Chapter 551 - Second Round of Betting (1/2)
Chapter 551 - Second Round of Betting
Froun, to the moment Victor had attacked, only a couple of seconds had passed, and
The crowd looked on with disappointment as the most expected outconored, however, was the tension that had for chaed champion of War with uneasy expressions In theirone of their opponents such a huge advantage
The chanored the looks of his peers, and instead, said in a voice that broke out of the boundaries of the pocket space, and reached far and wide ”I'll take that orb off your hands” He said before letting out a hearty laugh
”I don't think so” Daniel retorted before sinking his teeth into another piece of fried vegetable
”Fool, you don't even knohat kind of pact you have made I'll take what is mine fro of who htful winner of the bet, and as such, along with the prize, he had the boasting rights
Unfortunately, his overjoyed mood was interrupted by a feords ”Aetable towards the stage, where a thick thread of greyish power had eed from Ashura's decapitated body, and reached for his head As the tere connected, the head snapped back in place, and the injury was healed in a matter of moments
The champion of War was shocked beyond words While he had seen such impossible recovery speed on Daniel, he had assuranted hih immortal nonetheless Before any question could fored warrior, however, his attention was grabbed by Daniel's words, as he said, ”You should pay hter”
”ARGHHH!!” Before the crowd could process Ashura's unbelievable healing powers, a screarabbed their attention When they turned to look at its origin, they saw the figure of Victor, as now holding his arm just above the wrist as thick black veins creeped up fro and excruciating pain h Victor's arm as his body, spirit, and poere consumed by Ashura's chaotic power To a point where, out of desperation, the soldier let go of his wrist to draw his gun, and after pointing it at his elbow, pulled the trigger The bea a stop to the advancement of the corrosive power
Convinced to have avoided death, Victor took a deep breath and looked at Ashura's stoic figure with fearful eyes, a feeling he had never expected to feel towards what he should have considered less than an ant Luckily, he had reacted in tiun behind, Victor prepared himself to start a battle of attrition with Ashura He knew that his recovery could only be supported by his i enough, he would be able to outlast him All he needed to do was to maintain his distance
This perfect plan quickly took form in Victor's mind Triumph was still possible It just required a littlea lost lis like hiuaranteed The ed to cal he couldn't handle Or so he thought
Every aspiration or delusion that had refor but a castle of cards, and the now fa pain that reappeared at the end of the bloody stuht it all down
”NO! NOO!” Victor screahout his shoulder, and made its way into his chest
”USE LORD WAR'S PRESENCE! QUICK!!” said a diseh the entire planet, but that failed in its intent to awake the young soldier fro pain Ashura's power ate the ans, soul and essence the way an incandescent star would eat at every ravitational pull The screa only stopped when the chaotic essence reached thein as left of his head
By the ti was left of Victor's body His consciousness, his spirit, his body All forced to fall apart under the corrosive effect of Ashura power Not even the forun had been spared, turning the once feared weapon back into a useless piece of metal that could be sold for a few coppers in a market of a city inhabited by ht lasted just about a minute, and yet it had felt like a rollercoaster to the observing cultivators, ere now looking fearfully at Ashura None of the young chaer, as none of thein with The only thing that was left, was a deafening silence
However, the eerie atmosphere only lasted a few seconds, as it was dispelled by a voice that ht theet up” Daniel said while cru it ablaze
Daniel's words struck a chord in the cha hie had yet to reach the three digits This hu cha the chance of being in his place, but who noere looking at him with disdain and contempt
If not for the fateful contract, the champion of war could have found a way to back out fro the bet's ter the very existence of one of the most powerful entities in existence That fact alone would cause hiet in his own do to take that burden, not even to protect one of their strongest fighters His only hope to respect the contract, and recover the loss, was to convince Daniel to give up on the universe he had just won
”Kid, I would forget our grievances, and consider it a personal favor, if you accepted another universe” Said the champion of War with a thread of sound essence that reached straight for Daniel's ear
Unfortunately, this veiled threat was only welcomed with a faint smirk
What Daniel was ure of the monstrous cultivator, who had quietly reappeared in the e not to declare a winner, but to examine his companion, whose power he seemed to be interested in