Chapter 384 Dissatisfactory

Huge wings spread out from Nial's back and darkness oozed out from all over him.

His eyes had turned pitch-black, the darkness around him decreased the temperature tremendously and he unleashed a heavy presence.

As he flew in the air above everyone else, Nial's range of perception was fully unleashed. His cold and near-emotionless voice resounded through the surrounding area,

"They have only 300 Prometheus, 100 Deux, and five Keltia. The rest are some youngsters, who probably came to Jundra to conquer the lower dungeons."

Nial made a precise report about the Heligav race's numbers and their strength even though the protective dome around their settlement restricted his [Mana Sense] from sensing a lot.

His rage and wrath were hardly suppressed by Nial as he was ready to barge inside the moment the dome would crumble to pieces.

However, he was pretty sure that this wouldn't be as easy as it sounded in Nial's mind.

The Royal Princess and the rest of the 3000 Elves had gathered up to make some necessary preparations.

Nial presumed their preparations to result in something similar to the tornadoes Valvian and his people had summoned when the Dryx had attacked them.

But what Nial didn't expect was to see the strongest of the Nightshadow Elves receive a lengthy wooden staff from the Royal Princess.

Numerous runic constellations were engraved on the wooden staff that began to glow in a gloomy dark light the moment the Keltia rank Nightshadow Elf touched it.

A semi-translucent black sphere formed around the tip of the wooden staff. Nial felt a cold draft sweeping past him as the swirls of mana around him and anywhere around were pulled toward the wooden staff that began to glow even brighter than before.

More than a thousand Elves released the mana they had accumulated within their body to lead it toward the black sphere that enlarged in size as it absorbed the mana.

Nial kept watching this with great interest.

'They're trying to supply enough energy to the Nightshadow Elf for him to destroy the dome?' He asked himself, thinking that there would be easier ways of doing so.

However, sometimes it was not the best decision to take the easiest path, especially if one wanted to intimidate their opponents even before their life and death battle had begun. Taking bolder risks would sow a seed of fear in the minds of their opponents, and their self-confidence would crumble.

Nial perceived that the Nightshadow Elf was doing something with the mana that gathered within the wooden staff's sphere. He created a tiny dot of compressed shadow energy at the tip of the sphere.

The tiny dot slowly began to grow in size and in a matter of five minutes it had turned into a huge ball of compressed and unstable shadow energy.

Forced to become more potent and lethal, the shadow energy had been altered, compressed, and turned unstable.

Nial began to get suspicious because he felt like the compressed shadow energy would explode at any moment. He could clearly perceive that the unstable shadow energy began to clash.

Yet, the moment Nial thought that it was time for him to intervene, the Nightshadow Elf moved, and he pointed the tip of the wooden staff straight at the blue dome of the Heligav race.

The dome was more than two kilometers away from its current position but when Nial sensed what would happen next, he immediately reacted.

The wings on his back flapped quickly and with tremendous power and he soared higher in the air.

Just when he stopped in the air once again, all the mana that had been stored in the black sphere of the wooden staff was released toward the tip.

The mana was highly potent and shot straight toward the tip, where the unstable compressed shadow energy ball was located.

It expanded further the moment the tremendous amounts of mana impacted it before it was flung forward with tremendous force.

A beam of compressed mana shot toward the unstable shadow energy ball that kept enlarging the longer the mana beam impacted on it.

The sound of the sound barrier being broken resounded through the area just before the enlarging shadow ball crashed into the blue dome of the Heligav.

Nial instinctively covered his ears with mana, blocking most sounds as if he could already tell what was going to happen.

However, the blue dome blocked the advance of the shadow ball beam and was resisting it. In response, the mana beam kept enlarging the unstable shadow ball that was being pressured from two sides.

It was only a matter of time before the shadow ball exploded due to the enormous pressure, releasing all the energy that had been forcefully restricted within.

"Is that a blackhole or what?!" Nial mumbled, feeling stupefied as he visualized how all the energy of the shadow ball slowly seeped over the dome and continued to expand until it covered a part of the whole blue dome.

At this moment, all the energy that had expanded shot back toward the center, where an earth-shaking explosion occurred the moment all the mana and shadow energy collided with one another at the exact same moment.

Nial may not be able to see the spectacle that happened two kilometers away from his current position but his hearts were beating wildly as he visualized the destruction the Nightshadow Elf had caused with a single attack.

"It's not a blackhole, and neither is it an attack someone at the Keltia rank can initiate single-handedly. The Nightshadow Elf and the 1000 Elves, who sacrificed their mana with a portion of their Essence will be forced to rest for a week before they can circulate mana once again," Princess Evalyne answered as she appeared by his side.

