Chapter 599 Zero plans of ‘Fucking Around’ long enough to ‘Find Out’.
Pride gave a wry smile as she saw their actions, retracting the energy she was about to use to deploy her own Bounded Field and redirected it to her idiosyncrasy.
'Your Domain does not have my permission to exist, Lizard.'
*SNAP!
**CCRACK!!
With a snap of her fingers, cracks spiderwebbed across the network of energy that made up the Serpentine Dominion, much to Bhak's shock.
When Eliza had pushed Domnik's 'Domain of Death' a little, the Necromancer had received backlash from this.
So now that the combination of Bounded Fields with a touch of Pride's power shattered the Serpentine Dominion, how was the reaction of the Lizard Lord Supposed to be?
[GYAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH-!!!!!]
Two of the magic stones on the Energem Reclaimer shattered to pieces, and the monster fought the pained scream that threatened to escape its lips as it hurriedly forced two more into it.
Sure, it had taken backlash and all, enough for it to spit blood. But it was still in its Limit Break mode. Bhak was still well capable of fighting.
Unfortunately, the circumstances did not let it use the full extent of that power.
Eliza was far stronger than she was a year ago, so she could do more than just use her Domain for AoE heals and purifications; she could infuse skills into it.
And the skill she chose, was her 'Life Energy Draining Prison'.
Everywhere within her Bounded Field was within the range of the skill, and due to her higher control over it, she could select entities within the Field and mark them as entities to not be affected by it.
Bhak had to destroy the Domain of Life itself to break out, and that was currently an impossibility because of Pride's power.
It tried activating a spell but Evan's sword of crimson ice came slashing through the flaming magic circle, destroying it before he spun around and kicking the monster to the wall behind it.
When it looked up after slamming onto the wall and falling to the ground, it got a good look at Evan and sensed the boy's current power.
[…how…?]
"Sorry, Bhak. But you're not the only one who can 'Break Limits'."
That was all it heard, half a second before Evan's sword had slashed down on its body eight times in one breath.
Pride's brow twitched when she saw Evan casually copy her technique, but she said nothing as the hero went on to do the same with Greed.
Evan jumped up and spun around, kicking the Lizard Lord with his full strength, sending it hurling into the wall on the side.
He kept spinning and threw the sword in his hand toward the monster, a spiralling mass of crimson ice swirling around it as he activated a skill.
"Icy Vortex!"
The energy collided with the Lizard Lord, shredding apart its flesh before the boy's sword went on to pierce into its torso.
Bhak grunted in pain, landing on the ground with heavy breaths and slamming its spear into the ground to activate a skill!
"Outburst!!"
**DUN DUNNN DUNNN!!!!
The ground trembled beneath him, with magic power rapidly spreading around and causing countless rock shards to rise up from the ground, floating in the air for a moment, before they started flying around randomly.
**D-D-D-D-D-D-DU!!!
It was a skill that Vazgan had, one that dealt a great deal of AoE damage. Just when Bhak thought it'd be able to catch its breath, Kayla raised her hand and snapped her fingers.
The spinning pearl of power in the air, surrounded by artificial clouds glowed brightly before raining down bolts of lighting, enough that each rock sent out by Outburst had 2 bolts to deal with it.
Bhak was pissed at her for interfering, but when it sensed her 'Rock-Paper-Scissors' combo, it quickly moved to dodge.
Too bad Kuro Happened so Scissors got its leg and half-roasted the entire limb.
However, contrary to expectation, Bhak did not scream out in pain like before but remained silent.
A moment later, its body then erupted in a pillar of flames, right before Artemisia's voice rang out in Evan's head.
|Evan, don't forget my warning|
The moment he heard this; Evan quickly figured the Lizard Lord was about to pull something else that he was not expecting.
[Flame Rebirth!]
It activated a skill, one it did not have in the game, and neither in reality—until this moment.
Bhak sacrificed a huge chunk of its maximum magic power in an attempt to restore its health with the added effect of being enveloped in a blazing shield.
Bhak had connected to the Dungeon Core to trigger the delayed dungeon break, and through that connection to the Dungeon Core, it could temporarily steal the skills of other monsters of the Dungeon through their connection with it.
There was a limitation to this, as it had to pay a price for stealing something from another monster's soul, so It could only do this a limited number of times.
The number of skills it stole, was two; one of which was Flame Rebirth.
