Chapter 351: Reversal (1/2)

A minute.

That's the only time left and everything will end in our favor.

”Another ant!”

Devoid of her previous grace, Rowena screamed once more when Udann's glaive stabbed through her golden arm. If his Strength stat was higher than her Endurance, he could cut off that arm.

Alas, he's weaker than her in all aspects. That full-powered stab that stopped short of her bones was only enough to make the woman screamed at him in hate.

Rowena then delivered a counter-kick right on Udann's chest, sending him rolling away with her footprint creating a shallow crevice in his chest.

Before she could follow up on that, a colorful energy-based attack in the shape of a flaming giant bird came down from above.

BOOM!

To evade that, she also had to roll back but the impact the giant bird caused created a fire flower that engulfed part of her body including her right leg and right waist. When she pulled out and reappeared a little more than 10 meters away from it, the thick gold which revealed itself as some kind of coating in her body melted and dripped down before evaporating. It left that part of her body slightly burnt with her energy unable to flow into it for recovery.

With gritted teeth, she hatefully glared in Irja's direction but that's all she could do. Udann, ignoring that glaring part of his chest, jumped up and blocked her. Soon afterward, an Energy Thread shot out from one of his four arms which lodged on that exposed area of Rowena.

”No, you won't. Your enemy is here.” Udann smirked with a trail of blood running from the side of his mouth.

The Energy Thread was the Skill I passed onto him through Energy Linkage. However, instead of draining Rowena of her Source Energy and adding it to his own, he was directing drained energy to his wound, slowly mending it.

Same with what's happening on their side, Monady and Axter were giving the other two a hard time to make some distance and pull out of battle.

On one side, the sense of urgency in Yordi's eyes was already high enough that upon seeing what's happening to the other two, he finally pulled out something he refused to do before.

From the luxurious ring in his forefinger, a long-barreled rifle-like equipment made from some kind of an ice-blue metal was pulled out.

It didn't have the air of something produced from a highly technologically advanced world like the World of Meta. In fact, it was too primitive that it was completely relying on an individual's Source Energy to fire a pellet as big as a toy marble.

Although it looked like that, when Yordi pulled the trigger and the bullet shot out, the cold permeated from it as well as the viciousness of the Energy it contained was enough for me that was around 50 meters away from them tremble due to the extreme cold.

Is that the thing that killed that scout?

It's neither a poison nor a paralysis-inducing item. It's an extremely cold bullet that is enough to freeze someone hit by it. The energy signature from it was probably even enough to disable a Rank 3 Transcendent. If a lone Rank 2 Transcendent was hit by it, unless he gets external help, he would die when the energy he would be using to try and get out run out.

Because Axter took note of what I told him, as soon as Yordi pulled that rifle out, he lifted the collar of his outfit, covering his neck and ear from the biting cold. Afterward, an energy cloud formed from above his head which reformed into a transparent spherical barrier around him.

Just like with Udann, that's the skill I passed onto him through the Energy Linkage. A watered-down version of Nullification Zone.

When the bullet shot out from Yordi's rifle hit the outer layer of that Nullification Barrier, the spherical barrier was seemingly deformed by itself and gathered at the exact point where the bullet hit.

While the bullet tried to drill through it, the barrier which became several layers continuously produced blade-like wisps of Energy. Those blobs of energy spun and continuously hit the bullet, chipping away the vicious Energy contained within it.

However, being the lower version of my Nullification Zone, the bullet eventually passed through the Nullification Barrier squarely hit him on his right shoulder.

For the first time, Yordi showed a rare emotion on his face, he was grinning like a psychopath as he put back his rifle and kicked the ground to deliver the final blow towards Axter whose shoulder was gradually being frozen.

”You're great. That, I can praise you. However, like that one guy who was trying to snoop towards us, you will be a frozen corpse in no time!”

With knitted brows, Axter pooled his energy to resist the gradual process of being frozen alive. Even with the help of the residual bits of the Nullification Barrier, it didn't stop the process.

Soon enough, his knees failed him as he dropped to the ground as his complexion turned pale.

Although I've seen the whole process, I have no way to help that guy at the moment. Cure isn't a long-range Spell, I can only cast it between me and Irja.

With my mind remaining completely calm, I glanced to my side and Irja who probably had the same thoughts as I gave an approving nod.

Changing the aim of the Totem, a quadrupedal beast made of her vibrant energy was hastily conjured and flashed past the distance between us and Axter.

The quadrupedal beast then howled and an ever-changing type of energy attack whistled through the air, aimed towards Yordi.