Chapter 60: Nightking (1/2)
Lu Yin used Roving Step to charge straight to Munoor’s side, punching him square in the stomach. Already injured earlier by Qingyu, the youth was unable to dodge and ended up gasping, giving Lu Yin an opportunity to stuff a pill into his mouth, “Come on.”
“You asshole! What did you just give me?” Munoor yelled out in alarm.
“Powerburst!” Lu Yin said as he escaped, not looking back for a moment.
“You son of a bitch! You bastard!” Munoor’s expression warped in an instant; he knew just what Powerburst was for. While it would allow him to burst forth with power as a Melder, it would destroy any Sentinel. He felt the terrifying burst of star energy break his seal, and he also saw Qingyu rushing straight for him. His hand thrust out almost automatically in the Skybeast Claw; while he could only use the seventh form as a Sentinel, he could go up to the tenth as a Melder.
Qingyu’s irises shrank as he saw the tenth form of the Skybleast Claw, but it was too late to escape. The attack had a hundred-meter radius, so it smashed him into the rock once more.
“YOU’LL PAY FOR THAT!” Munoor bellowed as he was beamed away.
Lu Yin couldn’t be bothered with this new enemy. Facing a battered Explorer, he had to strike while the iron was hot. He shot towards the surface and drove his palm down, five consecutive Cosmic Palm strikes focusing on previous injuries as they drove Qingyu deeper and deeper into the mountain. The entire mountain was eventually divided in two as he ran out of star energy, but he still had the Shockwave Palm and Spacerender Palm to utilize. More attacks rained down on Qingyu without pause, each one sending another gush of blood from Qingyu’s gaping mouth.
Seeing the bloodlust in Lu Yin’s eyes, Qingyu gritted his teeth and bellowed between strikes, “MY WOUNDS ARE TOO HEAVY TO SHOW MY INNATE GIFT. STOP, YOU CAN’T KILL ME! I’M A NIGHTKING, I’M AN AWAKENED NIGHTKING!”
“Go to hell!” Lu Yin raised his right palm, stuffing all his energy into one last Cosmic Palm. However, the strike was only one centimeter from connecting as someone grabbed his wrist, a middle-aged man having appeared out of nowhere with a shocked expression on his face, “What did you just say?”
Qingyu spat out blood as a huge smile spread across his face, “A Nightking. I’m a Nightking.”
The middle-aged man’s pupils instantly constricted and he looked up at Qingyu’s hair. Sure enough, amidst the black and white was an inconspicuous bit of ash-colored hair. His face blanched as he tossed Lu Yin to the side, quickly retrieving a potion from his cosmic ring and feeding it to Qingyu. A nervous expression beset his face in the anticipation of something dreadful.
Qingyu’s status after awakening as a Nightking was incomparable to his previous status as an ordinary Daynight Clan member. He now held one of the most supreme positions within the Daynight Clan, now untouchable not just in the Great Yu Empire, but the entire Frostwave Weave.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed and he took out a healing potion and consumed it. His entire body was so drained that even his skin had cracked; the attack he’d just received was more than his body could withstand. He had been planning on killing Qingyu and retrieving his formcast model for personal use, but against all expectations, the Great Yu Empire had intervened.
Nightking? This title shocked him, bringing his mind to his attempt to use the Daynight Clan’s ancient inheritance stone. He had seen this title at the highest level of the stone slab; the Nightking Lord.
High in the sky, a huge spacecraft appeared and blocked out the sunlight, “Attention all students, the trial has ended. I repeat, the trial has ended. The results of this trial will be announced at your academies.”
The students heaved sighs of relief; the trial was finally over, even Veron, Eddy, Raas, and the others. While this wasn’t the first trial they had participated in, it was by far the most terrifying one. They had thought they would be unmatched on this planet, but they had actually been kidnapped! Even worse, they had been turned into hostages and left unable to participate in any other way. In the end, even Melders had gotten involved; this simply didn’t end as a Sentinel trial.