yasinovel Chapter 1221: Journey to Mur (9)
Chapter 1221: Journey to Mur (9)
Erik’s wind blades were the fastest attacks he could use.
He had considered using telekinesis to grab debris or objects to throw at the monsters, but in the open sky there was nothing solid he could manipulate as a weapon.
He had briefly considered pulling up rocks from the ocean floor, but even the closest seabed was well beyond his range. The crushing depths meant any useful debris was hundreds of meters down—far too distant for him to even know it was there.
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Instability was already pumped up, and he was using it to give orders to his clones and understand when a monster was attacking him from his blind spots.
Using his Beastwalker ability, Erik shapeshifted his body to grow four large, feathered wings—two primary wings near his shoulders and two others below them.
He had no choice but to waste mana like this because his mount had been killed during the initial clash.
Through phantom veil, Erik created illusionary copies of himself and used them as decoys to confuse and misdirect the thaids.
Absolute castle was pumped to the limit, making Erik look like an armored bird. He was also pumping Essence flow, the power he was going to give to the Chimaeric Demons if he survived this ordeal, and was increasing the clones’ mana and stamina regeneration so that they could last longer during the fight.
"Fuck my life," Erik muttered under his breath. "I’m such an idiot. Should have prepared better. But no, I had to rush in like a complete moron."
Erik was cursing the day he decided to go to Mur with the army he had. Sure, he couldn’t wait too long, given the blackguards might become too powerful or do another crazy research, but even having some more clones would have been better.
Unfortunately, if he took too many from Hin, the place would remain without protection, with no one being able to keep the Hinians at bay.
[Your decision to go wasn’t a bad one. Besides, even with more clones, the three-headed void ravagers’ draining field would have affected them all the same. You would have found yourself in the same situation.]
Erik sighed and focused on the battle again.
His blades were almost powered by rage, since he didn’t have a lot of mana given the situation. These things were too resistant, and he was having trouble killing them. Besides, the draining field had grown so strong that his arms shook with each attack.
He didn’t have a strength-boosting power anymore, like the Xeridon Anteris one, meaning he couldn’t make up for the lack of strength like the clones did.
The only way he found to fix this problem was by using telekinesis on his body, like Uncle Benjamin did.
Even his flying speed was boosted up by telekinesis while using his wings for quick turns, sudden stops, and aerial maneuvers in combat.
The interface continued flashing level-up notifications, but the power gains meant nothing aside from the fact that his clones were dying.
Moreover, he ended the mana he gained soon after, putting him in the same bad spot he was in at the beginning.
Then something caught Erik’s attention.
A massive void ravager burst through the formation, its three heads weaving on serpentine necks. The beast’s wingspan stretched wider than three Chimaeric Demons placed end to end.
Its central head unleashed a stream of acidic breath that caught four clones mid-flight. Their flesh dissolved on contact, muscle and bone melting away as they roared in pain. What remained of their bodies splashed into the ocean below, leaving only dissolving fragments and clouds of red mist that the sea thaids rushed to feast on.
The creature’s tail caught another clone across its spine. The impact was so violent it split the clone nearly in half. Bone shards and internal organs sprayed outward as the clone’s body crumpled like paper.
[LEVEL UP.]
That wasn’t the only problem, because each time the creature got closer to attack, Erik’s physical strength decreased because of the weakening draining field.
Erik did his best to stay away from the creature to prevent his strength from reverting to that of a one-year-old. Yet this proved difficult, since he had become trapped within the draining field of another three-headed void ravager.
He launched another barrage of wind blades. The thaid evaded the blades, while its middle head spat void breath, forcing Erik to dive. The energy passed so close he felt its corrupting touch even through his Absolute Castle armor.
The attack swept through multiple clones and thaids, killing them but making Erik earn experience.
[Ally creature killed: Mana-absorbing process starting.]
[Ally creature killed: Mana-absorbing process starting.]
[Ally creature killed: Mana-absorbing process starting.]
[Hostile creature killed: Mana absorbing process starting.]
[Hostile creature killed: Mana absorbing process starting.]
[Hostile creature killed: Mana absorbing process starting.]
[LEVEL UP.]
[LEVEL UP.]
[LEVEL UP.]
Erik never stopped hurtling wind blades. Here and there, he also conjured lightning, but he had to be careful about using it, because each creature worked as a chain point, making his own power not only to end up killing the three-headed void ravagers but even his clones.
The difference was that while the thaids could resist the attacks, the clone couldn’t. The thaids more often than not survived, while the clones died.
Luckily, one of his wind blades found a weak point—the joint where one neck met the creature’s body. Erik ended up cutting one of the heads off.
The monster let out an ear-splitting scream of pain from the two remaining heads, and they moved to attack. However, the monster suddenly wavered, and Erik could swear he saw it grinning.
Yet it was just a beast—not intelligent enough or physically capable of making such an expression.
Yet that was enough for Erik to activate his Instability brain crystal power again, and from it, he felt the thoughts of a creature behind. It was going to attack.
"Shit! I can’t avoid it!" He was too close to the ravagers to be able to avoid the attack.
The thaid attacked.
"MASTER!"
The monster’s triple jaws seized him—catching his left wing, right arm, and back. The armor buckled under the immense force.
Corrosive breath penetrated his defenses while his consciousness faded with Erik unable to fuel the armor with mana because of the pain.
His last conscious thought was of his clones still dying in the surrounding sky, their screams following him into oblivion as everything went black.