Chapter 914: Running into an old friend (1/2)
GDK 914: Running into an old friend
Salas and the three Hegemons reassembled at the center of the Misty Sea. They all wore gloomy faces. The four overgods had been setting up their traps and barriers all around the Misty Sea for days. They had even been practicing joining forces against Han Shuo.
But despite their long, careful planning and preparations, despite having Han Shuo right in their palms, Han Shuo still managed to slip through their fingers. If the outside world was to learn of their failure that day, they would have no reputation left.
In the end, Salas had managed to dodge the Deicide Slash and not squander the slightest energy to resist it. When the Orbs of Destructions destroyed the barriers in the sky, Han Shuo had the seventeen flying swords return into his body so that he could escape with them.
“This is all your fault, Salas! If you had not retreated, there is no way he could have escaped!” As soon as the four overgods reassembled, the masked man on the white bone throne angrily started the blame game.
Salas was not in a good mood either. He rebuked, “That’s easy for you to say when you have not even fought him once. Had I taken that strike directly, I would have to spend at least the next hundreds of years recovering from the injuries!”
The Hegemon of Destruction named Dhaka looked at Salas before he turned to his fellow Hegemons, nodded, and gravely said, “Dagmar, Asser, that youngster is definitely not easy to kill. Now is not the time to point fingers. What we should do now is to think of a way to finish him as soon as possible!”
After listening to those words, Dagmar, the Hegemon of Death, seemed to recall that they still needed Salas’ knowledge of the Fringe for their invasion plan and therefore did not further berate Salas. After thinking for a moment, Dagmar bunched his brows and said, “This youngster is certainly a sly fox. The four of us having failed to kill him today means that it will be much harder to kill him in the future. But I still cannot understand - when he was escaping, he cloned himself. All those decoys were indistinguishable from an actual god and they even gave off divine auras, as though they all possessed souls. I cannot understand how he managed to fool us.”
Dagmar, Asser, and Dhaka turned to Salas. Of the four, Salas knew Han Shuo the best and naturally, they looked to Salas for answers.
“He cultivates a bizarre energy that seems to allow him to manipulate souls. I don’t know how, but I’m sure he can transform the souls he controls to take his appearance and aura,” Salas pondered deeply for a moment before he continued, “Compared to the last time I met him, his strength has improved. To this day, I have no clue what energy he cultivates. If we do not kill him soon, I’m afraid that there might come a day that it will take all twelve of your Hegemons just to get a shot at killing him.”
“He may run and hide, but not those he cares deeply about. All of them live in a place in the Fringe known as the Pandemonium. If we siege that place, he will have no choice but to show up and fight,” answered Salas after thinking for a while.
“Wonderful. As long as he has people that he cares about, then he is vulnerable!” Dagmar put on a sinister smirk and said, “Well, we are going to invade the Fringe anyway. We could end him along the way. Salas, you still remember what you’ve promised us, don’t you?”
“If I cannot have it, then no one will. Go ahead and destroy it. I care not,” replied Salas. As a former Sovereign, Salas had a good understanding of the terrain and distribution of forces in the Fringe. With his assistance, the Godhunter Alliance’s invasion of the Fringe would be buttery smooth.
“Very well. I will contact the other Hegemons and discuss how we should take down the Fringe,” said Asser, the Hegemon of Darkness.
The four overgods had a brief discussion and left the Misty Sea that was no longer misty.
*** Han Shuo heaved a sigh of relief after having freed himself from the trap laid by the four overgods.
Had Salas not dodged his ‘Deicide Slash’ and taken the blow directly, Han Shuo would have had a very hard time escaping from their barriers. Once the four barriers were compressed to a certain degree, with the energy in his body bound by four overgod energies, Han Shuo might not have even been able to deploy the Demonic Blood Disassembly to escape.
Of the four overgods, Han Shuo could sense that Salas was the weakest. The three Godhunter Alliance Hegemons were extremely formidable. This was especially true with Hegemon Dhaka. His true strength might not have been weaker than Sovereign Tyre of the Fringe.
If Han Shuo had not made use of psychology, exploiting Salas’ fear of him, his quick-witted use of the Pearls of Annihilation to trigger Dhaka’s Orbs of Destruction, and had not sacrificed a few spirit demons, his life might have ended on the Misty Sea that day.