Chapter 465 - 465: First blood

Swoosh!

Blink shot out of the portal but Bradley was already standing right in front with his palm firmly placed on the ground. 

Creation path: Wind serpent

"Don't think you can get away from me, Kid!" Bradley roared as almost invisible serpents shot out of his sleeves and lunged at Blink.

Yet to touch the ground, Blink watched the perfectly planned ambush but he couldn't help but wear a mocking smile on his face as his body dissipated into a body of a thousand particles of silver light just before the attacks hit.

Xiu!

Bam!

Blink reappeared just about twenty meters away from Bradley with an annoyed look on his face. He gazed at the flame eagle looking at him with malicious eyes and Blink couldn't help but hiss at it. The wind snakes were invisible to the normal human eyes while the flame bird looked unstable and most likely to explode the next time it gets close to him.

"Fall on your knees and beg and I will consider letting you and your pals live this place alive" Bradley said with a gloating look on his face. He thought the surprised look on Blink's face was because he was surprised by his enemy's strength but that was not the case. Blink could sense the element and what he realized was that this god vein was almost no different from theirs in terms of elements! The only difference is that its mana and elements are in purer forms. The gods to be produced by this god vein are created not as a different entity but to replace the originals like Derik, Cyrus, Ahika, and the rest.

"This messed up god vein is just an improved version of ours… those here are expected to replace our masters!" Blink muttered those words and shot a glance at Clovis and judging based on the look on his face he knew the youth had the same thoughts running through his mind.

The old gods had different and unique abilities like Adino's red judgment spear, Tanatos Brilliance, and all that, meanwhile, the new gods were all elemental based. For the fact that this god vein grants the elements and at a purer and more powerful form, that means its plans to replace Derik's set with newer and more powerful elemental gods. Since he realized his master's position was at stake, Blink took this mission to heart now.

"Fall on my knees and beg? A child like you does not know death when it's standing right in front of him… I do!"  Blink snarled 

Pa!

"Let me show you, what real strength looks like!" Blink's voice echoed in everyone's ears as they watched spatial ripples escape his body.

The air turned heavy as visible cracks began appearing everywhere. Thousands of Blink appeared everywhere like mirror images but this time, the mirror was broken making it almost impossible to follow his actions even though all of them were mimicking each other.

"This is a little trick I picked up after centuries of practice… Now, guess which one is real" Numerous Blink voices overlapping each other was enough to make any person go crazy.

All hundreds of Blink began walking forward. The closer they got the farther they looked but Bradley was pretty sure they were getting closer. He gazed at these images and was left confused on how to encounter them. He has heard of the spatial magic and he has seen the human instructor Han use it but it has never been used like this. At this point, he began believing Blink's words about coming from another world.

Pst! Pst!

The sound echoed from behind Bradley what he saw were the headless bodies of his friends who came here with him. Their eyes portrayed their shock and disbelief but what caught his attention was that the images walking towards him held a black scythe stained with the blood of his friends.

"Don't you dare look down on me!" 

Instead of fear, Bradley was enraged as his aura turned fierce as a strange red figure of a mighty phoenix appeared behind him. Its hostile gaze fell on Blink before spreading its wings and shooting into Bradley's body

"The Shift" Bradley muttered with a deeper voice than usual.

Gazing at him, his eyes were now similar to that of the phoenix, his hands and feet were also replaced with talons, and on his back are mighty red and white wings. As his power rose, so did that of his magic! His flaming bird increased in size until it was over 5ft tall. The same applied to the wind serpent.

Seeing this Blink once again, confirmed his theory that these people are superior since the quality of their powers seems purer. He could remember the beast-men he fought back then, none of them could compare to this kid in terms of oppressive aura even though their cultivation base was even greater than that of this kid.

"Phoenix Flames: Burst!" Bradley roared as he punched the ground and a powerful fire shockwave spread across the battlefield.

With each image of Blink, it touched the cracks in the space were repaired. This continued until all the Blink decoys were cleared, leaving behind the original who shielded himself with his aura.

"Aoe skills are always a pain in the ass!" Blink as he contemplated how fast he should kill this beast-man.

As powerful as this youth is, apart from Derik's death magic and Cyrus' life magic, Blink was confident of killing anyone else with little or no effort. He only let this battle last this long because he wished to see the full strength of this kid and what it meant to be a beast-man.

"Unfortunately, I have no time to waste on you anymore" Blink said as he took a step forward and his body flashed. Before Bradley could even reply to his words, Blink had appeared behind him and his head slowly slid off his neck. 

"You are coming with me" Blink gazed at the body with a hint of disdain in his eyes while creating a spatial door which he threw the body into the spatial gate