33 Risen#re

Lirian stood straight up, as the group charged at him.

He took a few steps forward to put a bit of distance between himself and Edith but he didn't stray to far away either, he was uncertain if they would still try to attack Edith if he gave them the opportunity.

Lirian took a step forward and braced himself, just as he prepared himself to listen intently and feel the vibrations through the ground he realised that there was no need.

Lirian sighed at the inexperience of the students that were charging at him, he honestly felt that they were no different from a horde of mindless beasts.

After all he was blind, if they wanted to make things difficult for him all they would need to do is regulate their breathing and approach carefully, had they done that it would have been possible for them to give him a little bit of a challenge.

But instead they rushed at him stomping loudly on the ground, and some of them let out loud war cries as they closed in on him.

Lirian pull the sword up quickly as the first person approach and with a quick thrust of his sword the first person was pierced through her heart.

It happened so fast that no one could follow Lirian's strike in one second they saw a woman reach him and in the next she slumped down to the ground completely dead. they couldn't even see the wound the only thing they could see was fresh blood spilling from her chest area as the woman fell down without any resistance.

"Careless," Lirian sneered and moved forward to meet the group not giving them any chance to retreat or think about what happened.

Edith was watching things clearly as they unfolded and the thing that surprised her the most was that Lirian wasn't using form merging, it was apparent from the fact that that completely savage aura didn't surround him at the moment.

However from what she could see that wasn't all he wasn't even using free striking, he was merely combining forms so in truth he was only using the second stage yet he was able to kill a cultivator so effortlessly if that wasn't skill she didn't know what was.

Lirian trampled over the corpse and moved forward this time at least 8 people had reached him, using the flat of his katana he quickly deflected all of their attacks and broke the momentum of the forms they were using with ease, but he put on a false front to make it look like he was putting in a bit of effort as he confronted the group.

Lirian cursed the fate conflux that he was currently under as he faced the group if not for the conflux he would have been able to use the system to identify the positions of the zealots Telamon sent, with that he'd at least be able gauge how many enemies were lying in wait for him, but as things stood the only thing he could do was wait for back-up and stall for time.

As he confronted the group more and more people managed to gather around him, making it harder and harder for him to manoeuvre, as the group surrounded him they pushed their spears forward and used them like pikes to seal of his retreat and shut down their movements.

"Crap," Lirian cursed, 'This formation is starting to annoy me,' he thought to himself.

"Don't blame me, you guys asked for this!" Lirian shouted and stopped using the flat of the blade to defend as he turned the katana's edged onto the students weapons the sound of swords shattering and the spear shafts splintering filled the air.

The reason why Lirian decided to only use the flat of the blade to defend and didn't attack the entire time was because of the passive ability of the katana destructive edge.

The law of destruction was concentrated on the blades edge, due to that Lirian was able to cut through their weapons and erode them with completely ease.

Once Lirian finished destroying their weapons he spun his blade through the air and sent it flying it spun like a wheel of death as it mowed down the group.

Heads started to fall like rain in a storm along with hot blood that shot up from the decapitated bodies into the air creating a shower of blood.

When the katana finally came to a stop it crashed into a tree coming to a halt, then the sound of bodies falling filled the air and when everyone turned to look thirty headless bodies crumpled to the ground in a circle all around Lirian, with their blood gushing out onto the ground.

It was a circle of death that surrounded Lirian and his clothes were once more dyed in fresh blood, by now his clothes had multiple layers of blood.

As Lirian faced the crowd he licked his lips that had a thick layer of blood on it, and a look of intoxication formed on his face.

"Well then who's next?" Lirian asked jovially taking a step forward as the blood rolled off his body like water.

"Run!" someone shouted in fear, within moments the entire group began to backtrack in complete fear as they looked at Lirian.

They stumbled through the grass and twigs on the ground, many of them fell over multiple time as they fled in fear.

"Sorry to break this to you all, but none of you are escaping this place alive," as Lirian spoke five hair thin tendrils of lightning shot from the katana and wrapped around his hand.

'The devouring law that this katana picked up from the mammoth is really good,' Lirian thought, the devouring law had two effects, it allowed the blade to restore itself by consuming things if it received any damage and the other perk it had was to share the energy it gathered with its wielder.

At that moment it had just killed thirty and it shared all that energy with Lirian as it shot out of the tree trunk and back into his hands.

Lirian grasped the energy using energy control on it dying it silver as it quickly expanded into a dome covering everyone in it.

It was the same trick he had used before the expedition took off, as everyone looked at the area where the barrier started, they could see the grass and trees quickly withering away and being ground into dust.

Needless to say they all knew what would happen to them if they ran into it, yet as some of the students looked between Lirian and the barrier they decided to try their odds, they pushed all the energy they could to the surface of their skin and charged into the barrier.

Some of the weaker ones immediately began to cry out in pain as they pushed themselves through the barrier, ordinarily it might had been possible for them to push through with great effort and by completely exhausting themselves, however Lirian borrowed the destructive properties of the katana to create the barrier.

Which made it unbreachable for such weak cultivators, as they moved through their flesh began to break down into nothing quickly turning into flakes in the barrier until all that was left was bone, however a short few seconds later even the bones began to break down and turn into dust.

Not even the stronger ones in the group who had cultivated for longer were any different, just moments after they entered the barrier they started releasing screams of agony, and within seconds they either died or pulled back their limbs which was nothing more than their skeleton at that point.

Those that were still contemplating heading into the barrier quickly shut down their thoughts and turned back to face Lirian, it was now clear to all of them that they were caught up in a circle of death.

If they retreated all that awaited them was death, if they went after Lirian all that awaited them was death, however as they looked at Lirian it became apparent to them that the barrier was extremely taxing on him.

Earlier they could see that he was in a weakened state, but now it was completely obvious, because for the first time they noticed that Lirian was sweating and his body was trembling slightly.

Despite that they were still too afraid to approach Lirian, after all they had seen just how unfathomable he was a moment ago and that image of him killing 30 of them in an instant left them in absolute fear.

"Someone grab Edith!" Pollock suddenly shouted due to the battle earlier Lirian had moved some distance away from her as they fought and their were several people that were closer to her than Lirian was, making it the perfect opportunity for them to grab her and use her against him.

As soon as Pollocks shout was heard those that were closest to Edith immediately dash towards her, they knew that this was their final chance to get out of this alive.