Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

324  323: Coward

"Poison!"

Zephyr shouted with a tone filled with shock and disgust as he felt his body warning him of something foreign and dangerous in his system.

He quickly jumped back, escaping from the range of Old Man Poison's staff.

His eyes glowed with a bright orange light, and he observed his body. His vision changed to an infrared vision, and when he observed his body, he noticed a black substance subtly spreading around his internal system.

'If my body wasn't so sensitive to my internal heat changes, I wouldn't have known about the poison, and I would have died about thirty minutes later.'

Zephyr calmly thought, then he glanced at Old Man Poison, who calmly twirled his staff with a slight smile.

"People like you truly disgust me. You can never defeat an opponent with your own strength, and you have to rely on a cowardly thing like poison."

Zephyr spoke with unveiled disgust and disdain, and Old Man Poison nonchalantly cleaned his ears with his pinky.

"Say something different will ya? I've heard something similar before."

Zephyr's expression became cold when he heard and saw Old Man Poison's nonchalant tone and expression.

He was tired of people weaker than him looking at him like he was an ant and not a threat.

First, it was a tier 2.

Now, it was a cowardly tier 4 who used poison to fight.

The level of disrespect he received from these two individuals infuriated him.

Whoosh!

The air around Zephyr became warmer, and with a cold expression, Zephyr increased his body's temperature to a very high degree.

He intended on burning the poison in his body to nothingness.

Although he had only fought one poison user, and that was when he was a tier 3, he learned from the fight and knew that a method to remove poison from his body was to increase his body temperature to the extreme.

If the heat was high enough, any poison could be burnt.

With this thought in his mind, he calmly and confidently increased his body's temperature, and Old Man Poison raised a brow.

Zephyr saw that, and he frowned. He was baffled.

Just as he was about to speak, his expression changed, and he covered his mouth.

COUGH!

A torrent amount of black blood spewed out from his throat, staining his hand and clothes in the process.

Thud

He fell on his knees, and his vision became hazy. His breathing became labored, and his body became weak, with sweat dripping all over his body.

Tap Tap

"It seems you guys really lack combat experience."

Old Man Poison's voice flowed into Zephyr's ears, and Zephyr tried to look up, but he failed… miserably.

"The poison in your system is a mid-tier 4 poison, which is one of my favorites."

Old Man Poison crouched and gazed at Zephyr with an emotionless expression.

"I call the poison Thermic toxin. Under normal circumstances, the poison is meant to take a long time before it kills you."

"Now, this is why I like the poison. The poison's potency increases the more heat it is exposed to."

Zephyr's eyes widened the instant he heard Old Man Poison's voice.

His head snapped towards Old Man Poison. His facial expression contained an extreme amount of unconcealed shock, and his eyes flashed with a light of realization.

"It seems your underdeveloped brain can comprehend what I'm saying. That's good."

Old Man Poison calmly spoke while nodding his head. He stood, and with a soft groan, he bent his back backward.

"Damn. It's not good to be old."

Cough! Cough!

Old Man Poison chuckled softly while shaking his head. He looked at Zephyr, who was coughing out another copious amount of black blood.

"As I was saying. The more heat the poison is exposed to, the more its potency increases."

"Normally, when I use this poison, what increases its potency is when the opponent is worked up and fights in a prolonged fight. Since you're a fire user, the poison's potency would obviously increase the more we fought. But…"

Old Man Poison paused, then he released a chuckle filled with mockery as he looked at Zephyr, who was struggling to remain on his knees.

"You just had to release so much heat on the poison. Now the poison is most likely a tier 5 poison, you know."

Old Man Poison softly exhaled, then he went to a nearby crate which was not destroyed and sat on it.

"I thought I was going to have a very difficult fight, but this… this is extremely disappointing."

09:06

Zephyr released a guttural groan of anger, and he raised his right hand.

"Y-you c-coward!"

Zephyr shouted, and flames appeared on his raised right hand.

Old Man Poison raised his brows, and with a bored expression on his face, he pointed his staff at Zephyr.

The orb on the staff and Old Man Poison's glowed with a dark green light, and in the next instant, Zephyr's eyes widened.

GAHHHH!

Zephyr screamed, and with a loud thud, he fell face flat onto the ground.

ARGHHH!

Zephyr curled up in a ball while holding his stomach with a pained cry.

"I wanted to give you a painless death, but since you don't know your place, I'll make you regret your last minutes in this life."

Old Man Poison spoke with an emotionless expression as he gazed at Zephyr, who was screaming in pain and rage.

Meanwhile,

Zephyr was currently going through various emotions along with an unimaginable amount of pain.

Old Man Poison had directed the poison to move into his mana core, which was completely comprised of fire elemental energies.

His mana core was the hottest part of his body, and it was so hot that a lot of the poison in his body evaporated. But, a minute amount survived, and they adapted to the heat in his mana core.

The minute amount that survived and adapted shockingly multiplied, and they ravaged his mana core with ravenous ferocity.

Zephyr gritted his teeth, and a second later, he laughed.

He laughed so hard that Corey, Dante, Fatty Black Bonez, and the rest could hear despite how far they were.

"You'll die you coward! You'll definitely die you coward! I promise you that!"

Zephyr shouted with a delirious tone and expression.

His mind was in shambles, and his will to live was no more.

His mana core had cracks on it and was getting destroyed by Old Man Poison's poison.

Although he knew that there would be a treasure or herb in the House of Hellfire that would be able to heal his cracked mana core. He knew that the House would not use such a herb or treasure on him.

He was not an important member of the House of Hellfire, nor was he the most talented individual in the House of Hellfire.

Although he was a top talent in the House of Hellfire, he was not that important that the House would decide to use a precious treasure or herb on him.

'If it's him, then they'll definitely use everything they have to heal him.'

Zephyr thought with a maddened grin as the image of a handsome black-haired male with red and brown eyes flashed in his eyes.

He looked at Old Man Poison, who was looking at him with an emotionless expression.

'I'll see if you'll still have the same expression when the House makes all of you one of their targets.'

Zephyr thought with a chuckle, then he coughed out another copious amount of black blood, and a teardrop flowed down his left eye.

"I wonder whether Father would care about my death."

Zephyr mumbled, then the light in his eyes faded, and his breathing stilled.

Zephyr died.