24 Nightmare's Cowl
He heard the distant shakings of the cave and knew they were fending off the snake.
The opening and size of the cave was very small and in comparison to the characteristics of the snake, its moves were more straight forward since it was always in a line and couldn't coil to change its move set. But the power behind each strike from the beast was still very powerful.
THey wre most likely using their all to dodge the attacks, but the unconscious body of Tomahawk would become a hindrance and his rate of death would quicken from the sudden movement as the poison would course through his veins and would kill him, a slow but painful death.
He quickened his pace, the color usually given when his lightweight activates was usually a white hue, but each step and each spur of power gradually transitioned the state of the power given, using the foundation qi, his speed had almost quadrupled an he reached the tunnel in matter of minutes.
There, he saw the large cobra passing through, striking at any opportunity to deal with Fire Axe, who was holding Tomahawk, Ju Dun was using rocks to try to fend it off.
The moment he saw the snake, he knew he had to move in. With all his power to boost his speed with his technique, he gain almost quintuple! A large dust cloud of gravel and pebbles kicked along the way as he rampantly dashed towards the snake with his speed, the snake noticed the child behind, trying to make a sneak attack, a small hiss was heard that resembled a chuckle, it was as if it was like a taunt. 'As if this kid can pierce through my scales!'
But that moment became a disaster to the cobra, he used his final step to dash forward at an angle not directly heading to the snake and began carving his way forward, using his speed as the force behind the blade.
His Berat blade could be used to kill even Saint blood beasts with appropriate techniques and power. Using all his might on the sword, the power was enough to inflict damage, but without a technique behind his crude strike, the damage was greatly reduced and a large gash appeared on the right.
The snake lifted his head in surprise and pain, to think the kid behind him could actually do something. Awhile back, he was hiding behind the rest!
At that point, Fire Axe was already in distance to recall his Soul Weapon, but with the lack of soul energy, it was practically like a beginner wielding a multiplier of some sort but the initial amount wouldn't be much at all.
He was able to fend off the Nightmare Cobra with the time they spent lovingly with one another and was on the verge of being bitten with the slightest misstep. But Bai Li's appearance allowed the snake to start turning towards over, the wound on the snake had recovered but the scales were pale white, newly recovered scales that weren't hardened yet.
He striked at the same position, using the same movement of the Sky Splitter, but without the soul energy behind it, it allowed the same infliction of pain towards the creature.
The snake closed his eyes in agony as it squirmed in pain, its main body overlapping itself. It was on the verge of death and only one more strike was needed. But a tantrum from the beast caused many destruction of the terrain, stalactites began appearing everywhere as it knocked its huge body against the cave walls. Stalactites began falling overhead and the feeling of being impaled by such large spikes were in none of their to-do lists.
Fire Axe and Ju DUn began retreating outside the cave.
"Come! Let's go before it recovers!"
Fire Axe signaled Bai Li to come with them so they could escape and get as far as possible. The recovery would definitely take more than two days and maybe it would be a safe amount on the run against the large beast.
But a savage beast who did not have a conscious was of endless pursuit, if he did not do anything here, it would definitely come once more, fully aware of their strengths and charged ahead.
"I'm not finished!"
Bai Li used his recovered energy, the foundation qi made it possible for the rapid recovery, since most of your pores open to absorb soul energy at night to replenish. He felt rejuvenated even after spending all that energy to rush here and even do vital attacks to allow its openings.
He had no experiences with using swords and have not learned a modified or ordinary Art of Swords, he rapidly infused his energy upon his blade.
The crackling in the air as he charged forward made it seem as the fabled legends of heroes entering a dragon's cave and calling upon all their might to strike their body was a miraculous sight.
The sword felt as if it were on the verge of breaking, a common type where the material could not handle the soul energy, unlike soul weapons, and breaks immediately without skilled usage of soul energy, An Overload was usually what the phenomenon called as it was like a one hit wonder, nobody would even use such with their powerful weapons so it was widely discouraged and taught in most cirriculums that an overload was a bad idea. The sword produced many shattering effects as it began cracking at its stem, from the hilt.
He had about 5 seconds before the cracks appeared all over the blade and cause it to break, but that was all he needed.
His energy recovery was like a rapid generator as he used some of his recovered drops to speed up once more. The foundation qi was a miraculous talent in the eyes of Bai Li, the natural ability to increase power and increase recovery was absurd and was an absolute treasure!
He used his final dash once more and jumped forward, cramping his legs as the jump was forced by Bai Li's strong will to defeat the raging beast. The jump caused large amounts of pain as he gritted his teeth, bringing down all his might to deal the blow.
It struck right through the middle of the snake's forhead as it was in a coil, using its tail to destory the area, bringing it down.
Bai Li appeared on the travel distance of his jump as he fell, straight on his stomach and sprawled on the floor. The snake stood motionless as if nothing ever happened, staring in the abyss, its body appeared in stasis before falling apart in half, the split was grotesque as strings of poisonous blood caused the substance to appear awry as the tissues of flesh disconnect as well.
The Absolute Beings of the refugee escaping from the Dark Star Beasts were key inventors of contraptions of the Soul Realm, one being the Soul Chip, which was embedded in all parents and could be passed down to other generations. The Soul Chip allowed one to analyze a soul of any kind and it would appear in a cryptic runic language that nobody can understand but the Absolute Being, a Naz'yrga species deemed as the Wiseman, who appeared to be a translucent brain, had died four thousand years ago and showed patterns of encrypting the message and was able to identify any of the soul variant and its power. The language appeared to be from an ancient powerful beings of unknown origin. The only evidence shown of their existence was a ruin made with slick black material and only one item remained intact. A super computer with unknown characters as keys. Humans had tried to duplicate such but failed miserably, even with the Wiseman's help, only the Soul Chip was made with only 5% of its capabilities. If one wasn't in the history course, one would find it rather interesting that nobody knew of the origin of such technology and contraption.
But what appeared to be strange was the words naturally unscrambling within his mind, characters and letters merged to become one, mixing strangely similar to that of the words of the journal. It read.
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You have slain the rampaging Nightmare Cobra
Meat Level is of the Saint Blood
You have gained a Beast Soul Armor Hybrid-Type
Nightmare's Cowl
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As those words appeared within his mind, he blanked out.
Forcefully using all his energy, as well as his recovering portion as well, forcing his technique to change in a middle of casting, caused him great fatigued. He let his mind drifted as he silently fell in a deep trance of slumber. His body immediately fell to the ground and was unconscious indefinitely.
