Beatitudes

Episode 92.

With the experience from before, he made his move as quickly as he could. A swirl of reddish orange sparks of light congregated around him as they gathered to his front, a large ball of fire then exploded into existence before him. The ball of fire hovered in front of him as it emitted a large wave of heat, his immediate surroundings immediately became like the insides of an oven, but being the one who had conjured the flames, he was somewhat able to ignore the heat that was being emanated. He had actually been gathering the ball of fire for a while since he had started talking which was why it looked like an instantaneous eruption now, hence barely any time had passed as the ball of flames appeared after which he moved his hand backwards before pushing it forward, the ball of flames responded to the movement of his hand as it flew forward as a speed that could actually rival that of the wolf at the moment, it was simply a mass of hot flames after all.

What happened next was the ball of flames speeding towards the wolf as it raised the temperature of the path it flew through. The ball of flames was hardly something to miss due to its size and the heat it gave off, so the wolf and the other two humans in the fifth floor had naturally seen it the moment it came into existence, hardly any time had passed since it was thrown and it had already closed the distance to the wolf and was about to slam into it.

Fear abruptly seeped into the eyes of the now wary wolf as the light of the flames was reflected in its eyes. One should know that despite its considerably large size and sinister appearance paired with the strength it had shown till now, this mountain king was ultimately still a beast of the wolf species.

And the one of the things that a wolf, that was a beast with fur on its body, feared the most was fire. This was an instinctive type of fear that had been ingrained into its very genes and soul, it wasn’t something that could be ignored.

Hence when the wolf witnessed the flames coming towards it and was on the path to slamming into it, it immediately used all it strength to take control of its speed that been pushed to the max, this was something that was all too hard to do as the speed that the wolf was currently running at was one  that was at the highest height of what its body could achieve.

It was hence a risky move that wasn’t easy to execute. But perhaps due to the fact that the instinctive fear it felt was one of a significant level that moved it to evade, the wolf was able to swerve its body to the side slightly as it moved out of the path of the ball of fire.

But in the end after all its efforts, it was unable to completely evade the flames. The attack had been too sudden and unexpected so there was only so much it could do. The wolf could luckily avoid the flames smashing into it head on but it was unable to avoid it smashing into its side.

Its right side caught on fire as it began to quickly spread across it eerie black fur. It growled in pain as the heat of the flames assaulted its body thoroughly.

Although it had evaded the flames and it could be said that Isaac’s ball of fire had failed to cause the expected damage, this was something Isaac had somewhat expected to happen. So he wasn’t surprised as the wolf evaded it, a smirk emerged on his lips as the wolf staggered due to the flames adhered to its body. This was still also an outcome he had expected as all this served to significantly slow down the speed of the wolf’s charge as its mind became preoccupied. The original two seconds that the wolf needed to reach him was now lengthened as the strength of its charge was also reduced significantly. This was the ultimate effect he wanted and was what he achieved, the wolf was feeling the pain of the flames burning it and was only able to continue it charge half minded as it stared at Isaac with an expression of both pain and increased bloodlust.

Ignoring all that and raising both his arms sideways till they were at the level of his shoulder, a mass of misty white energy bursted out of Isaac’s body as it similarly swirled around him like the flames before. But this time around, instead of a sweltering mass of flames, something else took form from the mass of white mist. It was something of a size that took out almost every ounce of willpower he had spiraling within him. Following its forming, he then grasped in his hands the object with a very long handle that stretched on sideways for close to three meters before widening into a head that was of a very flat rectangular shape, the sight of the object was one that brought the image of swatting flies to mind. It was precisely that particular object that Isaac had condensed from his thoughts. Flames then began to course around the object albeit not enough to cover it in its entirety. A somewhat flaming object for swatting flies had thus appeared in the fifth floor of the tainted mountain.

Gripping it, Isaac looked at the charging wolf with malice in his eyes as he smirked evilly. He shouted as he spoke to the wolf to continue his taunting,

“How dare a dog on fire run towards me. You want me to put it out? Alright then, don’t tell me later that you didn’t ask for my help…”

Seconds had passed quickly enough for the wolf to close the distance between it and Isaac, it was about raising its front paw to claw out a sizeable amount of the damn human’s flesh when it saw the weird object in the human’s hand swinging towards it, displacing the air around it at it curved forward. The size of the object was enough to make it wary so it tried to swing its paw towards the incoming attack instead to clash against it, but the attack was similarly well timed and quick enough like the ball of flames to evade the paw and smash the wolf first. Evading this attack like the ball of flames was impossible at this point as it wouldn’t be able to pull itself back quickly enough, and so the inevitable attack smashed into it as calculated.

And precisely like a fly being swatted away, the object for swatting flies away smashed into the side of the wolf, the same side that was currently burning away from the flames earlier. It was very much commendable that the wolf had been able to avoid being hit head on by the flames from earlier, but that had only served to seal its fate to suffer the current attack without even defending.

The force of the swatting was significant enough since the attacker had maliciously put in every ounce of strength he had into the attack. Isaac strength was significant enough even when compared with Harry’s, and so the wolf was swatted to the side as it’s already weakened momentum was shattered and it flew to the side. It flew for a short distance before dropping to the ground, sliding on the ground for another length of distance as it raised dust and dug a line across the floor of the fifth floor.

The flames were put out to a significant level as promised and the fifth floor sank into silence.

Harry and Hiya stared from Isaac to the wolf and then back to Isaac before taking another glance at the wolf lying still on the ground. The only signs that showed it was still a part of the world of the living were its legs that kept twitching for a while.

Hiya looked at Isaac with an odd light in her eyes, she had been stunned for a while on seeing the result of the wolf’s charge. When she thought back to the whole scene starting from the wolf’s initiating it’s charge to its current state where it laid on the ground with its status unknown, she couldn’t help but murmur to herself,

“He’s actually able to think so well… looks like he’s not as dumb as he seems…”

If Isaac had just happened to hear the words she had just said, then he probably would have cursed, feeling enough indignation to spoil his current good mood at swatting the imposing and obnoxious wolf king to the side like a fly.

But he hadn’t heard anything of what she said, and so the smug vibes he was feeling remained unspoilt.