Chapter 17: Snatch!

[Severing Light Formation]!

The squad, like some ninjas in Naruto(1), began moving their hands very quickly that it seems like a blur. With each hand movement, a corporeal image of a sword light having a size of 3 storeys began forming above the 4.

Their action only took 2 seconds, the same as the charging time of the beast's bloodline skill. Like a scene found in fantasy like power anime's, the rays of blue and red light like lasers clashed with the whitish colored sword.

The result of the clash, was unexpectedly, didn't explode like what Alex have expected. He saw the beams of blue and red light being severed by the sword-like image silently. But the sword also slowly faded, as it's exhausted creators was slowly seen from beneath the gradually vanishing sword.

The beast, on the other hand, also felt the weakness of draining almost 60% of it's immortal essence reserves from releasing that two attacks simultaneously.

Alex watched the scene in amazement. He thought 'Why isn't it like those what I've read, that the fighting sides will battle slowly, as they power it up until they use their trump cards!?'

'From the looks of it, they started the battle with their trump cards right off the bat! What the heck is with this world!?'

He began feeling cold sweat, as most of the troupes he encountered didn't follow the original script! Humans always fear of the unknown, much less in an unknown world filled with unknown dangers.

Luckily, when he was still hiding from the tree, he cancelled his buff <Breath of the Primals>, therefore, concealing completely all his aura. This was also the reason that he nearly died due to the weakness from the debuff when he received simple roar coming from the beast.

The two sides locked in a staredown for about a minute before the squad of humans nodded to each other, as they began to separate themselves of 3 by 1 to which the three directly went to attack the beast head on.

The one left behind, the junior sister Xixi, began chanting a skill still with hands blurring but a different aura. The skill's incantation only took 3 seconds. What Alex saw was the girl disappering into thin air, as even he can't feel the slightest essence fluctuation and aura.

Luckily, he had the system which still showed the name of the girl. He thought 'Now that I think about it, why doesn't it have an hp or mana bar? It only shows the name.. weird.'

Gathering his thoughts, he already analyzed their tactic. The three will hold down the beast as the girl will slowly snatch the fruit from the tree behind it.

Seeing these, he dashed quickly, since he is only about 100 meters or so from them, he arrived quickly as the battle between the beast and 3 humans was still going on.

Fortunately, the girl Xixi was farther from them, since she needed to chant the skill for three seconds. They bought her enough time as she also sprinted swiftly.

The girl on the other hand thought 'This <Invisibility> technique only have 4 seconds of duration, please hold on to the beast, brothers!'

The beast fought wildly to the trio with its tails, and biting occasionally as scars appeared on it's hard scales. Through it's passive skill, it lasted on a standoff against three enemies with one whole level higher than it.

The trio also didn't came out unscathed, as slash and bite marks also appeared on their body. The two wounded side continued their battle with each other.

<Lightsword Slash>!

<Swordtail Slash>!

The two attacks collided, with the beam of light being deflected and the sharpness of the beast's tail slowly dulled.

Alex on the other hand, saw the name of the girl madly rushing through the direction same as his. 'Fuck fuck fuck! Faster!' with his weakened state, he arrived nearly at the same time with the invisible girl. Luckily, he set his foot in time and touched the trunk of the tree, as a confident and relieved smile formed on his face.

The girl looked at Alex, from shock, dumbfounded, and then to rage. She began to circulate her essence, to her mistake, the beast's senses detected the fluctuation.

"Y-YOU!.." before she could finish, she heard a roar that terrified her out of her wits.

RRROOOOOAAAAAARRRRR

The beast ignored the trio and arrived instantly at the scene where Alex and the invisible girl was. The beast, in its blinding rage, used its tail to swipe and slash the duo not minding if the fruit will be wasted if its tree will be cut.

"NOO! Xixi, get the fruit and leave there quickly!" The Senior brother Jun shouted and also dashed madly along the other two as they know the dreadfulness of the beast. He then bit his lips, crushed something like a talisman and along the three, they instantly teleported to where their junior sister was.

