Chapter 334 Last Mercy (1/2)
Chapter 334: Last Mercy
My gaze shi+fted fro of ascenders around her closing in on us Their hardened expressions, posture, gait—everything about thenificant invest in front of Darrin, our fe hiot wrapped up in this, Ordin I know I speak for all these men when I say that you’ve earned our respect over the years”
“Well, then you could let us go,” Darrin ventured, the charolden force field
The wo us seriously “No, I’m afraid not”
I watched the ripped fires My eyes turned to where we had crossed over to this floor A steady stream of ascenders should have been headed in both directions, but no one new cah the portal fro out into the first level was e for a way out of this?” The woman asked with a raised brow “I ad?” I echoed, raising a brow “Is that what it looked like I was doing?”
“Superstar here thinks he’s invincible after being let loose,” one of thenearest to her said with a chortle His red hair had been shaved down on the sides, and scars marked his face, the sides of his head, and the bare skin of his arms
Apparently, even the most professional of mercenaries weren’t immune to the disease of a swelled head because another man—this one a ainst his weapon
“That’s a top tier force cage,about these expensive ones is that, while they cost as much as a Relictoainst you, reinforcing the barrier”
“So by allhis shoulders a little shake, “struggle all you wish”
The orange-armored woman let out a snicker and the nal to cackle in aolden barrier of mana shattered around ed any faster
‘Puahaha! Look at their faces!’ Regis guffawed, practically rolling on his back within me
“Th-that’s impossible…” the woman stammered, her tanned skin a shade paler
“I’ve been told that a lot,” I replied casually, dusting the golden shards of solidifiedquickly frouttural roar as she flashed forward, twin sabers appearing in her hands, blazing in a golden red fire
My form blurred as I used Burst Step to close the distance between us, catching her off guard I kicked her knees and slaround with a quick strike to the back of her neck
By the time the rest of the mercenaries snapped out of their shock and terror, their leader was already under aze swept across the twenty soiven the Granbehls enough chances
Regis, kill the rest, I thought
A shadoolf engulfed in violet fla a stor the hardened mercenaries that they were, however, our opponents reacted with practiced efficiency, glowingaround the the platforlance back at Alaric and Darrin, whose dumbfounded expressions indicated that they were still processing what exactly was going on While the idea of freeing them for additional help crossed li
Shrouding myself in a layer of aether, I focused on e of spells
Regis struck like a s went, but after killing a few of their comrades, our attackers were able to encircle him with mana shi+elds while their Casters bombarded hi red hair was the first to approach iant warharound with eachyou alive!” he roared “Die!”
With bloodshot eyes filled with vengeance, the Striker swung his blackened steel haa burst of aether fro a steady flow throughout the rest of my body to keep myself stable
My bare fist collided with the face of his h the air
The mercenaries nearby were blasted off their feet, slay while the redhead’s hae they tried to trap me in
Before my wide-eyed opponent could recover, I followed up with an aether-clad punch to his chest that is had his jaws trained on the round axe-wielder’s head His agonizing screa crunch ason to his next victim
While protective panels of is’s claere infused with destruction, slowly disintegrating whatever the mercenaries could conjure
All around me, thehow outmatched they were
A Striker cae sword surrounded by a sharp torrent of wind, but I sidestepped the unwieldy weapon easily, ignoring the scratches froround, I snapped out a forward kick against the flat edge There was a rending of metal as the serrated blade tore free froround into the distance
The Striker had just a moment to stare dumbfounded at his broken weapon beforethrough the wall of one of the surrounding buildings
Spinning, I dodged a crackling arc of electricity that left a trail of shattered earth in its path
The robed caster let out athe stream of voltaic mana back at me
With another series of aetheric bursts channeled througha hole through his stohter dissolved into a hysteric scream as he looked down at his fatal wound
As the ascender slu fro it as a shi+eld to catch a series of ice spikes that fleard me I felt that man’s body shake as the spikes irip
I let the corpse fall to the ground
Flicking the blood off my arm, I scanned the battlefield; one of the ale of wind blurred his for, one arof the portal
The world shi+fted as my perception stretched and the currents of aether appeared aroundthe threads of spatium feed information to me, I was able to find the route that led me to the escapee
Then I took a step
Tendrils of violet lightning crackled around e Grabbing him by the back of his armored collar, I jerked hi?” I asked
Despite entle smile, the ascender’s face twisted into one of horror
“H-how…” he croaked before his skull was sla the absence of the rich aetheric atmosphere of the deeper Relictole God Step and knew I couldn’t be careless about wasting aether