Chapter 520: Danger (1/2)

The ten black panthers immediately charged at Gravis, eliciting quite some nervousness from him. He had seen how Jessy replaced her body with a shadow body before, and he knew that these had to be fake. If they weren't fakes, she would not be an average level four King.

Additionally, she would have used that ability before she got as heavily injured as she was now. She was only trying this approach since the others haven't worked up to now.

Yet, this approach proved quite effective. Gravis had no way to discern the real one. The copies emulated even the dripping blood from Jessy's exposed flesh. By all intents and purposes, the copies were flawless. There was only one real body, and any attack from a fake wouldn't injure Gravis, but that was never Jessy's intent.

All ten copies charged at Gravis from different angles, and they all used the same attack, which was a swipe with her remaining claw. If Gravis couldn't block the real attack, he would receive a devastating injury.

BOOOM!

Gravis summoned several shields around his body and protected himself. One shield on his right was hit, and its fragments bounced off Gravis' body. Yet, since he hadn't used his hands to block, the claw wasn't stopped by the shield.

BANG!

Gravis turned to the real one and summoned another shield between himself and her. Gravis transformed his arms into lightning and barely managed to grab the shield with that move. Sadly, he couldn't put much strength into that block and was thrown into the distance.

Gravis shot through one of the copies while his arms broke. He hadn't been able to get a stable grip on the shield in such a short amount of time. The only thing Gravis could do was to restore his arms with his lightning, which decreased his power.

All copies of Jessy fused together and then split apart again. With this, Gravis wasn't able to discern the real one again. Then, they charged at him. This method had proven quite effective on him, and Jessy finally saw an opportunity to win this fight.

Gravis gritted his teeth as he made a decision.

BZZZZ!

Minuscule bolts of lightning swept over the surroundings and hit the black panthers. His lightning bolts shot through the copies, but the slight darkness Energy inside them destroyed a lot of lightning. Yet, with this method, Gravis was able to spot the real Jessy.

BANG!

Gravis charged directly at the real one, but instead of attacking, Jessy retreated. It was almost like she had expected such a move from Gravis. Luckily, thanks to Gravis' fast acceleration, he reached her before she could run too far.

Jessy immediately stopped and simply looked at Gravis with cold eyes. Then, several more copies appeared. Gravis had been prepared to unleash a devastating strike, but he couldn't be sure which one was real again.

Obviously, creating these copies took up a bit of time, which was why she had retreated instead of directly summoning new ones. Yet, by retreating, she had gained enough distance to ready more of them.

BZZ!

Gravis unleashed more lightning as he charged at her. A lot of his lightning was used up again, but instead of retreating, all the copies charged at him. Gravis saw the real one and readied himself to dodge.

Whoosh!

Gravis dodged the attack, but something didn't feel right. It was almost like Jessy wanted him to dodge.

BZZZ! BANG!

Out of instinct, Gravis transformed into lightning and made himself as long as possible. One of the presumed copies swiped its claws through Gravis' lightning form, destroying a lot of it by absorbing the lightning.

Gravis had been sure that this Jessy had been a copy, but the power of this attack had proven real. 'She can switch places with her copies!' Gravis thought in panic as he felt half of his being vanish. His body was currently lightning, and half of his being had been absorbed by Jessy's claws.

Yet, absorbing so much lightning still took its toll on Jessy's remaining front leg. The front half of it had been turned into dust, leaving her with only a bloody stump.

Gravis transformed back as the attack passed, but he felt frail. By having had so much lightning before his breakthrough and by absorbing the silver wolf, Gravis had been at the cusp of becoming a level two King. Yet, right now, he was only barely a level one King. If he lost some more Energy, he would become a level five Lord again.

'Fuck! I have barely any Energy left, and if I don't use it wisely, I will die!' Gravis thought. His mind was going crazy with trying to find a way out of this. Jessy had lost her front legs and tail, but she could still use her fangs to attack him.

She hadn't done that up to now since that would bring her head too close to the enemy. If Gravis managed to counterattack by evading a swipe from her, she would only lose a leg, but if she used a bite, she would die. Yet, there was no other way left since attacking with her hind legs would be too cumbersome.

Meanwhile, Gravis was also with his back to a wall. He only had enough Energy to unleash a single attack powerful enough to kill Jessy. If he judged incorrectly, his attack would get wasted.

What about a wide range explosion with a Lightning Bomb? That was also too risky since Jessy could simply decide not to attack at all and only send copies.

What about summoning weak copies of Gravis to attack all copies? That would weaken him too much, and if Gravis' copies were too weak, they wouldn't even be able to destroy the darkness bodies. Additionally, Jessy had a way bigger storage of Energy than Gravis due to her level advantage.

Using the environment was also a no-go. The stones or metals would simply bounce off the copies since there was not enough power behind them.