Chapter 952: Triple Expansion

Chapter 952: Triple Expansion



When two expansions clash, they get layered based on affinity and type, for example, Arad's void might get filled with a red dragon's flames, allowing the two to exist at the same time. But when three powerful expansions clash, the strongest one would dominate as the mana present would hit the maximum density allowed in the air.

[Elemental Expansion: Bone Yard] As Alaric crosses his arms, a storm of bones explodes from his forearms aiming to blast both Lydia and Lunara away to give himself an opening to kill Eris. This expansion was cone-shaped instead of a spherical one, mainly because Alaric wanted to conserve energy and create an opening instead of defeating his targets or getting an advantage.

[Elemental Expansion: Moon Rain] Lunara's slashes fell from the moon as quickly as they could, aiming only at Alaric. If she could wound him enough, Arad is bound to take back control.

She can't spare any slashes for Lydia, every slash is a chance at waking Arad up, and she was going to roll the dice as many times as she could. Lydia shouldn't be a foe, Lunara knew that well and that she was attacking from a misunderstanding. She hoped that Arad would help clear that once he woke up, but she had no guarantee that she would survive a direct hit from Lydia's coming expansion.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

[Divine Expansion:..] Lydia glared at them, the sun burning hot behind her back. It was at that moment that the two demon lords knew true fear and realized how bad the situation was for them. It wasn't a matter of surviving the attack or getting killed. It was a matter of whether their souls would even remain intact from the coming attack. At the last second, they could see a ghostly silhouette of Amaterasu sitting on the sun behind Lydia, pointing at them with the sharp nail of her big right toe and carrying a sadistic smile on her face.

It wasn't just divine magic that was coming out of Lydia, but a massive wave of cursed magic came rampaging at the same time, sparking from her body in a wave of black and golden light.

[...Solar Expansion]

Jack's white eyes shifted into eclipse-like black ones as darkness burst from his body, swallowing the whole area. The confused werebear found himself standing alone in the darkness, unable to utter a single voice. In his mouth, he could taste the rusty flavor of iron. BANG! As the light returned, Jack blasted the werebear's brain with a cannon shell in the throat. He stood beside Lydia and looked at her with a worried gaze. "Again?" His eyes then shifted toward the dead werebear, "Hands off my wife."

At that moment, the ground shook as a massive blast emerged not too far away from Jack and Lydia, it was strong enough to knock him down. "Damn it, what's going on?!" He looked back, "Hurry!" He yelled at the murder paladins who had just finished killing all of the lycanthropic cultists who were transformed by Alaric, those rampaging wild beasts were a danger to anything alive.

Alaric flew at the church and burst through the window, swinging his claw toward Eris's neck. She was fast asleep thanks to the church's magic, and even if she was awake, she couldn't fight back in her weakened condition.

A fraction of a second before his claw could pierce Eris's chest, a large charred foot flew right above his head, landing a hair strand beside Eris on her bed. The charcoal-black Lunara flew in, snatching Eris out of his way.

Alaric's claw pierced her torso, and the demon lord gasped, "Lunara! You could still move?" He couldn't believe his eyes, with how weakened she was and the injury inflicted from taking Lydia's expansion head-on, she should've been dead.

While carrying Eris in one arm, Lunara grabbed Alaric's claw with her other hand to prevent him from escaping. She lifted her other foot and was about to strike. The dying rabbit in the wolf's jaw strikes back, defending a nest that would never belong to her.

Lunara swung her foot down, smacking Alaric's head as hard as she could, shaking his very soul.

The lycanthropic transformation started shifting back, and Arad slowly returned to normal, finding himself standing with his whole arm plunged into a dying Lunara with the unconscious Eris in her arm.

Arad stared at her with a passive face his purple eyes frozen in time. For a second, a dark flame could be seen burning inside, growing larger and larger until the veins on his pupils bulged red with rage.