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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 1054

Published at 15th of April 2024 12:51:30 PM


Chapter 1054: River Ruler

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Chapter 1054: River Ruler

As if on cue, Six Grains stepped out onto the highest part of the ramp around the Spire. The giant spike-like building had a ramp spiraling around it like a giant auger, or the horn of a narwhal. Further down the ramp, a group twelve of rank five Cultivators, the same as last time, walked out carrying a metallic dragon. The snake-like body was as thick around as their own waists, but they hugged it to their sides, stretching the Magical Tool out and readying to use it again just like the last time he was here. Of course, the body was closer to a hose and the dragons head was merely a stylized part of the weapon. Above them, Six Grains feathery hair was blown about by the wind as he threw his arms out to his sides. From his wide wizard-like sleeves sand poured out like a river. Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)

Only, it wasnt sand. Just like before, they were actually tiny grains of rice, the strangest Magical Tool Sage had encountered so far. He was actually eager to try and steal a few more of those tiny bits of rice to study more of how they worked, but he wouldnt get his wish this time. Six Grains didnt use the rice to attack as before, instead they flowed down over the surface of the Spire, spreading out and changing its color. That wasnt all they did. The Magical Tool became a vast net distributing Six Grains power over the Spire, law energy responding to his actions and being drawn in to empower the defenses of the building.

At the same time, the dozen Core Formation Cultivators on the lower level took aim with their dragon headed hose and released a torrent of water in Sages direction. Sage waved his hand and a large tendril swung up from the ground and intercepted the stream of water. His Law of Change collided against the dozen weaker laws swirling together in that jet of water. Sage suddenly realized how they were doing it. The innate properties of water, its flowing ever transformative nature was being used as a medium to integrate the other laws together. He also felt a will doing the work and recognized that the dragon hose was not just a Magical Tool but an Artifact. The Artifact Spirit must be doing the difficult job of combining the twelve different water laws together. Sage also felt that it wasnt just water flowing through that hose, but Qi. It also felt very similar to the rest of the Spire.

So the dragon artifact and the Spire are tied together. Are they one and the same or is the Spire just a power source for it?

With the battle starting into full swing, the people on the inside of the Spire were not sitting in silence. The power flowing out into the barrier didnt come out of nowhere. Those within the Spire were busy transporting and installing Spirit Stones into the arrays on the inside of the Spires walls. This is the opening the Blacksilver Pawn had been waiting for. With vaults opening for power reserves to be brought out, it also created an opening for the Pawn on the inside to escape. It had ridden upon the apprentice of the Elder in charge of the vaults, so it was only a matter of time until that assistant entered the right vault. The ring flew out of the bracelet and hid itself among the other treasures. It collected what was needed and waited for an opportunity just like this. Falling into the pile of Spirit Stones so it could hide among them. It was picked up and carried out, falling from the box as soon as it was set down to be unloaded. It created a little spring-like piece of metal beneath itself and was thrown back out of the room. Falling into a crack, it was finally time to gather strength. The Blacksilver Pawn rebuilt itself, the Soul Fragment having a body of the oily Black Enhydros with bones made of the Blue Icesilver.

As soon as it showed itself, the tendrils assaulting the defensive barrier shifted, moving to wrap about the Spire so they could all strike at exactly the same point. Three waves of three, slapping against the same spot on the barrier and causing it to crack. Then they wrapped around the Spire, contracting like the coils of a snake to finally shatter a part of the barrier. Contrary to what might be expected, the Barrier from coils down fell apart, but the barrier going upwards was still at full strength. The power source was not down below the Spire, but at the top of it, and the barrier was one that should be shattered, not just slowly weakened over time. The tendrils were knocked back by a flare of energy from Six Grains. The sea of rice flowed down and pushed away the tendrils so the barrier could fall back down to the ground like drapery, so the barrier could restore itself back to its full strength again.

What Six Grains and the others of the Spire didnt know was that there was a dark figure whod leapt out from the Spire in time with the barrier shattering. This shadowy being hid itself among the folds of the huge tentacle, crawling downwards to get further away from the battle. The huge tendrils started a second round of attack upon the Spire, while Sage caught the dark creature that suddenly leapt towards him. It disappeared to the Inner World, the Blacksilver Pawn recovered as well as the tiny item it had retrieved from the Spires vault. With a third wave of attack, Sage turned and flew back up into the sky.

The huge tendrils moved to block the counter-offensive from the dragon headed Artifact, giving up their attack and effortlessly defending Sages retreat back up to the Shifting Jade Mountain. The graceful boat tilted to the side, angling away from the Spire to float away through the sky. In the distance behind him, Sage looked back to see the spiky hair of a familiar figure just arriving at the Spire. The Sea Kings response time was much faster than the first time hed attacked, but it still hadnt been fast enough to stop him. A huge wall of water smashed down against the tendrils surrounding the Spire and tore them to shreds. Sage was too far away to keep reinforcing them, so they had been running off the residual energy within them to harass the Spire. Unlike his first attack, there were no Soul Fragments inside these tendrils. The Sea King was helpless to catch up. Not only was the Shifting Jade Mountain faster than him, they also had a large head start.




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