novelraw Chapter 1569 - 1568 - Deadly
Chapter 1569 - 1568 - Deadly
Lind waited until the 2 parties were about to find each other when he caused a pulse of energy to go out. Despite not knowing the source, the 6 figures turned exactly upon the other party as if knowing where they were.
Screams and lights appeared as power was invoked.
It was not as one sided as he expected but that worked in his favor as he swiftly moved towards them with his body alone. Any Qi, Laws, or other forms of energy were repressed. He had issues with his new Life Layer but it was buried under the Apprentice Tiers defenses.
The demoness had perfectly formed wings that she used to rise up to prepare a strike but he saw it cost her.
Her dark red eyes were tunnel visioned on the Unbending Fate Faction members.
He felt a terrifying level of power that confirmed she was above him at the Death Layer at least!
[Master, you will only have 1 chance.] Haro confirmed she did not see him that way but he dared not answer as she had crimson energy flow into spine needles on her wings. The feeling of certain death made the white robed figures summon artifacts that seemed to distort his perception to detect them.
They had to be powerful weapons or defenses against what was coming.
He was shocked as the blood spines became solid before she flapped her wings sharply. A barrage of the blood colored spines flew so fast Lind could not trace them but the targets lit up like a sun and burned them just barely.
He heard the crack of metal as the artifacts turned to powder, but regardless, he had the moment he was looking for.
A flash of emerald drew all eyes but it already shot out from him like an arrow.
The demoness snapped her eyes at him and she summoned a sword that was so black it was like a tear in the very fabric of the world.
She sneered as she likely felt his cultivation but Lind focused on his attack. It was a gamble but he had one back up already coming if it failed.
"Path–!" She was about to dismiss him entirely when her sword shattered and she screamed in horror.
An all too familiar effect began to occur as everything on her was consumed! The remaining 5 stopped their fighting to stare in shock. A Life Layer has just killed his superior!
Lind did not stop.
His Dao Weapon appeared and he twirled the staff. The world answered his call so damned slowly from his perception but the pressure crushed the Immortals like they were puppets with their strings cut.
They all tried to use more artifacts but his emerald eyes flared and it was like he could find the weakness in each of them. His Talents had increased but it was as if his Dao had combined with them.
His precise strikes were just enough to rip away their attempts to save themselves.
His staff finally completed summoning enough energy from all 18 elements to send out attacks. All 5 Immortals' souls were shattered in an instant before their bodies exploded.
He kept moving and vanished from the scene. Not an instant after he was gone, 3 powerful auras snapped across the area and 3 humans seemed to blur into existence.
Another Apprentice Tier was among them but the 2 Journeyman Tiers were from each power. Still, none of them even spared a glance at the Immortals and only looked at the demoness.
The fact she was dead was not the problem, it was how she died.
"What was that? Another power beat us here?" The older man in dark armor spoke but the 2 in white robes summoned a sphere and cylinder. The Apprentice Tier man infused his Mystery energy into it and it began to seem to rewind time.
Images that looked almost lifelike moved backwards in a blur until the time resumed normal flow. He quietly watched as his counterpart looked deep into the sphere. The older woman had her steel gray hair tied back but her eyes were so narrow as to be daggers.
Shock flashed on both their faces but the older man waited for the results.
"It should not be poss–" The Apprentice Tier man was about to report when an emerald blade launched from the demoness' corpse!
It pierced his dantian to his heart and brain before anyone even knew what had occurred! The light in his eyes was snuffed out and only then did both bodies begin to fall apart!
"A DAMNED TRAP!" The old man screamed and fell back. The old woman, however, carefully observed until both of the dead juniors were gone.
"Hmmm, that was not normal. A perfectly lethal strike but attached it to the life force somehow. Interesting." Anger flared on his face but before either could react they felt it.
A supremely dangerous aura came from the oceans. They could ignore it for now but leaving had just become far more deadly.
"Kill the fodder from your group and we can work together." Her voice snapped him out of his contemplations but he sneered at her.
"Do I look like a fool? You may not wish me dead as much as my companions but you will kill me regardless. I will get my own answers and just wait for you to leave." He was in the Earth Layer, considered one of the highest average powers a cultivator can reach in the Divine Realm.
Her frown told him he had guessed right. She was only at the Heaven Layer.
She could probably still kill him, but it would come at a steep price and the reverse was true of him too. An open attack was no question but no Divine Realm fight was ever as direct as what they just experienced.
The pair retreated carefully back to their respective camps. Lind watched and listened to it all without even breathing.
He had blended in as a cold sweat covered him at how close they were! He dared not move even as the day came to an end.
Just after sunset, an Immortal suddenly appeared in dark armor. With the helmet on, he could not tell anymore about them at that distance in the dark but a woman in white robes essentially tried to kill them on sight.
Their fight was brief and a draw but it was enough for Lind to slither away. He moved like a snake with his scales covering his skin.
He kept at it until he came across a den he could slide into. The beasts inside were terrified of him but he did nothing to them. They looked like giant moles with some crystalline fur.
He simply curled up and waited for more time to pass. It seemed they were worried and that was what he wanted.
[What–what was that?!] Haro finally could speak again as they had been too close before.
"Something I discovered as I tested the Dao of Defiance with my new Mystery energy. I can do so much to help but conversely, I can see how to distort and destroy. It is a hell of a lot harder to pull off but she was distracted. I then took a gamble." Lind had no way to test it until that battle.
He had wondered, since he was condensing his Life Layer, if he could actually attach his attack to life. His harmony was fused to his soul, so why not use it to catch someone off guard.
Even he, however, was shocked at how terrifying his power could be under the right circumstances. The power was his maximum and anything less would have failed.
He could feel it. The Dao of Defiance had been insanely powerful but the Divine Realm brought it a humbling experience. Dao was just the basic energy of the Divine Realm.
There was no such thing as the Mystery of Defiance but he could enhance it with that energy like everything else.
He had learned a lot but the most shocking was that his Dao could kill with terrifying ease! It shattered their very existence!
He did not know why but he had some guesses he could investigate later. He did know, however, that he had no chance at all against the Journeyman Tiers. He needed something else against them.
Sadly, he had nothing to turn to aside from his foes themselves.
If he understood why they were on the island it would help, but he had a few more ideas to try before he gave up.
Once it was the deepest part of the night, he heard screams coming from the direction of the Unbending Fate Faction camp.
A woman's voice screeched as she shot across the island. It seemed she tried to sneak to the center and the cultists took advantage of her absence.
[The faction members do not like others killing their subordinates. If she is prioritizing them, the goal may be lower than we thought.] Haro's words did not make Lind happy. It meant things made even less sense.
Why risk coming so far for something that did not seem that important?
He had to be missing something but he had no idea what. He moved towards the center as the battle raged on and would see what he could at dawn.