Chapter 38 (2/2)

The dark golden Bizarre Scales turned into a streak of light as it charged towards him, Chris waved the wyvern fang in his hand to make the Bizarre Scales flinch briefly and hurriedly avoided it. But a split second later, he completely froze in place as he noticed countless black strings that had completely sealed off his escape routes, waiting for Chris to throw himself into the net.

Boom!

Surrounded by smoke and dust, the Bizarre Scales directly smashed into the road where Chris had been standing and made a huge crater.

The black strings stretched across the ground and into the sky all over this area, constantly expanding outwards. If you tried to look where these strings originated from, you’d find that they were all connected to Yadley’s fingers.

Over a third of his body had been replaced by [Black Crow] germs, and all ten of his fingers were made entirely out of this substance. The germs here had been trained by him to form the shape of strings, easily piercing or cutting through the flesh of living beings as he ordered them to, at the same time sensitive enough to detect movement in the air around them.

If these strings were to pierce through the skin, they would quickly spread all over the body and act like strings of a puppet for Yadley to control. Furthermore, Yadley still had [Black Crow] germs implanted at several other positions of his body, that was the reason why he was the strongest of the Crowmen.

“No heartbeat, did the Bizarre Scales kill him?” Yadley used the strings at his fingertips to search the surroundings again. Since this was Lord Negary’s direct order, he couldn’t afford to make any mistakes.

“Wait, the Bizarre Scales’ state isn’t quite right…” Yadley sensed the Bizarre Scales’ step as it walked through one of his black strings and noticed that its movement was heavier than it was supposed to be.

After the dust settled, Yadley quickly noticed a person laying flat on top of the Bizarre Scales, covered in fine powder. Who else could it be but Chris?

At the very last second, before the Bizarre Scales got to him, Chris used his rhythm to make the old wyvern fang explode into fine dust, took advantage of the wind to scatter it all over his body and used [Respiratory Art] to make the powdered fang stick to him.

As he was soaked in the aura of a ‘Dragon’, the Bizarre Scales gave up on attacking him and instead made an opening big enough for Chris to climb onto it.

Waiting for the creature to take a few more steps, Chris leapt onto another location and breathed out heavily, the Bizarre Scales’ body then shivered and collapsed completely, coughing up some golden blood as well as bits and pieces of ruptured organs.

As soon as Chris landed on the Bizarre Scales, he had been using Deep Rhythm to attack it. Even a creature of the Bizarre Scales’ level couldn’t handle its own power attacking itself and got its organs ruptured.

“Chris, I didn’t expect you to be able to kill a Bizarre Scales” Yadley’s expression was somber: “But this is the end. To make sure that you don’t disturb Lord Negary’s hibernation, I will have you lay your life down right here”

As soon as he said that, Yadley’s expression changed and noticed that some sort of power had led him into saying that.

Chris’ expression widened, noticing the information Yadley had just conveyed.

So Negary really was wounded and is currently staying somewhere to recover?

“No matter” Yadley suddenly laughed, four flashes of dark-golden light appeared next to him and revealed themselves to be more Bizarre Scales. Each of them had a Crowmen riding on top, including Tesa who had now re-equipped herself with a new rapier, all staring down coldly at Chris.

Seeing the Crowmen and Bizarre Scales surrounding him, Chris couldn’t help but smile bitterly. He was powerless against such an overwhelming difference in power, after all, he was still only human.

At this point, a clear voice was suddenly heard: “It seems we arrived just in time!”