Chapter 36: Zeth vs Raider and Grode — An Elevating Battle!

Chapter 36: Zeth vs Raider and Grode — An Elevating Battle!

Zeth faces off against Grode and Raider!

“Say goodbye to my current life? Don’t make me laugh. Acting tough doesn’t make you tough,” Zeth says, mocking them.

“Maybe we should introduce ourselves. My name is Raider.”

“And my name is Grode.”

Raider points directly at Zeth. “If you don’t want to die, I suggest you surrender now and become our captive. We are a group of poachers after all.”

Zeth grits his teeth. “No, it’s the opposite actually! Your group better stop killing people and leave or you will be in for a beating!”

“Don’t worry, boy,” Raider says with a sly smile. “If it makes you feel better, we don’t intend to kill any more civilians. We are just going to round up as many Eagle Clan members as we can and take them to the Hawk Clan.”

“The Hawk Clan!? I should have figured…!” Zeth growls.

Grode laughs. “Well, you certainly don’t have time to worry about them.” He charges toward Zeth, who stands still with a scowl etched on his face.

Zeth gut-punches Grode with his magic-charged fist, causing Grode to cough up blood.

Grode snarls, “Grr! Why you little—!” before Zeth interrupts him by grabbing his arm and throwing him at Raider, who jumps over Grode’s flying body. Grode crashes into a dumpster, dinting it.

“Be careful, you idiot!” Raider yells. “This boy clearly is not a chump!”

Wiping blood from his face, Grode replies, “I see that now.” He stands up begins rushing toward Zeth once again, shouting, “This time, I will use my Pound Magic!”

He pounds the ground with both fists, causing shock waves of magic energy to blast forward.

Too fast for him to react, Zeth takes the full hit from the shockwaves, knocking him back.

While Zeth is still stunned, Raider moves in and uses a magic-powered kick to send him flying in a different direction.

“Time for a tag-team move!” Raider confidently shouts, using his magic-powered kick to send Grode flying at Zeth, allowing him to pound Zeth with his fists directly. The hit causes Zeth to smash into the ground, hitting with enough force to crack a small section into a small crater.

Zeth stands up, his clothes torn and his body bleeding where he was hit.

He pants as he says, “So you two are pretty tough when you work together. I see that now. Time to try a new technique.”

He clenches his hands as if grasping something. Black chains with demonic symbols form within his grasp. “Demon Chains!”

He slings one of the chains around Raider’s right leg and pulls him in.

“What the…!” Raider shouts as he’s reeled in, allowing Zeth to punch him in the face. He winces in pain as Zeth slings him back.

Zeth uses his other chain to wrap around a street lamp and retracts it, allowing him to swing straight toward Grode. He charges magic energy into his knee and slams it into Grode’s chin, knocking him on his back as he screams in pain.

Zeth swings back and lets go of the street lamp, landing on his feet.

“I would say that worked out well, and there is more where that came from,” Zeth declares.

“He is even stronger than I thought!” Raider shouts. “We have no choice but to go all out! It is time to unleash my magic! Feel the power of my Insect Magic!”

Zeth raises an eyebrow. “Insect Magic? That doesn’t sound terrifying.”

Raider smiles with confidence. “Maybe it doesn’t sound terrifying, but it is. Now, Mosquitoes Unleashed!”

100 mosquitoes magically form all around him, already in flight, and they are larger than natural mosquitoes.

“They will all suck your blood until there is none left!” Raider declares. “Go, my mosquitoes, after him!”

The mosquitoes home in on Zeth as he looks up, slinging his chains toward a high window on the tall building next to him. The chains break a window and stick in the room, allowing him to ascend, and barely avoiding the mosquitoes. He goes all the way up to the broken window and looks down at the mosquitoes as he charges magic energy in his hand left hand.

“Star Shine Blast!”

He releases the Star Shine Blast down toward the mosquitoes, exploding as soon as hits one of them, catching them all in the blast and destroying them.

“You bastard…” Raider mutters as he magically creates three human-sized giant spiders in front of him, each one forming from within a sphere of magic energy that fades away afterward. They eye Zeth hungrily.

“I hate to tell you this, but spiders are not insects,” Zeth teases. “They’re arachnids.”

“Shut it!” Raider shouts before focusing on his spiders. “We will go into the buildings to go after him! Make sure he doesn’t get away!”

The three spiders begin climbing the building, heading up to the high floor that Zeth currently stands in.

“Oh great,” Zeth mumbles.

Not waiting for the spiders to reach him, he slings his other chain to the building across from the one he is in and swings over to it, clinging to the wall on about floor 15.

He unleashes a Star Shine Blast at the spiders. Two of the spiders manage to jump off the building and land on the one he is on, but one of the spiders gets hit by the blast and falls to the ground dead.

“At least I got one of them.”

He uses his chains to drop down five floors, where he uses a magic-powered kick against one of the spiders, landing a direct hit. Some of its guts spew out but it is still alive and stays attached to the building.

“Seriously? Your more durable than you look.”

The spider attacks Zeth with its legs, one of which pierces Zeth’s lower leg. After the spider removes its leg, Zeth screams in pain as a green liquid oozes from the wound.

“What is this?! I thought spiders injected venom with their fangs!”

The other spider jumps on Zeth, and they both go falling down to the ground, with Zeth still in pain. The spider pins down both his arms and legs and salivates, ready to eat him.

“Star Light Shield!!” he screams.

The bright magic shield forms around him, blinding the spider and weakening its grip.

He quickly forms a handful of Star Shards in his hands, breaking free of the spider’s legs and using the shards to shred its eyes. He fully breaks free and then kicks the spider back into the other one, forming and releasing a Star Shine Blast that hits both spiders. Neither survives the explosion.

Zeth starts breathing harder and looks down at the wound oozing green liquid. “Not the greatest situation I’ve been in, I must say.”

His eyes widen as he tries to avoid an attack from above, noticing too late. Raider pierces his back with a stinger finger, causing him to scream in pain again.

Raider jumps back and smirks. “I see this is starting to become harder for you. The spider’s acid is coming from your leg wound and my wasp venom is in your back”

“Wonderful…” Zeth mutters.

Still smirking, Raider says, “Now you won’t be able to fight at full strength. Come, Grode. It’s time to finish him.”

“Right, Raider. I will pound him into dust,” Grode says eagerly.

Gritting his teeth, Zeth states, “It’s time for my ultimate new ability, Raging Star Mode.”

Zeth is in trouble! Can he overcome the acid and venom to defeat the two poachers?!

Chapter 36 END

To be Continued in Chapter 37: Raging Star Mode