553. Bubbles
I flew on.
The Corrupted Netherstructures pursued . They didnt let up even as my last clone died, exploding into a giant cross. They waded through the fiery blast, hardly affected by the powerful magic.
It wasnt like they were completely immune to regular attacks. They could still be hurt and defeated by ordinary magic, even if it was like they had a resistance to it. In the sa vein, I could be killed by the corruption, but I had a Level 5 [Corruption Resistance] General Skill right now.
However, more importantly, it was more that the corruption itself was weak to divinity. And thanks to my [Divine Essence of the Angelic Devil Princess] Grand Skill, I was able to easily defeat the corrupted creatures I encountered down here in the second layer so far. Unfortunately, right as I was cornered by a group of powerful Corrupted Netherstructures, my first Grand Skill ca to an end.
And now, I relied on my second Grand Skill my aura of invulnerability. I gritted my teeth as I focused the protection onto the tip of my right claws. There was a spark of gray fla, and if any attack struck there on that small piece of my body, I would be able to escape unscathed. However, I was still very much threatened if I was attacked from anywhere else.
It seed like a ridiculous use of my aura of invulnerability. But I was trying to preserve it. I knew that if I created a barrier that persisted around constantly, the protection it provided would last a total of maybe twenty minutes? Maybe more. I wasnt entirely certain.
I just knew that this was a more cost effective use of my second Grand Skill. If an attack from the Corrupted Netherstructures ca close to killing , I could deflect it by rapidly expanding [My Flas Shall Burn Until Eternity Ends] into a shield. And not only that, but
I narrowed my eyes as a group of Corrupted Gargoyles flew ahead of , heading my way. They hissed, raising their glowing claws as they moved to intercept . I glanced back, and the Corrupted Netherstructures continued giving chase.
I was trapped. It was either I returned to the dozens of Corrupted Netherstructures flying after , or I continued diving headfirst into the five Corrupted Gargoyles right ahead. Considering there were significantly more of the forr than the latter, and the latter was weaker than the forr
I made my decision.
Take this!
I yelled as I crashed into the group of Corrupted Gargoyles, swinging my right claw forward. The aura of invulnerability protected as I ripped them apart. I heard the notifications resounding in the back of my head as I just flew forward, shrugging off the rest which survived the impact.
Defeated [---- Gargoyle - Lvl. ---- ]!
Experience is awarded for defeating a corrupted piece of the world!
Defeated [---- Gargoyle - Lvl. ---- ]!
Experience is awarded for defeating a corrupted piece of the world!
This was what I could do with [My Flas Shall Burn Until Eternity Ends]. It was as much a weapon as it was an armor. I continued on, flying with [Divine Haste] active as I tried to increase the gap between myself and the corrupted creatures chasing .
I tried to cast [Warped Ti] to further increase my speed, but I failed. I wasnt able to properly manipulate the world around here in the second layer not while I was speeding away from the corruption. Maybe if I could focus, I would be able to better get a hold of the space around .
But I couldnt focus. Not right now. I cursed as I swerved out of the way of a tendril of corruption. It shot past , striking the side of a nearby building. I watched as the tendril began to recede and in a single motion, it yanked the collapsing building my way. I blinked, before raising both my arms to brace myself.
I flew straight through the rubble as I wreathed my body in an armor of flas. I didnt use my aura of invulnerability for this. I could survive a bit of falling debris with ease. It simply obfuscated my vision for a mont until I erged from the other side.
I raised my head as I lowered my arms. And [Angelic Premonition] inford of sothing I couldnt quite comprehend a danger that would have instantly swallowed whole. I looked up just in ti to see nothing ahead of .
Literally nothing.
A sphere of nothingness.
Shit
I cursed as I caught myself just in ti from crashing into the abyss. I floated face to face with where space ca to an end. I took in a deep breath, before I heard the shriek resound behind . I spun around just in ti to dodge a tendril of corruption shooting past my head.
