430 Change 2 (1/2)
Chapter 430: Change 2
Whoosh!!
Moon-white bands of light floated around Edin quickly, forming a large white ring.
The blood mist was covered by the ring. Inside, the sound of countless blades piercing and rubbing against each other could be heard.
It seemed as if countless blades were continuously piercing through the blood mist at every second inside the bands of light.
”Inside my halo of Silver Flowers, at every second, there are a thousand knives piercing through, equivalent to my maximum attack strength.” Edin murmured, as he watched the blood mist become thinner the more it was sliced.
”Goodbye then… Nine-Headed Dragon Garen.”
Tch!!
A bloody arm stabbed through his chest suddenly.
Edin’s pupils widened instantly.
The air seemed to have stopped moving…
His surroundings stopped moving as well.
Startled, Edin bowed his head, and watched the arm poking out of his chest, and noticed that the blood on the arm was as warm as his body.
His hand loosened its grip on the large sword immediately.
Crash!
”Edin!!!” The shadow of the girl behind him screamed immediately, and outstretched her arms to catch his body, but disappeared quickly instead.
A bloodied figure stood behind Edin, with three bloody glowing birthmarks on his forehead, and an armor-clad body that was dripping with a thick layer of blood.
Garen’s arm poked through Edin’s chest slowly, causing a large pool of blood to form. The armor and flesh rubbed against each other, and let out a horrifying squeaking sound.
Silently, the two large swords and the white moon halo exploded completely on their own, and turned into countless white rose petals, before being blown by the wind, and dancing around Edin and Garen endlessly.
The ruins seemed to be immersed in a shower of flowers for a brief moment.
Edin’s vision became blurry, but he could still see the hole in his own chest, and the color of the blood that flowed out.
It was a bright red color, tinged with glistening black accents. He could smell the weird scent that wafted from his blood, and although it was not a fishy smell, it was a strange stench that contained undertones of rotting.
”It seems that… I was poisoned from the beginning…” said Edin as a bittersweet smile appeared on his face.
”Five lives!” Garen’s voice rang out behind him. ”You destroyed five of my lives. During the battle at Snowy Peak in the beginning, even God Cloud hadn’t killed me so many times…”
He paused, and continued speaking in a more solemn tone.
”Unfortunately, you only paid attention to my Nine Lives, and forgot that the Nine-Headed Dragon was actually a terrifying, toxic ancient creature.”
”I never expected that… after serving Ivycius my whole life, that I would die in a place like this…” Edin raised his head painstakingly, and looked towards the moon in the sky, with a feeling of loss caused by his sudden epiphany.
”Dead?” A strange expression appeared on Garen’s face. ”For a strong individual like yourself, I wasted lots of time and energy to hurt you, not just so I could kill you so quickly.”
Edin was slightly shocked, and was about to open his mouth.
Suddenly, he felt a sinister icy foreign matter pouring out of his chest.
When the watery foreign matter touched his flesh, it melted and seeped into his internal organs rapidly.
He felt as if his life force was being frantically sucked out by this foreign matter, as his reasoning became weaker, while his awareness become blurrier.
Pfoo.
Edin knelt on the floor immediately, as his whole body was completely out of energy.
Garen stood where he was, clad in his black armor, as he looked at the messy palace in his surroundings, and noticed that the initially magnificent palace had completely turned into a rubbish dump, filled with rubble and residue.
The night wind blew over, and the air was still filled with traces of flowery parfum.
”Ivycius… I should have known earlier, that this bastard was actually the White Rose Juggernaut Ivycius.”
Actually, the last thing that he said to Ivycius, was not true.
The Nine-Headed Dragon’s poison was not mainly used to kill one’s opponent, as the main purpose, was actually related to Secret Techniques.
After witnessing the moment when Edin strengthened his sword techniques, Garen had finally understood the parts that he could not see clearly before.
Secret Techniques could aid the evolution of Totems and could unearth the body’s inner blood flow, meanwhile for Totem evolution, it would form natural Secret Technique Roadmap exercises.
However, this was only one of the uses of Secret Techniques.
In this world, and the previous world, most of them were not blood flow Secret Techniques, but were rather life transforming, life evolving Secret Techniques!
Ivycius presented unprecedented sword techniques that seemed to be able to defeat Rose Totems, by integrating sword skills and Totem abilities, to achieve an incomparably powerful, yet new and different sword techniques.
”If it weren’t for that sudden breakthrough, perhaps this fight would have become a prolonged battle.” Garen exhaled. ”Wouldn’t you say so? Ivycius.”
Ivycius’ corpse blinked mysteriously. His skin and body had blackened slightly, and he had apparently stood up again.
”No matter the reason, a win is a win, and a loss is a loss.” He smiled bitterly and shook his head. ”I lost, thinking I would die by your hands, but I never expected to lose my freedom instead.”
”It’s always better to have hope.”
”That’s true.” Ivycius nodded seriously.
Garen walked around Ivycius.
This was his sole Demon Dragon quota.