"Let handle this... Dumb bird..." is the only thing I hear as the sa silver arm that blocked my attack punches the brown bird in the underbelly.
Its wind magic attacks all disappear in an instant, and it goes flying high into the air without even having to flap its wings. It isn't killed, but definitely knocked unconscious in a single blow.
I jump backward and go on the defensive imdiately, scanning the figure in front of , but hardly believe what I see when a [Lv. 1894] appears on its status along with the [Curse of The Lich King] buff and nothing else.
I get a good look at the Guard, and its figure starts to look less and less human to the more I examine it.
With three horns coming out of its forehead, shimring silver skin, athletic striated muscles, and eyes that stare directly through my soul as if this creature has been living for a million years.
The pupils and irises are both jet black, while the outer edges that are usually white are a dull, matte silver, a few shades darker than its skin.
Whatever this creature is, it is far from human.
The silver aura that surrounds its body is dreadful. It feels colder than ice, but looks like a constant stream of evaporating tal particles coming off its body.
It makes a motion as if it were about to step forward in the air, but before its foot even completes a full stride, a silver flash of light fills my vision and it's right in front of , staring in the eyes less than half a ter from my face.
"Fight . I was told you are a strong one, I hope that attack was not the full extent of your power."
The creature doesn't strike even though it's clearly within range; it just stares into my eyes with a lifeless gaze and waits for to answer.
I use this opportunity to continue my motion backward, placing my daggers on my waist and pulling out my fire-imbued sword while swallowing a Qi pill to restore the half of my core that was used up in my last attack.
I concentrate my Qi into my blade and use the excess in my barrier to only cover my vital organs with the maximum density possible. The rest of my body is still covered at 75% strength, but considering my opponent's speed and power, it feels necessary to defend for any potential lethal strikes.
It steps forward again, and it takes most of my perception skill, purely focused on its movents, to watch the silver flash co closer. Its right hand glows brighter silver and a long spear appears that looks like bubbling tal being summoned from seemingly nowhere.
It lunges forward with the silver spear and throws a basic attack straight at my heart.
Its eyes are locked on the target, and it moves with absolute confidence.
No matter the direction I move, it will surely follow, and given the ti I have until it makes impact, the only thing I can do is block.
I grit my teeth and focus everything I have into my swordsmanship skill, letting Qi flow through my hands into the blade while glowing brightly with all my buffs.
I airstep sharply to turn my body in the sa direction I swing my sword, and it collides with the sharp edge of the spear.
Silver soul energy reacts with the plus of Qi that erupt from my sword, and for a mont both of us are stood perfectly still in the air as if we're evenly matched.
However, the silver figure pushes forward with unyielding force, consistently pressing on without a single change in its expression or soul energy released whatsoever. My own power is fluctuating greatly as I continue to push its limits and fend off the attack aid to end my life.
As my airsteps' force catches up to , my angle of montum relative to the creature's spear shifts, and my body rotates out of its direct path.
There's an explosion of white and silver energy that sends flying to the side while I follow through with my swing, pushing farther away, and the silver spear misses my body entirely by just a few centiters.
The instant I ready myself in the air again and look for my opponent, it's already turned at a right angle and co back at with machine-like precision.
I block again, twisting my body to the other side, using up precious Qi, but avoiding a fatal blow.
This ti after our separation, the spear cos back much faster than the first two tis.
The incoming strike is so quick I can't even move my sword fast enough to block it. I want to activate my newest ranked-up buff to increase my size, speed, and power, but its activation ti takes far longer than what I have to work with here.
The best possible option I have in a mont like this is to move all of my Qi to cover my heart and head, then brace for impact.
It lunges forward and the tip of its silver spear cos within milliters of making contact with my chest, but it disappears before my eyes again.
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Next thing I see is the creature to my side thrusting his spear through the back of my left knee. It disappears and reappears, and I feel it thrust another attack through the inner side of my right elbow. It vanishes two more tis, thrusting its weapon through both of my opposite knee and elbow with no resistance at all.
Searing pain erupts from the center joints of all 4 of my limbs, and it becos impossible to move at the sa speed I did a mont ago. The creature appears in front of with the sa emotionless look on its face, staring straight in the eyes, then pushes its palm on my chest where my Qi barrier is still the strongest.
An incredible pressure knocks the wind out of , and I'm blasted back, down toward the desert floor.
This all happens in fractions of a second, that it's almost too fast for to comprehend until after the fact.
Its words echo in my mind as I fall, "As I thought... you are just another weak Human," and the visual of it punching its brown bird partner from the sky monts ago replay in my head, showing that in this form I was really just as weak to it as the 6th ranked guard was to .
Even though it stares at with an emotionless gaze high above in the sky with its arms crossed, and silver spear floating by its side, I can still feel the cold sensation of its attack in my legs and arms.
If anything, it's getting even colder.
I ignite my body in a sea of flas, but the cold sensation doesn't stop.
