Chapter 723: Eye [Top 5 in Golden Tickets Bonus]
There was a pulse of mark implanting itself onto Sylas' forehead and for the second time in his life, he experienced a suffocation of his stats.
But for some reason...
He was shockingly calm, so much so that judging from his expression, one would never guess that such a thing had happened at all.
At that moment, Sylas' body began to change once again. The bone armor that coated him due to his fusion with the Bone-Tailed Lizard changed and morphed, becoming more crystalline.
A cascade of reflective gems seemed to replace the armor.
The sharp bone tail became crystal as well, and Sylas' yellowed, slit eyes changed, reflecting sky blues, bright pinks, and shimmering amethyst.
Sylas' aura changed completely as he combined the Glasirith and the Bone-Tailed Lizard inton/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
one.
At that same moment, he activated his Beast Totem and Hibernation Halo.
A pair of golden eyes and a ring of gold rippled outward with Sylas at the center. At a speed visible to the naked eye, the bleeding wound on his neck began to close.
The pressure on his mind increased, but the focus in Sylas' eyes was absolutely unprecedented.
When he chose his three Legendary Paths, he hadn't just chosen the Paths that sounded the sweetest. He had specifically chosen them so that they could synergize.
As the Paths grew in Level, the benefits of this only became more and more obvious.
Were-for-the-Invincible and One Kind For Me played off of one another.
Because Sylas was fused with two beasts at once now and not just one, he received not just one +300% boost from his Beast Totem, but two, one for each of his Contracts. In an instant, not only did he claw back his lost stats, even with the Level o status of these two Contracts, he gained on average 500 stat points from each after gaining half of their stats.
But this was still just the start.
Not only did he gain a +1000 on average to all of his stats, but Hibernation Halo also applied two times over as it targeted both of the Contracts in his body right now.
This meant that whether it was Sylas' injuries, his Aether, or his mental fatigue, they were recovering at over +26 000% right this moment instead of the around +13 000% it should have been.
Even with this recovery pace, having so many abilities active on top of two Comprehensions was still draining Sylas' Wisdom and Will faster than they could recover.
But, what it did allow him to do was slow it to almost a crawl.
If he could hold on, he could end this battle.
And thanks to the Glasirith, he could do exactly that.
[Glass Edge (F-) (Gene Lineage Form)]
[Anti-Aether Blade. Negate all Aether that comes into contact with Glass Edge within 10 F- Grade Levels.]
[Limit: 30 Foundations]
Sylas held out a hand and half a dozen crystalline kunai appeared to his side. His palm faced Vaekra and her arrows while his second hand raised the Dragon Bone Spear, aiming toward Kyreth.
The Dogon stood frozen in shock before he stumbled a step back.
At that moment, an eye appeared high in the skies as though something had been sensed.
Vaekra's face, colored with despair, instantly became an overcast of fear.
She turned tail and ran away, her body blinking away.
The eye didn't seem to notice her at all, pulsing just a single time.
BANG!
Kyreth exploded into a rain of blood.
The eye slowly turned and it looked as though it was about to go after Vaekra when it instead
locked onto Sylas instead.
Until this point, Sylas had faced death a great many times...
But this was the first time he truly felt so...
Small.
Before this eye, it didn't seem to matter how much progress he had made. It could wipe him
out whenever it so pleased.
Sylas stared at it, his brow tightly wound into a frown as he tried to stop his hand from
trembling.
The eye scanned him and then it slowly turned to where Vaekra had been. But by now, she had vanished into the Portal.
Lazily, the eye began to fade away. It didn't seem to care that its target was gone. The only
anomaly that it had definitely sensed was Kyreth, so now that he was gone, it couldn't be
bothered to pursue to ensure there were no others.
As the eye slowly faded, there was a sudden change in the lava below.
A figure burst through. In the nude, and dripping with droplets of red gold magma, she rushed
upward.
Sylas' eyes couldn't help but narrow.
Professor Fembroise?
The middle-aged woman turned an enraged gaze toward Sylas and then let out a shriek that
shook the Aether in the volcano.