Chapter 175: Alice

For several seconds the world disappeared from my senses, I felt like I had been dropped in a vacuum and that my mind was taking forever to process a thought."Stand up," I told myself. Sёarᴄh the nôvelFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Open your eyes"

"You will die, open your eyes"

I tried to wake myself and reconnect with my body, but the only effect my words had was an echo in the vacuum.

They bounced all around me, echoing for seconds before dying out.

Blake had no idea how long he stayed kneeling and disoriented, but he knew that the thing that finally revived his senses and had them thinking straight was a scream from Lena.

Lena's scream somehow found its way into the perilous world Blake had been put in and had him snapping his eyes back to reality.

With the desire to live past today blazing within him, Blake flicked his eyes open and when he felt lethal danger from his left, he had a vertical cut appear across his left arm.

Blood poured out of this cut and without delay, following the shape of the cut, it shot out off Blake's arm, slicing through the air with a loud whine and cutting its target in half.

To make his blood move at its fastest, rather than have a portion of his blood fly out of him and shoot towards his target, Blake had kept a continuous stream of blood going out of him.

Though this method reduced manoeuvrability due to its connection to him, in this case, manoeuvring wasn't so much needed.

Blake's method of attack made it look like red ice that had frosted over from him and vertically sliced Ryan in half.

"Nooooooooooo!"

The most horrible screech Blake had ever heard in his life sounded a screech which made whatever emo Lena had produced sound like child's play.

"troublesome"

Already knowing what he had done, Blake didn't bother paying any mind to the man he had just killed or his wailing mother, the so deadly woman who had defeated him with just her voice was all he cared about and right now he was looking for her so he could go in whatever direction lay opposite.

Finding the astonishingly beautiful blonde was no problem for Blake, but the reason he hadn't immediately turned and fled was that this blond was battling Lena who while familiar was also not familiar.

Lena still had on the same clothes from the last time he saw her, but watching her figure, every move she made against the blonde screamed grace.

"She has a regality that reminds me of someone"

"Yes Lilith"

Blake watched with wide eyes as Lena jumped to the side, avoiding a golden river that melted everything in its path and then she clapped her hands together, pulling them apart and revealing a round purple portal.

Hanging in the air, the portal spun, releasing agonizing cries of beasts and men and then from this portal, visible purple mana began pouring out.

"purple mana"

Blake had seen red, dark red and blue mana before but never purple, he thought the mana of the underworld was dark red, but it seemed he was wrong, its true colour might be purple.

The mana from the portal poured out onto the ground contaminating and corrupting it, killing all the green around it.

Blake saw that the golden river retreated from the portal like it was afraid but a second later he realised he was wrong as the river instead circled the portal once with incredible speeds, gaining momentum that had the ground trembling before then shooting towards it and its creator.

"Unless she can expand the size of the portal to swallow up the river she's going to be crushed by it"

This was Blakle's thought and he expected Lena to act according to it until she didn't.

From the portal, a 5-meter wide snake shot out speeding towards the raging golden river and then just before the two of them could clash, the snake opened its mouth.

To Blake's shock, the snake expanded its mouth to over 20 metres and swallowed the entire golden river in one single gulp.

"Impossible" Blake said, gawking as he saw the snake return to its normal size hissing at the blonde woman who was some meters from it and calmly staring at its form.

"A gluttony serpent, I hope you have more of those cause I would hate to see you cry for its loss," the blonde woman said as she pointed her hands at the slithering creature.

Despite the blonde's words, Lena maintained a neutral expression, not moving a muscle even when the snake was put in danger.

The snake began contorting in pain, its face one of frustration and resistance, in anger, it shot towards the blond woman snarling at her but before that could happen it burst apart.

A golden river replaced its position but a second look at this river would reveal that it had lost more than half its shine and that there were several traces of purple mixed with it.

A frown marred the blond woman's face when she saw this, her expression making it obvious that her golden river had been danged and that it was a serious matter.

"Solara" Blake called as he watched them.

All this while Solara had been behind Blake, the woman having moved to protect Blek when he had fallen to his knees.

Blake had known about her presence but hadn't cared till now.

" Who is that woman"

Solara was surprised by the question but she hurriedly answered.

"Alice Reindall, the champion of light"

"I see. The champion of light."

Blake focused back on Alice, watching as she raised her hand up to the sky. For some seconds, all remained still, Alice's actions seemed to have no effect, but then soon they felt it, the temperature of the atmosphere rapidly increasing.

It took a while but the sound of something heavy falling from the sky soon reached their ears and when they looked up, a single thought went through everybody's mind.

"The sun is falling."

"No, it's not the sun, but rather a gigantic boiling ball of fire."

Having seen enough, Blake stood to his feet, he grabbed Solara who was behind him and threw her over his shoulder and then he sped off.

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"A sun river isn't an easy treasure to acquire. Even with all the material needed for it suppled, crafting it a whole different level of hardship and luck. That you have one so well crafted is a blessing.

Though your sun river has been damaged if you turn away from this battle, you will have time to fix it." Lena said.

Alice stayed silent like she was listening to Lena's words and when the woman was done speaking, she waved her hand at the river and had it disappear.

For a second Lena thought Alice had listened to her but the blonde woman proved her wrong as she lifted her hand up to the sky, this action making Lena sigh.

"Are you sure you know who I am?"

"Why are you asking, is it because I am not quacking in my boots and hiding away from you."

"People who tremble in my presence and cower at the mention of me have their reasons, perhaps you should ask about it."

"You talk a lot,"

"Yeah, it's a habit I have unfortunately picked after staying on this planet.

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"What is it with you children and thinking you are the next best thing" Lena muttered shaking her head and looking at the purple portal she had created.

"Do you know what this is?" Lena asked.

"A hell summoning portal' Alice answered just as the pressure coming from her falling ball of fire began pressuring the atmosphere and heating the wind below.

"True, and tell me do you know what creatures exist within there."

"Why should I care"

Lena sighed at this and shrugged her shoulder, glancing to the side at the second battle which has started.

Feeling ignored and refusing to believe that her descending attack was no threat to Lena, Alice tightened her fist, increasing its pace, an action that meant she no longer cared to control the destruction that was about to be unleashed.

Everyone trembled at the effect of Alice's decision but Lena paid it no mind, her focus on the mana that was spilling from the mana into the world.

When the corruption that came from the purple portal had finished spreading all around the battlefield, the portal began twisting and expanding, the squeaky sounds of an unoiled cart sounding out.

With the horrible sounds coming from the portal, it got everyone's attention and when a black-clawed hand shot out of it and grabbed the side of the portal, a tremble went through everyone's heart.

Another hand son shot out and grabbed the edge of the portal and then with visible struggle began using it as leverage to pull themselves out of the darkness of the portal.

Alice couldn't see what was on the other side and she didn't wait to.

She brought her hand down and then went through a few hand seals before bringing her hands to a stop, both middle fingers pointing at the portal.

A sharp scream left the fiery ball in the air and then imploded in a shower of flames, a gigantic red bird diving down from the air, heading straight for the portal.