CHAPTER 353: A TEMPERAMENTAL NIGHTMARE STEED (1/2)
At the same time that Nightmare Steed charged, I pulled Jeerah behind a golem to take shelter. With its combat strength at the level of a Seven-stars and its defensive capabilities nearly reaching that of an Eight-stars, blocking a blow or two from a Nightmare Steed should be fine.
Boom
The Nightmare Steed charged right into my Winged Abyssal Golem, but it failed to leave a dent on it, even with a Nightmare Steed’s impressive strength. After all, my golems were built with insane defensive and physical capabilities in mind. In a competition of brute strength, my golem wasn’t at all at a disadvantage against that Nightmare Steed. In a contest of agility however…
The collision between golem and horse failed to produce a winner. My golem was unharmed, but so was the Nightmare Steed. Yet when was a fight ever so simple? Strength was one thing, but so was speed.
Compared to my lumbering golem, that Nightmare Steed was a speedy cockroach riding on clouds of fire as it weaved around the air. Even the combined efforts of three of my Winged Abyssal Golems failed to hurt it. All it needed to do was to speed off at the last second and it could avoid any damage. Which it did.
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“Blasted insects!” The hot headed Nightmare Steed cursed loudly before diving downwards once more. He deftly avoided three swipes in a row. In her eyes, their fly-swatting movement might as well have stationary, hardly a threat at all.
A split second later, the Nightmare Steed galloped up to us, its fiery red eyes barely meters away from us. Then, I heard the phrase that once left me shivering in despair..
“Dream…”
“…” It felt like a hammer had come crashing down on my head. My surroundings went silent like time itself stood still. Yet unlike my previous encounter with Shade, I never entered a nightmare.
“Impossible! My dream didn’t work on you?!” The Nightmare Steed was stunned by what it had just witnessed. But before it could even recover from that shock, a giant fist came crashing down from behind. Like a paddle to a ping pong ball, the Nightmare Steed was instantly sent flying away.
Tumbling through the air, it was forced down towards the ground by the momentum of the golem’s punch. Yet just when I was expecting a deafening crash, it actually managed to regain control of its body forcefully, straightening out its balance in the nick of time. It immediately flew back up into the air, eyes still wide with disbelief. “That Shade… what did he mean “reincarnation of the Devil King”… you’re clearly just some Devil immune to psychic magic! He just bumped into a unique Devil, that’s all. I should’ve known that he would come up with some phony story about the reincarnation of a Devil King just to shirk responsibility.”
“Hah! Don’t overestimate yourself. The seat of a Devil King isn’t just something you can achieve by big words alone! Do you know how many Devil Overlords have tried and failed in the end… let me tell you… don’t think so highly of yourself!” As she yelled, she came galloping towards me, barely taking a second to do so. “I originally wanted to let you die in comfort, but I’ve changed my mind… I’m going to make your last few seconds hurt!”