Chapter 38: The First Battle (2)
"Gooah!!a
"Oh, you think the louder the scream, the louder?" Faust's current slime-like figure is obviously unable to speak with his vocal cords, so he can speak the language of the Toad Man without any obstacles.
He continued to taunt Kuaza, "That's right, your current IQ is not estimated to be much higher than that of the Ring Worm, which is probably the highest manifestation of your wisdom." ”
The unconscious Kuaza obviously did not understand Faust's euphemistic insults, so he could only continue to roar and punch Faust.
"Puff~" is the disgusting sound again, like stepping into a muddy pond after rain. The disgusting sensation made Kuazza very uncomfortable.
The fight with Gaunt just now was very pleasant to him - the collision of muscles and muscles, sweat and blood, which Kuazza liked, and Reinhardt, although his tactics were conservative, he could actually hit him with a single punch.
And the Faust he was now facing, after being punched by himself, turned into a lump of colored mud, completely lacking the expected sturdy body, and the reaction force was far less than expected, causing Kuaza to stagger and almost fall to the ground.
The mud-shaped Faust didn't splash around this time, but wrapped itself in Kuaza's fist, and he grew a mouth on the surface of the mud and sneered, "Haha, stupid barbarian, now you know how powerful a psychic warlock is, right? What about your brute strength? Hmm? Slap me again?"
Kuaza didn't understand Faust's taunt, of course, he only felt that the strange mud in his hands made an irritating noise, and he desperately tried to shake off the mud.
Faust is now in an astral form, and his body is made of astral matter, which is not sticky, but rather lubricating and flammable, which is why this psychic ability is classified as second-class.
Naturally, Faust was easily thrown off.
"Goo~~" Kuaza's voice became very monotonous after he went berserk, but everyone could hear that he was wailing now. The place where Faust had just wrapped his hand had become charred black, and wisps of green smoke were rising, and his muscles and muscles had become pitted, as if they had been eroded by strong acid.
Faust was a cunning man, he would not get up for nothing even if he fell, he always had to grab a handful of dirt, so even if there was no danger, he would not take a punch from Kuazza in vain.
Kuaza was provoked and would have rightfully punched him, but this fell into Faust's trap. Faust took the opportunity to wrap around Kuaza's fist and cast the first-level psionic energy "Dissolving Touch" that he had already mastered.
The effect of the "Dissolving Touch" is to corrode the material it comes into contact with like a strong acid, but it is far beyond the corrosive range of the strong acid, even if it is glass or plastic, it will make no difference in front of the Dissolving Touch, and its disadvantage is that the psionic energy can only gather on the surface of the body - there are some properties that allow it to extend to weapons, but Faust does not.
"Hiss~~", Kuaza's fist was corroded off a layer of skin, which made him temporarily stop his frantic offensive, and looked at Faust who was spreading on the ground with some fear, and let out a threatening roar from his mouth.
"Well, you know you're scared?" said Faust with two eyes and a mouth sticking out of a puddle of mud, "I thought you'd be a little stronger...... Look at it!" One of the eye stalks emitted a red ray, straight at Kuaza's face.
Kuaza had always been very wary of Faust because of the unexpected injury to his arm, so although his IQ was no longer enough to understand what this red light was, the powerful beast instinct still made him subconsciously cross his arms in front of him and block the attack.
"Roar!!" Kuaza let out another roar of pain.
Faust looked at the extra dark hole on Kuaza's arm, but he was not very happy, and even a little worried-after he incarnated into a star form, although he could fly slowly, but he could not run, because of the huge gap in agility, it was difficult to hit the damage like the Corrosive Touch before, and the current "energy ray" was obviously not enough to cause enough damage.
"Energy rays" are also psionic energy that Faust has mastered before, and can be emitted in the form of rays from one of the four energy types of cold, lightning, fire, and sound waves. What Faust cast just now was a flame attribute energy ray.
However, this skill doesn't seem to be particularly easy to use. Faust looked at Kuaza's already cloudy eyeballs and was covered with a denser layer of red blood, and he spat out bubbles helplessly.
Kuazza shook off a pair of big feet, made a "thump" sound, and rushed towards him with a shaky land, this time using a new tactic.
Kuazza no longer has the hard-punching and hard-to-go power he did against Gaunt and Reinhardt – he instinctively knows that his current opponents can't be beaten by brute force.
Kuazza was too large to leap up and down, but he dodged Faust's rays with his irregular sideways jumps. When he jumped in front of Faust, he also used a combination of fast and powerful punches to knock Faust's mud everywhere, sometimes even reaching out and picking up a handful of mud and spilling it casually.
This change of tactics made Faust so distressed that he even cried out, "Which of the two of us is the one who started the rage?"
Of course, it was Kuaza who went berserk, but he was very clever in his tactics, and he was keenly aware that Faust's corrosive touch would take some time to perform, and that Faust would not be able to hurt himself as long as he was in contact with the mud for a short time.