Another tendril shot my way, and I dove down. I swerved around the bubble of non-existence as the attacks didnt stop coming. The Corrupted Netherstones didnt let up. I no longer had my Divine Nebular Scythe with . All I could do was parry the strikes with my right claw using my second Grand Skill as a small shield.
I glanced back once. An army of corruption followed behind . The chasing Corrupted Netherstructures had attracted the attention of many more corrupted creatures. I saw everything from Corrupted Netherstones to Corrupted Gargoyles to even ordinary Corrupted Rocks far smaller and far less afflicted by the corruption.
There were hundreds of them giving chase. During my entire ti down here in the second layer, I hadnt been able to find more than a handful of corrupted creatures gathered in the sa area. Yet, sohow, here was a small army of them. A single one of them could have destroyed a city in the Mortal Realm alone. And all of them could have probably destroyed the entirety of the Human lands together.
I didnt stand a chance against them. Maybe I could have dealt with a couple of the Corrupted Netherstructures with both my Grand Skills. But against all of them I didnt think I stood a sliver of a chance.
A corrupted tendril shot forward, and I raised my claw to block the attack. But the tendril turned at the very last mont. It struck from the side, cutting deep into my shoulder. I yelled in pain as my [Corruption Resistance] hardly even dampened the damage. Black blood spilled out from the gash on my skin, only to flicker for a single mont.
I imdiately disengaged. I continued flying away from the army of corruption. I circled around the bubble of non-existence as I sent another volley of [The Holy Flas] back at the closest corrupted creatures. But it barely slowed their approach.
I wasnt sure why so many of these corrupted creatures only showed up now. Perhaps I had been overconfident, delving this deep into the second layer. But I had hardly encountered more than a handful of them until now. So I was completely taken by surprise by this turn of events.
There was nothing I could do to escape. I could only just keep flying forward and hope I lost them sohow. At least, that was what I thought as I continued to descend down the second layer. But I watched as the city vanished around . The ever-pervading buildings and structures were gone, reduced to a sea of rubble down below. Floating bits of debris, twisted and distorted with space littered the air, and I just barreled through it all without care.
These floating rocks wouldnt hurt . They werent corrupted creatures, nor were they bubbles of non-existence. I only had one goal right now, and that was to escape my predicant. I pushed on as I continued weaving around the tendrils shooting my way. I burst through a floating house, flying out the other side
And that was when I saw it.
At first, I didnt know what I was looking at. I couldnt comprehend what this scene unfolding before seed to depict. It was impossible to understand. At least, at a first glance.
But when I squinted, I began to understand more of what was shown before . The warped space the expansive emptiness started to make sense. And my eyes went wide as I realized that I was dood.
Those are bubbles of non-existence?
No that wasnt it. It was a storm of non-existence. A nebula of the void. Those floating spheres of nothingness gathered together in a large cluster, blocking the path ahead. It was like a nebulous wall that was hardly visible because of the small spaces between each bubble. It was no different than looking at a gathering of clouds when I was flying up in the sky of the Mortal Realm.
And just like when I was flying up in the sky of the Mortal Realm, there was only one thing I could do which was to fly through the gathering of clouds. Except, this ti, instead of clouds, it was the abyss that waited before . The very sa void that would crush for my presence alone.
I didnt slow. I continued flying straight at it. Why didnt I stop? Because I knew what waited behind was certain death. Perhaps I could fly through the small bits of space between the hundreds and hundreds of bubbles of non-existence.
At least, that was what I hoped. But there was a little problem or actually, a rather major problem. I blinked, watching as the storm of non-existence shifted ever-so-slightly. The veil of the void peeled back just a tiny bit, and a distortion erged from the other side. I stared in horror as the world rippled. All the colors in the spectrum of light mixed together into a depraved thing.
A moving rift that stretched hundreds of feet tall.
A creature that even Belphegor struggled against.
[---- Hellspace - Lvl. ---- ]
And now, I wasnt sure I could even escape from this predicant alive.
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