Chapter 141 – Bull-Headed Fiendgod (1/2)

Chapter 141 – Bull-Headed Fiendgod

Pelagon was slightly surprised. He hadn’t expected Lei Yu to disregard everything and launch a desperate attack. Holding his golden axe in front of himself in a defensive posture, he was preparing to receive Lei Yu’s powerful frontal attack.

“Bam!”

A loud sound of clashing metallic items resounded. Lei Yu’s fist had directly smashed straight into the flat side of the blade. The next moment, the golden axe actually flew out of Pelagon’s hand, landing over ten meters away, on the ground.

The look of surprise on Pelagon’s face was more obvious now. Lei Yu did not give him any opportunities. His body still hadn’t landed on the ground yet, but he already kicked out his foot and used Pelagon’s body as leverage. He twisted his body and made a half-spin in midair, landing a perfect roundhouse kick directly on the side of Pelagon’s neck.

Both their bodies flew off in opposite directions, crashing against the walls.

“Crack!”

The two simultaneously smashed against the the thick labyrinth walls, leaving a body-shaped crater, fearsome cracks spreading outwards from it. The loose gravel showered onto the ground as the two slid down the wall, both breathing heavily.

One of Lei Yu’s hands was pressing against his own chest, exerting pressure over a wound in order to stop the blood from gushing out. The sweat on his forehead had been dripping off his face, leaving a small puddle on the ground.

Pelagon wasn’t any better off. The instant Lei Yu knocked the golden axe out of his hand, and since he couldn’t react in time, he had yet to regain any control or feelings of his body from Lei Yu’s sudden furious kick. Starting from his neck, down to his chest area and his arms, they all felt like they were paralyzed. Perhaps Pelagon should be thankful for being so comfortable for now. Once the paralysis effect wore out, the severe pain would arrive, giving him a taste of unbearable agony.

Straining to use the wall as support, Lei Yu took the lead in standing up first. His chest was heaving up and down, yet between gasping breaths, he still managed to say, “You still want to continue fighting?”

“My duty is to guard this place; to stop and kill any intruders!” Pelagon replied stubbornly.

Lei Yu’s unfaltering steps drew closer and closer to Pelagon; the latter’s entire arm still being paralyzed, he could not even move a finger. This was to say that, even if he would have wanted to wiggle his fingers in order to recall his golden axe, it was now an impossible task.

Lei Yu stopped when he was about a meter away from him. “Previously, I was already being merciful to you, but you wouldn’t listen to my advice and still wanted to fight me. There’s no other way, because I can’t continue being kind-hearted. As a former emperor, you don’t even have a bit of willpower. A mere sentence said by that bastard and he was able to control your mind… there’s no point for you to keep living anymore!”

Lei Yu raised his hand, but in reality he didn’t have much internal energy left; he still had to put up a front though. Extracting the limited energy he still had in his Sea of Energy, Lei Yu controlled a current of internal energy the thickness of a thread, which linked to one of his meridians. Even though this last bit of internal energy was thin, it still contained a fearsome amount of power. The internal energy slowly condensed in Lei Yu’s right arm, actually making the lightning brand start to shimmer.

Clasping his left index and middle fingers together, he stroked his right arm from top to bottom. A clearly visible line of internal energy could be seen moving towards the fingers of his right hand. One could see that an attack impossible to resist for Pelagon was about to burst forth.

At this moment, a ghostly shadow started floating down from the air, heading straight for Lei Yu.

“Now’s the time!” Lei Yu shouted, and suddenly turned around, his internal energy at the tipping point before erupting. The instant Lei Yu turned around, a purple energy with the power of lightning and the thickness of a finger flew out, its target being the emerging shadow.

“Whoosh!”

“Puff!”

The shadow did not have its guard up at all, its attacking posture had not even changed, and its body had already been blown away. On its chest, a finger-sized hole allowed one to see all the way through and behind it.

“You…!”

With a “plop,” Lei Yu fell next to Pelagon’s body, completely out of strength. Being able to stay conscious was only owing to the trace of internal energy he had just absorbed.

“Blurgh!” A mouthful of black and red blood sprayed out of the shadow’s mouth. The power of the surprise attack wasn’t actually capable of taking a life, but it had come too suddenly, so it hadn’t had its guard up.

Lei Yu carefully looked at the features of this shadow. The thin face looked as if a skeleton had slapped on a piece of skin. Its already pale look had become even more horrible-looking after Lei Yu’s attack, capable of giving those who laid eyes upon it chills in their heart. Deep inside its eye sockets, was a yellow eyeball with black pupils, that no matter how you looked at, it wasn’t something a human would have. The shape of its pupils looked like a lizard’s or a snake’s.

Lei Yu sucked in a cool breath. Was this still considered the look of a human? It was too scary looking! This person was none other than the master of the labyrinth – Crete.

“You dare to actually hurt me?! I want your life!” Crete ignored his heavy injuries, his body suddenly rushing over to him. Lei Yu went ahead and closed his eyes, as he didn’t have any strength left to resist him. It looked like he wouldn’t be able to fulfill the so called destiny that had been laid out by the Prophet Kalchas and Telephassa.

At this moment, Lei Yu’s entire mind was filled with the images of Ai Er; the way she frowned and smiled, the words and actions she made; the little sweet words of love they whispered into each other’s ears, all of these making Lei Yu unwilling to leave.

“I’m sorry, Ai Er. This time I really have no way of getting out alive.” Lei Yu had given up. It was the first time he had truly given up on living. It wasn’t his choice to give up, but he had truly used up all his internal energy. The Spiritual Bead of Longevity he’d once had was no more, and because of that incident in the Kou country, that green energy had been completely used up as well. Adding the fact that Lei Yu didn’t even have the strength to run away, one could say that if an ordinary person appeared in front of him, one could effortlessly kill him on the spot.

Lei Yu tightened his fists, but found that he didn’t even have the strength to keep doing that. Thus, he awaited the arrival of his death, sprawled on the ground.

“Argh!”

“Crack!”

Two strange sounds echoed, then Lei Yu felt something warm hit his face. Using his last ounce of strength, Lei Yu opened his eyes, and was suddenly completely shocked at what he saw.