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160 The Might of a Gialgathen
🕑 Added 2018-09-26 23:26:49 +0000 UTC The gialgathen raised his neck, mana pouring from around him. Iasis charged towards him at a blistering pace. Alzoroth whipped his tail. Iasis slowed down, trying to dodge the tail's whip. Alzoroth slowed down the shifting momentum in his tail to match it.Iasis skidded to a stop in front of Alzoroth, fearing the crack of tail. The giant boomed a chuckling roar from his jaws. He boomed out with a mental wave, "Do you fear me to such an extent?"
Iasis kept cool, forming icicle spears. Before he shot them towards Alzoroth, the gialgathen clamped his jaws towards Iasis. The crack of teeth shot out a wave that destroyed the ice. It crumbled the armor Iasis covered himself with, leaving him vulnerable.
Iasis formed ice daggers and slit his wrists. Alzoroth waved his tail, making sure it was ready to whip at any moment. That zoned Iasis, keeping him from coming close. As Iasis molded blood into magic, Alzoroth nodded,
"I'll give you the time you need for your magic."
Iasis built the mana, converting his blood into crimson energy. It flooded his frame, empowering his with physical force. Crimson ice formed over Iasis in a split second, and he dashed forwards.
Alzoroth clamped his jaws, shattering the ice midway through Iasis's leap. He whipped his tail, timing the enhanced speed of the charge. The tip of his tail cracked at it split the skin and armor on Iasis's back. The espen crushed into the arena.
Iasis pulled himself up, a mist of blood spurting from his mouth as he did. Alzoroth kept his distance as he tilted his head,
"Is that it then? You're welcome to try again if you'd like."
With a toothy grin, Alzoroth continued, "It matters not. I will defeat you in any combat you wish to partake in."
At this point, I believed the giant frog lizard.
Iasis stood up, more blood flooding into him. He opened his dimensional storage, pulling out an orange spear. With a purple sash at the end of it, he tapped the arena. Bits of crushed stone came up, covering Iasis. The gialgathen nodded, "Interesting. A spear given the blessing of Lehesion...It's good you understand that you need a gialgathen's power to fight me. Wise to know your limitations."
Iasis spun the spear while swinging himself around. He bent down and lifted himself back up, almost dancing. As he turned back to Alzoroth, he jutted his spear towards the beast. A pillar of sharpened earth bolted up at the gialgathen's throat.
A forcefield of mana deflected the shard of stone. Iasis spun and turned, performing complex aerial maneuvers. At the end of each, he prodded his spear at the gialgathen, launching rock splinters. At the end of the dance, his last missile shot forward while leaving a sonic boom in its wake.
With a reaction time defying comprehension, the gialgathen intersected the bullet. The frog lizard whipped it with his tail, crushing it to powder midswing. I shook my head,
"Iasis is getting crushed, both mentally and physically."
Althea nodded, "Yeah. He doesn't have raw umph to take Alzoroth on."
The gialgathen grinned at the espen, "Do you concede?"
Iasis yelled as he flipped and turned in a dance. The air around him shivered as tiny rocks floated into the air. All around Iasis, stones floated into the air. He kept flipping for over two minutes the gialgathen picking at his teeth with his tail.
At the end of all the hoopla, Iasis did a double backflip before pointing his hands at Alzoroth. The spear flashed the distance between them both, exceeding the speed of sound. Three shockwaves blistered out as the spear lined up right for the beast's throat.
The beast caught the spear with his teeth.
I spread out my arms, "What the fuck was that? Are you serious?"
Althea's jaw hung open, "Uh, you might have your hands full here."
I scratched the side of my helmet, "Uh, yeah. No kidding. Going fast isn't the way to go."
The gialgathen crunched the spear in his mouth. He laughed,
"I assume that's all a dirtwalker can muster?"
