’Fuck, we’re cornered!’ Alm roared, and the power of Eclipsing Divinity started to ignite. However, in the next second, it was suppressed.
’Are you insane? We practically gave him life. We already know all these enemies are being controlled; we can’t kill him.’ Bruno spat harshly, while the attack from that figure would hit them in the next few seconds.
Alm snorted furiously, but he wasn’t an idiot. This place was certainly not the only one where the queen’s people were doing these things; there must be countless others. If the egg was manipulated to get here, exactly where this other figure connected to them was, it meant both were important to them. Heaven’s Will had been sending silent messages this way for a long time.
The problem was that this discovery completely destroyed their plans.
Bruno and Alm focused intensely, and in their souls, the two provisional rune tattoos ignited. The strike from that figure contained an extreme double bloodline power, combined with the Yin and Yang they themselves had left for him to study.
In the human’s eyes, two Yin and Yang runes very similar to the figure’s appeared. He saw this and immediately his soul instinctively trembled. Alm and Bruno noticed this, but it lasted only a millisecond and then everything dispersed. Then, the black saber slashed, and the two clashed.
**BOOM!!!**
The space above fractured with spider webs appearing. Feathers scattered and a winged figure was repelled upwards, spitting blood. At the same time, a human fell like a meteor to the ground; the impact was so violent that the whole world trembled, and countless fissures spread across the land.
A dust cloud covered the region. Liumi watched everything, not understanding. After a few seconds, a message sounded in her mind. She turned and saw a figure covered in blood, looking like a body trampled by a giant beast. He was still wearing what was once terrifying armor. That armor was practically destroyed, with only a few stone scales remaining, along with a completely fractured immortal core.
’Shit, he really got strong,’ Bruno said, somewhat dazed.
They had completely mastered the Yin and Yang of the enemy’s attack, but with just the power of his perfectly synchronized bloodlines, he was already terrifying enough. If it weren’t for that dreadful armor being so powerful defensively, they would have been utterly blown apart.
Alm and Bruno quickly got up, ignoring their injuries, and alerted Liumi to run. They joined forces and moved towards the exit. The dust cloud covered all the enemies’ vision, they were so close, but...
’Fuck!’ Alm mentally roared and slashed his saber.
**Crack! Crack! Crack!**
Countless feathers attacked from all directions. They felt the danger coming from those feathers and had to stop to break them.
When the feathers exploded, Bruno felt it, but this time he wasn’t surprised. The feathers belonged, obviously, to that figure, and were being controlled like spiritual weapons.
The spirit of this figure was saved by Bruno when they invaded that coastal city to steal that demonic metal, which later became part of the saber they currently used. At the time, that soul was being refined to create the metal, and when they interrupted, it was already so destroyed it would have been lost forever. (Chapter 160)
Later, on the mission where they turned into a two-headed Cerberus, they had the opportunity to use this soul and make it reincarnate. The mission required them to create a divine soul, and they used the power the hero accumulated to do so.
So, this figure obviously had a divine soul; him being able to use his soul at this level to attack wasn’t a surprise. But...
’We can barely feel his divine soul, probably because we have one too,’ Bruno spoke quickly.
They didn’t know why. They had personally created and left a Yin and Yang rune for him to study, along with a lot of cultivation knowledge. If he was captured and controlled by the queen’s people, they would obviously discover his divine soul. But now he was here, being used only as a powerful, unimportant soldier.
**Crack! Crack! Crack!**
The feathers kept falling, and they kept defending themselves. They were fast, extremely sharp, and lethal. The succubus had no defensive power, and they were already badly injured. They couldn’t ignore or run; they were forcibly stopped.
When the feathers stopped falling and the dust cloud cleared, they found themselves completely surrounded by countless enemies. There was no escape route anymore.
’No good deed goes unpunished. We gave this bastard so much, and now it’s coming back to bite us.’ Alm spat bitterly, taking a deep breath.
Bruno focused on the winged figure above, flapping its wings and staring coldly at them. There was no doubt. When they arrived at this place, they tried to read the memories of a beast and discovered a high-level domain in it. Something similar to the queen’s, but a bit lower, probably from a hero.
This figure had no autonomy, only following orders. But, they saw a subtle change before, as soon as he saw the identical runes in the human’s eyes. After all, they were the same runes he had; he felt something instinctively, but it was sealed by the domain.
’Could it be...’ Bruno imagined something, a bit shocked. ’The runes we left were created using only the power of our divine soul; at that time, we no longer had a body. He... he used our runes to split and seal his divine soul in them because they had the same properties. Only a minimal fragment remained in the body, so the common heroes didn’t notice it.’
Alm sighed. ’Indeed, it’s possible. He didn’t disappoint us; his mastery of Yin and Yang, along with bloodline control, is excellent. But, fuck it.’
Vorion slashed in a crescent, splitting dozens of beasts and demons in half with one strike. It was like throwing a stone into the sea; nothing changed, and a tsunami of enemies attacked the duo from all directions. Bruno snorted; they were in a desperate situation now.
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Liumi and Alm stood back-to-back, raising their weapons, and began a fierce slaughter. The creatures were killed one by one.
