Chapter 149: Survival (1/2)

Chapter 149: Survival

As Aldrich heard the voice ringing through his head, he suppressed the urge to ask questions There was no doubt in hiswas the 'Voice' that had driven Shriht Aldrich with such intense drive

But even if he had many questions about who this entity hat its objectives were, what it meant by kindred, what ithis own safety

'The energy of that corpse swells to astronomical levels unbound by any semblance of order,' said Volantis 'It is reminiscent of a-,'

'An explosion,' finished Aldrich He instantly geared back into action This 'Voice' was trying to wipe hi it

A thoroughly petty and underhanded trick, but then again, as Aldrich to co?

No, he was the type of person to expect his enemy to play dirty because that was exactly how he operated

Aldrich had been ready fro out of his expectation ht happen to threaten him And because he had been one in expecting to raise Shrimp's corpse without any repercussions

Aldrich instantly ju all of his units to escape from the area as quickly as possible

The corpse was due to detonate incredibly soon, and Volantis flooded Aldrich's s that even if he sprinted backwards at full speed, he would get caught by the explosion based on how y had built up

In response, Aldrich casted [Wall of Bone] while leaping away Volantis reacted, changing his stitching froon's head into the stonedrake scales, judging that if Aldrich would get clipped by the explosion, it was better to weather the das to get away

The ground before the corpse broke apart as a thickinto a powerful reinforced wall of clobbered together bones, soiant, soh to withstand a full barrage even from someone like Valera

[Wall of Bone] was an incredibly useful defensive tool not just for the strength of the wall, but because of the speed of its responsiveness Itsco attacks as soon as they reacted to theot to work defending Aldrich She, as a expert warrior, kneithout Aldrich telling her anything that this situation needed her defense now more so than ever

Valera stood behind the wall of skeletal est area of effect defensive skill called [Third Gate of Noktis] The shi+eld turned coht that it stood out almost like a tear in reality Fro as they shaped theate over a dozen meters tall

The [Third Gate of Noktis] was a part of a series of spells unique only to knights of the Midnight Order, an alliance of night dwelling de shadow city upon which the Midnight Order's knights were trained, and it was said that all anointed knights of the order drank in a shard of the city itself, harnessing its power

In the Elden World game, Noktis had not been breached for five thousand years, with its walls only cruaels dropped an enor an entire country on the fortress

Valera, however, could only shape one gate of the fortress at her current level And that also took ti froate surrounded by segments of wall, but it needed more time to stabilize into a proper, solid structure

Before that happened, Shriy building claws snapped together

A bright, blinding white and orange wave of energy strands blasted out from Shrimp's corpse like a solar flare

No, it literally was exactly like a solar flare

Anyone staring at this that did not have auground beneath Shrimp's corpse instantly liquefied molten, then evaporated into bubbles

When the solar wave crashed into Aldrich's bone wall, it co any resistance Valera stood fir devastation with her shi+eld firive her all and everything to defend Aldrich

Aldrich worried briefly about Valera's safety She could not tank that hit It was as if the sun itself, the celestial body that could power nearly all life on the planet with just a fraction of its lu war incineration

But Aldrich trusted Valera He knew that she would give her eternal life for him, but he also knew that she would not throay her life either If she felt like she was going to die from this attack, she would have told him

The fact that she stood there silently and firainst the solar storm

Still, an attack of this caliber was far beyond what Shrimp should have been able to output - this was the power of the entity known as the Voice

No, that was not entirely accurate

Aldrich noticed this even in this tense situation

Shrimp's corpse remained stable even as it thrust out these solar waves It did not break apart