My Soul card is a Reaper

*Graa…*

The beast roared in pain as the lava protection disappeared and its skin started to men, the moment it was touched by the black rain.

It no longer concentrated on merging and controlled all the lava around it to rise and attack towards the cloud.

The cloud was hit by the large volumes of lava. Clearly, continuous small drops of rain weren't able to stop and got overpowered. 

However, the moment they touched the cloud, all of them were just absorbed into the cloud and the rain started to thicker.

Still, the rain wasn't able to hit the beast as it continues to gather the lava and directed them to above its head.

The lava started to disappear and the rain continued to thicken but the beast didn't stop its attempt.

As for why didn't it flee yet, is because of the large area that the cloud covered. With the rain thickened, if it would step out, all of its skin would melt away and will leave with a skeleton in the end.

Five minutes later, the rain stopped and the cloud disappeared. Meanwhile, the depth level of Lava Lake decreased from 3 ft to 2ft.

It just tells how much amount did the beast use just to ward off the attack.

"Too bad that my objective failed but it fell five minutes… Good." Azzy who actually hoped for the beast to move from the spot was disappointed with the result.

Still, the fact that the death rain fell for five minutes straight, made him satisfy with it.

Somehow, a feeling of desire to test it stemmed in his heart. He wanted to use it on other creatures and see its limitations and all.

*Graa...*

The Volcanus king's roar brought him back to reality.

He saw it spotted him and stared at him for a few seconds, but then, to his surprise, instead of rushing with rage, it turned into a scaredy-cat and started to escape towards the volcano.

Right now, it wanted to go back and hide within the volcano to complete the merging. As it etched his image in its mind, the monster decides to retreat for now and take revenge, later.

However, it was too naïve to think that Azzy would let that happen.

Once he decided on something, he will do it for sure.

Summoning the black wolf again, he ordered it to chase the beast.

*wow*

It accepted his orders and started to rush. At the same time, Azzy took out the flying card once again and chase after both of them.

As a beast of the lightning attribute, naturally, Vajra's speed was top-notch. It easily caught up with the fleeing beast and tried to attack with its paw but the beast controlled the lava to block its attack.

The wolf dodged the lava, making a zig-zag movement, and bites one of the Volcanus spikes that are on its back.

It roared once again as one of its spikes was removed from his back.

The wolf didn't stop there. Following the bite, it raised its claws once again and invoked the soul skill.

A huge dark wolf paw appeared in the air with its claws extending from it.

As the wolf motioned its paws, the energy claws attacked it once again.

Although the Volcanus beast tried to defend it with the lava, its speed turned out to be slower and the attack landed.

Three big claw marks appeared on its back and it started to bleed. This attack hurt it a lot. Even though it didn't see the attack, as a platinum-grade beast, it felt this is a soul skill too.

Being a defensive-type monster, Vajra's attack also didn't do much damage to it. So, if it ignores the pain, it would be able to escape easily.

However, the fact that it was escaping from a high-rank-4 beast hurt its pride.

This time, it was thoroughly enraged and suddenly, a crazy thought emerged into its mind.

Since this beast is of higher grade, if it consumes the flesh of this beast, it felt its merging would become a success and its soul quality will improve further.

In the end, it decided to fight against it and stopped.

As it turned around, Vajra also stopped its movements and stood still on the surface of lava while growling at it.

It was actually waiting for Azzy's arrival but too bad that the speed of the flying card is extremely slow. So, the battle resumed without his presence.

The beast, this time, went on the offensive. It didn't waste any time to use its soul skill.

Its spikes on the back started to glow and the beast opened up its mouth.

Similar to the earlier one, small orbs made of lava started to rise up from the lake.

The Volcanus king controlled the lava spheres and attacked the wolf, one by one.

Vajra is a beast with the specialty of speed. How can it be hit by those slow attacks?

Naturally, it dodged them and counter attacked it by scratching its shoulder. Since it wasn't a soul skill, it didn't do much damage to it.

The beast put up with it and attacked it with the lava spheres again. Like the wolf expected, they weren't gone after they missed it.

12 lava spheres continuously aggressively attacked the wolf.

Vajra, on the other hand, was just counterattacking with simple scratching or biting, after it received the order from Azzy to not use the Soul skills.

A few moments later, Azzy who caught up with the both of them saw they were in an intense battle against each other.

Vajra no longer appeared dominating the battle, now. Volcanus King's 12 sphere balls are moving in a completely random manner.

Trying to help out the wolf, he didn't hesitate to activate another soul skill that belongs to the Reaper.

  "Soul skill: Eyes of God."

Azzy's eyes turned pitch black with no visible pupils. By activating God's eyes, he was able to see everything in his surroundings.

Unlike the aura sensing, it appeared as if he was looking at the entire 1 km range from the sky.

At the same time, everything appeared slow to him as well whether it is the movement of the lava spheres or the black lightning wolf's fast-paced attacks.

He observed their conditions.

First, he looked at his Arcana.

Looking at the burn on the wolf's ear and its right leg, Azzy thought it might have been hit in the process.

Then, he observed the beast and shook his head, "It is a mess…"

*wow*

Smelling his presence, Vajra barked in response.

"Vajra, attack its left shoulder joint." He gave out a quick order.

"Soul skill: Extreme Bite."

The wolf's canines grew sharp upon activating its soul skill. Lightning sparks danced around its legs for a second before it dashed towards the beast.

The Volcanus king tried to attack it with the lava spheres again but none of them were able to hit and the wolf this time, targeted its left shoulder where its skin melted and only a piece of bones was showing.

*Graa…*

Suddenly, it felt the wolf's bite force increased tremendously and before it know what's going on the beast felt its entire arm was missing and it was in Vajra's mouth, which it threw away.

Its eyes widened in shock. It finally experienced the difference between the two of them.

Glancing at the boy in the air, the Volcanus king once again started to flee. Until now, it felt like it was able to succeed with its attempt but now, as soon as this fellow appeared and gave one simple order, the beast felt the tides have turned.

Once it was sure that it can't kill it under Azzy's watch, it only had one plan. To get back to its home and recuperate.

One other reason that it was confident in escaping is because of Azzy's low speed.

The beast didn't think that Azzy won't be able to catch up with its speed. The present situation itself is the proof for it.

As long as he won't be near them, the wolf cannot receive his guidance and will only attack wildly like earlier. Even if it uses the soul skill, its back is sturdy either way. 

In the end, the chase resumed once again.

Vajra continued to attack the running beast. Volcanus King put up with its defense.

Soon, both of them reached the foot of the mountain.

Because of less volume of lava, the Volcanus was forced to use one of its soul skills to make its body as hard as steel.

Because of the high reuse time of the skill, it didn't use it against Azzy's black rain but now, after getting heavily injured, without the protection of lava, it felt the need to do it.

Half an hour later, Vajra and the Volcanus king reached the edge of the volcano.

As some time passed after the volcanic eruption, the lava returned to the base of the volcano.

Standing at the edge, it laughed before diving into the lava. The wolf wasn't able to follow it and stared at the falling beast in anger.

Right then, all of a sudden, it saw the beast stopped in the mid-air like a statue.

Vajra was taken aback in surprise. It became confused as it didn't know what's going on.

For a whole minute, the beast was just suspended in the air.

Slowly, the flying card lowered its altitude and it saw Azzy landed beside it. Along with the death scythe, he also has the hourglass.

With its one hand, he raised the death scythe over his head and spoke, "Soul skill: Cursed Skulls."