I Reincarnated As A Stick

Chapter 335: The Sun Against the Land and Seas

Listening to what Argentum told them, Rosalia and Felix could not help but look at each other, wondering what he was going to say to Melzarin. Nevertheless, they knew that the more unstable variable in this mess was Eleanor, so they agreed with his plans and headed to where Eleanor was. On the other hand, Argentum used all of the strength in his body to separate himself from Felix at high speeds, making sure to head to where Melzarin is.

Bang! Bang!

With Felix and Rosalia being incredibly strong and Argentum using the element of free fall to his advantage, the three of them landed in the areas they wanted to go at nearly the same time, confusing the two that were currently fighting.

“What the hell are you two doing here?!” With Felix and Rosalia in front of her all of a sudden, Eleanor’s fiery aura gradually subsided as she asked. Not long after, she looked over at Melzarin’s side, noticing that Argentum was in front of him. Noticing this, she had an idea as to what was going on.

“Eleanor, we just want you to stop fighting against Melzarin for a bit,” Felix said in response as a large blob of water coalesced around his body, forming a layer of water armor. Rosalia continued where Felix left off, her skin giving off a light brown sheen as she said, “We’re sisters, right? I know you hate Melzarin to the bones, but can you listen to us for a while?”

“So, I take it that you two are on Melzarin’s side?” Unlike what they were expecting, Eleanor’s fiery aura intensified after listening to their words, thinking that the two wanted to help Melzarin accomplish whatever nefarious deed he wanted to do to her. In response, Rosalia hastily replied as she waved her hands in disapproval, “That’s not it! We just want you to—!”

Fwoosh!

Before Rosalia could even finish her response, Eleanor dashed towards the two without hesitation as a large fireball was conjured over her right palm. Aiming to throw the fireball at point blank range, she then said with a hint of fury, “Your excuses mean nothing to me. If you want me to listen to you, then beat me first!”

“[Ignitio Overdrive: Hellbound Chiliocosm]!”

Just as Rosalia was about to retaliate against Eleanor’s attack with a defensive move, Felix hastily appeared in front of her as a spear made out of water appeared in his hands. Summoning all of the energy inside his body towards the tip of his spear, he shouted at Rosalia, “Enhance my combat power as much as possible!”

“[World Rejuvenation Art: Boundless Proliferation]!” Without even thinking twice, Rosalia listened to Felix’s words and used the strongest enhancement skill she had in his arsenal, instantly directing the power towards Felix. Feeling a massive surge in his combat power, Felix then unhesitatingly slashed with his spear in an X pattern, making sure that Eleanor’s fireball would be affected.

“[Tsunami Piercer]!”

Bang! Pssh!

At the very instant the two attacks collided, a massive explosion occurred on Eleanor’s side, sending her flying a few meters away as she was unprepared for it. As for Felix and Rosalia, they hastily created a barrier in front of the explosion, removing their need of retreating a few meters back.

Seeing that Eleanor was sent flying, the two looked at each other as they pondered as to whether or not they should get closer to her. Fortunately, that question was instead answered by Eleanor as she hastily got up, the flames around her gradually turning black as the dress she was wearing had become more exquisite in design.

Noticing this, Felix and Rosalia knew what was happening to her, prompting them to simultaneously let out a sigh as Felix looked at Rosalia and said, “As the one nicknamed ‘Mother of Earth’, I’ll leave it up to you to defend me from counterattacks, okay?”

As the aura of earth surrounding her continued to solidify into a layer of heavy armor, Rosalia let out a light chuckle in response as she replied, “Then I’ll leave it up to you on the offensive, Grand Blue Master.”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Without giving Eleanor time to think, the two of them dashed closer to Eleanor, utilizing the buffs Argentum had applied to them beforehand. In response, Eleanor hastily conjured an array of dark flames behind her, aiming to send it towards them in a barrage. Unfortunately for her, the two expected to see that coming from her, with Rosalia concentrating a massive amount of Earth energy around Eleanor’s feet before instantly solidifying it.

“[Mountain Bind]!”

Whoosh!

As if those dark flames were a facade, all of it had disappeared in an instant as Eleanor felt that her connection with the elements in surroundings was impaired. Try as she might, Eleanor could not even summon any flames at the moment to protect herself, to which Felix used to his advantage.

Utilizing the spear he had conjured before, he channeled a great portion of energy towards it as a magic circle with a couple of layers appeared in front of it. Soon after, he threw this spear towards Eleanor as the speed of the spear had intensified multiple times even though the distance between them wasn’t enough to achieve such speeds.

“[Tsunami Piercer Variant: Raging Torrent]!”

Fwoosh!

At such a speed, it was highly unlikely for Eleanor to dodge the attack. But contrary to what they were expecting, a light chuckle came out of Eleanor’s mouth as she manipulated the dark flames on her dress to cover the spear, surprisingly corroding the energy forming the spear. Before it could even touch a single flame on Eleanor, the spear had disintegrated to pieces, giving the latter the time to retaliate as the two were in great shock.

Whoosh!

Using the same method as before, Eleanor removed the shackles made of earth binding her, hastily distancing herself from the two as fast as possible as the flames making up her dress had undergone another transformation. If one looked closely, the dark flames now had a hint of white to them, giving off the feeling that if one touched even a small wisp of it, death would be their only outcome.

