Chapter 1510: Not skilled enough
As the flames licked at his skin and the air grew thick with the acrid scent of burning, Rain knew that he faced a dire predicament. Trapped within the grasp of the powerful hands, his options dwindled with each passing moment, leaving him with little recourse but to summon every ounce of his strength and willpower in a desperate bid for survival.
Rain didn’t want to use Magic Boost since it consumed too much mana, but he was forced to use it at that moment as well. After that, he punched his hands and stopped the attack while propelling himself in the opposite direction.
Although he tried to escape through one of the breaches, the hands closed them, and then Rain was forced to punch one of them to create a hole... he failed, though. There was too much energy, and the hand was too thick.
"Shit..." Rain said.
His last option was to propel himself in another direction and try to escape, but Rain eventually saw himself surrounded by darkness... the encirclement was completed, and the temperature began to increase as the hands closed in even more.
"She can’t see this... so it might work," Rain thought.
Arel’s surprise was palpable as she sensed Rain’s presence amidst the onslaught of her colossal hands. Despite her expectations, his presence did not grow weaker in the face of the intense heat and pressure surrounding him. Instead, he remained steadfast and resolute, his presence undiminished by the inferno that threatened to engulf him.
Realizing that her attempts to subdue Rain had backfired, Arel halted the movements of her hands, momentarily ceasing their advance in a bid to reassess the situation. In doing so, she inadvertently granted Rain a precious opportunity, a momentary reprieve in which he could gather his thoughts and formulate a plan of action.
As the flames receded ever so slightly, Rain seized upon the opening, his mind racing with possibilities. Though the odds were still stacked against him, he knew that he could not afford to waste this chance.
All of a sudden, the hands began to tremble violently, and eventually, they moved enough to create some holes in their formation.... Nothing escaped from them, but eventually, the hands were pushed away, and their formation was broken.
While a bit confused, Arel moved the hands a way and soon found Rain... pretty much all of his skin bad been burned and while it was healing fast, he looked like a monster... the only parts that looked fine were his fists... dark ice was covering them in the shape of gloves. She wondered why he returned to use them again, and now they resisted these many attacks.
"You are stubborn, if anything. You used the chance to absorb a lot of energy to create that. I can also feel Lok’s power has been activated. So you compressed the dark ice to pull this off?"