“An Eighth Rank Magic spell actually had no effect at all?” Jellal couldn’t help but cry out in shock.
“Eighth Rank Magic… that’s it?”
Yize blinked, his tone filled with sincere confusion.
Jellal fell silent.
For the first time, a look of incredible shock appeared on the face beneath the hood.
Eighth Rank Magic!
And it was the Dimensional Collapse Thunder Judgment, which combined spatial tearing attributes!
Its instantaneous explosive power was enough to heavily injure or even kill an A+ rank Demon King Seed with slightly weaker defense!
But this black-haired youth… actually only felt “a bit numb” and hadn’t even broken his skin?
What kind of monster was this?
Could it be that his magic resistance was so high that he was immune to all magic below the Ninth Rank?
No, even with immunity, energy was required to offset the attack, but the other party’s effortless and even somewhat bored expression…
A more terrifying thought emerged: Could it be… that the existence of that physical body itself was already at a level high enough to be immune to basic elemental magic?
‘I must… use my true power!’
Jellal made a decision instantly.
Magic attacks were ineffective—at least conventional High-rank Magic was!
Then he would use the most primitive, most essential method!
“Very good… very good!”
Jellal’s voice dropped.
He completely released the suppression of his form, and dragon characteristics fully emerged from beneath the gray robe.
A powerful pressure filled the entire temporary space!
His aura intensity had actually reached the staggering threshold of an S+ rank!
“If magic is useless against you… then how about you try this?”
Jellal took a step forward with his right foot, and the “spatial floor” beneath him rippled slightly.
Without seeing him use any force, his figure disappeared!
In the next one-thousandth of a second, he appeared beside Yize, his right fist carrying the weight of a mountain as it slammed toward Yize’s temple without any flourish!
Wherever the fist passed, the space emitted a faint sound of breaking glass, unable to bear the burden!
This time, Yize finally moved.
Instead of dodging, he simply raised his left arm, blocking to the side.
Thump—!!!!
A heavy, dull explosion rang out in the space!
Terrifying sound waves and shockwaves erupted in a sphere.
Yize’s body swayed slightly, and his feet slid 2 meters to the side.
On Jellal’s side, the counter-shock force made his entire arm go numb, and waves of faint, stinging pain surged through him!
He used the force to drift back, the shock in his eyes no longer able to be hidden.
With his pure strength alone—using an S+ rank dragon body that had integrated the essence of Iguneel’s dragon remains—one punch should have been enough to collapse a small mountain!
The other party… had only swayed and slid several steps?
And that counter-shock force…
“Good strength,” Yize lowered his arm and commented, a glimmer of thought flashing in his eyes. “A bit better than that little Blood Race girl… uh, Vivian, I think? A bit better than her. Speed is also okay.”
He was also quickly evaluating things in his heart.
Jellal’s physical strength was indeed far beyond any opponent he had encountered before, including that mysterious Queen of the Bloodkin, Vivian.
Both his power and speed had reached a very high level.
However… that was all.
Yize could feel that if he were willing, he could still form a crushing advantage in pure strength and speed, just as he had against No.2.
It was just that this opponent used his power more exquisitely and had more combat experience, so he wasn’t as easy to handle as No.2.
“Only… a bit better?!”
Hearing Yize’s evaluation, Jellal was almost moved to angry laughter, but more than that was a chilling fear growing wildly in his heart.
His strength was nearly S+ rank.
He was a top-tier existence who had stepped one foot into the realm of a Calamity Demon King!
He had planned for a hundred years, integrated dragon remains, and modified himself to possess the power he had today!
But in the mouth of this mysterious youth, it was merely “not bad” and “a bit better”?
Resentment, shock, and a trace of fear that even he was unwilling to admit drove Jellal to explode!
“Roar—!!!”
A dragon-like roar erupted from his throat!
He no longer held back. His body expanded slightly, his aura climbed again, and a pair of massive phantom dragon wings even appeared faintly behind him as he launched a fierce assault on Yize.
Yize also became a bit more serious.
He no longer just stood there and took hits. He began to perform small-scale parries and dodges, and occasionally swung a fist in return.
The two figures moved at high speeds within this temporary space, their collisions sounding like continuous muffled thunder, causing the space to tremble and distort constantly as if it would collapse at any moment.
The longer they fought, the more Jellal’s heart sank, and the colder he felt.
