Chapter 502: Pushing Ice Celestial Corey to Death (1/2)
GDK 502: Pushing Ice Celestial Corey to Death
Tiana had made her decision and retreated without any hesitation.
As Han Shuo and co were having their epic battle right in the capital city of the Kasi Empire, the crowds around the auction site had all been evacuated. However, just slightly further away, the streets remained occupied by all sorts of stalls. When Kelly transformed into a gigantic ape, his behemoth body could clearly be seen by the peddlers and merchants in the area. When Tiana’s five water dragons appeared, their overwhelming display of strength terrified the people to their cores, rousing such a rabble in the city centre that they caused an even greater panic.
The armies of the Kasi Empire stationed nearest to the scene instantly mobilized to the city centre with great haste. As Tiana retreated, she saw a regiment of fully armoured knights hastily approaching, and she quickly flew towards them.
The Shrine of Ice held a very unique place in Kasi Empire as it was known throughout the land how highly regarded they were by His Majesty the King. Seeing Tiana’s swift retreat to join the knight regiment, Han Shuo immediately stopped still halfway in his pursuit.
After Snow Celestial Tiana’s soul fused with the Origin Crystal of Water, her strength had risen dramatically. Now with Tiana placing herself within a large knight regiment, it was becoming far less likely that he would be able to kill her.
Her strength was not much different from Han Shuo’s to begin with. As long as Han Shuo couldn’t suddenly get close to her, he surely could not inflict any real damage on her.
Just then, because the Shrine of Ice retreated in a flurry, Snow Celestial Tiana and Ice Celestial Corey’s groups fled in two opposite directions, causing the two to be separated by large distances. Not far away was Ice Celestial Corey with a group of Shrine of Ice disciples, retreating towards the magical transportation in Ciro City center.
Kelly, still in ape form, was in hot pursuit of Ice Celestial Corey. Corey however was a wily one. He weaved in and out of the frantically escaping merchants and peddlers continuously. As Kelly was a stout believer in the Druidic Order’s teachings, he could not bear to drag innocents into this conflict, and did not strike even though he had plenty of openings to do so.
At that rate, neither Han Shuo nor Kelly would be able to succeed. Han Shuo stopped for a brief moment in mid-air, made a snap decision, and did an about-face. Ignoring Tiana who was hiding in the middle of a knight regiment, he went after the craftily escaping Ice Celestial Corey.
As long as Tiana did not make it there on time, with Han Shuo and Kelly combining their efforts against Corey, who could not hold out for long with his injuries, Han Shuo was certain that he could kill him in a short amount of time.
Kelly, who could not bear to harm the innocent, was letting the prime opportunity slip away right before his eyes. But Han Shuo was naturally not going to be so soft-hearted. Once he got closer to Ice Celestial Corey, he would give no heed for who else stood nearby, and strike with deadly force!
Tiana panted as she caught her breath, holding her magical staff as she levitated in midair, she fixed her eye on Han Shuo and prepared to deal with any attack he would send at her.
In the midst of the regiment of knights, Tiana was feeling much safer. As long as she could keep her distance from Han Shuo, she was sure that her magic would be able to deal with him. After her soul’s fusion with the Origin Crystal of Water, she had discovered that all the deployment of water element magic came to her as easy as breathing.
With the exception of some very deadly and very taxing water element magic, Tiana did not even need incantations for most middle-high tier spells. All she needed was a thought and voila, the magic was cast.
That was how she had cast the layers of ice walls without incantations earlier when she had been running. It had slowed Han Shuo slightly from his great speed. With the leap in her strength, she was feeling more amply confident as well.
However, just as she had all her attention fixed on Han Shuo, and prepared herself for everything, she suddenly realised that Han Shuo was retreating at lightning speed. For a moment she was frozen, thinking Han Shuo was playing some kind of crafty trick. It wasn’t until Han Shuo drew closer and closer to Ice Celestial Corey that the realisation hit her. Tiana realized that Han Shuo had decided to concentrate forces and get rid of Ice Celestial Corey first.
“This is bad!” Tiana exclaimed, then quickly instructed, “Charge forward, all-out! Kill that devil from our enemy country at any cost!”
“Yes!” came the thunderous response, and at her command, the regiment of knights immediately rushed towards the gigantic ape.
Tiana went on ahead of the others, her figure resembled a streak of white ribbon as she chased after Han Shuo’s flight trail regardless of everything.
“Let’s join forces, and kill Corey first!” Han Shuo’s voice rang out next to Kelly, who had been tailing Ice Celestial Corey closely all the while without making a strike.
“No, there are too many innocent people around him, we cannot strike him here!” Kelly quickly stopped Han Shuo upon recovering from his momentary shock when he saw Han Shuo approach.
Han Shuo cursed inwardly, thinking to himself that this Kelly really was pedantic. No wonder he had lost so spectacularly the last time in the Kasi Empire – with how he was going about it, it would be beyond difficult to eliminate the enemy!