Chapter thirty-two - It's a simple matter of compatibility!

The black wings were huge, they looked like a second pair of arms with sharp claws, fused to gigantic black leather wings, their entire surface felt as hard as steel, the tips were sharp as blades, their size was so big that they covered the Locke's body fully, he spread his wings and his figure revealed itself.

Locke was taller, his body had grown another meter, his muscles had grown even more, his whole body was covered by something like a armor made of beautiful black scales, so black that they seemed to absorb the own light, with a blood-red pattern extended by the scales in the area of ​​the abdomen and chest, from the base of his spine a long tail extended, at its tip it had a shiny and sharp black bone blade, his arms were longer and his hands had sharp claws, his legs had changed slightly, his thighs had swollen and his feet were bigger, they were huge sharp claws like that of a dinosaur.

His face was what had changed the most, his human appearance had completely disappeared, in place there was a reptilian head, with four long ebony horns, sharp teeth were in his mouth, his whole figure exuded a sense of power.

In the skies, Rudra clapped condescendingly, he gurgled with pleasure, although he felt that Locke's mana had increased was still far from his.

"So the worm managed to activate its lineage, very good! II don't even feel human blood on you! You will become a grea-"

Before Rudra could finish a fist hit his face with explosive force, throwing him to the ground like a meteor, he fell on the earth creating a small crater, he was bewildered for an instant, unable to understand what had happened.

Locke was in heaven, he had used the momentum of the movement and all his strength to hit Rudra in the face, his movement had been so fast that it had created a sonic explosion, the use of his new wings seemed extremely natural, even more than that his own legs, it was like he was born to fly, he just lacked wings,

Rudra got up from the crater on the ground and touched his face in disbelief, his cheek had swelled from the blow, and a little blood was running down his lip, lightning started to burn in his eyes.

"YOU! YOU DARE-"Before he finished the second blow came. Locke moved with extreme speed, dropping a very powerful ax kick, the 'god' managed to block by crossing his arms, but the force of the kick exploded the top of his cloak.

Locke's attacks did not stop, without saying a single word he began to punch and kick, switching between professional blows, blows with his claws and even blows with his new sharp tail, the blows were executed with unparalleled mastery in his new form, in instead of the expected savagery his blows were full of technique and precision.

Flying totally changed the way Locke fought, he could now create his own foothold, and get momentum for his blows from any direction.

Rudra defended the blows with increasing difficulty, the damage was accumulating, even though his transcendent physique was stronger than Locke's he could not face his fighting techniques. The truth is that Rudra has always depended on his innate constitution of lightning for battle, he never became good at hand-to-hand fighting, Rudra never thought to eliminate this weakness, like many other beings he was proud of his forces and ignored his own weaknesses, he every took the easy way to ger stronger.

Locke's blows are continuous falling on Rudra, his arms were now raw, his body had several wounds, and Locke showed no signs of stopping his attack.

"ENOUGH!!!!!" Rudra screamed, he launched a wave of electricity that swept across the environment, launching Locke from a distance. "Cheeky worm! I'll kill you!"

Rudra gathered his lightning bolts, he formed another trident of thunder, he launched it with all his strength towards Locke.

He expected Locke to swerve, try to defend himself or whatever, he was ready to control the trident to pursue until it pierce through this cursed worm, what he didn't expect was what followed.

Locke didn't deflect, he didn't raise one of his mana shields and he didn't even try to stop the trident that was going towards him, Locke spread his arms, leaving his chest exposed, he received the lightning strikes directly in his front.

"Is he crazy?" Rudra was incredulous.

The energy weapon exploded in Locke's chest, dragging him for a few meters, raising smoke and dirt everywhere.

But when the smoke disappeared, the scene he saw made Rudra go into denial.

Locke was unscathed, there was not even a mark on his chest, he looked at Rudra with a defiant expression, and his dragon face had a visible mocking smile, Locke answered Rudra's attack with his own version, he formed a huge trident of shadows in the air and launched it at his enemy.

Rudra didn't have time to think, he raised a eletrical shield blocking the trident of shadows, the quality of the mana was different and the trident was broken, he was ready to attack again when he realized that Locke was about to punch his shield.

