Chapter 698 - Book 6, Chapter 90 (2/2)

The floors, ceilings and walls were all white They radiated with their own internal lu He'd never experienced anything like it before Frantic, he began to look for a way out Teleporting again and again all he found was more emptiness Everywhere he turned it was all the same Featureless Identical He could hardly tell if he'd er to teleport somewhere else But no matter how far he stretched his mind the only place open to him was this sht by carefully placing teleport ic locations Locked in this place, all of his thorough plans fell apart Without the benefit of his dagger and its e and unfamiliar place, how could he hope to defeat Cloudhawk?

Speak of the devil The wastelander appeared before hied man before him and carefully enunciated his words “In my domain, your abilities are useless”

Bruno's face darkened in anger and despair He was done for He'd known from the onset that Cloudhaas better, but he'd been confident in his ability to escape He hadn't iined Cloudhaould have a way to rob him of that

“Shall we continue?” Cloudhawk asked

Pitched battles were raging throughout the Temple The Cloud God swept away all obstacles before him Many of the ecclesiasts he caainst their patron Those that did were as insignificant as insects before the God's power Subjected to his all-pervasive th, they fell like wheat before the scythe

Then a group appeared, barring his way

Different froathered here specifically to face the Cloud God In the center was an elderly h Priest of Higharded his nervous fellows “Do not fear Although this beast was once a regal God, it has fallen frorace It cavorts with demons and heretics It is a fiend Corrupted A betrayer of its race Only death ash away its sins”

His words bore a mysterious power, for they calmed the hearts of his anxious soldiers

The Cloud God unhurriedly gazed upon the group of humans “It appears your powers are based in the psychic reallow fell upon hi their fears to evaporate and steeling their will He'd constructed a mental fortress to co to break chopsticks One was fragile, but bundled together they were strong Indeed Lucian had formidable mental control and was able to spread it across a certain distance to aid his allies

Yet the Cloud God was alht, as the deity's poere unrivaled Any vulnerability was revealed to his eyes These defenses would not survive a single assault

He reached out with that terrible psychic flood The power coalesced into an intangible blade that lashed out at his opponents The mental blade was a variant of his psychic attack that was both invisible and impervious to normal defenses A blow like this was most often fatal

Yet it appeared Lucian anticipated such an attack

As the blade forht spread through the area and caused the unthinkable The highly dense energy crystallized before everyone's eyes, like

The power froe but unstable crystal structure

Lucian took his staff in both hands and brought it crashi+ng down upon the crystal Shattering froain released in a violent explosion

The God staggered backward several …

Lucian's soldiers watched withto behold What's y into a physical form was a very rare ability indeed

All fory could be condensed into a crystalline form This fact helped to protect Lucian froy sent his way could be frozen and even sent back to where it came from The Cloud God had been knocked back by the residual of his oer Even the hty God had his defenses te Even the Cloud God was fascinated

“Attack!” Lucian's bright eyes, surrounded by wrinkles, were fixed upon the God before hihty voice he cried out: “Kill the betrayer God!”