"Hmm, creepy,"
Kent said, the mont he appeared on the 4th floor of the Void Temple. To his amazent and, well, not too unexpectedly, he appeared in what looked to be a cetery.
Dirty, eerie, and strangely unsettling smoke kept rising from the thousands of graves littering the entire cetery. The air is thick with that black and perhaps poisonous smoke.
There was no telling just what kind of place he had appeared in, but he knew there was nothing good about it.
"No nas on the graves show I am about to face a necromancer." There are thousands of tombstones, so it wasn't too hard to know the kind of person he was about to face,
Kent tried to fly into the air, but he found himself stuck to the ground.
"No flight here, huh. Strange yet anticipatory," he grinned and spread the soul map.
"Restricted to just 1 km, even more strange." Despite the restriction, Kent found himself very happy. In his mind, he was about to face soone powerful. While that should have made him panic and alert him to take imdiate action to avoid falling into any trap, he instead felt more relaxed and happy.
Obviously, there is sothing wrong with his head. However, with the beauties waiting for him at ho, even if he were to completely lose his mind, they would snap him back.
However, being happy while standing literally in danger raises concerns about his ntal health.
Thankfully, when the next big thing happened, he found himself suddenly getting ready to fight back. His grip tightened on his sword when a formation that further shrunk his sense to only 500 ters appeared.
Standing 50,000 km from Kent was a skeletal figure draped in purple tattered robes, eyes glowing with necrotic starlight. His hand was bony, and in his surprisingly firm grip was a bone staff, the kind that only necromancers held.
He pointed it toward a formation that was being powered by over a hundred undead, each having the strength of a Spirit Immortal.
Suddenly, in the air over Kent's head, far from his senses, thousands of swords, each forged from the rotting energy of Necrotic Qi, hovered, pointed, and ready to attack.
"Strange, I suddenly felt like my life is in—"
Kent wasn't done when the swords shot toward him, each pointed at his head. He had no ti to even dodge or raise defence before all of them reached him.
He used the soul map to move while summoning the [Chaos Scale Shield].
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG
The sound of tal striking tal filled the cetery as the swords struck Kent's defence. Kent manifested the Chaos Scale Shield, forming rotating shields around him. No matter how fast or curved the swords were, they were not able to penetrate the Chaos Scale Shields.
"Yet again, I found myself under the assault of soone hidden from sight. Makes wonder just how strong they are this ti around and how much they have up their sleeve."
The tower said nothing, showing that even she didn't know. However, Kent knew it was only a matter of ti before he did. After all, with this standoff, it would be wise for the attacker to make more moves and hope he lucks out.
As expected, standing outside, the bony figure raised his staff and pointed it at the formation. A golden beam shot from his staff and entered the formation. When he rged with it, the swords stopped shooting at Kent. They instead reford, forming a dragon.
It was colossal, about 2000 ters long, with razor-sharp talons and hollow eyes.
"Another danger," Kent said, looking up. His instincts scread at him to make strength his shield, so he did. He summoned blood runes and made them rge with the shields.
The mont he did that, a terrifying dragon descended, talons stabbing toward him as it took a nose-dive toward him. Kent stacked the shields and punched them forward, eting the dragon in a resounding boom.
However, Kent held no smile on his face. If anything, he felt played, and that could be seen from the arrow embedded in his chest.
"I didn't see that co." A slight shock crossed his face as he gazed at the arrow, which emitted a faint cloud of poison smoke. Although it wasn't poison, he was struck, and that said sothing.
He wasn't invincible as he believed, and this temple master had revealed that.
With the pain still coming from his chest, he slashed his sword, cutting another arrow that appeared out of nowhere. It was like it didn't exist, yet it existed.
The third arrow ca, and yet again, his 6th sense picked it up even when his soul map didn't.
The dragon was stopped, but it appeared to be a decoy employed by his attacker to fool him. By the ti he saw through this sche, he was already injured.
He had no chance to even make a move against his opponent. However, even worse, he couldn't tell where the arrows were coming from. If he saw a direction, he would be able to make a move against them.
However, he was blinded, restricted and limited.
[It is the formation. It is connected to a Core Immortal's domain. I don't know much about him, but I can only say this much: the domain seems to allow the attacker to manipulate space.
He is rely bending space, making sure the arrows arrive before your soul map could sense them.
This ans as long as you are under this formation and inside this domain, you would be under the continuous barrage of arrows, and there is nothing you can do about it.]
Kent thought for a mont, processing everything he had heard. In the end, however, after managing to dodge the 19th attack barely, he grinned and waved his hand, unleashing ten soul spirits.
"Spread out," they moved, and soon, they ford a circle around him in a 500-ter radius.
Kent then ford a hand seal, and from all around him, a loud soul explosion rocked the space, filling it with so much soul energy.
On the outside, the bony figure flinched and coughed; however, nothing ca out. Perhaps he had no blood in his body, so he couldn't cough up anything.
But while his cough yielded no results as one would expect, Kent had a different breakthrough...
Just when he coughed, his focus shifted from the formation, making it flicker. It was just a small flicker, the kind one pays little to no attention to.
However, Kent only needed that to make his move. So, on the flicker, Gaap vanished and appeared outside the formation.
That temporary flicker lifted the flight ban, and Gaap slipped through. The mont he was gone, Kent sat in a lotus posture, a smile playing on his lips.
"Let's see how your arrows find their mark when there is no way to get through my defence." Kent unleashed his Chaos Scale Shield again, but this ti, he created pentagon-shaped shields, stacking them large enough to form a giant do around himself.
Then, manifesting 30,000 blood runes, he coated the shields, making them nearly indestructible. With that, all arrows coming at him were being deflected like they were made of cotton.
Kent sat inside, allowing the ti to pass. This battle, he knew, while the opponent had the upper hand, he would turn things around in a few minutes.
For now, he could continue bombarding his shield with his pointy yet deadly arrows.
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