The Invincible Corruption Manual

This was the first time he witnessed someone regaining their consciousness within a few seconds after being entrapped successfully. "Who the hell is this brat?!" He murmured to himself.

"Ha ha ha, I was almost lost there. So the darkness law can also be used that way." Joey laughed and further announced loudly, "Since you are able to enchant my soul even for a few seconds, you can be proud of yourself. Then as a reward, I shall show you something really amazing."

Suddenly a colorful longbow appeared in his left hand. As soon as it appeared in his hand, a white flame began to glow in his right hand's index finger and it began to gnaw and vanished completely after his index finger was gone.

"Hah, an archer who burned his own index finger. Am I seeing things here?! What is really going on " The assassin was baffled on seeing it, but he soon calmed himself down and muttered, "Fine, what tricks you are going to use?" He completely misunderstood Joey as he thought that this was his own doing of crippling himself or even looking down on him. But he was more curious to see what would Joey do with his action.

Joey began to chant a mantra in Sanskrit and he finally shouted, "Agni Astra[1], come forth!" And an auburn arrow appeared on his right hand. He then closed his eyes and sent his consciousness inside his heart and kept his attention on the black lotus holding in the hand of the miniature tanned version of himself sitting cross-legged in between the two heart roots. A dot-sized amount of black essence qi was taken out from one petal of the black lotus. The black dot was infused into the auburn color arrow, and his eyes opened.

He then put the arrow on the bows, tugged it along with the bowstring, making a crescent shape, aimed at the incoming greenish-black giant sword toward him, and released it with a twang sound of the bowstring.

The auburn arrow quickly bolted high up in the air and suddenly began to glow red and transformed into a crimson red fireball.

Bang!

The two skills met high above in the air making a loud banging sound as soon as they met contact with each other. The two skills; one a giant crimson red fireball and the other a greenish-black giant sword pushed each other producing an irritating squeaking sound of teeth and trying to overpower each other.

For ten minutes, the two skills went into a draw. At that time, unwilling to accept such an outcome, the assassin bit his own tongue and sped some of his essence blood into his sword and he began chanting a spell. Soon the longsword quickly absorbed it and began to shine brightly.

The next instant the longsword began to vibrate, and rapidly increased, producing a humming sound like that of a bee.

The giant sword which was currently facing the full all-out attack of the fire-ball began to vibrate too and soon produced a humming sound. When the two humming sound waves transversing all around them met in the air, they happened to enter into a resonance state, and soon both the giant sword and the longsword in the assassin's hand began to vibrate more vigorously that someone might see that he had thousands of hands holding the same swords.

Similarly, the giant sword also vibrated at a godly frequency level that after-images of thousands of itself began to appear around it. Not only that its power began to increase sharply and gradually it began to overpower the giant fireball which wrapped around the tiny auburn-color arrow right at the center. The fireball began to diminish in size gradually.

At that time, the assassin happened to look at Joey and saw that he was still calm as usual. "Brat, are you just acting? Or do you still have something up your sleeve? " he hushed softly below the audible tone.

Gradually, the giant sword began to gain upper hand and the fireball began to diminish exactly half the size of the original one.

Still, the assassin saw that Joey was doing nothing at all. He then sneered, "Keep acting, damn brat! Soon, my giant sword skill will overpower your skill and kill you."

But just at the moment, the giant sword met contact with the auburn-colored arrow for the first time, a small dot began to shine for an instance brightly on the very tip of the arrow.

Unlike the notion of breaking the arrow the moment it made contact with the giant sword didn't happen as the assassin imagined. Instead for some reason, he began to feel that the power within the giant longsword began to plummet at an extremely fast rate.

Within a few seconds, the giant sword began to fade and vanished quickly in the air, leaving only the auburn Agni Astra arrow in the air.

"What the hell?! No, no no… that's not possible at all." The assassin screamed. And he was dumbfounded by the sudden turning of the tide in Joey's favor. What was more depressing was that he could not figure out how the hell was happening just now?

The auburn arrow abruptly changed its direction and kept dashing toward the assassin. Soon, it hit exactly at his chest, missing his heart by half a centimeter.

The assassin was also aware of it, too. He sighed and began to rejoice in his heart for his luck as he hold the arrow and tried to take it out. But the moment he touched it, deep inside his flesh, the tip of the Agni Astra began to shake, emitting a luster black glow once and soon it began to absorb the poison essence qi and darkness essence qi, storing inside his body at an extremely fast rate. Actually, it was just a speck of the corruption essence qi that Joey previously imbued inside the Agni Astra arrow. It was the hidden card that he added before he released the arrow as he knew that this very corruption essence qi had the strong property to absorbed both the darkness essence qi and the poison essence qi.

[1]Agni Astra: Agni means fire and Astra means Celestial weapon in Sanskrit.