Chapter 1054 Resseki's Flawless Armament and Kiren's Perfect Guardna
The artifact Niflheim attached to his shield was a circular golden medallion with an aqua-colored crystal embedded into its center. Around its edges were ancient texts inscribed onto the medallion that gave off mystical energy.
Crrraaaack! Shiiiiing!
The next moment, the artifact opened and split into five separate pieces on the surface of Niflheim's shield. The crystal from the medallion acted as the centerpiece and the object's golden exterior which was split into four even parts, rapidly rotated around the crystal.
As it did so, numerous cracks formed throughout Niflheim's shield and created fractures of glowing light blue energy.
Woooooosh!
A heavy aura washed over the shadahi inside the chamber that caused the creatures to instinctively set their gazes on Niflheim. Although it was difficult to tell due to the vicious nature of their physical appearance if one looked closely in their eyes, they would be able to see it—the natural sense of caution that crept into them.
But that was not the only thing that changed with the sudden emergence of the mystical energy released by the artifact.
Roooooragh!
Demonic flames coated the shadahi's hand as they lashed out at Guan Yu. This chapter's initial release occurred on the N0v3l--Biin site.
Guan Yu skillfully sidestepped the blow at the very last moment. Then, without missing a step in timing, launched a ferocious counterattack as he swung his guandao upward with great momentum.
ROOOOOAR! BOOM!
Guan Yu's guandao crashed into shadahi with the ancient blue aura wrapped around the blade of his weapon exploded forth.
Phhhhhtk! Roooooragh!
The guandao in Guan Yu's hand cleaved the shadahi in two. But he was taken aback at what happened next.
Countless black strands emerged from the shadahi's body—it was preparing to regenerate. However, right when the black strands attempted to connect and pull the creature's body back together in one piece, they withered and crumbled.
"What is this..?" Guan Yu said to himself as he looked down at his arms and saw that his entire body was being covered by a thin layer of light blue aura.
For Izroth, the burden was largely canceled out by his Heavenly Golden Body and Might stat. Unfortunately, Niflheim did not have that same luxury and became forced to endure the Seed of Celestial Energy through his own willpower.
Izroth observed Niflheim and witnessed the great amount of pressure that he was placed under by his artifact.
'I knew that we would have to use it to our advantage sooner or later; however, for it to be this soon is earlier than I anticipated.'
After experiencing the harsh side effects of the Seed of Celestial Energy firsthand, Izroth knew that even a player with decent pain tolerance would find it challenging to handle it. That's precisely why Izroth instructed Niflheim not to use Kiren's Perfect Guardna under any circumstances unless he instructed him to do so.
'It certainly has its downsides. Since it's impossible to rush the growth process behind the Seed of Celestial Energy, we have no choice but to let it happen naturally over time. Unfortunately, if we want to ensure that the shadahi cannot regenerate and return stronger than before, we have no choice but to employ this method. So, he will have to endure for a bit. That being said, it looks like it's having a good effect and tilting the battle in our favor. As long as he can hold out for a while, we should be able to tie up the loose ends here.'
Unlike Resseki's Flawless Armament which only benefited Izroth and his ability to attack, Kiren's Perfect Guardna was capable of influencing everything in its surroundings.
For its enemies, especially the shadahi, the aura from Kiren's Perfect Guardna was akin to poison. As for those it deemed allies, it shielded them from harm and did so exceedingly well against the shadahi.
Rmmmmmmble!
As the 9th Division and 5th Unit started to gain a huge upper hand over the shadahis, out of nowhere, the space around the spatial rift started to visibly tremble as multiple rings like a stone being dropped into still water appeared around the area.
Crack! Crack!
Izroth narrowed his eyes as he observed the fracturing spatial rift. The following moment, a swirling vortex appeared right above the damaged coffin.
The vortex was separate from the spatial rift; however, it seemed to be directly linked to it in some manner.
Then, in the blink of an eye, the coffin disappeared as it was sucked into the vortex.
WOOOOOOOSH!
Without warning, the vortex released a powerful pulling force that started to draw in everything within the chamber. Even space itself was not sparred from this vortex as the fracturing spatial rift was being slowly pulled into the vortex itself.
The members of the 9th Division and 5th Unit were caught off guard by the vortex and found themselves struggling to hold their ground and stop themselves from being pulled inward.
'The space... Is it beginning to collapse?'
Izroth never witnessed space collapsing before in this manner inside RML. It was almost as if a singularity had abruptly formed at the chamber's center!