Chapter 621 - Hybrid (Part 2) (1/2)
”You've grown stupid with age.” The creatures said with a stern tone while charging at the Source Wall.
”Your barrier just traps my prey, preventing them from both escaping and retaliating. On top of that, only Abominations need to feed on life force. For the undead, light magic it's nothing but a full course meal!” Scarlett could see the creature's blood cores going into overdrive, lured by the spell's energy mass.
”If you say so.” Scarlett snapped her fingers, turning the Source Wall into Night Wall. The creatures slammed into the mass of darkness energy which destroyed their blood cores and made their bodies crumble.
Without the blood core's energy keeping the other two apart, the black core was free to feast on the mana core first and then on the mud puppet holding it in.
'What a moron. Darkness and light are two faces of the same coin. Converting one into the other is child's play if you know what you're doing. I can rule out my most brilliant acquaintances from my suspect list.' She thought.
”Okay, it's time for you to get out of here.” Scarlett opened a Warp Steps leading a dozen kilometers away.
”Those things were all linked to the forest, so the further you go, the weaker they'll become. Keep walking straight past the Steps and you should reach a village by nightfall.”
The magical beasts took the others on their backs and ran through the dimensional door while giving the Scorpicore a nod of their heads as a thank you. They were grateful to Scarlett, but also aware that they were nothing but a liability to her
Ants caught in the middle of a fight between titans who could stomp them without even noticing.
Now that Scarlett had the enemy's energy signature stored by the Eyes of Menadion, she had no more need to guess the identity of her opponent, she just needed to reach them.
Her pince-nez had allowed her to track Balkor despite the fact that he was hiding in the Blood Desert and she was in the Griffon Kingdom, whereas the new hybrid behind the mud puppets was just a few kilometers away.
Their life force shone like a sun to her eyes, allowing her to fly in a straight line just under supersonic speed until she reached her destination. It was a cave, located at the base of a hill.
Once it had been covered in grass and flowers, but now the whole area was a wasteland full of dead trees. Her pince-nez could only pick up three different energy signatures and they were all hybrids.
”This smell… Xacha, is it really you?” Now that most of the smells were gone and with the hybrid so close, Scarlett's nose could easily perceive the familiar scent which in turn jogged her memory.
Xacha was an Emperor Beast even older than Scarlett was. In a sense, Scarlett considered her almost as a relative. Xacha was the mother of all Nues, a feline species of Emperor beasts.
She had the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, the wings of an eagle, and the front half of a snake for a tail. Both the Nue and the Scorpicore were chimeras, sharing light magic as one of two innate elements.
The other one was fire for the Scorpicore and air for the Nue.
”How could you do something so cruel to your own home? To yourself? Have you gone insane?” Scarlett asked. She remembered the Nue being a gentle and kind soul. To the point that she had refused to take the mantle of Lord of the Forest because of her hate for violence.