Chapter 104 - Havens Chain Lightning Fall (2/2)
”Protect her!”
The three men immediately entered in front of Lofa and launched an attack against the Core Formation Realm cultivator. As for the enemy's subordinates, they were stationed around to prevent Krune's group from escaping.
Hil noticed those attacks and simply laughed, he used his spiritual energy to gather wind and fire elements and launched his own attack.
”Fire Blast!”
The attack didn't hit Krune and his group, but the ground right in front of them. An explosion went out, and the three were blasted away. Hil's main target was Lofa. When he got close to Krune's group, he used his own black token to check who between them had black tokens as well. Turn's out that krune had passed their black tokens to her even before their plan initiated.
Because of this, Hil didn't think twice about making Lofa his first target. Once he secures the black tokens, he will take his time to deal with all of them. He didn't hold back, he was planning to get rid of her in a single strike! But just as his attack was about to reach her, something started to shine on her hands. Immediately, a white barrier appeared around her body.
Boom!
Hil obviously noticed what that was.
”Runestone Formation!”
Runestone Formations need time to gather spiritual energy. Considering that his attack happened in an instant, it shouldn't be possible for Lofa to charge a Runestone Formation that can resist an attack of his level. In that case, it means that they had already been expecting him to come, which means this is a trap!
Sure enough, as soon as his attack rebounded on the barrier, Ao and Arlan appeared on his side. They aimed their swords directly at his heart. But Hil wasn't a 4th stage Core Formation Realm cultivator for nothing. Even in that split of a second, he was still able to back jump by using the remaining energy from the shield rebound, which made the swords hit him but miss the critical points.
He was just about to let out a sigh of relief when suddenly, he noticed several purple-colored Hexagonal Shields all around him, thirty-eight to be exact. Immediately, he felt an extreme sense of danger and tried to move away from that area straight away!
Krune smiled at that sight. It was too late!
”Heavens Chain Lightning Fall!”
Brrroooommmm!
The entire area covered by the shields became an enormous dome of purple lightning! It was a union of his strongest skill, the Heavens Fall, and all his shields previously charged with tribulation lighting as well. The Tribulation Lightning plus Krune's spiritual energy in the shields conducted the power of the Heavens Fall between each other. That created an attack as powerful as the Heavens Fall while increasing its effect radius several times!
When the Tribulation Lightning finally disappeared, everything inside the shield's area was burnt to charcoal. One could see quite a few sparks from the remaining energy on the ground. It was hard to say if Hil was able to survive or not. As for his subordinates, they wouldn't dare to get close at all! They are not idiot, it was easy to see that Krune's group had been faking their real strength all along.
Suddenly, a flash of red fire dashed out of the Heavens Chain Lightning Fall zone! It was none other than Hil Argen! It's hard to find a Core Formation or higher Realm cultivator without their own life-saving techniques. It was like this for Guild Head Yulie, for the Fire Eagle, and now for Hil Argen as well.
But usually, those techniques have a heavy price to be paid, and it was no different for him. Worst of all, he had to use almost all the boost in energy from the technique to resist the previous attack. He knew that once the effect was over, he would be so weak that even ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could kill him. So he only had once chance, he needs a hostage!
He isn't a Core Formation Realm cultivator for nothing. He understood that Lofa was the weakness of this group. Different from Ao, Arlan, and Krune, she would not be able to resist a second attack like the first one.
Ao and Arlan were just about to intercept him when they heard Krune's Divine Sense.
”Wait! Don't stop him.”
Ao and Arlan were taken aback, Krune would never give up on her. So why did he hold them back?
There was more time. Now that they missed the chance to intervene, Lofa is fully open for an attack, and she doesn't have the Runestone Barrier anymore!
It was at that moment that they heard another Divine Sense message that reached everyone on this battlefield.
”STOP LOOKING DOWN ON MEEEEEEE!”
After all that happened, it was too obvious what that Core Formation Realm cultivator in front of her wanted. Instead of running away, he thought that it would be much easier to kidnap her. For Lofa, that was the last straw!
Yes, she was afraid! Yes, She isn't a match for Ao, Arlan, and even less Krune! But she isn't weak! She also had her pride! If she couldn't even show that in a moment of Life and Death like this one, then all the training she had gone through during her entire life would have been for nothing!
As a cultivator from the Ice Continent, Water and Ice element was her specialty.
The temperature around her body immediately plummeted! Her trembling hands came forward and opened, Water and Ice element gathered at high speeds, all the spiritual energy of her body concentrate right in front of her body, and she was ready to release her strongest attack!
”ICE RAY!”
A powerful beam of icy light shot forward! Because of her cultivation, she still couldn't control this attack's trajectory, but there was no need for that to start with. Hil Argen was already right in front of her and had no time to dodge.
In fact, he saw the moment that she was about to do that, but he completely ignored that. Not for even a moment, he thought that this girl would be able to stop him. Not to mention that if he delayed his plans for even a second, Krune and the other might caught up to him.
”What?!”
Both his and Lofa's attack hit it other at point blank. An explosion of Blue and Red, Ice and Fire, blasted everything away. Both sides were sent flying and crashed on the ground over a hundred meters away. As for the point of the explosion, a half-frozen, and half-burnt crater appeared!
Ao and Arlan were taken aback with that exchange, Lofa counter-attacked a full-power strike of a 4th Stage Core Formation Realm cultivator. Even if it was them, they weren't sure if they could resist that clash.
As for Krune, there was just a faint smile on his face.
Lofa ended passing out after that attack, but Krune and the others could confirm that she wasn't seriously injured. As for Hil Argen, he slowly got back of his feat and looked at Lofa in hatred. He had already lost all reason.
”You fuc*ing ant, I'll kill you!”
Well, at least that was what he wanted to do.
”I don't think you can, though.”
Out of nowhere, a hand had appeared on his shoulder. It was then that he looked back and saw Krune brilliantly smiling at him. Hil Argen was immediately frozen on the spot, Krune approached his mouth close to Hil's ear and whispered.
”Lightning Touch!”
Boom!
Purple and blue lightning sparks flew everywhere! In the end, just a half-dead, half-living body fell on the ground.
Ao and Arlan felt like they were put inside an ice lake. Wasn't that the same lightning that Krune wanted to use on them if they didn't cooperate?
Suddenly, their play from before didn't look so embarrassing anymore. That's right, Ao and Arlan did it for the sake of luring the boss out, it's not because they were afraid of Krune's Lightning Touch at all!