After he digested the Apple of Vigoran, the next battle began.
'Ten minutes should work out. I can maintain my highest combat power that long, no problem!' Nial thought, standing opposite Elya Necandril.
The Asura wore a light robe and held a wand with various gems embed in it. Visualizing the gemstones was enough to understand that they were the highest-quality Elemental Essence Gemstones.
Elemental Essence Gemstones made it easier to control the respective elements and increase their firepower.
With that, it was obvious that Elya Necandril took Nial seriously.
There was no Blood Essence Crystal but other than that, most basic and intermediate elements were embedded into the wan in the form of the Essence Gemstones. Nial didn't even want to know the costs to manufacture such a wand…it was certainly depressive.
'Little to no runic constellations. They don't know how to create powerful runic armaments:'
Nial retrieved a black speak from his spatial ring and he spun it around his body to make sure that he was not rusty before the battle.
The Eternal Darkness Spear hummed as his reinforced dark energy was channeled inside. Being one of his most precious and strongest runic weapons, the Eternal Darkness Spear was powerful. However, the most important was that the Eternal Darkness Spear had perfect compatibility with him.
"The battle begins once the droplet of blood touches the ground, just like before," One of the Asura said, before checking if both sides were ready to start the battle.
After he received their nod, the Asura released a single droplet of blood into the air.
Both parties focused on the blood in their respective way. At the same time, they finished various calculations in their mind.
Then the droplet of blood splashed on the ground.
In the same instance, the arena's ground and walls began to tremor as a massive pool of energy was released from both Elya Necandril and Nial Orin.
Nial Orin's pool of energy was comparable, if not higher than a Divine God's. After all, he devoured billions of corpses to claim their energy. The energy was mostly used to accelerate his Cursed Divinity's progress, but even 1% of billions of Oriignals' energy put aside and saved up was more than enough to rival the power most opponents could release at once.
Nial used the Ancient Devilization technique of the Late Darkness God to fuse with the Infernal Devil of Darkness and Witchery. His skin turned black like the abyss and it turned somewhat leathery. For cured horns grew out of his head and two pairs of black-feathered wings extended from his shoulder blades.
Fusing with Goldy, a third – much larger – pair of wings extended from his shoulder blades. It was a pair of leather wings covered in golden scales. A long tail grew out of his tailbone and a pair of straight golden horns extended out of his forehead. At the same time, his black skin merged with the golden scales of the True Golden Dragon that had fused with him as well.
Nial's presence had changed in an instant. Just looking at him was enough to understand that he was not the same as before.
If he had relied on overwhelming physical strength before to dominate Milo Necandril, Nial's current state was that of a Perfect all-rounder. His perception allowed him to understand the movements of his opponents and both his physical strength and mental prowess had increased drastically. Goldy increased his physical power and the Infernal Devil of Darkness and Witchery expanded his mental power drastically, while simultaneously lightly altering his utility of dark energy.
Reminded of his reinforced dark energy, Nial spread an enormous amount of it through the ground. He covered the entire arena with it and slowly channeled dark miasma into the spread-out reinforced dark energy.
Simultaneously, he began to circulate crimson chaos through his body before he shot backward with tremendous speed.
Icicles, fireballs, and wind blades had been released and shot toward him with terrific velocity. The wind blades seemed invisible at the first glance while the icicles and fireballs came after him from the front.
Only by perceiving the subtle traces of mana around him was Nial able to pinpoint the invisible wind blades.
He released needles of darkness at the elemental projectiles and burst them apart.
The elemental projectiles exploded and the tide of the battle intensified in the same instance.
Nial noticed a sudden change in pace. His blood started boiling all of a sudden and he had to use his reinforced dark energy to cool it down by circulating a large amount through his body.
Slightly distracted, Nial took a fraction of a second too long to realize that Elya Necandril appeared next to him.
He teleported to his side using his high mastery of spatial magic!
The tip of Elya's wand pointed at Nial's side and a bullet of the purest energy was released just a moment later.
Nial couldn't exert Grasp of Eclipse fast enough. He was unable to evade the high-velocity bullet either.
However, his body moved instinctively despite the lack of response and focus. His wings curled around his body like a warm embrace, slowing down the bullet that pierced through Goldy's leather wing and the black-feathered wings like butter. The golden scales covering his body cracked and crumbled into countless pieces but the high-velocity attack was blocked gracefully.
Some nutrition was used up to repair his armor and the holes in the three pairs of wings.
Nial used the darkness domain he had laid out beforehand to shoot spikes of darkness out of the ground. The darkness spikes targeted the vital spots of the Asura's lower body while Nial thrust the Eternal Darkness spear forward with great precision.
Darkness shot out of the Eternal Darkness Spear in the form of wildly moving beams, which had also been released to target Elya Necandril's vital spots.
Faced with attacks from below, the front and the side, the easiest way to avoid injuries was to teleport away.
However, the moment Elya wanted to use teleport, he noticed that something around Nial had changed once again.
He had used Dominion and issued a mental order that restricted Elya to use his spatial element for a quarter of a second.
'So it's like that?' The strongest Asura thought before he changed the pace of the battle once again.
'I should gear up as well then!'