Chapter 992: Freaking Abomination (1/2)
”Just how long do I have to travel?” Krune bemoaned in exhaustion as the Cloud Whale unleashed its attack for the umpteenth time. He had lost count long ago, having been traveling for hours. To ensure he wouldn't reel from the side effects, Krune had been consuming the Blood Essence Crystals nonstop.
It was something he had experimented with before. As long as the effect of a Blood Essence Crystal remained within his body, the side effects from those he consumed before wouldn't strike him. In exchange, this meant that when he stopped, all the accumulated side effects would slam into him at once, causing irreparable injuries.
Unfortunately, he had no other choice. If he stalled even for a second, he would be surrounded by demons. With that, Krune had no other choice but to continue with this. He had been using Ocean Turbulence all along.
But as he hadn't used any heavy attacks like condensing a field of ice, the energy expenditure wasn't too high. Then again, he was still expending enough energy equivalent to all five crimson rings every hour. So, it was too much to account for.
And every hour, he consumed five Blood Essence Crystals. From time to time, insanely powerful demons whose presence would cause his heart to skip a beat would emerge. Thankfully for him, when he unleashed his Neon Radiance, they could flinch and close their eyes.
Using the 3-4 four seconds it bought him, Krune would have traveled far away for them to lose interest in chasing after him, considering his speed that even those suffocatingly powerful demons failed to catch up.
This was the best advantage of the Cloud Whale. In a straight line, it could accelerate to tremendous speeds. Its shape made it face almost no air resistance, allowing it to travel long and far by consuming a small amount of energy. Though at present, he was constantly making it generate stronger air currents. In other words, he was expending a lot of energy.
”How long…how long…” As Krune continued to mumble, his eyes lit up as his energy expenditure spiked for a moment as he bellowed, ”Finally, a city!”
For a moment, Krune was awestruck by its grandeur. It was like a floating continent, considering that he was unable to see its ends despite viewing it from far away. It was a tremendously large floating city.
There was a wide path, spanning a hundred meters in width, that trailed from the miasma-covered ground to the floating city. The demons of the valley entered that path, heading up the floating city before engaging in a battle with the humans there.
There was a massive ground before the floating city, present on another floating landmass, an oval with a length of 20 kilometers and a width of 15 kilometers. It was connected to the city by a bridge spanning a length of a kilometer and a width of 100 meters.
More than a million humans and demons fought on the battlefield. Upon seeing them, Krune hurried over, getting closer to the battlefield, when a demon suddenly flashed before him, using its hand to shield itself from the air needle, taking zero damage from it.
It used the same speed to slam into the Cloud Whale's horn, cracking it into pieces before slamming into its head. Krune immediately understood that he was facing an enemy way beyond his capability.
But instead of getting flustered, he revved up his Ocean Turbulence to the limit, causing the sound of the ocean waves to resound in the area as the Cloud Whale opened its mouth and swallowed the demon. In an instant, its body turned into an ice sculpture.
Krune was above it, instantly condensing another Cloud Whale around himself as he sped forward, shooting forth beams of ice that landed on his foes like spikes, stopping their approach as he flashed past them.
Without holding anything back, Krune slammed attacks on them nonstop, arriving above the battlefield when suddenly, a mysterious force pulled the Cloud Whale towards the ground. Knowing that the impact would slam him dead, Krune made the Cloud Whale turn around, causing it to face the ground as it unleashed the air needle.
The air needle then impacted the ground, raising a massive dust cloud as it slowed down the Cloud Whale's fall.
”Ugh!” Krune grunted, dissipating the Cloud Whale right at the moment of impact, causing it to absorb all the shock as he dissipated it before the shockwaves could reach him. He summoned it once again, repeating the same thing three more times before he landed on the ground.
Of course, he knew that he couldn't relax, immediately condensing another Cloud Whale to act as his shield. He then froze the ground under it, using Moving Ripple and its ability to generate air currents to glide on the ground.