226 Final Battle 2 (1/2)
Chapter 226: Final Battle 2
On top of the stone statue.
Garen and Sylphalan collided into each other madly.
The palm and the sword met head-on again and again. Each collision sent a large quantity of white vapor and red light flying everywhere. They rain down on the surrounding walls and onto the ground, constantly creating new and uneven holes.
”Divine Statue, East King Hand!!”
A platinum divine statue appeared suddenly behind Garen, and rushed into his body in an instant, the two of them merging into one. Carrying with it an incomparable platinum light, his hand stirred the cloud vapor around them, and his palm grabbed straight for Sylphalan’s head.
Psst!
Sylphalan’s body leaned back, Garen’s clawed fingers brushing just past him. A moment later, a red light lit up from behind him, just like a peacock displaying its plume. The red light then became countless red threads, aiming to pierce Garen.
The red threads shot out from all directions, and for a moment everywhere the eye could see had been surrounded.
”Crimson Moon Shadow.” Sylphalan somersaulted away, his fingers pointed at Garen. All the red threads instantly shot towards Garen.
”Ten Thousand Mammoth Trample!!” Garen jolted his arms, and a circle of transparent shockwaves spread around him, blowing away most of the red threads.The few remaining threads pierced his body and made the hissing noise of cutting metal. In the end, all that remained were several white marks.
He leapt across to Sylphalan again, the platinum aura completely gathered onto his body, without any wastage whatsoever.
With his current condition, if the opponent was anyone but Sylphalan, all they would see would be his shadow. The seemingly overwhelming difference in power could have struck fear in their hearts.
This was the highest level of this world’s martial arts, when the aura and the human body merged into one. People called it King of the Century!
Similarly, Sylphalan was also covered in black light now, like a sun during the eclipse. His aura stuck close to his body, the two becoming one.
As the two fought madly, the stone statue also began to shake intensely. Each meeting between the two of them was like a bomb explosion.
Boooooom!!!
Inside the entrance to the tunnel, a thin black shadow was quietly making his way to the stone statue’s peak.
”Go on, keep fighting… Hehe, when the two of you have beaten each other, be it the Black Smoke Pot or the Eternal Starry Night, all of it will be mine!” He couldn’t help but laugh in his deep voice.
The intense tremors kept coming from the tunnel’s stone walls, growing stronger and heavier.
”The opponent this time is far stronger than last time. Sylphalan, your time has finally come.” The black shadow reached out his hand to touch the stone wall, laughing coldly. Suddenly, he sensed something amiss.
”Wait, why are the tremors growing stronger?!”
He stopped in his tracks, and turned his head to look. Unbelievably, there was a hint of red firelight in the pitch-black tunnel.
”That is… a bomb!!???” His eyes widened abruptly. ”No… No!!! Sylphalan, you madman!!!!” He started screeching madly, his whole body rushing towards the tunnel ahead of him.
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The God of Spear Mare stood quietly in front of the tunnel, looking at the part of the tunnel that had collapsed after the explosives went off. For a moment there, he didn’t know if he should advance or retreat.
”Go back.”
The King of the North Pole walked out from behind him.
”Sylphalan is a madman. In order to make sure no one disturbed this final battle, he went ahead and bombed up the whole tunnel.”
Mare gripped his fist tightly. Wordlessly, he turned around and walked away.
”Where are you going?” The King of the North Pole looked at him, confused.
”...” Mare did not reply. He just walked faster, disappearing down the tunnel in the direction he had come.
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On the beach
Andrela sat cross-legged on the ground, his long sword stuck in the sand beside him. He was looking up blankly, staring at the dark and dull sky.
Black flower petals fell slowly from the sky, dancing and twirling, sprinkling his sword, his clothes, even his face.
A snow of black flower petals had descended on the entire island.
”What… is this?”
Andrela reached his hand out to pinch one of the petals, but it disintegrated into powder in his hand.
Nightmare was standing right beside him, and caught a petal lightly, trying to keep it intact.
”I don’t know, but I got a bad feeling about this. Let’s get away from here as soon as possible.”
”Wait for Garen to return, then we can go together.” Andrela was unmoved.
Pom!!
Nightmare lifted up the unconscious Andrela.
”You won’t listen even if I tell you. Why don’t you think of what kind of level Garen has reached. Even if he survives, you might not.”
She took one last look at the red and white cloud vapor erupting constantly from the top of the statue.
”Garen, don’t die.”
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The island shook vigorously, and black snow fell from the sky.
The petal snow completely engulfed the entire Smoke Island.
Baroom!!
A large flurry of red flames erupted from the stone statue’s waist area. At the same time, a large of black fog sprayed out.
The whole giant stone statue began to tilt slowly. The upper half began to slant gradually, breaking apart, and sliding towards the island.
At the same time, there was the rumble of thunder in the sky, as though weeping for the destruction of the giant stone statue.
On the stone statue’s peak.
Garen and Sylphalan were face to face, the red threads and white clouds between the two of them morphing into two blurry shadows. Countless red threads and white shadows knocked into each other, turning into countless red and white shards, spraying and scattering to the sides.
The statue’s whole head also began to tilt and shake vigorously.
The platform in the gap slowly tilted to the right.
Boom!
Garen’s back crashed into a portion of the wall, and completely decimated that part of the wall with a crash. It left a huge hole, allowing them to see the roiling black sky outside.
”Divine Statue Return!!” His eyes glared suddenly, his whole body engorging explosively. His muscles expanded rapidly, and many platinum lines appeared on his body, forming several strange and distorted natural images and symbols.
”Sylphalan! Die!!” he roared, his hair standing on end. His palm expanded until they were like plantain fans, attacking Sylphalan from both sides. It was like a huge platinum giant grabbing a dwarf with both his hands.
The soundwaves from the loud roar complemented the pulsing of all the muscles in his body, creating a strange but intense tremor that made his body increase even further. In the end, he had enlarged until he was two and a half meters.
Before the move hit him, Sylphalan already felt sharp winds attacking him like knives, cutting into the skin on his face.
Both his ears felt the two huge pressure coming on both sides at the same time, as though two behemoths were charging at once, and he was temporarily dazed. This power was more than twice as strong as Garen had been just now.
Sylphalan didn’t retreat. Instead, he advanced, a small calm smile on his lips.
Creak…
With that tiny sound, countless black veins started surfacing on the skin of his face, like countless insects and worms. All of them gathered to the center of his brow, forming an eye-shaped lump.