HDXD: Omni Harem System-Chapter 42: What is at Stake?!
Chapter 42: What is at Stake?!
Adam’s instincts screamed at him.
The Alpha Bulgae’s throat flared up with intense heat, and its mouth opened up widely, a blinding violet glow swelling within, rippling waves of unbearable heat through the battlefield, as the Bulgae blasted its destructive violet flame toward Adam, disintegrating everything in its path.
By all means, it was too fast and too close to just dodge.
"Shit!"
Adam Shouted.
Arms shot forward, and a complex series of multiple silver-colored magic circles began to form, creating a multi-layered air barrier around his body.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The first layer shattered like fragile glass.
The second cracked, webbing with fractures before disintegrating just like the first.
The third barely held for a heartbeat before the inferno swallowed it whole.
But even then.
Adam pushed forward, stacking barriers one after another in a desperate, instinctive effort to hold back the tide and survive this ordeal.
But it wasn’t enough.
The pressure was crushing the barrier, and the heat was boiling him inside.
Even within the protective shell, he was burning alive.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!...
His voice rang out, and pain like he had never felt before reached him, tears of pain rolled down his face, but evaporated soon after.
He had never felt something this painful in his life before, neither from his past life nor his current life. freёnovelkiss.com
His skin bubbled, peeling away in smoking ribbons. His muscles liquefied, his blood evaporating in his veins.
The air in his lungs turned to fire and burnt him from within.
His left arm, raised in defense, was now nothing but charred bone.
His clothes? Gone, given it was the first thing to be burnt into ashes.
Vision blurred.
His body convulsed in agony, nerve endings sending unbearable signals to a mind that could no longer process them.
He tried to scream, but his throat was already ruined.
’I’m dying...
He said to himself, yet his face went on to Minerva, and the moment he did, a hand, invisible to the world, but real to him.
"It seems yah reach your limit eh boy?"
A voice appeared in his mind, as it continued.
"Tch... Oi, don’t tell me ya throwin in the towel already, huh? Hah? And here I was thinkin maybe, just maybe...if ya pulled this off, I’d give it a real damn thought... Y’know, consider hitchin up with ya after ya hit the legal age ’n all. Hmmm? Was I wrong ’bout ya this whole damn time, boy?"
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’...Unforgivable!!...
’...Unbelievable!!...
’...Unacceptable!!...
’...I-I... I CAN’T ACCEPT THIS!!’
Adam’s mind riled up, pure will alone, tethered his life to this world, his mind powering back on.
Through sheer willpower, he forced his skeletal fingers to move.
To act out its purpose.
And without batting another eye, Adam began to use Positive Touch on himself.
Raw, exposed bone dug into his own chest where his heart was still beating but slowly. And in that next instant, a violent pulse of life force exploded outward from his hand, and inward into his body.
The stolen vitality of the ancient tree surged through him like a cursed blessing, forcing his body to heal even as it was torn apart. His cells burned, and disintegrated, only to be reborn in the same instant.
Flesh blistered, peeled away in steaming ribbons, then crawled back, raw and fresh, just to be scorched again. The violet flames devoured him, scorching deep into his marrows.
Melted!
Restored!
Melted!
Restored!
Melted!
Restored!
Melted!... Restored!... Melted!... Restored!... Again, and again, and again... Over and over, Adam felt both suffering and relief in equal intervals, yet pain dominates above all else.
The flame of the Bulgae vs The lifeforce of the Ancient tree.
The cycle repeated without mercy and all that could be heard and seen was the burning of flesh and wood.
As he endures this agony.
His lungs reappeared....only to be scorched away again.
His face burnt off, his eyes melting, leaving behind exposed sinew and muscle, only for new skin to regrow.
This process of being burnt alive, and being healed at the same time continues for the next thirty seconds, as the Bulgae seem to have reached its limit.
Naturally, Adam collapsed to his knees, as he fell from the sky, the air barrier keeping him afloat shattered as its purpose was to protect him as much as it could to prevent total annihilation.
His body drops to the ground, steaming, and every nerve that was still alive screamed in pain. Every breath sent knives of pain through his chest.
But despite all that he was still alive, horrifically injured, nearing death doors, but alive...kinda, but alive nonetheless.
But even as he fell, he kept his hand on his chest, his entire body mostly black with bloody sinew underneath, as he received horrific 4th-degree burns all over his body, he didn’t even have hair.
But as he lay there, in horrific pain...positive touch healed his body.
Meanwhile, the Alpha landed before him, heating up the atmosphere to make breathing impossible once more, as well as painful.
But despite that, Adam, hot up, his skin sticking to the ground, as his eyes started to heal, as they were burned out, his glare went on to the beast that did this to him.
