Chapter 137: What is this thing? Huge but insanely fast! (1)

A skill that could be called a high-performance version of Aura Speeder that could move at high speed on the ground was Rapid Dancer.

Sky Dancer and Rapid Dancer could not be used at the same time, so Kazui immediately released Sky Dancer and switched the skill to Rapid Dancer.

(On the ground Immortal Mail can be used, so I’ll use it for form’s sake.)

Kazui released Aura Mail and activated Immortal Mail.

Immortal Mail was one of the Leona dedicated basic skills, a type of Aura Mail.

Higher performance than Aura Mail, but there was a restriction it could not be used during flight.

Having shifted to ground combat, Kazui switched the defense skill from Aura Mail to Immortal Mail.

Further Kazui made his body glow blue and replenished Aura for Meteorite Burst.

Having consumed Aura releasing many attacks and noticing the light of both hands and feet was weakening, Kazui judged it better to replenish Aura.

Immediately the surrounding trees shattered to pieces, and Kazui received an intense impact.

While scattering glowing blue Aura spray, like a leaf blown by a gust, Kazui was blown away body and all.

An attack he had already received on his body, so what happened Kazui sensed instantly.

(The griffin’s shockwave!)

Just as Kazui sensed, the griffin that descended to the ground, having finally stored the necessary Aura, released a shockwave toward around where Kazui was.

The intense shockwave released from the opened mouth smashed the trees of the forest to pieces and, together with tree fragments and earth and sand, stones and rocks, blew away Kazui’s body.

For the griffin, more powerful than what it had released so far, a shockwave at maximum output, truly a killing blow. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

This time at a distance not even fifty meters away, a state with no protection of multiple defensive barriers. If it were the original Kazui, even protecting his body with Aura Mail he would have died instantly.

Level 4 or so Kazui’s Aura Mail would be completely stripped, the bones of Kazui’s whole body crushed, flesh torn, and internal organs and brain messed up. A shockwave boasting intense power.

But the current Kazui was level 28, and moreover in the middle of activating Immortal Mail higher performance than Aura Mail.

A griffin’s shockwave or so would not defeat the current Kazui.

He was not defeated, but his body was blown about a hundred meters, his body slammed into a large rock the size of a hut, and somehow stopped there.

Not only the shockwave, from the impact of colliding with the large rock, Kazui was tormented by intense pain as if the bones of his whole body would be crushed.

He felt intense pain, but Kazui’s body was unhurt.

Immortal Mail same as Aura Mail, even if it could fully prevent the power of an attack, could not fully prevent pain, so Kazui was tormented by intense pain.

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(That hurts! Damn!)

While enduring intense pain, Kazui immediately stood.

His body moved properly, so Kazui noticed his body had taken almost no damage.

(Amazing. Unhurt with that just now. That’s why even eating Vice’s attack Yuri didn’t die.)

What protected Yuri’s life through Vice’s Aura Shot was this Immortal Mail.

At that time Immortal Mail actually exceeded its limit and was broken.

But even if receiving an attack exceeding the defense limit and being broken, the user of Immortal Mail got by without dying.

Like Yuri done in by Vice, taking considerable damage could not be avoided.

But from the attack that broke it itself, the user of Immortal Mail did not die instantly.

Even taking awful damage to the degree of falling unable to fight, only instant death was certainly avoided, so it held the name Immortal.

Not only possessing this instant-death avoidance ability, overall defense ability itself Immortal Mail was far higher than Aura Mail.

That was why even eating the griffin’s shockwave properly at close distance he got by unhurt.

Of course Kazui’s Immortal Mail had had its defense ability shaved considerably.

(I have to replenish Aura!)

Kazui tried to replenish the shaved Aura.

But Kazui did not have the leeway to replenish Aura to Immortal Mail.

The griffin that visually confirmed Kazui’s standing form charged to finish him.

Moreover the speed the griffin ran the ground was fast, and in no time it closed to just before Kazui.

Because it possessed defense ability above Aura Mail, Immortal Mail used a large amount of Aura.

That was why Aura control was difficult, and in Kazui’s case of still only "a state of being usable for form’s sake," while performing close combat with the griffin he had no leeway to replenish Aura to Immortal Mail.

(What is this thing? Huge but insanely fast!)

As if a lion trying to finish prey, raising its right foreleg and leaping, the griffin’s form was reflected in Kazui’s eyes.

Without being able to replenish Aura to Immortal Mail, for now Kazui leapt back.

Kazui with Rapid Dancer activated leapt a distance of over thirty meters with no run-up.

While dodging the foreleg attack at a dangerous point, he took distance from the griffin.

(With no run-up, in one leap I can jump this much!)

At leaping power too different from before in a state of using Rapid Dancer in Leona state, Kazui was surprised.

But his eyes caught a scene even more surprising than that.

What Kazui’s eyes caught was the scene of eating one blow by the griffin’s foreleg, the large rock being smashed to pieces and scattering as fragments.

What was smashed was the large rock Kazui blown by the shockwave had just collided with.

At the height of the power of the close attack by the griffin’s foreleg, Kazui was amazed.

(If I ate something like that, even if Immortal Mail prevented instant death on the first, on the second after Immortal Mail was broken I’d die.)

Immortal Mail had had its defense ability shaved considerably by the shockwave.

Kazui’s read that if he ate even one attack by the griffin’s foreleg Immortal Mail would be broken was not off.

The griffin that failed to finish Kazui immediately changed direction and charged toward Kazui again.

Despite a huge body exceeding an elephant, movement agile like a cat, and movement speed also fast.

Kazui also immediately ran the ground and fled.

Using Rapid Dancer, at a speed like a gale, while avoiding the trees of the forest, Kazui continued fleeing from the griffin.

The griffin’s side, without even avoiding trees, mowed them down and chased Kazui.

The speed both ran the ground was almost even... or rather Kazui was a little faster, but because he had to avoid trees it became even.

(I can’t escape this.)

Immediately Kazui realized he could not escape from the griffin.

(And just fleeing is no good! If I don’t fight and defeat it I can’t protect the caravan people!)