"Keukeuk.. Aren't you a bit too confident with your strength? Or perhaps are you really a worthy opponent for me?" Bruke said.
Swoosh!
Syla pushed her legs against the chunk of walls beneath her and launched herself towards Bruke, she prepared a fireball in her right hand and was about to hit him with it, when suddenly he swiped his feets to the side and dodged her attack.
"Tch!" Syla immediately realized that her attack had failed and resorted to another one without giving the man a chance for a counter attack.
She spun her body and tried to land a kick at Bruke's stomach, but it was blocked by his hands. The man was plunged into the walls made out of soil, causing a loud boom to be heard, Syla then conjured another fireball and shoots it at the same direction.
Boom!
"Amazing, that power is dangerous." As if being whispered by the devil itself, Syla was shocked to see Bruke appeared behind her like a ghostly figure.
If it wasn't for her rapid reaction time that was honed through vigorous training over a decade, Syla would suffer a fatal injury as the man didn't waste any time to swung his fist at her face.
Syla blocked the punch using both of her hands as a shield, the impact made her body flew backwards a few meters, but not enough to hit the wall behind her.
As soon as she managed to block the attack, Syla was hit with a throbbing pain in her hands as a stream of blood began to pour from both of her hands.
'Shit, his strength is no joke.. Is he a superhuman!?' Syla thought.
"You're more interesting than i thought, quick thinking, a body that's as hard as a steel, and magic power that could destroy a building– It's a shame that i can't make you mine." Bruke mumbled as his mouth frowned in disappointment.
Swoosh!
Boom!
While Bruke was talking and was about to grab something from his pocket, Syla saw an opportunity within that split second of time, instead of using a fireball like before, Syla had to improvise her magic and also imaginative capabilities.
She summoned a flame wall that emerged from below like a boiling magma, engulfing everything in a circle around him as the flame raged endlessly.
"Huh?" Bruke was caught off guard by Syla's new spell, he who was going to grab the mysterious glass vial in his pocket suddenly had to regain his focus and escape from the flame wall, but it was too late.
After all, crucial decision can be made even within a fraction of a second. And this time, Bruke was being overconfident in his ability that he purposefully lowered his guard.
After the wall of flame covered every inch of the area, trapping the man within its fury, Syla watched in the distance as she waited for any sign of movement from him.
Then, as she had expected, Syla saw a fireball coming straight towards her.
"Guh!" She grunted.
Boom!
With another explosion that happened, another house that barely survived from Syla's fireball previously now also began to crumble, similar to a domino effect, the cobblestone house gradually fell into ruins as the debris flew out into every directions.
"This is bad!" Syla looked behind and saw a massive stone falling right above her, if she doesn't move now, she would be crushed.
Crash!
Thankfully Syla was able to dodge the falling stone at the last critical moment, but because of that, Syla lost focus with her magic and the flame dome that trapped Bruke inside earlier soon began to fade away.
"Fuck! Is he dead yet!?" Syla cursed, hoping that within the time he was inside the fire dome, he would already be burned to death.
After the flame had completelt dissipated, Syla's face turned into horror with what she saw infront of her. As it turns out, Bruke unexpectedly survived the suffocating wall of flames, however it seems like he wasn't able to fully tank the scorching heat as Syla noticed that his entire body was covered with burn marks, it wouldn't be strange if he dropped dead at that moment.
"DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU!! DIE ALREADY!" Syla screamed at him, she dashed forward, her crimson eyes glowing with intense glare as she stretched her hand towards the man as if she was going to choke him.
"Shit!" Bruke got startled when he saw Syla's face being right infront of him, with all of his remaining strength, he raised his hand up and summoned a fireball, targeting for Syla's stomach as they watched whose attack will hit its target first.
Boom!
An impact was made, and from the perspective of the skinny man that was the muscular man's subordinate that had been watching the fight the whole time, his face was utterly terrified as he saw Syla slamming Bruke's face to the ground, his fireball instantly evaporated from his hand since he lost focus, it was only a few milimeters away from hitting Syla, yet in the end, she won the game.
"KAGHAAKK!!" Bruke groaned, blood began to splatter from his mouth, his back skull was crushed by the sheer force of impact with the ground beneath him, his vision turned blurry all of a sudden and he could only helplessly see Syla's angry expression as she clenched her other fist and hit his face as hard as she could.
THWACK!
THWACK
Throughout the whole execution, Syla was quiet, with no intention of saying anything infront of Bruke, she kept a cold face, not a single remorse can be seen in her cat-like eyes, and after two punches, Bruke had already lost the ability to speak, his nose was shattered, and his brain almost turned into mush. However Syla wasn't done yet, she made sure that the man was still concious, after a few seconds of silence, Syla then let go of her grip on Bruke's neck and instead began directing her punch there, her fist was clenched so hard that her nails began to dig deep into her skin.
Eventually, Syla also suffered a few bleedings on her palm, though it wasn't as bad as the man who was constantly being hit on his neck, when Syla realized that his neck was about to rip open, she then imagined a fire coating her fist before slamming it down as hard as she could.
BAM!
That final punch tore through the man's bone and into the other side through the rubbles beneath as the man's head detached from his body before rolling down onto the lowest terrain there is.
'F- FUCK!! T- THAT BITCH ACTUALLY KILLED BRUKE!!' The skinny man who was watching couldn't believe his eyes, even though half of his body was buried under the rubbles, he couldn't care less about the pain as what he just see was undoubtely more terrifying than his condition.
'THAT MAN WAS A FORMER B-RANK ADVENTURER! B-RANK! And not forgetting the fact that he was constantly taking drugs that enhances his body! He would've been an A-Rank by now! Shit! I didn't expect her to be that strong! Fuck! i can't get this rock off of me! How can i be focus to cast my magic if there's a monster right beside me!'
A few seconds after Syla killed Bruke, she suddenly heard countless footsteps coming closer to her, at first she thought that it might be another enemy, but then she remembered that she was in a town, and that footsteps might belong to a guard or a reinforcement help.
'Is my job done now?...' Syla thought while staring at the cloudy sky, the sun has been burning for a while now and it made Syla sweats since she doesn't wear anything.
From above the giant hole that was created from the basement room and also Syla's explosion, a bunch of adventurers and also guards was seen swarming the area, they looked below the hole and saw the aftermath of a deadly battle with their own eyes. But not only that, they also saw the naked Syla, looking at the sky while her entire body was exposed to them.
"H- hey! Look! Who is that!" One of the guard said.
"W- why is she naked!—" Another one added as he turned his head around, embarassed by the obscenity.
Among the countless people that saw Syla, one of them was Gauss, he also arrived at the scene and recognized Syla from the time when they took a carriage together to this town.
"Isn't that.." He said.
"You know her?" The party leader that Gauss had temporarily joined in asked him.
"—Yeah, she's.. An adventurer too." Gauss replied, he secretly smiled at Syla, knowing that she was fine.
Soon after everyone discovered the criminal's base, the guards then dropped down one by one, many of them approached Syla and gave her a robe to wear.
Long story short, Syla's reaction to people seeing her naked body was nothing but pure embarrassment, her face at that time turned as red as a tomato and she felt stupid for not realizing it sooner.