My Soul card is a Reaper

Webster, the only one who is free enough to keep an eye within the prism, was taken aback by surprise as he watched how the laughing skull suddenly dodged the flames. "What the… Can he control it? He couldn't before. Just what happened in the past three days?" He fell into a daze for a couple of moments.

As the purple skull reached above the snake's head, Azzy then motioned his arm downwards.

*Hehe hehehe*

Continuing to laugh hysterically, it dived towards the top of the snake's head. However, the head moved to the side at the last second and dodged the attack of the skull, surprising Azzy for a second.

"According to its sound, all Hydras under platinum grade are of snake species and have the characteristics of snakes. So, they shouldn't have ears and couldn't hear anything. The skull was also attacking its blind spot. It sensed its soul energy perhaps?"

Azzy fell into deep thoughts for a moment. He spotted the four heads of the snake are observing him. It made him wonder whether they can share the vision. If that's the case, he could try using it with his skeleton hydra too.

"Ah!"

Taking advantage of his moment of carelessness, the fire head breathe out the flames once again and destroyed the purple skull.

Azzy came back to his senses after it was destroyed within a fraction of a second. He took out another skill card to summon another purple skull. But this time, it was only in the four-star realm.

He wanted to test his theory. After throwing it towards the extended snakehead, he controlled its path once again. 

However, this time, the Hydra's fire head tried to swallow it instead.

"Indeed, the intelligence levels of a gold grade beast are far below a human."

Even though Azzy wanted to test his theory, the snake trying to swallow his laughing skull is possibly the best outcome he can have. So, he allowed it.

It opened its mouth and successfully swallowed the skull.

Under Azzy's control, the latter just traveled down its neck and entered the common stomach, exploding into a blast of energy.

As it is a higher realm beast, the blast means nothing to it. But, it didn't know that the blast of energy also contains Death energy.

The minuscule amount of dark energy started to spread all over its body in tiny particles, slowly merging with its own soul energy in the preparations to attack its core.

If it is a platinum or higher grade beast, it would have sensed the changes within its body and tried to resist the foreign energy, perhaps even eliminate it. However, due to its low grade, Hydra didn't know that the seed of its destruction just now has been planted.

In the meantime, to study the creature, once again, Azzy summoned another purple skull, dropping his soul energy to four digits.

After throwing the skull towards the fire head, Azzy didn't hesitate to replenish his soul energy with a recovery card and then, controlled its path.

"Sss Haa…"

It breathes out the flames once again. Keeping an eye on the other four elemental heads, he continued to control the skull. Surprisingly, it was able to breathe out flames continuously from its mouth.

To use such an attack, one would use soul energy no matter whether they are a human or any other creature.

However, the fact that Hydra is using such a thing with ease tells there's something wrong here.

After all, it is only a beginner rank-6 beast with near around 4 million soul power. Even though Hydra's overall strength is comparable to that of a peak-rank-6 beast of the same realm due to its multiple heads, still, it doesn't explain how it could use flames powerful enough to burn a high-rank-5 beast to death.

With each attack consuming at least 900 thousand soul power worth of energy, in theory, it could only use the attack a few times.

But, what Azzy was seeing was quite different from it. Although it was using continuously, Azzy couldn't sense any drop in its soul power either.

To understand its power completely, Azzy unleashed the soul skill.

Soul skill: Eyes of God

As his eyes turned pitch black, within just a fraction of a second, everything that's happening within its body was revealed to him. "I see. It's not that Hydra's soul power isn't dropping. It's just that the core is instantly replenishing the soul energy almost instantly as the rest of its four heads were busy absorbing the natural energy."

Then, for a while, he played with the fire head by moving his laughing skull up and down, left and right. The fire head's eyes were obviously fixed on it and continuously breathe out the flames. In the meantime, he observed the reaction of other heads.

"It's just like I thought. These five heads share a vision and it seems that guy couldn't order it either." He glanced at Webster who was observing the battle.

Just as he was about to return his gaze back to the beast, his eyes fell on the blinking seal.

"This… what is this…"

Azzy immediately looked at other seals.

Natural energy was being absorbed by the mystic seals and was further getting compressed into a dense ball of energy.

Just in one ball, he felt a terrifying amount of power within it. And the natural energy within those compressed energy balls seemed like they will burst at any movement.

Realization dawned upon him. "This isn't a simple isolation prism."

"Sss Haaa"

Just right then, his laughing skull was destroyed once again and its eyes fell on Azzy.

The fire-head extended further towards him and opened its mouth to burn him down.

Azzy sensed its presence. He hurriedly raised his hand and caught its head, tightly closing its mouth.

It struggled to move. Azzy pressed on it further.

Unlike last time, he didn't intend on just catching it. He now poured more soul energy into his energy hand and pressed it further to crush it down.

With one of its heads in danger, the remaining elemental heads no longer sit straight. All the other four heads extended towards Azzy. However, before they even crossed a few meters, the fire head was crushed to a pulp smearing his hand with its sticky blood.

Azzy glanced at left and right at the seals on the prism. "I wish I know how long I have to escape. But, first, I had to take care of this…"

*Hisss*

The blue-red hissed in anger as it unleashed its soul skill.

All of a sudden, huge amount of volumes of water erupted below Azzy's feet, throwing him up in the air.

As Azzy couldn't resist the force, he released soul energy and made armor over him, powering up his defense.

At the same time, he tried to rotate his body in the air, and soon, the water started to hit him on the upper part of his back while his feet collided with the barrier.

Using the barrier as his foothold, Azzy jumped to the side to land somewhere else.

As soon as it saw Azzy diverted his path, the Hydra's earth head unleashed its soul skill to transform the entire mud field within the prism into Quicksand.

At the same time, the other heads extended towards Azzy to catch him.

"I wanted to kill you with slow poison while learning everything but you leave me with no choice."

Falling from two hundred meters high, Azzy didn't hesitate to unleash his soul skill.

"Soul skill: Spear of Death" 

A dark energy spear appeared in his hand.  The Hydra heads that were extended instantly shrink back in fear. For some reason, just sensing the energy made them terrified.

Within a few seconds, he was now a hundred meters above the multi-headed Hydra.

Just as he was about to throw it, his eyes fell on the thread that attached the beast to its summoner. "Damn it. I forgot that he will die too."

Azzy gritted his teeth in frustration and then, glanced at the seals of the prism that was on the mud field turned quicksand. A sudden idea emerged in his head.

Twisting his arm, he changed the direction of the Death spear towards the seal in order to destroy it.

However, just as it left his hand, his pitch-black eyes captured the compressed natural energy that suddenly erupted.

"Kyaaaa…"

At the same time, a piercing scream was heard from his behind. He turned his head and saw it was the opponent with staff on her hand, was thrown inside the barrier. She has heavy injuries on her body and the aura of death on her was thickest.

The death spear was rapidly advancing towards its target. It was only a few meters away from the seal and Azzy was only fifty meters away from the mud field.

*Booom*