Chapter 15 Chapter: 015 Between Life and Death (2/2)

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After walking for one hour. they saw several humanoid creatures in the dark.

”What is this?”

”i remember reading about them before, those things are called draugen. Draugen or draugr are undead creatures that live in their graves guarding treasure buried with them, they are also know to have powerful strength and change their sizes and forms. The only way we can pass them is not letting they detect us, Lucky they do not seem to be cultivators and were only human before they died”Chloe said.

”So we need to be careful to not make any noise and...”

”Crack!” Chloe accidentally stepped on a piece of wood that broke causing a noise attracting all the Draugen. ”sorry!”

Elijah raise his hammer and said. ”Chloe, stay back!”

And he threw his hammer, hitting the head of a draugen and another draugen approached and atack ed him from behind.

He called his hammer back, and used [Void Steps] to make the draugen hit a afterimage and Elijah's hammer shined as it destroyed the draugen's head.

Then Chloe sensed something wrong and looking left he saw a draugen preparing to shot a arrow on Elijah.

”Ell!” Her eyes glowed with green light as her blond hair turned green and she appeared beside Elijah and the arrow flying to Elijah's head had hit her arm, she let out a deep groan as the arrow hit her.

Elijah's eyes flushed with blood as a gray vortex erupted over his head, sucking all the energy around him.

”AHH!”

His entire body shined with grey light as he surpassed his limits, and reached the third level Void Steps.

he teleported several times but only managed to kill two from the seven draugen, before spending all his remaining energy and his body was covered with wounds.

Loking back he saw Chloe giving her best fighting with those draugen but she also could not last much longer, he tried to contact shadow several times but nothing happen.

Tinking everything had ended, he looked at Chloe.

”I'm sorry.”

Inside his soul, the Giant Gate trembled several times as one of the runes on the gate lit up and a strange word fled from his mouth.

”Thurisaz!”

he felt a strange heat inside him as his body began to grow, turningthis six-year-old kid into a fourteen-year-old boy.

Feeling a great streng lying inside his body, he trew a punch on the draugen that was nearly hiting Chloe's head.

”Woosh!” his punch cut the wind and when it touched the draugen, his body was completely disintegrated.

Chloe was stuned seeing her cousin exploding with so much strenght, with his current power, he is compared to a First Realm Peak.

Felling astounded with his own power, he gather all energy he could to his right hand and slashed using his hand like a sword.

A gray energy came out of his hand cutting all the draugen into pieces.

Then Elijah's body quickly returned to his normal form as he fell to the ground, unconscious.