novelraw Chapter 392-2: Advancing to Mythic+ Grade, Slaying the First Disciple! (2)
Chapter 392-2: Advancing to Mythic+ Grade, Slaying the First Disciple! (2)
[Solomon seems not to have expected Twelfth Disciple Cain to possess such power. He immediately pulls out a palm-sized angel statue and crushes it to pieces.]
[Golden holy light flares once more and washes over him. His limbs loosen, and the heavy shackles binding his body vanish in an instant.]
[Before Solomon can dispel the debuff, Cain has already lifted the great crimson sword upright before his chest and fixed his gaze on the blade…]
[Endless crimson aura spreads from the sword’s body, flooding over him. Blood-colored light roars into the heavens.]
[In an instant, Cain transforms into a bursting crimson meteor. He plummets from above, crashing down toward Solomon with unstoppable force…]
“That little bastard!”
Vishnu hastily controlled his Shell to flee. Thankfully, Cain’s target was not him, which allowed Vishnu to scramble a short distance away and raise his nearly broken shield to cover his entire body…
[The falling meteor has already broken the sound barrier. The resulting wave of blood-colored flame sweeps across the sky and blows the clouds apart in layers…]
[Yet even the clear moonlight that shines down cannot conceal the dense, cloying crimson. For a time, your vision is filled with an ocean of blood…]
[Finally, the blood-colored meteor slams into the ground and the power of crimson corruption erupts in full.][You do not have the strength to see what lies at the impact point of the crimson blast. You can only grip the handle of your shield with all your might and hide beneath it to avoid the aftershock of that blood-colored might…]
Vishnu feared that in his nearly skin-deep condition, he would die in a moment of carelessness under Cain’s ‘indiscriminate attack’ ultimate.
While the Shell strained to resist the aftershock, the text did not display the details of the clash between the two sides.
Vishnu could only open the Soul-Annihilation option and check. The name First Disciple Solomon was not grayed out. He was still alive.
Vishnu could not see how the battle had gone, but Lin Xun, as the attacker, could see everything clearly.
He had never seen anyone stand against the comet strike of Bloodthirsty Judgement.
Every enemy that had stood before that falling blood-colored meteor had been ground into dust by that world-shaking might.
But this time, Lin Xun saw someone withstand it.
[Solomon does not take a defensive stance. Instead, he boldly raises his spear.]
[Golden lightning surges around it. He grips the spear with both hands and gathers all his strength into the tip, thrusting at the very center of the crimson meteor, at the point of the scarlet greatsword’s tip that tears the air and drags behind it an endless wake of blood-red flame.]
[Spear tip and sword tip meet…]
[For a moment, all things under heaven seem to dim and lose color, falling into a smothering dead silence.]
[All sights and sounds, all ripples and echoes, gather at the point where the weapons clash… and then explode outward.]
[The spear, already battered and damaged from battle, begins shattering layer by layer from the tip downward. Your Scarlet King’s Sword breaks through the blocking spear tip and grinds through the blade, the spine, the fittings… until it pulverizes the final inch of the golden shaft at the butt end.]
[Only when the sword edge collides with the enemy’s golden armor and beats ring-like ripples of cracks across its surface does it finally halt.]
[First Disciple Solomon’s mouth fills with blood, and he appears to have taken some damage. Yet he has fully blocked your most powerful strike.]
At that moment, countless thoughts flashed through Lin Xun’s mind.
At the same time, Vishnu finally saw through the thinning blood flames to the scene at the point of impact.
“Cain! Solomon’s strongest innate weapon has been destroyed and his armor durability is almost gone!”
“Hurry! Strike while he is down and kill him!”
Vishnu screamed himself hoarse into the receiver, terrified that Cain would not hear him.
What followed, however, was a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.
[Countless strands of pitch-black aura surge from Cain’s body and coalesce into a giant black claw, which clamps down on Solomon and grips him so tightly he cannot move an inch.]
[A graceful female figure with bone wings on her back appears behind Cain. Suddenly, clean white holy light descends from above. Yet the dazzling crimson radiance rising in its wake does not match the holiness of that light at all. It is like gushing molten rock, and a thick scent of sulfur fills the battlefield.]
[Your ears are flooded with the wails of unknown creatures being tormented in agony, as if you are standing in the deepest circle of the underworld’s purgatory.]
[The bone wings on the woman’s back transform into countless sharp spikes that stab down into the ground and grow wildly. In an instant, a hill-shaped prison of thorns erupts up and locks Solomon firmly within it…]
[Cain does not continue attacking Solomon. Instead, the bone wings on his back suddenly beat and he soars away from the battlefield, arriving at your side in an instant.]
