Chapter 47: The Sharp Stick hits Iron

An ascended knight had the power of a normalv knight but multiplied.

An Orc Pyromancer has the power to control the fire and is equal to a Knight just by the natural brute stretch from just being Orc and the power given to them by their Totems.

The Totems of the Pyromancers are far different from humans who use the mana. The Totems they use sends them Mana from their high mountain located far from the North where the volcanoes are active. Pyromancers learned how to control their fire by bending the Magma on the volcanoes in order to gain high resistance or complete immunity to fire.

The Knights are imprinted with the soul of former knights to become great in battle. Giving them experiences from a Knight’s lifetime to improve their skills and let them become true warriors immediately. The Knights can be stronger due to that.

The Pyromancer in front of the lady is far older than her. The gray skin, the bark-like face of the Pyromancer that shows aging means that the Pyromancer is a veteran. Veteran Pyromancers are dangerous with all of their accumulated experiences that they have acquired make them dangerous opponents on the battlefield.

This Pyromancer is now facing a Knight that has only a half a month’s worth of real battle experience. The Knight, the Lady Asmara has slain various bandits and creatures in the road but she has never faced a true challenge like the Pyromancer that stands dominatingly in front of her.

Compared to the Pyromancer the lady was lacking. But the lady had no care for that right now. Her lance stood strong in trying to pierce the skin of the Pyromancer. She was still an ascended knight that has memories of a heroic soul inside her head. The heroic soul was rather not compatible with her soul. But even so, a knight is a knight. And the heroic soul she called had faced many battlefields and fought many foes.

So that is why she could launch her thrusts at the Pyromancer with a determined face. The Pyromancers defense is strong but it doesn’t mean that the impact of the lance doesn’t move the Pyromancer. The Pyromancer was no fool so it started counterattacking. The lady could not handle the fiery blows of the Pyromancer. Each strike would burn her armor and her shield made of Mana would ripple.

The intense heat that the Pyromancer is leaking made the grassy hill burned. The lady was surrounded by flames and she could feel the heat despite her mana shield. The Pyromancer cast fire spells at the lady. The lady would dodge the flaming spells while trying to riposte with her lance.

The blow of the lady is enough to break apart regular armor into pieces. But the Pyromancers manipulates their bodies into iron. They are also ‘Mage’ that they could coat a layer of Mana on their skin. They can also strengthen their bodies like what the Knights do.

So the lady was now facing an enchanted brute strength of an Orc that has the ability of a Pyromancer. The Lady withstands most of the attacks of the Pyromancer Orc but she was being overwhelmed just by battle experience alone. The lady has been killing bandits and nothing dangerous. So how the Lady of Asmara could even threaten the Pyromancer who has seen a lot of battle?

The lady tries to strike the throat of the Pyromancer but she only received counters from the Pyromancers. At first, it was the Lady who was exerting her power but she made a mistake of making the Pyromancer wary of her. So the lady was not doing well at all. She was bloody all over. Her long brownish red hair had its ends burned. Her armor was now charred while the tip of her lance has already broken.

In fighting a Pyromancer that has its skinned turned into iron. The lady should have tried using blunt attacks to bring down the Pyromancer. Like a good knight would do to armored opponents. The lady should have taken a mace or use her fist to attack the Pyromancer. But the lady has no mace or could she ever think straight right now and actually use her strength to injure the Pyromancer.

Using her lance and flailing wildly like an angered beast. The lady who could not keep her calm steadily uses her blunt lance in trying to kill the Pyromancer. She would attack with her mana recklessly while the Pyromancer would then return it back by attacking her mana shields constantly.

The lady would do outrageous moves that could hurt the Pyromancer. But the Pyromancer would calmly deflect her attacks by moving out of the way. The lady would flail her lance like a club but the Pyromancer would just let her hit him as it does nothing to the Pyromancer.

The Pyromancer had cold eyes.

The Pyromancer raise its arms as it then punched the lady’s armor with its iron-like fist. The lady’s armor caved in and the sound of ribs cracking sounded out. The lady kneeled on the ground and before she could even stand up the Pyromancer slapped her face.

The Pyromancer had burning hands and as result, the lady’s left face was burned. The lady shouted in pain as she vomits blood. She had a pathetic look on her face. Her body was tired yet she stood up and tried to attack the Pyromancer who was a monster.

The Pyromancer had the advantage in experience and skill. The lady could have taken the Pyromancer out with a calm head but with how the seething rage affected her judgment. She was easily beatable.

The lady is seething mad with the death of Gisela. Her ability to think clearly was gone and with her only friend dead. How could she not calm her poor heart down? She may be an arrogant but like anyone she has things she would despair at when taken forcefully.

The lady was angered.

That is why despite the left side of her face burned badly or her ribs being badly broken and caved in. She stood up in the face of danger and stared down the Pyromancer with willpower.

But willpower won’t help her this time as the Pyromancer kicks her stomach.

The body of the lady bent and she convulsed in the ground badly.