478 He Is... Here!!!
“Damn! Why the hell did you stop?!!!” she stood up first, with a tinge of redness on her cheeks. I couldn’t bring myself to look at her in such a way, especially with that male face she was having.
It… Just looked weird!
But I had no strength to even respond back. I had to lay down there on my back, close my eyes, and slowly regulate the gush of energy in my body.
At some point, I reached a stage I couldn’t control anymore. It only took one second to get distracted and lose my focus, one second to lose it all and make my technique forcibly end.
And with it, I even lost control over my chariot while all the pain and exhaustion lashed back at me in such a fierce way.
The energy coming at me was in such a dense amount to scare me. But as I tried to think of a way to release them into my shadow world, I realised something amazing.
My dantian and meridians… They were absorbing the energy in such a way like a pile of sand absorbing water.
They were giving me a torture already, but when the energy got absorbed in such scary rate, I felt like cool water was being poured over these sour places.
I had to say I was enjoying this feeling. It was like getting to rest after a tedious workout session for an entire day. It was refreshing, intoxicating, giving me a tinge of joy in the middle.
It took me an hour to get awake from such a state. And the moment I opened my eyes, I felt like my body was reborn.
I never imagined such a thing would come after such a long time of tension and agony. It didn’t just affect my dantian and meridians, but my entire body.
My muscles looked different, as long as my bones. Both started to shine faintly in pale green light. While the energy running through my meridians and dantian turned slightly darker.
It evolved, alongside my meridians and dantian. My dantian swells to triple its original size. As for my meridians, they have thick walls, much thicker than before at least.
During the crazy process I did before, my meridians showed spider web-like cracks. They were the main source of my pain, and I knew they got hurt.
But right now nothing of this remained. My meridians looked intact, healthy, as brand new.
“Finally you opened your eyes! Damn! We already screwed up!!”
Just before I got to know what exactly changed in my body, the annoyed and bitter voice of Isac came to startle me awake from this amazing feeling.
“What happened?” I stood up, but unlike what I knew of my body, it moved in such agility and swiftness, like I was much younger than now.
And my strength also evolved. Just my attempt to stand up made me jump in the air for ten metres, before falling on my feet while feeling a little weird.
“Damn! You got stronger!” Isac said in annoyance, “but it’s too late… That monster is here! Don’t think you can stand against it. Listen to my advice, let’s find a world away from here and escape to.”
She said that in rushing breaths, shouting out of her distress in such panic. I gave her a single glance before turning to see the horizon.
Indeed something appeared out there. The dim world from before turned pitch black in that zone. I didn’t know why, but I didn’t feel any speck of worry or panic like her. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“What are you waiting for? Let’s move…” just before she would continue her words, I controlled my chariot and led it towards that pitch black zone.
“Damn you, Hye! You have to move to the other side, away, far away from that damn monster,” Isac got a moment of pause when he noticed the direction my chariot was going towards.
It was heading towards the monster, not away from it.
In the next moment, she jumped and grabbed me from the arm. Yet unlike before, she didn’t manage to even budge me an inch!
My strength… It evolved much from this chance, way more than I even imagined!
“You…” Isac also noticed the difference. To her I might have felt like touching a mountain and trying desperately to move it.
“I won’t run away,” I decisively said, “if you want, you can escape if you want.”
“You… You got stronger, I admit it… But don’t think for a second that this will give you a chance to stand against it!”
Just as she was saying that, a big shadow appeared loaming from a distance. It was like a big mountain peak, and I couldn’t get any details of it as it was all black.
The darkness that covered that region came from nothing but that thing. Once I spotted it, I knew it was the monster I was going to fight.
It was… My enemy! The hardest and fiercest one I faced up till now.
“I won’t fight it with my bare fists,” I calmly said while opening my profile, getting into a certain place.
“Then… What? Are you going to just curse him?”
“That… Is a brilliant idea,” her words reminded me of my Libra. “But first, I need to do something… Come to my chariot in the south, come like your death is running after you!”
“What are you doing?!!” Isac looked at me in a weird way, but I didn’t explain. What I did was simple. I gained tons of monsters during my crazy two hours and half of work. And it was time for me to reap benefits.
I didn’t do that to just secure my kingdom. I did that to fight that bastard and take it down.
This fight… It was going to be epic!
As the monsters were coming from far away places, I had to do another thing.
“This… It’s a godly artefact! Damn! Damn! Hye, whose god is supporting you?!!” Isac recognised my Libra once I took it out.
This girl… She was damn lucky to watch me in play using my full strength and toys.