Faced with the wave of flame sweeping toward him, George had expected it. He beat his wings and shot quickly into the air, escaping the range of the Flame Vortex.
But that also made it impossible for him to keep precisely controlling the blades to attack.
Fortunately, he had prepared a backup plan.
"Bite them!"
The hundred-plus venomous snakes that had been hiding in the grass and slowly approaching the two dark mages instantly sprang into action at George's command, launching themselves at the pair.
"Ah!"
The close-combat dark mage reacted quickly, swinging both swords and cutting every snake that lunged at him in half. The fire mage's reactions, however, were not nearly as fast.
Although he managed to control the Flame Vortex in time, turning it around to wipe out the snakes in one sweep, he was still accidentally bitten by one of them, and his body began to go numb.
At that moment, George took advantage of the opening and dove down, closing the distance again as he controlled the blades to entangle the close-combat dark mage. At the same time, his sharp cat claws popped out, and with one swipe he tore open the fire-type dark mage's throat.
Do not forget, his current cat body did not possess only the strength a cat originally had, but also the strength of his bodies from the other two worlds.
Although it might not match that close-combat dark mage, it had already surpassed an ordinary person's.
With that kind of strength focused into sharp cat claws, combined with a full-force diving flight downward, tearing open a fragile throat in one strike was not too difficult.
"You bastard, you're courting death!"
Seeing this, the close-combat dark mage flew into a rage. The speed of his twin swords immediately increased, and he