Sinner System-Chapter 538: Final Dungeon - Sixth Floor (Part 6)

Point-of-View: Jaden Xeno

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Okay, this guy’s pretty damn strong, and his battle instincts are really sharp too. The way he used my whips against me, it’s going to make it hard to attack him with them.

I only just got this new weapon, so I’m not exactly used to it. In fact, I’d say I’m using it pretty well, considering this is the first time I’m using it in a fight.

My biggest problem is the fact that he can regenerate while I can’t. Minor injuries aren’t a problem, my natural healing has gotten stronger, so stuff like shallow cuts or minor fractures heal up in about half a minute to a minute.

But I can’t recover from more severe injuries, I can’t grow back limbs or anything like that.

Based on the initial exchanges, it seems like we’re relatively evenly matched, but I can’t afford to take anywhere near as much damage as he can.

I’d love to savor this rare challenge, but I can’t afford to lose...so, my only option here, is to play it safe.

I flew back up into the air, before unleashing a barrage of intense, pressurized telekinetic blasts down towards Angus, who swiftly raced away to evade them, weaving across the space and making it hard to get a lock on him.

He really is deceptively agile...

As I unleashed a powerful telekinetic slash down towards him, he leapt forward to evade it, before crouching down and launching himself up with an immense leap, bits of dirt and grass flying out from the force he exerted as he shot straight towards me.

I zipped back with a telekinetic burst as he closed in and swung his hammer at me, narrowly evading it before blasting myself all around the air, zipping up behind him as he began to plummet.

He swiftly twisted his body and spun around as I fired out a piercing telekinetic beam towards the middle of his back, blocking it with the handle of his hammer, before suddenly hurling the weapon towards me with a rapid spin.

I quickly blasted myself across to my left in alarm, wincing in pain as the head of the hammer thudded against my left elbow before shooting past me, a sharp twinge of pain erupting across that spot, before I gritted my teeth as he landed back down with a crash, sending my whips zipping down towards him.

Without his own Personalis Arma, he can’t pull that same trick again!

He swiftly sprinted away, before raising his right arm in the direction of where his hammer had landed as my whips steadily closed in on him.

His hammer floated up off the ground and flew back towards him with immense speed, before he came to a sliding halt and turned to face my whips, starting to raise his hammer. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

I quickly halted the advance of my whips and withdrew them, firing out a crushing telekinetic blast down towards him.

He spun his hammer out in front of himself defensively, blocking the incoming blasts, streaks of blood spraying out as the upper halves of several of his fingers got crushed upon impact.

Now!

I swooped down towards him as fast as I could, propelling myself with a burst of telekinesis, before chanting as I closed in on him...

"[Telekinetic ZONE]!!!"

His eyes widened as he froze in place, unable to move a muscle-...huh?

His entire body trembled as he resisted and strained against my grasp with all his might, the skin over several spots around his body rupturing and tearing apart as he let out a bellowing roar, shuffling across as I began to try and crush his Core, the right side of his torso compressing sharply.

He violently shuddered in pain as my attack slightly clipped the side of his Core, but it wasn’t enough.

I grimaced as I reached the limit with Telekinetic Zone, the forcefield fading away, before I quickly fired out a pressurized telekinetic blast at him as I collapsed onto my knees, hitting his stomach and sending him skidding back across the ground.

I coughed out blood before shakily getting back onto my feet, trying to catch my breath as my heart pounded and ached in my chest, beads of sweat running down my face.

I-I almost had him, damn it...!

I can only maintain Telekinetic Zone for a couple of seconds, so it’s not something I’ve been able to practice much with, especially with the toll it takes on me.

It’ll be at least an hour before I can use it again, no way this fight is going to last anywhere near that long...

"What an intense exchange of blows, this is exactly the kind of challenge I was hoping for!" Angus exclaimed gleefully, as his injuries healed rapidly.

"Yeah, well, there’s plenty more where that came from!" I responded, as I shot back up into the air and unleashed a flurry of piercing telekinetic arrows down towards him, wincing as a sharp twinge of pain erupted across my chest, tasting blood in my mouth.

He sprinted across the space to evade them as I did my best to ignore and power through the backlash of my Telekinetic Zone, before Angus hurled his hammer straight up towards me, the large weapon spinning rapidly through the air.

I swiftly swerved across to my right to evade it, before it suddenly zipped back down towards him as he leapt up, kicking off the ground with immense force.

I flew out of his reach as he grabbed hold of the handle of his hammer, shifting his gaze back towards me as he drew his arm back.

Is he going to throw it at me again? I’ll blast myself out of the way and then-...

Suddenly, the hammer expanded in size, the handle getting longer as the head grew about ten times bigger, before he swung it at my left side with a roar of exertion.

I focused the telekinetic cloak wrapped around my body over that spot while simultaneously launching myself back and across with a telekinetic burst, before letting out a stifled cry of pain as the top of the hammer clipped my left forearm, deeply fracturing the bones upon impact, before I bit down on my lower lip and sent one of my whips zipping straight towards the middle of his body with as much speed as I could generate.

Angus twisting his body across as the whip closed in on him, piercing through the left side of his torso and missing his Core, before he struck the whip with the handle of his hammer to pull it out of his body as I began to slide it through his flesh towards his Core, blood streaming down his side as he plummeting, landing down with a crash.

D-Damn it, I can barely move my left arm, my forearm’s swelling up like crazy and throbbing with pain.

Still, that could’ve been a lot worse, if it’d reacted even a split-second later, he would’ve crushed my arm and the left side of my ribcage, which could have been fatal.

"Hahaha, that was quite close, you very nearly reached my Core! Ahh, what a thrill, what a delightful rush! This...this is what I live for!" He roared with a loud, bellowing laugh.

I know he’s my enemy, and that I have to kill him if we’re to win this war and save the world, and yet, in spite of it all, I...I just can’t bring myself to hate-...or even dislike...-him.