Chapter 168: The meaning of being alive (1/2)

Chapter 168: The meaning of being alive

“What does that mean?”

“Why’d that guy suddenly become like this?”

“What has he done? He actually had to kill others, kill his own family, eat their corpses in order to survive?”

Ayrin stared blankly at Lotton. “Did he become so afraid because he remembered all those he killed? Has he always lived with such a fear inside him?”

“I’m going to kill you two!”

“All of you are my enemies. I can only live if I leave none of you alive.”

Lotton’s trembling suddenly stopped. He lifted his head once again, terrifying pale-white particles starting to emerge on his entire face.

“Be careful!”

Ayrin suddenly pushed Charlotte fiercely away, sending her flying backward.

In the same instant, Lotton had already appeared near Ayrin.

His entire body was already covered with pale particles. These particles were constantly wriggling, looking like pale maggots, looking very terrifying.

“Puff!”

The pale-white particles on the surface of his body suddenly sprayed outward, covering Ayrin whole as well, as though he’d suddenly joined together with Ayrin.

A golden hue was already emerging on Ayrin’s skin. However, as though the pale particles had the power to directly corrode the arcane energy from Dragon Scale Assimilation, they immediately penetrated inside.

“Puff!” “Puff!” “Puff!”

Countless such pale particles suddenly pierced Ayrin. From his body covered whole in such particles suddenly erupted a mist of blood.

“Ayrin!”

Before she could even stand firm on her feet, Charlotte shrieked as though she’d gone mad.

A body was pierced by countless tiny particles, was it any different from a shattered body?

From the battle at the water tower up until now, Ayrin had always stood like a shield in front of her, desperately fighting. Ayrin’s attitude even helped her not to be as fearful of Lotton as she’d been at the start. She felt confident when she looked at Ayrin’s figure, felt as though she herself would become stauncher.

Her whole being crumbled now that she saw Ayrin’s state. The only thought filling her mind was to pounce forward and fight with Lotton to the death.

Lotton was in an inexplicable state at this time.

He didn’t look like a man anymore. Instead, he looked like a beast of death who only knew to kill.

The instant the pale particles had pierced Ayrin, he’d already brushed past Ayrin, his vision landing on Charlotte, his eyes filled with an insane desire to slaughter.

“Don’t even think about it…”

But just then, an Ayrin he’d thought definitely down for the count, an Ayrin he thought would certainly topple over and die suddenly roared.

“Boom!”

Ayrin’s punch landed ferociously on his head, hitting him so hard even his neck made a cracking sound, so hard even the pale-white particles covering him splashed away patch after patch.

“How’s that possible!”

Lotton started recovering some semblance of awareness while flying away to the side, his body totally out of his control.

At the periphery of his vision, he saw Ayrin covered from head to toe in small holes, his body appearing to have completely broken. He was also trembling nonstop, looking like a frail snowman about to crumble at any moment.

But Ayrin still didn’t fall over.

“I’ll never let you kill Charlotte… I must knock you down at all cost!”

Ayrin was also feeling as though his entire body had fallen apart, as though it didn’t obey him anymore. But a strange, inexplicable conviction still made him roar in a tremendous voice once again.

“Why can you still fight in this state? Why!”

Lotton started to feel an acute pain coming from his heck, as if Ayrin’s one punch had cracked all the bones in his neck.

This pain he hadn’t felt for a long time caused the feeling of disbelief and fear to once again emerge in his mind.

What caused him even more fear and disbelief was, he could feel the connection between him the greater part of his body’s strength being severed.

Meanwhile, Ayrin seemed to have directly “eaten” the pale-white particles that’d stabbed into him!

The feeling of being deprived of the greater part of his power, of having it “eaten,” even made Lotton sluggish at this time, made him incapable of showing any reaction.

“Boom!”

Amidst Charlotte’s crazed shriek, her presently tiny war avatar crashed against Lotton with all the might it could muster.

“It hurts!”

Although this impact once again sent Lotton splashing away in the air, it couldn’t give him a mortal wound. But at the same time, the pain in Lotton’s neck became even more acute. Under the force of the impact, the bones that were already cracked started to genuinely shatter.

“I can’t collapse!

“I must fight!

“I must beat him down!

“I have to protect Charlotte!

“I absolutely… absolutely can’t admit defeat!”