Chapter 248: House Baratheon Sends its Regards, Moment of Revenge Approaches (1/2)
Chapter 248: House Baratheon Sends its Regards, Moment of Revenge Approaches
“Not good! We’ve been discovered!”
Rui was still thinking about what to do when his body suddenly stiffened as if he had been caught within the gaze of a poisonous snake.
“Wings of Darkness!”
Rui immediately invoked a skill as a black light covered his body and two giant black wings suddenly condensed over him, Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham like a tarp, sheltering them within.
Rip!
An inexplicably profound and mysterious energy abruptly struck the giant black wings. Although the energy was reflected, a large hole quickly emerged atop the wings as large pieces of the wings began to corrode away.
“We’ve already been discovered!”
“Hurry and use skills!”
When the two arcane energies collided, Ayrin and the others finally reacted in shock and fear.
“Wings of Darkness? It’s you, Rui, the Holy Dawn Evil Six’s Spear of Justice.”
A faint voice rang over from the withered tree.
“Huuuu…” Stingham let out a breath of cold air as the person impaled on the withered tree grabbed the branch penetrating his body and slowly extricated himself.
As he did so, countless pieces of bloody flesh remained atop the branch, signifying that the scene they had seen was no illusion.
His body, which was still covered in hollow metal tubes like a hedgehog, became enveloped by a layer of hazy red mist as the hole in his abdomen began gurgled and began quickly regenerating as if he had drunk a bottle of medicine.
“Teacher Rui, do you know this person?”
Ayrin immediately realized that this person wasn’t normal as he still didn’t pull out the hollow metal needles piercing his body.
“He is the Crazed Alchemist Hanson,” Rui quietly responded, making sure to keep his voice down so that only Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham could hear.
“Crazed Alchemist Hanson?!” Rinloran’s face slightly paled.
“Who is he?” Ayrin hastily whispered into the nearby Rinloran’s ear as he had never heard of Hanson before.
“A mercenary arcane master who is willing to help you kill anyone as long as you pay enough,” Rinloran quietly replied. “He is one of the Kingdom of Eiche’s most notorious and infamous killers. He is an uncontrollable entity who has found several secrets of the Barbarian Berserker Legion from the Era of the War with Dragons. He also uses many potions which enhance his strength and vitality. Many are even better than the best medicines which the Office of Special Affairs’ infirmary can offer.”
Seeing how Rui didn’t respond, Hanson, whose needle-covered body was still shrouded within the red mist, clapped his hands and said with some regret, “So it’s just students from your Holy Dawn Academy. My mistake. I thought the people I had been waiting for had arrived.”
His current appearance was incredibly perverse and crazed.
“Since it was a mistake…” Rui’s eyes lit up as he started speaking. But right at that moment, his expression abruptly turned ugly.
“Holy Light Domain!”
Arcane particles spewed out from Rui’s body even faster than before as a ten meter area of the pitch-black forest around him suddenly lit up as if thousands of dazzling little stars had appeared.
Pillars of brilliant and pure light appeared in succession as the domain rapidly expanded, twisting the surrounding space with its arcane energy fluctuations.
As the brilliant and pure light spread, countless images of pure flying angels emerged in the air.
At the same time, four enormous, hammer wielding and cloak wearing shades appeared. They were each ten meters tall, and there was one situated at each cardinal direction.
The four shades simultaneously swung their hammers downwards.
Tong!
The four hammers simultaneously scattered into numerous waves of black light and heavily struck the Divine Light Domain.
Rip!
Countless strands of black light piecered though the bright light, causing spatial tears.
By this time, the red mist enveloping Hanson had completely disappeared alongside his original disguise, revealing his sickly red face and gray hair. There was a red totem tattooed onto the left side of his face.
“Finger of Death!”
As Hanson pointed his right index finger at Rui, a stream of crimson flames shot out towards Rui.
“What?!” Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham simultaneously exclaimed in shock.
Although the stream of flames was very thin, waves containing a unique and strange domain power rippled from it, instantly dispersing and interfering with the circulation of arcane particles within Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham’s bodies.
Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham’s arcane skills all failed to be invoked.
“Accept my tribute, Divine Altar of Darkness!”
By the time the two taboo domain powers clashed with each other, it was too late for Rui to react and defend against the crimson flames as they struck his body on the left side of his abdomen. As the crimson flames burned Rui’s skin, Rui’s skin turned into gray ash which quickly scattered to form a contracting circle in midair around him. But at this moment, solemn invocation rang out from within Rui’s abdomen.
“Gut Invocation!”
“The Black Witch’s Last Tribute!”
Two voices simultaneously made the same invocation.
Hanson screamed as a black aura appeared over the crimson flames. But instead of tracing the stream of crimson flames back to Hanson, the black aura abruptly rushed towards the backs of Rui, Ayrin, Rinloran, and Stingham like a ghost.
Boom!