Chapter 225: Unlocked

Chapter 225: Unlocked

Axel was currently in an unprecedented amount of pain.

100 times... no.... 1000 times worse than what he had ever experienced. Perhaps more, perhaps less, he had no idea. He just knew, this was out of the limit. Even for him.

Had he not been strengthening it [Zen Focus], or had he not used limit break to increase the soul defense, he would have been dead right now.

But even now, his situation was not much better.

His body functions had all shut down, trying to make him die as quickly as possible. This pain did not come from the body. It came from the soul itself, which had been attacked by this unknown magic.

Right now, the only thing still functioning was his mind, which was trying to think of ways to survive despite the unbearable pain.

'Here we are, again...'

'It has been a while.'

He had grown stronger, but still here he is again, almost on the verge of dying.

'Is it... finally time?'

With the stoppage of blood and magic to his brain, even his mind was now shutting down. He had survived a lot, but Axel really felt that this time was going to be the last.

He had given it his all. He really had. But this attack was just too damn strong.

'Axel... you better return to me safely.'

As his consciousness was on the verge of fading, a blurry face suddenly came into his mind.

!

Axel's eyes shot open, his mind clearing up through the pain. He can't die here. He REFUSED to die here!

An indescribable surge of determination flooded Axel.

[Pain Tolerance has been converted into Freakish Tenacity]

New Knowledge entered his mind, but Axel didn't really have the leisure to go through it right now. All could do was to cling to life like a leech, not letting go.

[Royal Water Arts]

Water entered his body, and his blood, which had almost stopped flowing, suddenly started to move again, even though his heart had long stopped beating.

[Zen Focus]

Recalling that face, his soul, which had been under tribulation due to the attack slowly started to calm down. But the level wasn't enough. He needed more. In order to survive.

An amber glow started to emanate from his body.

[You have awaken the Arhunt Bloodline]

...

On the other hand, Aslot was on the ground, his water body having transformed back to its former state.

Aslot, who had lost consciousness due to soul shock, finally opened his eyes after the pain subsided. Soul shock is a state when damage is inflicted to your soul. The pain is so severe that it is impossible to maintain consciousness. Thankfully, the damage was minor and through the Entity's power, he had not died even when unconscious.

'Finally... it's over...' thought Aslot through gritted teeth.

He had won, even though the price he had paid for it was rather steep.

By sacrificing a small portion of his soul, and by using an extremely large amount of magic, he had managed to cast a spell to destroy Axel's soul.

He was currently in a huge amount of pain. 'This... darned... spell...'

Soul Extinguisher

The spell he had used belonged to the forbidden Septis, the Soul Septis. Though now extinct, at one time, it used to be the most feared and revered Septis among all.

But after they lost the ability to awaken their bloodline, their members started succumbing to the Entity's power in order to awaken it.

A war ensued, which resulted in the destruction of the Soul Septis, though it was only at the expense of many Atlantian lives.

The Soul Septis had the ability to directly attack a person's soul. It was an advanced version of the Killing curse. After strengthening their soul defense, most Atlantians can survive the Killing curse. But not the spell he had just used, which can only be performed by extremely powerful individuals of the Soul Septis.

If you keep compressing the water, make some changes into its composition, mobilize all of the magic in it, you could theoretically create an Armageddon level of energy.

Axel quickly mobilized his water to stop Aslot, but even though Aslot had gotten weak, Axel had gotten even weaker.

"Are you seriously trying to do this? You think you can do it with how weak you are?" Asked Axel as he attacked Aslot instead. The amount of energy required would be too much, certainly not enough for the current Aslot.

But Aslot didn't seem to care about the damage at all, only focusing on compressing the water ball, which was beginning to have a really ominous energy by now.

Aslot chuckled. "Who said I was going to use my own power?"

A storage space manifested in the air, from which Aslot brought out a circular object. "Do you recognize what this is?"

Axel, of course, had no fucking clue, but... the key in his storage space was reacting strangely to it.

"We call it the dimensional bomb. It blew up in the middle of the kingdom, ignoring the protective wards."

'Fuck#$#$#$' A string of curses left Axel's mouth. The bombs that blew up on his first day of arrival at Atlantis... Aslot had been hiding one of them all this time.

He had some idea of the bomb's power. It can blow up with that much power despite the restricting wards. Then, with that much...

'It is actually possible!'

Aslot might just succeed in creating the biggest, most powerful explosion Axel had ever witnessed. With an explosion that bad, even Theron's relic wouldn't be able to protect Axel.

Aslot began chuckling as he saw fear in Axel's eyes for the first time. "You know what the funny thing is? These bombs were made through particles of the key that your parents destroyed."

'Okay, now I know.' Axel now at least knew the reason he was going to die. Apparently, the particles of the key make for very good explosion materials. Thanks, mother and father.

"Don't do it, old man. We'll both die!" Said Axel, his previous bravado gone.

"The Royal Relic will protect me!" Aslot laughed. "It might take a few months for me to recover my body, but it would be worth it if I can get rid of you!"

'Crazy geezer!' Axel never met a more lunatic opponent. The old man had gone senile, going to such extreme measures just to kill. 'I'm really not worth it!' He wanted to scream.

All the strategies to kill this guy had gone down the drain these two back to back suicidal attacks. According to his calculations, he should have had more time preparing before going on the offensive.

"This is the final farewell, Axel Regius Arhunt. You, really have been, the greatest one."

"Stop!" Yelled Axel. The first thing he did was to take out Theron's armor and squeeze in. He then tried stopping the bomb, but it went off instead.

*Click*

'I'm dead.' The unactivated Relic wasn't enough to protect him this time.

At this moment of death, Axel's mind went into overdrive, as everything seemed to happen in slow motion. A huge amount of energy was released at once, enough to trigger the chain reaction Aslot had been intending to create.

'Wait, the energy!'

Aslot had used to energy of the bomb to trigger the explosion. But, that energy could also be put to another purpose!

[Limit Break]

Axel used limit break for the second time in a row for the first time. It was painful, and could only squeeze very little energy. But, it was enough.

[Water Monarch]

Water gripped the Royal and Trident and threw it in the middle of the explosion. And just before the explosion reached him, Axel put everything into a single skill.

[UNSHACKLE]

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A.N.: So? Worth the wait?

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