Chapter 416: The End of the Fight (1/2)

Silence came over the area as everyone tried to process the fact that Orthar had died. His body was simply not powerful enough to survive such a shocking attack from the crab. Yet, Silva and Morn only had burning eyes as they looked at the crab. Then, they directly charged at it again. Such a wound was devastating to it, and it would surely weaken its Battle-Strength.

Orthar had given his life for this opportunity, and they wouldn't waste it!

Meanwhile, the crab started laughing loudly as it went into a defensive position. Its shears blocked all the attacks as it slowly retreated. It intended to gain some time to get some Energy back.

”Hahaha!” the crab laughed as it transmitted its laugh to everyone. ”The annoying octopus is dead! I don't feel any attacks hitting my head anymore!” it transmitted to everyone.

Silva and Morn grew frustrated as they realized that it would become even more difficult to kill the crab. Now, it only needed to pay attention to them. They attacked with fervor, but as soon as the crab went into a defensive position, it was incomparably hard to hit it.

”AAAARRGGHHH!” the crab suddenly shouted in pain and panic.

”Do you feel it now, crab?” A transmission rang from inside the crab. To everyone's disbelief, that was Orthar's voice. But how?

”Impossible! You couldn't… have… sur…” the crab tried to say, but it seemed to grow more confused and abject as it continued. That was because Orthar had started attacking the crab's brain. Its mind stopped working, and after some more seconds, it fell over to the side.

The crab was dead.

Silva and Morn were still shocked. They had survived? Orthar had also survived? Were they dreaming?

Puchi!

A tiny hole appeared between some parts of the broken carapace. After that, a long and thin worm came out of the hole. After the worm left the hole, it transformed into Orthar. Yet, Orthar looked horrible. His whole body was deformed, and all his tentacles only hung loosely off of his body.

BOOOM!

Morn also collapsed as he just lay on the ground. He had been stressing his body immensely, and after the pressure had vanished, he collapsed to the ground. He was breathing heavily, but his life wasn't in danger.

Orthar also fell to the ground. He was nearly as heavily injured as Morn. Silva was the only one that could still move, and he quickly checked on Morn. After seeing that Morn wasn't in life-threatening danger, he went over to Orthar.

”What happened?” Silva asked in disbelief. ”How did you manage to survive that attack?”

Orthar only laughed weakly. ”Honestly, I don't know,” he said. ”I only saw him raise his shear and knew that my death was about to come. In order to reduce the impact, I used my disguise ability to increase the area of my body. Like this, I wouldn't receive the entire brunt of his attack.”

Orthar laughed bitterly again. ”Yet, that was only an empty dream. I knew that my death would arrive. Yet, as I saw my death come, my life flashed before my eyes. I thought about everything in my life and also thought about my disguise ability. It was then that I realized something.”

”What did you realize?” Silva asked in interest.

”I have never used my disguise ability to its true potential. A disguise is more than just acting as something else, but becoming something else. As soon as I realized that, I used this new knowledge to flatten my entire body. I moved all essential parts to the side, where the strike wouldn't be that powerful. And, who would have thought, I managed to survive, somehow,” Orthar explained.

”When fighting more powerful opponents, your mind is under immense pressure,” Gravis said as he appeared in front of them. ”I have seen a cultivator that managed to achieve a breakthrough in his Will-Aura in the middle of a fight before. Something similar happened to you.”

The three beasts looked with shock at Gravis and then sighed in relief. The fact that Gravis was here meant that the shark was dead. On top of that, Gravis looked completely uninjured. At least they didn't have to deal with another powerful opponent now.

”The shark is dead?” Silva asked.

Gravis nodded. ”Yes. I've been watching your fight for a while now. You managed to go through a rebirth with this fight.”

The three beasts sighed again.

”Could you tell me more about what happened to me, Gravis?” Orthar asked.