The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7186

Chapter 7186 Sputtering Flames

The Withering Thrust was not a pure darkness spear technique.

It also involved concepts such as death, decay, wood and so on. It was a relatively more complicated technique to pull off for a pure wielder of darkness.

Fortunately, Ves had gained an artificial foundation in the withering curse from an enlightenment fruit, so he happened to be able to meet these troublesome requirements.

This was why the Withering Thrust was the most suitable technique for him and the Dark Apostle despite being way more complicated than many other techniques.

The Withering Thrust that the Dark Apostle just pulled off relied heavily on the Dark Tooth and Blinky to gain its power and structure.

Both of them constituted rather potent sources of power, so the threat posed by the Withering Thrust immediately caused alarm bells to ring in the Fiery Axe's mind!

Unfortunately, she was already fully committed to attacking. She had the opportunity to retreat sooner, but instead she chose to stay and wear down her opponent's spatial barrier as soon as possible.

Since this was the case, she may as well stick her chosen direction to the end!

"SHATTER!"

The burning spatial barrier finally couldn't withstand the abuse any longer and shattered after the Fiery Axe landed another blow!

However, the Dark Apostle could no longer be stopped!

Before the Fiery Axe could land another attack, the Dark Tooth shot forward like a predator pouncing on its prey.

The ominous dark spear first struck the spatial barrier!

It became very clear that defense was not the Fiery Axe's best trait. She had passed over the decision to integrate phasewater organs that could upgrade her first line of defense multiple times.

That said, that was normally not a terrible decision because the most basic spatial barriers were already fairly strong from the onset.

It should easily be able to resist a single blow, even if it came from a transphasic hyper weapon!

Yet this was not a normal weapon. The Dark Tooth was not only a D-arm, but its wielder executed a powerful technique that massively amplified its damage potentia!

Although the spear did not collide against the spatial barrier with an overwhelming amount of force, its corrosive and destructive energies wore down the energy defense so much that it broke in less than a second!

"THAT SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE!"

The Fiery Axe became completely astonished by the fact that the Dark Tooth was able to puncture through her spatial barrier in a single blow!

Not only that, but it still had enough force left over to piece through her raiment and make a shallow cut into her chest cavity!

The Fiery Axe let out a bestial roar and immediately used her weapon to slap away the spear before it could be pushed any deeper!

"IT HURTS!"

The woman formerly known as Fasia Meledor had always prided herself on her toughness and her ability to endure hardships.

Yet the pain inflicted by a shallow puncture wound from a dark spear inflicted more pain than she had suffered in the past!

When the Fiery Axe briefly lowered her head to inspect the rather small and unassuming wound, she grew pensive when she saw that a high concentration of darkness energy had infected her injury.

Her companion spirit's flames were desperately trying to douse this dark infection.

While the fire was making limited progress in excising the darkness, it proved to be incredibly persistent.

It did not help that there was a clear gap between the two energies.

The darkness energy and other negative energies formed the structure of a modified withering curse.

It continually sapped the Fiery Axe's energy. The flesh around the stab wound aged at a rapid rate. The biological cells affected by this dark infection would not survive longer than two days.

The best way to prevent this from happening was to counter or neutralize the threat.

"My fire… shall cleanse my flesh!"

This was what the Fiery Axe had been doing on instinct already.

More and more fire energy concentrated on her wound, however none offered any salvation.

The compromised cells withered with every passing second. The power of darkness drained them of all of their vitality, strength and purpose. The cells that offered the weakest resistance succumbed first.

They did not die completely. They weakened until they lost almost all of their original functions.

In exchange, they gained the power to spread their withering corruption.

The affected cells turned black before turning against the body that spawned them in the first place!

A part of the Fiery Axe grew horrified when she discovered that she was being attacked by her own flesh!

The withering curse continued to spread like a slow-moving wildfire. Her injury would continue to expand and debilitate her further. It would be especially alarming if the corruption spread to one of her nearby phasewater organs!

She could not allow that to happen!

The Fiery Axe gritted her teeth. She immediately came up with a reckless and undoubtedly painful idea.

A normal person would have hemmed and hawed for a while before making the decision.

She did not waste any time! From the moment she thought it was viable, she instantly made her move!

She raised her axe before pressing its burning blade right against her wound at her chest!

The Fiery Axe screamed in pain as she forcibly burned away the withered and corrupted flesh!

Though her reckless move could not go deep enough to affect the blackened cells that were buried deeper in her body, she successfully neutralized the corruption that had settled closer to the exterior of her true body!

In an instant, she had burned away most of the infection, choosing to inflict immediate damage to her true body in order to spare herself from greater debilitation!

She let out another roar!

"I AM THE AXE THAT BRINGS FIRE! I AM THE CONFLAGRATION THAT BURNS PLANETS! I FEAR NO PAIN! FIRE IS MY ALLY! THE DARKNESS SHALL FLEE BEFORE THE HEAT!"

Her words centered her thoughts and enabled her to pull through her pain. She successfully dealt with her crisis before lifting her axe with slightly greater difficulty than before.

Her grin grew wider as she truly felt challenged by the Dark Apostle for the first time since they commenced this duel.

"THIS IS ROUND 2!"

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