The giant boar with black fur ooze steam out of its nostrils, its tusks that stick out of it lower jaw was covered in flames, it mane was burning in blue flames. It eyes were red and filled with boiling rage.
It paws the ground below it with its front leg repeatedly as it sees an intruder enters it territory. It spread its front legs wide, lowers it head and hunched it back making it look bigger than it already is. The beast is the Giant flaming boar.
However, the intruder is oblivious to the warning signals the boar was giving out, the man was stunned and speechless as he met himself in a totally different environment.
' where on heaters am I, that damned demon, he put me in the middle of a flowing lava. If the intense heat of the lava doesn't kill me, that angry looking boar would devour me, I can't believe I'm in this position tsk '. He cursed inwardly looking at the boar.
While Iode stands at the opposite side of the boar thinking, the beast has taken the last straw, it could not take it anymore, it could not endure seeing an insolent trespasser enter it territory, it releases more intense steam out of it nostrils, paws the ground, then charges violently at Iode, never cares whether the trespasser is a small entity or not, entering it territory is prohibited.
Iode was caught off guard by the swift movement of the beast, he stares and widens his eyes in anxiousness, gnashing his teeth.
" Aarrrgh! Valier you bastard!". He yells.
While he might have been caught off guard amidst his thinking, he was not caught undefended. Before the boar could ram at him, he thought of a rectangular metal shield. The stigma at his left wrist glows purple, light photons scattered then converge to form a large rectangular shield that was taller than him.
The boar with its racing momentum rammed its head against Iode's shield, it flings away the shield however, the intruder remains in it front, holding two small teeth at its lower jaw, already transformed into Dragon Man.
He grunts a little, skidding a few centimeters on the red surface, absorbing the energy of the boar's charging momentum. The boar steams out more, it raises it head powerfully with force in annoyance and carried Iode along with it.
Iode could not hold onto the little teeth anymore, he was thrown into the air.
' that's some breather, I was feeling too much heat down there '. Iode used the opportunity of being thrown into the air as a leverage to fly.
"That bastard of a devil wants me to fight that enraged beast, well, he's not the boss of me, I have the ability to fly, I can't stay couped in that hot and inhumane space, not to talk about the fact that that beast is mad at my presence... I gotta find a way out of this shitty environment to see my kids". Iode said.
He flaps his membranous wings repeatedly midair. He watched as the giant boar turns around to continue guarding its territory in other parts of the island. Without further ado, he decides to fly away from the place.
As he moves a few meters away from the island, he suddenly has a strange pulse that ran across his body. He froze midair and begins to descend. Unfortunately for him, he falls into the flowing lava that surrounds the island.
"Gah!!!" He gasps, he raise his head above the boiling red liquid, he swims desperately in the hot lava to the nearest solid, less hot ground, however, it was the boar's island.
Iode got out of the lava with loud wails, his hands were trembling from the shock, as well as the lava's heat, but luckily for him, he was in Dragon Man form. The only place that got affected was his membranous wings, his arms, his abdomen, and his face, they were burnt.
"What was that just now, it was like my whole body got frozen on the spot". In his trembling arms, he could see the emblem of Valier shimmer.
"That damn devil was monitoring me?!". While he was muttering his misfortune, a shadow looms over him, it looked angry.
"Not a moment of rest in this place ". He said looking at the towering boar before him.
The giant flaming boar steams out its nostrils and begins to paw the ground, readying a charge.
"Valier wants me to fight this enraged beast, he's literally forcing me — well, this would be quick, Chains of burden!" Iode said, he brings his hand to his front, a magic circle appears but broke soon after.
"Curses, I've forgotten I'm no longer a twelve star mage — and my wings can't function at the moment... Sigh, well ".
His stigma shimmers, a long sword appears with Valier's emblem branded on it.
" If I can't use magic, I still have my swordmanship skills with me, I'm a magic swordsman after all ".
The giant flaming boar charge towards him with raging speed, Iode did not fright nor waver, he holds the hilt of the sword, imbues mana or rather draconic energy into it. The sword glows purple and enveloped in purple flames. Without wasting time, he too charge towards the raging boar.
"First strike: phantom slash!" He yells and moves past the boar with a single aura slash that cut across the boar horizontally from its anterior to its posterior.
The boar shrieks in pain, a deep cut was across its torso, however,it begins to heal.
"Hmm, its fur is really tough, I could feel it as I cut it earlier, my sword power has also regressed like my magic, but with Dragon Man I could achieve similar results as my glorious days, but the beast starting to regenerate.
Tsk, can I last with Dragon Man, it consumes a lot of mana, not to about the fact that my body is healing itself at the moment, I'm losing more mana as time goes on ". He said.
In the past, lava could do little to no damage to him at all in Dragon Man, however, the mystical power of the underworld bypass his defenses. Before he gave up Igor's powers, he could regenerate from any wound albeit slowly but faster than an average person but it does not consume energy.
However, when he got his draconic powers from his friend Tony, in the battle against the Valkyries, his regenerative ability became faster but it only consumes little energy. This time, he does not have Igor's powers, while he still possess the regenerative ability, it energy it consumes became tremendous.
"Well, I just have to be quick". He said.
The giant flaming boar turns around to face him, this time, rather than charge head on, it opens it mouth to release a stream of flames. Iode jumps away from his position to evade the attack. While at it, he yells:
"First strike: phantom slash!" He speeds towards the boar and cuts it like he did before, however, he was yet to finish.
"Second strike: chaos slash!" He turns around and slash horizontally in a circular form and slash vertically simultaneously.
He appears at his former position where the boar breathes flames at him. The boar stands motionless on its spot and soon, it collapse with its body parts dismembered from each other.
Iode stands on the spot and looks at the stigma on his left wrist.
"Shit, I ended up using Valier's weapon summon powers..."