This Summoner Is Too Powerful

Chapter 653 - 474: Ultimate Form (Part 2)

"He’s not gonna self-destruct... right?"

[Oh?]

Even the Fire Skeleton stopped its movements at this moment, planning to wait for him to finish whatever he was doing.

"Ahn."

Right after that, Li Pu swallowed another one.

"Ahn ahn ahn ahn ahn ahn ahn..."

Just like that, without a break, he kept swallowing one energy orb after another, so many that it left everyone dumbfounded.

Bubu had a total of four inherent abilities: [Throwing Pouch][Energy Explosion][Barrier Bite][Devour Beast].

Among them, [Throwing Pouch] and [Energy Explosion] had just been used. It’s not that they were ineffective, they just weren’t enough to threaten the Fire Skeleton.

[Barrier Bite] wasn’t suitable for the current situation.

So the only thing left that he could bring out now was [Devour Beast].

[Devour Beast]: Can devour energy bodies and temporarily massively increase one’s own strength.

Applied to Li Pu right now, that meant his strength and Spiritual Power would be further enhanced.

Of course, devouring energy didn’t come with no upper limit.

You had to consider the carrying capacity, or say capacity, of your own vessel, and in this respect, Li Pu’s capacity was actually higher than Bubu’s.

By now, after continuously devouring so many energy orbs, he had already reached an overflowing state.

Not only was the surface of his skin emitting a blue energy glow, even the seven orifices of his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth were completely filled with blue light.

"Like this... can he still be called human?"

His appearance like that left everyone utterly stunned.

If energy-element-type summoned beasts existed in this world, then with the way Li Pu looked right now, he’d at least count as a half–energy element.

Right after, everyone saw him wave his hand.

[Whoa!]

Pa-ji!

A gravity field even stronger than before burst out, slamming the Fire Skeleton flat onto the ground.

[That move is seriously strong!]

But in the blink of an eye it climbed back up again, clearly already adapted.

Whoosh!

However, before the words had even fully fallen, Li Pu had already turned into a blur and rushed in.

Beneath the blue-glow-wreathed fist was the iron-dark shade of [Hardening].

The part where his real body surpassed the blue-light clone was that he could use Summoner skills at any time.

[Good timing!]

The Fire Skeleton’s tone carried obvious excitement as its bony fist met his head-on.

Clang!

The two fists that weren’t even metal slammed together, yet produced the sound of clashing steel.

But the impact from [Sprint] + [Hardening] was no joke. With that one punch, Li Pu actually sent the Fire Skeleton flying backwards even while it was under the crushing weight of the [Gravity Field].

Bang!

The firewall they’d assumed to be intangible turned out to be quite solid; when the Fire Skeleton smacked into it, it immediately suffered a second impact.

"He did it! He knocked the opponent back!"

"The power of that punch was actually that insane?!"

"This is getting interesting, looks like there’s hope!"

Seeing this, everyone started to get fired up.

But what puzzled them was that Li Pu didn’t press the advantage. Instead, he showed a slightly puzzled expression.

He hadn’t expected that skeleton to actually be... a related object???

Which meant that its original owner had been a magical beast when it was alive.

And a related object that could remain this intact with only the skeleton left was definitely very powerful.

For specifics, one could reference the Taiji Snail and Godzilla Spined Scales from back then.

It was just a pity the exchange of punches had happened too fast just now; he hadn’t had time to carefully examine it.

He hadn’t even seen what grade that related object was.

Boom!

The brief opening Li Pu showed was met by a pillar of fire spewed out by the Fire Skeleton.

Bang!

The pillar of fire smashed heavily into Li Pu, sending him flying back as well to crash into the solid firewall.

But this time, having learned his lesson, he immediately tilted his head back, opened his mouth, and fired several [Thunder Slash]s at himself.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Lightning even fiercer than before blasted into his mouth and was rapidly converted into Repair energy.

When Repair speed = damage speed, it could practically be regarded as not being injured at all.

He pushed off the firewall with the soles of his feet and lunged at the Fire Skeleton again.

The Fire Skeleton wasn’t the least bit intimidated, either, cackling as it met him head-on.

