After a few seconds had passed...
Currently, the Dokkaen, who was now lying on the yellow ground some meters away from the explosion site, stared at the cloudless bright sky with a nk face...
As the explosion had urred too close to its body, causing it to have a heavy concussion, ears deaf, eyes blurred, and body numb...
Soon...
*Cough*
*Cough*
The Dokkaen suddenly coughed up green blood from the mouth as it appeared that some of its internal organs were damaged from the impact earlier.
After coughing for a few seconds, the Dokkaen finally gained back some senses. Then it struggled up from the ground with difficulty...
*Huff* *Huff*
*Huff* *Huff*
The muscr green skin ounder huffed in and out from its nose and mouth like it had just undergone and finished an arduous session of exercise...
Eventually, it shook its head from left to right to reduce the numbness in the head before suddenly realizing a round object with protruding needles was stabbing firmly on its bare chest...
The protruding needles stabbing on its chest right now were none other than the morningstar''s nged head.
It appeared that the explosion earlier had propelled the nged head back towards the Dokkaen''s bare chest, causing the sharp needles to prate deep inside its green flesh.
The muscr green creature gritted its teeth very strongly upon seeing the sight and took a deep breath before finally pulling the nged head out of its chest.
*Plush*
Followed the plushing sound from the needles being pulled out, fresh green blood started oozing out from the small wounds continually.
''I underestimate him... The human mage had cast three spells within five seconds... How did he do it?'' The wounded Dokkaaen thought to himself in dismay, puzzlement, and pain.
It shouldn''t have underestimated the human, after all...
In fact, if Jeremy were a ss-1 True Mage, the battle would have ended even before the Dokkaen could take the first step in his direction.
After thinking about the human, the injured Dokkaen had finally realized something,
''Where is he!?'' The Dokkaen thought in a hurried manner.
It realized that the battle hadn''t ended yet, so it turned left and right to find the damnable human mage, Jeremy...
Even after turning its head left and right for some seconds, the Dokkaen still couldn''t find Jeremy anywhere within the oval amphitheater.
How was that even possible?
Well, it was possible because Jeremy was using the [Stealth] skill and was standing still under a shadowing shade within the arena.
As the wounded Dokkaen was sweeping its eyes around hurriedly, inpliment with its two blurred eyes from the explosion earlier had made it unable to spot the stealthy Jeremy under the shade.
''Mana Bolt''
Jeremy thought inwardly while seeing the Dokkaen was now looking in another direction.
At this moment...
Upon turning its head around the arena for two full rounds, the Dokkaen finally saw something, but...
Unfortunately, the thing it had spotted was not Jeremy, but another deadly mana bolt came bolting towards it.
*Whoosh*
A mana bolt bigger than a tennis ball''s size came flying towards the Dokkaen at breakneck speed, leaving the unprepared green creature to look in hopelessness and despair...
Due to its unpreparedness, it could only raise the two arms to defend against the iing deathly ball of mana...
With one-hundred-percent sheer instinct, the muscr creature drove every ounce of wind elemental energy from within its dantians towards the two thick arms in front of its body.
The wounded Dokkaen intended to brace itself for a direct deadly impact...
A split secondter, the mana bolt finally arrived before the creature''s arms...
*BOOOMMMM!!!*
Another big explosion rang out once again for the fourth time within mere ten seconds after the battle had started.
It was such a sight to behold...
Every time after an explosion had urred, even before the dust and dirt could fall back down to the ground, another explosion and wave of yellow dust came creating new havoc once again.
As for the wounded Dokkaen...
Unfortunately, the wind-elemental energy did not excel in defending against any types of attacks in the least, so even if its body was solid and strong like metal, it had to bend and break after this explosion...
*Whoosh*
The Dokkaen''s heavy body was blown away towards the wall behind...
If one looked closely at the creature''s two arms, they would see them clearly bend in the awkward manners...
Any onlooker would know instinctively that,
At best, the two arms couldn''t be used anymore...
At worst, the two arms would be permanently damaged...
And no matter what the case was, one thing was sure. That sure thing was the Dokkaen warrior had just lost in a battle against the human mage, Jeremy, so badly at that.
In fact, the green skin hobgoblin couldn''t even reach Jeremy''s vicinity, so it shouldn''t be called ''battle'', but ''one-sided beating'' instead.
*Thump*
Not long after, the creature''srge body finally hit against the stone wall, creating a thumping noise before its body slid down to the dirt ground.
Meanwhile...
*Scroooooch....*
Jeremy was strolling with the big morningstar in hand while letting the nged head scraping against the dirt ground along the way towards the motionless Dokkaen...
Shortly after, the ''unscratched'' Jeremy finally arrived approximately four meters away from the lying-still creature, as he thought it was the optimum distance to attack and defend against the current Dokkaen if it somehow red up with the thought of making the final struggle.
However, was that even possible in the first ce from the creature''s conditions?
But better be safe than sorry; that was always our sage''s mindset...
"Impressive... Your fighting power should easily be on par with our humans'' ss-1 Warrior. Well, even after receiving one mana bolt directly with your body, you are still alive and breathing..."
Jeremy said towards the Dokkaen in the universalnguage to probe if it would respond to him or not.
"..."
However, the result was clear; the Dokkaenid utterly still with no response...
"Emm... You hear me?"
"..."
Jeremy decided to try again, but also received the same result, so he said for thest time,
"Nevermind me then..."
Having said so, Jeremy walked two steps ahead before using his two hands to hold the morningstar''s handle.
''Ah, shit. It''s so heavy...'' Jeremy thought while gritting his teeth slightly.
Then...
*Whoosh*
The protruding nged head was swung urately towards the unconscious Dokkaen''s head with the whooshing sound...
*Pleh!*
With no theatrical or climactic event urring whatsoever, the Dokkaen''s head was smashed heavily by the big metal nged head, causing it to be dented and distorted inwardly.
As a result, the disgusting mix of white brain and green blood spraying everywhere; Jeremy''s ck cloak even got some of the awful stains on it.
"YAYYYY!!!"
"We got a winner!!"
"Cheers!!!"
"I see blood!!!"
"The challenger won again!!!"
After the Dokkaen warrior''s head was crushed indentedly by the nged head, the half-sentient people on the stone seats simultaneously shouted at the end of their lungs, creating the sonorous excitement within the rip-off Zodia Arena.
Meanwhile...
A certain someone seemed to be unsatisfied...
''If only I can wield mana at will. If only I were a true mage... Every battle will be just a piece of cake...''
Jeremy thought with a slight frown while looking at the Dokkaen''s shapeless head.
Soon, a window of notifications containing the hard-earned rewards showed up ahead of Jeremy....