[Once again, a graceful figure appears behind him, this time a woman in multicolored Tang silk. She raises a small sickle in her hand and, in that moment, she seems to become a harvest goddess, scattering the glow of abundant grain and loaded fields…]
[You receive the healing effect of Bounty of the Harvest Goddess and recover almost half your Shell’s HP.]
“Cain… you are…”
Vishnu did not even have time to be shocked before the next thing that happened left him utterly dumbfounded.
[The Twelfth Disciple Cain now holds a lantern of flesh in his hand, its gentle light flickering and illuminating the battlefield…]
[He shoves this lantern into your hands…]
[The Twelfth Disciple Cain has given you Abyss Lantern (Special Equipment).]
“Vishnu, that last attack barely scratched Solomon. Help me hold him off for a bit and buy me a chance.”
“Do not hesitate. Whether we live or die depends on you in this moment.”
“Remember, hesitation leads to defeat.”
[Cain beats his bone wings and instantly leaves the battlefield, hiding far behind you. Once more, a gaunt figure appears behind him, waving a staff to summon a gate that connects to the underworld hell…]
[At the same time, a huge bone dragon emerges…]
[With a few sweeps of his sword, Cain slaughters the bone dragon and all the endless undead spilling out of the gate…]
Vishnu stared blankly at the Special Equipment Cain had handed him…
[Abyss Lantern (Special Equipment): …Equipping this will greatly increase the probability of attracting enemies. Within the range of its illumination, it can also dispel some stealth effects.]
[At that moment, the black claw dissipates and an angry roar rings out from within the hill of thorns. A flash of golden light bursts forth and Solomon appears again, holding a brand new golden longsword.]
[He immediately spots you holding the Abyss Lantern. Compared to Cain, who is much farther away, he is more inclined to attack you, the closer target.]
[Solomon raises the golden longsword and lunges toward you…]
“Cain! I will curse your whole family!”
Vishnu knew Cain was not running away. If Cain wanted to run, he would not still be lurking near the battlefield. He certainly would not have spent a precious item to bind Solomon for a moment and heal Vishnu’s wounds before leaving.
He understood very clearly that if he turned and ran now, whether Cain lived or died would be uncertain, but he himself would definitely die.
Cain, after all, was a lower-tier Disciple and could return to his own island, while Vishnu had nowhere to go but this island. He had no path of escape.
As unwilling as he was, Vishnu could not act on emotion. The price of impulsiveness was too great to imagine.
He could only grit his teeth in secret and keep controlling his Shell, using his one remaining arm to raise the nearly shattered giant shield and once again become a tank blocking the enemy’s assault.
Lin Xun could feel the power of Beginning of the Holy Spirit rapidly draining away. By his estimation, there were at most two or three minutes left in the transformation.
Even with Vishnu buying time, that was nowhere near enough to fully charge Scarlet King’s Sword again.
He charged it for only a brief moment before returning to the battlefield.
He clearly no longer had enough Bloodshed Points to unleash Bloodthirsty Judgement, but he did have the newly evolved Purgatory Angel and the mythic grade skill Extreme Evil Corrosion Demon Claw.
[…]
[Endless black aura of malice surges from your body and forms a vast, pitch-black demon claw that instantly seizes Solomon in its grip.]
[You beat the bone wings on your back once and streak forward like a ray of light. Scarlet King’s Sword in your hand cleaves down on the enemy’s body.]
[With a deafening crash, the golden armor shatters layer by layer and dissolves into starlight.]
[The black demon claw yanks the enemy’s body downward and slams him hard into the ground.]
[As the dark aura finally disperses, Vishnu appears, brandishing a giant axe. He hacks it into the enemy’s shoulder, the blade tearing through flesh and bone to sever a bloody arm.]
[You do not give the enemy any chance to catch his breath. The figure of Purgatory Angel appears behind you again as you activate Cruel Thorn Bone Spikes.]
[Countless sharp bone spines burst from the ground and nail Solomon firmly in place. You launch yourself forward, crimson greatsword sweeping out in a spray of blood.]
[Solomon struggles to lift his longsword to block, but the blood-colored beam shears off his other arm.]
[The severed limb and golden longsword fall to the ground, and Solomon is beyond salvation.]
[Vishnu laughs wildly as his axe bites into the enemy’s chest, splitting ribs apart and cutting into the heart…]
[At the same time, you once more swing Scarlet King’s Sword to cleave into the enemy’s neck…]
[His heart bursts as his fine head flies high into the air.]
[You have defeated First Disciple Solomon.]
[…]
[At the exact moment Solomon dies, Vishnu immediately pulls back to a safe distance to open space between you.]
From the receiver came Vishnu’s solemn voice. “Cain, I know the Master is backing you. I will not fight you for the position of First Disciple…”
“Let us stop here… how about it?”
Hearing Vishnu actively concede, Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.