“[Ignitio Overdrive: Eclipse Flame Form].”

Within a few seconds, all of the flames making up Eleanor’s dress had taken on a hint of white while the killing intent surrounding her had intensified to a greater degree. At this point, Felix and Eleanor knew that it was only a matter of time until Eleanor would go berserk.

Psh! Psh! Psh!

With the two still at a loss for words from what she had done, she once again summoned an array of flames behind her. This time, though, the array of flames had been successfully created, coalescing into a vortex-like pattern before Eleanor shot it in the direction of the two.

“[Ignitio Overdrive: Hellbound Vortex — Eclipse]!”

Swoosh!

With the force behind the vortex of flames comparable to the force behind Felix’s previous spear, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the two weren’t able to defend against it, being blown tens of meters away from where they were. Fortunately, Rosalia had come in prepared, instantly activating a magic circle she had been conjuring behind the scenes to cover the two in multiple layers of defensive barriers.

“[World Protection Art: Myriad Devastation Barrier]!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With each flame making up the vortex, a layer of the barriers protecting both Felix and Rosalia would be shaved off, prompting the two to redirect some of their energy to the magic circle powering the barriers. Thankfully, the two of them were able to defend against all of the flames making up the vortex.

Unfortunately, the amount of energy inside their bodies were almost close to drying up, evident from the lackluster sheen of their bodies. Nevertheless, they weren’t about to admit defeat against Eleanor even though she was near her strongest form, which the two of them couldn’t even beat back then.

Squeezing out all of the energy inside his body, Felix then applied buffs on both of them that would increase their perception over surrounding energy, increasing their speed of energy regeneration. Of course, Eleanor wouldn’t let them regenerate their energy, still thinking that the two were on Melzarin’s side.

Summoning all of the energy inside her body, Eleanor then used it to propel herself towards the two at breakneck speeds as two balls of dark-white flames appeared on her palms, slamming it against each other without hesitation.

“[Ignitio Overdrive: Singularity Burst — Eclipse]!”

Bang!

With such an attack being made so close to the two, the barrier protecting him had all of its layers ripped off, allowing the remaining force of the attack to send the two of them flying for over a hundred meters. On the other hand, Eleanor looked at them from afar with an unreadable expression, not allowing anyone to know what was going on inside her mind.

Thud! Thud!

Naturally, the two of them hastily got up on their feet when they crashed, knowing very well that Eleanor was still planning on attacking them. Nevertheless, they could not help but take in a deep breath of cold air when they could not help but think that Eleanor was still holding back on them back then.

“Does this mean that Eleanor is the strongest among all of us?” Rosalia could not help but mutter to herself, to which Felix responded with a light sigh, “Isn’t that obvious already?”

At this point, the two of them felt like any attack they threw at her wouldn’t even faze her the slightest bit. But just as they were about to tell Argentum that they weren’t able to fulfill their part of the plan, a massive surge of energy soon entered the bodies of the two, jolting them awake in surprise.

In less than an instant, the two of them looked around their surroundings, wondering how their energy was replenished in such a short amount of time. It did not take long for them to find a dark skeleton wearing an armor of earth appear in front of them, as well as a humanoid figure made out of blue, brown, and green energy.

“Argentum has filled me on all of the details,” Melzarin looked at the dejected two and said in a slightly solemn tone. “Although I’m unsure as to whether I could defeat Eleanor at her strongest form if I was alone, I think we could definitely defeat her with us three working together and with Argentum buffing us up.”

“So, are you two up for round 2?” he asked the two, waiting for their answers. Scratching his head, Felix looked at Rosalia beside him, to which she only lightly nodded in response. Seeing this, Felix could not help but let out a long sigh.

Although he was one of Eleanor’s close friends, he did not want to admit that Eleanor was the strongest. Of course, he was sure that Rosalia did not want to admit defeat as well. With that in mind, the two used the energy they had received from the two and used it to increase their defensive and offensive properties to the maximum.

Just as the two were about to ask Melzarin and Argentum about their next steps in this fight against Eleanor, a thought related to Melzarin surfaced in his mind, prompting him to say to Melzarin in a slightly embarrassed tone, “Uh…I think I should say sorry about what we did back then.”

“Nah, don’t feel bad. To be honest, now that I look back at it, I was the one at fault,” Melzarin said in response to Felix’s words, making both Felix and Rosalia look at Argentum beside Melzarin with immense shock. Although they knew that Eleanor was bound to attack them within a few seconds or so, their curiosity won over their minds, prompting the two to send a strand of energy to him and ask, “What did you say to Melzarin?”

Argentum could not help but jolt a bit in response to the unexpected message from the two, though he calmed down soon after that as a light chuckle could be heard from him. Recalling what he had said to Melzarin, he then responded to the two of them with a strand of his own, saying, “To be honest, it’s a slightly long story. How about we head to where Eleanor is for now and I’ll tell you what happened while I was talking with Melzarin?”

Curious as they may be, the two of them knew that Argentum was right, so they nodded in response to Argentum’s request before talking with Melzarin on their next steps. Not long after, the four of them were heading to where Eleanor was at greater speeds than before thanks to Argentum’s movement speed buffs.

While that was happening, Argentum started his narration of what happened with Melzarin.

“Well, it went just like this…”