The blast engulfed Silva completely. The Rift Monster believed it had vaporized him, but as the explosion faded, Silva stood there unhard. His wings had wrapped around him, his entire body covered in hardened scales. Slowly, the scales receded, and his wings folded back into his spine.
A smirk tugged at his lips.
"That was really sothing. You've got so level of battle IQ for a monster… but it's ti to end this."
He raised his sword. The black flas coiled around the blade, then shifted into bright, radiant fire. Silva looked at the Rift Monster in the distance. With a single slash, a sword arc of divine light erupted out and tore straight through the creature, splitting it clean in half.
No notification appeared.
Silva clicked his tongue. "So even that didn't have any divine energy," he muttered.
With the monster dealt with, it was ti to leave the Rift. Unsure how to escape, he consulted the minds within him, each one giving the sa answer: cut through the Rift itself. A Rift was a subspace torn open in real space. If he could tear it again, he might find the exit.
Without hesitation, Silva pulled back his blade and unleashed one powerful slash. The sword tore through the very fabric of space, opening a path out. He stepped through and exited the Rift instantly.
Outside, he saw that his clones, Drake, Dawn, and Lily, had already taken care of the remaining Rift Monsters.
"Master, you're okay," Drake said.
"Of course. Did you really expect to die that easily?" Silva replied.
He was about to speak again when he sensed a presence rapidly approaching. His expression sharpened. He summoned all his clones back and raised a hand.
"Stand back. Sothing's coming."
Before anyone could move, a figure tore through the sky.
BOOM.
The air shattered. Sonic booms rippled across the sky as the being descended. Floating high above them was a man dressed in ornate robes, his long white hair flowing like silk. His skin was pale, his eyes pure white. He looked fragile—delicate even—but unsettlingly beautiful.
"Seems soone has tampered with my experint," he said. His soft voice still carried imnse weight.
Silva looked up at him. "You're the one who tore the Rift?"
"Well," the man replied, "saying I tore the Rift makes it sound bad. Not that it matters now. That Rift was a little experint… and you sohow managed to ruin it. You ddling hunters from the Arcane Council." His eyes narrowed. "Either way, bla yourself for disrupting my work."
He pointed a finger downward.
"I do not appreciate people touching what is mine."
A bright white light gathered at his fingerti, then fired downward like a falling star.
Silva reacted instantly, creating a do of pure darkness. The attack struck it and
BOOOOM!
A massive explosion ripped outward, sending shockwaves across the island and even disturbing the distant sea. The dark do shattered, but none of the force reached those behind it.
"All of you, stand back," Silva said, stepping forward. His gaze hardened.
The man tilted his head. "Hmm? You blocked my attack? Fascinating. But you should understand who stands before you."
His eyes glowed faintly.
"Do not approach , or you may lose your life. Stay where you are… and die peacefully."
He pointed his finger again. This ti, the light swelled—brighter, larger, far more concentrated. It shot downward even faster than before.
But Silva shot upward to et it.
He slashed through the incoming blast, his blade colliding with the beam of light.
BOOOOM!
Another explosion tore through the sky, a shockwave rippling outward. But again, none of it hard anyone below.
The man flew toward Silva, frowning as he studied him.
"Seems you're not simple at all," he said. "But let warn you—I am not soone you can deal with."
He stretched out his hand. A staff materialized, ford from pure, glistening white wood that shone under the sky.
"Since you've chosen to stand against after touching what was mine, I'll make sure your death is painful."
He hurled the staff like a spear.
It tore through the air instantly.
Silva blocked it with his sword.
BOOM!
The impact sent him flying downward, slamming him into the ground. Dust and stone burst upward as he hit. The staff ricocheted back to the man's hand, and he caught it effortlessly.
He shot downward, swinging the staff at full speed. But Silva rolled away just as it struck.
CRAAAACK!
The staff smashed into the earth, splitting the island's ground in a jagged line that traveled hundreds of ters.
The man looked up. Silva was already standing in the distance.
He launched forward imdiately.
"Is that all you can do? Block and evade?" he taunted before thrusting the staff toward Silva once more.
"Who the hell is this person?" Silva thought as the man closed the distance. From the mont the stranger appeared, Silva could sense the imnse strength radiating from him. It wasn't like anything he had felt since coming to this planet. This man was definitely not soone simple.
But that wasn't all.
His energy was enormous, far beyond anything Silva had ever sensed. And despite that, every attack he'd used so far felt light… casual… nowhere near the true power boiling inside him. Silva could tell imdiately: this figure didn't even see him as a threat. He was holding back. A lot.
Silva parried the incoming staff strike, knocking it to the side. The man tilted the staff downward, planting it into the ground and using it as leverage to propel himself backward, creating a movent Silva couldn't fully predict.
He flipped into a spinning kick aid straight for Silva's head. Silva jerked back just in ti. The wind from the strike brushed across his face like a blade of air.
The man landed gracefully, staff resting across the back of his shoulders.
"You really are sothing," he said. "But that's enough playing. You will learn not to touch what does not belong to you… especially when it is the property of the demigod."
His voice deepened, carrying a thunderous weight, and then he released his energy.
This ti it was nothing like before.
A massive typhoon-like force exploded outward, the air distorting violently around him.
"So that's it…" Silva muttered as the pressure crashed over him.
"He's a demigod."
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