Chapter 202: The Sanguine Aegis in Action (1/2)

”Like I told you, you're too late. Rise!”

The Emperor waved his Metagen's arms from below upwards. Along with the emission of his black smoke domain, the previous minions that his domain produced transformed into 10-meter tall Black Smoke Giants. Each of them has different forms and they all exuded different aura that was enough to drown a Rank 5 Mortal in their pressure.

”You're proud of that? Rise!”

With our communication open, I could see Nysia's amused expression as she copied his word and gestures.

From the half-ruined skyscraper domain, broken debris of buildings rose up from the ground and formed 10-meter tall Ruin Golems. Some of which were holding makeshift blunt weapons while some were holding different sizes and types of shields.

Both the Black Smoke Giants and Ruin Golems immediately put each other as enemies. The two groups of Domain Creatures moved and met at the border where the two domains clashed.

At first, it looks like the battle was at a stalemate, however, when the Ruin Golems started using part of Nysia's awakened abilities, the Black Smoke Giants fell into a disadvantage and started dropping like flies. With every defeated Black Smoke Golems Nysia's domain ate away on his black smoke domain.

It's already more than a week since she started treading on that Pathway, compared to this guy who has just gotten enlightenment for his own Pathway, Nysia is way ahead of him.

”How is it? Do you have more tricks you'll show me?”

Nysia mocked him again and this time, she swung her Morning Star which produced a spiked energy projectile that was sent shooting towards the All-black Metagen. Like a baseball batter who hit the pitch straight to the pitcher, a bright green spiked ball of energy which contained her own Bluntforce was sent straight towards the Metagen's face.

Surely, his reaction was slower that when he tried to dodge, the spiked ball of energy curved downwards and accurately hit the shoulder of his Metagen, drilling deeply into it rendering the regenium plates covering it useless.

With the force brought about by that casual swing, the All-black Metagen was pushed back for at least 30 meters away from its original position.

Using that chance, Nysia followed it up by dashing over directly in front of Lucas. The Sanguine Aegis moved swiftly and did not let her enemy stabilize his own footing.

Their domains that were contesting against each other continued their clash and in no time at all, the black smoke domain of the Emperor could be clearly seen as it was being eaten away by the half-ruined domain little by little.

Lucas tried to teleport away but Nysia countered that skill of his before his body dissolved into a black smoke by sending another energy projectile coated with her Bluntforce.

Nysia has been watching and observing our battle since earlier. Even if I didn't let him land any hits to my real body, he already used most of his skills against my clones. Nysia took note of that and immediately employed the counter-attacks for each of his skills. As long as she's faster than him, Lucas should forget about running away.

The All-black Metagen turned silent as Nysia started dominating in their battle. Lucas deactivated his domain and instead created Black Smoke clones which became his shields instead of helper.

Nysia effortlessly used one of her skills, Reduce Armor to his clones before bashing them away with her Bluntforce coated morning star. With each swing of her weapon, a clone will be destroyed.

Through the screen, I could see how she was enjoying this battle. Toying with the smug Emperor and fighting a strong enough opponent after a while awakened her previous persona, Aegis.

No. That persona wasn't really shelved, she just couldn't find a strong enough opponent to test her newfound strength after becoming my Companion as well as becoming enlightened about her Transcendent Pathway.

Well, there's me but we always spar inside the simulation and more often than not, Nysia gets frustrated at how I always run away from her.

Unlike me, this guy thought he could fight her head-on and that ignited her desire to thrash him and finish him off.

Well, even if she's currently drunk in battle, her head is clear on our current objective.

Either killing or crippling Lucas for the safety of this world.

Of course, we both prefer killing him but there's also value at letting him live. However, now that he got enlightened about his Transcendent Pathway, the scales lean completely on killing him.

Even if Leianne took it to heart later, I'll take that blame even if she started hating me. But knowing her, I'm sure she'll be fine.

Now that his domain was deactivated, Lucas was completely under Nysia's domain. Not only could she hit him mercilessly, but the Ruin Golems also started to take their turns at cracking his All-black Metagen.

With his desperate attempt, Lucas managed to pull back while creating more clones. To answer his move, a rope-like energy thread was sent hurtling towards him. He failed to dodge it and that resulted for that thread to deeply embed onto him. It was a Defense Thread that's almost similar to my Energy Thread. It's the link needed to activate Nysia's other skill, Defense Empowerment, which drains her opponent's defense while adding it onto herself.

Of course, it's not permanent. It will be back to normal after a while once the link is cut.