Chapter 560: The Weight of being a God (5) (1/2)

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While Arthur and Leonard were keeping their respective opponents occupied, Sildra was starting to get frustrated with the battle on his side. Not only Archimedes did improve since the last time they fought, but the Archer Wingman seemed to also pick up a couple of tricks under his sleeves that were catching him from time to time.

His original plan was to overwhelm Archimedes with his natural speed alongside the skills that he recently received from the Serpent King.

At the same time, he was also planning to force his rival to use his wings and fly up in the air so that he could use the locked down skill from arsenal before following it up with an execution skill.

But no matter how much Sildra baited Archimedes, the latter still refused to bite it and persistently stayed on the ground while keeping a considerable distance away from his opponent.

Realizing that there was no point in staying here any longer, Sildra wanted to get away from this place and proceed to his original objective. And that was capturing the souls of Garuda and the Serpent King once they weakened each other enough.

Moreover, staying here was not a good idea for him given that the other side had a 'monster' that he was sure that he couldn't take on. And to make it even worse, another 'monster' with an equal strength suddenly arrived.

Now that those two were still occupied with dealing with the top experts of the Primal Kingdom, it was the right time for Sildra to escape.

Unfortunately, Archimedes seemed to be able to read what was running inside his head and started a restless assault, preventing Sildra to run away.

”Tsk! Such a persistent bird!”

Due to the rapid attacks that Archimedes was sending at him, Sildra couldn't create enough breathing space for himself to create a path for his escape.

He needed to retreat as soon as possible, but he also knew that the moment turned his back around, Archimedes would surely grab that opportunity to snipe him down. Even with the cover of his stealth skills, the Archer would still be able to spot him and lock his aim using his special observation skills 'Hunter's Eyes'.

He fell victim to those skills multiple times already when they fought each other at the Azure Kingdom. Just like how he was baiting Archimedes to fly in the air for his trap, he was sure that the latter was also waiting for him to turn his back and run.

Caught with this difficult dilemma, Sildra was now stuck with Archimedes as he already lost his chance to escape due to his hesitation.

But while both sides were trying to feel their opponents, an unexpected guest suddenly joined the party.

”I finally found you, Dragonoid!”

Hearing the unfamiliar voice, both Archimedes and Sildra suddenly stopped attacking each other before turning their heads towards the direction where that voice was coming from; they wanted to know whether it was an ally or foe.

From the distance, they saw Mammon walked out from the shadow of a boulder while playing with his huge butcher knife and scimitar dagger.

At the same time, Arthur and Leonard suddenly paused their respective battles by forcing their opponents to back away from them.

”Tsk! Here is the most troublesome part,” said Arthur while clicking his tongue.

”So, how are we going to deal with this?” whispered Leonard on the voice party channel.

Arthur was knitting his brow as he was trying to decide whether to stay on his spot and continue dealing with opponents or leave them behind and charge towards Mammon.

But while he was still deciding what to do, both of them suddenly heard Shin's voice from the channel, saying. ”Finish what you are doing on your side, let us buy you some time.”

Arthur was silent for a moment before sneering at Shin. ”You've grown some balls now? Are you sure you can handle that guy?”

”F*ck! Don't you dare try me! You may be stronger than me inside the game but I can at least beat you to a pulp in Real World!” cursed Shin after hearing those words.

”Hehe, but we are currently talking about in-game stuff here,” chuckled Arthur before turning his attention back to his opponents while saying. ”But I'm up for a little spar in the Real World when we are done with this.”

After that, both Arthur and Leonard resume their battles not caring about Mammon anymore.

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Meanwhile, Archimedes and Sildra felt their bodies were frozen in place the moment they felt the cold aura that Mammon was currently releasing; they both knew that this new guy was as strong as Arthur and Leonard.

Cold sweats broke out from different parts of their bodies as Mammon continued making his way towards them. ”Let me give you a piece of advice, hand over the container for the Dragon Soul before I forcefully take it from you.”