SWOSH! Arad dodged the yetis's attacks, jumping into the sky and pointing his hand down. [Flame thrower]
The yetis backed away and lifted boulders. A split second later, Arad got smacked in the face and chest with the countless barrage of thrown stones. He can dodge one or two, but not tens of them.
Thud! Arad fell on the snow and stood immediately, seeing the yetis lunging at him all at once. He blocked several fists and smacked a yeti to the trees with the quarterstaff.
CRACK! A yeti caught Arad's quarterstaff and punched him in the face.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! The other yetis took the chance to start swinging down. The countless apes managed to take Arad out of his rhythm.
"That's it," The Abominable Yeti smiled, "Pile the hits, don't give a chance to fight back. He's stronger than you individually, but numbers always win."
"OOOOOOO!" A yeti growled, swinging his claws on Arad's neck as he saw him falling.
"You fool!" The Abominable Yeti screamed, trying to throw a stone to kill the idiot before it all fell apart, but he was late.
Merlin extended her hand from Arad's back with an empty glare on her face, the beast's claws barely grazing her skin.
A yeti's claws are naturally enchanted with ice magic to freeze whatever they scratch. It's not something they can disable just like how humans can't disable the keratin in their nails. But it's still magic, and one that should belong to Merlin.
CRACKLE! The yeti's arm got ripped apart alongside his left eye as a bolt of lightning flashed in the middle of the battlefield. Everyone stopped moving and looked at Arad. Merlin was nowhere to be seen.
"Give me this," One of the yetis in the back felt two small hands opening his right palm with an incredible amount of force, grasping his claws.
He quickly turned, swinging his fist only to find his other arm missing.
The Abominable yeti gasped, "Where did she go?" His eyes panned through the trees.
CRACK! For a split second, he only saw a glimpse of Merlin's face before he got punched across the whole forest.
TAP! TAP! TAP! As the Abominable Yeti's body crushed trees on his way, Merlin ran after him at a blinding speed, her whole body covered with glowing white tattoos crackling with magic akin to lightning.
Those tattoos are the markings left by her magic, the channels that support her body, muscles, and bones to increase their power. Like a superpowered exoskeleton made of magic, but it had a time limit as to what little mana she got from the yetis' claws. It wouldn't last for long.
CRACK! Merlin ran past the flying Abominable Yeti and kicked him in the face, sending him rolling in another direction.
Back, the yetis kept pummeling Arad down as Bigfoot barely managed to stand, his knees shaking and his face paler than it was ever before.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Punches, kicks, stones, the apes dropped everything they could on Arad, sending him flying between them like a ball.
Bigfoot took a stance, ready to get a revenge kick in, aiming at Arad's crotch.
But then, Arad opened his mouth, lifting his hands up. CLAP! He clapped in the air, lowering his touching palm down to his chest. Merlin isn't on his back. So she would be fine.
[Fire Expansion: Blast Furnace]
CRACKLE! A spark of fire ignited from Arad's back, exploding into a ten-meter radius fireball.
The yetis screamed as their fur caught on flames, and Bigfoot took a step back. The fireball didn't seem to disappear. It remained there, centered around Arad.
"She's finally off my back," Arad took a step forward, and the expansion moved with him, "I can burn everything now," He lifted his quarterstaff from the ground.
Bigfoot and the yetis thought that Arad was using Merlin on his back as an advantage to kill everyone who ignored him and attacked her, or a shield to protect himself from their freezing claws. But they were wrong.
She was in fact holding him back, he couldn't unleash powerful flames as they would burn her as well, and he also couldn't accelerate massively so he wouldn't kill her.
The fire expansion suddenly disappeared after burning tens of the yetis.
Bigfoot stared around, searching for Arad in the midst of blinding vapor filling the air.
Thud! Arad appeared behind Bigfoot, bent a bit while taking a deep breath, swinging his open palm.
For a kicker like Bigfoot, its main weapon was his weakness. The powerful kicks of his legs are powered by a single pair of large and powerful muscles. And in apes, that was the only place devoid of protective fur.
SLAP! Arad slapped Bigfoot on the but, ripping his skin and muscles apart.
Bigfoot screamed his life out as his legs gave up with the muscles torn apart.
Arad spun in place, unleashing an uppercut that hit the falling Bigfoot's side on the left kidney, going beneath his ribs, pushing on the stomach, lung, and heart which were slightly on the left side.
With fire gushing down from Arad's elbow, Bigfoot got blasted upward into the treetops.
Arad never bothered protecting his organs as the void did that for him, but now that he was bound to a human body and got hit several times, he started to notice how much he hated getting hit in certain places. The crotch, kidneys, liver, guts, and chest, all of them hurt like hell, so why doesn't he aim for them in fights?
The Abominable Yeti smacked on a wall legs first, lunging right back toward Merlin with a loud roar, "You must die!" swinging a punch at her.
Merlin clenched her fist, blocking the Abominable Yeti's punch with one of her own.
He punched again, and she punched his fist immediately. "What happened to the monsters looking like me?" She smiled, "At least then they were ugly-cute. Now you're just a deformed ugly mess,"
"She warned us about you," The Abominable Yeti roared, "We shouldn't let you get magic," He smiled, "And if we did, at least it shouldn't be clean,"
BLUGH! Blood gushed out of Merlin's nose, ^The pressure leaked into my body. The mana wasn't stable.^ She smiled, ^I expected two minutes and a half. But with this, I barely had one minute.^
"To think your ape brains actually rigged your mana," She shouted with a crazed smile. "I wonder what your hide would look like as a carpet in my living room," She started getting mad.