Chapter 93 - Bloodline vs. Bloodline! Domain vs. Domain! (1/2)

”I see. You're interfering with my sense of sight perception. When I see your attack coming, you aren't attacking me from the front, but from the opposite side. And the same is true when you attack from behind. But it's not just the front and back who are affected. Even above and below and every possible direction as well. I admit, as I haven't fight for a long time, I'm a little rusty. But your illusion is nothing so exceptional.”

The man smiled after he finished analyzing the situation he was in. He wasn't in the least worried about being hit twice as he hadn't suffered any injuries.

In truth, leaving aside the first blow that had taken him by surprise, the second shot could have been blocked. However, he had decided not to implement any wide-range techniques to understand better the illusion in which he was. After all, even if it was a gamble, the quickest way to cancel and break an illusion was to dive into it and experience it on your body.

Hei and Lian had done something similar in the Dream Trial. Instead of trying to isolate their mind and activate their spirit power to wake up, they had penetrated deep into the Nightmare. They accepted every image produced, eventually winning their demons.

Only, although the action was similar, there was a massive difference between the two situations. Hei and Lian weren't fighting that time, and even if they weren't able to break the illusion, the penalty was just not getting a good score. Here instead, it was a fight to the death where only the one who would remain standing until the end would be the winner. Therefore, doing such an action in such a situation was concrete proof of one's confidence in one's abilities.

Bao Bei didn't worry and continued her attack.

She appeared again behind her enemy and hit with her legs. This time, however, the human martial artist was ready to respond. He had broken the illusion, and there was no way he would confuse the directions again.

Without fail, he avoided the Bao Bei's attack and moved at lightning speed behind the gigantic divine beast spider, positioning himself a few meters above her. At that point, he prepared once again to strike with his spear.

Bao Bei, however, didn't let herself be impressed by this, and instead of moving away, she made a move that left everyone even more dumbfounded. Her body began to lean back as if she were somersaulting, bringing her back to face the surface of the lake and leaving her belly exposed.

But, although it might seem strange that she left a delicate part like the belly so exposed, a moment later, all those present understood the reason for that choice.

When Bao Bei pulled her body back, her eight legs were also brought back. From that position, she contracted them and snapped them against the martial artist who was about to attack.

Boom!

Another roar and the human with the spear was thrown even further than during the previous attacks. This time, there was a very thin strip of blood coming out of his mouth.

As if he could not believe it, he ran a hand over his mouth and then began to stare at the blood-soaked fingers. The wound was no big deal and closed itself the next second. But just the fact that he had been wounded, even if it was small as a wound, was enough to put him on guard.

”All right. I underestimated you. Or maybe it's because this body is weaker than what I used last time... in any case, enough playing around. I hope you're ready. Resist my attacks until the very end and desperate before your impotence. Weapon Materialization - Nāgarāja!”

Suddenly, from the tip of the spear held by the man, an explosion of purple light appeared around the human martial artist. As that light dispersed, a 15-meter figure consisting only of condensed spirit power appeared.

It was the figure of a human man. No, to be precise, it was human only in the upper half of its body. The lower part instead consisted of a long gigantic serpent tail that made up most of its body. The human upper part was only about three meters long, leaving a total length of twelve meters to the tail.

That figure positioned itself behind the human martial artist while it looked with lifeless eyes at the gigantic spider that was facing its master.

”You like it? Ironically, the best candidate I could find had a strong affinity for snakes. Don't you find it curious? ”

The man irritably scoffed as he tried to make Bao Bei upset. And indeed, he succeeded in part because the eight big eyes of the purple spider were contracting from anger.

Hei An was a snake. And it wasn't strange that humans used moves that could be linked to spirit beasts. But she couldn't accept that the person who had 'in front of her' used techniques related to snakes and mocked her companion.

”You don't like it? Then let me show you something even more incredible. But before that, I still haven't told you where I got this body, right? Let me tell you. He is the family head of one of the Eight Big Families on the Continent, the Shé Family. ”

At that point, he stopped for a moment to momentarily enjoy Bao Bei's reaction to the name he had just spoken. The divine beast spider had its eyes even more contorted by anger than before.

”Yes, Shé, meaning Snake! Ba Serpent Bloodline, Activate!”

At those words, the pupils of the Shé Family man were reduced to two vertical slits, resembling the pupils of a snake while the skin took on a slightly greenish color. In addition to that physical change, the power of his attacks with the Law of Poison increased. That was the active ability of a bloodline. And in this case, it was a bloodline of the Poison Law.

”Then, Secret Technique of the Shé Family, Hydra Mode!