Chapter 903 (1/2)
Randidly felt rage. It drummed in his temples and slammed its fists against his heart. His first instinct was to attack immediately. But ultimately, seeing Kiersty lying unconscious in the strange sea creature’s arms gave him pause. No, it wouldn’t be smart to rush in directly. He needed to remain calm.
Quiet down, Randidly thought harshly. One mistake leads to Kiersty dying. Stay sharp.
His Crown pulsed in response. Small fractions of time ticked past as Randidly finished his step through the portal and swept his eyes across the assembled Nemesai. Those that knew him were too shocked to move. Those that didn't’ were confused.
It was a good thing the Nemesai around him seemed to be just as shocked by his sudden arrival as he had been by the strange portal that Roy had fled into. At the time, he had assumed it was for him and Roy was just fleeing for no reason. It was extremely obnoxious that Roy was able to explode what remained of his body to escape the vines, so Randidly planned on chasing him down. For good measure, he had grabbed the mostly crippled Drake and thrown him through.
It had worried him that the portal immediately began to sink, but he was able to rapidly read the basic structure behind the Skill and flood it with Mana to keep it open. It seemed to be a Domain type Skill that utilized the System itself to connect two distant points. An interesting application, but because it was a Domain and therefore connected to the world, Randidly had enough room to slip his own Mana into the air and support the Skill.
If it hadn’t been a Domain…
Well, he would have felt like a fool for throwing Drake through the portal.
The split second of indecision on the part of the Nemesai passed and Randidly watched like a hawk as their muscles tensed. Time was slow as he deliberated on his own choice of actions. The Crown above his head pulsed again, joining the howl for violence. They had taken Kiersty. Likely, they had attacked Donnyton. That unavoidable fact was still a raw shock in his mind.
But he set those feelings aside. What mattered most was keeping a level head and-
“If you make the wrong move, the girl dies,” The crab/octopus Nemesis yelled like some two-bit villain, moving his claw to surround her head in a position to smash Kiersty’s head like a rotten melon.
But Randidly snapped first. The violence in his blood sang with heat and adrenaline.
Raucous Phantom’s Finale.
Thea was already in motion to cut Randidly off, so he tossed Acri like a javelin at her and used the motion from Raucous Phantom’s Finale to cross the distance to the sea creature in a split second. The punch smashed into the claw, and Randidly felt a satisfying crack as the shell shattered.
Randidly grinned. Not as tough as Drake, eh?
But he didn’t stop there. As the Nemesis’ eyes widened, Randidly reached out and grabbed the cracked arm with his metallic left arm. His hand tightened until the could feel the shell trembling underneath the structural strain. Stalemate Breaker.
Even as the Nemesis howled in horror as its claw was mashed into a pulp, Randidly’s right hand shot out and pressed against Kiersty’s arm. What is within, without. What without… within.
With a soft noise, Kiersty disappeared as she was spirited away to inside Randidly’s Soulskill. He said a silent prayer that there wasn’t some terrible emergency going on inside of him that would put her unconscious body in danger. Then Randidly’s right hand continued further to seize onto the seashell belt on this fucker’s waist. You won’t be able to dodge this. Ignition of the Emerald Essence.
Roaring emerald fire that exploded outward from him finally knocked all the Nemesai into frenzied motion. The Nemesis in front of Randidly cursed and screamed, unable to pull away as Randidly maintained his grip. With a widening grin, Randidly even pulled the monster closer to himself.
Randidly felt the burn of the flames, but the images were his. He slowly began to channel them, focusing on that moment of clarity brought to him when this emerald light emerged in that underground prison. And from there, Randidly began to bring heat.
Thea cursed as Acri expertly weaved its way between her arm and bound her ax-wielding arm to her back. Which eventually forced her to seize Acri with her other arm and toss it off to the side, keeping her at bay for several seconds.
A strange man-made partially of obsidian scrambled to his feet and shoved Drake’s body off to the side. Then a wave of obsidian seemed to explode from his chest, covering his body and crystallizing into the sleek mineral that glimmered in the midday sun.
A floating lizard with wings belched a blue orb that seemed to chill the air around it. Thorn whips popped out of the ground and instantly intercepted these projectiles. Unfortunately, the whips were largely put out of commission by a single strange breath attack, but the projectiles were also rendered useless.
“Meet my blade!” A shirtless red-skinned being roared. Honestly… he looked a lot like a boar head with a human body. He pulled a huge jagged lump of metal from his back that was more akin to a misshapen steel beam than a blade and leaped toward Randidly with the “blade” raised.
Randidly studied this attack, then turned back to the Nemesis in front of him who was whimpering. Heat was all Randidly focused on now. Its struggles to escape were weakening as more and more emerald fire baked and dried the thing’s body. Behind him, roots surged upward and snatched the boar-head nemesis out of the sky and threw him toward a staggering Drake, who had only now recovered.