Chapter 513: One Man vs an Army (1/2)
GDK 513: One Man vs an Army
There were strange and unfamiliar creatures that stretched as far as the eye could see. These monstrosities bore fangs and flailing claws, as they threw themselves at him unrelentingly.
Demons of all shapes and forms inhabited the abyss, the largest being tens of metres tall and the small ones only the size of a palm. They came in all colours, each grotesque and terrifying, and a pungent liquid flowed from their mouths lined with rows of razor teeth.
Their breaths were equally putrid and on top of that, some of the demons oozes some sort of sticky pus from their bodies. It was the stuff of sci-fi movies, not real life. They were ugly, grotesque and disgusting. They evokes an instinctive hatred in him which made him itch to eradicate them all.
An enormous abyssal demon of over ten meters in height stood before Han Shuo. It looked like a gigantic cyst. It’s grotesque body oozed with pus and bulged as though tiny demon worms had been wriggling to get through to the open. It had a single green eye that gazed a rather sinister gaze.
Thousands of smaller beetle-sized demons emitted a corrosive fog as they swarmed Han Shuo. Their sharp, tiny teeth squeaked as they grinded against each other. The sight, and especially that screeching sound, chilled to the bone as hordes of them descended like locusts during harvest season.
The place was bizarre, grey and empty; it was alien. It was unlike anything Han Shuo had ever imagined. He stood in the pathway that led to the Profound Continent. At his sides, shooting stars zoomed past leaving behind streamers of dazzling yellow light. He looked around but could not quite confirm his location. Up ahead was a swarm of innumerable any seal demons, and he could sense that even more were behind them in the door-shaped passageway. Aside from that, there were only blurry grey scenes, and beams of powerful, brilliant light shooting past.
Squeak… screech… chatter…
The abyssal demons let out strange cries that Han Shuo could not understand. They swarmed Han Shuo the moment he appeared, and showered the grounds with poison almost immediately. Their vibrant toxins were like paint and the demons the painters, attempting to depict a cruel image of rot and abstraction on Han Shuo’s body.
Han Shuo had confidence in his body’s regenerative capabilities and his durability, but even so, he was unwilling to have a taste of the poison. It reeked of the strongest of acids and was able to cause paralysis.
It then struck him why the golden dragon and the titan were so quickly reduced to nothing more than ruined corpses pooling in blood. In the face of so many abyssal demons producing as much poison as they did, it would have been impossible to dodge given their mammoth sizes.
The colossal statures of the golden dragon and the titan were ultimately the impetus to their demise. They served as little more than a net for any attack coming their way.
Only the demigods were able to form barriers strong enough to defend their bodies. Both the golden dragon and the titan had extremely tough bodies, but even the toughest of bodies were bound to be corroded and torn apart when drenched in hundreds of jets off poison.
Even if Han Shuo had a body tougher than that he dared not take the risk of enduring the bursts of poison and activated a protective shield. A dark, hazy armor instantly wrapped Han Shuo.
Hundreds of jets of poison sprayed forth, all of which were deflected by a shield as thin as an insect’s wing. Faint traces of smoke rose off Han Shuo’s barrier, complementing his figure and forming a sharp contrast against the foul abyssal demons surrounding him.
“What powerful poison!” Han Shuo exclaimed.
With Han Shuo’s prowess in the demonic arts, and the support of powerful demonic yuan, once his protective barrier was cast it would be impenetrable. As long as Han Shuo had enough demonic yuan to sustain the shield, it would, in theory, never falter in defending him from all physical and magical attacks.
Of course, once the opponent’s attack power exceeded what the protective shield could take, it would still break apart. Only, it seemed that these poisons did not have that much power in them. In that case, a protective shield formed entirely out of demonic yuan and extraordinary secret technique was the perfect defence against them.
However, the smoke emitted showed just how powerful the poison really was having even affected the barrier. Han Shuo noted that when the poison coming into contact with his barrier, his demonic yuan drained at a significantly higher rate.
Squeak… screech… chatter…
The abyssal demons seemed rather intrigued. After a round of collectively spraying the toxins, they all stopped in unison, and began to communicate with each other in a way that Han Shuo could not comprehend.
They had quickly finished off the golden dragon and the titan, greedy and cruel as they geared up to break through the interplanar passageway ahead. However, they once again found themselves detested by a new challenger. From his tiny stature they had presumed they could easily brush off the threat, yet their unbeaten poison attack had actually been deflected, clearly a surprise to them.
The abyssal demons all stopped and entered a cacophonic round of discussions. Then, under the leadership of the huge cyst-like demon covered in pus standing opposite Han Shuo, they flew at him in a frenzy once more. This time, they not only continued to spew poison, but also made barbaric attempts to snap at Han Shuo’s protective shield with their rows of razor teeth.
If such crazed, savage beings were allowed to set foot on the Profound Continent, all its inhabitants would be devoured. Han Shuo looked at the abyssal demons swarming towards him and made a decision.
The skeletal staff suddenly appeared in Han Shuo’s hand, and he stared at the screeching demons lunging towards him with eyes ablaze. He quickly began chanting incantations. First, several rows of bone spears flew outwards, then the necromancers’ signature Boundary of Fear and Boundary of Weakness suddenly enveloped the entire space.