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Chapter 39 - Chapter 37

Mmmmm dinner tonight is so superbly sweet! I dearly hope future deliveries to my new home will be just as tasty."

Hearing the sensual female voice talking about the flavor of his arm turned some of Junichiro's overwhelming agony into anger. Pain no longer all he knew, all he could understand, or his entire being. Anger spread as he refused to die here. He wouldn't let some fish bitch end him. His mind kick started itself as he quickly registered the need to live, to fight, to KILL THIS FUCKING BITCH!

He used his left arm to rip open one of his expanded pouches, distantly acknowledging how wise it was to never leave home without his utility belt. The fish lady wasn't paying any attention to him as he squirmed and bled out on the floor, she was far too involved in devouring his arm like the worlds largest chicken wing.

He retrieved a rolled spell scroll, while gripping it tightly he activated it with a touch of his mana. The scorching agony that had replaced his arm faded slightly as the wound healed at a visible rate. A scroll of Minor Regeneration was something he had several copies of. Mostly because it was great at healing smaller wounds, bruises, and light burns. Things he constantly experienced while working. Using one at the end of the day would heal the minor annoyances that came with working with open flames, heavy metal objects, and sharp pieces of metal. His Ring of Regeneration helped too, of course, but it pulled on his magical power constantly when in use and was slower but constant. The scrolls allowed for him to pre-spend the mana and use it at a later time, such as now! It didn't help that the ring was currently on the arm being devoured either.

However, neither ring nor scroll were near powerful enough to regenerate missing limbs. His overall power was nowhere near enough to make anything capable of such strong healing. The name of the spell scroll would probably be more honest if it was the Scroll of Accelerated Natural Healing, but that was way too long. With the ongoing bleeding taken care of, there was one less thing Junichiro needed to pay attention to. Though, the blood already lost was making him light headed and it would take a while for the lost blood to be recovered. Still, he was in no danger of bleeding out anytime soon, so that was a plus.

Still being ignored by the stray devil, she had only eaten the upper part of his arm and half of his forearm so far, he went for his next scroll while wishing his Teleportation scroll was finished already. He quickly dug into another pouch to pull out another spell scroll. With a surge of his mana, the scroll faded and he felt a buildup of power in his body.

Seemingly feeling the surge of magical energy, the thing eating his arm turned to look at him. His blood ran from her lips and coated her fangs as she smiled at him, "Oh, is dinner up to something?" She let out a demented giggle, "There's no rush dinner, I'll get more of you soon. So many delicious helpings to choose from!"

To emphasize her words, she lifted his arm and turned it so she could loudly bite off one of his fingers. He could hear the bones snapping and cracking as her teeth crushed them to powder. Junichiro felt a sudden surge of pure rage at seeing her do that. He gathered the power of the spell scroll and layered his own power on top of it, pumping as much of his magical power into it as he felt he could.

That was one of the advantages of using a spell scroll that targeted your own body to cast an external spell, you could pump your own power into it to enhance the spell. Spells that just fired from the scroll were always locked at the power they were designed with. He inhaled deeply as he pushed every last drop of his energy into the spell. With the power of anger and agony fueling him, he opened his mouth and roared, "FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

As he dragged out the last syllable of 'you' a torrent of flames launched from his mouth and spread with abandon in front of him. The heat was excruciating and, due to his own mana added to the spell, significantly higher than it would have been. So high it actually felt like it was burning his own skin when he should have been protected from the spell by its very nature.

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