"Tatemiya Saiji, as one of the strongest people from the Amakusa church you are too weak," Agnese said who tied Saiji tighter using her fingers which turned into wooden roots. "And right now you're just nutrition for me!"
Saiji really wanted to untie the tree roots that were currently entangling his body, but whatever efforts he made to free himself were completely useless. Because the tree roots that bind his body also function to absorb the energy that Saiji has so that Saiji cannot use his magic to strengthen his body at all.
"The life energy in your body is much more plenty than your subordinates, so I need a longer time to be able to absorb your life energy. Right now you must be feeling very weak and helpless because of the energy I absorbed, but don't worry because soon after I finish absorbing all the energy you have, you will die and be free from all the suffering you are currently feeling!"
Being in a helpless state made Saiji surrender and hope that he could die quickly and be free from the suffering he was experiencing. Because even though he wasn't screaming loudly at this time, his mouth was covered by Agnese's roots. Saiji felt immense pain, far beyond any pain he had ever felt up to now.
"Ahahaha soon you will be free from your suffering, because I have absorbed ninety percent of the energy you have. This way you will soon be able to catch up with all your subordinates who are already in the afterlife!"
Agnese's body, which had turned into a Dryad, looked even more like a monster after she absorbed ninety percent of Saiji's energy. Her skin turned green and her legs turned into tree roots her dreadlock hair turned into leaves. Currently, Agnese doesn't look like a human at all, but rather a tree that has a human-like face.
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And when Agnese was about to absorb the remaining life energy that Saiji had. Suddenly, her fingers that were binding Saiji's body caught fire, making Agnese reflexively untie her fingers from Saiji's body.
Saiji, who was already unconscious, almost fell to the ground after he was released from Agnese's bonds. But right before Saiji's body fell to Kanzaki Kaori, the Saint from the Amakusa Church caught Saiji's body just in time.
And right in front of Kaori, there was Touma who currently looked very sleepy because he was forced to wake up in the middle of the night when he felt the aura of life disappear in the quiet area of district seven. Because he felt that the disappearance of the aura of life had something to do with the Agnese Forces and the Amakusa church, Touma deliberately invited Kaori.
After seeing Kaori save Saiji, Touma thinks that his decision to take Kaori was the right decision.
"Oii Kanzaki, you take that uncle I don't know but you know to Yuragi Sou because it seems like he's run out of energy due to his energy being absorbed by the nun who turned into a Dryad. Chitose-san will definitely be able to restore his strength."
Without hesitation, Kaori nodded her head and took the unconscious Saiji away. Meanwhile, Touma looked at Agnese who was currently screaming in pain because her body was currently burning due to the fire that Touma created using Flame Alchemy.
"Arrrgh!!!!! What kind of fire is this! Why can this fire burn my body! Even though I have installed runes on my body that can ward off fire magic!"
"The rune you installed is only useful for warding off fire 'magic', while the fire I used to burn your body was just ordinary fire that I increased the temperature to use Alchemy. So it's natural that you can't ward off that fire."
Because Agnese was in pain from Touma's fire, she didn't pay any attention to what Touma was saying and because physically Agnese was a Dryad. Agnese reflexively looked for the nearest water source to put out the fire that was burning her body.
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After Agnese succeeded in getting water from the underground water pipe in that area. The fire that burned Agnese's body was extinguished by the water. Agnese looked relieved after the fire that was burning her body was extinguished and finally she looked around to look for Saiji who she had previously tied using her fingers which had turned into tree roots.
But Agnese couldn't find anyone except Touma and also the bodies of the Amakusa church members she had previously killed.
"Who are you! And where are you hiding Tatemiya Saiji whose energy I was previously absorbing!" Shouted Agnese, whose body was slightly burnt because it was burned by Touma's fire.
"My name is Kamijou Touma and if what you mean by Tatemiya Saiji is the man in his thirties whose energy you absorbed earlier, he was taken home by one of the employees at the inn where I live.
And since it seemed like you weren't listening at all to what I said to you, let me say it one more time. I was the one who burned your body using ordinary fire which you couldn't ward off using anti-fire magic runes, whose temperature was increased using Alchemy, so you were forced to look for a water source instinctively so you could extinguish the fire that was burning your body. And now it looks like I have to burn your body once again!" Touma said while using Killing intent in his voice.
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Touma's voice combined with killing intent made Agnese feel suffocated when she heard that voice. She was made to kneel because Agnese couldn't withstand the pressure that came from Touma's killing intent. And when Agnese knelt down Touma kicked Agnese's body up or rather into the air. After that Touma snapped his fingers and made Agnese's body burn once again.
Touma then jumped into the air and once again kicked Agnese's burning body so that Agnese's body slid even higher than before. Touma flew and floated in the air using Telekinesis and continued to kick Agnese's body until he reached a height of ten thousand meters. Touma also didn't forget to continue burning Agnese's body which regenerated thanks to the energy he absorbed previously.
And after Touma felt that he was now at the right height, Touma burned Agnese's body once again using Flame Alchemy then he kicked Agnese's body with the strongest kick he could use without strengthening his body using Ki or Nen.
Agnese, who had been screaming loudly because of the pain she felt because there was fire repeatedly burning her body, screamed even louder when Touma kicked her body hard. Agnese fell down at high speed and because of the air friction when her body fell, the fire that burned her body became bigger, making her automatic regeneration absorb more energy from her body.
"Dryads are troublesome enemies that have terrifying regeneration abilities and troublesome energy absorbing abilities. The only way to defeat the Dryad is to continue burning it in a place far from any water or energy source so that it cannot regenerate its body at all and cannot extinguish the fire that is burning its body using water."
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