Chapter 875: Calming down (2/2)

Sam tried his best not to waste any time so that he could escape the next attack and he barely did it with a hair's breadth.

There is a reason why Sam is not attacking fiercely.

He is afraid.

Currently, Arkiv doesn't seem to recognize him at all and his battle is going on with basic instincts. But the instincts are only screaming 'kill at any cost'.

So, even Sam proved to be strong, Arkiv's first reaction wouldn't be to run away, rather attack with the best possible attacks he could. The moment he senses a serious threat from Sam all the bets will be lost and even Sam if could defend, would definitely lay waste of Arkiv when the dust settled.

And even if Sam didn't kill him, as long as warping happened at the moment, Arkiv would reappear in another place where the beasts would come and kill him easily in that weakened state.

Sam might even be the calmest of all the players in the current Palace of inheritance, but he is the one who is suffering the most.

He has to hold back his strength and not raise an alarm for Arkiv but still subdue him.

So, he could only borrow some pages from other's books and try them.

After a series of exchanges which resulted in both of them getting minor scratches, Arkiv once again upped the game.

He once again shot those multiple arrows that are appearing in midair, but this time, they are different. Every one of them moved towards him no matter where he dodged and every arrow is exploding.

He got hit by a couple of them. He crashed into the ground and fell.

But surprisingly, he not only didn't attack back, he turned off his light elemental fusion and activated the wood elemental fusion which in terms of speed is not actually a good thing.

The wood elemental fusion is also something he was least used to.

But as he thought earlier, he is trying to take a page from another's book.

He ran towards Arkiv with his eye technique used to the maximum and as the arrows came at him, he started blocking them with the large wooden shields.

He took the full brunt of most attacks as he tried his best to reach Arkiv and once he is within the range of two meters and managed to maintain that for a second, the plain started sprouting around. Arkiv didn't care about that though. He is so focused on Sam who is so close yet taking so much damage from him but still being so tenacious.

He finally lost his cool and was about launch a final attack at Sam and he activated the blood art.

Arkiv's blood art didn't give him any armor like Kumar, the only thing he got is actually an arrow and an enhancement to the bow is already holding. But Sam knew he would be done if he took the shot from that arrow. He would be sprawling on the ground with an arm and a leg lost.

But he is not worried. He walked closer to Arkiv and Arkiv allowed him as he is sure that he would be able to make the hit that will kill Sam.

His eyes are crazed and there is a crazy smile on his face that looked completely unlike him.

Just when he was about to release the arrow, Sam's leg glowed with the wood elemental energy and slammed his foot into the ground and the small insignificant sprouts that came out suddenly grew larger and turned into dense and thick vines completely enveloping Arkiv.

They only have one job and that is forcefully binding Arkiv and Sam jumped on to him and held his head.

There is the only way he could think of bringing clarity to Arkiv and that is to forcefully shake his soul.

He doesn't know when the soul would be calmest when people are living, but he knew that it would calmest when the person is about to die.

He used the dark elemental energy to create a false feeling of death so that Arkiv could calm down a bit and after five minutes of constant trials, Sam finally managed to that, and Arkiv's eyes finally revealed some clarity.

”Sam…?”

Sam finally heaved a sigh of relief when he heard his name spoken.