But burnt or not, it wanted Adam dead.
If so, it can devour Astrum inside him, the very thing that made the pact chase after him, as such he was a truly tasty meal; too good to give up.
With that said, the Alpha took charge, as it began to let out an earth-shaking roar, and charged toward Adam, as such he was about to end this.
Adam’s vision focused.
His fingers curled into fists.
Waiting for it to get closer... and then.
’You screwed now you bastard.’
Adam said in his head, after all, he was beyond pissed at the moment.
As the Alpha Bulgae approached, a large silver magic circle appeared below him, as it was hidden underground.
WHOOOOOOM!
The air collapsed around the Alpha.
An invisible spherical prison snapped into existence, stopping the beast mid-run, as it was now floating in the air in an air barrier. The monster snarled, its heating body pressing against the translucent walls.
It thrashed in pain as the prison began to shrink, Adam at this point, was about to give it the same fate as it did with the Aderyn.
Tighter.
Smaller.
Adam’s fingers trembled as he forced the barrier to contract further.
The Alpha howled, its own weight crushing in on itself. Its molten body bubbled and hissed, searing against the condensed barrier of air pressure.
It was working.
Till it wasn’t, because the beast, nearing death adapted, and in the next instance.
Its entire body liquefied, into pure molten lava to save itself from the crushing pressure.
Molten lava flooded every inch of the shrinking space, flowing into gaps, stretching, and bending till it was the same shape as the sphere, not the shrinking sphere look like a blazing sun.
And the temperature inside the barrier spiked, turning it into a pressure cooker of liquid flames.
The heat inside, also started to increase in temperature, causing the air barrier to falter.
CRACK!
Hairline fractures raced across the barrier’s surface, spreading more, and more as the seconds went by.
Adam’s jaw tightened...he was well aware this barrier won’t hold for long.
"Fine."
His voice was hoarse and dark.
"Let’s end this...ahh... I wanted to show this to big sis... the first time I actually used it in our next sparring session, the thing is though, you have no idea, how much Astrum, I have to save up just to use this spell just once...ahhhh... how annoying."
Said Adam as he raised his hand in the air.
Truly this was the strongest known spell Adam currently has, one of the very first he had copied from Priscilla a week back.
But that aside, after his hand was raised upwards, a burst of white Astrum escaped his tiny burnt body, lighting the entire area, with an Astrum aura so powerful, even a non-Astrum user, would be able to see the tangible force leaving his body, like a pool of high-quality water.
Right after, a massive 100-meter white-colored magic circle manifests above them.
The barrier began to crack even more, till it shattered, releasing an intense wave of heat as the Bulgae was now free, it made itself solid again, and it lunged at Adam, its claws aiming for a swift decapitation.
But it was already too late.
How late? Well from the moment its molten form re-solidified.
And then, Adam looked at the beast and said.
"Flash Freeze."
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There was nothing but silence at that moment, and then, a loud...
CRACK!!
Could be heard.
The air itself shattered.
A void of heat collapsed inward, sucking every trace of warmth within a perfect 100-meter sphere.
The world froze at that moment.
-210°C.
The Alpha’s roar cut short.
In an instant, its entire body crystallized.
But not just the Bugae, everything, was submerged in ice, frozen in place, shattered, and crumbled at the slightest touch.
The Bugae stood frozen in place, a towering monument of frozen stillness.
For a single breath.
A pause.
Then....
SHATTER!!!
The creature crumbled into dust, along with many things within the reach of 100 meters.
Naturally, the battlefield fell silent.
And Adam exhaled breath forming a mist in the frozen air.
’Gaah...it’s over."
He said to himself.
And yet, as the exhaustion hit him like a tidal wave, he barely had the strength to acknowledge it. His knees buckled, body trembling, nerves screaming in protest as his magic resistance protected him from his own spell’s deadly effects.
But it was very cold now, like really cold.
As he trembled naked, hell he didn’t even have the map, but at the same time, his eyes widened as he said in horror.
"Wait.... shit... shit... shit... the letter."
Adam said to himself in great worry, it definitely burned into bits in that battle.
As such he panicked, so much so, that he didn’t even realize, he was fully healed, as Positive touch restored him back ot full health.
"Ahhhhh... I failed big sis... dammit my reword."
Adam said, despair taking over, however, he soon heard the voice of the System in his head, once more, as she said.
『Master... Look over there near the frozen tree right in front of you』
"Ha."
Adam said as he looked at the direction the System was telling him about, and that’s when saw it, causing a shocked look to appear on his face.
As he said, with a trembling voice.
"...h...HOWWWWW!?...
Adam shouted in shock, as in front of the tree, was the envelope, it was perfectly fine, no damage at all, it was just lying on the frozen ground.
