Chapter 1356: Lying In Wait

Chapter 1356: Lying In Wait



Indeed, Skullius had taken Elita's Realm rank Prime sword for his own after convincing her it was necessary for the plan he had. It had not been easy convincing her to part with it,

especially since they had been embroiled in a conflict before the great Doom Knight came. But in the end, the former Paladin Champion had surrendered her weapon.

The Doom Knight was furious, Skullius knew.

Even in the dark, timeless void Araeyn had created, it saw him as its armour fell apart, revealing its true form beneath.

There was no escaping the creature's wrath, Skullius knew. He could only prepare for a dreadful counter.

The first thing he did, was to stow away Broodweiler. He wouldn't get a chance to use it again. Its part to play in his hands was already done.

Because the guidance field would not show any information about the Doom Knight to Skullius, he had had to improvise.

Fighting a Deity-level opponent who was wearing a nigh-invincible armour (at least to Divines like him) and was possibly in possession of a dreadfully powerful Immortal Physique was a sure sign that the battle was unwinnable. Thus, Skullius' plan had been to chip away at the Deity's layers of defences while it was still toying with them.

Broodweiler had been one of the bets Skullius had thought of, but there was a caveat.

Treasure weren't all about which one was higher in rank. Prime Treasures opposed Wicked ones with their Absolute Properties and the opposite was true. In such circumstances, the Treasure which struck first with its Absolute Property, won. But unfortunately, since Skullius didn't know what kind of Treasure the armour the Doom Knight was wearing was, he had to rely on trial and error.

While the Doom Knight was preoccupied with the Penetrators (and before the Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune was used), Skullius had attacked the creature with his Tainted Lycan's Siphoning Claw, a Realm rank Wicked Treasure that caused large, poisoned claws to sprout violently from inside the target.

When the claw didn't work, Skullius immediately knew that the Doom Knight's armour was also a Wicked Treasure, but of a higher rank.

And that was why, with Araeyn's help and with the Penetrator's distraction, he had struck the armour with Broodweiler's Absolute Prime Property.

The blade was lethal to Divine phenomena, but no different to a Legendary grade weapon when matched against any mortal material, living or otherwise.

Keeping it hidden was essential until its next use, lest it be destroyed by the Doom Knight. But while this was achieved, Skullius felt there was a great chance he would get destroyed.

The Doom Knight... no, the Deity's eyes were two red, flaring suns. Untold fury and streams of what might have been blood slid down from them to its fair face - large, but indeed fair. A modest stubble of golden-brown hairs that glowed made the bottom end while voluminous curly, messy variants made the top.

The Deity was rather lean. Its torso was bare, advertising the grim scars, scabs and singes to its divine body while its waist was covered by a layer of kilt made of some kind of animal hide.

Skullius, bleeding and battered but mending, found hope.

Even though he didn't need to, he shrieked anyway.

"NOW!!!!"

But, of course, Kenno had already been prepared.

Indeed, Skullius and the Deity were back in the latter's marked territory, Aigas, but Kenno's Territory was also in Aigas. They had returned to exactly the point they left from.

Kenno had sacrificed a large number of Creeds, just as Skullius had told him, for what came

next.

The Retainers his master had left in his Territory, reinforced with Amras and not mana, had a

purpose.

When Skullius had filled Kenno's Territory with darkness earlier, it was all to amplify the effect of a Seed he had imbued in the Noboboyama called the Womb.

The Womb kept any non-living construct of modest size from falling apart as long as it wasn't split into more than a hundred pieces. The Seed, of course, responded best to constructs made of [Evil Darkness] or [Just Light]. This was why Kenno's Territory had not fallen apart when it was slashed by the Deity. It had been melded with [Evil Darkness]. This, along with the use of a massive number of Creeds, allowed Kenno full control of every element in the Territory temporarily, even his master's Phantasmic Retainers.

The Gajjkav, its draconian maw open, bulked and devoured the Doom Knight and Skullius almost immediately after they appeared.

Kenno's vomited blood. The speed required to pull everything off seamlessly was only achieved because of his sacrifice of Creeds and a little bit of luck. A normal mortal wouldn't

have managed it.

But as strained as his body was, he didn't allow himself the luxury of collapsing.

The next step needed doing.

His Territory unravelled right then, leaving only him and the Phantasmic Retainers.

The rest for now - was left for the three individuals bolting towards the Gajjkav with near

desperate intensity.