Chapter 953: Turning Tides (1/2)
In their panic, their control over Wasir crumbled. Dennis's spatial blade no longer maintained its previous power and could no longer cut deeper into Wasir.
Mascy was worse off; having freaked out and with her soul in a chaotic state, the mysterious edict of destiny she deployed through her crystal ball was rendered useless.
Wasir felt the pressure on his body suddenly released as he regained control over his hands and legs. The power that bound him was no more. He was greeted with the sight of his subordinates being killed by Warp Vortexes. The moment the pressure on him lightened, the white fog gathered around him swiftly aggregate and collided against the spatial blade.
Dennis, now surrounded by the Seventeen Flying Swords, could no longer fuel the spatial blade with his divine energy of space, so the blade quickly disintegrated from Wasir's anger-fueled attack in a white flash.
The icy divine power circulated a few times though his body and purged the remnant traces of destiny edict divine energy within him. Then, he turned his cold gaze towards the duo who were surrounded by the swords.
”Who is it? Show yourself!” Dennis yelled. He could feel the danger lurking in the surroundings, yet he couldn't pinpoint the location of his enemy.
Mascy's expression was grave. The crystal ball's green glow was rather subdued, though the light it cast on her face made her seem dark and terrifying. Strands of light were shot from her fingers into her crystal ball. By now, she had completely given up on applying any more pressure on Wasir and chose instead to focus all her attention on their hidden adversary.
They both knew that their assailant was a really powerful expert who commanded powers they were not familiar with. It didn't help that they couldn't detect the location of this mysterious enemy who could be more powerful than Wasir.
For some reason, Mascy's crystal ball didn't seem to work well in pinpointing their foe's location no matter how many strands of destiny energy she cast into it. No figure appeared within the ball at all.
”Haven't you found him yet?” Dennis seemed a little panicked because now, the ice around Wasir had completely vanished. It was a sign he had almost regained all his fighting prowess.
If one single hidden assailant was enough to drive them to such dire straits, they would certainly fare much worse now that Wasir was going to join the fray.
”What does this mean?” Dennis leaned in against Mascy as the Seventeen Flying Swords was still weaving its web smaller and smaller. He felt a strong threat coming from the swords, so he had no choice but to retreat to the center of the web like Mascy.
”Apart from Overgods with Quintessence or Quintessence Shards, only an expert with supreme mastery of the soul could elude the binding power of the edict of destiny! It's obvious that he's not one of the Twelve Overgods, so either he has a Shard, or his mastery of the soul is advanced to the point where he can change destiny itself!”
The moment he heard it, Dennis felt rather taken aback. Someone who possessed a Quintessence Shard would definitely be worried of being pursued by one of the Twelve Overgods, so they would certainly be very careful about revealing their power. In fact, they wouldn't even show up on Elysium and would usually cultivate on remote material planes. People like this numbered far and few in between and wouldn't show up in centuries or even millennia.
On the other hand, those who had such high mastery in matters of the soul to be able to elude destiny was just as rare! In either case, their might would certainly be so powerful that even Dennis and Mascy would be really wary of it.
”We have to escape from this!” Dennis said, seeing the swords closing in on them.
”I'm afraid I'm not too proficient at matters like this…” Mascy was already far from a brute-force fighter, given that she cultivated in the edict of destiny in the first place. The web of swords obviously wouldn’t be affected by her edict, so she felt rather helpless.
Dennis fell silent for a moment as he generated an intense undulation of spatial energy around him. He intended to construct a spatial fissure through which they could leave.
However, the moment he unleashed his power, he suddenly noticed that the energy coming from the swords had affected the spatial makeup of the surroundings. The space he and Mascy occupied suddenly felt a little foreign, so foreign that he wasn't able to form a spatial fissure to leave through!
”What's wrong?” Mascy asked when she saw him move and suddenly stop.
”He's terrifying!” Dennis took a deep breath as if he had steeled his resolve and grabbed onto Mascy. The two of them seemingly turned into smoke and wafted into a scroll.