Chapter 212: We dont have time for this! (1/2)

Aergia's eyes widened in shock and Raylein couldn't believe what he was seeing. Evangeline covered her mouth and Gilgamesh gasped. Flavio solemnly watched and Ganesha had stopped laughing, but his smile was strangely cheerful.

”Arima!” Layla shouted as she felt her resonance with him weakening. She flew toward him and supported him before he crashed on the ground. The two of them returned to their human form when their resonance ended.

Malum glanced at the place he saw Ambrogio being consumed then followed Layla.

”Hey, what the hell did you do?”

Arima slightly opened his eyes and that was the only thing he could do at the moment.

”…I'm lucky I didn't die,” he uttered. At the same time, Night reappeared next to him.

”You sure are,” he crossed his arms and affirmed.

”…Don't tell me you used another Law?” Layla grimaced and questioned.

Arima chuckled. ”I did. I broke the continuity to kill Ambrogio before he could kill you,” he said and Layla clenched her fist and seemed to be seriously holding back something.

”I honestly want to slap you right now.”

”Haha, that would be fun. I support that,” Malum laughingly approved.

Arima snickered and closed his eyes again. ”A few minutes…That's how long I need to recover and absorb Ambrogio's power… They're coming. Hold on until then…” He faintly said then fell silent as if he had fallen asleep.

Karma changed back into her human form and crouched down next to him. She nodded at Layla and the latter stood up. Night sighed and started healing Arima the best he could.

”Let's go,” Layla commanded and dragonized herself.

”Hey, I'm sorry to break it to you like this, but you are extremely weak right now. Without your resonance with Arima, you're a simple human at best, if not an insect.”

”Shut up, will you?” Layla replied with an eye roll and jumped on Malum's back. ”Just go already. That other guy will soon come out from my Soul Manifestation.”

The skeletal dragon snorted and flapped his ashen wings. He rushed toward the place Shiva and Shakti had been downed. When he reached the place, a strong aura pressured him.

”[Resurrection],” he heard two voices chanting the same thing. Layla opened her eyes wide. Her pupils narrowed to a slit, surrounded by silver and green pigments. She immediately linked her mind with Malum.

The temperature in the area dropped considerably. They had already gone past the absolute zero. The undead dragon's 'eyes' burned stronger. A thin layer of ice was already covering his bones.

Layla exhaled a white mist. She looked around carefully then a light flashed past her eyes. Malum immediately moved and dodged the strike of the ice giant that had suddenly appeared without any sound or fluctuation.

Malum turned around and congregated his flames inside his ribcage. He roared and spat out a powerful wave of dark fire. The flames consumed the ice giant but another one arose and swung a sword at him, which he escaped thanks to Layla. Then a third one appeared, and another, until there was a whole army enclosing him.

”[Niflheim],” Shiva chanted from below them as he stood up among the ruins. His body had still two blatant holes and blood was still dripping. But he glared at Malum and Layla with unshakable determination.

Malum's body was also getting extremely heavy and the ice kept sticking to him. Layla who was on his shoulder was barely resisting the cold. Malum glanced at her and used his flames to help her.

”What do we do?” He asked.

”Get rid of the source,” Layla responded and Malum grinned. He waved his hand and hundreds of large fireballs were formed.

”[Fifth Blue Art, Inferno],” he chanted and each fireball obtained a large mouth. ”[Manducare] (Eat).”

The little fire monsters flew away and attacked the giants by eating them. Each time they took a bite, the fireballs would become bigger.

Malum then charged at Shiva without any care of what was going on around him. Shiva's eyes glowed and countless ice spikes emerged from the ground and pierced each fireball, destroying them. But they also exploded at the same time and engulfed a large number of ice giants.

Malum was about to hit Shiva with a weapon made of his own scales when he bumped against an invisible wall that dispersed his momentum. Shakti had produced a barrier to defend her ally.

”[A Mother's Gift],” she channeled the power of her Soul Manifestation and behind Malum, the ice giants that had been destroyed by the Fifth Blue Art were reconstructed and attacked again.

”{They don't want us to get close.}”

”{I can see that!}” Malum responded to Layla while fending off the giants' swords with his own. Each time he clashed with one of them, he would get even more frozen and pressured by the cold that was supposed to be ineffective on a body like his.

Layla inhaled and jumped off Malum's shoulder. She plunged toward Shiva and Shakti.

”Hey!” Malum exclaimed and turned around but he was then crushed by a giant hammer.