Chapter 347: Bounded Field...in the air?
"...what...?"
The flugel could only let out a confused voice upon seeing that despite how powerful his attack was, the boy was unscathed.
Arthur then proceeded to shatter the cross slash of destruction energy and divinity into fragments of light that faded into the atmosphere.
"My turn."
The moment Arthur spoke, he was already beside the flugel.
The boy’s hand blurred and Celestia’s energy-coated blade bore down on the back of the flugel, with the latter barely being able to react to the slashes that nearly sliced his wings off.
Very quickly, the man roused his energy and released a burst of power to knock Arthur back, before using that same energy to wrap around his body and weapons.
Bathed in the resplendent glow of divinity, mixed with the universal laws of fire and light, he locked his gaze on Arthur who silently coated Celestia with cosmic energy.
"Holy Fire!!!"
The flugel struck first, releasing a torrent of flames and light in Arthur’s direction, along with dozens of divinity-filled slashes.
Flashy as they were, the power behind these attacks was nothing to scoff at, and they were going to be very deadly if they were to hit their mark.
Arthur, however, casually blocked each attack with his cosmic energy barrier, while using his sword to reciprocate, sending destruction energy-filled slashes laden with cosmic energy at the flugel.
The two clashed blades and began exchanging strikes, but it quickly became a one-sided endeavour, with the scales heavily tipped towards Arthur’s side.
It felt as if Arthur could see ahead of his movements, and after recalling that the boy had stopped his companions in time earlier, the flugel thought that was the case.
’In that case, I have to move faster than he can react to! It’s all pointless if he cannot react to what he sees!’
With that thought, he increased the concentration of the light law energy he drew towards himself, doubling with body strengthening and wind magic to boost his speed as he tried to blitz Arthur.
However, Arthur simply augmented his already ridiculous movement speed with time magic, allowing him to deftly evade each strike with ease.
Fierce rays of light erupted from the flugel’s swords, seeking to incinerate Arthur with his holy fire. The radiant magic surged in waves, scorching the very air around them as the Flugel moved with supersonic movements that appeared to be a blur to those on the ground.
Sadly, it was all for nought.
All his spells and slashes simply passed through empty space, and he could not even land a single strike on Arthur, while the boy’s temporal-destruction strike inflicted upon him, grievous wounds that he would need months to heal from.
This was leaving out the damage dealt to his soul by the law of destruction’s power.
Arthur teleported beside him and unleashed a torrent of cosmic energy imbued with the law of destruction’s power at the flugel’s left side, leaving the man no choice but to conjure a hastily made divinity barrier to block.
Naturally, such a flimsy barrier could not stop Arthur’s strike, so the end result was that the man’s left arm was wounded beyond repair, and him being forced to drop the sword there.
He turned around quickly and thrust his sword as fast as he could towards Arthur’s head, but the boy’s response to his actions was certainly not within expectations.
After dodging the attack with a paper-thin margin, Arthur let go of Celestia and grabbed the man’s arm with both hands, before spinning around and swinging the flugel over his shoulder.
Still, Arthur did not let go of the man, and with the way the boy pulled the flugel over his shoulder, the man’s back fell towards Arthur’s leg that had been pulled back.
With half his strength, Arthur delivered a straight kick to the man’s spine, prompting a guttural scream of pain that even made Alvey momentarily take his focus off the Superior Legendary he was beating the shit out of.
A kick to the spine was not something anyone would ever want to feel.
For this flugel, however, it was the last thing he felt.
Faster than his brain could process anything but pain, Arthur resummoned Celestia and stabbed the flugel right in the chest, letting the destruction law energy go wild on his soul, but taking care not to damage it to the point where he would not get any ’experience points’.
Arthur then proceeded to punch his hand through the flugel’s chest and rip out his heart, not because he felt like it or anything, but because he wanted to see if the latter had a Pseudo divine spark on it.
’I see...divine factors in other races work differently.’
He tossed the heart down to the ground where the body had fallen, before trying to swing his sword and clear off the blood on it, but would you believe his surprise when another flugel that had been knocked away by a demon she was fighting, flew right into the path of his sword moving through the air.
The end results were him accidentally severing her head, and another Level Up notification in his field of view.
"Really...?"
Sighing softly, he cleaned off the blood without any problems this time, after which he looked in Alvey’s direction where the General was fighting—or rather, beating the remaining Legendary realm commanders.
They used all sorts of elements, light to match his speed, flames for their destructive power, earth for defence, and many others but it did not matter.
None of it did.
Alvey’s movements were too fast for their eyes to catch up. To them, it felt as if he was moving at the speed of light, even though they knew logically that it was impossible for him to move that fast.
His attacks of concentrated light beams pierced through all their defences, and what’s more, the man could use Glass Magic to create mirrors which he used to reflect the light swords he created and make them pierce their targets multiple times.
Left with no choice, they all decided to use their trump card.
They surrounded the demon and after stabbing their hands with their weapons, they drew their blood to create a spell formation around him.
Illusory reddish gold chains burst out from the ground and latched onto Alvey’s body, restraining him in the air.
[BURN YOUR LIFE FORCE IF NECESSARY! THIS DEMON HAS A RESISTANCE TO LIGHT, WE’D HAVE TO USE MORE EN-]
The commander never got to finish his words.
As for the reason, he just so happened to have five swords of light sticking out of his chest, while a semi-transparent blade was pierced from the back of his skull and burst out in between his eyes.
He was as dead as could be.
And with the strongest combatant down, their formation soon collapsed seconds after.
"Hey, Alvey! What if I made your already fast attacks even faster?"
Arthur spoke as he pulled out his sword from the dead man’s corpse and held up a ball of temporal law energy.
The other Legendary divine humans and flugels all took distance from the two, charging up and launching various projectiles of different elements.
In response, Arthur grinned and slammed his palms together, reopening them and letting the temporal law energy within them spread out to cover the area around him.
He wasn’t sure if what he planned was going to work and took a gamble, but when he saw the giant orb made of spatial energy threads surrounding him, he knew he had succeeded.
"Bounded Field: Hall of Fractured Time."
Arthur had cast his bounded field in the air.
Topographic-type techniques were called that name for a reason; they were built to be used on the ground.
However, ever since he discovered that bounded fields were the basis for Domain Declarations, Arthur wondered how the techniques evolved from their topographic constraints.
After all, when Domain Declarations were used in space, there wasn’t any ’topography’ to lay the energy network on.
So, to experiment, he tried activating his bounded field mid-air, and though the energy cost was about 1.5 times more, it was a success.
And with his Bounded Field, came the temporal suspension of all projectiles directed towards him.
The attacks that the Legendries had planned to use to create a distraction while they ran away had been stopped in time, so there were no explosions for them to hide under.
’Ridiculously high base power, a Pseudo-Authority, and now a Bounded Field? Just what else is in this kid’s box of tricks?’
Seeing the suspension of the projectiles that were aimed at them, Alvey noted that this was probably the effect of the Bounded Field; a simple yet troublesome effect.
"Now then, about my earlier offer?"
