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    Ss turned around whilepleting the finishing touches of the rune. He had to be careful, otherwise, it would blow up in his face and possibly even destroy most of his arm, if not his body.


    The python reeled back its head and unleashed a breath of poisonous gas, yet Ss didn''t move an inch.


    He could see the green screen telling him that his body was not only fighting against the poison but also assimting it and adapting to it.


    The python stopped shooting its poison and looked at Ss with confusion.


    Ss pointed his hand at the python and smiled.


    The silverish-blue rune before him shone with immense intensity, and a secondter, a single word left Ss'' mouth. A word that activated the spell and froze the very ground below him before the spell could even be unleashed.


    "Iceberg"


    *BOOOOOOOOM*


    The sound of rapid freezing echoed throughout the entire forest.


    The forest itself wasn''t all that big and was nowhere close to being the size of the dia forest. However, the moment the beasts and even Ss'' teammates heard it, they could not help but look in the direction of the sound,


    In that very instant, powerful wind blew through the forest and reached his teammates while at the same time, sting the fog away.


    They could finally see the blueish-orange sky, but that wasn''t the thing that caught their attention.


    What did catch their attention was the enormous iceberg piercing toward the heavensing from the direction that Ss had gone.


    "Oh no..." they all stepped back.


    There was no way that was Ss.


    It would take an enormous amount of mana, and since they knew he was in the topaz core, there was no way he would have been able to produce such an enormous spell so quickly.


    There was no way... right...


    It had to be a mistwalker or something... Though, despite that sounding terrifying, it made more sense than Ss casting such arge spell so quickly.


    Even if he had created a tier-4 spell, it shouldn''t have been thatrge...


    Of course, there was another theory that made a lot of sense.


    The theory is that he might actually have something beyond an S-rank affinity.


    S-rank affinities were extremely rare, but there have been a few individuals capable of reaching beyond the S-rank.


    By most, they were considered legends of the past, and by others, they were treated like mythical beings capable of changing the tide of the entire human race.


    Of course, it was just a myth, but all myths were grounded somewhere.


    *BOOOM*


    Suddenly, everyone watched as the iceberg shattered.


    They could see chunks of ice flying through the air and shooting toward the skies.


    Violet mana erupted out of the body of the python, but Ss had expected this.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    The iceberg attack hadn''t worked against themander, and even though Ss was now much stronger than back then, he had a feeling that it wouldn''t have worked against the python...


    Or at least, it didn''t work the way one would have usually expected it to.


    ''How to beat a reptile 101. Freeze them.'' Ss grinned.


    He could already see that it was working. The python was a lot slower than before, and from the looks of it, it was a little weaker.


    Its scales looked like they had been frosted over, making its movements harder and making it have to use more energy than it would have usually done for basic movements.


    Landing on the ground, Ss ced both his palms on the ground and caused the ground under to shoot up,unching it into the sky, alongside the rest of the iceberg''s chunks.


    Ss knew that using the iceberg spell would have been a little much, but since his teammates weren''t around, he hoped he could have, at the very least, convince them that he used most of his mana.


    Otherwise, he would have to just kill them or somehow make themply without the chance of them backstabbing himter. The former looked a lot more appealing than the other option.


    Lowering his body to the ground, Ss activated fire fusion and shot into the air beforending on one of the ice chunks.


    "Let''s see how you do airborne." Ss muttered while raising his hand into the air and controlling the ice to create spikes that shot toward the python.


    The reptile quickly flicked its tail, creating a wind pressure strong enough to turn the ice into dust.


    ''I see...''


    Ss'' eyes darted around, scanning all the ice chunks before shooting off his tform and mming into another one.


    They python watched Ss as he darted from one ice chunk to another. Every time he wouldnd on one, cracks would spread throughout it, but it wouldn''t break.


    *Swoosh*


    Reeling his arm back, Ss took a deep breath in before shooting toward the python.


    His body shot through the air, his eyes creating a green streak behind him as it burned with a bright emerald light.


    And when he finally reached the python, he created a fire st spell behind his elbow and released the strongest punch he had ever thrown in all his lives.


    The air ruptured before him, creating a loud bang that echoed through the entire forest.


    The fistnded on the scaly body of the python, yet an instantter, Ss was no longer in front of it.


    Landing on one of the chunks of ice from before, he did the same thing again and again,nding punch after punch, each one being stronger than thest.


    His figure could be seen darting around the python at a speed that even the python could no longer follow.


    He was in now in the zone... He felt like nothing could stop him.


    His fists were dripping with blood as every bone his hands would shatter every time he punched the python, but a secondter, his hand would be fully healed, ready for his next punch.


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