CHAPTER 116: | DESCENT OF THE SACRED EARTH

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  "Hmm? It seems that you've taken more than what you should have, do you?"

  He glanced at me with eyes half-closed, then shifted his gaze onto Solia.

  Her form was far from her former self, from what I could tell, her ability to speak was rendered incapable, along with her ability to see and hear.

  It was a pitiful ending, but not one demanding pity, since I could just return those senses to her.

  I would be the judge if she was worthy of it.

  "Well, isn't it the master's fault for not training their subordinates enough?"

  I smirked at his words, then pointed my index finger at him.

  The earth around us trembled slightly as it conformed into thousands of swords surrounding him.

  Lumicor needlessly flicked his hand, and the thousands of swords burned in an incandescent light as they slipped through my grasp, instantly turning into swords made of starlight.

  "It seems that you've arrogantly thought that you could still defeat me in that form of yours, Alister?"

  He said coldly, flickering in and out of reality, reappearing in front of the swords.

  He tapped a hilt before vanishing again in a streak of starlight.

  "You're arrogantly dreaming the impossible... my defeat earlier was merely a stroke of luck. Know that and surrender to me, mortal."

  His words were pristine and clear, he was now stating for me to surrender.

  It was truly funny that his arrogance had yet again hit through the roof, and it seemed that I needed to teach him a traumatic lesson.

  I waved my hand as the earth around us flickered to life.

  They crawled from the ground and into the currents, their tiny forms contorting with each other, conjoined into one whose authority didn't fall short of mine.

  In the first few seconds, the head of a snake could be seen.

  Then, in the next, thousands of segments joined its head, forming into an eel-like body with tidbits of limbs sprouting around it.

  A resplendent scales that shone with glory sprouted on its bare body, filling its form with millions of plates protecting its insides, while a stump could be seen on its forehead, slowly growing into a horn that coiled into demonic antlers that carried the majesty of a true king.

  As its face shifted like a Rubik's Cube, turning to match each of their side's colors, seconds passed, then it turned into minutes as its face became even more draconic, along with its small hind arms carrying two orbs made of compressed earth.

  It was the creation of the Sacred Earth Dragon, the form that Tellus will forever be remembered for.

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  His golden eyeballs rolled creepily as they watched the woman that he loved, was in such a pitiful state.

  Tears would have trickled down his eyes if he were made of flesh, but he wasn't, since he was the Sacred Earth Dragon, the venerable that will be forever remembered by all as the servant of his summoner.

  He clenched his teeth as the earth below rose at his intent.

  Tellus was angered at the mere fact that his summoner didn't even bother in saving her, instead, he merely watched her fall into such a disgrace.

  "It was too much... this was too much! Is the lives of your subordinates only amount to this much, Alister Von Fai?! Then if it only amounts to this! Then I! I, Tellus, shall protect them as the Incarnate of the Sacred Earth itself! Let I, the God of the Earth, protect them at my finest!"

  He roared with his every bit of anger.

  He was dissatisfied that his summoner didn't even do his duty as their master to protect them when they needed him the most.

  It was the indignation, it was the disappointment that led him to make this decision, the decision to go against his will and seek his own justice in his feeble judgment.

  He rushed without fear.

  He was Tellus, the God of Earth, the Incarnate of the Sacred Earth, and the king of this new affinity.

  He wasn't someone to be trifled with by someone so lowly...

  FWOOSH!

  'H-he wasn't someone to be trifled by someone lowly... but his beliefs were shattered along with his form, returning into the ground with a mere wave of his hands, followed by a streak of light that struck his head then phased through his form in an instant.'

  "..."

  He fell into silence at his incompetence, that he who should defend her was undone by a single attack that wasn't even considered a spell.

  "Ahhh... was this my limitations? Is this what I amount to?"

  He gazed at Lumicor, then into his summoner who had merely watched him coldly as he took a step, then vanished into thousands of mirages that appeared inches away from Lumicor's face, with each of his mirages executing a variation of their own techniques.

  Some turned into a Valkyrie, others into a Demon, while others into an Immortal.

  But Lumicor merely waved his hands, and the thousands of swords that was made of starlight vanished into thin air, then appeared with each of the swords already embedded into the mirages of his summoner.

  The swords impaled all of his summoners that were eerily stuck in the still currents in an indefinite, inanimate state.

  It was eerie to look at, more so when the thousands of swords let out a soft glow, then it intensified as they melted the thousands of Alister's hanging in the air.

  But their light soon died, consumed by the darkness of the abyss.

  "..."

  It was silent.

  The entire segment went into stillness, with all those who were watching this duel all remained in silent as they watched the thousands of swords for their next move.

  It was an intense moment since this was the moment where it would all be decided.

  Step... Step... Step!

  The sounds of footsteps broke the silence as their attentions were all focused on Lumicor, who was walking through the ruins and toward Samantha.

  Her demeanor didn't show any signs of nervousness, as if this situation was all under her control.

  He gazed at her straight in the eyes, curious of her renowned confidence.

  Maybe she was merely acting to throw him into a spiral of theories, that she was in control of this situation and not him, or maybe she was confident even if the man she loved would be gone with a single flick of his hand.

  Lumicor smiled at this revelation, then smirked as he glanced at her, then into the ground, surveying if this woman before her was still the same Samantha and not a fake replaced by earth in the hopes of catching him off guard.

  But after observing her for minutes, Lumicor didn't see anything amiss at his intent, mana core, face texture, body, or even a hint of earth in her.

  It was weird that there wasn't even a hint of earth in her.

  It was too perfect that he now had started to suspect who exactly this woman before him right now was.

  It wasn't that her demeanor was too calm like the woman she was, but it was because it was too eerily perfect for a disguise that now he began to doubt her.

  Step...

  He took a step back.

  Lumicor, the prideful man he is, took a step back from this encounter.

  He was nervous of this situation.

  Then his suspicion was found to be true when Samantha smiled just like him.

  Step!

  He took another step in nervousness.

  He knows that in this distance, winning against him would be impossible, just from observing the martial prowess that his subordinates showed earlier.

  Lumicor clenched his teeth, then pointed a finger into Samantha, who merely smiled deeply.

  Then she took her revolvers strapped in her waist, then pulled their triggers as she softly muttered.

  "Boom~"

  S-splurtch!