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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 307

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:27:25 AM


Chapter 307: Final Form

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Chapter 307: Final Form

Sages human body disappeared like an illusion and in its place was a green scaled dragon. More than eight feet long and as wide as a mans thigh, his body was long and curved like a snake with the torso of a crocodile along with human sized arms and legs, though they were quite thin, had five clawed digits, and were covered in scales. The head was distinctly draconic, with a long snout, vicious fangs and terrifying vertical pupils. Oddly, though his body looked eastern, his head appeared like a western dragon, missing the antlers and whiskers common to eastern dragons, instead his face was covered with short spines and spikes to protect his facial features. The tail was also missing any whiskers or long hairs, having only a large metallic blade like plating along the top and bottom.

A feature taken directly from the Blade Tailed Viper, it was the most recognizable feature of Sages true form. From above the plates were somewhat chevron shaped, and from the sides they looked like parallelograms. The metallic looking plates took the place of bony ridges, spikes, or horns running down his spine, and they also ran up the underside of his tail, the final third of his body. If something were to jump on his back they wouldnt be punctured by spines, theyd be leaping onto a sharp blade. His body and the hide carrying the scales was quite flexible, and his spine could rotate quite easily. With a twist and flick of his tail, it became a whip-sword; that purely fictional video game weapon, but quite feasible when that wildly uncontrollable cord or whip was a part of his body.

Even as patently impressive as his true body was, it wasnt actually very large. At least not in comparison to his previous two bodies, the mindless monster and the fixed form that saved him from it. Those bodies had been downright monsters, while now he was something of a tiger sized serpent. Only waist high, he certainly didnt look all that impressive considering his circumstances. The specter made of green flame was the height of a man, but considering it had no body from the waist down, it was actually at double scale. Huge arms swept towards Sage even as the dozen flaming tar people rushed towards him from behind. The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.

Hei Bai was shocked at the sudden change, the roar had taken her off guard and seeing Sages true body made her exclaim, Youre a Demonic Beast that took human form? Which species are you?

On the other side the dragon, Sage, had never truly been struck by a purely spiritual attack. Hed often battled spirit type enemies with the Twin Soul, but that was more like two souls doing direct combat. Hed never really learned any purely spiritual attacks or defenses, merely going by instinct or being helped by the Seed of Life. When hed reached the fifth rank, his soul had migrated from his Spiritual Sea to be housed within his core, but the spiritual sea was still present. When he was struck by that scream, his perception and consciousness had been instantly sent into the Spiritual Sea, causing his body to be knocked off balance without him to control it.

Thankfully, it was a long ranged attack and that woman wasnt smart enough to quickly follow it up, or I might already be dead!

Within his spiritual sea, it was like a huge gust of wind blasted through. It kicked up the water into huge waves and dispersed some of the dark clouds in the sky. It was no real damage, but it was a big distraction. Sage ignored the disturbance in his mind and regained control of his body, quickly rising up to avoid a follow up attack. Hei Bai hadnt attacked him in that instant and instead used the time to complete whatever it was that she was building behind herself.

Sage saw a ghostly apparition emerge from her chest. It didnt carry a green flame like the last time, instead it was a blood red color. If he couldnt feel the undulations of spirit power from it, he would have thought she had torn open her heart and was spewing her blood directly outwards. Instead, the blood red shadow grew larger and larger, splitting and forming into a head and a pair of arms. It spun at the waist and then braced its arms against Hei Bais shoulders. It pushed down, and slowly climbed its way out of her chest. Unlike the previous specter, this one had a lower body, one with backwards bending knees like a beast. Its whole body glowed with a vicious light, and after giving Sage a glance its featureless face grew a smile. Huge fangs of black shadow were revealed, grinning over at its new target for a moment before it dove into the twenty foot high pile of black oil.

After it left her body, Hei Bai collapsed to the ground, the glowing skull in her eye dimmed. She sneered, just like the red spirit had, Your end has come, Beast. Die and hand over your Heavenly Materials.




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