Chapter 394: Barely Escaping

Solstice activated her most powerful skill Queen of the Night. It is a powerful buff skill that doubles the individual's stats and increases health regeneration by five times. It is the perfect skill that a vampire that can control blood as it would increase the blood that their heart is pumping.

The excess blood covered Solstice's body like a thin red mist and it keeps building up until the fog around the location became red. The skill basically uses all her excess health regeneration and forces it out her body. She would then have full control of this.

Skill: Queen of the Night

Tier: Legendary

Type: Buff

Effects: All stats will double for the duration of the skill and health regeneration will increase by five times the amount. The excess health that is generated when the skill is active will then be expunged from the body as a red mist. The user will then be unable to regenerate health for one hour after the skill duration.

Duration: 30 minutes

Cooldown: 7 days

Mana Cost: 10, 000 Mana Points

Cast Time: Instant

Solstice made use of all the red mist and conjured up chains to try and suppress the imperfect chimaera. The three Shadow Wolves also went into the offensive and used chains with hooks. The chains with hooks only lasted for about ten seconds but it was enough time for Adrian to finally open a fracture.

Lycan, who is still weakened, helped by moving the young werewolves out there. He could still manage to carry two of them t the same time. Adrian just helped by casually tossing the young werewolves at the fracture because if he enters it then the fracture would close.

The other members of the group could not point out that Adrian is doing something wrong because they were fighting for their life. The imperfect chimaera might only be using physical attacks, but it hits hard. One hit from it would reduce the health of one of them by 15% which is lethal since the imperfect chimaera has high attack speed.

It would also sprout some tentacles from its back and strike using those. The Shadow Wolves might be higher in level compared to Adrian, but they are not tankers even if they are werewolves. They are an intelligence unit that works in the shadows. Monsters like the one in front of them are usually dealt by the Knights of Arkadia.

Sirius who tried dealing damage blocked attacks for Saena but he ultimately fell in battle. Kanlaon also fell in battle when the imperfect chimaera suddenly jumped up high and brought him down with a single bite. Saena is also killed as well due to stamina loss of continuously healing large damage.

Charon managed to buy some time using his skill Soul Keep. The five-meter imperfect chimaera managed to fit inside Charon's two-meter casket for about five seconds. The Soul Keep skill would have lasted for much longer but the imperfect chimaera managed to break out using pure physical force.

Charon even used Incorporeal so that physical attacks will not affect it, but it does not have infinite duration. The imperfect chimaera deleted Charon a few seconds after.

"We have all of them inside. Go and escape now!" Adrian stated as they needed to escape.

Lycan already carried out the two fallen Shadow Wolves out of the battle zone. Adrian knows that NPCs will die permanently if they really die as they are not like players who could revive after dying. He would not want to give the Duke of Arkadia a headache. Plus, they will get bonus points if they return the NPCs much stronger.

Solstice covered for the group, but her regeneration could not keep up with the damage she received. The three remaining Shadow Wolves entered the fracture soon after. Adrian had to use Quantum Dispersion to blast Solstice towards the portal.

Adrian is about to enter the portal when tentacles of wriggling flesh suddenly wrapped around him. A total of five tentacles restricted Adrian. He wanted to use Blink, but he could not use it to escape. HE was losing health per second in the massive numbers.

He is about to die when he noticed that the spatial fracture is still open. He needed to enter it in order to close the fracture since that is how he constructed the spell. The fracture would also disappear if Adrian died so he is hoping that would be the case, but his health suddenly stopped dropping when it reached the one thousand health threshold.

"What! Why is it not killing me?" Adrian thought but he suddenly noticed that he is now moving towards the location of the spatial fracture.

"It is smart enough to notice that that the spatial fracture is not opening. This will be my last Hail Mary attempt." Adrian thought.

"Nether Domain!" Adrian shouted while coughing up blood.

The fog that covered them suddenly changed into three different colors. The flesh of the imperfect chimaera that did not even flinch upon getting caught started to shiver. The imperfect chimaera stopped in its tracks as it became afraid.

The tentacles holding Adrian started to loosen and he plopped down to the ground like saggy clothes. The imperfect chimaera then suddenly looked up as if it is looking at something up in the air. Adrian weakly tilted his head to do the same because he was lying face down.

Adrian saw what the imperfect chimaera is seeing. He saw two giant white eyes that stared down at him about seven meters off the ground. The imperfect chimaera is actually shivering as if it was scared of the being it was looking at. Adrian felt the opposite as he felt that the thing that staring at him is familiar.

"Netheros True Form!" Adrian weakly stated as nether mist swirled around him that also blocked his vision.

If Adrian had seen what happened next after he uttered those words, then he might have witnessed a demonic smile forming just below the two white dots. He would also have witnessed that it became smoke and joined the nether mist that enveloped Adrian.

The imperfect chimaera snapped out of its daze and immediately rammed its head towards Adrian's location. It tried to penetrate the nether mist barrier that covered up Adrian for a few seconds, but it could not. The nether mist somehow made it lose its strength.

Adrian's form is then shown to the imperfect chimaera and it was not like his true form. Adrian's true Netheros form is more gaseous but the form that he has now is more solid. The main take from his new form is that it looked like a demonic jester with a color scheme of black, white and gray.

[You are now under the possession of a higher order being. Similarities between you and this being is identical. No loss of health will happen during the possession.]

The demonic jester looking form that Adrian took up held out its hands and summoned the Cube of Paradox. It then whispered something to the Cube of Paradox and the weapon became small block fragments. The small block fragments numbered seven that is the same number of Adrian's primordial armaments.

"Commence the full attack of the Primordial Armament." The demonic jester Adrian stated in a rather high pitch annoying voice.

"Understood, master." The Cube of Paradox obeyed as the command still came from his own master even if a foreign entity is merged with him.

The seven small blocks then became his Primordial armaments. The seven primordial armaments then circled the imperfect chimaera and started damaging it without Adrian touching them. The damage on the imperfect chimaera is not big though despite this as Adrian cannot solo kill a monster above level 200.

"As expected, the monster is still too powerful for this current body. I expected my descendant to be stronger. I guess I need to actively pursue his training instead of getting him accustomed to my energy little by little." The demonic jester Adrian whispered.

"Who are you!? Why do we feel fear from you even though you are not the god that we serve!?" The two heads of the imperfect chimaera stated unanimously in an apprehensive tone.

What the servants of the dark gods do not like most is a variable, especially the faceless ones. They have been walking this world in their disguise for far too long. They fear the unknown like any other living creatures despite hem being puppets. They might be puppets, but they are puppets with a will.

"You would have known about me if you were connected to your god right now, but you are too far away from your shrine right now. I will give you a present if you survive that is." The demonic jester Adrian stated while chuckling a little bit.

The seven primordial armaments then combined and became one ultimate weapon. The ultimate weapon is none other than a giant version of the Cube of Paradox. but it looked like it was overloaded with energy.

"Pandemonium!" The demonic jester Adrian stated.