Fruity and the Fishman shed, creating a loud explosion that instantly sent shockwaves all around. The Fishman had thick arms, ashy blue skin, arge shark-like head, and razor-sharp arms that could easily cut through the thickest defense.
The sh was intense. Despite his body tempering, Fruity felt his arms go numb when their weapons met.
"Water sh!" The Fishman immediately activated its first skill, shing its de-like arm. A powerful arc of water cut straight at Fruity, who spun his staff and raised a thick ice spear.
The two attacks collided, exploding instantly. Fruity was pushed back, but so was the Fishman. It was strong, almost at the level of a Deimos, but Fruity wasn''t weak either. Five years ago, he might have struggled, but now, after learning hundreds of skills, techniques, and spells, he was no longer weak.
"Ice Pir: Dawn of a Thousand Arrows!" Fruity instantly activated his second technique. A tall ice pir rose from the ground, towering behind him. From therge pir, thousands of ice arrows rained down on the Fishman.
The Fishman immediately raised a water shield. This was easy for it, as they were fighting in its domain. It has an affinity for the water element so fighting beside a water body was an advantage for it.
Fruity, seeing how his arrows bounced off the water shield, smirked. cing two fingers on his forehead, a powerful soul attack erupted, hitting the Fishman heavily.
The shield shattered when the soul attacknded on the Fishman, but Fruity didn''t celebrate. He had only broken its defense—the true attack was yet toe. First, he needed to ensure the Fishman wouldn''t be able to defend itself.
The soul attack was just the beginning, and from the result, Fruity knew he couldn''t drain its soul energy yet. He could only create more chaos and hope for the best.
"Ice Pir: Doom''s Arrow," Fruity muttered, seeing the Fishman was about to activate an offensive skill. It was enraged by the sudden soul attack.
The pir behind Fruity rose and transformed into a 30-meter-long, thick, and pointed arrow made of ice. One thing Fruity noticed was that he could naturally use the ice element—not any specific type, just normal ice. People would only recognize that he possessed Forbidden Ice once he activated them.
For now, he was simply testing how well he could fare without using his special elements, and so far, he had exceeded his own expectations by a huge margin.
"Go!"
He pointed his staff forward, and like a bullet, the massive arrow sped toward the Fishman, bringing immense pressure with it. However, instead of raising a solid defense, the Fishman simply swung its hand, sending a sharp sh that instantly obliterated therge arrow.
"What the..." Before Fruity could finish his sentence, the Fishman appeared right in front of him, stabbing its sharp arm toward his heart.
Fruity quickly tapped into a technique he had learned, switching his position by using the ice as a conduit. Although he managed to dodge, the technique required a great deal of stamina, and he immediately felt his body growing tired.
"That was one strange movement technique," Fruity thought, recognizing the movement the Fishman had used. He had learned a simr technique himself but hadn''t given it much thought when Yuying made him study it. In fact, he had learned dozens of such techniques but hadn''t taken the time to master them.
Just as he freed himself from the sudden attack, he saw the Fishman stabbing a long spear made of water toward him. He wanted to ask how that was even possible, but before he could react, he felt a sudden attack from behind.
He quickly raised an ice wall, then kicked back while thrusting his staff forward. The two attacks collided, creating an explosion.
''I can''t underestimate this Fishman, and since I didn''t bother to master the movement technique, I''ll have to use another method without resorting to the forbidden ice just yet. I have to kill it without using any of my trump cards,'' Fruity thought inwardly, knowing this was no time to joke.
However, he also wanted to test himself. Having such powerful ice elements seemed great, but without them, he wanted to see what kind of person he truly was.
"Round two," Fruity muttered, his staff transforming into a longsword.
"Moon sh!" He swung the sword dozens of times, each swing sending sharp arcs of ice shaped like crescent moons.
The Fishman raised its defenses, but the sudden consecutive attacks were too strong, breaking through its defense. Some of the ice arcs evennded on its body, dealing with ice damage.
"One with the Sword: Moon Epic sh!" Fruity, having gained some advantage and momentarily disrupted the Fishman''s momentum, followed up with a new form of Moon sh. He raised his sword high, and like a current, Ice Qi surged into the de.
He shed the sword diagonally, and like a sh, a sword light made of ice shot out, pulling the pressure around it and directing it toward the Fishman.
In response, the Fishman''s de arms morphed into a pair ofrge hands. It brought them together as if about to pray, but after muttering something, arge shark—about 30 meters long and made entirely of water—appeared and surged toward the ice arcing from Fruity.
Boom!
The two attacks connected, creating a liquid explosion.
"Waterfall!" the Fishman said immediately after regaining its footing from the explosion. Instantly, a tsunami of water surged behind it.
Pointing forward, the massive wave rose above the Fishman and started rushing toward Fruity.
"Ice with Sword: Moon sh Kill!" Fruity, in response to the destructive attack, raised his sword again. This time, a wave of ice surged from all around him entering the sword in his hands. His eyes were closed as if sensing the iing attack.
As expected, just when the tsunami was only a few meters from him, his sword fell in a vertical sh. A powerful ice arc cut forward, slicing the tsunami in half. But it didn''t stop there—it moved forward, striking the Fishman and sending it flying like a ragdoll.
The Fishman mmed hard into the soft ground.
Fruity, realizing he had underestimated the Fishman, immediately followed up with another attack. However, just as the attack was about to connect, a powerful, bloodthirsty aura erupted from the Fishman, instantly slowing him down.
''This power...'' Fruity was startled, feeling his strength drop—or more urately, feeling his body fail him, as though he were scared. But he knew he wasn''t afraid, not in the slightest. Yet, for some reason, that sensation lingered.
To confirm his suspicion, the Fishman pped its hands together again, and anotherrge water shark surged forward. The fish surged forward with a terrifying pressure.
Fruity, in the process of preparing another sword sh, immediately felt his reaction speed slow down, and worse, the rate at which he was channeling his ice Qi also faltered.
"Devouring Ice: Absolute Wall," Instead of continuing with the sword attack, he muttered instead, raising a wall of Dark Gold Ice. The water shark mmed into it, creating an explosion that shattered the wall. However, the attack was also devoured.
Fruity quickly started exuding his Devouring Ice over himself, instantly absorbing the pressure that was affecting him.
''I need to ask Yuying what that was, but first, I need to get payback,'' Fruity thought, immediately activating three more Ice Elements.
"Hypnotic Ice."
"Abyssal Ice."
"Annihtion Ice."
At once, three more types of ice joined with the Devouring Ice, creating a 2-kilometer domain of ice that instantly trapped the Monster Fishman within.
"One with the Sword: Moon Epic sh!" Fruity didn''t waste a second, unleashing a powerful sword attack that mmed into the Fishman, who was struggling to defend its mind.
"Abyssal Ice: Unbreakable Chains!" The Fishman, sent flying, was immediately ensnared in the air by thick, dark red ice chains. As soon as the chains locked onto it, the Fishman''s screams filled the space.
"Mighty Cauldron Descent!" Fruity didn''t let up. He conjured arge cauldron made of thick Dark Annihtion Ice. It hurtled forward, and before the Fishman could recover, the massive cauldron mmed into its head, exploding it instantly.
Its huge body dropped to the ground cementing his kill. He had just killed a Tyrant while just a Sage.
But Fruity wasn''t happy for someone who had just killed a Peak Tyrant, not even in the slightest.