Chapter 992: Demi God's Arrival

Chapter 992: Demi God's Arrival

The conquest of Keiros ended less than 24 hours after they arrived. They attacked fiercely and destroyed the Divine Academy, leaving no stone unturned.

The Super Awakened stored the corpses of those they'd killed, while the survivors were pushed into an artificial coma through River of Vigor. It cost a lot more advanced healing serum than Michael had hoped, but rescuing more than 1,000 Awakened was worth it. They resisted the power of Blood Incursion and deserved a chance to survive and an opportunity to reclaim freedom.

Once the Divine Academy was destroyed, Michael expected nothing else to happen. He was certain the battles of the day were over and that he and his people could leave. But that wasn't the case.

A pair of Hyumans appeared out of nowhere. One of them was a mere Higher Lifeform, but she disappeared mere seconds after they emerged near Keiros. At least, she tried to escape with her Relic, augmenting her spatial-type Soultrait.

Slipstream might be a powerful teleportation Soultrait, but it was much more than that. At least once, it was upgraded to 9-Star. The Soultrait could control the spatial distortions in Michael's range. The range depended on Michael's mastery of the Laws of Space.

Even though Michael's mastery of the Laws wasn't great, it wasn't bad either. In fact, Michael's understanding of the Laws of Space was much more extensive than most other laws. Michael had been studying the limits of teleportation and the means to break through the concealed spatial distortions to avoid getting caught by means like the Floating Union's spatial distortion devices.

His studies progressed quickly even though he hadn't discovered anything new. But that wasn't necessary. There was no need to learn new subjects related to space laws. Imprinting the old, known Laws of Space into his mind while also unraveling the layers of knowledge the Slipstream Symbol had imprinted into his mind was more than enough to locate foreign distortions in space and temporarily conceal further distortions of the same kind. This would have been difficult if the opposing force was a Divine Lifeform with a powerful teleportation Soultrait, but the High Awakened was probably equipped with a 6-Star Space Soultrait, which had to be boosted by a Relic to teleport a single Demi-God to Keiros.

Michael teleported the Super Awakened to the Nest with a wave of his hands and appeared behind the female High Awakened. The Demi-God spun around, unleashing a massive lightning bolt that would have burned Michael and the High Hyuman at once. If they remained at the same spot, that is.

Michael blocked all attacks. The first two punches were blocked with his body, whereas the remaining blows were blocked by the Imperial Barrier's weakest form. The barrier absorbed the black lightning currents first as they impacted before the punch reached Michael. That, however, was more than fine. In fact, it was exactly what Michael needed to improve his serpent scale armor, his hand-eye coordination, and a few other factors that had been neglected in the last few years.

The corner of Michael's lip curled upward.

"If you want to survive this, you have to show me more!" Michael teased the Demi-God, who continued bashing Michael with a series of dozens of attacks within a second. Michael blocked the attacks one by one. He wasn't as fast as the Demi-God, but he had Seer with True Vision and could predict every attack a fraction of a second before it impacted. There was more to it, though. True Vision also saw how much energy and Divinity the Demi-God inserted into his attacks.

At first, Michael was certain the Demi-God would slowly increase the intensity of his attacks, but he didn't even tap into his Divinity Seed when Michael started retaliating. Once Michael finished analyzing the attack pattern of the Demi-God and the force of his punches and black lightning currents, he could counter them easily with a slightly stronger form of Imperial Barrier.

The Soultrait didn't drain any energy since Michael applied True Extraction with Insert on the Imperial Barrier, creating a self-repairing barrier, which absorbed the surrounding energy, including the black lightning currents.

A fraction of the lightning currents were absorbed and transformed into just enough energy to strengthen the Imperial Barrier and block incoming blows. That was perfect, but it was also why Michael was so confused.

"Why are you not using your Divinity? Wait..." Michael's eyes widened.

"Did they actually deploy one of their weakest Demi Gods rather than someone who's about to attain godhood?" He asked.

"Foolish!"