Iasis fell to his knees, defeated utterly. The gialgathen whipped his tail, smashing Iasis from above. The blow broke Iasis's back, leaving him contorted sideways. Before the announcer stopped him, Alzoroth whipped his tail again from the side.
I clasped my hand, using a powerful pulse of antigravity between Iasis and the attack. Iasis fell sideways, fast as a bullet. The antigravity didn't stop the tail, but it did slow it down just enough to miss Iasis. The gialgathen shook his head,
"What coward took away his honorable death?"
He looked at the crowd, finding me with my hand raised. He grinned,
"Ahhh, the big dirtwalker. No one will save you when we fight."
I shrugged, "No one will have to."
I pulled Iasis into the medbay. The crowd roared in approval, already on my side. The announcer pressed his fingers together, pinning the gialgathen down in his tracks. The announcer tilted his head, still having a huge ass smile on his face,
"That's not a part of the tournament's rules, now is it Alzoroth?"
The gialgathen turned his eyes towards the announcer, "Of...of course it wasn't. It was my mistake."
The announcer released his hands, letting the gigantic amphibian move again. I laughed, "Damn. The announcer is a bigshot. This whole tournament's full of surprises."
Althea leaned against me, "Have you tried analyzing him?"
I shook my head, doing it at that moment
Kiki Mosk, The Smiling Devil(lvl 9,000) - A Speaker representing Schema on Giess. Given the responsibility of organizing fights on the planet, Kiki enjoys entertaining wide audiences. With heavy investment into charisma, he knows how to work a crowd with his uncanny charm.
If you have the will to see past his facade, he's cunning and sharp as a knife. Do not get on Kiki's bad side or else he may just ruin your reputation as fast as he'll crush your bones.
I nodded, "Ah, he's a Speaker."
She nodded, "I think so too."
The announcer clapped his hands together, "No more of that silliness while I'm around, got it? If so, I might be forced into ensuring that such silliness cannot be done again."
The announcer glared at Alzoroth, "Understood?"
The gialgathen nodded, "Assuredly."
The announcer sighed, "You'd better. Now, on to the next and last round of Icosah's tournament. We have two newcomers arriving to steal the top spots this year. On the one side, we have the incredibly disobedient Alzoroth!"
The crowd booed. The announcer amplified the sound, making it even louder. I laughed at that, surprised by how petty a Speaker could be. The announcer opened a hand to me,
"And Daniel Hillside, the warrior with unseen strikes."
I jumped right back into the arena. As I landed, Alzoroth scoffed at me,
"Be glad the announcer is protecting you."
I grinned, "Uh huh. Keep talking."
The announcer turned to each of us, "Are you both ready?"
I nodded. I rolled my shoulders while the gialgathen whipped its tail back and forth. The announcer raised his hands, "Begin!"
I put myself into my fighting stance, sliding forward. The slow crawl of movement caused the gialgathen to burst into laughter,
"Do you intend on crawling me to death?"
I ignored him, keeping myself ready. After a minute of approaching him, I got within his tail's range. He whipped it, slicing a blow straight at my left side. I leaned towards my right, shrugging my left shoulder. The blistering strike rolled up and over my shoulder, my gravitational magic helping me.
The gialgathen shook his head, "What? How did you do that? You're so puny and minuscule."
I kept inching forward. He whipped another tail slice at me, this time towards my right leg. I lifted my right knee up and towards his tail, checking the strike. I braced as his tail collided into my knee. I absorbed the impact, spreading the force outwards with gravity.
This stopped my gray armor from disintegrating, protecting my identity. As the gialgathen's tail shot backward, the monster's jaw went slack. I laughed, raising my hands,
"Come on big guy. Is that all you got?"
He lashed out, no longer holding back. After I deflected, blocked, and parried a dozen slashes of his tail, he got the picture. I kept inching forward, slow as a glacier. That was the problem for him though. I wasn't stuck in this arena with him.
He was stuck in here with me.
