Steampunk: Sixth Era Chapter 1579: Space and Space

Chapter 1579: Chapter 1579: Space and Space

Shard frowned as he looked into the swirling yellow sand; the monster’s highest point atop its head nearly exceeded the second-floor window of a house. Its skin was a bizarre green-brown, and its lower half had four legs covered in black hair. Two legs wore massive black leather shoes and the other two donned red high heels.

From the waist up, it had two upper bodies. The two different upper bodies were chest-to-back, much like the "Twin Rift Abomination" Shard had seen not long ago. As for the faces on the two upper bodies, the one in the front was Mr. Elder Smith and the one in the back was Mrs. Elder Smith.

Despite its gigantic corpulent size, the two shriveled heads were even smaller than a normal living person’s. Due to their excessive shriveling, if Shard weren’t so familiar with his neighbors’ appearances, and hadn’t seen their clothes before, he could hardly tell what the monster originally looked like:

"Have Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith fused?"

Shard’s mouth twitched upon seeing his familiar neighbors turned into this. Yet since it was a ti of destruction, aside from Luviya and Mia, all the creatures Shard knew were probably already dead, so he was not entirely unable to accept what he was witnessing:

"I will let you rest in peace."

The monster naturally couldn’t recognize Shard. After leaving the house and seemingly observing the outside world for a mont, it charged directly at Shard.

[Behind you.]

It suddenly vanished midway during its charge, then a sharp sound piercing through the air struck Shard from behind with imnse force. Shard, who had seen similar tactics on the rooftop of the Opera House, was already prepared. However, he chose not to dodge but instead turned to swing his wand to block and test the opponent’s strength.

With a loud bang, the striking fist didn’t cause any deformation to the black wooden wand, but Shard was knocked back like a hit ball, smashing into the second-floor outside wall of what seed to be his neighbor number 23’s house. The Ring of Fate moved with Shard, rotating above his head, and the transformation of Spirit and elental forces helped him recover his body state:

"Its strength far exceeds mine; even standing on Earth, I can’t compete."

The sand struck his face as he suppressed the urge to spit blood and fell back onto the ground from the wall. Then, as the monster spatially moved next to him, he quickly rolled towards the ground to evade the frenzy of four arms attacking him.

"Moonlight Slash!"

Instead of standing up, Shard kicked a curved Moonlight arc from the ground with his feet. The monster belonging to Mr. Elder Smith’s left arm also made a slashing motion. The space beca chaotic with the slash, dispersing the arc-shaped Moonlight.

"[Spatial Slash] or maybe [Dinsional Slash]?"

Using his right hand to push himself up, his left hand holding the wand slamd down onto the ground:

"Spatial—Stabilization Aura!"

To create a favorable battle environnt, Shard employed spellcasting with his wand this ti, holding nothing back. The cobblestones at the edge of the square spread out into a dense spiderweb-like crack from his strike, while invisible waves swept the entire square, rolling the sand on the ground in the aftermath of the Spirit’s impact.

The Apocalypse World’s space was already chaotic; colliding with Shard’s Arcane Technique, the square ground amidst the gale broke out in a continuous crackling sound of explosions.

The monster that intended to attack Shard suddenly froze, granting Shard the chance to swiftly retreat to the center of the square and widen the distance.

The double-bodied monster continued to pursue Shard, its four legs stomping the ground, agile as a monkey leaping its body into the air, then again disappeared from sight. But this ti it didn’t appear directly behind Shard, instead, moved forward a distance of about five or six ters.

"The Spatial Stabilization Aura is limited by the world’s environnt, and this enemy’s spatial power is extrely strong; I can’t fully control its power, only partially weaken its ability."

Thinking this, Shard swirled his left hand’s wand to draw a circle in the air with effort. A silver light ring appeared at the wand’s tip and the [Binding Light] flew towards the monster’s head. Yet Mrs. Elder Smith’s shriveled head behind Mr. Elder Smith suddenly opened wide and swallowed the light ring whole.

"A spatial devouring ability."

Shard judged silently, lightly tapping his toes, and disappeared again, then reappeared in the sky obliquely behind the monster.

"Moonlight Slash!"

Backed by the rotating Ring of Fate, his left hand held the wand, and his right arm crossed in a cross shape, then a massive cross-shaped Moonlight Slash bombarded towards the ground. Because the attack range was too large, the monster didn’t dodge but instead turned to raise its four arms to withstand it.

After the imnse explosion and dust, even the ground of Saint Delan Square bore cross-shaped dents, and the monster supporting itself with four legs and two arms on the ground surprisingly sustained only Mr. Smith’s right hand being broken, with that arm rapidly regenerating.

"Rapid regeneration isn’t uncommon, but this kind of attack it can withstand? This thing should be classified as an Evil Object, right?"

Having landed, Shard thought to himself and, with the hefty arm sweeping in, rolled on the ground to dodge once more.

The arm covered in bumps barely swept past Shard’s face, and he got up again, casually throwing two black Shadow Orbs at the monster, hoping to dodge while it defended.

But this ti, Mrs. Elder Smith’s slender arm pointed forward, and the two light-absorbing Shadow Orbs suddenly froze in mid-air, even Shard’s body felt fixed, but fortunately, the [Spatial Stabilization Aura] quickly helped him escape:

"Solidifying space?"

The old lady’s left hand made a swift motion, and the two Shadow Orbs exploded in place. Then the left hand moved swiftly like conducting a band, creating over a dozen rifts in the air filled with yellow sand. Shard summoned the Moonlight Greatsword, plunging the greatsword in his right hand and the wooden staff in his left hand into the ground. With the amplification of the wooden staff and the protection of the [Spatial Stabilization Aura], the golden streaming "Heaton Seal" barely blocked the dense attacks.

But the monster gave Shard no chance to breathe, as Mrs. Elder Smith’s hands densely waved, constantly attacking with the ability to cleave through space, leaving Shard on the defensive. anwhile, Mr. Elder Smith in front continued controlling the body to move forward, getting closer to Shard.

Shard, at this mont, fully understood all the abilities of the enemy he faced.

Spatial Power was its greatest reliance, and Mr. Elder Smith at the front specialized in power attacks with extrely impressive defenses; even standing on the Earth, Shard’s "Power of the Red Dragon" couldn’t compete with him in strength. anwhile, Mrs. Elder Smith at the back was skilled in Spellcasting Ability, tearing space, solidifying space, and swallowing space, all handled by her.

A monster of this level, in a world where the Apocalypse hadn’t yet arrived, would require the True God Church to dispatch at least one Twelve-Ring Sorcerer leading a full elite Ring Sorcerer squad to handle. Of course, if they had abilities similar to the "Spatial Stabilization Aura