Chapter 167 – Breaking the Limits

“Lightning Double Enchantment, Raiden Armor.”

For now, this is how I clashed with the dragon demon. However, I know that I can’t win with this alone. So what to do?

“Lightning Grip.”

“Ga?”

When I’m in the midst of a spirit descent, I can control electricity at will within a 5 meter radius around me. However, since I’m not very skilled at it, I can’t control it with pinpoint accuracy within a five-meter radius. For example, I can’t make the electricity in front of me come to me and the electricity behind me go away from me and so on. However, I can control all the electricity monotonously, such as moving them to me or away from me. So I decided to shut down all the electricity within a five meter radius.

“Something’s wrong…”

The dragon demon’s movements slowed down noticeably. I think I learned in a previous life that humans are powered by electrical signals. So I thought that if could stop them, I should do that, but it seems that slowing down the electrical signals is the best I can do. I hadn’t been able to try this before because I didn’t know how dangerous it was. But it’s no problem for these guys.

“Ora!”

“Ku…”

But this had a weakness. It’s because Zeal’s attention is focused on slowing down the electricity. In other words, while I’m doing this, I have to formulate my own spirit magic. This means that I can’t use spirit magic freely.

“This feels like a bit of a waste to lose a spirit.”

Hearing Im’s voice reminded me. That’s right. I have to beat her too. I can’t beat all of them when I’m evenly matched with just the dragon demon. Besides, I have to heal Elira as soon as possible…

“What’z rong? Yu good?”

“Hmm?”

When the two demons saw that I had changed my lightning double enchantment to a lightning enchantment and moved away, they raised their voices in question.

“That’s no good! ┘\

“Spirit Zeal Enchantment…”

I heard Yug’s voice, but ignored it. The only way to enchant a stronger enchantment than the current one was to enchant a spirit magic. Of course, if I calmly thought about it, there was no way Zeal could enchant while in the midst of spirit descent. That’s something that can only be done if there are two Zeals. Normally, the enchantment would have ended in failure. But fortunately or unfortunately, I had two spirits. The other spirit filled in for the missing spirit.

“Ga?”

I moved faster than ever before to the dragon demon and sliced off its left arm. I tried to cut off its head.

“This is… I need to think of a way to make him become a demon while leaving the spirits behind in earnest…”

But the attack on the neck was stopped by Im’s hand. I kicked her out of the way. I don’t know if it’s the fact that she’s hard, but slashing doesn’t seem to work. So how about a blow?

“Ga ……”

The dragon demon looked puzzled as Im who had come to his aid, disappeared in an instant. It didn’t matter to me, so I started to chop his head off again.

“Chi…”

But as a hand covered in huge jet-black scales came from the ground to grab me, I ducked and got some distance. It was at that moment that I drank the elixir in one gulp. The reason why it was an elixir and not an MP potion was because my body was in shambles. My body can’t keep up with the rapid increase in my status right now. The bones in my arms are broken just by swinging my sword. And yet, I don’t feel that strong a pain. I just feel that it’s broken and while I was at it, I wondered if I could go to Elira for treatment, but Im was already there.

“I think you shouldn’t do that because it’s really hard on your body, you know?”

I didn’t hear her words. I was physically and mentally exhausted right now. I can’t hear a thing. I’m shutting out all the information I don’t need. I don’t have the time to use my bird’s-eye view , magic detection, or even crisis detection. The only thing I can’t do now is cancel this enchantment, because once I do, Yug won’t let me enchant her again. It doesn’t matter, if I can take care of Im before the dragon demon, which is guarded by a mysterious giant hand, I can get to Elira and treat her.

“Shrink.”

“Mmm…”

I’m confident that I’ll be able to dodge any attack that comes my way right after I shrink and shrinkage is not affected by sudden status increases. Therefore when I kicked off from the ground and started running as before,, I didn’t break my leg bones.

“Shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink.”

“That’s annoying!”

I keep punching Im as I move back and forth with shrink. If you were to look around, you would see that Im is just being beaten to a pulp. From the looks of it, a blow is more effective than a slash.

“Ah… n…”

I was about to spit out blood, but I managed to swallow it and hold it in. I can’t even afford to vomit blood right now. My internal organs are getting too taxed. But now I can kill Im, the source of all this. I managed to keep hitting her with my body that was about to lose consciousness.

“Eh…”

“Chance!”

But for some reason, the enchantments, Raiden Armor and Spirit Descent were all canceled in an instant as if something had flicked them off. In that gap, Im grabbed me.

“Don’t touch Zero onii-chan.”

However, at the same time as the voice, Im was instantly blown away with black flames to the dragon demon. Destroying the corridor…. And I almost fell forward as my body reached its limit, but someone hugged me and kept me from falling.

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