An Extra Who Wants To Escape The Obsessive Male Lead - Chapter 97.1
Chapter 97.1
—Crackle!
Diello Argenta’s flames were even hotter than he had imagined. The way the water instantly turned into steam and disappeared was almost awe-inspiring.
Duke Alors gritted his teeth.
He was trying to draw in more magical power to attract water from the vicinity. At this rate, he wouldn’t be able to send a signal to Pentas!
‘The plan was to signal him to raise the water level of the river and create a fountain and then attack Diello from both sides.’
He definitely had a plan like that, but there wasn’t enough water to make a fountain. No, he didn’t have the time to focus on that.
—Clang!
The sword made of water barely managed to block Diello’s fire-engulfed sword.
As if he had expected the sword to be blocked, Diello loosened his grip on the sword’s handle.
—Thud.
His hand, which seemed about to drop the sword, instantly grabbed the sword in the opposite direction. And then he thrust the sword in as if he were passing by Duke Alors.
“!”
Surprised, Duke Alors leaned back, though he couldn’t avoid the sword grazing him. Since when did this b*stard become so good with a sword?
“This…!”
Duke Alors gritted his teeth.
It wasn’t difficult to draw in water itself. Even though he didn’t know why there wasn’t enough water in the nearby river, it wasn’t as if the entire Argenta was parched. The problem was that it took too much magical power… and Diello was a stronger opponent than he had expected.
—Whoop!
While he was thinking about something else for a moment, Diello’s flames came close enough to burn him.
“This d*mn kid…! Don’t ignore Kellius Alors!”
—Roar!
The river water he had drawn in from outside barely managed to create a barrier and block the flames. But perhaps because the flames were too hot and sharp, they evaporated part of the water barrier and rushed towards the Duke.
—Grab!
Duke Alors grabbed the flames with his water-filled hand. At the same time, he raised water from the other side.
—Splash!
The water that had been splashing on the floor instantly tried to surround Diello Argenta.
“….!”
Diello, his brows furrowed, pulled back, pulling out his sword. It was good that he had caught Duke Alors off guard. It was also good that he had managed to inflict minor wounds on Duke Alors, but he couldn’t deliver the final blow.
Duke Alors had more water at his disposal than he had expected, and besides,
—Whoop!
If he created flames…
—Grab!
Instead of trying to extinguish the flames, Duke Alors simply threw them out. The enemy was someone who knew how to fight fire with water. While he knew he wasn’t an easy opponent, he was more than he had imagined.
And also,
—Crackle, thud…
The flames that he had thrown out began to create small sparks in various places in the conference room. The heavy air and the water vapor left by Duke Alors’s water filled the conference room.
“This conference room is made of a material that is easy to catch fire.”
“This seems to be advantageous for our battle.”
“As Your Excellency said, Argenta become stronger in places with a lot of fire.”
Remembering Rick’s words, Diello bit his lip until it bled. He thought it didn’t matter because he could always put out the fire. He thought he could easily kill Duke Alors if the fire got stronger and that he would be able to escape soon.
“Scary.”
As a child, he had been afraid of fire, but now he was the head of the Argenta, who controlled fire.
There was no reason to be afraid of fire anymore. The fire was something he could control at any time. Even if the heat that seemed to engulf him like it did when he was a child surrounded him, he wouldn’t have to sit there helplessly.
However, there was a problem.
—Crackle!
The more he evaporated the water, the more the heat, which was already hot and suffocating, rose. The more the steam rose, the more he felt like he was suffocating. This was heat, but it was due to water.
In other words, it was heat that he couldn’t control.
“Scary.”
“I can’t do anything.”
The helplessness of his childhood was about to resurface.
Even though he knew it was ridiculous, his memories were instinctively consuming him.
This heat was trying to kill him.
His father, who had locked him up outside, intended to burn him to death if he couldn’t get out of this heat even though he knew that the one who created this heat was not his father and that the man was no longer in the world.
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