Chapter 354: Blood And Snow - Fading
As the blast pushed Kainur away, Kir switched Kangetsu Dar into repulsor mode and fired, holding the rifle in one hand as he did his best to ignore his broken arm.
Each shot sent the Duke of Pride further away from the city and toward the battlefield to the south.
Below, he sensed as a massive mana signature faded out. He could feel that Kordia was close to it, but not whether he or someone else was the fading source. He wanted to look, but he kept his eyes on Kainur even so. Firing, adjusting his aim as he charged the next shot with mana, then firing again.
Kainur fired off spells that kept going wide because of how Kir timed his shots, frustration and annoyance clear on his darkness-shrouded face as he failed to get spell after spell in between shots.
Even though Kir wasn’t damaging his opponent at all, he was pushing him further and further away from usable mana sources - he hoped.
More worrisome was that Kainur was beginning to figure out that the effect coming from Kir’s gun was not a thing of magic, but of magic creating a physical force that continued without it. The timing needed to keep pushing him back left little room for going on a true offensive, so if he figured it out, Kir needed to be ready to dodge.
The moment came too soon.
With a final shot, Kir put Kainur above the camp made for the demons, but his next shot seemed only to ripple Kainur’s form as it phased through him.
A moment later, the Duke fired off a spell that would have hit Kir dead-on if not for his shielding.
"A petty, weak trick, metatron," Kainur snarled. "Where is the might that Heaven and Hell once feared? Where are the Goetic arts thine father prizes so?" He cast spell after spell, feeling out Kir’s defenses, but was forced to pause to use the phasing trick that let him ignore Kangetsu’s impulse rounds.
"Tell more about them and maybe I’ll show you," Kir replied, delocalizing the source of a spell to make true lightning in order to distract Kainur as he switched over to Kangetsu’s mana bolt rounds.