1226 Battle to the Death 2 (2/2)
All of a sudden, he relaxed his arm, and the giant white bow and arrow vanished abruptly. The bow fell apart and shattered, whereas the arrow just disappeared from the spot, rushing instead at Garen with unimaginably terrifying speed and strength.
Barroom!!!!!
The entire blue ocean gave a jolt, and then a round blue image made of lightning actually began to appear on the surface of the water. After a mere two seconds, all the seawater had vanished from the several hundred meters taken up by the electric image, and a giant black abyss had appeared on the surface of the ocean.
Strangely, the water around it did not cascade into the black hole. Instead, it just turned straight to ice.
The storm of lightning and the layer of ice spread across the walls of water, engaged in a tug-of-war battle. One half had turned to ice, and the other half was lightning.
The white and the blue fought evenly against each other, dividing and splitting.
Boom!!!
Endless white vapor surged out of the black hole and shot into the air. The white steam became a white pillar of air, shooting straight into the sky.
The infinite pillar of air currents rushed madly into the sky, turning into many white clouds. The white clouds grew thicker as time passed, and the sky grew dimmer. The endlessly clear and sunny sky above the ocean slowly began to darken.
Ker-chak!
A bolt of lightning flashed by, illuminating the gradually darkening ocean.
Whoosh…
There was a sudden and heavy downpour of rain.
The white air current pillar also gradually shrank, becoming thinner and longer. The original white hue slowly turned grey, until it finally became a sea tornado. The giant tornado was connected to the sky and the earth, like a grey-black funnel.
As the hurricane blew at the heavy downpour, rather than falling straight down, the rain formed many disorderly slanted lines in the air.
On an abandoned island nearby.
On a yellow beach, Garen and Slayer both lay face-up at the line where the sand met the sea, all the strength drained from their bodies.
The two of them were covered in pale wounds. Both of Garen's arms were broken, his chest had sunk in, and one of his ears had been ripped off.
And Slayer had returned to his original form, having broken both legs and lost one arm completely. He had also gone blind in one eye.
It was a draw with injuries on both sides. Neither of them expected that outcome.
Lying on their backs on the beach, both of them had no extra strength left.
”Hah… Haha… I won in the end, after all…” Garen forced a smile. He had lost a lot of blood together with his grievous injuries, and other than his external injuries, he had also sustained massive internal damage. He had a concussion too, which was why his senses were a bit blurry even now.
”You… won?” Slayer smiled with great difficulty. ”Or do you think you won?”
”All of your Soul Energy will be mine eventually.” Garen panted heavily and began to turn over, crawling toward Slayer's direction slowly.
He could no longer remember how long it had been since he got injured like this. But that just showed how high the quality of Slayer's Soul Ring was, it was far better than the other three Cornerstones.
Slayer's physical fitness had only been temporarily increased, unlike Garen, who was already usually this powerful. There was still a difference there, which was why he was basically unable to move now, and could not do anything but to watch Garen approach him slowly.
Watching Garen's slowly crawling body, the red light in his eyes died down, and they gradually lost their glow, returning to their original state that was no different from a normal person.
After the red light faded, confusion and dazedness flashed through Slayer's eyes.
”I think… I remembered something… something I had once forgotten.”
He murmured dazedly.
Garen dragged himself there step by step. The remaining distance between them was the distance of death.
Strangely, however, Slayer was not scared at all. After the red light vanished from his eyes, he seemed to have forgotten fear, and instead, he only continued to search his own memories, growing more lost as he went.
”I once… forgot some very important things, I think… Very important…” His brain was completely blank, but some familiar yet unfamiliar memories were slowly appearing there.
Finally, Garen moved up to him, reached out a hand slowly, and pressed his forehead.
”It's over.” He heaved a long sigh.
”That's right… It's over,” Slayer replied mysteriously. His gaze had instantly become oddly clear, without a hint of red light. ”I remember now…”
Before he knew it, a mist began to rise slowly in his eyes.
”Many, many years ago… I wasn't like this.”
Garen looked at his clear eyes and paused slightly. He seemed to have understood something as well.
Slayer was never any Slayer to begin with, he was being controlled. That red light from before was the source of that control, and now that he was on the brink of death, he could finally obtain release, returning to the person he used to be.
No wonder Garen sensed that he had two different types of forces in his Soul Energy during their earlier battle.
All this time, Garen had sensed that something was wrong with Slayer.
”I don't have a future life, and I don't have many attachments at all.” Slayer's eyes were strangely peaceful. As though he did not see Garen's hand suspended above him at all.
Garen was quiet for a moment. His hand grabbed downward abruptly.
Pff.