Comments
Augustus
Mean. All the well frogs now hate you.
Jeff091
hi, thanks for the (for me) new chapter
Monsoon117
Thanks. I reframed it to gray armor, protecting his identity.
Stephen Emrick
Hopefully Daniel calls him a dragon-frog during the fight. I want to see him get mad. Then wipe the smug off his face. I read a comic parody once where Draco malfoy challenges Hermon granger to a duel and before he can cast a spell gets kicked in the nuts. Dumbledoor says listen young wizard no amount of magic will protect you from a swift kick to the nads. That's the amount of humiliation I feel the gialgathens need.
Monsoon117
Ah, dragon frog is more of an insult than a description. There much closer to amphibious dragons, both in presence and appearance.
Monsoon117
Ah, thank you. That's my mistake. I'll adjust what the announcer says to something like: "And here's the semifinals before the last fight!"
Maritropa
Just what I needed after a tiring day, good luck with the grind Monsoon :p.
Grevis165
I love that he's fighting dragon-frogs. And that you fused the two. And for more fusions. Will he eventually bathe in their blood, and gain the power to transform into a dragon and rule over all other dragons in the Dragon King festival? Or will he learn from them as a friend, and gain the ability to use their magic as a Dragon Slayer? Find out next time in Fairy Tail: The New World
MAJmuffin
nice
Laevus Deus
You sir are a Damn tease! LoL
Kevin Mendoza
The torix armor disintegrating is a contextual typo
Hana Buechel
Sooooooo good! Love your book sooooo much. I’m needing the next chapter, you can’t just leave us in the middle of a fight!!!!
I knew something didn’t feel quite right about this chapter so I reread that the last one and in the chapter before this one the announcer said that the fight between Iasis and Alzoroth was gonna be the last fight of the day, however in this chapter Daniel and Alzoroth fight immediately after the earlier fight.
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
thanks for the chapter but that tease at the end was brutal
panfam
Rorschach in The New World, with full back story please
xydra22
I'm on my phone, or I would have made it look better. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
xydra22
I'm not entirely sure, but I think you were using Speaker as a proper noun, and there were places you used speaker, a simple noun. These two are interchangable, so I don't know. I laughed at that, surprised by how petty a Speaker could be. Kiki Mosk, The Smiling Devil(lvl 9,000) - A speaker representing Schema on Giess.
crusty pickle
new chapter! YEET
Tyler Babcock
Happy to see a new chapter. Sad to see how far apart it is from the last one, but that just means the beginning chapters are getting edited that much more, so I am fine with it. Looking forward to the next one or the release of the amazon book. Whatever comes first.
Monsoon117
Thanks Connor.
Monsoon117
Naw, bo really fits the contextual basis for the connotation between the metaphorical representations of the thematic resonance of mental and physical variables....Or it could have been a typo. lol.
Karolus
"Iasis is getting crushed, bo mentally and physically." I think this is supposed to be "both" not "bo"
Alex R
Let's go Daniel!!!
Connor Alexander
Alzoroth whipped his tail. <alzoroth> slowed down, trying to dodge the tail's whip. Alzoroth slowed down the shifting momentum in his tail to match it. <alzoroth> - Iasis Kiki Mosk, The Smiling Devil(lvl 9,000) - this just isn't bolded correctly. He was <struck> in here with me. <struck> - stuck
28th00
Well, ain't he a big arrogant garden snake?
Monsoon117
Gah, that's embarrasing. I fixed two instances of it at the beginning.
Monsoon117
Damn. I'll go back and look at it. I knew when I posted this that my brain was fried. Sorry guys.
Connor Alexander
Also right off the bat, in the first fight Alzoroth is fighting Alzoroth. Mighten need to switch those to Iasis.
Gardor
I think you use Alzoroth incorrectly a couple times in the beginning
Thank you for the chapter
Connor Alexander
Yay a new chapter! Thanks for it!
