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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 186

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:32:27 AM


Chapter 186: Escape

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Chapter 186: Escape

A huge black serpent, with small arms and legs like an eastern dragon, let out a long breath. Blood dripped from dozens of small cuts and one large gash that had nearly split it in half. It was laying on a large web, the threads created from his own spider silk, one that was a mutated version of the ones created by the Steel Silk Webspinners. The spinnerets were just beneath his tongue, using Divine Breath to spit them out at high speed like bullets. Hed attached the threads to the walls and wrapped them around different support points using a technique called Spirit Strings. Hed found it in the library from the Timeless Master. Combined with silk threads stronger than steel it made for an effective weapon. Hed been using the full force of his huge body to pull on the ends of the wires and have them snap across the room like deadly blades.

Sage had used the Timeless Eyes to know how the old man would probably dodge and where he would land when he was done dodging. After getting as distracted and off balance as he could, thats when the Twin Soul was waiting where he landed and finished the job.

The blade like spines on the ridge of Sages serpentine back were mostly gone, blood dripping from where they used to be. Each spine was the size of a large dagger and carried his venom, the one from the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent. He got the ability to launch spines from the Thorn Cloud Hornet, but it was a very last ditch type of weapon. The spines would take a few months to grow back and firing them off felt like ripping out fingernails. It was too bad that the Subduing Spores were dealt with so easily by that old man, even if Sage was a rank lower they would have at least made him relax slightly.

Probably should have led with them instead of trying to finish. They work much better when theyre caught unaware, I did pretend to use poison a few times so he was on guard against it.

With Grey Beard dead now, it was far easier to finish off the rest of the Violent Fist Sect outside. Most of the larger insects were in the workshop fighting Grey Beard so when they moved outside and the Twin Soul joined them, it took only a few minutes to finish them all off. Only a few of them were over level 40 and needed the Twin Soul to finish them, the rest were swarmed by the insects. Sage quickly collected all of the bodies into the Universe Ring, corpses, weapons, clothing, equipment, all of it went inside. Then he released a few pheromones and the remaining Centipedes tore the building apart. They smashed it to bits, using their acid to break through the stubborn arrays on the walls, floor, and ceiling. Then they started on the ground and Sage had the Warp Worms join in. The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.

What horrible timing I had. He was killed and just a few minutes later I recalled my surveillance.

He already knew the story after that point, so instead he went back in time further. Rewinding what happened in the room, wanting to find the point where the tool was embedded in the wall. Unfortunately, he could only go back at four times speed. After being in the room for about two hours he only saw back about eight hours. Since he was still a wanted man, he couldnt stay in there all night. The wall where the magic tool was hidden was still untouched so he had to give up.

Glad hes dead, but why did I have to be unlucky enough to get implicated? No more heavy drinking.

Finished, Sage brought his head back down from the wall and put things back to how they were, removing the ladder from the wall and the hole from the ceiling. Then he took the wine bottle into his ring and left the restaurant. After moving a couple blocks away he walked into a small alleyway and used a knife to chip away at a brick. Then he shoved something into the tiny gap and suddenly disappeared.

Inside that gap in the bricks was a tiny glimmer of gold.




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