chapter 1962: you're not fighting a single fire dragon, but all of them!

the venerable's face distorted in pain as a third of his soul was sliced by surtr's majestic sword, which quickly and suddenly attempted to devour the powerful soul, trying to make it so he wouldn't be able to easily recover from this and grow permanently weaker!
and yet...
"don't think it'll be that easy!"
with wicked laughter, the venerable's sliced soul piece quickly transformed into an aberrant, tentacle abomination, piercing and burning through space, distorting it and catching one of surtr's arms within it.
"now!"
with all his hatred and willpower, the venerable quickly went for it! using the spatial manipulation powers he had temporarily obtained from the "dimensional essence" of his dimensional bubbles bursting and then assimilating this essence, he turned the third of his soul which surtr had sliced into a space and fire attribute divine spirit instantly.
his quick thinking and adaptability to any battle made him a terribly hardy opponent, and surtr finally learned how this monster could act once he was truly cornered!
craaash!
"ugh?!"
surtr felt intense pain in one of his arms, glaring at it as space was constantly trying to tear it apart, and yet it couldn't, however. his scales were broken, and he felt like a sharp blade was trying to slice through around his arm, making him bleed.
however... his muscles were incredibly tough, and even tougher was his bones, making it so it was simply impossible for the blade to get through it without slowly grinding, taking much longer as a result.
"so he's tough that even closing and opening space cannot easily slice through his body?!"
as the venerable was shocked of surtr's immense new durability, he was greeted by a punch in the face, and then two more, and the three more, five, seven, ten, twenty, thirty a hundred punches followed, covering his entire body, each punch generated a small explosion.
booom! booom! booom! booom! booom!
these explosions accumulated in large quantities, as the venerable found himself in the middle of a combo attack, incapable of escaping this barrage of blows, he didn't let himself succumb, quickly fighting back by kicking surtr's face and then trying to distort and close space around his face!
"take this!"
truuum!
the space quickly tried to close, one of surtr's eyes popped and exploded into blood, but his head was immensely hard, easily handling the compressing space trying to slice through him, even if he bled a little.
"still not?! he lost an eye, but the fucker had seven!"
"i will tap into all my power and more, and then i will rip him to shreds!"
as he smiled viciously, suddenly...
crash!
giant draconic claws caught up to him, as his entire soul was dragged back where he was
going to.
"ugh?!"
he suddenly felt immense fear, as he glanced back at surtr, finding the fire dragon dragging him back, his flames shapeshifting into fire dragons and rapidly starting to eat his soul again. "d-dammit! let go of me, you piece of shit!"
the venerable lost every single speck of calmness he had, rapidly manifesting hundreds of arms and fists and punching surtr constantly, pushing him back more and more.
clash! clash! clash! clash!
"hmph! raaaah!"
however, surtr responded by roaring, the ground above them shattered and blew into pieces, as the fire dragon dared to unleash a fire dragon breath at point blank!
"aaagghh!"
booommm!!!
the venerable was sent flying away, destroying everything in his wake as he clashed against several pillars, shattering the walls of his inheritance while his entire soul was burning!
flames shouldn't even hurt him, and yet surtr's primordial origin fire hurt like hell! "nngghh...! hahaha! bastard...! thank you for the free ride!"
"dammit! don't you dare...!"
flaaash!
as he laughed viciously, surtr reached the venerable too late, his soul melted into his entire
inheritance's building, the dimensional bubbles bursting and releasing waves of dimensional essence, pushing surtr away and generating an even bigger explosion.
booommm!!!