With each beat of his heart, an electric pulse of pain was sent through Raze's entire body, but he beared it as he looked straight ahead at Murkel. With another Qi pill, he had the chance to use extremely powerful moves once again.
With one hand, he gathered a tornado of wind, and with the other, his Qi was gathering in circles around his wrist. Not just one circle of Dark magic had gathered around his wrist but two.
Shifting his feet forward, Raze let out the tornado of wind behind him, which propelled him forward, hitting the ground and lifting him slightly into the air.
"Dark Ring!" Raze swung his fist out, and two of the pulses left his hand. It was just as fast as the Dark Pulse move but rather than a single line, the Dark magic extended into two rings.
Murkel looked to move, but Raze was moving his hands with them. One of the Dark Rings then wrapped around Murkel's leg, and the other wrapped around his fist.
The Dark magic rings that surrounded Murkel's body grew smaller in size, shrinking down until they were skin-tight around his body.
At first, Murkel was ready to get rid of them, but they seemingly had no effect on his skin, doing next to no damage.
Raze, as soon as he had landed, had two tornado balls of wind covering his hands, and fired them off behind him, sending him right in the direction of Murkel.
'Heading to Alterian and going to the police force, there were a couple of skills that I managed to learn thanks to Harvey, Dark magic skills that even I didn't know existed.'
The wind propelled Raze forward, and he was right on Murkel. His eyes glowed purple.
"Dark Rings, activate!"
The rings that surrounded Murkel exploded at that point, and with a heavy fist, Raze delivered a blow through the dark explosion, wrapping all of his power into one point, driving his fist right into Murkel's stomach.
'A hit, I can tell I hit something solid!' Raze thought and could even see a beam of magic pass right through Murkel, but as the Dark magic started to disperse from the rings, Murkel's strange large jagged white eyes were staring him right in the face.
"That tickles," Murkel said, as he shoved a red crystallized hand right into Raze's shoulder. It started to push him into the air, and was dragging him away as it was extending further and further.
The red crystal in his shoulder was breaking into multiple parts again, and Raze knew it was only a matter of time until it would pierce into the vitals of his body.
Raze, with the Dark magic on his hand, held on tight to the red crystal.
"Dark Pulse." A beam of energy from his hand hit the crystal but seemingly looked to be doing nothing.
"Dark Pulse, Dark Pulse, Dark Pulse!" The move was repeated again and again until eventually. "Dark Pulse."
The red crystal broke off, and Raze was able to push himself to the side with his Wind magic. The several red crystals were piercing the arena wall and chasing after Raze.
Raze was only a few steps ahead as the red crystal, moving as if it was alive, constantly tried to stab Raze, hitting the wall again and again.
Murkel was still standing in the center, seemingly relaxed about the whole thing.
"It's okay, I can still fight, I can still fight!" Raze said as he gathered Dark magic and condensed it down into the palm of his hand.
"Negative Dark Bomb!" Raze said, as he threw it out, and it landed perfectly right where Murkel was.
When coming toward him, Murkel pierced it with a crystal that extended out from his back. Upon piercing the black ball, it expanded and covered the entirety of Murkel's body, making him disappear from sight.
"Negative Dark Bomb!" Raze called out again as he threw another of the attacks. He could see that the red crystal that was chasing him had stopped, so he did the same as he reached out his hand.
Controlling the Dark magic, the explosion of the Negative Dark Bomb was the important part; otherwise, the energy would disperse outward. The idea was to keep the energy condensed into a single space, allowing for the ultimate amount of damage.
Just like before, Raze was condensing the Dark magic in place. Only a large black ball could be seen in the center of the arena. As he was doing this, though, he could soon see a red-skinned arm pass through, then a leg, a chest, and the rest of Murkel's body, walking through the Dark magic, without being harmed at all.
His expression showed that he was completely unfazed.
"You really are the definition of an idiot, using those same moves against me. None of them worked, so why would they work again now that I am , in this form?" Murkel said.
"I can tell you've already used up everything you had. That was a last-ditch effort. Perhaps you thought my current form wasn't my strongest and you could chip away at it, but it didn't work."
Raze could tell his mana was extremely low. He had used a large amount of Wind magic and the strongest Dark magic spells he knew. Due to the effect of taking the third pill, with his body in so much pain, it was incredibly hard for him to even use Pagna skills or Qi in this state.
It was only a matter of time until Raze would run out of mana, and taking another pill in this situation would be useless if he couldn't get past this.
'I'm not the nine-star mage I was. If I was, this whole fight would be a different story.'
Seeing the state that Raze was in, they all could tell he was running out of power, and there were no more moves that he could play that would work against Murkel.
Up in the arena, though, something strange was occurring.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Anna asked.
"Correct, for some reason, the look on Raze's face, it's still the same as before. He hasn't used his fifty-fifty chance yet," Zon claimed.
Overhearing the others, that was when it had hit Alba on the head.
'Don't tell me he's planning on doing that…. if he is, then maybe, it might just work out.'