Chapter 292: The Prana Gorger’s Lair (Two)

Chapter 292: The Prana Gorger’s Lair (Two)

Vir sailed through the air, and for the first time in his life, he truly lamented his inability to change directions mid-flight. It simply wasnt an ability one appreciated until the need arose.

The need had arisen, and now, Vir would give anything in the world to have it.

The creature hadnt just adapted. Itd nullified Virs attack even before itd begun.

Showing impossible speed, the monsters steadily crawled up the hemisphere, covering it in a layer of armor. Armor that comprised their own bodies.

It was better than armor, actuallydozens upon dozens of projectiles shot at Vir, even as the main bodys tentacles smashed down left and right. Each wielding Warrior Chakra, and several coming far too close for comfort.

Vir barely managed to activate Haste in time, allowing him to twist away and barely avoid a tentacle by a hairs breadth. Less, actually.

Vir felt the icy grip of death as the tentacle brushed against his skin. Prana Armor negated the damage, though even that brief encounter left it severely depleted.

As much as Vir wished to sink into the shadows and regroup, he didnt have that luxury right now. He continued sailing through the airdirectly at the dense swarm of beasts. With each pace of distance closed, the chance a projectile actually hit grew.

And with Prana Armor running low

It's what they want!

The beast wanted him to smash into it. So it could pummel him with unavoidable Chakra attacks.

It was a trap, and Vir refused to let himself fall into it.New novel chapters are published at novelhall.come slowed to a crawl as Vir maximized Haste. Doing so burned his internal prana reserves at a furious rate, but it was a necessary sacrifice.

Mustering his concentration, Vir focused on a Phantomblade spike that sailed toward him in slow motion.

The issue with Haste wasnt that his body moved slowlyit was that every tiny movement generated tremendous force. After all, to the world, he was moving tremendously fast. And speed generated force.

Right now, force was not what Vir wanted. Surging prana into his arms to Toughen them, he reached out, and as delicately as possible, grasped onto the incoming projectile.

Virs greater mass met with the spikes fearsome speed, stopping it cold. In the process, he altered his own trajectory.

Letting go of Haste, Vir plummeted to the ground and into the realm of shadows.

If he was to defeat this monster, hed need a new plan. One that accounted for its surprising level of intellect.

It was no use. Whatever Vir tried, the enemy countered with a prescience that made Vir wonder if he was actually fighting an Iksana wielding Claritythe Ultimate Bloodline Art that allowed them to glimpse the immediate future.

He tried cleaving a path with Blade Launch. He tried surfacing next to the giant beasts hemisphere to drain it. Hed been thwarted every time by minions who rushed to fill their fallen brethrens place.

And through it all, Vir felt his frustration rising. Frustration, not at the strength of his foe, but his own weakness.

Chakra-laden spikes whizzed past his ear as Prana Darts fired outward, annihilating anything within five paces.

Is that all you have? Vir roared, brandishing his talwar and pointing at the beasts who formed a circle around him, staying a good twenty paces away.

You cant make more if I dont kill any, Vir said, his pose showing absolute, infallible confidence. Can you?

Wails of pain were Virs only reply. Which was fortuitous because his mental state was far from the confidence he projected. Running on his last wisps of prana, he felt weary, spent, and most importantlyexposed.

He stood in a den of beasts fully capable of tearing him limb from limb, and as he was, he barely even possessed the capacity to escape.

Now!

Vir disappeared into the shadows, praying to Badrak, God of Luck, that his own fortune would hold.

Emerged next to the hemisphere of the beasts main body, Vir struck. This time, instead of rushing to form a layer of armor, the nearby beasts hesitated..

Some shirked back, while others moved timidly forward, their individual minds refusing the command to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

It lasted only an instant.

An instant was enough.

Virs palm met the inky black flesh of the hemisphere and with every ounce of force he could muster, he began to drain.

Several things happened in quick succession.

Prana surged into Virs body at an absurd rate, rapidly refilling his blood and re-establishing Prana Armor.

The black hemisphere visibly shriveled around Virs palm, becoming leathery and gray as if aging at an accelerated rate.

Finally, the beasts around Vir began to rampage. Whatever compulsion that had been commanding their obedience disappeared all at once, and they laid into one another, slaughtering with reckless abandon.

Vir took the opportunity to fire a Blade Launch directly into the hemisphere before High Jumping to a safer position, breaking his drain of the hemisphere for the briefest instant.

If the monster noticed the cessation of his draining attack, it certainly didnt show it. Not when it was writhing in pain from the Blade Launch.

Once on top, Vir smashed both palms against its slimy membrane and ruthlessly pulled. When his body could take no more, Vir began hurling Talwar Barrages back at the beast, using the very prana he siphoned to inflict wound after wound.

Like a deflating hot-air balloon, the hemisphere collapsed in on itselfdead.

Precious few minions had survived the mad slaughter, but their efforts earned them only the briefest extension of life. Like marionettes whose strings had been cut, each and every surviving minion collapsed lifeless to the ground.

Vir hardly had the time to notice. Standing atop the hemisphere as it deflated, he found himself suddenly falling.

Hed expected to land on the ground beneath the hemisphere, and as such, braced himself for impact. A fall from this height would hardly faze himhis Leaps and High Jumps often took him much higher.

Which was why his stomach fell out from under him when he didnt stop. Nor did he even slow. In fact, he gained speed. Falling. Deeper and deeper into an abyss whose bottom was nowhere to be found.