Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

In the end, Rain created an ice wall behind him and kicked it with Impulse… that not only pushed Rain away from the whirlwind, but he also reached the enemy.

Rain assumed his stance, and then when the beast opened its mouth, he canceled the wind barrier and punched the lower half of the jaw. The attack made the monster stop and tremble, the water around didn't have time to slow Rain down, so the creature took the full power of Rain's punch…

The body of the sea dragon coiled as the creature left it's eyes wide open Thanks to the shock. Rain moved backward and called his wind barrier again and watched the monster recover… he saw some blood leaving the Monster's mouth, but only that.

"My fist is fine and I don't feel like I punched anything really hard… maybe sea dragons are a lot lighter and that is why," Rain thought.

The sea dragon began to swim to the side once it recovered while studying Rain… as expected of a dragon that lived for five hundred years, it sure could use its braincells for some sinapses. Rain quickly retreated and studied the monster, but soon, the creature created another whirlwind where the magic people were.

"Trying to distract me, huh?" Rain thought while frowning. "Since it is like that…"

Before the next whirlwind could gain force, Rain kicked another ice wall and then approached the beast. The creature moved its mouth toward him and fired a massive blast of water.

Rain was pushed away for a moment, but soon repelled the blast while using water magic as well… he probably wouldn't have been able to do without the coral spear. When he escaped, Rain zigzagged around while trying in order not to become an easy target for the sea dragon and slowly approached.

When Rain got close enough, the giant beast tried to hit Rain with a whip-like attack with its tail, and Rain didn't have time to avoid it. He blocked the attack with his forearm guards, but before he could be pushed away, he froze the tip of the dragon's tail and connected to his forearm guards.

Rain felt like he was a twig being thrown around by a giant, but eventually the move stopped and he resumed his spell.

The water around the sea dragon began to freeze and the monster tried to control the water around itself to break free, but the ice was being repaired faster than that… and it was covering the rest of the body of the monster too.

The creature shook its tail from one side to the other to get rid of Rain, but he didn't let go… even when he began to feel like his head was about to explode and his nose made him feel a smell of iron… that was dangerous.

Still, it didn't take long for the tail of the creature to lose speed, and that helped Rain quite a bit. When Rain finally had some room to breathe, he tried to control the ice and pull the monster upward, out of the water, but the monster resisted… it actually tried to sink deeper underwater.

"... I don't need this wind barrier," Rain thought and then smirked.

Rain covered his barrier with ice and eventually canceled it. Thanks to that, the pressure of the air also began to pull the monster out of the water as well.

Now that Rain was a bit more free and connected to the beast, he freed his hands and then focused for a moment before covering his hand with wind magic and then increasing its intensity until it became electricity… Rain touched the tail of the dragon and made the creature tremble all over… his mana was being drained like there was no tomorrow, but at least the attack was being insanely effective since the sea dragon was wet and covered by water in all directions as well.

Eventually, the creature stopped moving altogether and then Rain used his mana to cover the entire body of the creature in ice, that would be easier to move the beast out of the ocean… still, just when he was about to finish the work… he felt a shiver and then soon he saw another sea dragon approaching…

"Shit… give me a break," Rain thought and then tried to raise the creature out of the ocean to make Artisia control it.

Unfortunately, Rain hadn't been fast enough… The other sea dragon summoned several whirlwinds and kept Rain and the target locked on a single spot… he didn't have any other choice.

In the end, Rain quickly approached the head of the creature after dispersing the ice and then pierced the head of the creature with his right forearm guard enhanced with a massively and sharp earth blade… it reached all the way to the brain of the creature.

The skill Earth Shaper received 100.000 experience points.

The skill Frostbite received 100.000 experience points.

The skill Wind Maker received 100.000 experience points.

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The Ice Mage's path leveled up. Intelligence + 20

The Ice Mage's path leveled up. Intelligence + 20

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Rain didn't have much mana left, but he will have to make it do… still, much to his surprise. The whirlwinds disappeared, and then the second sea dragon began to turn around to leave the area.

"I guess snakes can be pretty cunning… even the giant ones," Rain thought and then he sighed. "It would have been a difficult fight and the creature assumed that a difficult fight wouldn't be a good call if the other sea folk had come to help… not like I think that they would."

Getting closer to that kind of enemy in such an environment was harder than Rain thought… it was only natural, but he still felt like sighing for using 45 thousand mana points in a couple of minutes. He needed a better way to fight such crafty opponents… even though that battle didn't last for that long.