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Chapter 101: Trials: Suzaku, the Beast of the South Part 2

The electricity running in my body is too strong. Very strong that I felt like I have undergone a very big change when I managed to activate the electricity in my body. I felt much faster all of a sudden and my strength seems to overwhelm. Is this some sort of power-up? Or this is just a temporary one? Whatever, I have to use this power to defeat Suzaku.

Suzaku launched a dozen of fireballs in my direction. It was very fast at first but when I focused my vision on the fireballs, I felt like they suddenly slowed down... or I have gone too fast? I don't know what it was but it is good for me. If it was slow, can I just use it as stepping stones to get near to Suzaku then? 

Electricity crackle on my body and when I jumped, a shockwave was released beneath my feet allowing me to shoot myself forward and get into the fireballs. It was easy doing so especially if they are too slow in my movement or I am just too fast to see it so slow.

In just a few leaps from the dozen fireballs, I managed to reach the final fireball and used it to push myself again forward to Suzaku. Suzaku had yet to react to my fast movements and I don't want to be killed with the attacks of Suzaku if I lost my ability due to lack of mana. Finishing the battle quickly is the only choice here.

"Fall down!"

I clapped my hands together and electricity started to release from my palms and when the current is now too strong for my hands to handle, I released it from my hands and shoot it out towards Suzaku who has yet to react to anything I am doing in which I guess is not yet processing to Suzaku or just too fast for Suzaku to react.

ZAP! CRACKLE!

As soon as I have done that, everything returned to normal speed and everything started to connect too late. Suzaku who just released the fireball a while ago did not even get to react and was immediately got electrocuted and fell. I activated the electricity again in my body and used it to safely descend through the ground. 

Suzaku is still alive but many of the feathers that were previously blazing around are extinguished, making Suzaku's color paler than before. I was about to approach Suzaku when the bird spread its wings and a strong heatwave hit all around the cave. It was too humid that as soon as that happened, sweat started to appear in my forehead and my whole body is getting heavier. Am I getting tired?

No...

I am not getting fatigued, it was more like my mana stored in my body is being drained constantly. This heatwave is siphoning the mana in my body!

"Frigid Wind!"

As soon as I activated the magic spell, Frigid Wind, I thought the Heat Wave will immediately be suppressed by my Ice Spell but I only felt slight chill before the humidity started to envelop once again. The Frigid Wind's effect is not working.

CAWWWWW!

Suzaku seems to have recovered and some of the feathers that were previously extinguished are now back to their former glory. Suzaku has recovered! Without any warning, Suzaku released a wave of flame to my direction in a spread shape. Due to this, I have to escape the flames before I get incinerated.

But I didn't expect what Suzaku is about to do. Before I can even move to the side, a huge fireball exploded to the ground and it injured my right arm which I used to block the explosion. I have no time to do any kind of defensive magic spells to reduce the damage from the attack. I gritted my teeth in pain as the throbbing feeling in my arm is constantly sending pain.

Suzaku did not even bother to let me recover and released another flame attack. I quickly activated the Domain of Balmung but due to my mana slowly diminishing and to avoid losing all of my mana, my barrier is quite weaker than expected. When the attack hit my barrier, it exploded and destroyed my barrier immediately sustaining only slight power from it.

All I can feel in my body right now is pain... yes, pure pain... but then this is nothing. Compared to the time I was being bullied, if I have not retaliated, it might be worse. But it is already worse so how will that increase the worse level in that situation? Now that I think about it, this is just a slight amount of pain, not something unbearable.

I stood up and gathered the remaining mana in my body and looked at Suzaku. Yes, Suzaku is a destructive force but that doesn't mean Suzaku is invincible. There will always be bound to be a weakness that Suzaku can suffer. Calming my mind, a memory from the dragon passed by in my mind. And in that section, it was something that I think I can use.

I raised my left hand and focused all the mana in my palm, and to make sure that the power gathering in my palm is strong, I also gather the mana in the surrounding. I don't even know how I know this ability but I don't mind. I think the knowledge came from the dragon's memory that already mixed on my memories.

Suzaku also gathered a huge fireball in its beak and also gathered power on it. I glared at Suzaku and started chanting.

"In pure faith, I awaken the mind of Enlightenment. I aspire, together with others, to cross over the sea of birth and death, and quickly reach the shore of liberation. Awaken! Judgment!"

Tremendous power builds up in my hands and the pressure it emits is too great to handle. As soon as I shouted Judgment, I throw the gathered power into Suzaku.

BOOOOOOMMMMM!

The surroundings shook and I can tell that the whole place is going to collapse. The ability Awakening of Enlightenment is something that requires tremendous resolve and will cause very strong destruction on its wake so this place will soon disappear. Just as I thought everything will collapse, a force suddenly stopped the surroundings from collapsing. But even if the place did not collapse, Suzaku, who is the one who received the power directly, just like Byakko, has already dissipated.

"Congratulations on finishing the trial of Suzaku, the Celestial Beast of the South. The Blessings of Suzaku has been granted to you successfully."