Transcendent Gene-Chapter 264: Bloodless Crypt [8]

The battles on both ends were in full swing.

Gio’s party members had a relative advantage over their opponents. Gio wasn’t in quite the same position.

Silver waves. They were just like the ones he remembered. The past overlapped with the present in his mind.

He remembered the Atmos Clan’s Estate in its most beautiful state, and he remembered what it looked like by the time the Draconians left.

BOOOOOOOM!

Silver waves ripped through the main mansion, turning the fleeing servants and maids into blood mist.

The waves were as tall as the house itself. From the outside, they looked like a tsunami of silver. However, it was more than that. ƒreewebɳovel.com

If one was in its path, the last sight before death was not a uniform wave of silver. Instead, it was an army.

The waves were merely a vehicle. Within those waves, she contained countless spirits of death and destruction that ate hearts and souls.

They devoured everything in their path. The blood mist created in the wave’s wake was turned into sustenance that provided it with more power. By the time it had made its way through the mansion, it had already claimed tens of lives.

Raven was one of the main perpetrators in the attack. Every time Gio looked back at it, it became clearer that the entire attack was something of a test for her. She was introduced to the world for the first time there, and afterward, she became a world terrorist they only knew as the [Silver Devil].

From what Gio had seen, those spirits were the basis of her power. The silver energy she used was heavily related to their existence and functioned based on them somehow.

At the moment, those spirits were not fully developed yet.

Boom!

A wave of silver shot towards him. Gio could see the budding spirits within the liquid, but he wasn’t the same person as he was back then.

He swung his arm out, slamming the back of his hand into the wave. A huge burst of virtual energy shot out and trapped the wave in a bubble before crushing it down into nothingness.

Raven shot through the dispersing energy and spun her body, swinging her swords in a crescent.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Gio had seen her swordsmanship before. Like a snake, she tried to manipulate her way into an opening. Her every strike was meant to be a final strike, perfectly designed to ensure that any opportunity was the right one.

The problem was that she had the same pettiness in her blood as he did.

She wanted him dead for trying to kill her, but she couldn’t feel satisfied with killing him now. She wanted to win completely, which meant she had to make him suffer and bow to her before taking his life.

It was an odd battle where both sides were trying to kill each other without killing each other.

Silver energy and virtual energy clashed in the air. Swords did the same. Gio didn’t give her the satisfaction of using a technique that she could connect to his persona from the Wasteland.

A sword came up at his face. He knew that there would usually be another one coming at him from a different direction, but Raven wasn’t stupid enough to do the same thing twice.

He saw the sword in question out of the corner of his eye, but didn’t respond to it. It was a feint.

When it came close, Raven suddenly dropped it out of her hand and rapidly shifted her position.

Silver light sparked from her palm and created a whip of lightning that cut towards Gio from mere inches away, giving him no time to retaliate.

That is, if he wasn’t already doing so.

Whoosh!

He didn’t expect a whip. That much was certain. He usually would have parried and attempted to counterattack, but such a move would have left him injured several times by her new energy weapon.

Instead, he ducked down and sent energy into his feet. His body was practically thrown across the floor, taking him a distance from Raven. His fingers dragged against the ground as he moved, filling it with virtual light.

Naturally, Raven followed him.

And just as naturally, he released his control and allowed the ground to explode.

Booooom!

Raven was good. She was bound to become a real monster in the next five to six years, so it was only expected that she was a little monster now. Gio could hardly believe that he was being matched in energy output and control.

She was weaker than him only when it came to experience. In fact, Gio wasn’t sure if the current equilibrium was a matter of his power or the Scenario Quest’s suppression effects.

He couldn’t sense her level, so he stopped trying. He focused only on bringing her down.

’This is it.’

As the ground exploded, Raven was finally caught by surprise and pushed back. She covered her face with her arms and used a barrier of silver to protect herself. Gio got off the ground and pounced at her, equipping a pair of virtual gloves on his hands.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The switch to hand-to-hand combat caught Raven off-guard. Her arms were still crossed in front of her, but his first few punches broke her guard open and gave him a straight shot at her head.

Boom!

He slammed his right arm forward, which she barely managed to dodge. As his fist scraped against the side of her face, he raised his other arm and threw another punch at her collarbone.

Just as Raven tried to step back, Gio slammed his foot down on hers and kept her in place.

Her eyes widened in a pain that was soon overshadowed by a horrible pulse that spread from her shoulder the moment his fist made contact.

The feeling vibrated through her collarbone and up her neck, involuntarily forcing her head to the size and blocking her sight.

Voooom!

The energy that gathered in that moment was so condensed that she could hear it despite not facing it directly.

The blue hue of the light shined against her face, blinding her peripheral.

What she couldn’t see was the formation of a massive block. There was no better way to describe it.

Raven would soon find out that Gio had landed himself a perfect opening. Using that opening, he had to do something big.

It wasn’t his fault that he didn’t have enough time to make a more ornate shape. He was doing something like this for the first time, after all.

He put all of his energy into the world in a mere second. In the next, he concentrated his mind and compressed the wild plumes of energy into a solid cube almost as tall as the ceiling.

Raven couldn’t see it, but she felt it tangibly on her back. The tiny hairs on her neck stood up as they felt destruction at her back.

’Tch!’

She clicked her tongue and moved her energy. Why would he prepare such a large attack when he knew that she could dodge? The energy in her systems channeled into her arms and legs, covering her in a glow before suddenly...

Bzzt!

The silver light in her hands fizzled out. Raven’s eyes widened as she realized what had happened.

Right when her energy passed through that spot on her collarbone, its state was completely disrupted. From one side of her body to the other, everything froze, leaving her with nothing more than sparks to show for her efforts.

Only one person could have caused it. The one person who caused a strange pulsing pain in her shoulder had cut off her energy flow.

He cut it off only for a second. In the same moment that she felt its disappearance, she felt its return. However, the disruption was enough.

That disruption made evasion an impossibility.

She could no longer do anything about the meteor at her back.

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