Is that a Wisp?
chapter-1014

"Guah!" Krune groaned as he slammed onto the training room's walls, blanking out for a moment. In the place he stood before, a layer of ice formed, acting as a wall. The scene had happened so fast that he was hit before his ice shield could form.

Dreams of the Heart—Ocean Turbulence!

Krune fused all five crimson rings into his healing effect before infusing them into his Frozen Blood. As the blood pumped through his body, he fused Neon Radiance into it, emitting them while fusing Moving Ripple atop everything, controlling the Frozen Blood from not spilling beyond the boundaries of his body.

Through that, they were only transmitting the healing effect in the form of a cold wave through his body, quickly regenerating his damaged parts, especially his face that had caved in enough to shatter his eyeballs.

Through his Sonic Radar, he barely managed to grasp a figure's movements, covering himself with ice to create a thick sheet. At the very moment a fist landed on him, he manipulated the ice with Moving Ripple, absorbing as much of the impact force as possible using Moving Ripple, causing the thick sheet of ice to break.

In the meantime, Krune using Moving Ripple on the layer of ice he made on the floor, barely evading when a sonic boom flashed at the tips of the Red Demon's fists, sending him flying. Krune crashed into the floor, hurriedly using the chance to spread ice all over the floor.

He intended to layer the floor with ice so that he could move faster. With his Moving Ripple, he was able to move at least thrice as fast as if he was on land. However, the moment his ice began to spread on the floor, Hazak punched the air in a flurry of blasts.

The sonic booms it created shattered all the ice into a great number of fragments. Plus, the friction it generated caused the volatile substances in the air to catch fire, turning the training room into a sea of fire.

Krune condensed a sword of ice, slashing it into Hazak when it appeared before him. Sadly, his ice sword shattered from the impact, barely nicking a surface wound on the Red Demon. In turn, a punch landed on his stomach, sending him reeling backward.

Krune slammed into the wall with enough force that blood splattered from him in all directions. Fortunately, he still managed to retain consciousness, thanks to his Ocean Turbulence working hard on healing him.

Hazak then flashed before Krune, intending to send in the finishing blow when an air needle slammed into the side of his shoulder, sending him crashing into the floor. The attack came from diagonally upwards, slowly moving forward as the angle changed upon his crash, soon pinning him vertically.

The air needle was tremendously strong, powerful to the extent that Hazak's muscles were drilled into, his tendons, ligaments, and nerves even getting shredded into pieces. The air in the room turned thin as everything was sucked into the massive Cloud Whale that had manifested.

Upon seeing its figure, Hazak shuddered, slapping the ground with its other arm, barely managing to evade the air needle as it flashed to the other end of the room. On its shoulder was a gaping wound, causing its left hand to become immobile.

Unless it healed itself, it wouldn't be able to use that arm anymore. The moment it stepped behind, Krune used the time to heal himself, trying his best to mend all the damage. Moreover, the Cloud Whale disappeared once again, causing Hazak to be alarmed.

In response, Hazak punched the air in front of him, sending a sonic beam coursing through the space, immediately identifying a crack in it. It was the ice on the Cloud Whale breaking from the shock wave. Upon spotting its location, Hazak slammed attacks in its direction nonstop.

But when an air needle arrived, it hurriedly dodged once again, scuttling through the place in a hurry as the air needle slowly followed it. While it was running, it continued to punch out, generating more and more sonic booms.

Krune tracked Hazak's movements through the Sonic Radar, straining his throat as the sound wave he emitted surpassed the speed of sound. Only in this way was he able to track Hazak in advance. Once he did so, Krune emitted his Neon Radiance King beam from everywhere on his body.

He was trying to ensure that Hazak wouldn't be able to see his location, turning up the intensity to the extent the other party wouldn't be able to even open its eyes. Moreover, he had also fused his Frozen Blood's effect into it, turning the light white.

The air condensed as frost began to build up in the training room. Right when Krune was about to create a domain where he would have the greatest fighting advantage, he heard the loud sound of glass being shattered.

Hazak had attacked the Cloud Whale, piercing its body before shredding it apart from the inside. It then used the Cloud Whale's skin to cover its eyes, barely able to see now, following the point where the intensity of light became denser.

It then flashed towards the source, making a low sweep kick, shattering Krune's knees as he tumbled on the floor. But when he tried to flash away using Moving Ripple on the ice floor, Hazak stomped with its legs, aiming at his legs, crunching them into pulp. Krune was rooted to the spot when a fist landed on his chest.

He barely defended against the attack with all his might, protecting his chest at the cost of his hands. Now, he laid on the ground, battered, his limbs crushed, having suffered grievous injuries in numerous parts of his body, including organ rupture and bone fracture.

If not for the healing effect running through Ocean Turbulence, he would have breathed his last there and then. As his Neon Radiance faded, Hazak stopped its attacks, looking at Krune's state, immediately kneeling on the floor as it apologized, "My Lord, I went too far."

"Hahaha." Krune laughed, wincing in pain as he was unable to utter anything else, focusing on healing himself first. He then looked at Hazak, noticing the wound on its shoulder, thinking, 'The only attack deadly enough to injure Hazak was the air needle. Plus, it was when it limited itself to the level of a Red Demon. If it used its full abilities, even this wouldn't have been possible.'