novelraw Chapter 1522 - 1521 - Cornered
Chapter 1522 - 1521 - Cornered
It had been 7 months of steady progress. Lind had healed remarkably well according to Haro. Indeed, his emotions had returned after 6 months but then his progress slowed.
It was like he had hit some kind of bottleneck but he had no idea why.
The connection between soul and body had almost completely healed but then it was like the final step was denied him. He tried to check between his foundation, harmony, and so forth.
There had been a few clues with his crystal and it had moved forward ever so slowly but the progress had stalled no matter how he looked at it.
He spent a month contemplating when all his instincts had screamed at him of danger. He did not pause and brought out peak Law Grade swords and spears. He had only stood up when 3 peak Sovereign Fiends seemed to appear in his room!
They had breached his defenses?! He glanced at the plates and was shocked to see they had been drained!
The clever bastards had slowly drained the actual wards without triggering them?! It was all he could think before the battle commenced.
He controlled 2 swords to engage 1 Fiend each while the other was too close for the spears. He instead used them to hedge in the other 2 while his emerald limbs slashed out. The ash gray skin sliced open like a hot knife through butter.
The Fiend screamed as harmonic Qi began to sear their body but he was shocked when they slapped some kind of cloth on the injuries and it stopped! What in blazes was going on?!
Lind then went for distraction as he slammed down 3 spheres. Smoke filled the room and the Fiends began to choke on it.
He took that chance to blend into the shadows. It was not a move they had seen from him before as he left the inn as fast as he could. If he stayed any longer, he would need to use his full strength and cause collateral damage.
The damned Fiends chased after him and he had few options. His soul was mostly recovered but he did not want to chance pushing himself with damage still present in the connection.
Further, he had no idea how many were coming!
He made for the only safe place, the Battleground of Daos.
While it had its dangers, it restricted all equally, even Fiends. It would give him a chance while not straining himself!
Lind used his full strength to breach a fracture in the walls of Carta City and dove into the storm of QI, Laws, and Dao. The Fiends came after him but it was too late to stop him!
[Master, they are tracking your aura. I have detected several tendrils of their Qi.] Haro explained the issue at that moment.
He had been unable to suppress his power and used weaving plates of his own creation to hide. The damned Fiends had found a way to track him that way!
It also meant his plan was shot in the foot right then and there! He had barely grasped it when vile Qi streaked at him.
He used his harmony to defend but analyzed his connection. There were no issues, thankfully but he dare not push himself!
[What should I avoid?] Lind was fighting the 3 but he sensed more arriving. They were not just using their own power either! Just like before, they were using tools, weapons, and other elemental creations to attack him!
They were all peak Law Grade and some were more powerful than that!
The Fiend Qi attacks were easy but the others required his full power to defend! He conjured lighting only to have the damned battlegrounds deflect it! The Fiends, on the other hand, seemed to compensate for the environment.
He was royally screwed!
He went for the direct approach! His sinuous body and massive dragon form would only hamper him in the current environment, but partial transformation would be effective!
His hands and feet became claws with a tail appearing and small horns in his head. His hair flew at his command and engraved a weaving immediately to channel the various elemental systems away from him.
It was the most he risked and he launched himself like a missile at 3 Fiends. He severed their heads while his tail shattered their dantians. Pain lanced through his body as he was struck with swords, daggers, and even a damned warhammer.
Blood flew of his own and Fiends'. He successfully killed them but 6 more were coming.
As he fought, he realized they had not held back at all as more Sovereign Fiends arrived. Why were there so many in the 4th layer?!
There was no way they could–
A sudden thought came to him. The Fiends were sending down Sovereign Tiers from the Divine Lands!
Just how badly did he want him dead?
There were no taunts, speeches, or any of their more typical actions either. Just grim warriors bent on killing him! Lind knew he was going to be in dire straits if he did not do something to change the odds!
[Haro, I am going to push myself but I give you full rights to stop me. Do you understand?] His ring spirit only affirmed in aura so he went all out.
Emerald flames blazed but he was using Dao once more. He actually took over the flow of energy in the battlegrounds!
[Seniors, the enemy has come, I ask for your aid.] They were long dead but as if some echo heard him, 2 figures appeared that gave the Fiends pause. One was a demon in full armor at the peak of the Immortal Realm while the other was a human woman with divine robes of azure coloring.
The 2 figures held up their weapons of sai and short swords before the air changed. Lind found his connection was actually healing again!
He had no time to appreciate it as he used the battleground energies as his own and emerald weapons appeared. Battle aura flared but the Fiends sneered openly at him as one summoned a black orb.
It exploded rather tamely but Lind found his aura shattered! His organs strained and he was tossed backwards by the backlash.
"You honestly thought we did not understand your greatest strengths by now? Fool!" Lind tumbled as the torn up soil broke his scales with ease, but he then glared at them.
The Fiends blanched as conjured weapons still struck them. He got 8 of them but they were not killed, only seriously injured!
His luck was abominable.
"Do not let him heal! Keep up the pressure!" Lind heard one of the male Fiends shout out orders and by the spirits, they all answered!
Lighting, fire, stone, and all manner of attacks were launched at him. Barriers or other obstructions stopped him from escaping but he did not take it lying down!
His mane flared as sigils were born nearly instantaneously to protect and fight back!
Time became a slippery thing but his left arm stopped working at some point and his blood was flowing too freely. He felt dizzy and it was hard to concentrate.
He had definitely killed 4 or 5 of the bastards but it seemed like there was always more. He had gotten lucky when the Dao of the battleground took a couple too but it was not enough!
[You will die here, you damned upstart! The Great One will refine you for billions of years to come!] One of them finally gave in to the need to monologue and Lind shattered his dantian with his harmonic Qi.
The opening had been perfect but it cost him. He finally felt pain in his soul.
[Master, I have done what I can but you have to stop.] Haro's voice was defeated. He knew what telling Lind to stop meant. They were going to die. Even a spirit like Haro would be a meal for a Fiend.
Lind refused! He refused to let the bastards take him! True Death would be a final denial but then he felt other auras. More Sovereign Tiers had come but he felt no relief.
The Fiends panicked and went all out. Lind used every trick he had. Barriers, absorption, and deflection were his primary choices but the strain on his soul was very bad!
His emotions were growing distant again!
Still, he would not bend! He would not give in!
[ROOOOAAAARRRRRR!] A dragon's roar shook the very fabric of the world as the entire battle ground shifted to emerald coloring. Dragons now appeared all over and the Fiends became pale.
[We die together!] Lind accepted his end. He could not avoid it but he would be damned if he helped the Great Bastard with his soul!
He was about to unleash an attack when the air hummed with sword aura. A demoness flew among the Fiends and they were unable to stop her!
He froze as he recognized her but her power far exceeded her Crystal Tier foundation!
She was using Sword Aura at least a full Tier above her realm!
The Fiends were put into chaos and he did not miss his chance! Emerald flames shot out and slaughtered the bastards where they stood. Their screams were short lived as they were consumed!
Lind felt the world tilt as a pair of arms caught him.
"Do not worry, senior. We will protect you." The voice was familiar but Lind had no time to recall it as darkness closed in.