Chapter 578: King Vs King (1/2)

Kartikeya examined the injuries on his body and couldn't help but frown. The damage is more than he could think of. If Sam has directly used a poison attack with his element, he might have thought of something else. But Sam is too clever and used a weapon with that attribute and the poison is not acting fast.

It is acting too slow in fact for him to think of any countermeasure in between the battle. After all, in the battle, his main concern was always the most immediate threat and Sam happened to be that. No matter how injured Sam was he maintained that threat and didn't give Kartikeya any chance to think of any other thing.

And from the final attack, he might have been able to use a large ripple to avoid the explosion, but he still inhaled some smoke and now he could feel his body going numb. His odds in the next battle reduced by a lot. Sam would come at him in the form of a king with a full health bar.

When he came back to the chair, he saw Sam twitching and sweating once again. But this time, he seemed to have already got a hang of the pain that is torturing him and is enduring it quite well.

Any ordinary person would have broken under that pain. That is what Kartikeya thought when he saw Sam.

After some time, they didn't speak anything and once again entered the battle zone.

Sam looked at Kartikeya who is finally feeling the effects of the poison. Initially, the Executioner only has a corrosive effect and the faint anesthesia effect. The remaining effects of the variant hydra are nowhere to be seen.

But still, it has the two major effects, but a man of Kartikeya's caliber, wouldn't go down that easily. The effects are slow, to begin with, and on him, they are slower.

However, one thing is sure, they have the effect. Added to the fact that he inhaled some purple smoke, it accelerated the effect a bit.

That is what Sam wanted. But still, he is not extremely confident in fighting Kartikeya.

Sam didn't take any weapon this time, rather he took out the flute, this made Kartikeya confused only to hear Sam saying.

”I have been practicing a new trick recently but didn't get a chance to try it a real battle. I would try it today.”

With that, Sam started playing the flute and spiritual energy started rumbling.

The energy is visible to the naked eye as it condensed around Sam in the form of an orb. Kartikeya frowned and lunged forward as he swung his spear, the spearhead slashed over the orb and the energy ripples following it started disturbing the orb, but an energy wave emerged from with the orb and the Void style nullified the energy ripples.

Kartikeya didn't hold back anymore. In the previous battles, he has to worry about the final battle and couldn't use too much energy, but now he can do that.

His movements became large, but the energy ripples that are happening are also too big, if this continued the orb wouldn't sustain long. But Kartikeya would definitely expend a lot of energy.

Before the actual confrontation with Sam, he wouldn't like that.

He started circling around the orb to find any sort of weak point as he attacked with normal strikes.

As he did so, he kept on observing how Sam is doing inside and noticed that he now only possessed twenty-nine health bars and one of them is decreasing a tad bit faster.

He frowned because even when he is not attacking the orb, the health reduced. That could only mean one thing, Sam is creating an attack that consumed a lot from him.

As he observed and tried to find a weak point from the orb, he could see another orb appeared in front of Sam, but it is not a shield and it is actually a very small orb made of golden flames.

The energy is being gathered as he Played the flute with his eyes closed and the condensed ball of flames burned with increasing intensity.

Kartikeya frowned, by the time it condensed completely, Sam's second health bar is gone. From the looks of it, he used one bar of health's worth of energy to create the shield orb and the second to the fire orb.

Kartikeya felt like something is definitely wrong but he couldn't find the source. He has a feeling that he would be able to break the shield if he landed a proper hit on its weakest point, but he couldn't identify it.

But if he has to break it forcefully, he would also be devoid of another health bar.