With the use of her wind affinity, she had created a wind platform below her feet. It was possible for her to run through the air as long as she controlled the winds around her precisely.

"Weren't you guys against destruction? I expected you guys to kill the Heligav with as little destruction and as few injuries as possible," Nial spoke calmly while clearly visualizing the pain of more than dozens of heavily injured Heligav, who had lost parts of their bodies due to the humongous explosion that had blown them and their settlement to bits.

With the exploding shadow energy, more than 50 Heligav had been killed, a circular crater with the length of more than 1000 meters had been created and the blue dome was destroyed beyond repair. It was reduced to rubble and ruins, leaving the Heligav open and defenseless without their protective layer.

It was possible for Nial to rush into the settlement of the Heligav but he was more interested in the wooden staff the Royal Princess had taken back from the Nightshadow Elf before she had appeared near him.

"Can I hold the staff for a moment?" He asked straightforwardly.

Nial could tell that the wooden staff was extremely valuable and unique equipment. He could sense that the staff was a branch of Yggdrasil that had been prepared accordingly and engraved with numerous runic constellations.

That was even more reason for him to be interested in the wooden staff. It should be one of the Elven races' treasures and Princess Evalyne had used it to gain a huge advantage over the Heligav even before their fight had started.

Evalyne looked at him for a moment before she shrugged her shoulders as she handed him the wooden staff.

Most High Elves and Sacred Elves would frown at her if they were to see her right now, but the Royal Princess could do whatever she wanted. She trusted Nial enough, whether he was in possession of the God of Darkness' powers or not.

As he held the wooden staff in his right hand, he felt a connection building up with it in an instant. His mana veins were clearly visible through his skin for a few seconds. They shone in a gold luster before they turned pitch-black a moment later.

The pitch-black mana veins began to throb within his body and his Heart of Darkness started to beat rapidly while holding the wooden staff. Instinctively, he pointed the staff toward what was left of the Heligav race's battlefield.

A big smile blossomed on his face and he didn't even need to think much as he willed the creation of hundreds of ten-meter-long darkness spears.

They covered the area around him and possessed enough power to destroy everything in their surrounding.

Nial waved the staff downward and all the darkness spears shot down, right at the hapless settlement dwellers. They rained down on the settlement that had turned into a graveyard as one spear after another pierced into the Heligav that were scurrying around like mice.

In a matter of seconds, more than 200 Heligavs had been killed, including many at the Lower Deux rank. When his attack succeeded, Nial sighed deeply.

It was much less satisfactory to overwhelm and kill 200 Heligav from a distance and just with a flick of his wrist, whether they were at a higher rank than him or not.

After terminating his connection with the branch of Yggdrasil, Nial handed the staff to the Royal Princess, who looked at him with a heavy expression.

Under normal circumstances, it required lots of focus and talent to wield the branch of Yggdrasil. In fact, even she couldn't use it as well as the Nightshadow Elf, who seemed to have used a similar type of energy amplifying weapon before.

However, Nial was different. He connected to the branch in an instant, and willed it to amplify his creation of hundred of darkness spears before they rained down on his opponents.

Each of the darkness spears had been 10 meters long, more than half a meter in width, and their power was tremendous, rivaling beings at the Deux rank.

As long as Nial used the branch of Yggdrasil, he could easily kill beings a whole rank above his own. If he were to go all out, Nial would certainly be able to do even more unimaginable things.

Princess Evalyne didn't even want to imagine Nial in his strongest form or what kind of powerhouse he would become in the future because everything he had shown until now was already more than frightening enough.

But it was interesting that Nial returned the branch of Yggdrasil without a single sign of hesitation or the slightest greed.

For a moment, Evalyne thought that Nial was completely uninterested in the branch of Yggdrasil, one of the Elves' Sacred treasures!

However, when she saw his expression, the sadness in his facial features, the frustration, and the anger, she could tell that it was not as if Nial was oblivious to the power of Yggdrasil's branch.

Nial was not satisfied with being able to kill his opponents that easily. It didn't feel right for him to be the one to kill those who had killed his master. He wanted to fight tooth and nail, not take the easy way out.

In Nial's opinion, it should have been a struggle to kill everyone, a fight of life and death where even the winner would barely be able to escape life.

If that would have happened, Nial would have felt much better because it meant that he had given his best to take revenge on his master.

It would also mean that he would have never been able to protect his master if she had been by his side or near him when the Heligav Assassins came for her.

But the current situation was dissatisfactory because the Heligav, who had been arrogant and looked down on humans or elves, were dying like moths would get attracted to a flame and die in vain.

And Nial was not the only one feeling like this.

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