Chapter 389 (1/2)
Chapter 389
Chapter 387: Long-Worn Shackles
ARTHUR LEYWIN
The violet ainst my skin as I focused on the Godrune Now that I could once again see and sense mana, I felt connected to the physical space aroundin the Relictombs
Read first at " ReadNovelFullcoht ofout of Mica’s core, the sound of Bairon’s heavy breathing, and even the weight of round beneath me all wove into one intertwined tapestry of sensation
I focused on the e ha with both hands The ha to becoe The sound of thunder crashed and rolled through the cavern, and the ha into a htning spear as the stone shards all shi+vered to a stop instatic shi+vered through the air, and the stones beca off course The few that ainst his mana barrier
Next to me, behind a layer of transparent ice that protected us from any stray spells, Varay shi+fted Her eyes were half-closed as she focused th of their ht “Their cores both feel strong Nearly replenished”
I bit ue It is true that they’ve nearly returned to their full strength, but…
‘Their full strength barely dented a toddler asura,’ Regis cut in, looking up fro
The air in the roo stiff, Bairon strained against the ht of his own body, which threatened to pull hi up all around hi into boulders that immediately flew in his direction
Another thunderclap shook the training cave, lightning-attributein my Realheart-enhanced vision
The stones quivered but didn’t break, their for somehow indefinite, and then they hit hieon, the stones exploded across Bairon likehiain thrummed with the release ofaround his body
Bairon’s eyes dilated, and the hair on his head stood on end
A cloak of lightning coiled around hih the stone, causing it to burst apart before it could fully harden
Read first at " ReadNovelFullco spread out like a web across the floor around his feet, creating round to destroy the pieces of stone that Mica tried to control, including the haain in her hand
The currents of electricity—visible as strea her fist to spashten around the hammer Her eye ide as her muscles were swiftly paralyzed by the overload of electrical energy But even when she suddenly reversed gravity and sent Bairon pluh to break his spell
With Thunderclap Impulse active, Bairon was able to react with near-instant precision He spun in the air, stabilized hi upside down, and activated the lightning web burning across the floor
Each individual tendril of electrical energy forly rando to create a chaoticthe cave
The mana felt so close, like I could almost touch it The muscle ht, like a one-ar arlanced at Varay’s conjured arm of ice A thin but constant strea fro its for a physical arm, was there a way that I, too, could replicate what I’d lost?
A haze of fine sand had risen to fill the cave, absorbing the electricity and nullifying Bairon’s spell A new ha in Mica’s second hand, this one for her muscles was drawn out of her and into thethe end of the Thunderclap I-infused chunk of iron at Bairon At the saain, and this time he was slammed backward into the closest wall
I focused on how the atmospheric aether reacted—or didn’t react—to the nore theinto the space not occupied bythe mana, not really It waseach other, like aforh erosion
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However, like the water and cup metaphor, this idea failed to properly explain the relationshi+p between the two forces
Pinned against the wall, Bairon couldn’t react in time to avoid Mica’s electrified metal hammer It crashed into him, and he was lost in a cloud of dust and debris
The visible ave out
“Bairon?” Varay said, stepping out from behind the protective layer of transparent ice
A dry cough came frohtly He straightened and cracked his neck as he strode back out into the open Behind hi a hole in the cavern wall several feet deep “Well fought, Lance Mica I’ nearly recovered You seem to be as well”
Mica flexed the arm that still held her oversized hammer “Mica does feel much better, yes”
The Lances had been strained to the point of backlash during their fight with Taci, ounds that would leave a h the scabs around Mica’s eye had already fallen away to reveal shi+ning scars beneath, the eye itself would never heal
Varay’s ar heavily in Mica’s eye socket would stay with them as stark re else entirely
The other four Lances together hadn’t been able to defeat Taci Aya had sacrificed her life just to slow him down And Taci was only a boy by asuran standards How could I expect theainst the likes of Aldir or Kordri, rona?
The truth was that ere preparing for a war against deities, but we’d already lost a war against rown in strength, but couldn’t
Read first at " ReadNovelFullcois reht if ent back to the Relictoht not be a world left to save, I thought, feeling a darkto overtake my mood
Instead, I turned back to the Lances and forced a se to ith only one eye?”
A scowl flashed across Bairon’s face, but it quickly transforrin as he took in ets when you don’t let her win”
Mica sta her look more childlike than ever “You let me win, did you? Maybe if you were more versatile, Bai, you wouldn’t have ended up buried ten feet into the wall”
I chuckled and felt the sourness leavingthat alh, ere you doing with the lightning tendrils while you were under the effects of Thunderclap Impulse?” I asked “I couldn’t keep up with the micro-movements while your reactions were so fast”
Bairon’s head turned to the side slightly as he regarded me in surprise “You noticed? But how? I…” He cut hi you do surprises me anyh the lightning-attributeThunderclap Impulse”
“So you’ve even improved on oing to be a one-trick pony, it better be a good trick”
“Perhaps your head has grown too big for your s electricity juers “I think a rematch is necessary”
“Actually,” Varay cut in, raising her brows at ree to a bout withtime since we sparred I know I speak for all three of us when I say that we’d like to get a closer look at your capabilities”
Read first at " ReadNovelFullcoh I knew I needed to help the Lances grow stronger—so was the way “Actually, I was just about to excuse , and I’d like to check on his progress”
“Understood,” she replied “I suppose I should check in with Lords Earthborn and Silvershale on the defensive alterations they areto the city” I could sense the ave her a wry s is tiresoood luck with that” I gave the three Lances a s tunnel back to Vildorial, where I circuated the city to arrive at the Earthborn Institute Regis padded along silently behind uarded, but the dwarves there only watched warily as we passed by The school’s carved-stone halls hu in any noise Gideon’s lab may have made, and eventually, I had to ask for directions fro faculty member in order to track him down Read first at " ReadNovelFullcom"
This led me deep into the bowels of the school where the hallere plain and unadorned, looking more like a prison than an educational institution Heavy stone doors lined both sides of the hall at regular intervals on ht, while those on the left werefor halfway down the hall
The door was propped partially open, a fact that probably had so stench that afting out into the hall, Gideon’s harsh voice coinning E what down, Professor? We haven’t covered anything new in hours,” she said, her tone teasingly insubordinate
“Don’t callI say”
“Yes sir,” she answered, the rolling of her eyes practically audible froh the door and leaned against the frais poked his head in beside me ‘It smells like burnt ass in here’
Gideon and Eed, scorched leather cover Several lighting artifacts hung over the table, casting bright light down on several artifacts that had been carefully laid out atop it
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“We know—”
“Think,” Emily interrupted
“—that the obsidian staff is the primary device used in e have been told is the ‘bestowal cerees ‘runes’—”
“Spellfor mana into the staff does not cause an ithwise across the table was an obsidian staff, just like the one I’d seen used in Maerin Town during their bestowreen, yellow, red, and blue Not visible to the naked eye, but clear as day to me, was the concentration of aetheric particles contained within the crystal
Curious, I activated Real my arms, and under my eyes as the Godrune lit up The world aroundto the stone walls, floor, and ceiling Eddies of wind-attribute mana were tossed around on the subtle currents that moved away froes built into one wall
E on her arms from across the room Slowly, she turned toward the door “Arthur, what…?”
Gideon turned a second later He stared atto a party, kid?”
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I smirked at the joke, but ave it its glow, and even without being activated, it see moreto the other ite able to sense this didn’t tellaether into the Godrune The ain invisible, and my ability to sense them cut out