Chapter 389 (1/2)

Book 4, Chapter 7 – Student vs Teacher

Eckard's sas inches from Claudia's skull

Suddenly, an arrow ripped through the air, grabbing his attention Feeling the danger approach, the instructor was jerked away froet to block the arrow instead

Odd The energy arroasn't threatening, and it appeared to have been shot froht kill an ordinary person, but to one like Eckard it wasn't soed to strike hie

Why did it feel so dangerous, though?

He glanced at his sword and saw a speck of black on its surface That speck quickly grew to the size of a palm It was lusterless, dull, and course The actual structure of the sas changing as he watched

Petrification

Another grayish arrow appeared from an unseen location

By then half of Eckard's alloy sword had petrified He used the sword to protect hiain, but this ti stone

A third arrow From a different direction

He wasn't going to stand around, it was too dangerous Eckard broke off his attack, dodged the arrow, and retreated The area of the deck struck by the arrow petrified and crumbled away

While the Army's ultimate combatant didn't have any means of detection, Eckard still had years of experience in war What sort of commander would he be if he couldn't determine an attacker's location after three shots But while he couldn't see anything, he felt the uess where his attacker hid However, it was the dreaded weapon that gave him pause

Cloudhaas concealed nearby A si drawn

His weapon was a simple, delicate bow composed of soray stone, and the string was of a siathered in its central point Once the ies coalesced into an arrow, he let fly

Natessa Windhanized the weapon in short order “Basilisk”

Duathered power, and raced off as soon as Eckard fell back With incredible speed he deter to smash him apart

Cloudhawk answered with an arrow to his armored chest

But it didn't petrify it, like it had the sword The blazing energies did weaken, however

Cloudhawk hastily dodged out of the way and Duround had broken apart, and he could only come to a stop after he'd traveled another dozen meters

Fro with all her ht slithered from a bracelet around her wrist and forthy bullwhip It roared to life like a hurricane and reached twice the speed of sound in an instant Her weapon audibly tore the air and caused it to ripple, as in the space of a second it fanned out ten meters Anyone within the area of effect was severed at the waist

Too fast Too strong!

Cloudhawk had yet to get his bearing after dodging Duh time to summon the phase stone's power As Natessa's whip tore passed he could feel the phase field ripple and nearly collapse

He couldn't maintain both The phase field held, but he lost his invisibility The Warden of the Talon's of God appeared on the battlefield

The Giants of hell's Ar an equilateral triangle Cloudhaas caught in the middle, with nowhere to run or hide Their cooperation and positioning wasn't planned, just a product of years fighting alongside one another

Power, cooperation, and experience The Giants of hell's Arhtly

Eckard snatched up a discarded sword Another smile pulled at his hideously scarred lips “Cute toy”

'Basilisk' was one of the relics Cloudhawk had stolen froh It'd been broken when he pilfered it, but when he returned to Skycloud he had found soth in ter its victiest foes were flesh and blood in the end, so if his sneak attack had been successful Eckard would've been doomed

Calm and composed, Cloudhawk put Basilisk away He stood in the ard “You think three on one is enough to beat me? I'm not the Cloudhawk you remember”

Duain Natessa, stone-faced as always, simply stared at him

Eckard answered with a coarse laugh “You definitely kno to talk shi+t, kid But how er to find out”

“As you wish”

Right away Cloudhawk's flesh turned nearly criht as an arrow Much to the surprise of his attackers, between a burst of increased speed and the cloak's powers he was almost too fast for them to follow

He was dashi+ng toward Duathered yet, but it was enough to launch an attack His Dawnbreaker battle ars, which he used to instantly pick up speed Dumont shot forward like a cannon to intercept Cloudhawk

Reeling back, he drove his fist into the ground It blew a hole in the deck several meters deep Stone and splinters were thrown in all directions like a boone off

Cloudhaas forced to stop From behind, Natessa's deadly as already in motion

Instead of being angry at his failure to escape, Cloudhawk's face lit up in an expression of triurabbed Dumont by the breastplate, activated his phase stone, and then blinked from existence

The two men reappeared a hundredstretched out below

Dumont looked down, then back up at Cloudhawk, incapable of understanding what had just happened