128 WRATH WREAKS CODES
"I knew someone with Wrath before. Her weakness was Lust," Leo mused.
"How do you plan to use lust against him?" Yun-Yun asked skeptically.
"I'm not. Just trying to lighten the mood," Leo quipped with a smirk.
"Can you two be serious? He's almost here!" Petunia interjected, her frustration evident.
"Do you still have those bees?" Yun-Yun asked Leo.
He nodded.
Agathae's enraged voice boomed across the swamp. "Did you kill my brother Ashaca?"
Leo's expression was calm, but his words were calculated to provoke. "Who the hell is Ashaca?" he asked coldly.
Agathae's fury exploded.
"It's unwise to provoke him!" Petunia warned. "His strength grows with his anger!"
Leo smirked. "And mine grows when I humiliate people. Let's see who's better at the game."
Petunia rolled her eyes. "This isn't funny!"
"Why are you worried? He's not coming after you," Leo said dismissively.
"We're a team," she retorted.
"No, we're not," Leo shot back.
"Don't be harsh. Petunia's only trying to help," Yun-Yun said calmly.
"You're not worried, either?" Petunia asked, glancing at Yun-Yun.
Yun-Yun smiled faintly, her confidence unshaken.
Agathae reached them, roaring with fury. "I'll kill you!" Without hesitation, he lunged at Leo.
Agathae's speed was staggering, a clear advantage of his Tier 4 Svad power. Leo, at Tier 3, struggled to match him, even with the enhancements from the Dragon Rakhshasa Transformation Sutra.
The clash was brutal.
Agathae's sword flashed toward Leo, while Leo deflected it with conjured dragon claws. Each block forced him into close combat—a dangerous position against Agathae's overwhelming strength.
"You're so slow! How did you even kill Ashaca?" Agathae spat, his strikes were relentless.
"Did I say I killed him? You said that, not me," Leo replied with a taunting smirk.
For a brief moment, doubt flickered in Agathae's eyes, but his rage quickly smothered it. His attacks grew faster and more ferocious, driven by the wrath that fueled him.
Leo was being overwhelmed. His dragon claws deflected many blows, but not all—Agathae's strength was too great. He was struck in many places.
Agathae's sword tore through Leo's defenses, but luckily for him, his conjured dragon scales of the Dragon Rakhshasa Sutra absorbed much of the damage.
"Damnit, I'll be toast without the body armor", Leo protested.
Even so, the armor wouldn't last forever.
"There's one thing about Wrath players you should know," Yun-Yun said suddenly. "In a frenzied state, they can't cast spells. Their magic deteriorates. They rely entirely on physical combat."
"Understood… a weakness," Leo replied tersely.
"Hey, flame head, your speed sucks", Leo shouted to Agathae suddenly.
"Why are you flaring his anger some more?" Petunia shouted.
"He's making him angrier", Yun-Yun replied with a smile.
"I don't understand," Petunia asked.
"He's making him reveal his weakness", she said.
Suddenly, Agathae's strikes became erratic, his movements wild and unfocused. Confusion overtook him. Leo leapt back, putting distance between them.
"What's happening? Why isn't he attacking properly?" murmured the onlookers.
Something was happening to Agathae which affected his fight.
"What is this? Why can't I see? Did you poison me?" Agathae roared, panic creeping into his voice.
Leo smirked. The poison was from his specially prepared bees who found a way through Agathe's magic defense that was deteriorating and biting him.
The poison was taking effect, inducing temporary blindness in him.
"You won't escape me! This poison won't last forever!" Agathae bellowed.
Leo didn't give him the chance.
"All you can escape from is your underwear", Leo screamed.
Summoning a dozen ferocious black hounds, he sent them charging at Agathae. The beasts clawed and bit, keeping him on the defensive.
"Summon Ravenous Hounds."
Agathae roared and activated his Gajah Body Transformation Sutra fully, summoning a powerful elephantine armor around his body as shields.
"It'll take more than a few dogs to kill me!" he shouted.
"At the way you are hitting, you'll kill yourself first", Leo responded.
Agathae was still blinded and hitting around aimlessly.
Petunia was clueless and confused, "What is he trying to do?"
Suddenly, Leo closed the distance, his dragon claws slashing through the air. With a powerful strike, he pierced Agathae's heart, breaking through his conjured elephantine armor at the same time.
Agathae gasped, his strength fading. "How… How did you break through my armor?"
Leo's voice was cold. "What armor? I didn't see any."
As Agathae collapsed, his life extinguished, the crowd fell into stunned silence. Agathae is dead.
"How did he defeat a mid-tier Svad?" someone whispered.
"He's a demon. That's why," another replied.
The crowd quickly dispersed and ran away as far as possible, fearful that Leo's wrath might turn toward them next.
"How did you kill him?" Petunia asked as Leo walked back toward them, his steps calm and unhurried.
"His summoned armor deteriorates as his wrath accelerates, its only time that he would become defenseless," Leo replied matter-of-factly.
Petunia frowned, seeking clarity. "Wrath increases his strength and speed. How does that weaken his armor?"
"Wrath amplifies physical prowess at the cost of magic stability," Leo explained. "The stronger his rage grew, the more unstable his magic became. His elephantine armor was powerful, but it deteriorated as his wrath overwhelmed him."
"How did you know that?" Petunia pressed, clearly intrigued.
Leo offered a faint smirk. "It's a secret."
Beside him, Yun-Yun chuckled softly, her smile a mix of amusement and admiration. "See, I told you so," she gloated proudly.
"Yes, wrath wrecks magic but…", Petunia murmured.
The truth, however, was more complicated than that.
Leo possessed a unique ability: through his control panel, he could perceive the magical structures of others as intricate codes. This allowed him to analyze their strengths, weaknesses, and even the stability of their magic.
This wasn't his first encounter with Agathae.
During their earlier meeting in the swamp, Leo had observed Agathae's Gajah Body Transformation Sutra in its flawless state. At that time, the armor had been near-perfect—impenetrable. The codes linking the elephantine armor was perfectly woven together without broken bugs everywhere.
But as Leo fought him now, he noticed a critical shift.