Chapter 52: The Challenge (Finale)

Tosaka was strong, Faust's abilities were almost completely restrained by him, and he could put Faust to death at any time - if he had the intelligence.

"Since you can inflict wounds, no matter how strong your recovery power is, you will fall under my hands. Faust said to Tosaka calmly, not caring if the other party could understand.

He slowly raised the claw of his right hand, which dripped, with a pale green liquid. "You will fall under my 'poison technique'. ”

If Tosaka had been sane now, with his speed and fighting skills far above Faust's, it would only be a matter of time before Faust could be defeated without injury.

But now, he was just a mighty beast, and not only had he lost all his skills, but he also lost the ability to judge the situation, so Faust could inflict great trauma on him with a few simple tricks.

Faust sensed this and immediately settled on a tactic - he knew a psychic ability called Poison Secretion, which few psychic warlocks wanted to learn - the structure of this Tier 1 ability was too simple to have a recipe for venom built-in, and the toxin it secreted had to be designed and synthesized by the manifester himself.

That is, mastering the ability doesn't mean you can use it. You'll also need to have a strong knowledge of medicine and chemistry as a foundation. Moreover, even if you can design the right toxin, your body may not have the ingredients it needs. As a result, only some psychic warlocks of the intelligent race who are born with toxic bodily fluids will learn this ability.

Faust fits this criterion – his knowledge of medicine and chemistry is barely passable, and the limb deformation he has learned before can also improvise some glands that secrete venom raw materials.

Even so, he could only concoct one anesthetic in a hurry. The medicine is brightly colored, pungent in smell, lacks lethality and must go directly into the blood vessels to be effective. If it weren't for its effectiveness and rapid onset, it would be completely useless.

However, this worthless drug now comes in handy.

Faust now had the confidence to win, he looked at Tosaka, who was panting with his head down, and said with a smile: "Tossaka, you are a difficult opponent, but in the end, I won." ”

As he spoke, wisps of dirt crept up from under his feet and slowly covered his body, forming a black film. Strangely enough, despite the formation of a shallow pit under his feet, the membrane on Faust's body did not thicken, but only became more and more oily. Later, Faust became almost an obsidian statue, with no human appearance at all.

"Shhh...... Hah......" Tosaka suddenly took a deep breath, shook his body, and disappeared from Faust's vision again. When he came out first, he was already behind Faust, who seemed to be unaware of it.

The sound of claws cutting through the air sounded, and Tossaka's two hands turned into a blur of shadows, striking Faust's back in one fell swoop, soon leaving thin white scratches on the black stone skin.

Faust seemed powerless to fight back, and fell forward in an odd position. Tosaka did not suspect him, and hurriedly stepped forward and struck Faust in the back of the head with a one-handed fist.

"Gurrah. Faust fell to the ground, a subtle cracking sound in the back of his head.

Tosaka stopped his attack, twitching his nose as if he was sniffing something. After a while, Tossaka, who seemed to be sure that Faust had been knocked out by himself, beat his hands on his chest excitedly and threw his head back and howled.

"Whew~~~" Tosaka let out a wolf-like howl, as if celebrating his victory.

"Poof. There was a soft sound, and Tosaka, who was still partying just a moment ago, stopped howling in an instant, and he turned his pointed ears and looked around vigilantly.

If he still had intelligence, he would have noticed that something was wrong: the dust around him had not dispersed, and Faust who had been knocked down was a little weird...... In short, countless clues point to the fact that Faust was not knocked down by him.

After the transformation, Tosaka's hearing was so sharp that he almost immediately sensed the source of the sound - under his feet!

However, it was already too late. He had lost his mind, and after noticing something strange under his feet, he did not choose to dodge as soon as before, but subconsciously looked down to check the situation.

A pitch-black claw gripped his ankle like a demonic hand sticking out from beneath it. The injuries caused by the claws were not serious, just a few small blood holes and scratches. With Tosaka's current physique, these wounds could not affect his combat effectiveness at all.

However, a numbing sensation spread rapidly around the wound, and in the blink of an eye, Tosaka's entire leg was unconscious.

Tosaka subconsciously dodged the moment he noticed the ghost's claws, but the toxin still attacked, and his paralyzed thighs caused him to stumble and fall to the ground. He struggled to get up, but even this arm was gradually paralyzed. So, he could only move on the ground with one hand and one leg, trying to get away from the ghost claws on the ground.

Instead of retracting into the ground, Devilclaw is slowly rising. Soon, an arm was completely floating on the ground. But what followed was not a shoulder or a head, but a jelly-like gelatin.

When the colourful gelatins surfaced to the ground, they quickly reshaped and transformed into Faust. He twisted his neck and complained, "It's not very comfortable, if only there was another way." ”

Yes, Faust didn't choose to fight Tosaka and wait for an opportunity to poison him - a simpler option, but not safe. Faust still hadn't figured out the limits of Tossaka's strength and speed, and he didn't dare to bet that his stone skin would be able to defend against the blows of his opponent.

So, after covering himself with stone skin, he quietly made a hole in the soles of his feet, and at the same time cast his astral form, using the underground traversing ability of Shude Meier's dentures to quietly leave where they were.

Of course, he didn't forget to fill the empty shells left in place with dirt, creating the illusion that he was still in the same place.

Like a beast, Tosaka fell for Faust, and he thought that Faust would fight with him in the skin of a stone, as he had just done, but in order to gain the upper hand, he launched a rush attack without having time to look closely.

Naturally, the dummies without Faust were defeated without resistance, but the real Faust, who had been hiding underground, also got a chance to attack.

Faust walked slowly towards Tosaka, not stopping until he was five paces away. "See, that's the power of wisdom. Faust nodded his head lightly and smiled lightly.

"But we've got to look good. Faust manipulated the sand to slowly cover Tosaka's body, binding his hands and feet while lifting him high and moving him in front of him. He leaned close to Tosaka's face and whispered, "Zhannath also hopes that her future husband will be a strong hero." ”

The red in Tosaka's eyes had faded, and he was obviously no longer in a state of transformation, and he "whined" twice, as if he wanted to say something, but his mouth was sealed with mud by Faust, and he could only make a meaningless sound.