Chapter 175 (2/2)

It’s in the shadows, Sylv! I screamed internally Those black spikes can only manifest in areas of darkness That’s why his spells are always more powerful when they come out fro

Uto’s hand blurred It blurred Despite being in Real my reactions, I couldn’t fully see his strike

His fist hitmy body, I felt myself flicker in and out of consciousness By the time I had collected myself, I enty feet froainst the shattered trunk of a tree

Sylvie was holding Uto off, the blood fro her black scales With her abilities sealed by Sylvia, she wasn’t able to keep up with Uto any more than I was able to, even with her superior defenses

You are reading on ReadReadNovelFullonlineco up, I pondered once more whether or not to rely on Burst Step to outmaneuver Uto, but Sylvie’s sharp tone cut me off

‘You’ll be crippled for the rest of your life if you use Burst Step again!’

It’s better than dying here, isn’t it? I sent back, frustration dripping from my voice

‘There are better options to explore before we use that!’ she hissed as she twisted her large body, avoiding Uto’s attack She batted the retainer aith her wing before launching herself directly at oing to stop, I leaped and latched myself onto the base of her neck just before she kicked off the ground We near-instantly cleared a hundred feet and continued to fly higher

What’s your plan?

‘Like you said, it’s the shade! He’s able to manifest those metal spikes from wherever he wants froht where thethe sun

I winced at the bright rays but I immediately knehat Sylvie had intended

We were fighting in a giant shadow!

‘Exactly That’s hoas able to conjure his attacks froht him here, he’ll be much more limited in where he can attack’

I steadily stood up on Sylvie’s back She and I had never fought together like this In ht on horseback and I i hundreds of feet above the ground on a flying dragon

I barely had enough time to find my balance on top of Sylvie when Uto appeared just a few feet above us with a black spear in hand

The once black spear that glistened like metal looked dull now that he had to rely on the shadow his body cast as an anchor for his spells

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Careful not to hurt Sylvie, I pushed myself off her back as I envelopedThunderclap Iht into the retainer’s spear Sylvie had been right; with the lack of shade, his attacks didn’t co away from the sun Black spikes jutted out of his body, but the spikes weren’t nearly as dense or ilad you knoeakness,” Uto said, his voicein the air Just like how Uto was restrained by the lack of shade, I was limited by the fact that I wasn’t able to fly Sylvie wouldas a platform to jump off

Try not to stay too close in case Uto tries to use the shadow your body casts, I sent Sylvie as I rushed in for another attack

With Thunderclap Iht ould be able to win Trails of ichor leaked froed to inflict on Uto but what unsettled me was his expression

His face that had once been of lee hadhandicap, you haven’t been able to land a single ful hit,” he said, his voice sohting you to i around The fractured tip of Dawn’s Ballad sunk into Uto’s chest I surged out the ulfed in frost, fire, lightning and wind

I keptto drop For a ht I had killed him

That was the case… until I saw a black swirl manifest froed to destroy es he had wrapped his

Little studs of metal were all over his torso and lis cast their own little shadow around his entire body

Uto’s horn glowed a purplish-black light while the shadow fros spread entirely around his body

I tried pulling Dawn’s Ballad out from Uto’s chest but noenough to pry it out

“If you were able to notice , don’t you think I would’ve found out about it a long tio?” His voice came out muffled from the black mask that covered his entire head and face aside froo of Dawn’s Ballad

My bond immediately repositioned herself to catch me, when a black spike suddenly shot out from Uto’s body

I siphoned auntlet of ice around ed it, the attack would’ve hit Sylvie, but I ht I did

He pointed a finger down as if he arningI couldn’t see Uto’s expression fro

Less than a second later, I felt the sharp prick of so up fro-attributeinto the mysterious aether around on’s will

Aevuht over this powerful ability, I was able to briefly stop time around me Lady Myre had said aether could not be manipulated but rather influenced, but ininto the influence that Sylvia once had over aevum

Colors flipped while the purple particles of aether around me violently treed into er in motion, I was able to whirl my body to avoid the full brunt of the i Distortion—what I chose to call phase one—wasunderwater until the brink of drowning I was barely able to gather ash onhole

My body hurdled down, but just as I landed on Sylvie’s back, Uto reacted He flickered just beside me and struckdoard the ground like a comet, I flashed in and out of consciousness once ony so I had a hard ti which part of me was exactly broken

Without even the luxury of screa from the pain, I desperately tried to protect e into your fox form! I cried desperately, but rather than obey, she scrunched her body into a ball, covering s I could feel the warripped rowl ‘You don’t have enough mana to take the impact At least my body will be able to block some of the force’

Fool, I replied Even in hts I sounded weak

I braced myself for the impact but it never caained consciousness, I was in the center of a crater even et up, but my body refused to listen

Sylvie? I sent out once more No response

A weak moan escaped my mouth as I turned my body to see that Sylvie’s body was still underneath me, but her limbs were splayed out and there were black spikes everywhere beneath us—o out of her

“No” I shook my bond

“Sylvie Wake up” I shook harder

“This isn’t funny any myself on a nearby spike

“Sylvie, please!” My vision swa to burst out ofe her ar back sobs while trying to think of a way to help my bond

“Aether,” I ainst her body It was a long shot, but I had to try

I activated Realmheart once more Every inch of my body screamed in pain from the backlash but I held on With the particles of uide the purple particles into Sylvie’s body

“Please,” I begged

The purple particles of aether around Sylvie began quivering, as if answering my desperate cry for help The bits of aether swirled and seeped slowly into Sylvie’s body

I didn’t knoould happen I thought that since Sylvie was able to heal h aether, her body would be able to heal herself through aether as well

Unable to keep Realainst the base of Sylvie’s neck

“You’re going to be okay,” I breathed “You have to be okay”

Several black spikes had pierced through Sylvie’s body and lith to pull the the black spike that had iround

I striked I striked again I striked until I couldn’t condense mana anymore and my knuckles bled

“Your beast will live,” a female voice sounded nearby The voice was calm and mature

Aya?

Desperate and hopeful, I turned around and looked up, except it wasn’t her Far froirl, but it wasn’t Aya

It was the girl I had seen at the cavern in Darv

The scythe Except… in her hand was Uto And he appeared dead