Chapter 259 Trapped



Though he had tried his best to find a way to escape, Zuroc's constant attacks had made sure that he was always on his toes, and the result was him unable to come up with a solution.

At the moment, Seth had turned around and was vigilantly watching Zuroc, making sure the man didn't try anything while also sending as much qi as he could running through his pathways and saturating his body in preparation for the miasma.

With Zuroc doing nothing but stare at him, a short staring competition began between the two, but it didn't last long as in less than 5 seconds the red miasma was about a few centimeters for Seth

Seth seemed to accept his fate as the red smoke drew close to him, but just as it was about to hit him, his legs tensed and released in less than seconds, his figure shooting through the red smoke.

After having been surrounded by the red miasma, Seth had been too wary of it to try letting it touch him, so he had decided to become Zuroc's practice dummy, hoping he would be able to figure out something in time, but unfortunately, he didn't.

Now that he had run out of time, Seth decided to put up his last bit of resistance.

Having observed that the area covered by the red miasma behind him was smaller compared to the other side was smaller, Seth choose it as his escape route, and before the miasma could hit him, he hit it first, shooting through the thick red air.

Holding his breath and pushing as much qi as he could Seth attempted to run through the red miasma and make it out to the other side, but he had barely gone over three meters when he rapidly began slowing down, and by the 5th meter he was struggling to walk, occasionally stumbling from time to time but refusing to let himself fall.

Tons of guesses and theorizations had filled Seth's mind about when the red miasma did, yet despite all this thinking, he hadn't considered that the red smoke would be a mind attack.

With his limited knowledge and past experiences with this type of attack, Seth had subconsciously registered a mental attack as one that could only be created and sent from the mind.

That Zuroc's miasma would be a mental attack and a very powerful one at that surprised Seth, but alas he didn't have the time to be surprised as he fought to keep his mind safe.

The second Seth had walked into the red miasma, he felt like a thousand arms had wrapped themselves around him, so he ran his qi harder and tried to break out of their grip to no avail.

It was on Seth's third step that he realized that the thousand arms weren't on his mind, but on his mind which was quickly going sluggish.

With every step that Seth took, the pressure on his mind increased, and out of nowhere, he begin hearing loud ravages and high pitch screeches in his head.

A thousand voices bombarded Seth, and though he held his ears, it was no use as the voices came from within his mind, threatening to send him into the depth of madness.

With Seth's mind thrown into the chaos, he found it began finding it harder to move and began stumbling about.

From time to time, Seth would look up into the distance and see the green untainted fauna which lacked any of the thick red miasma that was around him, and with vigor and determination he would push himself to move forward, yet after a few seconds he would forget his initial goal only to remember it a few seconds later after he returned to the center of the miasma.

Like a madman, Seth stumbled around the field moving forward and then backward, seeming to have no direction, but no matter what, he did not fall, but Zuroc remained patient.

Seconds turned to a minute, and a minute increased to 4 minutes, at this point, Zuroc ran out of patience and decided to take matters into his own hands.

Cautious of Seth pulling any trick, Zuroc lifted his sword and slashed it down at Seth twice, releasing two long red beams that flew towards Seth, but even in his mentally depleted state, Seth's will to survive seemed to hold strong as he raised his head and roared, a beam of fire leaving his mouth, the beam easily crushing Zuroc's attack and headed towards him.

Easily anticipating the attack, Zuroc flapped his wings mad moved out of the way of the attack, dodging it and then quickly sending down another slash at Seth.

Unfortunately, Seth was unable to dodge this attack, his mind too sluggish and his body still recovering and slowly refilling itself with air after the attack he had just released.

Without delay, the attack hit Seth and sent him down to one knee, his staff falling out of his hands, but this seemed to only enrage him, as he pushed himself up and let out a roar again, but this time, a continuous stream of fire poured out of his mouth, flying in Zuroc's direction.

Feeling the power benign the flames, Zuroc couldn't help but frown, and move out of the way, easily dodging Seth's attack.

Not to mention Zuroc's speed, but with his messy mind, Seth's accuracy had plummeted and he found it hard to hit Zuroc even when he stayed in place.

As Zuroc flew around, his movements making Seth spin around as he breathed fire, desperately trying to burn him from the sky, he slashed his sword two times consecutively, and this time both attacks hit a preoccupied Seth, shutting him and slamming him to both knees.

On both knees, Seth's mouth was forced closed and his body heaved heavily, but Zuroc gave him no more chance for another attack and he consecutively sent two attacks flying at Seth.

With no suspense, the attacks hit Seth and sent his body slamming into the ground, his form lying prone on the ground as a pool of blood quickly formed beneath him.