1020 Exposed 2 (1/2)
”So that's your Spiritual Net Imprint!?” Boss was furious and frantic, but he knew that they could no longer catch up, so he roared at Second Brother angrily.
Second Brother's gaze was dark and cold as he shook his head.
”When it comes to head-on conflict, I'm no match for you, but when it comes to tracking someone down and killing them, that's still my forte. Come with me!”
He reached out his hand, and there was a white sphere in the middle of his palm, a small red dot lighting up on it slowly.
”It's not that easy to get away once you've been hit by my Spiritual Net Imprint!”
”Oh? You can do that?” Boss instantly turned from rage to joy.
”That way! Come!” Second Brother glanced at it, and immediately discovered Garen's location. His body rushed out rapidly, the soles of his shoes suddenly spraying out some levitational propelling force which sent him flying into the distant sky.
Boss followed behind him closely as well.
”Where's that punk gone?!” he said angrily. ”If I get my hands on him, I'll tear him into pieces and feed him to the dogs!”
”What's the rush?” There was a cold cruelty in Second Brother's eyes. ”That kid is too fast, we might not be able to catch up to him even if we chase him individually, and his martial arts realm is at the Water Mirror level, so we can't stop him in terms of technique either. All we can do is watch him slowly, and wait for him to let down his guard, then we strike together and kill him for real! We can't give him another chance to slip away!”
”He's just a Level Five, how dare he try to steal what's practically already ours!” said Boss seethingly. ”What are those wings on him?”
”I think they're a sort of gene ability, he must have gotten some sort of special gene integrated into him. If he can have the speed of Second Brother-Moons like us even though he's only Level Five, it must be no average gene!” deduced Second Brother. ”I'm not fast enough, once we get that wing gene and distill it, I'm taking it!”
”If he can cultivate the Demon's Blade, his Vitality must be way higher than others, which means he either has a gene strengthening liquid or some special training method. After we get his corpse and distill the strengthening liquid out of it, I call dibs on that.” Boss was no pushover either, and he could deduce what abilities his opponent had even though they just clashed for an instant.
”We'll share the secret scroll, half each.”
”No problem!”
The two of them had started dividing up Garen's things before they even caught him, which showed just how confident they were.
One after the other, the two black shadows hurriedly chased after Garen.
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Whoosh!
A red thread fell from the sky, and landed heavily on a small hill on the ground.
With a large bang, Garen left a huge human-shaped crater in the ground. He crawled out of the crater with difficulty, his body covered in blood, and his lips purple. His whole body was shaking non-stop.
”Thank goodness I didn't bring Little One and Little Two along.” He had not thought that Boss and Second Brother's tactics would be so terrifying either, compared to the likes of March and Yiling, be it their Snowstorm Palm or the later Spiritual Net Imprint, both were particularly effective against his speed.
The Snowstorm Palm was shockingly fast, each palm shooting out like a flash of lightning. It surpassed his multiplied speed and landed directly on his back. He could not avoid it at all, and had no choice but to take it.
Thankfully, it seemed that Boss could not use it consecutively, and needed some time to catch his breath, or else Garen would not have ended up well.
And the Spiritual Net Imprint was even worse, if he did not have the Giant Blue Wolf to help him create that huge wave of momentum, he would have been in real serious trouble.
Garen looked at the Blue Wolf that darted out closely behind him. There was already a large patch of white frost on the side of the Giant Blue Wolf's body, and the cold was so intense that even Garen could feel it in his bones.
He reached his hand out and touched the Blue Wolf's white frost injury.
Woo...
The Giant Wolf whined a few times, its expression painful.
”If it hadn't been modified by the Distorted Seed, making it highly resistant to cold, it probably would not have lasted long at all.” Garen shook his head. The Giant Blue Wolf was beyond repair, that cold was at least Level Twelve or more, and it was corroding away at the wolf's internal organs as well as its life force. This cold was extremely powerful, and it seemed to be slightly domineering, chasing away all of the other traces of warmth. It even spread automatically.
No matter how strong its resistance to cold was, the Blue Wolf was still a living creature, and it required heat to move. At this rate, within ten minutes, the whole Blue Wolf would turn completely into an ice sculpture, and then the slightest touch would reduce it to shards of ice.
”It's too bad!”
Garen let out a breath, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth as he began to check his body.
He had also been gravely injured, but contrary to his expectations, he did not feel particularly unwell even as they flew, as though there was a force in his body that kept resisting the invading cold energy. Add that to his powerful Vitality, and he had actually managed to suppress the cold energy in his body, rendering it immobile.
”I'll check as we go!”
Something occurred to Garen, and he used his Energy Machine Imprint to issue an order. With a wave of his hand, several black wolves instantly appeared beside him. He rode on one, and had another tow the Giant Blue Wolf, that was beginning to grow slower and slower.
The whole entourage ran into the distant forest. They could not go straight back to the camp, or else it would be bad if those two caught up.
Garen sent Little One and Little Two a message as he rode on the wolf's back.
”I need to settle some matters outside, you two go back to Headquarters and rest. I'll call you when I need you to do anything for me.” Garen's voice was very calm, as though he was not hurt at all.
”Yes, Master.” On the other end, Little One also just assumed that Garen was going into seclusion for a bit, and he did not read any more into it. ”Oh, right, do you need some of the food and drink I have here, Master?”
”There's no need, I have enough here, you just have to go to Planet Naga and help Bainster handle things there. I'll be back in about a month, and even if I don't go back, I'll drop you a message. If it's anything more important than that, wait for me to get back!” said Garen.
”Understood,” replied Little One decisively.
Cutting off the connection, Garen could not help but throw up another mouthful of blood.
Sitting on the wolf's back, he quickly turned his gaze inward, and that was when he realized that the terrifying cold energy from the Snowstorm Palm was constantly fighting against another overbearing power inside his body.
That power was actually the Willpower of the Seventh Divine Wind General that had been lying dormant in his body the whole time.
Both forces were essentially half-pure forms of energy gathered and mobilized by Willpower, they were both a branch of Willpower, but with different elements and attributes.
The Snowstorm Palm had its roots in the Scarlet Snow Technique, mobilizing and combining with a specific intense and violent energy. The resulting force was unnaturally overpowering, and had an extreme element of repulsion, forbidding any other power to stay inside its territory.
And the Seventh Divine Wind General's Willpower was also excessively over-domineering. After all, it was Inherited-Level power, even though there was only a little remnant left, it was still more than enough to deal with the Snowstorm Palm.
The two of them faced off against each other, resulting in an extreme reaction of repulsion that seriously damaged Garen's internal organs.
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