Corrosion Aura vs. Ice Creation (Part One)

"Hmph, that's true, but doesn't this affect you? Yes, God Level powerhouses can use Natural Energy in battle, but there are two problems. First, they must first convert Natural Energy into their own resilient characteristic energy before they can unleash it. Second, using Natural Energy in battle severely depletes mental energy. Once your mental energy decreases, your strength decreases, and you rarely have the mental power to unleash it. Considering these two aspects, there are two weaknesses: one, the time to cast spells decreases slightly; two, the frequency of mental energy consumption increases. I don't have these concerns, so your strength will be slightly lower than normal, while I will still be performing at my normal level," Issui analyzed carefully.

"Hmph, if an opponent of equal strength used such a Secret Technique, I might be a little worried. But you, a human at the Demigod level, I have nothing to worry about. God and Demigod may differ by only one word, but the concepts are completely different. I don't know what gives you your confidence, but I can tell you clearly that you want to defeat me; that's just wishful thinking." Slick was extremely dismissive of Issui's analysis. There was a huge gap in strength; no matter how much he analyzed, it was useless. With absolute power, these flaws couldn't harm him at all.

"Is that so? We'll have to try to find out. Ice Creation, Knights of Ice!" Issui clasped his hands together, releasing a large amount of ice-attribute energy.

"Hiss... Ouch..."

More than a dozen ice knights, riding ice horses made of ice crystals, each holding a ten-foot-long ice spear in their right hand and a circular ice armor in their left, appeared before Issui. The ice horses let out strange roars, and the ice knights held their beloved mounts tightly, lining up steadily and neatly in front of Issui, awaiting his inspection.

"Hmph, just some trinket, haha, kid, you're not going to fight me with these ice blocks, are you? I'll just give them a light tap and they're done for. Are you trying to pull off some kind of acrobatics? The stuff you made is pretty good, but it has no power whatsoever. Are you trying to curry favor with me so I'll let you go? Okay? If you kowtow a few times and say you're a bastard, I might consider letting you go. Haha..." Slick said arrogantly.

"Pah! I'll beat you so badly your own mother won't recognize you in a minute! Don't underestimate my Ice Knights, the Knights of Ice! Let the enemy see your power! Charge!" Ignoring Slick's taunts, Issui pointed his right hand in Slick's direction and ordered the Ice Knights to charge.

"Hiss..."

Upon hearing Issui's command, all the ice knights raised their ice spears horizontally with their right hands, gripped their ice shields tightly with their left hands, and clenched their legs firmly around the bellies of their ice horses, bending forward. Once the ice knights were ready to charge, their ice horses simultaneously raised their two front legs, let out a roar, and charged forward!

"Tap... thump... tap... thump..."

A team of more than a dozen ice knights charged fiercely and swiftly toward Slick. The swamp beneath the ice horses' hooves had no effect on them whatsoever; with each step, a layer of frost would freeze the muddy swamp beneath the horses' hooves.

As the Ice Knights charged closer to Slick's territory, the previously calm Slick's three snake heads began to writhe incessantly, spitting out red apricots, his upright, crystalline snake eyes narrowing. As Three-Headed Basilisk, he had inherited the characteristics of a snake; snakes are extremely sensitive to danger. Slick looked at the charging ice blocks, feeling as if they were cold, sharp knives rushing towards him. The blood in his body gradually grew cold. He was a lizard, not a snake; his blood was warm. This chill assaulted his body, as if it would tear him apart.

"Hmph, Corrosive Acid Orb!" Slick's leftmost snake head spat out a glob of green, viscous liquid, targeting an ice knight who was charging forward.

Issui watched Slick's counterattack with a sneer. "Tch, just a probing attack? You're going to be disappointed. It's just a regular acid attack. It can't break through the Ice Knight's defense because..."

A viscous green liquid gradually approached an ice knight, getting closer and closer. The ice knight did not dodge the acid's attack, but instead met it head-on. The moment the two made contact, the acid sphere began to freeze and harden.

"Smack..."

The frozen acid ball lost its forward momentum and was shattered by the Ice Knight's shield.

After shattering the acid ball, the Ice Knight continued charging forward without breaking away from the group, freezing and then shattering the ice ball in less than a second.

"Slick, do you know... my Ice Knights aren't just made of ice. My Kekkei Genkai power endowed them with strength when I created them, and I also increased the density of the ice within them by dozens of times. To put it bluntly, their ice bodies are a hundred times stronger than those of true flesh-and-blood knights. Although they possess only basic intelligence, that doesn't hinder their fighting. Wherever my eyes see, that's where they attack. Without flesh and blood, they don't understand pain, fatigue, victory, or defeat, and they don't understand whether you are strong or not. They are a group of true warriors."

