Chapter 65 - 65 : Struggle (2/2)
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Although felt his body numb as he managed to 'leave' Zodiak's corpse at the final moment before he crushed, albeit that, he still was injured as Tensui's attacks were ruthless and powerful, now that he is using his original body, blood leaked out of his lips but he didn't care about that.
He transformed into lightning and immediately followed Tensui without even recovering Zodiak's body.
His speed was faster than Tensui but the monster already dashed at Lucy a second or so before him so even with incredible speed, it was akin to impossible to catch up to him in time.
But that wasn't what he wanted to, he just wanted to be just 50m from him to be able to stop him which finally happened, Arthur exercised all the speed he could muster and managed to teleport in front of Tensui who was dumbstruck by the sudden appearance of Arthur.
Arthur didn't waste time and stabbed with his white spear, not only that, 2 fireballs were prepared in advance and thrown at Tensui from both directions, leaving him only a single route to escape from.
Although Tensui knew he was very powerful and just by how he sent Arthur flying a second ago, he knew he held a big advantage, nonetheless, he felt fearful toward this strange lightning and that fire, his injury in the waist was hurting him albeit using the Immortal energy.
Furthermore, no matter how many attacks landed on Arthur, the wouldn't work, only physical attacks would, he thought that his black magic is supposed to even slay gods yet it couldn't scratch this fellow which made him perplexed.
He honestly didn't want to face this one head on, plus, the fireballs were very big and emitted intense heat, even with his newly discovered energy, it would still heavily injure him if it struck him.
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Arthur already expected him to do so, he knew that this monster would choose not to confront his attacks head-on as they would damage him, it seemed only his appearance changed and he still had rational thinking.
It was a bit of a pity, he was betting on the chance of him turning into a beast so that he can defeat him with clever tactics but it didn't it would work.
Just as Tensui backed away, Lucy finally finished what she was preparing so she immediately spoke
”Arthur.. it's ready!”
When he heard her, he felt a bit delighted but he was still tensed and on full alert.
If one looked above, high in the sky, they would see a gigantic bow, yes, it's a bow, precisely it's a bow made of very dense magma, it didn't even look like magma but like red iron, it was so condensed that the heat it emitted was overwhelming Tensui, someone in the Immortal Realm.
When his eyes landed on that terrifyingly big bow, he furrowed his long brows and stared at it wth disbelief, he could feel pressure coming from that bow.
As for Arthur, he just smirked and nodded at Lucy, he fastly descended from above and landed next to Lucy.
”Buy me 20 seconds... no 15 seconds are enough, just 15!”
Lucy didn't reply as she nodded her head and rushed at Tensui, who was still dumbstruck and staring at the bow.
Sensing danger, he turned his head only to see numerous lava waves coming at him, they looked like huge water waves, but instead of water, it was magma, a very strong magma.
The range of her attacks was very wide and he got no choice but to back away and evade it, since Lucy only needed to buy time, there was no use coming near him but what she didn't expect is that Tensui suddenly rushed straight at the magma waves.
Some sort of a cubic dark wall was formed in front of him, and just as he hit the magma waves, the wall melted slowly until it was finally gone which resulted in him being slightly injured by the waves, fortunately for him, he managed to pass the waves, so he continued to rush at Lucy.
Seeing him come at her with insane speed, Lucy didn't just stay still, two 3m big magma hands appeared from the ground and slammed at him, who was just 20m away from her.
Although the attack appeared suddenly, he kind of expected it, so with a wave of his hand, more than 10 dark blue shields appeared around him, pushing the hands and letting him through.
No matter how fast Lucy is at launching attacks, the last attack of hers was barely enough, if she wanted to thoroughly block him, she needed to create a magma wall or barrier or something similar, but even that would not be created in enough time.
Tensui finally arrived in front of the silver-haired woman who gave him a headache, he still felt fearful of the bow so he decided to take care of her first, or else he would surely regret it.
Tensui's attack was simple but deadly, he launched a punch at Lucy who tried to back away but the punch was faster, fortunately for her, the barrier made of dark magic was still surrounding her so his punch was stopped a little before the barrier shattered and it finally landed on her.
She managed to cross her arms to try to minimize the damage but what she didn't expect is the black tail striking her waist from who knows where, she instantly coughed blood as she was sent flying until she struck a nearby wall, but it was also destroyed and she kept flying from the force of the tail whip until a few walls were destroyed.
Her state looked pitiful as there was a bloody wound on her abdomen, unlike Arthur, her stats were lower than him, and even without the stats, he had defensive technique while she didn't, from the very beginning, she was a mage, and a mage clearly doesn't have a good defense, it's just that she has better defense than others because of the soul link.
Tensui didn't stop there, he wanted to thoroughly kill her so he can get rid of the bow, she is the one who created it, so naturally, if she's dead then it would disappear along with her.
Arthur watched this but he could only grit his teeth and continue to concentrate, he wanted to rush there and interrupt Tensui but just couldn't or else all the work she did would have gone to waste.
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Tensui appeared next to Lucy, who was trying to stand and used his tail to hold her by her neck, he started exercising some strength into his grip to suffocate her, however, things didn't go as planned as a violet fire spike struck him from the ground, it was so sudden so he couldn't dodge, all he could do was try to use his Immortan energy to receive less damage.
Even with the help of the new energy, the fire spike was very sharp and emanated a heat that could even suffocate him, both of his legs were damaged as some of the scales in his knees were melting.
He, fortunately, had the Immortal energy or else his legs would have vanished, Tensui naturally backed away from his previous location while letting go of Lucy.
The pain from the fire was seriously no joke, Tensui was both fearful and curious about that pair, not only they were very mysterious, they were also extremely powerful so how come he doesn't know about them? He never even heard about people similar to them.
This time, while observing the surroundings and confirming that there is no hidden traps or spikes, he launched himself on Lucy, who was panting heavily and when he was just 1 meter in front of her, he disappeared and appeared right behind her, and unsurprisingly, yet another fire spike appeared in the same location he was just in.
A look of surprise appeared in Lucy's eyes, but it was too late to react now as she felt intense pain in her back, apparently, Tensui punched her back, breaking some of her bones, even the ribcage was damaged, which explains how much his strength is insane.
She couldn't stabilize or body as she was sent flying in the opposite direction but suddenly, two warm hands appeared from nowhere and gently held her, stopping her from flying any further and adjusting her body while not touching the heavy injuries.
Who else could it be but Arthur? He already finished what he was appearing, as he saw the bloody body of Lucy, his face turned ugly but an evil smile couldn't help but form on his face, normally, although one of his eyes turned grey, it would only be like that when he fought, in normal days, both of his eyes are blood red but now, one eye was grey while the other was black.
A notification was shown in front of him which made him a bit relieved as his plan worked.
[Heavenly arrow] and [Heavenly Bow] have successfully synchronized!