Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Bad anatomy (252)

Kai's claws, which were coated with his flames and empowered by Aura of the Chaos Beast collided with the first of the crystal panthers. A loud crack reverberated throughout the near empty arena, only the beast did shatter like he had hope it would.

Luckily, there was enough force behind his blow to send the creature reeling, knocking it into another one of the approaching panthers.

At the same time, Esurient aimed for the other eye of the panther he had partially blinded, only the beast managed to avoid the invisible blade this time.

The sound of icy feet hitting the floor was annoying, considering that his senses were boosted, meaning it sounded louder than it should have been, but Kai put up with the annoying noise in favour of trying to do any sort of meaningful damage.

Using Mana Surge, Kai lunged forward and aimed to kill the nearest of the panthers before it could get the chance to react.

However, it moved much faster than he had expected it to.

To his horror, the panther rushed forward and manages to avoid the attack entirely. Then, it got even closer to him and swiped at his chest.

Kai groaned in pain as the Chrome Skin wrapped around his body creaked, managing to absorb most of the damage.

However, there was four deep gashes in it, each one drawing a little bit of blood.

Not good...

Quickly activating Minor Restoration so it could begin closing the wound, Kai got back to fighting.

He slashed at one of the panthers, managing to just catch its side with the end of his claws. They dug into its side with the help of the flames coating them, but the beast managed to free itself and retreated.

At the same time, another one of the panthers got behind him and aimed its claws at his heel, one of the weak points of his armour.

Unable to do anything himself, Kai simply did not react to the panther about to glaw his heel and instead chose to focus on the panther lunging at him from the front.

Why?

Because he trusted his assistant, of course.

Before Kai's heel could be attacked, Esurient pierced the body of the sly panther, cutting it a little and making it howl in pain.

And yet, even though the two of them had injured some of the panthers, it was like they hadn't been inured at all.

The beasts obviously had a different anatomy when compared to normal panthers, that was abundantly clear considering they were made of out some strange crystal ice hybrid, but they had to have some sort of weakness.

Piercing was practically useless, and fire could be useful but the panthers had some sort of resistance to that. Any sort of blunt damage would obviously be the best, but Kai had no way of doing that...

Unless...

Maybe it wasn't necessarily blunt damage that was needed, but the force behind the blunt damage.

And Kai had another way to get some force.

Gritting his teeth, he slowed down with his efforts to hold back the panthers in favour of letting them get a little closer. At the same time, the flames that had been surrounding him vanished, all of them getting sucked into his chest.

The six panthers all crowded onto him, getting very close to ripping his armour to shreds.

Kai hadn't wanted to waste this so early, but he still had to buy time, so he made use of the 50% damage reduction Chrome Skin offered.