Even if his attacks landed squarely on Yize’s body, they could at most leave a white mark on the other’s skin that disappeared almost instantly.
But every time Yize’s seemingly casual fists swung out, they made Jellal’s blood surge and his scales tremble, forcing him to spend a considerable amount of Dragon Power to neutralize the terrifying force that penetrated his body.
This was a completely unequal battle!
The opponent was like an unspeakable ancient monster wearing human skin!
Invincible defense and bottomless strength!
The only thing worth feeling lucky about was that the opponent seemed to truly only excel at physical combat and knew nothing about high-level magical fields such as space, rules, and forbidden techniques. His fighting style was direct and “plain.”
Otherwise, if the opponent had mastered even one or two High-rank Magic or forbidden curses to accompany his monster-like body, Jellal might have truly met his end here today!
‘It cannot go on like this!’
Alarm bells rang in Jellal’s heart.
The testing was sufficient—no, it had tested out a terrifying fact that he was completely unable to understand or resist!
This Yize was by no means an ordinary Ancient Dragon or Monster Species!
Unable to win the long battle—or rather, being one-sidedly beaten—Jellal finally completely gave up his fantasy of “taking down” or “studying” Yize.
He seized an opening when Yize swung a fist and took a side kick to the shoulder blade. The intense pain almost made him groan aloud.
Using the force to retreat violently, a massive amount of Mana began to condense around him.
“Trying to run?”
Yize frowned. He could feel the surrounding space becoming unstable. Clearly, the other party wanted to use Space Magic again.
He didn’t want to be teleported to some random place.
He exerted force through his feet, about to rush over and interrupt.
But Jellal was prepared.
As Yize started his move, Jellal quickly cast the prepared Space Magic.
“Space… Exile!”
Vroom—!!!
A spatial fluctuation even more violent and unstable than before exploded!
Countless silver-purple spatial cracks spread out with Jellal as the center, like a shattered mirror!
A powerful spatial force carrying a mandatory repelling intent surged toward Yize like a tsunami.
Yize felt his body become light, as if he had suddenly lost weight. The surrounding scenery began to spin, stretch, and blur frantically.
The silver-gray temporary space disintegrated piece by piece, replaced by a flood of bizarre and incomprehensible colors and lines.
‘Damn it, I still got tricked!’
Yize cursed inwardly, but there was nothing he could do.
He knew nothing about Space Magic. Facing this situation, he had a body full of strength but nowhere to use it.
He could only watch as Jellal’s figure rapidly shrank and blurred in the spatial turbulence before finally disappearing completely.
As for himself, he was carried by the violent spatial turbulence, rushing toward who-knew-where…
……
At the same time Yize was exiled, Jellal’s figure stumbled out of a highly unstable deep purple crack, returning to the sky above the Betty Territory.
He quickly stabilized himself, forcibly suppressing the surging blood in his body and the intense pain in his shoulder.
With a wave of his hand, he closed the spatial crack behind him as quickly as possible, as if he were deathly afraid that something would follow him out.
He stood in the night wind, lingering shock and fear remaining in his dark-gold vertical pupils, and his breathing was slightly more hurried than usual.
He looked down at his slightly trembling right hand and then felt the stinging pain coming from his body…
‘That guy… what on earth is he?!’
The shock and helplessness Jellal felt when fighting Yize still echoed in his heart.
Power that had half-stepped into the realm of a Calamity Demon King actually couldn’t hurt the other party in the slightest. On the contrary, he had almost been beaten to the point of internal injuries!
He had originally only been interested in Yize, this “anomaly,” and wanted to capture him to study his secrets—maybe even transform him into an aid or a new “material” for his plan.
But now… he only wanted to be as far away from that monster as possible! That was simply not an existence he could understand or resist at his current stage!
Luckily… luckily that monster didn’t understand high-level Space Magic or the power of rules, allowing him the chance to use his life-saving exile secret technique to escape.
Jellal felt secretly lucky. At the same time, the vigilance and wariness he felt toward Yize had risen to the highest level ever, even exceeding the pressure he had felt when facing Iguneel in his prime a hundred years ago!
On the other side, Yize looked at the scene before him in a daze.
He had arrived at a new city.
Unlike the Aolai Empire, the majority of the people here were sub-humans. There were even dwarves, elves, and a small number of humans.
These creatures of different species seemed to live together very harmoniously here…
“Where the hell did he send me?”