"Fight now, think later! He isn't going to let any of us off now, cover me!" Ken said in a cold voice and charged forward.
For some reason, despite hating Ken to the core and blaming him for everything to the point of seeing others in his image while being under the Frenzy Mode of the Mind-Poisoning Domain, Darma felt the lowest hatred toward the real Ken.
It was one of the effects of Ken's technique. Since the rage originated from Ken's Qi, which was part of his being, the target wouldn't aim their rage at Ken.
'We only need to hold out for two minutes before the time is up,' Ken calculated quickly the time that passed so far.
'Paralyzing Mode.'
Ken judged that he had killed enough of the group's members and switched to his second domain. Darma instantly saw the image of Ken surrounding him from all directions, each filled with killing intent and bloodlust. He hallucinated getting killed by Ken in different ways, making him shiver in his spot.
'Cloud Running.'
Ken rushed toward the wounded man and tried to claim his leg, but the alchemist's mind was too strong to remain corrupted while being threatened. He avoided it by jumping in the air, but before he could kick Ken. he had to condense Qi under his feet and kick it to avoid a spear attack coming from Maria.
The woman did not care much about the deaths of her temporary teammates, so she remained focused and aided Ken.
"Odette, Yuri! Don't you want revenge? Unless you want to follow your comrades' footsteps, pull yourselves together and fight!" Ken said loudly, making the two frozen cultivators snap out of their despair.
"Fine! I will make sure you pay for what you've done, Darma!" Odette said with gritted teeth and loaded another arrow in her bow. Yuri also brandished his spear, displaying his renewed battle spirit.
"Big words! I will kill you all and enslave the kid!"
Darma's battle prowess decreased significantly without an arm, and he suffered from heavy blood loss from the two new wounds. He knew he had to take a healing pill and some strengthening pills if he wanted to win.
Darma took out a few bottles of pills from his storage ring, and Ken appeared again, spoiling them with his Alchemical Qi and forcing Darma to retreat and block his attacks along with the support of the other three.
"You can't take the pills!" Ken said, his white mask hiding his face and making him seem expressionless and enigmatic.
Darma remained vigilant in front of Ken. He remembered that the kid had a powerful technique that could hurt him. He leaned backward to dodge a swing of the flexible sword and deflected it carefully when it returned with his hand.
With a kick, he deviated the incoming spear from his right and saved himself from a heavy strike of Maria's staff by jumping above it. He could only expend his Qi to directly burn the arrows that sometimes threatened to put an end to his life.
The relentless attacks continued. Ken already analyzed everyone's fighting styles earlier and always positioned himself where the others could provide with the next attack, and the teamwork was almost as good as before.
'I only keep weakening because of the blood loss, I must take some pills!' Darma through in a panic. The greatest strength of an alchemist was his pills, and derived from it, he suffered from a severe disadvantage.
With a decisive countenance, Darma made his core churn and sucked a huge amount of Fire Qi out of it. A huge blast was produced around him, throwing his enemies off their feet and inflicting burns of different severities on their skins.
Ken instantly used One Step to retreat, but the blast still caught up to him and injured him. Yuri coated himself with a cocoon of Water Qi, but the water vaporized and the man got burnt. Maria, who didn't have any other type of Qi other than Spear Qi, could only rotate her spear in front of her to deflect the fire, and she was thrown like a lifeless doll to the end of the room and crashed into the wall.
'She should still be alive,' Ken thought to himself and popped out healing pills. He was still under the healing effect of the previous one he had taken, thus he only brought out two of them and sent one to Yuri and one to Maria who lost her consciousness. Only Odette made it out unscathed, safe in the distance as an archer.
Meanwhile, Darma was surrounded by the fire he had summoned. A crack appeared on his core from the overuse, a serious injury that might cost him his cultivation in the long run. Pain assaulted his very being, but he endured.
He used the time to bring out pills from his storage ring and poured them into his mouth, swallowing them forcibly along with the blood that kept flowing out of his throat. He didn't even feel the extra pain added to the agony that came from his core.
'I must end this battle quickly,' Darma knew that using his core in his condition would only complicate his situation. The problem was that using big techniques would worsen his injury while using weaker techniques would drag out the battle and end up worsening his injury; it was a losing game.
His legs flared and he dashed out of the fire, hoping to catch one of his enemies by surprise. However, Ken never lost his focus.
The two met and exchanged blows. Darma deflected the teen's sword while the teen dodged his enemy's fist and kicks in the nick of time every strike. Ken was being overwhelmed and the two spear-wielders were out of use. Only Odette's arrows allowed him to hold his ground.
However, just as Darma's strikes began to connect with their target, Ken laughed.
"You were so close, Mr. Darma!" The honorific seemed only to intensify the insult.
"What?" Darma thought the kid had lost his mind from despair; he just sent him rolling on the ground with a kick. Nevertheless, he soon understood. His scroll suddenly deactivated, and pressure enveloped him.
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