Chapter 73 - Awakening Of The Divine Eyes II

Dodging the barrage of earth pillars shooting towards me, I constantly swerved and ducked to make sure they didn't hit more, nor did they have a good spot where they could shoot out a second pillar. However, now it had become much harder to fight against the pillars as they have basically surrounded me, and if I didn't have my 360 degree vision, I would have been knocked out long ago.

Spinning on my heal one more time, I dodged three different pillars coming for three different direction, making my movement awkward and uncomfortable. sensing danger to my left, I could already see the ground shift a little making me side step and twirl to dodge 5 more pillars all coming from the direction the boy had thought was a weak point, which was actually just a trap to make him attack a fake opening.

Slashing apart many of the pillars, making them fall to the floor, 2 pillars shot out of every single cut down pillar doubling the amount of things I had to dodge. The area felt more like a matrix of lines that all connected to trap me within a space that would continually become smaller and small while also closing all the ways out as it did this.

Furrowing my brows, I had realised that I was being trapped like this way too late, as I was too occupied in managing not to get hit which made me realise all my escape routes have already been closed off. The only way to go out now was with brute forces, ad this area was only going to become smaller and more entrapped the longer this goes on, and the amount of mana he had was not something that assured me that I would win.

From what I could feel, he had only used a third of his overall mana even after making so many pillars and such a strong set of armour and weapon. At this rate, I was more likely to get hit than he was to run out of mana, therefore that left me one choice... Pure force

Dispersing my blue flames sword and making it into a ball of fire, I clapped my hands as multiple fire orbs the same size as the one that came from the sword were created all around me. Seeing this, the boy widened his eyes as he felt like he knew what as about to happen next if he did not move in time.

Suddenly, a burst of mana shot out of the cage as the mana in the area had spiked and many of the fire particles had gathered around me to make these balls of flames as concentrated as they could be in this kind of air deficient environment without making me suffocate of course.

Thrusting both my arms outwards in two different directions, I watched as many of the orbs of fire moved towards the many matrix earth pillars.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

Countless explosions were set of the moment the orbs had come into contact with the matrix walls, creating large holes that did not have enough time to regenerate and trap me in again in time. Lunging one of the holes, I widened my eyes in surprise to see the boy had already arrived in front of the hole with a frown on his face and his hand moving quickly to create more hand seals to finish his spell in time.

Furrowing my brows, I calculated that I had enough time to move towards another opening before it close completely. Making my decision, I halted my steps and lunged backwards while twisting my body to face another hole, however, before I could even mover closer, the boy had appeared in front of it once again.

'He really doesn't want me to leave huh.' I thought with a frown

Creating another orb of blue flames, I shot it towards the boy following it up by summoning nine other orbs around me and shooting them right behind the first. Before the first orb could even land, a large dense wall had erupted out of the ground while multiple hands shot from within the ground and had surrounded me.

While the wall was already strong enough to hold up against 10 of my fire orbs, the giant hands moved towards my body with the intention of crushing me within their palms. Seeing this. I small smile appeared on my face as I couldn't help but feel a little excited, which also made me wonder if I might be a masochist.

"Nine palms of Gaia" The boy muttered while moving his palms towards each other, proportionate to how far the giant earth hands were from me. Seeing their increase in speed, I decided to use an Advanced spell against the boy.

Feeling a connection between my mana and the earth within a 20 meter radius, I waited for the hands to move closer to me until they reached the 20 meter radius. Seeing this, I activated the spell 'overheat' to heat up both the rocks and the air around me. This made the air turn into a weird translucent yet visible disorientation of heat that made everything around it become wavy and like a mirage. It looked like the affect your would get from a car heating up on a sunny day. This was the process of refraction as the light that enters would undergo a change in speed therefore creating this affect.

After the air heated up, within seconds, the hands turned into magma, making it twice as hard to control for the boy to control as before. This allowed to to connect to the earth and override he control of the earth, while also controlling the fire/ heat within the magma.

"Lava crush" I muttered as my area of control expanded to a 60 meter radius and turned everything related to earth into magma. As I thrust my open palm forwards, I watch as all the magma in the area moved towards the boy and surround him like a web cage. Moving my hand to clasp together, the boy went through a moment of panic while the adults capable of battle readied themselves to save the boy if they had to.

However, to the surprise of everyone, the panic in the boy's eyes disappeared as they were now filled with determination. Raising an eyebrow, I moved my hands together faster than before as I did not want him to somehow get out with his new found determination.

Unfortunately for me, it was too late. Clapping both his palms together in front of his chest in a praying manner, he closed his eyes just to open them a second later and thrust both his arms to his right and left. Thrusting his arms outwards, a voice much more mature and monotone than his spoke "Domain of Earth; Absolute Control".

An etheric ,translucent glassy like dome shot out into 100 meters around him. I instantly felt all the mana I had used on the spell 'lava crush' lose it's connection to me while also feeling it absorbing into the body of the boy. In an instant, all the mana within the dome was absorbed into the boy as even the lava around me had lost it's heat and turned rock solid within an instant.

'Ah... f*ck' I cursed

Watching the magma rock turn into extremely sharp spears, I couldn't help but feel a shiver down my spine. Deciding to finally open my eyes, my eye lids slowly started to part each other like a couple who hadn't seen each other for months. The constant memory of the pain I felt when opening my eyes was crystal clear within my mind, making me question if I want to open them or not.

Finally opening my eyes wide, I could feel the headache coming closer and closer to sprouting as the blinding light of not opening my eyes for so many days started to dim down, allowing me to see everything around me.

Before I could even analyze the situation, however, the world had lost all of its color and had become black and white. I could see everything, but neither the information nor the headache was being transferred to me. Everything had stopped in its place as I could see many of the battle-capable adults charging towards me to stop the boy's attacks and protect me from them.

Before I could look around further, a Primordial monotone voice echoes in the sky, as it spoke a few words which made me narrow my eyes with contempt.

*"You incompetence has been recognized by the heavens, your Divine eyes shall now be restricted."* The primordial voice spoke

"-Mana senses have been weakened

-Soul senses have been weakened

-Skill: Analysis has been weakened

-Skill: Thousand-mile eyes had been completely restricted

-Skill: Future-sight has been completely restricted

-Skill: Illusionary eyes of pride have been suppressed to a certain degree

-Skill: Gluttonous mana eyes has been suppressed to a certain degree

-Secondary Skill: Nightmare has been sacrificed and merged with 'Illusionary eyes of pride' to create 'Eyes of Vanity' which have a higher adaptability

-Secondary Skill: 'Gluttonous mana eyes' have been sacrificed to create 'Eyes of consumption and redirection'

-Skill: 'Eyes of consumption and redirection' had been suppressed to a certain degree

Divine eyes have been reconstructed. Due to your incompetence, fragile mind, and tiny mana pool, most of your eye skills have been either suppressed, weakened, Restricted, or reconstructed into a more useable skill. These skills will increase in quality as you become stronger in certain fields. Due to your high affinity with the sins of Pride and Gluttony, your skills will be adapted to suit those affinities. To strengthen their eyes further, you must achieve certain compatibility with the sins.

The evolution of eyes is now complete, further evolution will continue after the entity - Atlas - evolves into the next stage of divinity

Time shall return to normal now"

I watched speechlessly as the colors returned to the world.

'Did the heavens just call me incompetent?' I questioned while looking at the spears with a deadpan expression.