"You seemed quite tired." The Silver Ghoul said tauntingly; I just looked at it before continued fighting.
Fourteen hours have passed since I had started fighting, and it is now using its eighth fighting style.
All eight of these fighting styles are different from others, making it very dangerous for me when it suddenly changes into a different fighting style.
Four times, I had nearly survived by less than an inch against its Trident; one time, it had nearly pierced through my head. If not for me moving away in time, I would have really been stabbed, which would have been very bad for me.
Not only that, despite furiously refining mana every second, my mana is continuously declining. I am using more of it, and I am refining and have only 40% of it remaining in my Refinement Tower's storage.
Still, these fourteen hours were not completely wasteful; I have been studying all its fighting styles very carefully. Even if they seemed very different from each of them, they all stem from one core, and studying its different fighting style, I have got a glimpse of its core.
I had not thought I would be able to do this fast, but I did, and now I will have to study that core further before, but I have to be faster.
My energy is draining slowly, and if I hastily launched a full-power attack and failed, then there will be hell to pay, and that is what this Silver Ghoul is counting on.
It wants to empty my energy storage; that way, I will not have any energy to deal with its offense, and it will able to finish me off easily.
An hour more passed, and I lost 5% more percent of energy; not only that, but I have also dodged two killing blows. It had not changed its fighting style, its just that as I am studying it, it had also been studying me, and when it saw a hole in my defense, it went for it.
Now, after fifteen hours of fighting, I see a chance to defeat it; I am not 100% sure it will work, but I have no other choice but to try it, seeing the energy I am losing every second.
'First Boost!'
Seeing I couldn't waste any more time, I activated the first boost. The flood of energy released from my Refinement Tower and filled the twelve formations that are over my body, which made that energy boiling and spread through all the runes.
It did not take over a moment for 'First Boost' to activate; in the previous upgrade, I had worked hard on improving the power and timing of 'First Boost.' And I can say my efforts were fruitful, seeing how quickly it activated and filled me with power.
It might not sense the power filling me, but it had sensed the change in me that 'First Boost' brought and immediately got alert but being alert is not enough to save it from my attacks.
As the power-filled me, I transferred it all to my four vines, and immediately they started glowing as they whipped toward the Silver Ghoul.
Clang Clang Clang…
The vines moved at nearly invisible speed and whipped toward the Silver Ghoul, which barely able to defend against, and one vine even reached very near its neck when it defended against it.
Without wasting any time, I had activated 'Rose Refinement,' and twelve roses came out of me and moved toward the Silver Ghoul.
Seeing the Roses, The Ghoul got alarmed and wanted to run away, but how can I let it do that. It is already bad enough that it can defend against my attacks after I fought against it for fifteen hours; I'll be damned if I let it ran way.
My vines attacked it from all sides, not giving it a single chance to run away, and that is all the Roses needed; within a second, the twelve roses and covered silver Ghoul and me.
Buzz!
Faint buzz rang out as the roses turned to petals and these petals formed a big rose that enveloped Silver Ghoul and me.
"Wretched human, don't think you can do whatever you want; you have been alive because I was playing with you; now that you have shown your teeth, let me show you what real strength is!" It said in answer and the next moment, powerful fluctuation released from it.
"Oceans Fury!" "Oceans Guard!"
It shouted as a blue watery layer appeared around its body, and its aura doubled. It had activated its defensive method and power method, which is similar to that of 'First Boost.'
Clang Clang Clang..
With its strength increased, it begins to defend against my vines proactively, and now they both seemed to be on an equal term that lasted till I finally activated the Rose Refinement's suppressive effect.
Its expressions became quite nasty seeing that, and it started to move toward the edge of the Rose.
Few seconds of fighting, it had understood the ever-increasing suppression of Rose Refinement. The more time it stays, the greater suppression it will suffer.
If I had not kept a little surprise back, it might have able to leave the Rose Refinement, but not now. I had not used this surprise before as I don't want to startle it.
Clang Khutch Khutch…
Suddenly my vines begin to move differently, and within a second, it brought two injuries to the Silver Ghouls body.
Before, I have only used 20% of the data I had collected after fighting it for fifteen hours, and now I am using the whole 100%, and change is immediate as injuries begin to appear on its whole body.
It begins trying even harder to run away but not move more than one step; it had been completely caged by my vines, not cable to moving more than three steps from its current position.
The only thing it is doing is defending its fatal spots; once they got breached, its game will be over.
