224 Appear 2 (1/2)
Chapter 224: Appear 2
Smack!
His right palm lightly knocked against Palosa’s raised palms. There wasn’t any intense explosion, and neither was there a ferocious all-encompassing impact of aura.
There was just two spikes of aura darting forward like poisonous snakes, and then flashing back like lightning, leaving everything exactly like before.
Similarly, Garen shot back in an instant, landing on an empty spot ten meters away.
”The second hit!”
Without pausing, he dashed forward once more.
Exactly like the previous palm hit, he once more struck against Palosa’s palm lightly.
”Shape Sever Finger!!” Palosa roared, his fingers dotting Garen’s palm like raindrops. The moment each finger touched his hand, it flashed with a hint of grey-green.
The two separated once more, and both fell silent.
”The last hit!” Garen leapt forward, the platinum statue abruptly merging with him to become one. His entire body was edged with a platinum light.
”Southern Fists.”
He leapt lightly and landed in front of Palosa, both his palms pressing forward soundlessly.
Boom!!
In that split second, a great platinum aura burst out around Garen’s figure, the aura and the currents mixing together to form countless sharp knives flying at Palosa from all directions.
Pom!! Dang-dang-dang!!
Palosa took ten steps back. Each step formed a deep imprint on the ground.
Garen pulled back his fists and stood.
”Go.” The flush in Garen’s face was gone in a moment, and he walked towards Andrela and Nightmare.
”Then he…?” Nightmare looked at Palosa in confusion.
But Andrela tugged at his clothes, and said no more. The three of them took the two key-shaped black stone pieces, and gave them to Dale Quicksilver and the others who had been waiting for safekeeping. Together, they walked towards another clean spot in the stone forest.
Palosa stood in the same spot quietly, looking at his hands with a melancholy smile.
The truth was, as soon as he used this form, the result had been decided.
”In the end… I was just afraid of the loneliness…” He shook his head and laughed. His body erupted in a series of explosions.
Bang-bang-bang-bang!!
It was as though someone lit firecrackers inside his body. His skin and muscles began turning from round and full to dried-out husks, as though he had stood in the wind for countless years in the blink of an eye.
His previously flushed face rapidly began to dry out at a visible rate, like thousand-year-old tree bark. His tall body also shrunk quickly, his whole person morphing from a powerful warrior into an ancient mummy in a moment.
He leaned onto a broken statue slowly, his gaze going across the gray mist, as though he saw himself in his most glorious days.
uddenly, Sylphalan’s mad face appeared in front of his eyes.
He paused for a moment, and understood.
”So I had lost, all the way back then…”
A light breeze blew past, and there was no longer anybody by the stone statue. Only a heap of clothes, falling onto a mound of white sand.
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On the edge of the largest stone statue in the Southern Territory.
There were two figures like the Central Area’s stone statues in the North Territory. The ruins could both be opened by keys, and once the entrance was open, naturally everyone could go in. But only those with keys truly had the right to use the Black Smoke Pot.
The fog dissipated, and time passed.
The fog gradually changed from grey to black, and then from black to grey-white, and finally from grey-white to completely white.
Garen sat cross-legged in the middle of the forest of stone statues, his eyes closed. There was a vertical gash on his chin where he was hit by Palosa’s final explosion.
The Divine Statue Technique’s natural healing powers quickly closed up and healed the wound, leaving only a thin red line.
After merging his three personas into one, every move of Palosa’s was equal to unleashing a secret technique. Before he knew it, he had sustained a certain number of internal wounds. The Divine Statue Technique was crazy enough to be called a legendary divine technique, but even after he perfected it, Palosa could still harm him. Compared to his condition when he was fine after taking Palosa head-on, this was as different as heaven and earth!
”Too bad… I’ll have one less opponent in this world…” At Garen’s level, there were far too few people who could really catch his eye. And this one trip to Smoke Island, cost them so many elite martial fighters…
Suddenly, he heard footsteps and voices from deep within the mist.
Garen opened his eyes slowly, and saw Nightmare and Andrela bringing along Dale Quicksilver, Miss Si Lan and co. White Eagle was there too, looking unusually unkempt. The group also brought with them an unconscious boy and girl.
”Found them?” Garen stood up.
”Your injuries are fine now?” Nightmare looked intrigued to see Garen stand up. Getting closer, he tapped Garen’s chest with his scallion-like fingers. ”You were breathtakingly fierce just now, do you wanna play a game with Big Sister here? ~~I just love you fierce types~~”
Garen was exasperated as he watched Andrela drag Nightmare away. Even now, it was hard for him to get used to Nightmare’s fetishes sometimes.
”Alright, stop fooling around. How much more time until we open the ruins?”
Dale Quicksilver looked at his watch, ”Twenty more minutes.”