He smiled, his lightning shield was not just a means of defense, it was a powerful form of attack as long as it touched his enemy, and more tham one had already been killed for making that same mistake, what a surprise he had when the black claws passed through the shield without difficulty, entering deeply into his chest, making him spit out a lot of blood.

Rudra didn't understand, the hand on his chest seemed unreal, the blood in his mouth had to be an illusion, his shield hadn't been broken, how the hell had he been hurt?

"Haven't you noticed yet?" Locke's voice came out clear, the same low, masculine voice as his human form, sounded as if Locke spoke from the air and not from his own mouth.

Rudra jumped away, he touched the wound deep in his chest in disbelief, a little more and his heart would have been torn. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything, in fact I don't need to do anything else, you can't defeat me, I'm going to kill you." Locke replied impassively, there were no emotions in his words, it was not a threat or a challenge, it was a simple statement.

"No! No! No! This is impossible! There is no way in an inferior worm like you to defeat me! I am a transcendent! I am superior to you! I am stronger than you!" Rudra gathered a hundred spheres of lightning, they enveloped the entire forest "Die your worm! Heaven's fury!" All the spheres converged on Locke, who stood there, waiting.

The explosion of electricity was intense like an atomic explosion, Rudra climbed far into the sky and observed the damage it caused, a crater with kilometers in circumference had been created, so deep that even there was lava at its bottom.

"It is a pity that I atomized this worm! He would make a great elixir! "

"Really? A elixir? I do not think so" Locke questioned.

Rudra turned in disbelief, Locke was flying right behind him with his arms crossed, he was watching the crater. "A lot of damage you did, oldrag."

"Did you dodge?" Rudra questioned angrily.

"Dodge? Why should I? I already told you, I don't need to do anything!" Locke charged at Rudra, he spun in the air using his wings, his tail hit Rudra in the face like a whip, leaving a deep cut that ran from his right eye to his mouth. Rudra held his face in anger, he spat a golden lightning out of his mouth, hitting Locke's body, he kept his energy for a while, Locke was in the sky being electrocuted, his body was trembling in the air.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAH!" Locke pretended to shout, but started to laugh in the middle of the process.

"What? This is impossible! How can you resist my divine lightning strike?"

Locke straightened up in the air, his wings spread wide. "You really don't understand, do you? You are stronger than me, you have more mana than me, your power is greater than mine and your resistance is greater than mine, however, it is impossible for you to beat me, there is no way for you to defeat me more, it's a simple matter of compatibility!" Locke stretched condescendingly in the air. "If there is one thing you must regret, it was letting me evolve, but I thank you! I don't know if I would get what I did in another situation, so I'm going to finish you off at once!"

Rudra was still confused, Locke moved to him with agility, resuming his beating. Rudra was incredibly resilient and Locke felt it would take him a while to break up with the old man.

Rudra screamed, he performed another of his most powerful arts, lightning condensed in golden electrical armor on his body, but Locke didn't care, 'More stubborn than a mule and more stupid than a donkey' he thought, he kept punching and attacking, his blows going through the Rudra's defense easily and the damage was piling up.

What Rudra didn't realize was something Locke gained during his evolution, Locke had consumed only the flesh of the Raijūs, creatures with the inherent power of lightning, he had also used a 'shortcut' and swallowed each of they dragon pearls, and although their quality was not the best, the quantity was quite large. Locke paid the price for his bet and felt absurd pain during the process, but his dragon body and black mana absorbed all that lightning mana.

What effects did this have on Locke? His body endured an aggressive and dangerous mana, his body got used to that mana, his body made that mana food.

When Locke evolved he gained a lot of new abilities, born out of the changes in his body, but an ability was created due to the circumstances of his evolution.

Tia had taught him that by absorbing one of the dragon pearls from one of the Raijūs, he could awaken his aptitude for lightning, absorbing all those pearls the way he did, coupled with the flesh of the Raijūs he ate made Locke go beyond a simple aptitude, it's culminated in the birth of an absurd skill.

[Ability: Electric Absorption - All damage caused by mana of the electrical type or natural electricity is nullified, the mana is automatically absorbed and recovers the mana of the wearer]

Even Tia, inside Locke's mind, commented on how stolen this ability was, and for the first time Locke felt lucky.

