197 New Approach
"What will you say that will help me?" He asked her as the crack on the Shadow Dome erged.
"Your aura is more than strong enough to beat the beast. The problem is the aura technique. It doesn''t use the full potential of your aura, so you aren''t as powerful as you are supposed to be. Based on what I''ve seen, I can help you improve it," she said.
"What?" Leo asked with shock.
"I know this might be surprising to hear, but the technique you have is just garbage. There is no efficiency and it doesn''t even give power. It''s made just to make infinite copies of a weak de as long as you have enough aura," she exined to him.
He already knew it was very aura hungry as a technique, but he didn''t think it could be stronger.
"What can you do in the few seconds we have?" He asked her.
"Not a lot. All I can do is give you tips to just make it a little stronger so that it will be helpful to you," she said.
Just as she said that the dome finally broke open. Leo immediately took a few steps to the side to dodge the iing attack. Once the barrier shattered, the wolf leaped at the center of the dome, missing him by inches.
"Now attack it with your normal Shadow de," Nefrati said.
"I was going to do that anyway," he said as he quickly formed the de and threw it at the beast. The de broke into the wolf''s hide, making it jump back a little. It got rid of the de by hitting it away with its w. The de had barely grazed the body, but it still affected it and drained a little energy. Meanwhile, Nefrati was giving him further instructions.
"Now make a new de, but using the same aura, make it smaller," she said.
"You meanpress the aura?" He asked her.
"Yes. Exactly that," she said.
He did as she told and created a de like that. The problem with it was that it was a lot heavier and harder to control. He told her what he faced and sheughed.
"You are trying so hard to control it when that isn''t the goal of a de like this. When a de is made for power, it should only focus on power. If you want speed, focus on speed. Now make a de that is the same size as this one, but with a lot less aura," she said.
He did as she told him and got a second de that was the same size as thepressed one. Now he had two des, one that was very powerful and one that probably wouldn''t even break the wolf''s skin.
But what he realized was that the second de was a lot easier to control. He could maneuver it unlike before and make it go faster too. This meant it had a lot more applications.
"So why I made you do this is-"
"I know. The second one is a decoy. This is brilliant! How have I never thought of this?" He shouted while throwing the first de at the wolf.
It shot forward with a lot of speed, surprising it so much that it couldn''t even block it. However, even though the de was fast initially, it slowed down. While its paws were too slow to w it out of the air, the speed decreased so much that it could try to bite the de.
When it tried to do that, the de suddenly flew back a little faster than it hade and the wolf missed its bite. It looked up and saw the de still within its range. It tried to w it out but missed again. The one de seemed untouchable to it.
However, the de was not doing any damage to it. So after missing it a few times, it ignored it and just went toward Leo. By this time, Leo had four des surrounding him. When it started charging toward him, all the des save for one shot toward it.
It stopped its charge and pounded the ground. Immediately, the aura around it solidified and became a blood w. The w, which was 2 meters tall, mmed down onto the iing weapons. All three of them swerved out of the way and went past the beast.
They all turned around and shot for it again, it turned around and knocked two of the des out of the way. The other two des shot toward its head, forcing it to defend against them with its ws.
The des hit the ws and were knocked back like they were toys. This momentarily confused the wolf but it turned around since it got rid of the four des. However, as it turned around, a de pierced through the back of its neck and came out of the other side.
While it was busy dealing with the des, Leo had sent the most powerful one that he had kept beside him. Since it was a lot slower than the others, he wanted the wolf to bepletely upied with the first three.
Since its back was turned to him, it didn''t even realize that there was another deing its way. In its mind, all of them were equally powerful, so it paid more attention to the decoys.
Once the de pierced the neck, the wolf slowly slumped to the ground before dissolving into aura. Leo also slumped to the ground and released his control over the des. They all dissolved into aura as he started to recover his breath.
With this fight, he only had a fourth of his aura capacity left. He was also a little tired from his previous fights and was now considering what to do after this one.
"Good fight. You learned how to do it a lot quicker than I thought," Nefratimented.
"Thanks for giving me the idea. It helped me a lot," Leo replied. "But I don''t know if it will be enough for the next fight."
"It won''t," she said. "If you go in as you were in this fight, you will probably win, but at the cost of a limb. I''m sure that is not what you are intending to do, am I right?"
"Yes, I want all my limbs intact," he replied.
"The only way to do that is to get a strategy for the next fight," she said.
"Why are you so sure that the next tile will be a fight?" Leo asked.
"Well, what is it? You know how to read it," she responded. He looked at the tile across him and saw what was written on it.
"Knight," he read out.
"Like I thought. So the goal will be to finish the fight as quickly as possible even if it means using all of your aura. That means you need to have a good strategy," she said.
"And you know the best one for me?" He asked skeptically.
"I have years of experiencepared to you who is going by instinct. It went well for you because you are pretty talented, but my way will be better."