And so the two sides launched into a close-quarters slugfest.

"He’s nuts, this is insane, completely insane."

"I can’t even believe my own eyes."

"Is he really still a student? You sure he didn’t lie about his age and he’s not actually a veteran Combat Summoner???"

Everyone was once again shaken by the scene before them.

Because in this close-quarters brawl, it was actually Li Pu who was pressing the other side down!

In truth, since both sides were humanoid, neither had any particular natural physical advantage or disadvantage. And if you were just talking about pure fists-and-feet technique, while Li Pu wasn’t a hundred thousand miles behind the Fire Skeleton, the gap was definitely pretty big.

The real reason he could turn the tables and suppress the other side all came down to a single Summoner skill: [Gravity Field].

It was only when he ran into close combat on this level that Li Pu realized just how absolutely broken this skill was.

With his current degree of mastery, he could release or alter gravity or buoyancy anytime, anywhere.

For example, when the Fire Skeleton threw a punch, if he instantly applied buoyancy, its punch path would float upward, and he could easily dodge it.

Then once it adapted to that buoyancy, if he suddenly switched it back to gravity, he could even make a punch originally aimed at his chest slam into the floor instead.

Especially since the opponent was a skeleton, every time it launched an attack, the joint twists and power-up motions were laid bare.

All Li Pu had to do was use [Gravity Field] at the right moment on whatever body part was exerting force, and it was easy to throw its movements into chaos.

The only drawback in this state was that frequently casting and switching [Gravity Field] put a massive strain on his mind.

But with the current depth of his Spiritual Sea, he could totally handle that level of load.

On the Fire Skeleton’s side, however, it was gradually getting pissed.

Under that bizarre force constantly appearing out of nowhere, its attacks either missed or didn’t land solidly.

It felt like swinging with all its might only to hit cotton every time—utterly irritating.

[Damn it, ka!]

Borrowing a fierce movement, it broke out of the melee and opened up some distance from Li Pu again.

But to be fair, the Fire Skeleton hadn’t come away empty-handed.

With all those large movements just now, at some point it had clearly felt its body become lighter.

That meant it was getting more used to this skeleton frame, which was good news and basically achieved the goal of this sparring.

"After all that, it still doesn’t work, huh."

This time it was Li Pu who frowned first.

Because he’d landed plenty of solid hits on the Fire Skeleton just now, yet the other guy’s whole body was still completely unscathed.

In other words, even with Bubu’s [Possession] and himself in his strongest state, he still couldn’t break through that tough skeleton.

[Trading punches with you is way too suffocating, ka ka ka]

But the Fire Skeleton acknowledged Li Pu’s level as well, and then it actually turned and began forming a Spell seal.

[But the moves I’m about to use next, I’m afraid you won’t have such an easy time dealing with them]

Its hand seals flew incredibly fast, cycling through dozens of mudras in just one second, making everyone’s eyes blur.

Fwoom~!

As the Spell seal finished, the Fire Skeleton’s body suddenly enlarged.

More accurately, the flames on its body swelled in volume.

And it was no longer a random flickering burn, but took shape into sharp-edged, clearly delineated Flame Armor that looked like it had substance.

The Flame Armor, like the previous flames, was red laced with gold.

But the proportion of gold was heavier now, more intense.

This was Flame Armor the Fire Skeleton had specially crafted for this body.

Its purpose wasn’t to enhance its physique, meaning it didn’t really help with close-combat capability.

Instead, it was more like an amplifier, increasing this body’s control and manipulation over fire.

Snap!

At this moment, it snapped its fingers, and above Li Pu’s head a massive Fireball appeared out of thin air, plummeting like a meteorite.

World-ending!

That was the only thought that crossed everyone’s minds when they saw that Fireball.

The scorching heat felt like it would roast them alive in an instant.

Yet Li Pu, wearing his kangaroo hat, lifted his head, and the blue light in his eyes only grew stronger, as if conveying some sort of joy.

The opportunity he’d been waiting for had finally come.

Just as the massive Fireball was about to smash into his face, he suddenly opened his mouth.

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