Chapter 98: Gaining the Upper Hand (1/2)
Gravis saw some shocked disciples and threw his lightning at one of them. The disciple got hit and screamed in pain, yet he managed to resist.
SHING!
Gravis had, by now, learned that, for some reason, his lightning was much weaker against those people. He hadn't intended to kill the disciple with the lightning, but to blind and stun him. With an impressively quick charge, Gravis cleaved the disciple in two.
The others quickly recovered and attacked Gravis from all sides. Gravis chose one of the disciples on the fourth level and ran towards him. The others could only follow behind, but Gravis' sudden increase in speed meant that they couldn't follow him.
Gravis reached the disciple, who quickly stabbed his spear at Gravis. Gravis put his already injured left hand in front and let the spear stab through it. Gravis then moved the spear to the side and also killed that disciple. 'With that one done, there should be eight on the fourth level, two on the fifth level, and one on the sixth level remaining. About halfway done.'
Gravis quickly turned the spear in his hand towards one of the chasing fifth rank disciples and punched the spear on the back. The spear shot out of his hand, and the chasing disciple had to block. The others continued charging.
”SCREEE”
The still watching wind bird released a loud shout as it started attacking Escura together with the tree. It had kept watch all this time, and with its intelligence, it was able to understand a lot of things. Initially, it had intended to wait for them to end their fight, but when it saw that those humans were burning down its home, it started attacking Escura.
It had realized earlier that Gravis could have killed it in their previous fight. Beasts were also very sensitive towards killing intent, and it had felt nothing from Gravis. Yet, those other humans were burning down its home. That was something completely different!
Escura was already fighting equally with the tree, and now the bird also attacked. Due to its brilliantly calculated timing on its wind waves, Escura lost her balance multiple times, and the tree had already hit her once with a branch. The branch hit her chest and smashed her backward. Escura had trouble breathing, and her chest hurt immensely.
Gravis noticed this and smirked. 'Can I call this luck?' he thought, but only sarcastically. If he had actually tried to kill the bird, it might have already attacked him in all this chaos. 'Well, let's go all out.'
Gravis no longer restricted his lightning movement. He suspected that the tree was too preoccupied with Escura to care about him, and he was right. Gravis' speed increased even more, and he caught another disciple on the fourth level by surprise.
A disciple in the fifth level used his poleaxe to stab at Gravis from the side.
SPLASH!
Gravis used the still open wound on his left hand and squeezed some blood out. Then, he threw the blood into the disciple's eyes, who shouted and closed them. Gravis was easily able to dodge the uncoordinated attack and slashed. Surprisingly, the disciple was smart enough to retreat and used his free arm to block in desperation.
SHING!
His arm got severed, and the disciple screamed in more pain as he swung his poleaxe wildly in an attempt to keep Gravis at bay. Sadly, the disciple couldn't see Gravis right now. Gravis quickly ran around him until he was diagonally behind the disciple.
SHING!
The disciple was only swinging at the height of Gravis' torso, so Gravis slid on his butt and severed one leg. The disciple lost his balance, and Gravis punched him far away from the branch. The disciple couldn't survive a fall from this height.