Now, what did that mean for Rudra? Rudra was stronger than Locke for sure, but he was a one-trick magician, apart from his lightning he was completely useless in everything else, his strength was greater than Locke's but he had no physical fighting skills, he was an amateur about fighting with his fists, and Locke took advantage of that.

Even though Rudra's vitality was enormous, Locke continued to attack the old man, filling his body with wounds, and the old man, generously, continued to supply his mana.

"How? HOW?" Rudra screamed, his body was covered with wounds, he still hadn't been able to understand.

"You are really stupid, old man! Didn't you understand even after all this time?" Locke snorted.

'Maybe he's getting senile!' Tia joked, inside Locke's mind. 'Anyway, get rid of this old fool soon! He has to pay for destroying my beautiful little body!'

"Yes ma'am, haooy to oblige!" Locke launched himself with extreme speed, thrusting both claws deep into Rudra's shoulders, he got his face close to Rudra's face. "Let me test this new skill old man! Try not to die!" Locke opened his mouth.

A blast of pure concentrated black mana came out of Locke's mouth, a legitimate dragon breath, hitting Rudra right in the face. When Locke finished the skin on Rudra's face was gone, his bones and facial muscles were showing, and the black mana was gnawing deeper and deeper.

Rudra pushed Locke away, the old bastard was still alive, 'Transcendents were really hard to kill' Locke thought, 'Doesn't that make them the ultimate's punch bags?' Tia replied.

Rudra's wounds did not heal in the meantime, it seemed that the black mana, which previously had a certain effect on delaying his healing, had become even more potent with Locke's evolution. Rudra wanted to scream at Locke's audacity, but his tongue had been vaporized in the attack, 'How dare you! How dare you!' He thought, his body swelled up like a balloon, and his human form began to disappear, bluish scales grew in his skin and his form began to elongate, he became a huge snake-like dragon.

'There is! I knew it! This guy is not a god! It's just a mutated sky dragon! 'Tia shouted in Locke's mind.

Rudra roared and opened his mouth, his face and body had many wounds, but they were smaller than those of his human form, he gave Locke a sample of his own breath, a torrent of golden lightning.

Locke sighed, an old dog can't really learn new tricks. The torrent of lightning sent him far, but it didn't hurt him, the electric energy rushed through his cells, rourish them, like a full-body meal, when Rudra's breath was over Locke was better than before.

"Thanks old snake! But it's time to end this!" Locke attacked Rudra's body, his larger size only made him a bigger target, his resistance may have increased because of his scales, but Locke worked around the problem by attacking the open wounds, increasing the damage in them.

Rudra started to get desperate, he finally realized that his reliable lightning bolts, the weapons he always used and led him to become a god in his little world were useless against this boy, he tried to bite the boy with his huge mouth, tried to tears him in his claws, but the boy was too quick and evasive, and continued to undermine his body without difficulty, a sense of dread was building in Rudra's heart.

'Fear? Am I afraid of being in a lower rank? This is impossible!' Rudra mentally shouted, 'I'm going to end this worm now!'

There was only one more weapon that Rudra could use, he was not an expert on it and generally used it only on the weak, but if he bought enough time he could kill this damn boy. Rudra used a mental attack.

To call it a mental attack was a bit of an exaggeration, it was nothing more than a powerful mental cry executed by a powerful life form in the mind of an inferior life form, it could not kill directly, but it could make them lose consciousness for a time.

Locke did not lose consciousness, but he paused for a moment holding his aching head. Rudra took the chance and snapped at Locke.

His teeth were ready to close and destroy the worm, he was so excited that he failed to notice Locke's smile.

A few seconds before the teeth closed on him Locke opened his mouth, he released his black dragon breath in the direction of Rudra's unprotected palate.

The blast did a massive damage, creating a huge explosion of black energy in Rudra's mouth, pulling out some of his teeth and popping part of his skull, one of his eyes was destroyed, the sky dragon had never been so hurt, not even once, even when he faced the devil, his wounds are not this serious.

Rudra fell from the sky, his body crashing against the ground, his wounds did not heal and his blood flowed, he could feel his life are in danger.

'I'm going to die!' He mentally shouted to himself 'I'm going to die! I need to get away from this ... this monster!' Rudra made a sign with his little dragon claws, a golden seal formed in the air, opening a gate, he started flying towards the gate, trying to escape as far as possible.

"Do you really think you can escape?"