33 Risen#re

A silver ray of light flashed through the air, swinging on a rope.

Karen watched and saw Lirian gracefully spinning through the air as he grew closer to the mammoth his body spun around rapidly and the rope that he was swinging on was quickly being spun back onto his arm.

As he grew closer his body flashed like a silver light before every one's eyes and his radiance even outshined the raging flames that engulfed the forest around them.

The katana at Lirians waist flashed and as Lirian swung across the mammoth's body he left a long and deep bloody wound.

At that moment the mammoth let out a cry like never before, its howl, scrapped the ears of those around, and the pain it felt was unimaginable.

The students had no idea what had happened most of them didn't even see Lirian's arrival, or at least the only thing they saw was a stream of silver.

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Karen looked down in disbelief, thinking that Lirian was truly insane and she had no way of stopping him, as she looked at the side of the mammoth Lirian sliced, she could see the deepest wound that had been inflicted yet.

It revealed several of the ribs of the mammoth, and that howl was especially loud, not even the flames from earlier managed to cause it so much pain yet that single strike from Lirian was causing it to faulter.

Karen used a bit of her psychic energy that she managed to gain to inspect the wound and as she looked at it she noticed traces of the silver energy lingering in the wound and corroding the mammoths body, but there was also another energy a black destructive energy that was causing a minor amount of cell degradation in the mammoths body.

As she looked at it she was reminded of the destruction power of the attack Lirian had used to reopen the waterfall, she couldn't help but notice that the destructive energy had a similar feeling from that time

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Lirian continued to swing around, using the many spears in the beasts body as grappling points and swung around them freely moving through the air with simple and graceful ease.

Every time he drew close to a spear he would use his momentum from the air to spin his body around and smash the spears deeper into the mammoths body, he needed to go in as deep as possible to act as good grappling points.

The sword in his hand had barely lost any of its glow from the previous attack, he didn't want to waste the energy even in his state that was full of blood lust he knew better that to loss his reasoning and waste all the built up power he gathered.

He could still cut through the mammoth's thick flesh, but he knew that if he wanted to go through the bones he would need to use a considerable amount of his energy.

Lirian focused on the wound he inflicted and smiled, 'It seems that the destruction law is on the stronger side,' he thought in satisfaction.

'To think that I don't even have to waste my own energy to activate it," he chuckled to himself, and couldn't help but feel like it evened out the battle field after all the mammoths law allowed it to continuously replenish its energy allowing it to continuously use its law.

Usually someone of the third grade would have trouble using a law more than three time a day, yet this mammoth had used it multiple times already.

Lirian continued to deal blows to the mammoth while swinging all over it like a silver flash, but his current strikes didn't have as much strength behind it as the first, he had a long area of swinging to build up momentum for that blow.

The part that truly annoyed Lirian was despite the intensity of the blow the mammoth still continued its devouring spell, and by now only half of the mages remained standing, if even five more dropped, it would render his plan a failure.

"Screw it!" yelled Lirian, and the aura around him began to change, as he stopped using tension forms in his strikes and pushed his sword skills to the limit.

He immediately felt his muscles tighten and his body began to heat up, as a red and savage mist arose from his body, he entered into his self-created form and merged with it.

Lirian jumped off the mammoths back and soared threw the air and just as gravity was about to take its natural course and pull him to the ground, he threw out the two grapples on his arms, they wrapped around two spear shafts causing them bend in his direction and in the nest second he was launched as if fired from a slingshot.

The student below, cheered in awe as they watched their commander, his aura was terrifying and they could feel the power behind every blow he dealt, and now they cheered as the watched him slingshot across the mammoths back.

Lirian suddenly released the ropes and the katana re-emerged in his hands, he was using only the power from his form merging and the sword destructive edge in his attack as he plunged almost the entire blade deep into the mammoth's body.

As it slipped past bones Lirian felt it enter deep into the body and he was certain that it touched an internal organ, Lirian didn't hesitate when he got the opportunity and twisted the blade with all his strength.

Karen saw the opportunity arriving, the opportunity Lirian spoke of, so she quickly used the little remaining energy in her body to contact the mages still standing.

Their faces were pale, and they were drenched in sweat, and their skin looked like it had been lightly roasted into a crispy golden colour, as they were faltering they received a message from Karen, one that filled them with relief.

They quickly complied with the simple order she gave them and in that instant they released every last bit of energy, not holding back anything at all, the wave of fire intensified for just a second and it looked slightly bigger than when they had started.

Upon completing the task they all crumpled to the ground falling unconscious almost instantly, and quickly the people behind them came rushing to support them.

Karen watched everything clearly from above, and smiled happily things could not have gone better, she watched as Lirian sunk his blade deep in the mammoths body causing it so much pain that it was unable to continue supporting its devouring spell.

Then the wave of fire pushed forward entering its mouth, burning it from the inside out.

"ROOOOOOOAAARRRR," the mammoth began to roar and howl, it lifted up its two front legs, and swatted them around in the area in front of it , and it stumbled around on it to rear legs, Lirian dangled in the air he quickly used two arrow shafts as supports for his legs and held onto the katana that was plunged deep inside its body.

"Damn it!" he loudly cursed as he felt the mammoth crash in to a tree as it stumbled about on its two rear legs, when standing it was almost as tall as the rock drake.

As it stumbled through more trees Lirian felt his body being pressed against a tree. 'If this continues I'm going to be flattened,' he thought.

He wrapped his hand around the hilt tightly and prepared to use half the energy he gathered, then he unleashed the katana's spell <Strom Caller>, lightning coiled around his hands, and he felt his grip around the handle tighten as lightning began to violently form.

The back of the mammoth started to light up and powerful burst of lightning was unleashed within the mammoth's body directly being released on the mammoth's organs.

Every wound on the mammoth began to glow with bolts of arcing blue lightning that devastated it from the inside out, the mammoth didn't even get to thrash around as it almost immediately slumped to the ground on its side.

As it collapsed Lirian slip free of the mammoth, the katana had blown the entire area it was buried in into mush and it easily slid free.

Lirian climbed from the ground with a tired expression, form merging was not meant to be used by someone that wasn't cultivating and it had a toll on his body, but he only used it for a short period so with a little bit of rest he'd be fine.

"It's dead!" someone started to shout loudly, "We did it we killed a third-grade mystic beast!" they shouted in celebration.

The students started to climb up and celebrate, and a few came running to the mammoth kicking it limp body to vent their frustration against it after the terror it caused all of them.

"No don't come closer," Lirian shouted as he climbed to his feet.

The system hadn't notified him about the beast dying so he knew that while almost dead, it still had some life left in it, unfortunately his shout was too late.