Once I look down at my legs and at both of my arms, I see the silver Soul energy growing from the injuries this creature gave . It looks like tallic slow-moving ice is growing from my joints, and it's freezing my flesh and bones no matter how much fire I summon onto it.
I attempt to cancel out its ability by flooding the areas with Qi, but it does nothing more than eat up the white energy and drain my stores.
All of the energy in the infected areas is being sucked away.
I even activate my Red Hydra's buff, but it's even less effective than my pure Qi, so I shut it off the mont I realize it's futile. On top of this issue, I'm also hurdling toward the ground at speeds faster than anything I've ever experienced. Once my multiple attempts at healing co back with definite failures, I imbue my sword with a raging hot fire to slice through my own legs above the affected area, destroying the problem entirely before it spreads too far.
I slice off my own left arm, then regrow only it to hold my sword and slice off my right.
An item storage portal forms above , and the frozen silver limbs float up into suspended animation while I regrow my other three limbs and focus on the bigger issue at hand. Based on my downward velocity, impact will not be survivable if I fall on my neck or back. I activate wind magic gusts below myself to slow my fall. This works, but my montum is too great to stop entirely.
The golden sand below gets closer very quickly. I position myself upright to land on my feet, making impact on the ground with an echoing thud that displaces the sand all around for over 100 ters wide and over 20 ters deep.
As the dust clears, I quickly open my item storage. My subconscious creates a new thod for retrieving gear from my inventory.
I open 4 simultaneous portals beneath my feet and in front of my hands, plunging all 4 limbs into my storage, and retrieving the unaffected gear from the limbs I cut off previously back exactly where they were on my body before.
My rings, boots, and gauntlets co out of my storage system on my body as I pull myself out of the spatial magic. With it, I pull out another Qi pill and swallow it on the spot, expanding my perception range to locate the Dark Guard in the sky.
Before this creature can get a chance to attack again, I activate my newest buff [Rising Emperor's Greater Form].
Instantly, I feel my power grow and my feet lift off the ground.
Energy erupts from the cloud of dust that ford from my impact, and an enormous black shadowy energy projection of myself is left staring up at the sky.
The silver entity feels the disturbance the mont my transformation starts and zips down to the desert floor to see what has happened.
It stares forward with its silver spear slowly floating around its body in circles while it patiently waits for my transformation to reach its peak form.
Then, it finally speaks up.
"Weak... Dumb...Humans... You do not understand how pointless it is for to fight an inferior creature like you. rely by existing, I have already won."
I don't listen to its words, I just charge up my sword with everything I've got. I create my most destructive attack possible. To do so, I plunder mana crystals that fall from my item storage and feed my main body with mana, and imbue the inside of the attack with Qi.
The enormous shadowy armor that amplifies my strength by over 7 tis mimics my actions, showing my sword glow and flicker with jet black flas. The inner core of the Greater Form's sword glows white with Qi, as energy leaves my body continuously feeding into this buff's powers.
The sand beneath my feet and all around is lting and turning to liquid glass as I continue charging up and waiting for any signs of movent from the Silver Figure, but it doesn't budge.
It just continues staring forward with its arms crossed. It speaks again as I pull back my sword to swing.
"I will make you understand how weak you really are."
I swing my sword forward at its cryptic ssage, and a wave of Qi surrounded by fire magic multiplied by my ranked up buff's power tears through the desert, lting every rock, sand dune, and shrubbery in its way.
The 2nd ranked Dark Guard doesn't budge, and it's hit directly by the mountain-splitting slash.
I feel imnse amounts of energy drain from but watch in amazent at my own power as it collides with the floating silver mass of soul energy.
Based on the Dark Guard's confidence, I was still partially considering the fact that it could block an attack like this if it tried.
I can sense its estimated soul energy density, and I created a slash strong enough to easily break through its barriers, but for so reason, the monster still stays standing in one place as my slash makes contact.
The creature is sliced in two.
There is hardly any resistance at all actually...
A small eruption of soul energy, Qi, and flas burst out on contact, but the guard made no effort to increase its shielding or dodge the blast.
Most of its body is incinerated through; all that remains are a few parts of its arms, legs, and the top half of its spear.
My heart beats loudly in my ears as I regain my MP stores and take another Qi pill to recharge.
I keep a safe distance away, and hold my blade at the ready for sothing to happen, but nothing does.
The part that irks is the fact that there wasn't even a level-up reward for defeating this opponent.
I murmur to myself, "This can only an one thing... it's sohow not dead..."
The scattered tiny bits of silver parts all throughout the desert begin to vibrate and move.
My eyes try to track them all as they begin to co back to a central point.
Once they do, the silver cells begin replicating and growing, reforming the horned creature's body to look exactly the sa as before it started.
The eyes of this nacing monster look as emotionless as when the battle began.
It grabs its spear as it completely reforms in its hand, and speaks again.
"Do you understand now, how weak humans truly are?"
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