The Supreme God

When Marvin saw the distance between Austin and himself was narrowing, he was overjoyed. In an attempt to upset Austin, now and then, Marvin taunted him.

'Wow! Marvin is one persistent guy!'

Austin determined. Since he couldn't change it, he ignored Marvin completely and focused on escaping instead.

"Boy, you won't get away! You should just give up. If you hand over the earth spirit fruits now, perhaps I'll spare your worthless life."

"You want my earth spirit fruits? Then go get them yourself!" snapped Austin over his shoulder as he leaped over a massive row of thorny undergrowth. After landing on the other side, Austin realized that his body's vital energy would be depleted soon.

There was a loud bang from behind Austin which sent thick twigs and leaves flying through the air as Marvin began trudging through the brambly thorns!

Thorny branches and twigs that blocked his way, shattered, whizzing into the sky when Marvin's potent vital energy collided past.

As he made his way through the underbrush, a long passageway right down the middle was created.

"Crash! Crush! Smash!"

Rather than go around the boulders blocking Marvin, he slammed into them!

The large stones instantly disintegrated and dusty rubble was all that remained.

"Hey, you don't need to be so desperate, do you? It's no big deal! Just a few fruits!"

Austin called out over his shoulder as he continued trying to put more distance between himself and his fearsome pursuant.

A few steps more and Austin saw a swamp come into view ahead of him.

He quickly scanned it with his spiritual sense and then, overjoyed, Austin beamed. He had a brilliant idea.

Picking up speed, Austin rushed at the swamp in the distance.

"Brat! We'll just see how much further you can get!" jeered Marvin, gnashing his teeth and drawing more vital energy to speed up.

In a flash, Austin was in the swamp.

"Ssh!" the noise of metal scraping leather reverberated as Austin unsheathed his sword.

There was a swoosh, when his vital energy imbued blade cut through the air as Austin thrust at floating driftwood.

He struck the wood with only one strike. Then, he turned and darted to the forest without glancing behind him.

Heart pounding, as his adrenaline raced through his veins with his blood, Austin ducked behind a towering cedar tree in the blink of an eye before continuing to flee farther into the forest.

"You should slow down, enjoy your run!" shouted Austin right before he vanished.

Behind him, in the swamp Austin had left a surprise for Marvin.

"Roar!"

dense, rolling noise from the bowels of the swamp, met with the water splashing followed by a grumble

in every direction as the wood

layers of sludge dripped from the wood, slowly

and formidable tail swept across the surface like a steel whip, making

by the tail, rained

lizard's left eye was bleeding. A tell-tale sign of

were only a few places on a giant rock lizard that were weak, and the eyes happened to

because of the force of Austin's impact, and the lizard was in a great deal of pain.

wildly, the cold-blooded reptile burned

in the

Marvin's greeting as he got to

incensed giant rock lizard

stumpy legs, the

lizard sprang up, and with mud splashing, it pounced

lizard naturally thought Marvin was his attacker, and

the lizard suffered wasn't

the lizard was deceived by

the enormous lizard unleashed its fury for the old and recent grudges

giant rock lizard's spleen, Marvin went slightly pale in the face. He didn't dare

howled as he swung his vital energy

the sound of his fist pummeling into the thick, hard, uneven scaled skull of the giant rock lizard reverberated through the air.

the lizard, Marvin was thrown back several feet and the wind was knocked from

the marsh and

his ground and remain unharmed when his fist bashed into the giant rock lizard, he didn't get the upper hand, either.

direction of the forest he

It was

over Marvin and he glowered back at the giant rock lizard. It crouched down, ready to strike again at any moment.

Don't blame me for what

of dreadful vital energy rushed forth.

low-grade spiritual weapons, a silver trident, suddenly materialized in

a ferocious silver dragon and lunged at the giant rock lizard.

a terrible roar, the giant lizard fearlessly

two clashed, battling

forest, Austin slowed his pace.

of the ensuing battle between Marvin and the beast,

could go this

fact, when he came across the swamp, he recognized it immediately and knew it was the habitat of

to search the swamp and discovered the

inspiring idea hit

Marvin and give him a chance

merely paused briefly before rushing off at breakneck speed through the forest.

lizard wasn't much of a match