Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 320 - 308: Tier Five

"Sigh, do we really have to fight?" Andrew sighed to himself.

It wasn’t that he lacked fighting spirit, nor was he afraid of Capella as she was now.

But after listening to her explain the source and reason for her anxiety, he truly felt: there was really no unavoidable reason to fight this battle.

But just like Capella said, perhaps it was already too late.

She had completely embraced the power she once resisted.

The proof lay in the force pulling Andrew towards her, which had already surpassed the theoretical limit of Tier Four.

This was simply not a force a Tier Four Professional could exhibit, no matter how much of a genius or prodigy she was!

"Be careful!"

"Andrew!"

Both Havier and Shabiye couldn’t help but shout in alarm.

But as they watched, Andrew seemed to be pulled towards Capella without any resistance, suddenly raising a finger.

"Zero-distance Water Needle" executed at full force, combined with "Continuous Counterattack", within a fleeting moment, three fingers attacked sequentially, the strongest technique when Andrew fought alone.

Capella raised her eyebrows, seemingly not expecting Andrew to have the strength to retaliate under such terrifying suction.

However, she quickly dismissed it, letting Andrew’s fingers strike her.

The supposedly indestructible force of the Zero-distance Water Needle landed on Capella, like a stone sinking into the ocean.

It was completely devoured by the Fire of Extinguishing covering Capella!

The black flame aimed to travel along Andrew’s fingers, intending to ignite him.

Not only to consume the force of Andrew’s move, but also to swallow him whole!

With a loud bang!

Andrew actively detonated himself, transforming into a burst of water, using the explosive force to barely escape the frightening suction, and then reformed back at his original position before being pulled.

"Impressive!" Capella lightly praised, her voice suddenly sounding from overhead.

Andrew felt a shadow looming over him, blocking the sunlight. Looking up, he saw Capella, with black flame wings, had leaped into the air at some unknown moment, wielding an axe spear-shaped Dragon Transformation Weapon, descending like a fiery demon!

The terrifying force hit him before the strike even landed.

Andrew felt like a locked prey, unable to escape or retreat.

Seeing a fierce look in his eye, Andrew decided neither to dodge nor retreat, fully circulating his Magic Power, forming an invisible Water Shield to meet the axe spear.

Rumble!

With a deafening sound, the ground beneath Andrew collapsed entirely, forming countless dense cracks.

The highly resilient Water Soul Constitution couldn’t withstand the terrifying force contained in the strike, and Andrew vomited a large mouthful of blood.

Yet, to the surprise of Capella and everyone present, Andrew really held off the strike!

Not only that, as the Water Shield resisted the axe spear, its form began to transform further.

Seemingly shattered by the axe spear’s strike, it instead spread out, transforming into serpent-like streams of water, entangling the axe spear, tugging forcefully to snatch the Dragon Transformation Weapon from Capella’s hands!

Under gazes of disbelief, Andrew actually yanked the axe spear from Capella’s grip.

However, the moment the axe spear left Capella’s hands, it dispersed on its own, turning into fine fragments of the Fire of Extinguishing.

Capella remained mid-air, grasping with both hands to either side, forming new Dragon Transformation Weapons.

This time, it wasn’t a long-handled axe spear for dual-hand grip.

But a short spear and a board axe, each held in one hand.

With a swoosh, the short spear instantly pierced through a newly formed Water Shield from Andrew, Capella landed, pressed down with her wrist, making Andrew’s bones creak under the pressure.

Andrew attempted to side-step and release the force, but then glimpsed a shadow sweeping towards him from the corner of his eye.

Capella’s other hand wielded the board axe, slicing Andrew in half with a waist-high cut!

Large splashes of liquid hit the ground, but it wasn’t blood, still just water.

The halved body remained a water clone.

As the clone shattered into formless water, the true form gradually appeared.

However, this time the reconstruction speed of his body was noticeably slower than before.

"Huff, huff..." Andrew panted.

Only having exchanged a couple of moves, he already felt at a complete disadvantage.

Yet Capella remained silent, wielding spear and axe, her wings spread, not giving a moment’s respite, advancing in large strides.

"Is this... Capella’s real strength?"

The crowd outside was dumbstruck.

It wasn’t that Capella’s moves were intricate, in fact, each move was exceedingly simple.

The issue was the terrifying force behind each strike.

Andrew withstanding several hits appeared quite impressive to onlookers.

By now, no one doubted Andrew’s solo combat capability.

Yet any perceptive person could see: Andrew couldn’t hold on for long.

Because no Tier Four Professional could withstand Capella’s current assault.

Andrew, being involved, understood this even more clearly.

With another crash, Andrew was struck flying backwards, unable even to land stably, crashing helplessly to the ground.

However, this time Capella furrowed her brow: Andrew quickly rose again after falling.

Blood seeped from Andrew’s nose and mouth, and his clothes were severely damaged.

But at this moment, Andrew was smiling.

Despite seemingly facing death, he was smiling!

"So, was I too greedy then?"

Andrew murmured to himself, "This new version of Dragon Transformation Combat Technique, that Single Finger Dragon Shadow boost, is really just a massive cheat, isn’t it? I thought I could try winning with Tier Four Combat Power, but now it seems I was too greedy."

If it truly were Tier Four versus Tier Four, Andrew didn’t believe he would lose.

But after Capella was empowered by that Single Finger Dragon Shadow, she no longer belonged to the Tier Four category.

Strictly speaking, Andrew wasn’t really fighting Capella, but battling the power of that Single Finger Dragon Shadow. Capella was merely the medium for the Dragon Shadow’s power.

So Capella was right when she said: she truly was a servant of the Dragon Shadow! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

And to defeat such a Capella, he could only—

"Break through to Tier Five." Andrew thought to himself.