Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Asche, armed with her longbow, fired extra-large earth arrows with impeccable aim. The arrows struck the trolls with explosive force, obliterating their heads upon impact and leaving no chance for them to regenerate. Her archery skills delivered swift and precise justice, ensuring the trolls met their end in a spectacular display of power and precision.

"It seems that they realized that the trolls are the most dangerous ones with their regeneration…" Rain thought while looking around and seeing his friends focusing on the trolls and the warriors focusing on the normal enemies. "They aren't used to fighting bigger enemies, so this is the right thing to do."

It took quite a while, but Rain eventually saw some warriors being pulled back by their squad members. They were bleeding a lot, and since the wounded were usually the most hot-blooded ones, they didn't realize the gravity of their wounds.

Terra immediately approached and began to heal everyone… The bleeding stopped, and that made them calm down as well.

"You guys' job is to bring here those that are wounded. You can punch them if you have to," Rain said. "After that…"

Even amidst that insanely noisy battlefield, Rain heard that sound again… Terra also heard as well, and when she looked in that direction, she saw Rain punching another massive spear that targeted solely her this time. When Rain landed, he bit his lips, and they started to bleed…

"... Don't let that bother you. The moment you let them anger you, it will be the moment they will start to win," Terra said. "You should know that better than anyone here."

"I know that, but it doesn't mean that… forget it," Rain said and then slapped both of his cheeks. "Sorry, I won't let them get the better of me."

Rain looked around, trying to find any sources of mana or monsters in the sky. The enemy had to be watching them, and he couldn't even see a single silhouette in the distance… in the direction the attack came from. He couldn't believe that someone with such good eyes could exist.

In any case, just when Rain decided to just focus on stopping the attacks of that enemy, he suddenly felt a large concentration of mana in the middle of the battlefield… even among the magic people, that was hard to miss. At the next moment… numerous earth spikes began to emerge from the ground and then pierce the legs of Rain's soldiers.

In that moment where the warriors flinched thanks to the pain, the maddened enemies took advantage of the situation and began to attack them. The beast people grabbed them by the shoulders and headbutted them. They also used body slams to knock them down…

As for the magic people, they summoned several fire tornadoes in the middle of the warriors to burn them to a crisp… Rain had planned to save mana, but soon he summoned cold winds spinning in the opposite direction of the fire tornadoes and made them lose a lot of power before he dashed to the middle of the battlefield, and then he found that cloaked figure…

"Is it the same as before? The aura is different…" Rain thought and then charged toward the enemy again.

There was no time to waste, and Rain clenched his fists to smash the head of the enemy with a single punch, but in the last moment, a metallic thick wall emerged from the ground and blocked his punch surprisingly…

Rain's fist left a mark on the wall… a deep one, but the wall didn't even move a single centimeter from its original spot… Still, the enemy was crazy if he truly believed that such a thing would stop Rain.

After taking a single step back, the enemy fired the metallic wall toward Rain, but in the blink of an eye, he rotated his fist and attacked the metallic wall again… even without covering a large distance to gain momentum, the punch pushed the wall and slammed against the body of the enemy.

The cloaked figure was sent rolling on the ground after smashing against dozens of beast people and magic people, ultimately smashing them altogether… thanks to that, Rain was surprised to see the cloaked figure soon getting up without even trembling a bit…

The punch made Rain break a few fingers, but he was surprised to see the enemy standing like nothing had happened… he didn't even see blood falling from their mouth… Rain couldn't see even a part of his mouth, thanks to the cloak, though.

Rain charged again since he couldn't let confusing thoughts buy time for the enemy… still, before he could reach that guy, he disappeared after a dark magic circle covered him… like a small cloud of smoke, he vanished into thin air.

After checking the surroundings with his magic, Rain confirmed that the enemy had been teleported away… they had been sent there through teleportation… and in the same way, they vanished.

"That guy didn't use mana at the last moment… someone else did it," Rain said and then sighed when he saw several of the beast people charging at him again. "We have to deal with this as soon as possible."

In the end, Rain pushed his limits and began to charge from one side to the other while stabbing the enemies' chests. He didn't stop even a single moment, so the enemies didn't have the chance to see him.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

However, that came with a price… the more his arm was bathed with their blood, the less mana he was able to use… on the arm. Even after he cleaned himself with water, the sealing was still in effect.

"It is losing power, but it should keep me from using Mana on my arm for at least one day," Rain said when Terra went to check with him.

"It is a good thing that Limit Breaker doesn't use mana. Our forces won't lose defensive and attack power," Terra said.