“Space magic... nothing more than petty tricks.”
Yuta, a veteran of countless battles, saw through Starlight’s state at a glance. He said in a low voice, “In this state, you can't move freely, can you?”
As he spoke, death power as thick as a physical substance suddenly erupted from his body. That blackish-grey energy wound around Starlight’s spatial projection like a living thing.
Starlight could clearly feel it—the moment he relaxed his focus and deactivated the spell, this death energy would instantly consume his body.
Swish—!
A streak of silver light suddenly attacked from behind. You’s blade was as fast as a thunderclap, aiming straight for the center of Yuta’s back.
But Yuta merely shifted his body slightly. The blade’s edge scraped against his scales, leaving a poignant silver trail in the air.
“In a head-on clash, I might be inferior to you...” Yuta’s claws suddenly bent back at a bizarre angle, accurately catching You’s wrist. “But when it comes to the way of assassination, you’re still far off!”
With a roar, Yuta violently threw You toward the cage of death energy behind him.
You forced his body to twist in mid-air. His protective silver light dispelled the surrounding death energy, which also happened to break open the cage for Starlight.
Seeing this, Starlight didn't dare linger. He immediately deactivated the Spatial Displacement and grabbed You’s hand.
When their figures reappeared, they were already in a safe zone over a hundred meters away.
In that brief instant, Starlight’s clothes had been corroded in several places by the death energy. If it had gone any deeper, it would have reached his flesh.
“Senior You, does this guy have no weaknesses?” Starlight asked quickly, catching his breath slightly.
“Of course he does. His weakness is in his chest,” You replied immediately after a slight pause. “Although he replaced his original heart with the power of life and death, the nature of the weakness remains unchanged. If we can shatter the armor plate on his chest, I can deliver a fatal blow.”
But just then, Yuta had already chased after them with a maniacal laugh.
“Have you discussed enough?!” He crossed his claws, and dozens of streaks of death energy shot out like sharp arrows. “Even if you know my weakness, what can you possibly do to me?!”
Starlight pulled You along and teleported again. The death energy exploded into a deep pit where they had just been standing.
“I just need to break that scale on his chest, right?” Starlight confirmed with You once more.
“Yes, but my single attacks can only just manage to break his defense. It’s exactly because of that that I’ve missed several opportunities to kill him,” You nodded.
“Then it’s no problem. I know what to do!”
With that, Starlight suddenly stopped in his tracks. He turned back and threw two Spikes of Annihilation toward Yuta’s position.
Facing the sudden attack, Yuta didn't even slow down. With a wave of his hand, he crushed the two streaks of ultimate power.
“Are you planning to accept reality now?” In an instant, his figure was less than fifty meters away from Starlight and You.
“No, I’m planning to give you the final blow!”
Starlight suddenly pressed his palms together, his mana surging. A translucent spatial barrier immediately unfolded in front of him.
“I told you! With your half-baked space magic, you can't even buy yourself time!”
The claws swung down, and the barrier Starlight had set up instantly shattered into countless pieces, sending a wave of ripples through the air.
Just as Yuta thought he had secured victory, a cold voice rang in his ear.
“His space magic is indeed a bit green. But what about mine?”
Yserazor’s figure suddenly emerged from the midst of the floating fragments, appearing right before Yuta’s eyes.
His chubby hand pressed against the thick scale on Yuta’s chest. Instantly, countless spatial rifts spread across it like a spiderweb.
“What?!” Yuta looked down in disbelief, but he reacted quickly.
“Get away from me!”
A furious roar shook the battlefield. Violent energy exploded outward with Yuta at the center, and Yserazor was sent flying like a kite with a broken string.
“Curse... your space... tricks!”
Yuta didn't pursue him. Instead, he put all his effort into recovery. In just a moment, nearly half of the cracks on his chest had been repaired.
“Rift Dragon King! Now!” Starlight shouted.
