Chapter 2269 Surprise

Chapter 2269 Surprise

Twelve energy orbs are revolving around Sam.

All of them made of shadow energy ready to do his bidding. Marron raised her eyebrow and stepped forward.

Her staff came at him at an incredible speed. Needless to say she is faster than before and Sam even his shadow form found it hard to dodge it cleanly. One of the orbs moved parallel to the staff and exploded.

*BOOM*

The staff's direction changed and it almost threw her off balance. Sam took this chance and slid underneath the staff before closing in the distance. As she was about to pull herself together, the remaining orbs started circling her from different sides.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

The explosions rocked her completely and she left herself wide open. Sam's dagger started glowing with some runes as well. These are dark black runes with faint red and purple hue.

*SLASH*

*SLASH*

He got a clean slash on her torso and a stab landed at her shoulder. It was aimed at her neck, but she managed to move and avoid it a bit. The hit on her torso was blocked by the armor. It didn't penetrate deep enough, though the armor was decently damaged messing up the inscribed defenses.

The hit on the shoulder on the other hand was clean.

Sam didn't want to let this chance go. As Marron stepped back hurriedly like a red colored blur, he suddenly disappeared from her front in a puff of black smoke. She dashed a hundred odd yards backward and came to a halt.

*PUFF*

Only for Sam to emerge from behind her and stab another dagger into her back.

She sensed his move and tried to dodge. The attack still landed on her back, right beside her shoulder blade. This one is also not deep and didn't manage to penetrate all the way through her armor.

*SWOOSH*

Marron spun around with her staff. The staff brushed past his shoulder and even hurt him a bit. Sam disappeared once again and reappeared from her rear.

This time Marron anticipated it and managed to land a thrust with the rear of her staff, but at the same time...

*BOOM*

An explosion of shadow energy emerged from the spot where the dagger was lodged in the rear. Then only Marron consciously realized that the dagger was still stuck in her armor. Not noticing that cost her, her armor's inscription network, at least the ones on the rear.

Along with a good and solid damage to the flesh making her bleed.

*SWOOSH*

The energy beam of shadow energy was shot at her, at that time, she gritted her teeth and looked at Sam. Her eyes glowed with that blood red color, the small blood drop that has been dripping down the cut from her face turned into a sharp needle shooting towards Sam's eye.

*SWOOSH*

Sam had to let go, but the vines tangling her didn't just disappear, instead they exploded. Marron moved out of the energy beam's path and braced herself for the explosion of the vines. But to her surprise, there is no massive explosive force destroying her. She stumbled down as the vines disappeared into the puff of dark black smoke.

Her heart raced and she breathed heavily. Sam kept as much distance from her as possible. That was a close call.

The needle made of blood almost penetrated his eye. If not for his immediate reaction... an eye is way too much of a sacrifice just to land a hit.

Marron looked at Sam with her heaving breath. She is furious. It is apparent in her eyes. Two dozen more orbs appeared around Sam as he looked at her with a smile. As if to respond to Sam, blood came out of the wound on her back. Several blades conjured out of blood hovered around her.

"You are done."

She muttered and dashed towards Sam.

The staff came at Sam, when the orbs moved as usual to deflect, the blades reacted and attacked the orbs. Deflecting them, making them explode prematurely. Sam activated ripple style and repel style, meeting the staff with his daggers.

The resulting explosion up on contact sent him down, creating a gap.

*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*

Two daggers were thrown at her from the bottom. She easily deflected them, but he was not done.

*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*

Projectile weapons were thrown into the air all aimed at her, the blood blades were enough to deflect them as they moved towards him followed by her with her bloody staff.

However, the deflected projectiles that she went past by reacted with the shadow energy, emitting it in their full glory as humanoid figures appeared out of them. Shadow undead emerged from the projectiles and are now hovering behind.

Marron widened her eyes in disbelief as the undead appeared behind her.

Sam took out his staff as shadow energy raged from him. He kicked the ground and shot towards her

*SWOOSH*

The blood blades were all shot towards him as Marron turned around and blocked the attacks from the shadow undead. Just when she was about to blow the head of one of the undead, she realized that the blades missed the target.

Sam disappeared in a puff of smoke and he reappeared behind one of his undead. That undead happened to be the one that she was targeting.

Her staff connected with the undead, while Sam's staff banged her on the head.

A clean directly hit.

Marron spun like a top while in mid-air, with blood splattering out of her mouth.