155 Hidden Assassin (1/2)

Floating around at the quite and bizarre world of the Astral Realm, the envoy's small figure stood agape at Elric's majestic soul. Even Elric himself how huge his soul size had actually become ever since his spiritual bloodline has been awakened.

Aside from his increased mental and spiritual power, Elric could also feel his confidence increasing in taking over the complete Ancestral Dragon's power. But until he could also obtain the rest of the Elemental Authorities, he would try to go push for another breakthrough and hopefully defeat the lingering corruption in the Ancestral Dragon's essence.

Back at the moment, Elric wanted to spare the envoy for further interrogation. But it seems its loyalty to the King of the Dark Realm would make his prepared questions impossible.

One thing he wanted to do is to do a soul memory search just like he did to Kahayag. By force his spiritual senses in the latter's memory, he will be able to dig in more about the Realm of Darkness and possibly get a hint of his grandma's real condition of the soul.

The envoy was stuck in the corner. Elric's spiritual presence was just too powerful! Like a gifted holy child, Elric seems to have been blessed by heaven.

Not knowing it was actually Lapu-Lapu's spiritual blessing and awakening. Not to mention the additional support from the Ancestral Dragon's essence, the cleansing and nourishment of the Soul Cleansing Pearl gifted to him by the late King Mahar of the water realm, also helped his soul became the state he was experiencing right now.

Elric's soul presented a divine and overwhelming presence with its massive size almost a hundred times the size of a normal soul. Although the envoy's powerful dark soul was abnormally large because of its natural ability as a Shadow that lingers in the dark realm, compared to Elric's soul that has undergone numerous life and death tests, it was nothing but an ant standing before an elephant!

With such presence alone, the Envoy could not help but regret his decision in taking on such a monster, much less actually inviting it in the Astral realm where it doesn't stand a chance against a gifted Spiritual like Elric. It pushed itself to get away as fast as possible but for some reason, it could not move and was slowly being dragged closer to Elric's domineering presence instead.

A sliver of Elric's essence slowly came out of his glowing third eye, intending to dive deep into the Envoy's soul for a soul memory scan just like what he did to Kahayag. Seeing what Elric was trying to do to it, the Envoy tried it's best to struggle hard.

The secrets of the dark realm lie at him, the real state of his grandma, the real power of the King of the Dark realm, and their grand plan lies hidden deep in his soul! Once revealed, a powerful entity like Elric might just foil all their grand schemes and everything for him is over!

Even if he survived Elric, the King himself will deal with him. Basically speaking, he is dead once Elric managed to dive deep into his soul's memory!

Elric, on the other hand, was just preparing to dive in when his physical senses suddenly perched up. A warning signal was immediately sent by his instinct and he immediately withdraws his focus on the spiritual realm, letting go of the struggling envoy.

And as quickly as Elric came back to his physical consciousness, he immediately pumped his body with Ancestral Dragon's essence to protect himself! His battle instinct has never failed him before!

ZOOOM!-

SLASH!~

CLAP!!

A smoking black sword suddenly appeared out of nowhere, it was aimed at Elric's neck but with the latter's extra ordinary reflex, he caught the smoking black blade in between hands!

Elric and Arkhoz's eyes met.

With a murderous gaze, Arkhoz immediately stepped back, his long black hair flawlessly moved according to his beat, while his pale-blue skin with traces of Dragonskin bulged from the powerful muscles packed inside.

His first attack had failed but it doesn't mean it was over.

”As expected...” Arkhoz muttered as he quickly withdraws the black smoking sword effortlessly out of Elric's hand and blended to his surroundings like a chameleon - completely erasing his presence!

Elric quickly heightened all his senses to find the hiding enemy but unfortunately, not even Arkhoz's temperature, his spiritual presence, and his intent can be felt in the air.

The envoy, on the other side, took this small opening to escape far away.

”The king! The King must know! Perfect One has arrived!” It mumbled excitedly before completely fading away of the Astral horizon.

Elric did not mind it as he already had put a soul trace to the latter and he could just easily find it easily later. Right now, he must deal with this unexpected familiar assassin.

Long and Lesse watched everything happened but failed to actually see the attack. All they saw was a man suddenly appeared before Elric and quickly disappearing the next second.

Realizing the unseen danger of the new enemy, Kahayag quickly moved closer to the siblings, chanted an ancient tribal term and a  small isolation barrier meant to protect them was suddenly created. Now, Elric was the only one left standing at the open.

What really made Elric and Kahayag frown is the enemy's ability to go through their own massive isolation barrier without getting detected. The isolation barrier serves as a prison to trap the enemy in the physical realm without letting any noise or view from the inside going out. It was like an illusion glass that makes one think nothing was happening inside.