One Down

"Everfrost Claws"

The runes for the spell glowed and melted into the world.

Bundles of mana gathered on Kayn's four hands, sharp protrusions of claws made of ice hugged Kayn's claws, just like his ice claw spell.

But unlike the ordinary spell, another layer of ice appeared from Kayn's arm.

At a glance, it seemed like a partial ice armor, but there were things that weren't there before.

Runes emerged on the surface of the armor, covering all four partial armor on Kayn's hands. 

Kayn's hands trembled, itching to have another go with the type of demon that had repeatedly made him twitch his brows in frustration.

The second the spell finished manifesting, Kayn kicked the ground and shot past the elevated ground, his eyes staring intently at the demon with the brown skin.

The wind demon had never seen the spell that Kayn currently used, but his past experience told him that anything the ice demon had used was never something that wouldn't endanger his life.

Now, Kayn was charging towards the weakened earth demon with eyes that asked for the death of whatever they were looking at.

To prevent their fighting power from dwindling even further, rendering them even more powerless against the ice demon, the wind demon quickly cast the wind blades and sent them towards the ice demon.

Kayn felt the invisible wind blades coming to try and cut him for the dozen times.

Before his new spell, Kayn would have needed to dodge or cast a spell to send the wind blades away.

However, with his new spell, Kayn just swung two of his hands towards the direction where the wind blades were coming from.

A frost wave of ice formed from his gesture, crescent blades of ice were discharged from Kayn's hand and flew towards the wind blades.

The two blades made of different elements collided, destroying each other, turning the efforts of the two demons that shot demons to attack each other futile.

However, Kayn still got what he wanted.

The earth demon's heart beat faster as he saw the ice demon was still flying towards him, the wind blades did nothing to stop the ice demon.

The ground in front of the earth demon soon trembled as a wall of earth rose from the ground.

Kayn saw the annoying earth wall appeared again, but he was prepared.

Without having to draw another set of runes, Kayn's four hands swung towards the wall made of Earth, ice blades flew forward once more from his claws.

The ice blades weren't as powerful as the fortified ice spear, but with their number, the earth wall was cut into several pieces as they returned back to where they came from.

The earth demons was already drawing another set of runes to summon more earth walls, but Kayn already knew what the damned earth demons' strategy were.

Not waiting for another wall to be erected, another set of the ice blades left Kayn's claws.

Their target this time was none other than the earth demon himself.

The earth demon's feet froze in panic when he saw the ice blades coming towards him once more when the earth wall hadn't manifested yet.

'How could he keep shooting these spells without casting a spell!?'

His thoughts were already in disarray when he saw the ice blades flew faster and faster, the thought of death looming closer and closer to his mind.

Fortunately, albeit not forming fully, the earth wall that had risen halfway from the ground did its job as the weaker ice blades exploded from hitting it.

Alas, even after surviving the ice blades, his fate remained unchanged.

Kayn arrived the second the earth wall had been destroyed.

With the earth demon right in his grasp, there was not enough time for the earth demon to even cast a spell to save himself.

Kayn's hand reached forward, his eyes on his target that he was annoyed with, with a passion.

Even seeing his death in front of his eyes, the earth demon didn't just give up and surrender his life.

His hands that were tougher than ordinary demons, rose to block the claws coming to reap his life.

The earth demon succeeded in saving himself from decapitation, but not for an amputation as his two hands fell to the ground.

Screams of pain filled the ears of all the demons in the area, telling them of the agony that the earth demon felt.

But Kayn paid the scream no mind. With determination in mind, Kayn roared as hid claws were about to finish the job.

At the last moment before two of his claws reached the earth demon's unprotected neck, Kayn felt two more wind blades coming from his back.

Kayn smiled when he felt the incoming wind blades and abruptly pivoted his body.

As if already waiting for the wind blades to come, Kayn already adjusted the balance of his body, making him turn even smoother as the ice blades now flew towards the wind blades.

Not stopping there, his two other hands summoned a set of runes.

Kayn had literally spent most of his day thinking of ways to deal with the wind demon that seemingly could counter or dodge all of his attacks.

And right now, the next spell he chose to send to the wind demon was one that he had put his whole thought into.

"Fortified Exploding Ice Bullet."

Just a single bullet manifested from the spell, but it was incomparable to Kayn's other spells.

The amount of mana was the same as a fortified ice spear, but the size was much smaller.

It was bigger than the ordinary ice bullets, but it flew twice the speed of one.

The wind blades and ice blades snuffed each other out of existence, opening the path for the ice bullet to pass through.

The new ice bullet disappeared the second it emerged.

The bullet flew at a speed where no eyes could follow it. An invisible threat of mana connected it with Kayn's hands.

The wind demon couldn't see Kayn's attack, but the enormous amount of mana sent a pressure that assaulted his body from all sides.

Timing his spells and his movement perfectly, the wind demon summoned a wind barrier and dodged to the side.

The wind barrier would deflect weaker projectiles, or even misalign a projectile that went past it. The spell that the ice demon had cast seemed powerful, so the wind demon placed a bet that the latter scenario would happen.

Added with him moving his body quickly to the side, the wind demon should have dodged the bullet completely, even when he couldn't see it coming.

However, Kayn already knew the wind demon all too well.

The second his bullet reached the center of the wind barrier, where the strongest current blew, the bullet began to move half an inch to the side.

But before it could go past the wind barrier, Kayn sent his mana towards the invisible threat that connected him with the bullet.

Receiving the intent of its master, the bullet shrieked as it exploded.

A thick wave of ice mana flushed the area as it invaded anything that it could come in contact with.

"NO!!!" The wind demon let out all the air inside his lungs, screaming as the ice mana washed over him.

The wind barrier still tried to push the wave of ice mana away, but it was powerless against the force of the explosion.

The whole barrier ceased to exist from the presence of the overwhelming ice mana, leaving the wind demon helpless as it invaded his body.

Kayn laughed with all his heart when he saw the statue of ice fall to the ground, and broke into countless pieces.

The wind demon was now no more as his soul floated just above his own remains.

Kayn released a long sigh of relief as his most annoying enemy finally fell to his trick and became a food source for him.

"Now just one more left."