A poor monster on the 99th floor was writhing in soul-wrenching pain at this moment but Bhak didn't give a fuck about that.
"I'd be damned!"
Evan shouted out as he teleported right behind it, his sword encased in a fusion of Mesarthim's flames, Icy Aura and BoD's crimson red.
Given he was using a 'Frost Domain', merely activating Mesarthim was taxing for him but it needed to be done.
**WHOOSH!!
He slashed down faster than the monster could perceive, slicing its tail off its body.
By the time the pain of its tail being severed reached it, Evan had already stabbed it through the stomach.
"I missed? No…my aim was correct. You jumped at the last moment."
He remarked after pulling his sword out of the monster that had leapt aside to evade his heart stab.
He then gestured, conjuring a portal in the air, from which descended a striking beam of ice imbued with a crimson hue, which forcefully hurled the monster back to the ground.
Upon impact, it created a massive crater, dwarfing the creature, and expanding to a size five times its own.
In that same breath, a streak of golden lighting flashed across the Boss Room, striking down atop the fallen monster faster than Evan could even move.
This streak of lightning's true form was revealed to be the Great Spirit Kayla, who was now looking noticeably different from before.
Her 'Spirit Raiment' was activated, transforming both her appearance and her outfit. Height-wise, she could stand shoulder to shoulder with Evan, a full-on 10-inch leap in height from her 'normal' full 'body size'
She was now adorned in a bright golden silk dress, and floating atop her head, was a fragmented quarter of a cracked golden crown, adorned with various multicoloured precious stones.
In her hand was a bolt of concentrated lightning, with so much energy inside it that Greed and the other spirits instinctively took a step back away.
With that same bolt of energy, she stabbed Bhak straight in the centre of its chest. The lightning flowed through its whole body, electrocuting each and every cell within it and roasting its organs.
Evan saw this happen in slow motion with his Hypercognition, and his extra energy sensitivity allowed him to see something extra.
Kayla had used so much lightning that at first glance, one would think it was a pure bolt generated from the element's energy.
But It wasn't.
'There's a physical item inside all that lightning.'
A Weapon.
And however strong it was, it was enough for her to pierce the Lizard Lord's durability, pierce it in the chest, and the enormous power around it was enough to roast its insides.
Still, Kayla was not done yet.
She pulled out the weapon, twirled it around, and stabbed it again in the forehead, then the face, then the neck, then the chest once more, and finally, the centre of its stomach.
'…where the heck did she get that from?!'
Evan exclaimed internally as he switched off all his skills except Limit Break, his eyes studying Kayla's appearance and noting that the stole that usually hovered around her neck in this form was not present.
'The Stole was a weapon this whole time?! I thought it was just there for aesthetics!'
Kayla, ignorant of his thoughts, pulled off the forearm guard from the Lizard Lord's arm and held it up to Evan with a smile.
[You needed this, didn't you?]
Evan silently accepted the artifact, before petting her head and saying.
"Way to go, girl."
[Really, Master?]
She spoke with a lightly exasperated tone but made zero intention to move his hand off her head. The two moved towards their companions, exhaustion filling their bones; more so for Evan who had used his BoD and Limit Break combo.
He snapped the forearm guard on his right arm, but just before he could comment on its appearance, Artemisia's voice rang out in his head.
|Evannn…...|
"No fucking way!"
The tone of her voice, and the way she dragged his name as she spoke, was enough for Evan to know something was up.
Something about Bhak he had missed.
There was still 'something he wasn't expecting'.
But then again, she was right.
Bhak had stolen two skills using its Authority. The first; was Flame Rebirth.
As for the Second?
"Blessing of Destruction + Mesarthim + Harbinger of Ice.
Elemental Destruction Fusion.
Destruction Vortex."
Evan had zero intentions of fucking around long enough to find out.
**BOOMMMM!!!!!
He blinked right above the monster's body and slammed the focused whirling mass of energy on its chest, tearing apart its flesh, shredding its bones and ripping its internal organs to pieces.
The boy did not care for the blood that splattered onto him, he just wanted to make sure it was 'deader than dead'.
After stabbing Bhak's heart with the blade, he pulled out the sword and switched off the skill combo, before using his bare hand to grab onto Bhak's heart and pull it out of its body.
"That's enough, right?"
|…|
The goddess was speechless.
Even the ETOD who was watching this with popcorn beside her dropped the bucket of popcorn in surprise.
|…yes. That's enough. |
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