Chapter 698 - Book 6, Chapter 90 (1/2)
Book 6, Chapter 90 – Lucian vs The Cloud God
Cloudhawk's Cube activated, carving a dimensional pocket into the space around them Ethereal squares spread out in all directions like a cloud of bubbles Their fragile appearance, floating in defiance of gravity, afforded the scene a sort of strange beauty A few moments later they blended with the area, flattened, and faded froh the spectacle did not appear to present any sort of threat, Bruno nonetheless clenched his dagger warily
It was evident that those odd squares were special soy they emitted More than likely it was some sort of relic that was never recorded, and in Cloudhawk's hand any tool could do incredible things How much truer this was for the rare and unique relics of spatial power
“Attack!”
Bruno didn't knohat Cloudhawk had done, but it didn't matter He had aRuin high then shoving it into the ground All at once his potent mental abilities were unleashed!
Dozens, perhaps hundreds of lightning bolts reached forth It took no tih the squares their world had been segmented into They crackled around one another like an enormous electric net with Cloudhawk at its center – or thousands of hungry snakes searching for a meal
Bruno leaped away froround, leaving behind a sround it reached at Bruno for a second attack With the sword in his right hand, the de tendril He hacked it in tith his di, Cloudhawk poured y into the field More and h the air and toward a single target Yet the Master Demonhunter's skill and weapons kept him safe
His three companions, however, were not so lucky
As elite warriors they deftly avoiding the lightning strikes But it was the unassuments of space they did not account for The stable cubes were easy to overlook, especially when a storlare So in their reckless atte blasted apart, they could not avoid colliding with the a black hole The warriors disappeared without a trace
Bruno was stunned to discover that it wasn't just the men who disappeared, but the teleportation e, because that mark should have remained even if the soldiers died He would be able to use the dagger's copies to find out where they were and bring them back to where he was
There were only two possibilities The first was that Cloudhawk had sent them beyond the scope of his powers… so far away that even Bruno couldn't feel them That seemed unlikely, however, since Bruno's reach extended across the entire realm The second and ers they'd held – had ceased to exist They were no longer a part of this reality
Before Bruno could puzzle out as happening, Cloudhaas on him He slashed at the deh the air In fact all the errant bolts of lightning followed Cloudhawk's sword as he dashed toward Bruno They all ca so much force that he didn't even bother to try and deflect it
Dier It spread out around hione
He let space fold, conveying hiain his footing Cloudhaas on hi hiain
The two danced around one another; one teleporting, the other blinking after hiures would appear for an instant then disappear just as quickly, so fast that shadows of them filled the empty hall They clashed twenty or thirty times, locked in an intense dimensional contest of cat andof ordinary demonhunters
Alone, Bruno was noevery which as just a way to stall for time The wastelander was on him at every turn, as close as his shadow, impossible to shake
At last, Bruno inadvertently slipped and Cloudhawk closed the distance Slashi+ng Ruin through the air, he released a torrent of electricity which wrapped around Bruno's body Right away his skin started to burn black and his internal organs sizzled Unable to control his body, the Master Demonhunter stumbled backward into one of the cubes
From bad to worse!
Bruno tried at last the moment to teleport… ! But it was too late, he struck one of the incorporeal cubes Suddenly the tiny cube expanded until it sed hi at him with the irresistible force of a black hole He blinked, suddenly finding himself in a place he'd never seen before