The Sacrificial Holders were about to attack, but they stopped, but not because of Adam attacking or the hot flas, the reason was his scream absorbed in agony.
"FUCK! Stop it! You stupid bitch!"
Adam grabbed at his head, trying to ease the pain at least a little, but it only made things more difficult.
Once again, he felt like there was sothing wrong with this pain. It hurt, but not physically or ntally as well, it was vivid and unknown to him before.
Trying to escape the fiery agony, Adam found himself in his inner space. Here, amidst the darkness he fell to his knees as nothing changed, but soon sothing else caught his attention. For a few seconds, it made him forget about the pain.
Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.
The Evolution Tree was actively trembling, but it wasn't as if it was holding back its laughter or anything.
Right now, the Evolution Tree looked like a man trying with all his might not to scream in extre pain.
"Wait... Do you feel it too?"
Adam blinked several tis with his eyes wide open.
In response, he heard intermittent laughter:
[Ha... Ha... Ha... Of course, I am! Do you think... that I would scream in pain like a child like you...?]
"But..." Adam was lost.
"ARGHHHHH!!!"
"This pain is special! It doesn't hurt my flesh, it goes all the way down!"
[Yes... and so what?]
The Evolution Tree continued to shake like Adam was in agony, but unlike Adam, it tried to maintain its normal tone.
[The pain won't stop until you get all the information that Lona Blaze wants to give you... You see... I'm in the sa situation as you, even though it's because of you...]
For a short period, Adam was silent, looking at Evolution Tree with a baffled expression.
[No one likes pain... but... a hundred tis better to endure it steadfastly than to scream. Perhaps... soday such endurance will save your life...]
The Evolution Tree's words were true, though quite trivial, and they managed to change Adam's attitude, his view changed.
There was no more screaming from Adam, both in inner space and in the real world.
Step.
With trembling knees, Adam struggled to get up from the ground gazing intently at the Sacrificial Holders. The long vines from the flowers wanted to rush into battle, but they were too cautious, not knowing what was happening to their opponent.
Adam's pupils flickered from ti to ti, the bright pain hadn't gone anywhere since Lone Blaze hadn't finished the process yet, but Adam wasn't going to just endure and wait any longer.
Step.
With a nacing aura beating in powerful currents, Adam stepped forward, shaking the ground with his mighty stomp.
"Bastards, why are you standing there wasting my ti!"
Strangely enough, the flas on the needle beca more active, following his emotions. Red flaming particles swept before his eyes.
The Sacrificial Holders flinched at his exclamation. They felt stronger but were also afraid to get too close to Adam.
After a few steps, Adam stopped glaring at even walls, without cracks or gaps.
"My temporary partner... no sparing at all..."
Crackle.
Adam adopted a fighting stance, pulling the needle forward, his torso tilted slightly forward.
"But, I can't deny that..." his facial muscles contorted in sudden pain, but he continued, "That fla has destructive power..."
Whooooooooooooosh.
At the sa mont, Adam dashed forward, thrusting the needle forward.
That simple movent gave the fla a sudden montum, all it needed to burst forth with all its power.
A destructive torrent of fire filled the passage, only the top of the ceiling was left untouched by the all-consuming inferno.
The Sacrificial Holders' eyes went wide, they bounced sideways as the long vines swept in front of them becoming their shield.
But...
As the flas reached the vines, they turned them into handfuls of ash falling to the ground in a thick black mass.
Then, the flas reached the broad layers of flesh covering the Sacrificial Holders, burning through the top layer.
"RRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!"
The Sacrificial Holders roared in agony, their pain intensifying while Adam's slowly decreased, Lone Blaze's information transfer almost coming to an end.
[You can feel it... That's my power when I have a vessel...]
Adam's eyebrow twitched, a final flash of pain spreading across his face before it finally ended.
He didn't answer anything, but Lone Blaze's words brought him to his senses:
'Wait, Lone Blaze said a vessel? Hmm... Apparently, the External Artifacts can interact with both Phantoms and monsters. Well, that's not surprising after all, the situation is exactly the sa with ordinary artifacts.'
Phantoms and Artificial and Natural ones could absorb artifacts, monsters had the sa ability, albeit with so complications. Such monsters would then beco the Essence Type.
Step. Step. Step.
Adam walked forward looking at the Sacrificial Holders burning. There was no need to attack them, the flas were turning them to ash rapidly.
With the energy effect, their wounds were trying to regenerate, the bloody ribbons were partially saving the monsters from the grueso burns, but the speed was too slow.
"Pffft, even if you were Regenerative Monsters, it wouldn't be enough to survive!"
[You seem to feel much better after winning, don't you?]
Adam's corners of his lips went up as he shrugged nonchalantly.
"Yeah, but it looks like there are so limitations to your abilities after all."
His gaze flickered downward, the fla on the needle didn't disappear, but it beca much slower and didn't shine as brightly.
[That's not a problem... Unlike you or monsters, I'm not a living creature, I can quickly recover my powers just by absorbing energy from the environnt.]
At the sa mont, the wind currents slightly distorted, the crimson mist headed towards the silver needle gently passing next to the sharp blades.
Slowly, the flas regained their forr power.
Adam waved his hand, feeling the energy density around him drop dramatically, all headed towards the fire.
"Damn, that's pretty convenient."
[Yes, but we must hurry... I have a bad feeling about this. You must fulfill the terms of the pact.]
In a heartbeat, Adam's expression grew more serious as he saw in the distance the descent, the great stair leading up to the bright crimson lights.
"Sure, our goals are the sa, so we will be allies until we achieve what we want. Then... things may change."
...
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In the depths of the fortress, ti felt very different from the upper levels. It took Adam over twenty minutes to fight against the three monsters, the Phantoms trying to survive the Eclipse.
Most of the Phantoms already run into the fortress, the number reached into the hundreds, but there were laggards and the monsters in comparison were many tis more.
Slash.
Katrin slashed another monster standing in front of the bridge along with several other of the strongest Phantoms from the squads.
Viron and Gnash took their positions inside the fortress.
"Fuck, there are more and more of them, Alan, how many more Phantoms are running towards the fortress?"
She looked around, in the last few minutes a veritable mountain of monster corpses ford in front of the bridge, dying one by one.
'About seventy, twelve more small squads to be exact.'
"I see."
Katrin nodded deeply about to return to the battle as sothing caught her eye.
Green flas erupted in the northern part of the dark lands, soon a massive shadow rose from beyond the hills, while hundreds of silhouettes followed their leader.
"Here cos the first serious trouble..."
Katrin gulped.
"Well, it was to be expected, but I'm afraid he won't be the first and last..."
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