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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 463

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:20:32 AM


Chapter 463: Getting Physical

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Chapter 463: Getting Physical

The giant had already leapt over the perimeter trench and barreled into the forest. It flinched slightly when it first brushed up against the canopy of the banyan trees emitting pink gas. Unfortunately, it didnt seem to be paralyzed and even if it was suffering from numbness, it didnt seem to slow its advance. The silvery spike roll and the junk armored giant charged towards each other while ignoring everything else. Attacks came from the crowd of Flares, falling upon the snake as it slithered forward, but without seeming to cause much damage. The giant swatted aside the trees in its path, completely ignoring the cloud of poisonous chunks that exploded out from the destroyed trees.

Given their strength and speed, the hundred yards was covered in only a few seconds and the two huge combatants finally met. The giant pulled back its hand and then launched a fist forward, aiming for the black inky surface of the serpents head. Despite moving so fast to close the distance, the snake didnt seem to be aiming for a head-on confrontation of might. It was already swaying and bobbing when the punch was released, avoiding the strike to the head and only receiving a glancing strike against the neck. The thick steel digger bucket skidded across the icy blue spikes, breaking off dozens of them from the force of the blow. The metal on the giants fists protected the spikes from penetrating, but the punch had caused the surface of the metal to be covered in gouges and scrapes.

That snake, Sage, ducked underneath the first swing of the giants fist. The spikes deflected the majority of the force, but then it skidded across the layer of Black Enhydros padding underneath. Only a small portion of the hit struck his body, but it was enough to make him cough up some blood. A trickle of red dribbled down the corner of his mouth as the huge snake darted between the giants legs. The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.

He may not have battled as an actual snake very often, but he still had a lifetime of memories from the original Twin Ringed Soul Serpent he merged with initially. The snake had climbed up plenty of trees and right now the limbs of the giant were no different from small trees. The Twin Ringed Soul Serpent was not a constrictor, but it still coiled around animals to hold them still before a meal. Also, even if it wasnt instinct, Sage didnt think it was all that different from coiling around a tree. His snake form may not have the most optimized muscle structure for the maneuver, but with the Blacksilver King, he was sure to cause plenty of damage. The only problem was that in the process he was going to have to take a few hits.

Sage circled the giants calf and then came around to the thigh. As he did, the huge spikes were making loud creaking and scratching sounds on the giants armor while also drawing blood from the parts of exposed flesh. Big as the man was, Sage figured it was already pretty impressive that the Flares had found as much armor for him as they had. If this world before the Starfall was anything like Earth, then it wouldnt even be easy to find armor for normal sized people, let alone a thirty foot tall giant.

Sage was squeezing the giants body, but also getting pummeled relentlessly. The many spikes on his body had already torn up most of the giants armor. They dug in and rented huge furroughs in the materials that were strongly secured, but most of the armor pieces were torn off by the inadequate materials used to fasten them to the giants body. At this point, the Giant had only one arm free, which it was using to punch a portion of Sages body that already had the spikes smashed off. Each hit caused him to spew blood, but hed also limited the giants mobility and reared back his head for a bite. Those sword sized fangs swung out and shot down towards the giants shoulder.

Sage suddenly felt a burning heat bathing his whole body. It was like hed just leapt into a fire and to his horror he saw that not only him, but the whole giants body was on fire. With his head charging towards the giants body for the strike he had no way to see the danger coming, only noticing the world turning red just before his fangs sunk in. It was too sudden for him to avoid and before he could deliver much venom into the giant the pain had grown so intense that Sage felt that room in his Spiritual Sea threatening to explode. The demon was bashing in the door to his room and only a few strikes away from success. Sage had to abandon his attack, throwing himself away from the giants body and diving between a few of the Sacred Banyans. Even if the poison they emitted didnt stop the giant, they could at least slow him down.

His whole body had been on fire, and the strange flames had burned away all of the Black Enhydros, along with the Blue Icesilver spikes it was holding. The heat had penetrated into his body, and after reducing the Blacksilver King to mere scraps it caused him severe damage. Only after slithering away and aggressively rolling his body across the ground a dozen times was it finally extinguished. If I couldnt regenerate, Id be dead in a few minutes without even needing any further intervention.

Only when the flames were put out did he finally have time to look back and try to ascertain the source of the attack. Certainly the giant didnt just have some sort of suicide attack, right? At that point he saw a huge flame floating in the air above the body of the giant. The giant was still alive, but it looked to be in just as sorry of a state as Sage was. Loud low pitched crying and sobbing sounds were coming from the giant while it rolled on the ground. It had already put out the flames, but it was still repeating the action again and again.

Then Sage heard the ominous voice from before, the omnidirectional one, You useless behemoth! Its just a little burn, get up and finish smashing that snake!




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