Even with the three of them at Immortal King realm only managed to have a stalemate from this Peak Sky Immortal beast. As human cultivators from one of the three biggest sects in the Imperial Capital, they are one of the cream of the crop geniuses.

But a beast, especially with a complete bloodline, is ultimately stronger or if not, have strength 1 level than it's current cultivation. With that, they concluded the overall strength of the beast to be equal, or even stronger than the three of them.

They only managed to hold it down due to their numbers and also their effective teamwork. But if alone? He or she'll be lucky if he could manage to get his corpse in one piece.

A beast of complete bloodline and Peak Sky Immortal strength will only be defeated by someone having Peak Immortal King strength. Killing or subduing it completely would ultimately require Emperors to do so.

The sharp tail arrived instantly on the two persons beneath the tree containing the fruit. Luckily, the trio arrived in time and averted the trajectory of the tail.

The trio and the beast then continued their clash which the girl Xixi didn't ask Alex any more questions as she directly hurled her attack on him intent on killing him instantly.

"This is the consequences of snatching from us, disciples of Lightborn Sect!" she shouted as she grinned thinking about the man being severed into two with her technique.

Alex looked at her in amusement, and softly said to her "Lightborn Sect huh? Elena's descendants? Don't worry, I'll see you soon."

Like a puff of smoke, Alex instantly vanished, along with the tree and its fruit also with the girl's attack in tow.

"W-WHAT!?" The girl, like a cold basin of water being splashed on her face, woke up in her fantasy as she saw the man vanish along with the tree holding the fruit and her offensive technique that she cast.

The beast along with the trio, also saw what occurred as the two sides felt maddening rage at the same time!

RRRRROOOOOAAAAAAARRRR!!

"NNNOOOOOOO!!!"

Due to their anger, their attacks became even more frenzied, to which the both sides became even more and more wounded. The girl, also woke up from her shocked state as she joined the battle.

The battle lasted for 3 hours, as the beast was finally killed, also due to its body filled with wounds. The team also didn't left without a casualty. One of them died with his body and even the true soul severed when he neared the beast complacently when it was feigning it's 'death throes'.

The other one, also had his left arm severed when hit with the <Freezing Breath> skill from the beast. He had no choice but to cut it since the blood and its bones and muscles already freezed to decay, and also since the freezing essence threatened to spread out from his arm.

Senior brother Jun and the junior sister Xixi was also riddled with wounds as their team bitterly won the battle, albeit with heavy loses.

"Junior sister, did you see that man's face?" Even as Xie Jun asked calmly, his slowly building up aura didn't hide his anger the slightest.

Yan Xixi was also mad, as she blamed herself as the one who let that dirty and shameless rat escape right before her eyes. She nodded to her and said

"Yes, Senior brother, with the [Light Projector] device on our sect, we can find him using the image of his appearance in my mind. Also.."

"Also what?" It was the man with his left arm severed, who answered, not minding his raised voice due to his anger. He clenched his fist and teeth from time to time, with teary red eyes and scrunched up brows.

Yan Xixi struggled, whether she would tell the brothers what the man said or not. Gathering her thoughts, she willed herself and said while stuttering

"Before disappearing, t-that man.. that man calmly said our ancestor's holy name! I'm s-sure that only us core disciples and the upper echelons in the sect know about that, but he said it like, l-like he knows her for a long time!"

"W-WHAT!?" The two young man looked at their junior sister in shock and horror, as the only outsiders that know of their ancestor's name.. and also, traversing space without fluctuations.

They also haven't detected the man in the slightest, like he appeared right beneath the tree in an instant, or he have been there the whole time unknown to them. Through this series of events, they concluded the identity of the man as they simultaneously said..

"A Demigod!"

(1) A reference to the popular best selling manga turned anime 'Naruto', all about ninjas and such.