"The barrier has a limited range, and while it decreases the effects of active spells on me, it won't take much time to nullify them…" Uvish thought. "I need a bigger body that is larger than the barrier and will grant me some advantage…"
When Billy stopped rolling on the ground, he suddenly saw a flash of light in the place where Uvish was supposed to be. Much to no one's surprise, he used Shapeshifting and assumed the shape of a red dragon. Still, it wasn't a regular fire dragon. The creature's body was red because of the large amounts of blood in it. The monster also had some crazy fangs, and its name sure was fitting.
Uvish - Vampiric Dragon - Lv 1136 - 339.000/ 6.750.000 EXP
HP: 7126/ 7126 + ????
MP: 19110/ 19110 + ????
SP: 3975/ 3975 + ????
Strength: 579 + 1565 + ????
Speed: 463 + 1565 + ????
Magic: 4308 + 3670 + ????
Endurance: 242 + 1565 + ????
Dexterity: 219 + 555 + ????
Status Points: 700
"A smaller body grants us more speed and mobility, but a bigger one grants us more weight, less chance to miss an attack, and that also counters my barrier…" Billy thought.
Billy hated to admit that, but with his current mana, that kind of trick was the best to use against him… Regardless, Uvish began to fly toward him at supersonic speeds and then used Fire Breath. The attack immediately turned into lava on the ground that touched it. Even when he was a few kilometers away, Billy could feel the heat, so the transformation seemed to improve the enemy's fire skills.
"I need to recover more mana," Billy thought as he watched the whole area become a sea of flames.
Billy jumped, and with all his might, he kicked the air to move toward Uvish, the enemy pointed its Fire Breath toward him, and Billy didn't dodge the attack. He just moved his hands toward it.
One of the characteristics of a vampire dragon was that it could receive the vitality of the enemy. At the same time, it caused damage, be it physical or magical. While he felt that, Uvish also noticed that Billy's mana was growing.
Without any other choice, he stopped the attack and then tried to slash Billy's body in two. He blocked the attack with his arms, and while they got to cut a bit, he still managed to steal some mana from the enemy. For the time being, that was the best thing he could do.
"What is wrong? Can't you do anything with your own energy?" Uvish asked while he used the claws to attack.
"That is rich coming from a guy who stole my body to get my techniques and has the mana of an entire world to use…" Billy said.
Uvish got pissed and then attacked with more anger, Billy has pushed away while some blood dripped from his arms, and some massive fissures appeared on the ground in the shape of the enemy's claws. Billy forgot that, but dragons get stronger with their anger… a lot stronger…
Uvish attacked with his claws even from a distance, and the shockwaves were strong enough to cut him as well… he could increase his endurance and defensive power, but he would instead not use that so often since it drains too much stamina.
"We need to help," The time spirit said.
"No… it isn't necessary," Billy said.
While Billy had already used all the tricks that he had prepared for the fight, he still was far from giving up or losing. Against that jackass, Billy didn't want to be helped… Regardless, he took a deep breath when the enemy attacked again. At the last moment, Billy increased his speed and then attacked Uvish. Before the enemy could do anything, Billy suddenly attacked his side after turning his right hand into ethereal form and then pierced the flesh before making its return to normal and pushing everything back.
If compared to his body, it was like Uvish just stepped into a nail… that wouldn't kill him, but the pain surely annoyed the heck out of him. With his tail, Uvish tried to strike Billy, but he just jumped to dodge the attack and then fired an ice spear toward the wound on the enemy's body, followed by a lightning bolt.
It was pretty weird for Billy to suddenly use basic spells like that when the fight until now has been pretty much a show of crazy skills and techniques that no one else could use. Still, the combination had been pretty effective since it paralyzed the enemy for a split of a second. Billy could only see that as an absolute win.
Uvish glared at Billy in annoyance, but that only made him feel refreshed. Uvish suddenly opened its mouth to use Fire Breath again, but Billy had been waiting for that. He suddenly made a lot of dust emerge from the ground and then surround the enemy. When Uvish opened his mouth, he also surrounded him with earth walls… in the last moment, a massive explosion happened inside.
"Behold my chemical powers, bitch," Billy said.
It seemed that Uvish had no basic knowledge of chemistry, so he suffered a lot of damage from the explosion, mental and physical damage since he truly was astonished. It has been a while since Billy managed to get an enemy with their pants down like that, but it was as fun as ever.
"Let's buy some time with this kind of strategy…" Billy thought.
Uvish returned to his old strategy of using long ranged physical attacks since he had no idea what had happened before, and he wanted to learn about it before he fell for a similar trick. Still, he didn't find any clue. While the enemy was thinking about that, Billy suddenly used his Absolute Counter, and then one of the claw shockwaves was sent back at the enemy. When Uvish suddenly got hit by the counter, and his face got cut and began to bleed, he flinched, and then Billy approached.
