17.Battle on ice 2

Wail began to realize that the only solution left was to use Lightning Speed, no matter the cost.

But he quickly reconsidered.

"What if Raouf already knows about this ability...?"

"What if he's waiting for me to use it?"

If Raouf had some way of countering it, Wail would only destroy his own body for nothing.

He slowly exhaled and forced himself to think calmly.

"No... there's another way."

The battle continued.

They were close in overall strength, but as time passed, the balance gradually began to shift.

It wasn't because Raouf was stronger...

It was because of exhaustion.

Wail grew more tired with every passing minute, while Raouf's wounds continued to heal.

Not a single sign of fatigue appeared on his face.

His expression remained emotionless, his eyes devoid of any feeling.

Wail observed his surroundings while dodging another attack.

The storm swallowed everything around them.

Snow continued to fall without stopping.

And beneath their feet stretched the frozen sea.

Suddenly...

His eyes widened.

"I found it..."

He struck the ground with his aura, shattering the ice covering the surface of the sea before plunging both hands into the water.

The next moment...

A massive bolt of lightning erupted from him and spread across the entire sea.

The electric current traveled through the water at incredible speed.

Raouf took several steps back, staring at the sea in surprise.

A smile appeared on Wail's face.

He had found his opponent's weakness.

He didn't give Raouf a chance to recover.

He raised his hand toward the sky.

Thunder roared.

Electricity surged through the storm itself, traveling between the clouds and the falling snow before descending upon Raouf from every direction.

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Raouf had nowhere to escape.

But suddenly...

The storm around Wail intensified.

Raouf vanished and appeared directly behind him, locking his arms around him.

At the same moment, ice spikes erupted from Raouf's body and pierced Wail's arms.

Wail grunted in pain...

but refused to let go.

For the first time, Raouf's expression froze.

Wail smiled.

"Got you."

Electricity exploded from his body and surged through Raouf.

His entire body convulsed violently.

Wail ripped the spikes from his own arms, then drove them into Raouf's body before kicking him with all his strength.

Raouf went flying and crashed into the sea.

Without hesitation, Wail unleashed another barrage of electricity.

The lightning traveled through the water, striking Raouf again and again.

The explosions did not stop.

Until...

A white aura mixed with black energy erupted from the sea.

Raouf emerged, gasping for breath.

His wounds began healing again.

But this time...

they did not all heal.

Wail noticed.

"So... even your healing ability has its limits."

Raouf's expression grew colder.

He no longer looked human.

Wail muttered:

"What happened to you...?"

"You look like a monster."

Wail repeated the same strategy.

Every time he struck Raouf, he forced the electricity to travel through both the sea and the storm.

The strategy was effective.

But Raouf began counterattacking as well.

Raouf charged toward the sea again.

Wail descended onto its surface and released electricity into the water.

But...

He sensed an immense danger.

He immediately jumped backward.

The frozen ground where he had been standing exploded.

He lowered his head.

The spikes this time were black, layered with dense ice.

Raouf began firing consecutive beams of dark energy infused with ice.

Wail dodged some of them, but others struck him directly.

He staggered back, breathing heavily.

Raouf gave him no chance to recover and charged at him faster than before.

Ice spikes surrounded Wail from every direction.

He shattered the first ones, but the next froze his arm, while another tore through his leg.

Before he could break free...

Raouf unleashed a relentless barrage of attacks.

A strike to Wail's stomach sent him flying.

Before he could get back up, dozens of spikes erupted from the ground.

He destroyed most of them, but one pierced his other leg.

His balance faltered.

Raouf appeared directly in front of him.

He extended his hand, and a black ice spike formed in his palm.

It was smaller than the previous ones...

but far sharper.

He aimed it at Wail's chest.

"It's over."

Time seemed to slow as the spike approached Wail.

"Damn it..."

"I can't dodge it..."

At that moment...

Wail felt the lightning element flowing through his body in a strange way.

The lightning no longer surrounded him...

He had become the lightning itself.

He vanished.

In a fraction of an instant...

he appeared behind Raouf.

It wasn't merely a matter of speed.

It was instantaneous movement, as if his body had transformed into an electric current and traveled through it.

Raouf stared in shock.

"When...?!"

But Wail was no longer in front of him.

The next moment...

A powerful fist slammed into the back of his head.

He was sent flying dozens of meters.

Raouf quickly regained his balance and attacked again.

Wail dodged several attacks using his new electrical movement.

Every time...

he vanished and reappeared somewhere else.

Finally, he appeared directly in front of Raouf.

He drove two brutal punches into his stomach.

Raouf was sent flying and crashed hard into the ground.

He struggled to stand.

Suddenly...

The black aura around his body erupted violently.

It began leaking out in every direction, as though it had escaped his control.

Elsewhere...

Bahaa's eyes widened as he shouted:

"Don't do it...!!"

He tried to communicate with Raouf through the black aura, but Raouf no longer responded.

A storm of energy exploded from his body, and he began attacking everything around him indiscriminately.

Wail focused solely on dodging.

But one of the explosions struck him directly, swallowing him in smoke.

Then...

A bright blue glow appeared within the smoke.

Wail was gathering electrical energy between his hands.

Raouf continued his assault, launching ice spikes and raining them down across the battlefield.

Wail began to move.

But this time...

he leaped from one massive ice spike to another, using them like platforms.

Raouf fired a dark arrow at incredible speed.

It reached Wail's face in an instant.

But...

Wail vanished.

He transformed into a flash of electricity and appeared directly in front of Raouf.

He thrust both palms forward.

A massive beam of electricity erupted and swallowed Raouf.

The beam continued tearing through the ground until its blue light covered the horizon.

After a few moments...

the light gradually faded until it disappeared completely.

Wail canceled his transformation and slowly walked through the smoke.

Then he stopped in front of Raouf.

Raouf was lying unconscious on the ground.

Wail stared at him in silence before saying between heavy breaths:

"Damn you..."

"You're incredibly strong..."

Wail stepped toward Raouf and bent down to carry him, intending to prevent Bahaa from retrieving him.

But...

He sensed the presence of two people behind him.

He quickly turned around.

Two girls were standing behind him.

Silence fell.

The moment his eyes landed on them...

his pupils widened.

Time seemed to stop around him.

Ruins...

flames...

collapsed buildings...

bodies scattered across the ground...

screams blending with the sound of explosions.

Then...

an arm covered in blood emerged from beneath the rubble.

It was a girl's hand...

Wail returned to reality.

But his expression...

was no longer the same.

The exhaustion disappeared.

The calmness vanished.

In their place was a rage unlike anything his eyes had ever shown before.

His gaze locked onto the two girls.

His face filled with overwhelming fury...