Chapter 156 (1/2)

Chapter 156

Chapter 156: A Lance’s Battle

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“Where’s my mask?”

The witch’s hands fuht

“Myas she realized her face was now bare The witch tore away at her unruly blackher undone hair as a curtain to cover her face She kneeled on the ground, gathering the s

I let out ragged breaths as I slowly inched away in fear of what she ht do I had used Static Void with Realone

The thatch of unruly black hair that fell over her face rustled as she began fitting together the broken pieces in a desperate attempt to make them whole Suddenly, she clutched the pile she had so desperately gathered, clawing the ground along with it

“Myat the shards until her hands bled

Watching the particles of reen aura around her, I had no time think

The faint purple particles of aether started vibrating as I activated Static Void oncemy body’s protest, I rushed toward to strike the witch before the corroding aura coain

With ti that she would be able to react to me, but unlike my previous attempt, I wouldn’t be able to utilize the er reserves I had left in ed vines of white crackled around the teal blade of my sword as I dashed toward the witch With the spell considerably weaker thanup inside ht as the flat tip ofjust above her left knee The ever-fah flesh was accoh the witch’s body Yet the blood that leaked from her wound wasn’t the sareen

The site of where the wound should’ve been hissed as thearound Dawn’s Ballad

As the witch raised her gaze froround, her thick wiry hair parted, she revealed toto hide

I tugged Dawn’s Ballad, wanting nothing narled skin that lookedus, or the two narrow slits between her sunken cheeks It wasn’t even her thin leathery lips that were darker than her hair or her jagged teeth stained yellow

It was her blood-curdling stare, radiating frohoulish pair of misshapen eyes, that filled me with a sense of dread Unlike anyto this world, her dark hollow eyes that seeed out and shoved back deep inside her skull made me wonder if this was the sort of demon that spawned from the depths of hell

“Now that you’ve seen me in this state, I’m afraid that I can’t keep you as a pet,” she ripped my sith one of her bloody hands

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I winced involuntarily as she spoke My rasp, trying to figure out what to do in this situation

As I torestare, I watched in despair as her aura had nearly enveloped her whole body

Unable to ain, I looked down atreen cloud slowly spread until only faint gaps the width of a feather were left

I o of my precious sword, I released a sharp breath to brace ine in ression with precise ti inal position

I gritted through thepain that felt like the bones ininside a fire, and stabbed h the faint chasm in her aura Even witheffects of her defenses seeped into my hand upon contact with her skin

The witch let out a pained growl as she tried to pull herself away but

The flesh of my bare hand soon becaan corroding However, the effects of ht arh, turned a sickly dark color Unlike frostbite that occured in nature, her ar her rather than froer move her arm as the layers of skin and tissues had froze

Before the effects of Absolute Zero could spread to her body, the witch cleaved down at her frozen ar the li pain spread fro e for her severed arround

I wasn’t sure whether it was a good thing or not but looking down, the wound looked worse than it felt Almost as if the skin on my left hand had been dipped in a batter of acid, yellow pus fore of pain with even the slightest twitch

Ripping off a piece of cloth at the end ofh the entire process

“How dare you!” the witch snarled With a deranged fire in her hollow green eyes, she tore off chunks of her thick black hair to reveal a small stump just above her forehead

“I ahly h such… disgrace!” she screaled hair “I’ll melt your liue and feed you through a tube so you can only drea!”

“Oh? You’ll have to at least be a scythe to even think about doing that,” I huffed, hoping she’d take the bait

“A scythe? A scythe?” she howled, hobbling toward a nearby tree with Dawn’s Ballad still i woman off the face of Alacrya and take her place! Just because she’s a little attractive and her grunts fawn over her, she thinks she’s better thanit is to be her retainer!”

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Reing it inside a tree, I ignored the shrieks of protest fro her only ars

I activated Burst Step once ap in a blink Tendrils of black lightning coiled around h her corroding aura and risk ripped the handle ofas a conductor, the branches of electricity coiled down my sword into the witch’s body

Her body immediately stiffened and jerked in a fit of convulsions froh her body I could see her trying to fight back but I became hopeful as her hollow eyes reeled back

Her head spaslossy eyes slowly canarled face cracked like dry soil as splotches of charred skin spread over her body

Please, just die, I pleaded inmana reserves made me fear for the possibility of backlash