Chapter 16:

Chapter 16: Kurt's Strategy

Beyond The Stars


Chapter 16: Kurt’s Strategy

Back to Kurt’s battle against Smog.

Smog, after suffering several burns from Kurt’s Blazing Aura Eruption attack, glares at Kurt with murderous intent.

“You will pay dearly for that, I promise…” Smog states.

Kurt stares at the parts of Smog’s body that have been burned by his attack. He notices that the burns have peeled off Smog’s scales where the attack had hit him.

Kurt thinks to himself, “Perhaps his skin under the scales is soft and can be damaged even by my weaker attacks?”

Smog growls, his patience growing thin. “I have had enough of you. Let’s finish this.”

Smog makes the first move, rolling into a ball to engage faster. As he gets closer, Kurt uses his aura whips to lift the boulder in front of him, causing Smog to go into the air.

Smog unrolls midair and thrusts his large claw downward at a diagonal angle, landing a hit on Kurt’s torso and knocking him backwards.

Kurt urgently thinks, “I can’t keep this fight up for much longer! I need a plan badly!”

Trying to come up with a plan, he runs in the opposite direction.

Kurt thinks, “I need to exploit those burned areas somehow, but they are too small.”

“Not that trick again,” Smog says as he rolls into a ball and pursues.

Kurt jumps high, landing on a very large boulder, then jumps down lower on its other side. Smog unrolls as he bounces over the boulder.

Kurt charges his magic while shouting, “Rapid Whips!”

A barrage of weak aura whips tries to attack Smog’s new weak spots. A few do land perfect hits, causing Smog to wince in pain.

“You’ll pay for that!” Smog yells.

Thrusting his elbow forward, Smog jumps off the boulder and tries to ram Kurt, but Kurt does not stick around. He runs away as fast as he can.

Kurt urgently thinks, “What’s my next move?!”

As he runs, he sees the edge of a cliff high up that looks weak, cracks scattered throughout it. But that’s not all. It also has giant boulders that would fall off if the cliff edge was destroyed.

Kurt thinks, “That’s it!”

He stops under the cliff and turns around to face Smog, who is still pursuing him.

Smog grins as he runs. “Heh. I can already tell what your plan is. You plan to smash me with those boulders. Even if you can get me under it. They won’t be enough to kill me.”

Kurt continues thinking. “This is going to be risky. I have only one shot at this!”

Rather than standing still, Kurt puts his plan into action by running straight for Smog.

Smog opens his eyes slightly more but then continues grinning. “Finally out of tricks? How foolish can you be to try and physically attack me?”

As Kurt closes in, he jumps over Smog, turns around, and charges up a flame aura in his right arm.

With fiery determination, Kurt screams, “I’m not as foolish as you think! Take this! Max Flame Aura Punch!”

The fire of his right arm’s aura burns bright and intense as he smashes his fist straight into Smog’s face, blasting him with intense flames that greatly damage him.

The power of the flaming punch is too much for Smog. He screams in pain. “Gaaahhh!!!”

“Have some more!!” Kurt screams as he punches Smog with another Flame Aura Punch in the abdomen, this one not at full power, knocking him onto the spot under the cliff. His entire head and abdomen are completely bare and vulnerable, with all the peeled-off scales missing throughout his head and abdomen.

Kurt looks up at the weak cliff edge, lined with giant boulders ready to fall should it break.

Kurt shouts, “Mega Aura Whip!”

The large aura appendage launches out from his body’s aura and slams into the cliff edge, destroying it. With nothing holding them up anymore, the massive boulders begin to fall, and Smog is lying exactly where they will land.

“Nooooo!!!!” Smog screams as his eyes open as wide as they possibly can, looking up at the falling boulders.

Unable to escape, the boulders crush him until his body is no longer visible.

Kurt smiles victoriously. “And that is why you shouldn’t underestimate humans!”

He sits down, panting heavily with exhaustion.

“Funny thing is that I wouldn’t be able to do that again. I used all my remaining magic energy doing that. But it shouldn’t matter. With that many exposed weak points, there is no way he survived that.”

Not far behind Kurt, however, stands the imp demon, smiling wickedly, eyeing Kurt as prey.

Kurt has managed to defeat Smog. What lies behind the imp’s wicked smile?

Chapter 16 END

To Be Continued in Chapter 17: Joe’s Violent Weather