Chapter 367: Selia, Erdania and Ryun

Chapter 367: Selia, Erdania and Ryun

Waiting Game

They stood above the field of battle, not high enough in the sky to be part of the areal battles, but high enough that they could see most of it. They stood on a platform that she constructed. Selia watched as the battles turned chaotic as all semblance of order was lost. Generals trampled into the battle lines, killing hundreds or thousands in seconds before people would step up, burn their powers and stop them. She could help, she knew that she should help, yet she didnt move. The knew that to act, to spend your strongest powers would leave you vulnerable, but that wasnt the reason why she was waiting. No, the reason was Ryun, and his plan.

It was a hard thing to believe in, what he wanted. But she had come to trust in him and his estimate of both of their power. She watched and felt so many powers being used that she couldnt even tell who was winning. She stayed still when the enemy was enhanced and their hide turned harder, when the Sect lines started to collapse. When a General the size of hills fired into the Sect army and decimated thousands, when it shot down a fortress out of the sky only for it to fall on top of a Sect in the distance and crush whoever was unlucky enough to be beneath it. Then she observed as the Golden Phoenix burned across the sky and killed it, only to then be harried by a swarm of flying monsters.

How much longer? Selia sent.

Ryun didnt outwardly react, but he responded through their bond. Soon.

His eyes were closed, but she knew that he was watching everything with his skill. She could feel his willpower trailing out of him sufficing the layers of space around them and beyond. He had been training his skill to be able to handle chaotic areas, but she didnt know how anyone could follow something like this.

And she couldnt help but feel a bit apprehensive about what they planned. It was almost too arrogant. But she remembered what they did in the Tournament City, and felt that perhaps, they could do it. So she waited, and watched as the monsters started to push the Sects harder.

Erdaina fought on the walls of Emaros, a taken team jumped her and she wove in between them. A sword hit her shoulder and didnt pierce her skinher Forging of Body and Aspect: Cosmic, made her body extremely hard to damage with physical forces, but also resistant to special damage. It took overwhelming force to actually harm her.The source of this content no/v(el)bi((n))

As the physical force of the sword hit her body, and didnt do anything, one of her tattoos flashed.She turned around and slammed her palm into the takens stomach, releasing a {Pulsing Shifting Strike} faster than he could react. The force collapsed his armor, and sent him flying off the wall and into the city. She felt another attack from the side with her |Enhanced Sphere of Awareness| and she sidestepped the hammer blow. It smashed into the ground and Erdania stomped on its haft, breaking it in half and cracking the ground beneath. The Wall shook and made the taken stumble, she executed a {Reverberating Blow} at the takens side with a closed fist, sending him flying into the air, probably with all of his organs turned to mush. The last taken unleashed a plume of fire at her, but she just let it hit her and walked through it, increasing the gravitys pull on her so that she didnt get blown away. She kept her primary Paths fruit technique active using her second Aspect, the Worldstone Qi. With it, her {Goddess of Worldstone} infused her body with the essence of the Worldstone. It scaled of her endurance and made her already durable body far more so. Once she got close enough to the taken, she hit him in the chest, making him bend over. She then grabbed his head and squeezed while activating [Essence Drain]. His death sent a surge of Essence into her that she ignored, her Vampire perk was more important now, with every death her stats rose higher.

A wave of red and black covered Qi erupted out of the rubble nearby, shaped like a dragon. Hitor opened his mouth and breathed his Qi all over the ruins. Erdania fell and crushed some buildings, then winced as she felt the pain in her chest. She looked down and saw some of her skin was red and blistering. Her tattoos were glowing.

She shook her head and stood, heading to help Hitor who fought in the distance.

Ryun kept watch on the enemy army as they pushed the Sects. He didnt pay much attention to the city and the fights in the sky. His sense was as powerful as it had ever been, stretching across the entire territory, but he kept most of his attention on the battle around them.

He had been part of the planning; he knew that their way of operating was to wait and spend their aces in situations where they could get the most out of them. It made sense, but Ryun wouldve probably ignored them if he had seen a better chance. No, he didnt want to just make one good hit. He planned on annihilating the enemy army. The biggest issue was that when they teleported in, their formations were thin. The fact that they surrounded the Sect armies meant that they had to split their forces in a large band to encompass them all. Which meant that in any area that Ryun could influence, there were at most tens of thousands of them, while their numbers were much higher. He needed the enemy to pool their forces somewhere, to gather. He needed more of them in a single place to take the most advantage, but also, he needed an area free of the Sect people.

His power could very easily hit allies and kill them. His techniques worked on intent, but he didnt know most of the sects here, and the ones he considered his allies were fighting among others that he did not. Even then, he couldnt really keep track, he couldnt see the colors of the sect uniforms. And he knew that deep inside he wouldnt really care for those who werent part of his own. He didnt want to risk killing them by accident though, that was a bit far.

So, he waited, and watched. He could tell that Selia was getting impatient, that seeing so much death was getting to her. He understood and shared the sentiment, though probably not for the same reason. Then, he saw it, a Sect battleline faltered, they got pushed to the city and were trying to evacuate inside. The enemy was following, widening, and separating the sect lines as they punched through. They were pulling troops from surrounding lines to funnel them in through there, creating an area filled with hundreds of thousands of monsters.

Now, Ryun sent to Selia and she immediately readied herself. There, he pointed both with his hand and through their bond. Ryun channeled his Qi and activated {Mantle of Gathering Twilight} while Selia flew them over the fighting.

Im ready, she sent, and he felt her preparing her techniques.

Ryun pulled down the stealth screen that he had kept around them, devouring sound and light that left their bodies. And then, he jumped using his Oblivion Aura and letting gravity resume its pull on him. He wore the Armor of the Last Star Set and that meant that his mass was counted as if it was 2000% higher. He shot toward the ground like a meteor and fell in the middle of the enemy positions. The monster that was unlucky to be beneath him was pulverized on impact, the ground heaved and rolled as it exploded in all directions killing any monster near enough. Immediately, the surviving monsters turned in his direction and attacked immediately. He let his aura spread, thinning it out, but increasing the range to the edge of his the enemy forces around himHis sense covered the entire territory, with Zenkers ring and armor increasing and boosting his sense far above anything that he could do without them. But, he focused his sense only on just the army around him, hundreds of thousands of monsters, the rest he could still feel, but they were in the background of his mind, not important.

As monsters came, he released his Presence of the Eternal Hunter and he felt Selia do the same above him, the two fields mixed and joined. What was once two, became one, their minds again as close as they had been only once before. Monsters came at him and with precision dark green and black spears fell from the sky, piercing every single one of them through the head. Above him thousands of spears were coming into existence and firing faster than Ryun had ever seen before.

He smiled to himself and then moved.