Chapter 155 (2/2)

“Your eyes look like they’re spinning, dear,” she teased, her shrill voice just as earsplitting out loud as it was in my head

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“I could be over there…” she taunted once ht

“Or I could be right here!” Suddenly, an arm shot out from inside the tree I was perched on

I had no ti a searing pain across my throat and collar I was lifted into the air, held by my neck, as the source of the shrill voice caripped at her bony pale arm, splotched with discoloreda sparkling black dress that accentuated her body’s tall and sickly thin frah the thin piece of fabric that would’ve looked elegant had it been worn by any other woh to see her face, but what stared back at me was a ceraly black hair was tied into two ponytails behind her head with a bow tied at each end

“My, what a handso boy you are,” she whispered froht at me

Like a bolt of electricity, a shi+ver shot down le harder My neck felt like it was being constantly branded as the burning pain beca with the last of my consciousness, I willed mana into my palms

With Realmheart still active, I could physically see the specs of bluewhite as I forrip around her wrist, I released my spell

[Absolute Zero]

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She irasp Upon release, I fell froround

“The little puppy has a bit of a bite,” she repriot back up ontofro down through the sht arm was discolored and swollen from where I was able to briefly touch her with the spell

She shook her head “No matter I’ll just have to be a bit ”

My body involuntarily took a step back She had no intention of killing me; she just wanted me as some sort of pet

“What’s your na away as she buried her right arm inside the tree behind her

“My ers, especially ones as… strange as yourself,” I answered, wincing froerly touched the wound onwith Sylvia’s will, I’d feel , but the injury she inflicted was different

“Not to worry We’ll get acquainted soon enough,” she replied, pulling her arm back out of the tree, the wound marked by my spell nowhere on her ar hole in it, like so strides, her scar- through water “Unfortunately, we don’t have much tily be this beautiful lady’s slave?”

I dren’s Ballad out of“Sorry, I’ll have to refuse”

“They always do” The bony woh as she shook her head “It’s okay, half the fun is breaking the will of a disobedient slave”

As she finished talking,beneath my feet Immediately, I jumped back, just in time to avoid a cluster of round The hu back into the corroded ground

The woh her disturbing h Realmheart, the spells seemed to have a similar attribute to wood, like Tessia, but with every spell she conjured, it left aneck, afraid of what I’d see in athered around the mysterious enemy, but before she had the chance to finish her spell, I shot out a stone spike froround beside her I watched as the earthen spear dissolved instantly the moing the inevitable,voice that made me want to clawround and on trees around me, only visible because of ht was how I should savethis battle when I realized for the first ti while that I had no reason to hold back Most likely, she was either a retainer or scythe, one of the key eneainst in the land of asuras

Breaking open the metaphoric wall I had built to control my mana, I felt a rush of mana pour out of lowed brightly, blatantly apparent even through the thick mantle I wore over reen and yellow rushed out of athered, drawn to my body like moths to a fire

“Looks like I found someone special,” the wo her spell Dozens of vine-like arround and shot out from the trunks and branches of nearby trees

My expression re ured hands of ers A sround below noring her spell

I ducked and swayed, dodging the vine-like hands that followedmy stride as I reached the witch I was just inches away from reach, yet the woman didn’t even flinch, confident in the aura that had dissolved my earlier spell

“Absolute Zero,” I whispered, coalescing the spell coreen hands that froze inches before contact beca statue that only philosophers could putDawn’s Ballad but I was afraid that my sould end up like the stone spear, so I took one last step, just before her feet, and willed the aura of ice to formenter had done back at the start of my earlier battle As my spell collided with her aura, a cloud of steaulp of breath to realize that the stea hs as boththe runes on olden runes that snapped me out of my daze

The runes, imparted onto me by Sylvia and the very syrip of darkness

I promptly created a ss It helped, but with no air to breathe and the oxygen fros sucked out, I was left with just a , as toxic as it was, covered me from the witch’s eyes She’d assumed I’d have fainted by now, or worse, so I used that opportunity Locating her nature with the help of Realhting ness to stay conscious

Seconds see me of my time spent with my consciousness in the aether orb, when she finally drew close enough While she shouldn’t be able to sense the e Walk, I could only pray that she wouldn’t be able to see the diy, I triggered Static Void, stopping time around me as I exploded to my feet and struck her with Dawn’s Ballad My sword crackled as it seehtning that seemed almost holy as I released time just before my bladespread the cloud of acid covering both of us, but even without seeing, I knew I’d soaze fell to the blade in my hand, or rather, as left of it The tip of Dawn’s Ballad, forged by an asura, had been corroded flat with an inch of the teal blade gone However, spotting the faint trace of blood on lance to the witch

I could only see the point of her sharp chin as her head was reeled back, a thin trail of blood rolling down the side of her neck The entire forest seemed to have quieted in fear as the only sound I heard was the shattering of her mask on the dirt floor