Chapter 2015 Lock

Chapter 2015 Lock

Ryu hardly looked at the descending man. His thoughts almost felt as though they were elsewhere entirely.

Was this the feeling that he was chasing after all this time? He felt like the entire world was in the control of his palms, as though there wasn't anything he could face that he would have no chance of dealing with.

Maybe even if a Dao God had showed up just now, he would feel the same way. Though that would probably be foolhardy of him, it was a resonant sort of confidence in himself that shouldn't be shaken or moved.

His Clear Mirror Dao Heart shone with a resplendent light, and his skin, already practically clear and crystal-like, likewise reacted with the same sort of flare.

Ryu took a breath, and the harsh winds around him seemed to freeze.

This was an odd occurrence. Considering the destruction in the surroundings, the meteors falling from the skies, the fluctuations of a battle of Dao Gods in the distance, it didn't make any sense whatsoever for there to be such a stillness here.

But to Ryu...

Any world around himself was his own.

[Tatsuya Constellation].

Shimmering starlight descended, streaking with a beautiful sort of cadence that an expert would recognize as the rhythm of a unique formation.

Ryu took another breath, and the world seemed to pulse along with him once again. He looked as though he had completely forgotten that he was in the middle of a dangerous situation, or maybe he was simply incapable of taking it as a dangerous situation.

A smile couldn't help but curl his lips.

This was certainly the action of his Dao Heart. If it could make him feel calm even with Ailsa so close to him, then something like this was almost certainly going to be pressed down by it with great ease.

In reality, he knew that these opponents were not easy, and it could become troublesome if they laid down their pride enough to actually attack him together.

But...

Would they?

And even if they did...

Would he care?

"If you're not going to come... I will."

Ryu took a step, and his body seemed to become a streaking starlight. He pierced through space, time, and Fate all at once, disorienting their senses.

BANG!

His [Heavenly Dao Tree].

BANG!

A tree branch came from nowhere, shrouded in darkness. Its unpredictability reached

a new level, cutting into Adlael's flesh almost down to the very bone before he was

sent flying away.

Ryu stood there, still unmoved. Starry light streaked around him, and a crystalline tree rose to his back, wreathed in ice and darkness.

Gorgeous icy blue blossom petals fell from the skies, coated in Ice Phoenix Heavenly Patterns. But if one looked closely, from time to time, one would see one hidden in the masses that carried the Heavenly Pattern of a Dark Phoenix.

At that moment, Ryu suddenly felt like he was frozen in place.

His [Third Perspective] locked onto the three-pupil woman whose three pupils were rotating in her eyes like a rolodex. They locked onto one, and for a moment, Ryu felt as though all the space in the surroundings was constricting him.

But he also knew that it couldn't possibly be space. It was something else.

Laws.

He had never faced this woman before, so he didn't know what her abilities were at all, seemed he knew what one of her Pupils could do now. And judging by the greed

but

in her eyes, she seemed to understand what his eyes could do for her.

A shame, really.

A roar came from Adlael as he closed in the distance once again, aiming a punch right.

for Ryu's head.

However...

PA!

He was sent flying again.

What good was locking him down if his [Heavenly Dao Tree] wasn't?