At the moment he had revealed himself, Yserazor had used the previous spatial fragments to set up countless spatial anchors around Yuta.
Now, as he closed his fingers, numerous transparent spatial chains suddenly manifested from the void, binding Yuta’s limbs tightly!
Whoosh—!
A streak of emerald light pierced through the sky, trailing a bright red flame as it appeared in everyone’s sight.
Xia Duo, who had been hiding in the distance, finally made her move. She was aiming precisely for the center of the wound on Yuta’s chest that hadn't yet fully healed.
Normally, with her strength, she wouldn't have been able to cause even a scratch on Yuta, even if he was restrained.
But the arrow she fired this time was no ordinary one.
Ever since she had accepted this investigation mission, Xia Duo had rehearsed for the possibility of encountering Yuta.
A normal Sacred Wood Arrow indeed couldn't harm Yuta, but it was completely different after receiving the special protection of Angela and the World Tree.
To ensure it exerted its full effect, the two sisters, Xia Duo and Moen, had been preparing for this moment from the very second they approached the battlefield.
The moment the arrow tip touched the scale, the ancient runes engraved on the shaft lit up in sequence, and the emerald arrow body burst with a dazzling light.
This special Sacred Wood Arrow pierced through the scale on his chest like a hot knife through butter.
In that instant, the two diametrically opposed energies of life and death reacted violently. Like water droplets falling into hot oil, they triggered a series of explosions inside Yuta’s body!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The violent energy impact blasted Yuta’s chest into a bloody mess. Blackish-grey death energy gushed out like a burst dam.
Amidst the churning turbulence of energy, a beating, crimson core could be seen faintly flickering.
“Now!” Seeing this, You’s eyes lit up. His Night God’s power condensed into a silver longsword once more, and he lunged at the core with the force of a thunderbolt.
“No... I won't end here!”
In a life-or-death moment, an astounding power erupted from within Yuta. With a crisp snapping sound, he actually managed to tear apart the spatial chains binding his left arm by sheer force!
In the nick of time, he forced his body to shift sideways by half a foot.
Schlick!
The longsword grazed the core, severing his entire left arm and bringing with it a large spray of black-and-red blood.
At the same time, the wings on Yuta’s back also broke free from the Rift Dragon King’s restraint, and the backhand sweep of his wing sent the missed You flying.
“All of you... shall die!”
Yuta’s voice became distorted with fury, and a streak of light as sharp as a physical blade erupted from his blood-red eyes.
But just as he planned to use his wings to cut the remaining chains, he discovered that his body couldn't move!
He looked forward blankly, only to realize that Starlight had disappeared from his sight at some point. A bone-chilling cold suddenly surged from behind him—
“Got you.”
By the time he reacted, he found that Starlight was clinging to his back like a gecko, his arms tightly locking the base of Yuta’s wings.
Starlight hadn't just used his own mana to repair one of the spatial chains that had just been broken; he had gone as far as using his own body as a medium to transform water element mana into solid ice, completely freezing himself and Yuta’s back together!
Crystal-clear frost was spreading at an alarming rate, and in a blink, it was about to freeze both of them into an ice statue.
Starlight’s face was as pale as paper from the impact of Yuta’s power, yet he still gritted his teeth and shouted, “Now... is the time!”
“No—!!!”
Yuta let out a heart-wrenching scream, frantically twisting his frozen body.
Under his violent struggle, the ice crystals began to crack, letting out an ear-piercing sound of fracturing.
But three streaks of brilliant light hit his exposed core almost simultaneously:
Xia Duo’s arrow, wreathed in flames, spun and shattered the protective layer on the outside of the core;
The spatial rift created by Yserazor acted like a sharp blade, cleanly slicing the entire core in two;
And the final hit was You’s Night God’s power. The silver light instantly disintegrated everything inside the core, churning all life force into fragments.
Yuta’s body convulsed violently in the light. He tried to repair the core, but it was all in vain.
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