During the Dark Ages

I slammed my hands on the ground and channeled my aura into my shadow. Dozens of aura enhanced shadow hands flew towards the imp woman but she just smiled.

*BOOOM*

A small explosion sounded as the imp woman shot flames from her foot to shoot off the ground, before flying towards me at a stunning speed, bypassing all of my shadow hands. I hurriedly raised a shadow wall as the woman's flaming fist shot towards my face. The shadow wall shook under the might of her flaming punch and almost dissolved back into the shadows, but I managed to hold it together. I then created tentacles from the wall that wrapped around her fist and punched her in the face through the wall, the wall creating a gap to allow my fist to pass through. Her head barely moved, and her body started heating up, and sensing danger, I flew into the air and as soon as I did the woman was shrouded in flames, destroying my shadow wall.

"You have good instincts." The woman said as the flames disappeared. Suddenly her body grew tense and her veins bulged as her fierce red aura became visible to the naked eye. She roared and then jumped into the air speeding like a flaming comet towards me. I created a sphere around me but she punched through it and almost punched me in the face but I tightened the gap where her fist managed to pierce through the sphere, stopping her fist a few inches short and the intense heat from her fist turned my face red, leaving a few burns. I transformed my shadow sphere into dozens of hands and I channeled all my aura into my hand before punching her in the face and sending her flying towards the ground.

'I need something that can actually hurt her.' I thought as the imp woman got up from the ground. Although her jaw was a bit swollen, it had already started to heal. As I thought of how I could actually hurt her, my eyes wandered to my sword that was lying on the ground. With a smile, I activated [Shadow Cloak] and disappeared from the imp's sight which seemed to annoy her.

"This trick again." The woman said frustrated as she scanned the area with her eyes while at the same time I made my way towards the sword carefully. As soon as I picked up the sword, her eyes locked onto me and she fired a powerful fireball towards me forcing me to raise a shadow wall. As soon as the shadow wall was dispelled, I saw a red fist making it's way towards my face and I instinctively blocked it with my sword which sent me flying into the air. I used my wings to stabilize myself in the air, only to see the woman flying towards me and I channeled my aura into the sword and slashed at her incoming fist.

At the last moment, she managed to channel more of her aura into her fist, preventing her fingers from getting sliced off but they weren't far from it. Not giving her time to recover, I chased after her but she just hopped backwards dodging my barrage of attacks. This continued for a few minutes until her hand completely healed and then she started counter attacking with fireballs forcing me to either block or dodge.

'What the hell? At this rate, I won't even be able to land a single hit.' I thought as I blocked another fireball.

'I need to get faster somehow. Colin said that my aura could enhance anything so maybe I can enhance my muscles and blood flow.' I thought and the retracted my aura from my sword. I tried to channel my aura into my muscles, bone and blood vessels while also deflecting the imps fireballs.

It turned out channeling aura inside your body was harder than doing it on the outside as I felt a slight headache but I didn't have time to pay attention to the headache as more fireballs rained down on me. The more I retracted my aura into my body, the fiercer the headache tried to split my brain apart but I couldn't stop now. Soon the imp woman realized that my aura wasn't wrapped around my sword anymore and charged at me. I quickly took to the sky while keeping the other part of my brain concentrated on channeling my aura. She was relentlessly attacking me and more than a few fireballs impacted my body, burning my clothes and skin, causing many burn marks to bloom on my body, but soon, my efforts and sufferings bore fruit.

[Congratulations you have unlocked the Trait, Blood Rush.]

'You're dead.' I thought as I glared at the greater imp woman.