"Hey! he ...... Does he have any weaknesses?" Faust was thrown all over the hallway, completely realizing the physical sense of "liver and brain".
Gaunt was resting against the wall, and when he heard Faust's question, he froze for a moment and scratched his chin, "I don't know what kind of weakness your witchcraft gadgets need?"
If it weren't for Faust's nose now hanging from the ceiling three meters away, it would have been crooked, and Faust shouted angrily: "Of course it's a wound! big enough, deep enough!"
Gaunt continued to scratch his chin, and he thought for a moment, "Hmm...... There were two spots in his chest, cut out by my axe, and the bones were almost visible, but now the wounds were squeezed together by his muscles - honestly, this is remarkable, if it weren't for the enemy, I would have ......"
"To the point, I can't hold it anymore!" Faust interrupted Gaunt's nonsense - he had never known this guy was such a talker, and on the two times he had seen him, Gaunt had always left Faust with the impression of being a "taciturn introverted big man".
"Left arm fracture and two traumatic injuries to the chest...... That's all there is to it when it's big enough. Gaunt knew that now was not the time to joke, so his answer was much sharper this time.
Faust manipulated the astral mud corresponding to the eyeball to dodge Kuazza's attack, and looked closely at the wound Gaunt had said, but it didn't seem to help.
First of all, her left arm, at least in Faust's opinion, she was now a good hand, and two wounds to her chest, which had been forced to close with a series of vigorous movements by Kuazza, and blood seeped out again, but it was nowhere near as bad as Gaunt said.
And—Faust looked at Kuaza's thick pectoral muscles—the wound was particularly difficult to use.
Kuaza didn't give Faust much time, he stepped on one of Faust's eyestrokes, trampled it into mud, and then rushed towards another, slightly larger piece of mud in the distance—Faust's arm, and now Faust was controlling him to fire a ray of lightning-type energy.
The ray was blocked by Kuaza's casually raised arm, only halting his speed slightly, and failing to even leave a single scar on Kuaza's body.
"I don't know if it's my delusion, he seems to be getting better and better!" Faust vaguely sensed that Kuaza's resistance seemed to be gradually increasing - theoretically, this lightning ray did the same damage as the previous flame ray, and Faust didn't find any strange resistance in the toad man.
Gaunt was perfect for the fight, responding, "yes, it seems to be a little faster...... Damn, is there something wrong with your witchcraft? Annabella had a ...... once."
"Shut up! My psionic powers are foolproof! You better help me figure out how to deal with this monster!" Faust's faith in psionic energy is like Gaunt's faith in muscles, and it cannot be insulted at will.
"If I could deal with him, I would have dealt with him a long time ago!" Although the hot-blooded Gaunt could not continue to fight, he could still do it with his mouth.
Faust no longer bothered with Gaunt, and he was now in a rather embarrassing situation - his attacks were difficult to deal effective damage, and every move of the opponent was actually draining his psychic power - any action in the astral form would consume psychic energy, and the cost of reshaping the astral mud everywhere was especially huge.
"No, if this continues, I will not be beaten to death by Kuaza, but I will die of exhaustion. Faust thought to himself.
He decided to temporarily revoke the psychic ability of "Astral Form". But how to revoke is another question, and Kuaza frantically dismembered Faust, not giving him a chance to reunite into a puddle.
But this was not difficult for Faust, and the "buzzing" buzz sounded again, and a cluster of colorful tentacles grew out of the ground, firmly wrapping around Kuaza's body, and there were tentacles around him that could not be wrapped around Kuaza's body, harassing him, preventing him from freeing his hands to tear other tentacles.
This is a Tier 1 ability, "Astral Entangle," which summons a cluster of tentacles made of astral matter to grab enemies, and Faust puts a lot of psychic energy into this ability, which even a power warrior like Kuaza can temporarily block for a while.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Faust hurriedly gathered his torn body together and regained his human form. He gulped in rough air, trying to calm his already slightly unstable psychic energy.
"What's the matter with him? Why did you mess with him? He ...... He's a bit foul!" Faust took advantage of the fact that Kuaza had not been able to break free, and secretly quarreled with Gaunt.
He originally thought that with Kuaza's previous level, he could easily kill his opponent as long as he was prepared—and it was true, if Kuaza was still his original size, that huge dissolving touch alone would make half of his body rot into broth.
"I don't know, it seems like we savages are furious, but it's much more energetic than mine. Gaunt was a little sullen, and Faust could even feel his envy and jealousy of Kuazza's move.
Faust looked at Kuaza, who had already torn off most of his astral tentacles, and knew that he could no longer rest, he sighed, "Alas, you can help me think about it again, is there anything in particular that he doesn't want to be hurt by you." ”
Faust didn't take his astral form - Kuaza had already mastered that move, so he had to deal with him with another move.
