Myriad Devils-Chapter 111: An overwhelming quantity of abilities

Seth’s face was expressionless as he commanded the blood river with his hand. Since the blood river hadn’t harmed the beast in the slightest, although the beast didn’t counterattack, the river solidified and exploded into crimson particles that drifted through the air.

Naturally, Seth had willed for this.

The smell of blood permeated throughout, staining the air with its heavy scent.

Seth waved his hand once again, causing the swirling crimson particles to surround the Dreadwing Harbinger’s body and draw closer towards each other.

"Blood Tower!"

As his words fell, a tower of dripping blood was constructed mid-air, clamping around the beast general’s body. Slowly, it began shrinking, attempting to crush the creature’s body like it had done to the Fleshy Bear King previously.

Seth’s spirit had mostly recovered since the back-to-back battles against the fleshy bear king and the Red Ape beast general, so it was able to draw upon a great amount of power from his principle.

Anon remained grounded, standing in the garden and observing the battle above. Due to the nature of their abilities, it would be difficult to attack in unison. Magical forces could not simply interact peacefully with each other, especially ones relating to differing principles.

’It’ll be good if Seth could handle this by himself. Still, I hardly doubt it. Strength-related principles are very straightforward; hence the Red Ape beast general was relatively easy to deal with. On the other hand, this Dreadwing beast general is much more elusive, and difficult to slay.’ Anon thought.

He observed the garden and the trees within. The white river almost appeared milky, and growing from it were clear crystals. Though he didn’t recognize the fruits on the trees, these crystals, he knew them from a glance.

Although his knowledge of treasures wasn’t great, it wasn’t that he was completely unaware either.

’Clear Heart Crystals.’ Anon thought, ’I don’t think that we’ll have many uses for them, but we can still gather some and sell them back to the academy. I’d imagine that the second- and third-year academy students who’re tasked with missions would find it very useful. After all, it almost completely shrouds one’s presence.’

Swish! Swish!

Just then, Anon was forced to bring his thoughts to a halt. Above him, ripples of dark energy escaped the blood tower that attempted to bind the beast general in place.

As the dark energy seeped out of the blood tower, it then began gathering together outside of the tower, forming the body of the Dreadwing Harbinger.

Almost appearing very simply, and easily, it escaped the killer move which had ended the Fleshy Bear King’s life.

Its wings flapped powerfully, stabilizing its massive body in mid-air. With an expression of annoyance fixed on Seth, it opened its beak wide. A deafening roar erupted from its throat, unleashing waves of dark ripples that surged toward the blood tower, and by extension, straight at Seth.

The sound was a force of nature, vibrating through the air and sending shockwaves that threatened to overwhelm him.

The blood tower shattered after making contact with these ripples, exploding into crimson particles that swiftly rushed towards Seth, intensely swirling around him before becoming a second blood tower which was a barrier to protect him.

But as the ripples made contact with this second blood tower, even though its momentum had already been lowered slightly, the blood tower was still being relentlessly chipped away.

In the blink of an eye, cracks and fractures had formed, and in the next moment, it was reduced to dispersing crimson particles.

The dark ripples caught Seth’s body and sent him hurling back. The ripples continued pushing outwards, causing Seth to fly straight into the wall of the massive crater, shattering the earth upon contact.

At the same time, he coughed up two mouthfuls worth of blood, whilst the dark energy seeped into his skin.

For a second, Seth remained stuck in the wall, as if paralyzed.

Surprisingly, as the flying beast focused its attention on Seth, his eyes showed a hint of fear towards the beast general.

But just when it focused its attention on Seth, from below, a tremendous force was being generated.

"Victory Manifested!"

Beneath Anon’s feet, escaping the earth was a rising pillar that was so large its width took up the entire space of the gorge.

The pillar rose towards the sky, carrying an impressive and almost unstoppable might, as if it was attempting to establish a pathway leading towards the cosmic sky and even beyond it.

The beast general had no choice but to shift its attention towards Anon whose figure had been swallowed by the pillar.

Towards Anon’s attack, the beast general flapped its wings a couple of times, observing it intently for a period.

As the dark gold pillar rose into the sky, drawing closer towards the Dreadwing creature, Anon frowned upon seeing its lack of reaction.

