The Rise Of Calamity

"ROT IN HELL!" I shouted while lunging with extremely high speeds towards the enemy

"BRING IT ON!" The man shouted with the same enthusiasm

While most would be either enraged or powerless in a situation where they were fighting against someone who was a higher rank than them, I, on the other hand, was smiling... My smile was accompanied by a huge frown, as the pain came from my head, the emotions of the past, and the emotions of the battle mixed into an expression of what could only be described as, Battle Lust. I felt so filled with vigor while the adrenaline blocked out any strain I felt from my mana channels and my body after regenerating.

Right after the man roared what I considered to be one of his last phrases in the remaining time of his lifespan, he threw everything at me. Everything including the ice swords, ethereal swords, arrows, and spears made out of aura, and finally, the huge raging sphere of water currents that was above his head.

19 meters...

16 meters...

11 meters...

9 meters..

5 meters.

4 METERS!

I was finally 4 meters away from the closest attack, and at the moment, to the man in front of me, it seemed like a certain victory. While I had felt a strange presence coming closer to me, he was on the lines of thinking that this was my last act of desperation to fight against my fate of death, but he didn't know how the wrong one could be when putting me into account.

'Eyes of consumption' I thought in my head while widening my eyes as if how wide my eyes were would affect how much mana and aura it could consume. Yet at the same time, I was trying to keep wary of the presence that had just gone back into hiding.

[Consuming energies...]

[...]

[...]

[Consumption complete!]

[Aura Consumed: 589 units]

[Mana/ Elemental energies consumed: 360]

[Detoxifing Mana...]

[Detoxification complete!]

[Pyurifying mana...]

[Purifying complete!]

[132.4 Units of -Divine Mana- has been created]

[Current mana: 142.4/100]

[WARNING!]

[You must use 42.4 units of mana in the next 10 seconds. If this requirement is not fulfilled, chances of mana heart being damaged or exploding will increase dramatically.]

'hehe. This might have been unforeseen but this also might be a blessing' I thought.

'She didn't even use any hand signs of chants! H-how is this possible?' The man's mind was going haywire, and I was the reason for it.

In the man's perspective, he had just watched all his aura weapons, mana within spells, and weapons he had created from elemental mana was absorbed into both my eyes. While his aura weapons simply dissipated, the sphere of raging currents exploded closer to him than it was to me, while his ice weapons crumbled to pieces almost instantly.

I had not just taken the mana within them, but also the Elemental particles holding them together. While the elemental particles went straight into my body, before diffusing into different organs, tissues, and cells, the mana went straight into my mana heart after being detoxified by my eyes, just to be pumped through my mana channels.

"NOW, YOU'RE DONE FOR!" I roared while my voice became deeper and the whites within my eyes started to crackle electricity within them. The moment the man looked into my eyes, he felt sudden death fall into his shoulders. Flashes of Lightning mages and Lightning Warriors being praised, honored, and looked up to spasmed within his mind. He knew exactly what kind of ability this was, and he felt scared for his life the moment the realization had hit him.

Allowing lightning to crackle through my veins, mana channels, and above my skin, I felt a ticklish sensation envelope my body before a burst of absolute power flooded into me.

"LIGHTNING OF ABSOLUTION!" I bellowed at the top of my lungs, sending shocks waves to the surroundings while a blueish silverish dome shot out from the middle of my mana heart to 30 meters in all directions.

It wasn't nearly as big as the lightning mage I had fought before, but it was more than enough to end this fight.

'Alright. I have like 2.4% more mana to use in the next 7 seconds, but I'm sure I can handle it. The backlash of using both of them at the same time however...' I pondered inwardly if it was actually worth going through all that pain when I can simply run away.

Right now, my mana heart was at the Supreme Mage Rank. However, the thing about this was that I could already fight Wizards when I was at the peak of the Intermediate ranks, Now that my power was at the initial Supreme Mage ranks (Peak Ethereal), my power could easily rival that of a Grand Wizard, however, the man in front of me was an Imperial knight, nothing like a Grand Wizard, yet at the same time, he was a complete idiot that I'm sure even the lightning wizard from a few months back could have beaten if not for this guy's sh*tty spirit summoning ability.

They say that an intermediate mage can beat two basic mages, while an Advanced mage could beat 4 Intermediate mages. It goes on to say that a Supreme mage can beat 10 advanced mages, a wizard beating 15 supreme mages, a Grand Wizard beating 20 wizards, an imperial wizard beating 50, and a Sage beating 200 Imperial wizards before the numbers start to double after every rank until reaching the Dracoria, a person at the peak of this empire's magic which is hypothesized to be able to wipe out every Imperial Sage and their armies in a single spell. The same stands for the Warriors ranks too.{CHECK THE GLOSSARY}

Using all this information, however, means that the man in front of me should at least be able to take on around 60-70 clones of me at once, not to mention that he was only fighting one me, but that all goes into the way that the spirit summoning works. Increasing one's strength, cannot happen dramatically as chances of the person just straight-up exploding are pretty high. This meant that he would slowly need to assimilate to the strength, and according to my eyes, he is about 36% there. This meant I needed to quickly finish this, and while the same argument about assimilating might be used against me, it really won't.

The thing about Lightning of Absolution is that instead of being a power-boosting ability, it is one that created a domain of sorts where every lightning ability, spell, as well as the elemental particles needed to use to create lightning would be under my command, as long as the domain is active. The size of the domain depends on how much mana I pour in, and seeing that I poured in 40 units of mana, the size of the dome was not more than 30 meters.

However, it meant that theoretically, due to not needing to use any mana within the domain, I could create an infinite amount of lightning spells in this domain, which is not possible because the amount of spells you control is dictated by your mental fortitude, but also that for those who use hand signs and chants, they no longer need to as long as they knew the effects of the spell and had used it before.

Swinging my arms back while lunging forwards through the steam and dustcloud of the explosion, I shot out of it holding two lightning swords behind my back, ready to be swung at any moment, however, I was not done there. While using Eyes of Vanity on the man would seem like a good idea, it was a mana drainer at best. The man in front of me is halfway through becoming an imperial knight, so how could I gamble more than 80% of my total mana on something that might not even work?

Instead, the moment I was 6 meters away from the man, I exploded the aura I had stolen from the man precisely directing all of it towards his heart while throwing a lightning sword and putting up my open palm in front of me.

In the blink of an eye, all the aura I had absorbed hit the dazed my in the middle of his chest, missing the position of his heart by mere centimeters. However, even with all that, not a single start was left behind on the man's bare chest covered in the aqua-colored armor with dented a little from the impact. I was not done there, as a moment before the man could snap out of his gaze, a move the aura back and created an extremely concentrated spear above me, while allowing the lightning sword to hit the water armor he wore, wearing it down even more.

The instant he regained his senses, my palm was already at his chest covered in lightning, but it stopped as if the momentum was never there. It couldn't budge a single bit while a weird demonic smile curled up the corner of his lips, extending from ear to ear.

"Got you now.." The man voiced while moving his hand to grab onto my wrist, however, instead of hearing me struggle and scream in agony or beg for forgiveness and mercy, he heard 4 confident words that rung within his eardrums, as if he had been slammed in the ears with them.

"No... I got you." My voice leaked out, responding with an even devilish smile instead, a smile that would make an incarnate of evil feel weak in the knees.

"SOUL PURGE!" I roared before sending out a burst of white flames and silver electricity.