This time, Faust put on a layer of inert armor on himself, looked at the knotted muscles on Kuaza's body, and invested twice as much mental energy.
"Ugly monster, look at the move!" Faust took two steps and kicked Kuazza in the arm with a standard side kick, causing a sizzling sound and a wisp of green smoke, and a scorched scar appeared where he had been kicked.
"Gooah!!" Kuaza let out a roar of pain, and he tore at the tentacles on his body at a faster speed, a pair of cloudy eyeballs almost completely covered in red blood staring at Faust's face.
Faust's toes touched the ground lightly, and the ground rattled, corroding into a shallow pit - he added a touch of dissolution to his foot.
"Good kick, buddy!" Gaunt applauded.
Faust didn't systematically learn martial arts in the old world, but he enrolled in a taekwondo summer school in his previous life, and with his physical fitness that far exceeds that of his previous life, he can kick quite decently, and as for the lack of lethality, it can be completely compensated for by blessings and dissipating touches.
"Don't shout! help me figure it out!" Faust replied, and began to kick Kuaza in various positions. Forward kicks, horizontal kicks, side kicks, air kicks, slalom kicks, ...... Faust took turns using the tricks he had mastered, leaving five or six inches of corrosion marks on Kuaza's body.
"Whoa The attacks in his face were dodged by the dexterous movements of his neck, and none of them were able to hit him head-on.
"Smack", Kuaza had somehow broken free of one hand, and now he saw an opportunity, and as soon as he reached out, he caught Faust's roundhouse kick and grabbed Faust's ankle tightly.
Ignoring the sizzling and scorching smell in his hands, he smiled at Faust.
Faust slapped his face and lamented, "Oh...... Really, he, mother, ......"
"Knock, knock!knock!!!" Kuaza slammed Faust back and forth to the ground at great speed, adding new scars to the ground each time.
Luckily, Faust put on double the inert armor on himself, and the chain impact didn't do much damage other than to make him look dizzy.
Faust had just recovered his strength, and seeing that Kuaza was about to smash himself to the ground again, he hurriedly re-cast his "astral form", slipped out of Kuaza's hand, and took a few steps back in the direction of Gaunt.
He had already made up his mind that if he couldn't beat Kuazza, he would leave Gaunt and run away by himself - before leaving, he could stimulate Gaunt a little and make him crazy too, and then he could take advantage of Gaunt's delay to escape Kuaza's sight.
Gaunt was scratching his head and pondering the question Faust had left him, "Why doesn't this monster want to be hurt?" as he pondered the details of the battle, trying to find a similar place.
"Wait, I figured it out!" he suddenly shouted excitedly at Faust, "Hind back!
Why didn't I think of it! Faust felt a little embarrassed that the lower back, as a key point of the humanoid creature, had been neglected by himself?
But it's easy to find a weak point, and I've already thought of a way to break through Kuaza's defenses!
Seeing that Kuaza was about to break free of all the tentacles, Faust immediately made up for the "Star Entanglement" - but this time there was no strengthening effect, Faust's mental energy was running out, and he had to save some to complete the rest of the movements.
He deftly ran past Kuaza, who writhed to stop Faust from going around behind him, but the entanglement of the astral tentacles reduced his movements to a shapeless writhing.
With a deft jump, Faust grabbed Kuaza's back, his feet up and down, his arms just level with Kuaza's waist. Between the tentacles, Faust did see the wound on Kuaza's lower back, the wound turned outward, like a baby's lips, and black poisonous blood flowed outward.
Faust carefully balances on the violently writhing back of Kuaza. He raised his right hand, a blinding glow on the tips of his five fingers—he threw all his energy into a dissolving touch.
"Brush", this dazzling poisonous hand grabbed Kuaza's wound fiercely, like a coal-fired fire falling into butter, and immediately pulled into Kuaza's body.
"Gooa!!a
The surface of his skin glowed with a milky white glow, and all the tentacles that came into contact with the white light melted away like ice and snow on fire. Kuaza hurriedly grabbed Faust on his back and threw him violently.
Faust slammed into the wall with a thud and slowly slid to the ground. He poked out a large mouthful of blood with a "wow", and his face was as pale as a dead man—the white light shrouded Kuaza's hands, and as soon as he grabbed Faust, Faust's inert armor vanished, and all the damage caused by the fall to the wall was borne by Faust himself.
Faust, however, had a smile on his face, and he trembled and stretched out his right hand, which held a kidney with a deep cut in it.
Now the entire kidney has turned black, which means complete necrosis. But Faust knew that Kuaza's condition would only get worse - he also released a channeling negative energy in Kuaza's body at the end, and it is estimated that more organs in his body also lost their function.
Faust looked at Kuaza, who was struggling more and more faintly not far away, and smiled: "This time, I won." Then he tilted his head and fell into a coma.