157 Chapter 157: Death meets nature 2

Numerous green vines with strange purple flowers on them shot out from the ground and quickly surrounded Derik and his death avatar who remained calm with a mocking smile on his face.

It felt as if he was daring Francis to make the first move, he wants to totally crush this nature mage at his best, that's why he's letting him make the first move!

"Why Do you hesitate? Didn't you say you won't hold back this time?" Derik sneered

Hearing these words Francis frowned slightly and decided to make the first move.

"Nature magic: A thousand vines of death!" Francis roared and the green light flashed in his eyes.

Over a thousand vines were suddenly covered by a green halo and shot towards Derik and his death avatar. Seeing the attacks were from all sides, Derik and his death avatar still remained calm and released their terrifying death aura.

The death aura possessed the most corrosive qualities and also have the ability to steal life energy from any living thing it makes contact with, making it the most unique aura a person can possess. This is practically the combination of so many diabolic elements/magic ever known to the inhabitants of this planet.

Boom!

Derik and his death avatar's aura burst out and instantly shook the surrounding. The bronze realm warriors and mages present suddenly felt like their bodies weighed as much as a massive boulder and they also found it hard to breathe. It felt like the oxygen and the life force in them was been forcefully dragged out of their body, and they soon fell on their knees.

The sight of hundreds of bronze realm warriors and mages kneeling and gasping for air, just because the death mage released his concealed aura completely terrified all the silver realm experts present.

Wasn't the death mage supposed to be at the mid-grade of the silver realm?

How Does he possess such a powerful aura? It just doesn't make any sense!

Derik and his death avatar joined hands to create a massive pillar of death aura around themselves over three hundred meters wide. Within that space, anything that tried to penetrate the pillar of death aura was quickly forced to rot away and instantly turned to dust.

Even the thousand vines which Francis created was not able to penetrate this dangerous barrier, they all turned to dust the moment they made contact with the death mage's barrier. This terrified everyone present as they shifted their gaze to the nature mage, hoping he has something else to show which can hurt Derik.

"Amongst all the hosts of the guardian spirits, I and the blazing flame host are the worst people you can ever encounter… Its such a pity you didn't act against me when you still had the chance years ago" Derik said with a calm smile.

He waved his hand and his death aura poured out from his palms, taking the form of a death scythe. With this done the smile on Derik's face widened even more! He made strange hand gestures and the death scythe trembled before turning into a beam of light and shooting forward!

Death magic: Purgatory slash!

The death scythe soon appeared right in front of Francis in less than a second and swung ferociously at him, attempting to severe his upper half from the lower half of his boy in an instant.

Seeing this, a bead of cold sweat appeared on Francis's forehead. He waved his hands and more vines burst out wrapping him like a cocoon but to his greatest surprise, even a thousand earth vines could not save him from Derik's ferocious attack!

The cocoon was cut open easily and a large gash appeared on Francis' waist and he was forced to retreat even further while spitting out a mouthful of blood. The light in his green eyes dimmed slightly and his former intimidating aura reduced.

"Nature magic: Natures healing" Francis muttered and he was covered by a green halo. His injuries began close at a visible rate and this came as a shock to Derik. He could easily tell the healing capabilities were beyond that which his werewolf side provides him.

Derik's charming smile never faded for a single moment. The truth was that he never planned to be here in the first place, he never planned to battle this nature mage in the first place. All those he held a grudge against were most likely hiding out in the capital, which one would dare to stay in a small unguarded town like Briton?

His original intentions were to open the accursed gate of the underworld right inside the palace and just depended on the corrosive aura of the underworld to wipeout everyone in the palace.

Who can stand the power of death?

But to his greatest surprise, he couldn't open a gate anywhere in the capital. It was like some sort of supernatural force was preventing the massive gates of the underworld from opening. Such a formation requires in-depth knowledge of the space element which is only accessible to the cosmic spirit host, Kalos! The kingdom guardian of Gyro.

He had to admit, the cosmic spirits are beings even he will have problems dealing with. It is quite safe to say that they were not inferior to guardian spirit hosts in any way. In fact, they are superior in so many ways, and even now Derik does not dare to look down on them.

At this very moment, at this very place, all Derik was doing now is to establish dominance over these people, while he waits for the elder prince and his team to find a way to destroy the spatial formation preventing him from getting inside. On a second thought he could easily fly towards the capital but in the end, he will be forced to fend off a lot of opposition along the way and when he eventually gets to the wall, he will also need to expend a reasonable amount of energy just to destroy the magic walls surrounding the capital.

This is definitely not how he pictured the whole invasion to be. He expected intense battles from the very beginning up to the end with only one side standing tall. But now he is forced to toy with the host of the nature guardian spirit!

How annoying and disappointing can that be?

The problem wasn't necessarily that Francis is not strong. The thing is, the guy is a support type and his abilities only excel in that aspect. Although the man can be considered a monster when going up against normal mages and warriors at his level or even lower just like any other host, he was still weak in the presence of other offensive type hosts.

"This is embarrassing…" Derik yawned while rubbing his forehead with his palms.

If Francis hard someone who could act as his sword while he supports from behind, the person will most likely be invincible but in this situation, there was no one here capable of withstanding a single attack from Derik. So it's very unlikely that they can perform their role before meeting an untimely death.

At this point, Francis was aware of the situation and clearly understood he was temporarily blinded by his anger when he proposed to battle Derik alone. He nearly forgot his roles and his cultivation path and attempted to fight an offensive beast like Derik with his current abilities.

Impossible!

He hated the fact that he could not storm over right now and knock the mocking smile off Derik's face.

He hated the fact that no one present can lay a finger on the death mage without having an encounter with death itself!

He began to worry that Derik may lose his temper and let Briton fill his rage.

"Yea… what took you so long… I might as well beat some sense into you the moment I am done with the kingdom guardian and the royal family… I'll be there in a second… we finally get to start" Derik suddenly pulled out a communication stone and spoke.

As soon as he was done, he clasped his hands together and a massive gate appeared after which he quickly walked in with the death avatar following him closely.

"We have enough time to settle our issues later, not today… I have important business to attend to" Derik laughed as he massive bone gate closed before it vanished in purple flames.