Chapter 966: Finishing (2/2)

He is sweating profusely while panting heavily as he looked at Gran who looked at him with a cold victorious smile.

By now the cloak covering her face is long gone.

She got hit so many times because of Sam that it was destroyed and Sam finally saw the clear difference between Sia and Gran. The natural instinct and nature of an apex predator. Gran is a hunter and predator through and through.

She has the cunningness, patience and strength all that needed for that and she has that coldheartedness in face of competition and enmity. He never saw these qualities in Sia, but he is willing to bet that she doesn't have them. Even if she did, she is inferior to Gran in those qualities.

Sam gritted his teeth and moved forward. He is not skilled enough to attack her from the below while using this technique, so he could only think of ways to dodge and not slow himself down even more.

So, he stopped picking the farthest shadow he could access and picked at random and soon he realized that he has an advantage over Gran even in this new technique and that is because of the bloodlines he has.

Since his affinity with elements is high because of the beast bloodlines, he can use the technique faster and his energy consumption is lower than hers.

Particularly, with the similarities between this technique and the shadow mouse's bloodline technique, it was even easier. So, except for the lack of experience in using this technique, there is no disadvantage.

But that was enough for Gran to take perfect advantage of and maintain that lead. The attacks became more and more precise as he tried all kinds of random things.

Soon, he couldn't keep up the pace as he is feeling suffocated with the constant stuck feeling he is getting because of the interruptions from Gran in his motion.

Because of this, Gran soon got a lead that couldn't be covered with this technique no matter how hard Sam tried.

The chances of him winning are reducing every second.

As he thought of the situation, he couldn't think of what would happen if he lost. Would he be able to recruit the sisters? That question didn't even pop up in his mind. The only thing is that his mind kept on repeating is that he doesn't like to lose.

He thought of all the ways to reach the top in the fastest way possible. There are at least a few hundred meters to reach the peak and he has to cross them as fast as he can.

He went through all the elemental energies that he could use and thoughts of ways to use them to get to the peak. But no scenario worked out in his mind and then he thought of any new ideas that he could use any new thing that he learned recently even in this very journey and by the time he come to this thought, his mind ran at a new speed.

He immediately closed his eyes while handing on the mountain side and channeled different energies in his body.

He removed the shadow enery and started channeling the light elemental energy in place of it.

He never really focused on merging different energies to create new combinations, the reason he combined the spatial energy and the shadow energy is because of the usage of the shadow sword and the attacking power of a spatial tear to the shadow realm.

And there are a million other things for him to think about and he was never really on the weaker side of the battle among their peers. He even had too many tricks in his arsenal that he couldn't use them all in a normal battle.

But now it seems like it is about time he explored something new.

As he tried to merge the light and spatial energy, he felt a bit of resistance. This would be gone if he practiced it a bit, but he has no time to practice.

He channeled the energy rapidly and directly used the technique.

Gran who is almost at the peak with just a few meter away looked down at Sam and frowned. She immediately removed her shadow fusion and only used the full spatial fusion to blink directly with all her remaining energy.

At this exact moment, Sam turned into a beam of light and moved upwards. As light was shot upwards, it disappeared in the middle and the beam reappeared as it cross the peak of the mountain.

Just before Sam landed, though the fusion ended and he felt the full backlash of the energy and started coughing blood which made him lose his footing and fall backwards.

Just before he felt like he would be tumbling down the peak, he felt someone grabbing him by his coat and when he looked up, he saw Gran who already reached the peak.