Chapter 182: A fierce battle (1/2)
Chapter 182: A fierce battle
Everything was incredibly chaotic within the manor as fires licked at all the houses. Groups of black robed people scurried hither and thither amidst waves of panic as Gryphon Legion soldiers chased them everywhere, completely throwing the manor into wild disarray.
“Wait for us!” Two shapely black figures suddenly rushed out as Han Shuo, Emily, and Gilbert were running in another direction.
Han Shuo knew this should be Phoebe as soon as he heard the voice. It went without saying that the other person was Candice. The two of them had set fire to everything when the mission had just begin. As a fire mage swordsman, such matters came naturally to Candice. She had engulfed the entire place in a sea of flames after a short while.
There were a few Gryphon Legion soldiers behind them, and another awe inspiring elder wielding a longsword that flared with silver fighting aura.
The man quickly dashed over, and his imposing presence made it hard for one to look directly at him. He lightly waved the great sword in his hand and thoroughly pulverized all trees, shrubbery, and rocks in the silver fighting aura’s path. Even the ground split open with various cracks, demonstrating the frightening ferocity of the fighting aura.
“He’s Clark’s master, great swordmaster Gabriel! We need to get out of here!” Candice grew extremely worried as she called out and fled towards Han Shuo with an even faster speed.
Gabriel was extremely swift as he’d flung the Gryphon Legion soldiers with him far behind. As a great swordmaster, Gabriel possessed extreme strength. Han Shuo needed to take one glance at him to know that there was no one beside him who could fight Gabriel alone.
As they witnessed Gabriel picking up speed, about to overtake Phoebe and Candice, Han Shuo’s heart clenched as he looked at Gabriel, suddenly remembering the might of Gilbert’s transformation and immediately shouted, “Damn it, hurry up and transform!”
Han Shuo concentrated like he never had before and, at the same time, compelled the Demonslayer Edge to fly wildly at great swordmaster Gabriel. Infusing the Demonslayer Edge with magical yuan, a thick magical aura flared out from it, with a bizarre sense of fire and frost interspersed within it.
The Demonslayer Edge howled and slashed through the air, appearing directly in front of great swordmaster Gabriel, stabbing directly towards him. That odd sense of heat brought an exceedingly dangerous presence and rather surprised Gabriel.
Snorting coldly, Gabriel waved the longsword in his hand and suddenly gave birth to a silver firework in the distance, as resplendent as the shattered stars. Han Shuo suddenly felt an enormous force explode out of the glorious silver sparkles and attempt to firmly hold the Demonslayer Edge in place.
A burst of tremendous energy surged violently into the Demonslayer Edge. Gabriel’s silver fighting aura was incredibly overbearing, rumbling on the surface of the Demonslayer Edge as though it wished to ravage everything. The enveloping silver light caused the Demonslayer Light to emit humming noises.
This tyrannical power wound its way around the Demonslayer Edge in an instant, chaotically mixing with the fire and frost energy that Han Shuo had created inside the blade with his magic. The magical energy from the “Mystical Glacial Spellfire” that had coalesced in the blade rapidly disappeared.
Muttering a quick curse, Han Shuo knew that his magical training had been too brief. No matter how fantastical his magic was, with such a short amount of time spent on training, he was still unable to measure up to Gabriel’s decades spent coalescing his fighting aura. In the moment they’d connected, the magical yuan within the Demonslayer Edge completely dissipated, and the result a foregone conclusion.
However, because of the Demonslayer Edge’s obstruction, it slowed down Gabriel’s pursuit of Phoebe and Candice. Han Shuo felt that things weren’t right when he couldn’t resummon the Demonslayer Edge back to his hand.
He thought quickly as his heart clenched. Han Shuo swiftly sang out a magic spell as two bone spears suddenly flew towards Gabriel. In the instant that Han Shuo made his move, Emily also released a dark magic spell.
At the same time, Han Shuo used his entire strength to quickly circulate the magical yuan within the Demonslayer Edge and used Gabriel’s distraction in fending off their magical attacks to wrest the Demonslayer Edge away from the ball of silver light. Because he’d spent too much energy and the speed of the circulating magical yuan was beyond Han Shuo’s limits, Han Shuo couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood, having already been injured.