There were countless numbers of them, and more and more were joining. However, no matter how many there were, the number that could attack at once was limited. At any moment, they were fighting only a few dozen of them. There was no danger to their lives for now, but it would only be a matter of time until their energy was exhausted.
From the skies, the winged beasts and demons attacked. They chose the easiest target; even though the human was badly injured, the succubus was obviously the most fragile. Suddenly, the eyes of that dying human lit up, and he turned upward.
"Fuck off!"
Alm leaped, clashing against the enemies above and slashing with his saber. Liumi saw him being pierced and cut by countless claws, only for him to turn them all into a bloody mist. It was a trade of even heavier wounds for the lives of the enemies.
The succubus’s eyes trembled. It was very clear: she had become a burden. Even with her powerful spear, she was never good at fighting, much less fighting with a human body. Liumi was just a soul possessing a body temporarily.
Alm fell to the ground and quickly got up. This body was now more like a piece of shredded and almost severed meat than something alive; even if they got out alive, this body was fatally wounded unless something external healed it. But he ignored everything and returned to fighting. They had to find a way out.
From above, the winged figure only commanded and watched attentively. It was safer to wear them down and bury them with numbers; there was no way out for them this way. If he fought directly, the others would have to back off, and it could give them a chance. He played it safe, not letting his emotions take over... he had learned well from the teachings left behind.
Bruno still hadn’t used the power of Faith. Healing the body would only take a little time, but after burning all that power, it would take a long time to recover.
Even after completing the mission, if they returned to their universe without the power of Faith, the whale and everyone would die. The Qi they had accumulated in their inventory was the same. They needed the Qi to recover everyone when they got back. If they used it now, 80% would be wasted, and they certainly wouldn’t kill even half of the enemies.
Burning everything and trying to recover later was equally out of the question. It had been many months since they had frozen that separate world in time where the branch was located. They didn’t know the consequences of that; if they took too long, the Shadow God sect might be alerted. They could activate the heroes, and Heaven’s Will might be forced to make time flow again in that place, resulting in the death of all their allies. In short, every path led to disaster.
"Retreat!" Alm roared, taking a quick step and slashing with his saber, saving Liumi at the last second.
Two demons were cut in half, but a beast beside them roared, furiously attacking through the opening. Alm snorted, feeling the mortal danger, while Bruno found himself cornered and prepared to use the power of Faith. At that moment, they felt the space vibrate and the air freeze.
**Crack...**
Suddenly, the muffled sound of something breaking came from behind them.
That beast halted its steps, and its entire existence trembled. The colors of the world changed magically. Then something strange happened, as if a god above had made a move, causing his power to fall upon that sea of enemies.
**BOOM!!!**
In a circular area of a hundred meters, everyone fell to the ground as if gravity had explosively pulled them down. Within the area, even those who were flying fell, too, but since they were very high, they suffered serious injuries.
Alm turned around and was stunned. Very close to him, the succubus radiated an abnormal presence. Her whole body emitted a purple aura that eclipsed the color of the world, her eyes were like celestial beacons, and the spear in her hand seemed to attract the laws of heaven and earth. The world bowed; the celestial laws delivered that power to her existence.
’That... her immortal core.’ Bruno murmured, surprised, feeling the spear in the succubus’s hands. ’It broke and changed; did she level up? Was that possible?’
Alm sighed. They had no idea if it was possible, but surely the sword at the succubus’s waist must have helped.
"Disappear!" Liumi roared, and the spear made a move. Countless spikes emerged and pierced, taking down all the defenseless fallen.
Everything went dark, and the succubus took a deep breath, but her eyes showed only determination. ’Master, I can only use this two more times.’ She spoke mentally.
Alm and Bruno nodded. That devastation only cleared an area around them that the enemies quickly closed. It changed nothing, but it gave them time to find an exit.
The fight resumed, now with Liumi enveloped in a purple aura that covered the succubus’s entire body. It wasn’t just the spear; her whole body had become one with the spear. The succubus had turned into an extension of the weapon, literally becoming one with it. Her power suddenly multiplied.
This change spared Alm from further injuring that body. Minutes passed, and Liumi used the move a second time. But this time it was an orchestrated play, trying to open a path to the exit. She reversed gravity, trapping the enemies in a straight line towards the exit.
But the commander above wasn’t an idiot. He might have been controlled, but he received a lot of knowledge and tips directly from Alm and Bruno through the runes. He didn’t disappoint them and assimilated everything completely... to their despair.
He prepared for this move and kept several beasts and winged demons ready, at a distance greater than two hundred meters, to ensure. As soon as the succubus used the move, the beasts blocked the advance, attacking with poisoned arrows and spears.
They failed completely. And now, both were down to less than 10% of their strength. The desperate fight resumed, but amid it all, another sound of something breaking came from the saber.
Vorion had an intelligent spirit, and Liumi had sent some tips to him during the fight. He advanced equally. Bruno felt inside the inventory that if he used a little Fides, that heavy sword would also advance.
In this moment of desperation, their three companions were now giving everything to help them. They were buying them precious time. They needed to find an exit quickly.