"Wa-tooosh!"

The tail moved so fast it created a visible distortion in the air, a streak of green scales that blurred so fast it was barely visible with the bake eyes.

Levi's field of perception had been enhanced immensely by his transformation and he immediately caught the movement of her tail before it had even traveled half a meter.

Without breaking eye contact with her, without showing even a hint of concern on his transformed features, he suddenly stomped his feet and pushed off the ground with explosive force.

"BOOM!"

The stone floor beneath his feet cracked as spider web shaped appeared on the ground.

His body executed a perfect backflip, his body twisted through the air as Seraphina's tail swept through the space where he had been standing just a fraction of a second earlier.

Her tail slammed into the cave wall behind where Levi had been standing, destroying the wall which had stood in the dimension for countless years.

The wall exploded like ice sheet had been hit by a cannonball. Huge chunks of rock and debris blasted outward, and a spider-web of cracks spread across the entire surface of the wall.

Dust and small stones rained down from the ceiling, disturbed by the violent vibration.

Levi landed fifteen feet away, his clawed feet digging into the ground to absorb the momentum of his flip. He touched down as lightly as a cat despite his increased bulk, barely making a sound.

For a brief moment, they stared at each other across the blood-stained floor of the grotto.

"Impossible," Seraphina hissed, her forked tongue flickering rapidly in agitation. "You're only a Rank 7! Its impossible for your to match my speed! How can you match my strength? This makes no sense!"

Levi didn't bother to answer. He had learned long ago that people who spent their time talking in the middle of battle were usually the ones who ended up dead. Instead of wasting breath on explanations, he moved.

His powerful legs stomped hard as he was propelled forward with insane speed.

In an instant, Levi closed the distance between them in less than half a heartbeat, his cleaver already in motion, swinging in a horizontal arc that would have bisected her at the waist if it connected.

"Shiiing!"

The blade cut through the air with a sound like tearing silk, leaving a trail of displaced air in its wake.

Seraphina's serpent like body coiled and uncoiled in rapid succession, allowing her to dodge backward with a fluid grace.

But Levi seem to have expected this.

The moment she began her backward dodge, his other hand, the one tipped with those razor-sharp claws, thrust forward in a spear-hand strike aimed directly at her chest.

The air itself seemed to part before his clawed hand, creating a miniature vacuum in its wake. Seraphina's eyes widened in alarm as she realized she had been baited into a trap. She was in mid-dodge, her body moving backward with no way to change direction.

In desperation, she did the only thing she could. Her bat-like wings, which had been folded against her back, suddenly snapped open to their full impressive wingspan. With a powerful beat that created a thunderous gust of wind, she launched herself straight upward.

Levi's clawed hand passed harmlessly through the space where she had been just a moment before, finding only empty air.

She soared up toward the ceiling, her wings beating rapidly to maintain altitude in the confined space.

A low, rumbling growl emerged from Levi's throat. His glowing red eyes tracked her movement with predatory focus as she circled above him like a vulture.

Then, without warning, crimson lightning began to crackle across Levi's body.

"CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!"

The sound of the lightning was like a thousand sheets of paper being ripped simultaneously.

Seraphina face changed as she recognized that energy signature. Only those with the bloodline of the Thunder God could wield it, and she had foolishly believed his bloodline was still undeveloped and weak.

She had been wrong. Catastrophically, fatally wrong.

From her elevated position, she decided to strike first before he could unleash whatever devastating attack he was preparing. Her body twisted in midair, and she suddenly dove toward him with her wings folded back for maximum speed, transforming herself into a living projectile. Her dagger extended before her like the poisoned fang of a diving serpent, aimed directly at his exposed back.

"Screeech!"

She let out a piercing, inhuman shriek as she descended.

At the last possible instant, when she was mere feet from striking him, Levi moved.

But he didn't dodge away as she expected. Instead, he spun on his heel with impossible speed, his body rotating so fast that his white mane of hair fanned out around him like a halo.

His cleaver, still wreathed in flickering crimson lightning, came around in a devastating upward slash that met her dive head-on.

"BOOOOM!"

The collision between his lightning-charged blade and her poison-coated dagger created an explosion of conflicting energies that lit up the entire grotto like a miniature sun had been born inside it. Crimson lightning and toxic green energy spiraled around each other in a violent dance, each trying to overwhelm and consume the other.

The shockwave from the impact was so powerful that it created a crater in the stone floor beneath Levi's feet, the rock simply unable to withstand the tremendous force being channeled through his body.

"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"

The walls of the cave, already damaged from the earlier beast tide, began to shatter even more, creating new spiderweb patterns of fractures that spread like roots seeking water. Small stalactites broke free from the ceiling and crashed to the floor, shattering into thousands of fragments.

Seraphina was blasted backward by the force of the collision, her wings flapping desperately to regain control as she tumbled through the air. Her arms were numb from the impact, and she could see scorch marks on her scales where the crimson lightning had lacerated her flesh.

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