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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 417

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:22:22 AM


Chapter 417: Unstoppable

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Chapter 417: Unstoppable

The man in white and woman in black fled rapidly, retreating at their full speed. Only, their enemies seemed to be faster. There wasnt much distance between them at the start and now it was rapidly closing. The woman in black smashed her fist against the ground and the impact caused a cloud of dust to form. From within the cloud a dozen black tendrils shot up and entangled the things that were chasing them. The two enemies were slowed down, but they reached down and started brushing off the ropes of black energy like they were seaweed stuck to them after a dip in the ocean. They were still walking forward like their feet were dragging in the surf, but the woman hadnt thought she could stop them completely. Instead, the man in white used this opportunity to release a few bright rays of light. The beams shot forth and pierced through his enemies ankles, targeting their legs to cripple their movement.

In the distance, Sage watched calmly, not seeming to mind that the enemy had retreated from the first confrontation. Metallic blue bones were showing from where the beams had targeted on their ankles, tearing through their oil like bodies once again. They didnt fall, but they also stopped advancing. The man in white and woman in black were able to escape, regrouping with the man in black and woman in white. The group of four reinforced each other and looked a bit more serious than previously. For his part, Sage didnt say anything more, instead just summoning forth another two more of the strange creatures, this time without bothering to have them garbed in black cloaks and clothing.

With the skirmish over, even the soldiers in black and white on the walls got a good look at what they were up against. The four of them were identical in appearance, and they looked quite like a person had been sculpted out of clay and then dunked into a bath of tar. They were similar to a human, but more like a doll or action figure than a real person. Their facial features were blurry and indistinct, with every last bit of them seeming constructed of that dark tar, their eyes were little more than black pool. They were missing any outward expressions of gender, giving them an androgynous body shape. The people in half black and half white outfits were astounded. What sort of monster was this?

With their companions safely by their side once more, the man in black and woman in white took the opportunity to step forward. The woman in white looked to those on the wall and spoke with a calming voice, Maintain your balance, you have nothing to fear with us here.

The man in black took over, dispelling the terrified rumors, The methods in the world are innumerable. There is a special profession known as Puppeteer, they use magic devices in the shape of humans or beasts. Those things might also just be unusual types of Demonic Beasts that he tamed, or just illusions covering their actual appearance. This is a good opportunity for you all to expand your horizons!

With its flesh missing, the lead creature now looked like nothing more than a skeleton made out of a cloudy blue ice. The skeletons bones caught the light oddly, seeming like cloudy ice from head on, but a reflective metallic blue on the edges and oblique faces. There were only a few small spots of that tar-like substance clinging to the front of it, but they seemed to be rapidly growing in volume. The four of them would be idiots if they didnt realize that the black tar substance constantly regenerated, but the same couldnt be said for the bones underneath. Seeing an opening, the man in black looked to the woman in white and she nodded.

They acted without any words, the man in black holding his hand up and grabbing the empty air. He put the backs of his hands together and then stabbed them slowly forward, tightening his fingers and then pulling his hands apart. It looked like he was trying to pry open the doors of an invisible escalator, except there was absolutely nothing there. At least until he pried his hands apart, at that point a crack of darkness formed in the air in front of him. As the space between his hands widened, so did the width of that dark crack until it became a full blown doorway made of shadow. Then he clapped his hands and shoved his right hand into the open door. From the back of it a giant hand emerged, it looked just like the man in blacks, except it was eight feet tall and composed of darkness. He reached in one side and from the other his hand came forth many times larger.

The black hand shot forward at high speed and its palm smashed against the lead creature. Then its fingers snapped shut, grasping the strange skeleton as well as the second creature who was carrying it. At almost the same time, the woman in white, who was standing just behind the man in black, disappeared. She faded away from the world as if shed only been a mirage, her image shimmering and dissipating. Only then did the observers realize she had been standing in the air above the tar people for quite some time. Compared to the ray that fired from the man in whites finger, the woman in white used both hands, forming a circle between where her index fingers and thumbs met each other. She held her hands up to the sky, thrusting them towards the sun like they were a focusing lens.

There was only a loud sizzling sound, and a flash of light connecting the sun and the ground. There was a loud buzzing noise from the wings of the Dragoons, a hole having already been busted through their defensive formation and a dozen of them losing their lives. The beam of light had been a full yard wide, but as it passed the sheer heat of it scorched the wings off the Dragoons in the vicinity sending them tumbling to the ground. On the ground there was a hundred foot white scorch zone, the rocks glowing with heat. Half of the tar creatures had been caught in the blast zone, but the skeleton had been at the center.

Impossible!




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