184 No Small Amount of Trouble (2/2)

His two blades had been filled with light essence, which appeared like a couple of brighthouses that he wielded with each hand to blind Grum. The noises in the surrounding started to confound him, as the sound of slashing arrived behind his back, while the attack came from somewhere else, and the heat of Daniel's body was now replicated around his entire body.

One minute earlier Grum was in complete control over the fight, and now, he was forced into a defensive state by a younger, and less powerful kid.

He had been shocked by Daniel's control over various different essence, and now had no way to effectively counter any of his attacks.

He started to gain one injury after another, until finally, the umpteenth misleading slashing sound, caused him to lose his arm altogether.

Grum was not a kid, and he was perfectly capable of keeping his calm even in dire situations, so, the moment he found himself in the sharp side of the knife, he quickly came up with an idea of how to get himself out of trouble.

Targeting the arm on which a person wore his spatial ring was common practice during a fight. Especially for martial practitioners.. After all, in order to restore their immortal cultivation, a cultivator would need alchemical products.

This practice had also become popular amongst bandits, which instead of demanding people to give up their fortune, they gave a single warning before directly starting to cut off limbs.

This had caused the rich families to leave a layer of safety on the members who ventured out of their territory.

Grum, was not an exception, in fact, after he lost his arm, he rapidly found a chance to put his hand into his robe, and grab a sheet of paper.

On this sheet of paper, was a simple formation created with time and space essence. It only needed a thread to immortal essence to be activated, and the way it worked, was by stopping time in an area of around five meters around the user, and after a few seconds, forcibly teleport the user out of the area.

The moment Grum managed to grab this piece of paper with his hand, he didn't waste time before pushing his immortal essence into it, and activating it.

Time immediately stopped in the area where the two had been exchanging blows until now.

Daniel was immobile in mid air, while Grum was standing on the ground, seemingly still able to move.

The first thing he did, was to walk towards his arm, and to grab it.

He then turned towards Daniel, and said ”You are a tough kid, I'll give you that.. But you shouldn't have meddled with my family's business. Watch from hell as I find each member of your family, and send them to me-”

His speech was interrupted by a lightning fast blade which slashed towards his neck.

In his shock, he was only able to let go of his arm, and raise his hand at the last moment to faintly deviate the blow, which instead of cutting his head off, simply slashed his throat open.

Daniel had only pretended to be stuck in time so that he could have a chance to attack his adversary while he was distracted, and it had worked. There was no way that a simple formation could tramp over his own control over time essence.

Grum was standing shock, with his remaining hand pressed tightly against the gash on his neck. Copious amounts of blood were quickly dripping from the spaces in between his fingers.

Daniel was about to finish him off, but right at that moment he stopped, and instead, he grabbed the cut arm that was lying on the ground, and removed the ring that was around the middle finger.

The very next moment, Grum disappeared from next to him, along with the arm that he was holding a moment earlier.

He had felt spatial essence around him agitate, and knew that he had only a few moments before he would be teleported away, so, he had no choice but to give up on the kill in order to obtain the items he was here for.

After Grum disappeared, Serf and Alesia approached him.

”This is going to give you no small amount of trouble in the future..” Muttered Serf with a distracted tone. His eyes were pointed at the human cultivators, which were looking towards them with dispirited expressions.

”Do you know how to make the cure for the dryad's poison?” Asked Daniel while looking at the small ring in his hands.

”I do.” Responded Serf plainly, before adding ”For that many people.. I'll need at least twenty hearts of adult dryads, and the blood from just as many young dryads.”

Daniel said nothing, and with a single thought, made twenty fist sized greenish hearts appear in mid air, along with the bodies of just as many young dryads.

These young dryads were almost completely covered in bark, except for a few humanoid facial features. They were at the earliest stage of a dryad's life, and were all preserved into Grum's spatial ring.

Serf immediately started to work on the cure, while Daniel approached the few still living dryads, which after noticing him, said ”Kill us, human.”

”It doesn't have to go that way.. If you are willing to live with them in peace, I will let you go.” Said Daniel with a cold tone.

”Our queen died, just like our young ones.. Even if you let us go, we will find a way to take revenge on this group of humans.” Responded an adult dryad with a just as cold tone.

Daniel could not understand if the cause of their was their lacking abilities in showing emotions, or if that was how they really felt.. But that didn't matter.

”Very well..” He said, before forming various blades in mid air, and piercing the heart of each living dryad in the surrounding.. Causing them to drop dead in unison.