Unknowingly, a sense of doubt welled up in his chest.

The pillar reached within a hundred meters of the beast general.

Then seventy, fifty, thirty...

When there was only ten meters separating the pillar and the beast, Anon widened his eyes as the pillar that he was controlling suddenly solidified before shattering into countless golden particles.

At the same time, a buzzing sound escaped the ground beneath his feet.

Said ground immediately exploded as he shot into the air.

Escaping from the earth where he once stood atop of, a surge of dark energy shot into the air, crossing more than a hundred feet in the blink of an eye.

Anon was unable to move faster than a magical attack from a beast general, hence he was almost immediately caught by it.

Though he surrounded himself in a dark gold aura which caused his surroundings to palpate and buzz, the dark aura encompassed that gold energy, devouring it rapidly.

From beneath him, the surge of darkness assaulted him, and then, the feathers attached to the beast’s body suddenly detached themselves, transforming into darts of dark energy that whizzed across the air and descended towards Anon’s figure.

Caught in the center of it all, Anon growled with anger and annoyance, his spirit commanding even more stellar cosmic energy.

"Cursed Ground!"

Though he was in the air, spreading across the hundred meters around him was the dark gold manifestation of his principle power, transforming the area into something of a domain for him.

Still, although he fought on somewhat equal footing against the dark surge, the dark feathers that had detached from the beast general’s body hadn’t even breached his ’cursed ground’. So when it finally did, what occurred caused a dark light of hopelessness and shock to flicker through his eyes.

Upon coming in contact with the dark and intense aura of these dark feathers, ’cursed ground’ almost instantly solidified, shattering into dark gold particles.

Tch!

"Victory Manifested!"

Anon growled as the dark gold particles swiftly rushed towards him, transforming into a gold rod that he swept against the dark surge of energy. The instance these two magical forces collided, Anon’s principle displayed its superiority, causing the dark surge to solidify and crumble into remnant energy.

But just as quickly, the dark feathers came rushing towards him.

The rod in Anon’s hands wasn’t as illusory as it appeared in times gone by.

He skillfully twirled the staff in his hand, deflecting most of the dark feathers, but there were still many that breached his defense, lashing against his body and piercing his skin.

Boom! Boom!

Just as wounds began developing across Anon’s body, from the depths of the gorge, exploding out of the dirt were over a dozen strange creatures with black skin, radiating the aura of commander tier beasts.

Anon’s figure flickered in the air, turning illusory as he raced through the space within the crater whilst defending himself against the dark feathers. And it was like this when the dozen and some beast commanders jumped into the air and rushed towards Anon.

Seeing this, the beast general shifted its focus from Anon, and towards Seth.

’Its attacks aren’t particularly overbearing like the Red Ape beast general, nor as savage and ruthless as the Fleshy Bear King, but it has so many abilities and variety of abilities that it’s hard to believe even after experiencing it firsthand.’ Anon groaned internally.

Upon perceiving the lack of attention he was suddenly receiving, Anon clicked his tongue in wonder. None of its attacks were particularly strong, but they were continuous, simultaneous, and unbelievably relentless.

Naturally, its path to defeating its foes was by being unrelenting, overwhelming its foes with sheer quantity of abilities.

Not only that, but due to the amount of abilities it held, facing multiple foes wasn’t necessarily a problem.

Hence, it could shift its focus towards Seth.

Only, upon turning away from Anon and returning its attention to Seth, did it realize that the previously stunned pale-skinned boy was nowhere to be seen.

The cavity that had formed in the wall due to him crashing into it had remained, but it did not host any paralyzed youth, struck by fear which had been forcefully instilled into him.

But the beast general’s senses were sharp, so once it heard the sound of a flowing river, it looked towards the cosmic sky barely visible from the depths of the crater, or more so, towards the youth that stood in the air with beastly, shimmering blood-red pupils.

There was a silvery hue that covered his crimson eyes, and in the depths of the blood river, foreign characters resided.

As the blood river fell, a buzzing noise resounded throughout.

The blood river had transformed into a demonic blood dragon that swam through the air, and with a body over a hundred meters long, it rocketed towards the beast general.

This magical attack was simply too fast, landing on the Dreadwing Harbinger’s body before it could possibly react.