Issui slowly revealed the Ice Knights' secret, his eyes calmly fixed on Slick. He didn't place his hopes on these Ice Knights; if Slick were defeated so easily, his reputation as God Level expert would be worthless. Issui's main objective in this attack was to prove he possessed comparable strength and methods, hoping Slick would unleash his true power in battle. Otherwise, he would find it incredibly boring. Having finally fought a God Level expert stronger than himself, he didn't want the battle to be so uneventful; some excitement was the perfect solution.

"Hmph, I didn't expect it to be like this. However, I'll just play with you for a bit. You're not qualified to fight me with my true strength; your power is only limited to this. Multiple—Strong Acid Torrent Arrow!"

Slick was fearless in the face of the Ice Knight who had charged at him. His leftmost head opened its mouth and swiftly spat out a series of long arrows made of dark green, viscous liquid. The arrowheads of these arrows shone with an inexplicable light, and ordinary people would feel an itchy sensation upon seeing them.

The deep green arrows struck the ice knights one by one...

"Buzz..."

The immense impact of the ice knights collided with the penetrating force of the deep green arrows. The ice knights quickly mounted their shields to block the attack of these green arrows, and emitted bursts of freezing power from their bodies, attempting to merge these arrows made of viscous liquid.

"Hmph, wishful thinking..." Slick coldly observed the actions of the ice knights. He did not believe that the ice knights could block his Strong Acid Torrent Arrow attack and freeze it. Even when fighting someone much weaker than himself, he would not make the same mistake twice!

Issui made the same expression as Slick. He also couldn't believe that his Ice Knight, infused with a large amount of Chakra and spiritual energy, would be so easily shattered by Slick's long arrow. He was equally confident in the power of his Ice Knight.

"Clang..."

The Ice Knight's icy eyes widened rapidly, his hands gripped the ice shield tightly, and he forcefully blocked the attack of the dark green arrow, with even more frost power surging from his body.

"Bang..."

Perhaps it was Issui luck, but this time, the Ice Knight once again broke through Slick's attack. The dark green arrows, frozen into ice, fell to the ground one by one, cracking with a soft, crisp sound as they shattered into pieces of dark green ice.

The attack of the dark green arrows did not stop the ice knights' charge. They continued to charge, and this time, they reached their target, thrusting their ice spears forward with all their might under Slick's astonished gaze.

"Sizzle..."

The ice knights' ice spear attack only pierced Slick's body, leaving a small bloody hole. The moment the ice spear was pulled out, more than a dozen small bloody holes appeared on Slick's body, with blood dripping onto the ground from time to time.

Issui then smiled and said, "How about that? It's not that I underestimated you, but that you underestimated me. You thought I wasn't worth your full strength in a fight, which is why you kept launching probing attacks. In the end, your cleverness backfired. You're confident in your own strength, but do you think I'm not confident in mine? On the surface, I may only possess Demigod- level power, but my hidden Kekkei Genkai power is my reliance."

"Roar..."

Slick roared, looking at the dozen or so bloody holes in his body. Although he wasn't seriously injured, the fact that he had been wounded by a human Demigod was still a huge blow. What would people think if word got out? They would think, "I'm just a paper tiger, all show and no substance, nothing special." What angered Slick even more was that the human kid was suddenly laughing, laughing at his weakness, laughing at his boasting. Damn it! He wouldn't be satisfied until he killed that guy!

"Roar, roar your mother's roar! Why are you Warcraft always so disorderly? You're polluting the air, okay? Your mouths are so foul, stop roaring! I told you, but you didn't listen. Do you think I want to teach you a lesson? Bah! Don't think you're so arrogant just because you're a God Level Warcraft. Bah! I spit on your mother! Don't always talk about how powerful you are. Actually, you're just a green onion, a big green onion!" Issui said mockingly. Although he didn't like gossips, using their words to curse was not bad. Haha, it felt good to curse them out.

Slick's three snake heads surged with rage. The blood-red snake, Xingzi Yang, thrashed about, its eyes narrowing. He was getting angry, and then his anger flared up, an unquenchable rage.

The Ice Knights didn't give Slick a chance to dawdle any longer. They were tireless super soldiers, and wherever Issui eyes fell, that was their target. They raised their ice spears and thrust them out once more...