Chapter 1042 Stalling

Chapter 1042 Stalling

The Tekur Queen was too strong to handle alone. Her relentless attacks were strong and precise enough to kill multiple enemies simultaneously, but only if their defenses were too weak. Some of the Divine Subordinates were struck to death with a single blow, but beings like Mekhaz survived much more.

Mekhaz used Living Armor, Energy Absorption, Repel, and his other Soultraits such as Gigantification, Taunting Grimace, and One Man Army to throw himself against the Tekur Queen.

One Many Army worked well enough because the number of Tekur in the background was only slowly decreasing. There were still more than enough enemies in One Man Army's range to push Mekhaz's power level up a notch. If not for that and his Last Rope Soultrait, Survival King, Mekhaz would have difficulties surviving one blow against the Tekur Queen, let alone a barrage of whip-like lashes.

The Tekur Queen's attention was forcefully pulled toward him when he activated Taunting Grimace. The Tekur Queen, enraged by the Soultrait and the fact that she had been so easily taunted by a noname, charged Mekhaz and attacked him with each of her arms. The power of Energy Absorption weaved into the Repel runes conjured all over Living Armor, absorbed a portion of the blow – a big part of the energy-enhanced attacks – weakening the blow right before the Repel runes absorbed another portion of the impacting force.

But that was not all the impacting force was distribute across the entire Living Armor whenever the Tekur Queen's attack struck. It was painful – all over his body – but not a single bone broke even after the Tekur Queen had attacked him seven times. He used Repel, consuming one of the repel runes whenever the Tekur Queen's attacks accelerated. The force of her attacks increased and her tactics changed slowly from whisking her arms at him to squash Mekhaz to ripping his seamlessly connected Living Armor apart. It took the Tekur Queen a while to find some suitable spots for her hook-like claws to connect, but it worked. The Warlock Centaur, four times taller and heavier than usually due to Gigantification, was thrown around like a wet sack of potatoes.

Their target had been the Tekur Queen's wings which froze instantly from the Frozen Nova Essence. Kaleb controlled the Frozen Nova Essence precisely and let it erupt once more to compress the Essence at vital spots that acted as a foundation for the transparent wings. The vital points cracked and broke, rendering the transparent wings useless. The Tekur Queen couldn't rely on her wings to escape her enemies to charge at others with terrifying velocity. With that troublesome power removed, the Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates could start wrestling with the Tekur Queen until she was worn out and damaged beyond repair.

At least, that was what they wanted to do. The Tekur Queen, however, grasped Mekhaz once he was hooked with two arms and flung him around, smashing the Warlock Centaur heavily into Hiraku. Hiraku tried catching Mekhaz, but he had to pay attention to the Tekur Queen's next move, too. If the Tekur Queen had followed up with a series of attacks, Hiraku would have had to block it because Mekhaz couldn't do so at the time. Hiraku understood the danger of the task ahead but was left in surprise when the Tekur Queen twisted to the side and disappeared.

That was what it looked like to Hiraku. For a moment, at least.

The Tekur Queen disappeared and reappeared before a group of more than a dozen Divine Subordinates. They had been busy using Support-type Soultraits on more than a dozen Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates for the last ten minutes. Their task was also to heal those in pain, to keep them calm, and to rescue those in need of protection.

Unfortunately, too few powerhouses protected them. The Rescue Fighters weren't weak, but the Tekur Queen took them by surprise. She accelerated quickly, passed through several rows of Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates to reach them, and...started wreaking havoc to defeat those who reinforced everyone else.

A small bloody massacre was all the Tekur Queen needed to rebalance the fight once again.