131 Slaughter State 4 (1/2)
”What!?” Voodoo Priest Kane Mack was astonished. ”How could this little Junior Spirit rank Scientist possibly be so fast? It must be an inherent combat skill augmented by spell casting. This is an advanced method…but it can only be this.”
No matter how surprised Kane Mack was, he was still a peak rank Scientist. He was wise enough to put the missing pieces of the puzzle together with ease. Kane brandished his combat lance and made a hand seal as he sprinted forward and unleashed a cursed art.
Dark Arrow Volley!
Ten dozen dark origin qi arrows burst from the earth, all of them aiming at a single target - Jodye Trill. Meanwhile, Kane Mack executed his lance arts, sending terrifying waves of voodoo fiend qi at his opponent. Jodye sneered, these arrows looked so slow to him at this moment, there wasn't any suspense to this at all. He casually walked through the volley of curse arrows, side-stepping them left and right as if he could predict their trajectory, his magic sword defensively clashing against the blade of Kane Mack's lance repeatedly.
In fact, since Jodye was currently as fast as a Silver Mage that was using space or time magic, with over 4000 BP pushing his legs forward every step he simply didn't need to clash with Kane Mack at all. However, it wouldn't be good to show off too much with so many opponents around. Jodye could barely control his desire to run laps around the city, he had never felt so strong and fast.
Meanwhile, Dessa Chimes was engaged in a fierce battle against two Scholars and a Fledgling Saint. She was stronger than them all but was rapidly losing her advantage, ”Little Aiken I can't hold out much longer.”
Behind Dessa, Aiken Moon surrounded in the golden atmosphere continued forming curse seals as fast as his little hands would allow, ending with a hand seal that meant earth. The origin qi phenomenon showed 14 white light dots and 30 violet-black light dots as he called out, ”Done!”
Bronze Curse Art: Tricky Fox, 62 BP!
Curse seals coiled together to form a mischievous looking fox bandit glyph that wrapped itself around combat crossbow where Aiken just loaded five bolts, the max for this weapon. He dove out from behind Dessa and took solid aim before squeezing the trigger five times relentlessly.
Swish…
Swish…
Swish…
Puchi!
Puchi!
”Argh!” The force behind Aiken's attack easily penetrated the flesh of the collapsed Fledgling Saint and one of the Scholar Sages facing Dessa. The Fledgling Saint was trembling on the ground foam coming out of his mouth. Aiken's bolt struck the center of his glabella, apparently seriously damaging the opponent. Aiken knew that this was due to the strength of his Curse Art, in addition to its effect. After the saint's body stopped spasming and a dancing hieroglyph escaped his body and entered the earth. Of course, it was also severe brain damage.
Due to protecting his partner, the sage who caught two bolts through the leg had his face darkening as he shouted obscenities, ”Finish this slut off, and help me catch this short dogface motherfucker.”
”They took down Yandy, Joe, we need to retreat!” called out the other sage.
”What?! Yandy's right here…ah!” the wounded Scholar Joe was shocked as he saw Yandy's blackened body next to himself. It was already suffering rigor mortis, someone had obviously siphoned all the remaining life-force from his body. To his shock, even his own leg was not blackened and lifeless like he had been afflicted with terrible frostbite, ”Fine, let's retreat for now!”
”Too late for that!” Dessa Chimes poured her 43 BP of pure essence qi into her weapon as she slashed down with all her might! The uninjured Scholar raised his staff to defend, but it started to crack under the pressure of Dessa's powerful attack. Dessa didn't let up at all and attacked even more ferociously, continuously hacking with her blade, using the force of impact to avoid touching to the ground. In the meantime, Aiken Moon had already reloaded his weapon, he was just waiting on the curse to take effect on Scholar Joe. The Tricky Fox Curse was pretty much fatal to Scholar Realm Sages because the tricky fox steals vital life force from the opponent whenever they try to use magic qi. This qi is then delivered to the caster.
”Not so fast, you sneaking chump,” Scholar Joe scowled as he started forming curse seals.
”Fuck!” Aiken Moon was incredibly perturbed. First, he accidentally killed a rookie saint who was really a rookie magic priest, now he cursed a voodoo practitioner with a curse that siphoned vital life qi. This was an opponent who didn't even concentrate on magic qi, so his vital life qi was always surrounded by a protected layer of origin qi to prevent being harmed by his own corrosion powers. This was also something Aiken had to do, so he knew the method well. There was no way for his Tricky Fox Curse to take major effect now. ”Looks like I'll have to use that!”
Aiken Moon's master Sigma Octanis already passed Aiken his own legacy heaven art, the Nine Celestial Moons Record. Aiken had already mastered the first moon at the initial completion level. This basically just a single step in the door, but it was a level a mastery nonetheless.
”Origin Icicle Volley!” Aiken immediately released his remaining origin qi to form a crescent moon made of serene origin qi the size of a small hut. The crescent then shattered into 20 icicles that tore through the surrounding fiends and left Scholar Joe listless and full of holes while his tattered body still created hand seals until a few seconds after his death.