Chapter 243 - 244: Battle
"There is no one who will try to hunt me down... Oh Silverglade, what have you done to your people.." He had already discerned the anatomy of the beings. Though they varied in size, there was no mistaking that those were the bodies of humans.
Added by the voices and desperate pleas, Quinn’s assumption solidified.
"I’m a good being, so I will kill you all... there is no saving for all of you." Quinn drew out his sword again—now it was much fiercer compared to the last.
Then...
Shingg!!!!
Quinn cleaved his sword horizontally as his aura shaped into a full arc of purple energy... cutting all the blobs into halves without resistance.
Thud... thud... thud...
"Hmm, not bad..." Quinn finally saw what was inside. There was a face—specifically a man’s face that showed pure despair. It was hard to describe what had occurred and transpired for the man to form a face like that.
Though he killed all the blobs like nothing, it was because he was on another level. According to his estimation, the stats of the beings ranged from 2500–2800.
Quinn deduced that those former humans were turned into a pile of blobs just to hunt him down.
"Heh, you didn’t expect that kind of thing, bastard.." Quinn was not feeling any remorse. He didn’t know if those blobs were innocent, but there was nothing he could do to help.
He couldn’t save those beings who were overturned by darkness... just like what happened to Esborne.
But before he could take another step, another one was approaching again.
It was so fast—much faster than the blobs, like two times more.
"Oh, so you decided to come out from your hole." He only mumbled before using Ghost Fade and Blink.
He was not dumb enough to display his body like a chicken ready to be butchered... Quinn assumed that the stats of the Family Head, even if he was second on the line as the weakest, definitely ranged from 4000–4500.
"You can’t get away from me, insect!!!"
It was Boris who was using his innate skill, surfing the sky with silver energy. He raised his sword and cleaved his way toward Quinn’s location.
As the higher tiers progress, perception becomes sharper. Detecting a man who tried concealing his body after he was target-locked was as easy as finding and plucking a fruit in the park.
"Silver Arc!!!"
Boris shouted with all his might, then his spear turned into a melting silver as it slowly deformed into a silver scythe.
Srrinngnn!! Thudd!! Thud!!!
Trees were cut down as a 100-meter radius was leveled to flat ground.
’Great, that’s cool..’ Quinn thought. He used his Blink to disappear from the location of impact, as he now stood at the top of the remaining trees. He almost wanted to clap his hands; Quinn wanted that cool changing weapon as it was good for aura farming.
Humm!!!!
"Yeah, yeah, I’m just saying, Bringer. Don’t be mad at me.." Quinn felt the protest of his sword.
Was he saying that a changing weapon was better than him? Bringer, the one that would cut fate into pieces?! Laughable! Bringer would cut everything in his way.
"Pui! Now I finally see you, insect!" Boris was bloodshot. He had traveled so fast after sacrificing a lot of his people, sending those blobs to Quinn and the one who had razed one of his fortresses.
He used that decoy so that he could kill Quinn without worrying about his territory... those blobs were meant to delay the fucker who had massacred his people and soldiers.
"Ohh, what a grand entrance for you. I didn’t expect that you would put so much effort into finding me here.." Quinn was not worried about the man standing before him.
"Fucker, you talk too much for a dead body!" Boris changed his weapon again, turning it into a silver spear.
"Drilling Spear!!!"
’Is this shit a clown? Why is he saying such lame ass skills? It’s an embarrassment to a Family Head,’ Quinn cringed after hearing his catchphrase. It was so lame that he wanted to stop him right now.
Whooshhh!!
The skill name might have been lame, but the attack was not something to joke about!
"Blink, Severing Cut upgraded.." His body emerged right beside Boris, cutting his body cleanly.
"Fool! You can’t kill me with that kind of skill!!" Boris healed completely as he controlled his body. It was like a fluid of silver, making his body hard to cut through.
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The silver fluid rippled and reformed in an instant, Boris’s body snapping back together as if Quinn’s blade had merely passed through water.
The Family Head let out a harsh, mocking laugh, his bloodshot eyes widening with mad delight as his silver spear spun around with deadly velocity.
"You think a simple slash can harm a true ruler of the Silverglade?!" Boris roared, his voice booming across the flattened clearing. "My blood is bound to the sacred silver! Every wound you inflict will only flow back together!"
"Is that so?" Quinn smirked, shifting his stance as Bringer flared with intense purple flames.
"Then let’s see how well your liquid silver holds up against something that burns away the very concept of your existence."
Boris narrowed his eyes, sensing the sudden surge of overwhelming heat radiating from Quinn’s sword.
The air around them began to distort, the dry soil beneath their feet turning straight into molten glass. Without waiting for Quinn to strike first, Boris thrust his silver spear forward, creating dozens of silver drill constructs that shot through the air like deadly missiles.
"Die, insect!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Quinn didn’t even bother to dodge every single projectile. Moving with blinding speed, he wove through the storm of silver drills, his blade flashing in a continuous arc of purple fire.
Every time Bringer clashed with the silver constructs, the dark purple flames clung to the metal, devouring the mana powering it and reducing Boris’s attacks to harmless ash before they could even touch him.
In a fraction of a second, Quinn closed the gap, reappearing directly above Boris with his sword raised high.
"Let’s see you reform from this," Quinn growled softly.
"Fiery Severing Slash!"
A massive pillar of purple fire erupted downward, enveloping Boris completely as the sheer force of the strike slammed him into the earth, creating a massive burning crater that shattered the surrounding ground for hundreds of meters.