Chapter 2992 Golden Blood (Part 2)

Chapter 2992 Golden Blood (Part 2)

Bytra couldn't move fast in such an enclosed space and swinging her hammer was dangerous.

She adjusted her grip right below the head of the Absolution, shortening its range but giving her fists the hardness of Davross and the destructive power of the bolts of lightning conjured by her horn.

Lith freed Ragnarök from its bloody scabbard and shortened the blade to not be impeded by the nearby walls or be a threat to his allies. The angry blade cut through the enemies like a hot knife through butter, guided by the Full Guard enchantment of the Voidwalker armor.

Solus combined the Full Guard of her armor and the shortened grip on her hammer to squash living and undead like bugs. She had turned the elemental crystals on the Fury black, painting the Davross into an obsidian surface.

The darkness magic snuffed life forces and smashed blood cores alike, denying those risen from the grave the gifts of undeath.

Yet she felt scared. She had no idea why, but she felt scared.

As her heart kept pounding harder and harder in her chest, she called upon the Sage Staff and used its enchantments to turn the area around her into a kill zone. What her arms missed, the elemental crystals and evil eyes of the Staff would destroy.

'Something is very wrong.' She tried focusing on the ongoing battle but her brain was screaming at her. 'This attack is doomed to fail. Numbers are meaningless against overwhelming power.

'If I know that, so does our hidden enemy. Then what does he hope to achieve by wasting so many powerful undead? Why am I scared?'

***

The battle had barely started and half of Maergron's minions were already destroyed for good. Based on his calculations, it would take less than ten more seconds for the second wave to be destroyed.

If things didn't change.

"How is this possible? Who does this blood belong to?" It was then that he noticed it. The blood was resonating with the Apprentice Ears which unlike its current owner recognized the heir of Menadion and resonated with her tower half in the attempt to restore the Master Ears.

"If this is what I get from touching it..." Maergron lost no time and brought the blood to his mouth, seeing it turn golden as he poured it through his lips. "Who has golden blood and why I don't feel any different?"

The euphoria, power, and knowledge were all gone along with Solus' blood. Away from her body and the tower, it had reverted to its energy form, turning golden first and then fading into speckles of light.

"No!" Maergron tried to salvage the miraculous blood but what was left in the bronze basin had turned golden as well and was disappearing.

"No, no, no!" He tried to store it in his dimensional amulet, but like everything it had done until that moment, Solus' blood defied logic and refused to be contained.

***

"No, no, no!" Solus screamed at the top of her lungs in the tunnel above the temple. "They are killing me! These things are killing me!"

Her words didn't make sense to her comrades. Due to her position in the formation, Solus had taken much fewer hits than the others. Between the spells from the Sage Staff, the power of her hammers, and her physical prowess, she had suffered just a couple of scratches.

That was on the outside. On the inside, the situation was much worse.

Solus wasn't like any other being that was supposed to be alive. Her life force and mana core bore a deep, wide crack that constantly bled her life essence. Thanks to her bond with Lith and the tower, however, she recovered more than she lost.

Until that moment.

Maergron's tendrils and spores found fertile ground in the cracks of her life force, spreading them wide and making them fester. His mana followed the stream of Solus' bleeding mana to strike directly at her core, poisoning it.