Burning Soul - Chapter 186

As the fight continued, Theo knew he was fighting a difficult battle. Both had a huge power gap and in terms of actual experience, he was nowhere near the latter.

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“I’ll show you what it means to fight a Xenose!” Clarke who was holding back up until now knew he had to end it quickly, the other side of battle looked like a stalemate.

He stepped back and held in dagger in his hand to perform enchantment, in an inaudible way he performed the enchantment and attacked Theo head-on. His speed was just as frightening as it was earlier.

Theo had to take it head-on, there wasn’t enough space or time to evade it. The first strike hit him with a great force, although the attack was a combination of multiple strikes.

By the next hit, he felt something weird. The second hit was harder and heavier, the same went for the third. With each strike, the weight of the attack increased and by the fifth hit it was too heavy it almost crushed Theo.

Theo was obviously surprised by this. He had never faced such an opponent; he somehow dodged the sixth strike. The blade hit the ground as the force was too great to stop it midway, Clarke must not have been accustomed to this move yet.

This was still bad news, Theo felt his muscled going almost numb after those blows, he clearly lacked the strength.

“Is that all you can do? What a disadvantage you are at, fighting an enemy with the same element as his!

Well, I’ll put you out of misery soon.” Clarke held the blade close to his face as he taunted him. The blade he held had an aura of its own, a legendary class weapon.

‘There should be something I can use!’ Theo had to come up with some strategy to fight, his stamina was depleting along with the mana. If the fight continued for long, he’d be in a big problem.

Just as he was thinking of a way to hold his position, Clarke charged onto him, again with the same combo attack. From the last time, Theo knew he couldn’t go on till the sixth blow but also there was a delay in the third and fourth strike. A slight delay.

Theo had to stretch it to the third attack, his muscled were already giving in but he was still holding on.

And then he struck the third hit, ‘Now!’ It was his chance to hit back.

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“Listen up kid, when you are fighting always observe your opponent and evaluate his skills. Learn from his moves bout his weaknesses and hit back when they expect the least!

That way, you will have the chance to surprise your enemy.

Even a second of unawareness is enough to change the course of battle.” This was the advice of Lumiere from when he trained Theo.

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‘Yeah, just like you said, hit when they expect least!’ Theo had prepared himself to counter as Clarke was charging up for his fourth hit.

The entire scene looked frozen as Theo began his move. If successful he’d at least stun the enemy and if failed, he’ll end up giving an opening for the latter to strike a deadly blow.

A bold move indeed.

His blade began to move, he had to catch up to Clarke’s speed if he wanted to strike back. Using accel and boost at a time he had gained a good amount of speed, ‘reach him…’ Theo poured all his strength in that one strike in that one moment.

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‘With a loud clang, his blade landed a strike on Clarke’s dagger, he blocked his attack but most importantly his skill now interfered midway and the dagger held no pressure like before.

With all his might Theo pushed him back while casting a flash spell to obstruct his opponent’s view and prepared to launch another attack.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. This time, he switched to his unique skill.

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‘Unique skill, Mimic – Lightening’

This skill allowed him to mimic another person’s skill, in this case, it was Aeneas’s skill. Even if it didn’t hold the stats of original skill, he could use it a good portion of the strength comparatively.

As he stood his surrounding got electrified, the discharge was visible and as he opened his eyes, he was ready to charge his attack. His blade lit up in black lightning as he charged onto Clarke, with a godlike speed he caught up to him mid-air and struck him the heaviest blow he could deliver.

‘Another element? How?’ Clarke was visibly shaken by this. Naturally, any individual can only use one type of element and for anything else they had to rely on some form of mana, storage may it be an elemental stone. Milot had the hydro element, Theo had shadow but now he was using lightning? Dark one! It made no sense to him.

The surprise move was a success, Theo managed to stun him for good.

Without wasting another moment, he struck him again with the mimic skill, this time he used the same skill.

The buffs from before and the nature of the skill allowed him to strike with greater strength and speed yet again. In that confused state, Clarke had it difficult.

He was a user of the Shadow element, even though he wasn’t a natural enemy of the lightning element, it sure was tough to deal with.

He enchanted his word with earth elements using the elemental stone as fuel and tried blocking the strike.

Admirably he did it all while Theo was charging onto him. This goes on to show the difference in experience.

He did block Theo’s attack, but enchantment lasted for a certain time. If Theo figured exactly how long, it’ll be troublesome.

“Indeed, a troublesome pest!” His face had an angered expression. The fight was stretching longer than expected, for both of them.

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‘This is bad, I can’t use mimic that freely! The last time I practised I could use it ten times, but looking at my stamina right now, I don’t know if I could even do it 3 more times’ It was as Theo thought, his skill consumed a great amount of mana and stamina at the same time and there was a limit how many times he could use that.

Theo charged in again with a different mimic this time, it was Milot’s skill this time. Imitating the skill by just looking at it was the way mimic skill worked, but to increase the effectiveness of the skill, Theo had to practice and understand how the skill worked in the first place. With Milot’s skill, he hadn’t done any of that.

To counter his lightning skill, Clarke had enchanted his sword with the earth element and wind element for agility. As Theo charged onto him, he prepared to counter the move. Unexpectedly for him, Theo was not using lightning this time, but he mimicked Milot’s previous move.

For the time being, he called it ‘Aqua cutter’. As he closed in and his skill activated, Clarke figured it was too late to switch elements and just take his hit head-on.

With brute force, he countered Theo’s attack.

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‘Damn it, nothing I try is enough to deal a decisive blow!’ Theo was now facing a wall he couldn’t overcome yet. No matter what he tried Clarke held the upper hand.

‘Wait I can try that!’ He remembered something from his training with Lumiere.

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This time Clarke wasn’t waiting around for Theo to attack him, he took the lead and charged onto him.

For such he enchanted his blade with the earth element and charged.

Theo, instead of using skills used low mana consuming spells to evade this time around, although mimic was a strong skill it took a huge toll on the body overall and he needed some time before he could charge with another.

He first used a flash spell to blind him with light and then used mine sweeper spell to cast small explosion mid-air, just enough to startle him. The explosion created a thick smokescreen that made Clarke difficult to see through.

As he emerged out of the smokescreen, his expression turned from that of frustration to fear.. A high-level magic spell was waiting for him.