arima just fired were all explosive bullets that he personally enchanted.

Of course, Raal wouldn't be fl.u.s.tered by that, but a single bullet could still injure him, and his body size was big right now, making him an easy target. Ultimately, he started avoiding and blocking the incoming bullets. Even when Arima used an accelerating circle, the bullets weren't fast enough to pressure Raal.

"(The main advantage of the guns I made in this world are their range, their firing speed and their low consumption. And also, their threat is not to be ignored)" Arima thought. He then took Superbia in his right hand and the gun started charging with electricity and plasma, even more than the previous times.

Raal saw Superbia and furrowed, he kicked the ground and propelled his huge body, but at that moment, thunder roared and a purple lightning fell just in front of him and that surprised him, then, before he could do anything, a rain of lightning started falling on him while he was being shot at with Ira.

It didn't take a lot of time for him to disperse the lightning with his magic, but he suffered some burns and received three bullets. It was important to know that Arima kept aiming at the injury he left on Raal previously and he received those three bullets right in it and made him cough some blood because of the bullets' explosion. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't like Arima and couldn't heal an injury made by the latter so easily, but it was still recovering at a speed visible with the naked eye.

Because of that rain of lightning, Raal lost around four seconds, and that was enough for Arima. The Demon King looked at the sky where Arima was and saw Superbia pointing at him, releasing a scary amount of energy, ready to fire at him.

But at that moment he frowned, he thought that if the weapon he had in his hand right now was had the same concept as the previous one, then he would be able to avoid it since it came in a straight line. In the end, he had no choice, he started charging toward Arima while trying to stay out of his firing line, each one of his steps as a minotaur created a small earthquake.

Arima smirked and a huge and complex magic circle formed in front of Superbia's muzzle. When Raal saw that circle and recognized some runes on it, his countenance suffered a huge change. He instantly turned to look behind him, but it felt like slow motion to him.

When he caught a glimpse of what was behind him, his mind started working without rest. The same magic circle had formed behind him and before he could say anything. Arima fired Superbia and a ma.s.sive black pillar left the muzzle and entered the circle.

The attack then reappeared behind Raal and totally shrouded the latter, along with the sound of thunder and the echo of earth trembling when the black pillar pierced the ground.

After that pillar vanished. Raal reappeared with a severed arm, apparently, he discarded it to protect himself from the attack. Of course, he didn't stand there like an idiot and directly jumped away, no matter if something was coming at him or no, he just needed to jump away to look around.

But he couldn't find Arima's figure. Even though a big skeleton with blue flames in the eye's sockets should be easy to find.

"[Accelerans](Accelerando)" Raal then heard an eerie voice very close to him, he then noticed that Arima was just beside him in an Iai stance. Karma already had been charged with three different magics. Lightning, Fire and surprisingly, Light.

The flames inhabiting Arima's skull turned into silver flames. And the aura around Karma also turned into a beautiful silver.

"[Et Convertam Aeterna Lux Aeterna in Noctem] (Eternal Light will turn into Eternal Night)" Arima chanted very slowly. But Raal couldn't move like he wanted, he felt like Arima was moving around him like he was in another reality.

And so, Arima slowly unsheathed Karma and a silver light illuminated the zone for at least a thousand miles radius. When the blade was halfway out of its scabbard, the light disappeared and Arima returned Karma into his sheath.

After that, Raal realized that the effect Arima had put on him had disappeared but his body was paralyzed. And he realized he had a scary silver mark going from his shoulder to his waist. Considering Raal's size, it was scary.

While Raal was getting back his mental. Arima's flesh started coming back and when he totally returned to normal, he let out a huge breath and a blue mist came out of his mouth.

While he was faintly panting, he looked at Raal "How was it? I used time magic, and even in my undead form, I was challenged by the rebound, and after that I used Light magic, which worn me off even more. Now I think I can't return to that form anymore" He complained a bit. He knew that an over usage of Time magic would cause damage, but he tried to use it longer with his undead body. Result, now, even his physical body had some internal damage. Maybe if he hadn't suppressed his own strength, maybe he could have resisted the rebound of Time magic

And as time pa.s.sed, the silver light on Raal's chest was going brighter and brighter "So that was Time magic, huh? That's the first time I saw it in action" He said

Arima smiled and pointed his palm at Raal "Clench your teeth" He said "[Stella noctem aurora] (Dawn Night Star)" He chanted and the silver mark discharged.

The detonation was mysteriously silent and Raal became shrouded by a light that formed a giant silver star* in the sky. It pushed the clouds away and the sun illuminated it. Even the water, that was already coming back since the moment Arima and Raal stopped fighting, stopped flowing and started hovering in the air around the star. Soon a sphere of water surrounded the star and became illuminated from the inside by the silver light. Creating a magnificent scene.

After a time, the star started shrinking and the water fell from the sky and filled up the ocean again. Arima looked idly at his magic, under the rain produced.

And then as expected, Raal reappeared, injured over his whole body, he was panting violently and his body had stopped healing. But unlike Arima, he still managed to keep his transformation as a minotaur, activated.

If the two continued to fight, Arima would still most likely win, but they would both receive injuries in the fight that would need an immediate intervention.

While Arima and Raal were silently looking at each other, the former raised his hand to the sky and Raal frowned. And in the direction Arima's palm was pointing, the air started cracking like a mirror and Arima smirked "To be honest, if this was a fight to death, I would have already won, but because I couldn't kill you without any reason, I chose to use this" He said and their surroundings changed in the blink of an eye.

The temperature suddenly rose dangerously, the water disappeared completely, it wasn't being pushed back or anything, it had just disappeared. And the most intriguing thing was that the whole place was illuminated by a strange reddish light.

Raal slowly raised his head to look at the sky and his eyes narrowed. The sky was completely overtaken by a sun, risking to crash on the planet at any moment. The comparison with the actual sun wasn't exaggerated, although its size couldn't be compared to the real one, its appearance was exactly the same. And the heat maybe was not that far from the real one.

When Raal saw this, he started laughing "I see, so you created another dimension to prepare this, you must have begun this the moment you chose to use your long-range weapons. After that, you kept distracting me to prevent that I would realize that your mana was ma.s.sively leaving your body, because if I had noticed it, I could have fled from the zone where you can send me into this dimension" He said after thinking about it

Arima smiled "That's my last attack, do your best to resist it" He said and flew higher toward the sun. He then looked down at Raal "Don't worry, I'll retrieve you before you enter into a critical state and I'll heal you afterward. Good luck" His figure disappeared "[Supernova]" And his voice resounded in the whole place.

Raal grinned while looking at the sun falling, gradually getting hotter "Let's go, Rayord. At least, let's try to not fall unconscious" He said

"{No problem}" His soul beast answered him and his aura was fully released.

Raal then stomped the ground "[Spirits of earth, wind and fire, help me get through this ordeal]" He chanted and used every last drop of mana he had in his mana pool. The earth shook for an unimaginable radius, starting from Raal's position. The earth around him started creating mountains that raised themselves in front of him to protect him. He also used wind to fight against the sun and tried to control a small part of the fire spirits in it to help him.

After a moment, the sun touched the tip of one of the mountains and the nova exploded, shrouding the dimension with an orange glow.