While Jason eyed the Ginormous Deepsea Scia, the Mewi reinforcements were currently assessing the situation and strength of the opponents.
They were already facing one opponent each, and it was only now that Jason noticed that the Mewi were way more in number than the Oceanfolk Elite, almost double them!
Taking a deep breath, Jason couldn't help but sigh in relief because the Mewi didn't have to face a numerical disadvantage in this battle that was likely to decide their race's survival or extinction.
With that in mind, they weren't pressured owing to the advantages they had, and even Jason could calmly face the Ginormous Deepsea Scia.
However, at the same time, his entire body was currently injured, and it felt like every single inch of it was hurting. Even his mana veins and mana core were sore and felt like they were burning.
Fortunately, by manifesting Solaris in his body, he could lessen the pain.
The black flame released a cooling sensation owing to the transmutation it underwent due to the fusion he and Artemis were still having.
As such, his body was cooling down while recuperating slowly. Using the moonlight affinity to cover his entire body with it, Jason felt that the deep cuts on his body were quickly healing, and even his mana veins and core were slowly but steadily healing.
This was great, but before he knew it, the Ginormous Deepsea Scia had already begun to move. In minutes, it appeared in front of him, using a kind of speed it hadn't reached before.
Because its speed was higher than before, Jason could barely react as his Emperor Eyes and foresight blessing had perceived the Ginormous Deepsea Scia's movement the moment it happened!
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Yet, given the fact that his speed was slower since the silver full moon disappeared, Jason could barely exert the Floating Sky movement technique at the Perfect mastery.
Additionally, he released a large amount of excessive mana coursing through his body, further increasing his body's strength and movement speed.
After that, he was able to reach a decent speed, allowing him to move nearly as fast as the Ginormous Deepsea Scia.
Fortunately, its movements were quite simple, giving Jason the opportunity to evade the attacks it issued even though it was faster.
The simplicity of its movements was caused by its bulky, rigid body that prevented the Ginormous Deepsea Scia from using any complex movements that required great agility and flexibility.
Thus, Jason had a great advantage over the Oceanfolk Elite he was facing, his flexibility, agility, and the fact that he could foretell his opponent's simple attacks.
Given the advantages, he had a good chance of defeating the Ginormous Deepsea Scia, but it was not as easy as it looked.
Though he appeared to be perfectly fine on the outside, using the Floating Sky movement technique while circulating mana through his body was already enough to cause him to feel extreme pain.
This was not something he could take lightly, even less because he felt that his body began to cramp the moment he wanted to use more mana.
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In the end, this also included a part of the mana veins that were directly connected to his Emperor Eyes. It allowed him to continue circulating mana into his eyes, while the rest of his body groaned just at the thought of circulating more mana through it.
Unfortunately, Jason couldn't really listen to his body's pleas to rest because the Ginormous Deepsea Scia was a beast that even Brell would be unable to defeat.
At least that was Jason's opinion of their combat prowess, even after a fleeting glance towards Brell showed him how the Grand tribe chief was overwhelming the Oceanfolk Elite.
Right now, he was just trying to stall in order to allow the Mewi to defeat the Oceanfolk Elite using their numerical advantage.
However, that didn't seem to be as easy as Jason had hoped for.
Instead, the two Elite were much stronger than the rest and didn't have any issues fighting and even overwhelming their opponents.
The three Mewi were struggling against the Elite whose strength seemed to be almost on par with the Ginormous Deepsea Scia.
Thus, Jason knew that he couldn't rely on the combat prowess of the Mewi because only Brell seemed to be extraordinarily strong amongst the present fighters of the Mewi race.
However, this didn't mean that the others were weak because that was definitely not the case!
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})With that in mind, he forced himself to focus on supplying his Emperor Eyes with more mana so that he could initiate a killing blow without the need to damage, or even worse, destroy his mana veins.
He often had to focus on not overdoing it, and there had already been quite a few occasions in which his mana veins had been on the brink of destruction.
Because of that, he knew when he should be careful and when he could fight without restricting himself.
Unfortunately, his current situation demanded from him to be careful. It was mostly owing to the fact that he had fused with Artemis too often today.
Additionally, he had also frequently switched between Artemis and then Petri to occupy his mana core too often in short intervals.
This had been a necessity in order to release the highest combat prowess during each situation, but at the same time, frequent switches with his soulbonds occupying his mana core had taken a toll on his body. Manifesting a few body parts before his soulbond was suddenly replaced with a different one, only for the same procedure to repeat itself multiple times had left him exhausted.
Owing to this, Jason had to be careful right now, even more so because the Ginormous Deepsea Scia was trying to overwhelm and quickly defeat him, thereby ending his life.
However, Jason wouldn't allow this, which made him exceed his limits to a degree to which he was still able to avoid sustaining serious injuries.
Thus, he used small means to attack such as a thin layer of a frozen flame enveloping Byakur, strengthening the sword tremendously.
It was followed by two pillars of ice that were erected out of the ground without prior warning.
Their position was perfectly calculated to target the spot at which the Ginormous Deepsea Scia was landing.
Considering the fact that its skin should be the strongest too, Jason had used a large amount of mana to erect the spiked ice pillars that were further strengthened by the moonlight affinity.
Owing to the enhancements, the ice pillars became strong enough to endure the weight of more than a ton.
This strength was more than enough to keep the pillars firm and steady.
Thus, the moment the Ginormous Deepsea Scia's feet stepped on them, its feet were pierced by the pillars it stepped on.
A moment later, the freezing property of his ice affinity that was further strengthened by the moonlight affinity began to work.
Yet, Jason was not done because he brandished Byakur towards the Ginormous Deepsea Scia the moment it stepped on the ice pillars.
At first, the Deepsea Scia was not affected by the ice pillars, but the moment Byakur was only half a meter away from it, this changed.
However, even more important than that was the fact that Jason noticed that his fusion with Artemis would end at any moment!
As such, he used his remaining mana in two ways.
First, the frozen flame enveloping Byakur erupted, increasing in size while the ice pillars that were splattered with fresh, warm blood, continued to grow, enlarging the wound in the Ginormous Deepsea Scia's feet.
While the ice pillars distracted the Deepsea Scia that was trying to save its feet from getting sliced, Jason used the opportunity to strike.
As such, Byakur sliced through the Ginormous Deepsea Scia's chest only for Solaris' to enter its body, devouring it from the inside!
