Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 693 Coloured Hybrid
Murkel looked at the shadow he could see by his side on the floor. He could tell someone was incredibly close, but by the shadow alone, it was impossible to say if what was approaching him was human. The words of Amir struck him deeply, and immediately Murkel spun around. He did so with his fist spinning along with him, and a string of visual Dark Qi lingered in the air.
Two arms were raised, and the hit had been stopped and blocked. Murkel was slightly surprised that his attack could be stopped, but the fact that it took two arms to block his single attack meant he still had an arm free to finish off the person who dared to creep up behind him.
When he threw a second fist, though, Murkel saw another two hands grabbing on and stopping them. He paused as he looked at what was in front of him because it didn’t quite make any sense at all. Looking into the person’s face, there were features of the young warrior named Dame. His forehead and his eyes, they were the same, but the mouth was that of a creature.
His mouth was opened wide and detached with two strange claw-like substances. This was where the string-like substance, similar to that of a spider, would come out from. Murkel had already seen this before when the young warrior had transformed, but now there was even more that had changed about the man. For one, the amount of limbs the person had.
Coming out from his back, there seemed to be six extra limbs in total, three arms on either side, and with the two regular hands, that meant there were now eight arms right in front of him.
Many didn’t have much experience fighting against Hybrids, and it was the same for Murkel. He didn’t even know this was possible. Both of his arms that had been stopped had been stopped by the extra limbs, and before he knew it, two fists with the special gauntlets struck Murkel right in the chest, pushing him back.
Immediately, Dame continued to charge forward. First, he threw two fists before even reaching the man; the Qi blasts were there and were blocked by Murkel, who was still recovering. Just before Murkel could even attack, white substance wrapped around one of his arms, and two of the limbs from Dame ended up pulling the arm away, forcing it to avoid a strike.
His other limbs were concentrated on blocking, allowing for a pounding to proceed from above by the several arms. They were bashing into Murkel’s head left and right. When Murkel tried to break free or move away, the string substance would come out from Dame’s mouth and wrap around Murkel, pulling him back. Before he could break free, another flurry of punches was delivered by Dame.
‘The extra strength that a Hybrid brings, the skills and Qi of the Demonic Faction, and also the special items made by the Dark Magus, along with the extra powers from my new form. With all of these things, I will beat you and start my own legacy!’ Dame thought as he continued to fight.
Thinking back, before he had been turned into a Hybrid, he could never imagine doing such things. His test was to go against one of the Clan Heads in the Demonic Faction. Using all of his strength, just like he was using now, he was able to defeat a person who would have taken him perhaps a century to beat, yet he had succeeded back then and learned the true power that Hybrids had.
“Now I will do the same!” Dame wrapped around the waist of Murkel and pulled him forward up in the air. He had all of his arms ready and started to punch Murkel one hit after the other.
Alba had gone to Amir’s side to help him. She felt at fault for him taking quite a hit in the first place.
“Don’t worry too much about me,” Amir said. “I will heal fairly quickly, just be ready to help him when you can.”
Seeing the situation, she wasn’t sure she could, though.
Those watching in the Light Faction were shocked by the turnaround. They were sure in their minds that the Dark Faction had the upper hand. It was practically a war with the strongest of the Dark Faction against a bunch of students and people they had never seen or who had yet to build up their legacy.
Now it felt like they were watching several legacies in the making, a new era that would occur in the world of Pagna.
“I don’t understand, are Hybrids really that strong?” Hannah asked.
“I’m not sure about Hybrids in general,” Beatrix replied. “But the fact that he has extra limbs while fighting will be a huge advantage. In our Pagna martial arts, there are only so many points of attack we have.”
“Now there are many points of attack that Dame can choose from. It would be like going against four warriors at once, all as skilled as the last, and from what I know about Hybrids, their physical strength is nothing to laugh at.”
“There is more to that,” Ricar added. “Firstly, although their physical strength is strong, it is just that, physical strength and not one’s Qi. If you watch closely, he can only channel Qi from his real limbs rather than those extended limbs, but the strength of the Hybrid is helping him out.” fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
“The Light Faction has done some studying into Hybrids, and we have learned that there are two types.”
“There are those that people are more aware of, those that seem to be combined with the body of a beast. They look as if their bodies have melded with a beast itself. Then there are those that we have seen today. They can look like a regular human yet are able to transform their bodies and bring out their inner beast from them.”
“As for the latter, we have also been able to do further research into these things. The latter Hybrids, when they transform, seem to have different colors on their body. You see the black substance that forms up the outside of his body. Depending on these colors, the difficulty of the hybrid or strength is increased.”
“White-colored Hybrids seems to be the weakest, forming its body of strange substances. I don’t know if you saw, but on Mantis, when parts of his body were forming, a strange white color had appeared.”
“Black substance seems to be rare, and as we can tell today, quite strong. Although we have no idea why there are differences in strength between these since we don’t know how these Hybrids are created.”
“And is there another color?” Beatrix asked. “You were speaking as if there was.”
“There is a red-colored Hybrid,” Ricar answered. “Which has only been seen in the world of Pagna once.”
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 694 The Red Hybrid
The fight was continuing from all over, and thanks to Dame fighting off against Murkel, it meant that Raze was able to focus on regaining his strength just like he did before. He was unaware of just how well Dame was now doing against the Dark Faction leader. Out of all of the fights going on though, the Light Faction couldn’t keep their eyes off the Hybrid and Murkel.
“I’ve heard of Hybrids before, but this is the first time I’ve heard of them being ranked into different colors,” Hannah explained, her brow furrowing in thought.
“As I said, think back to the transformation,” Ricar continued. “Most people focus on the features they are seeing, but a strange liquid forms as part of these odd bodies, and that liquid is extremely important to pay attention to.”
“But if what you said is true about there being a red-colored Hybrid, and you know about it as well, Clan Head, then that means there had to be one at some point… so why is this fact not known throughout all of Pagna?” Beatrix asked, her voice filled with curiosity.
Ricar continued to watch the situation unfold. The history of Pagna was recorded in books and passed down by word of mouth, but historical records were only recently kept, and due to the divide in factions, events were recorded differently depending on who wrote them and their biases.
“You all know about Hybrids and how dangerous they are. The whole of Pagna knows this because there was a significant incident that put Hybrids on the map of Pagna in the first place,” Ricar said, his voice grave.
Beatrix nodded, understanding what her Clan Head was referring to. “The incident that created the alliance in the first place, are you talking about that?” she asked.
Ricar nodded again. “As you know, when the three factions were created, they were in constant conflict with each other. Now, we are in a state where we constantly check each other’s strength and even have things like the Martial Arts Tournament. But these things didn’t exist before.”
“There was one event that occurred that caused the three factions to stop fighting and unite against a common threat. A portal break happened in the Dark Faction’s land, and out of it, a Hybrid appeared.”
Hannah had learned this history of Pagna, but the alliance between the factions and the Hybrid event were taught as two separate incidents. She listened carefully, eager to gain knowledge that only an Elder could provide.
“The Hybrid that appeared was so devastating that those from the Dark, Light, and Demonic Factions had to be called upon to eliminate such an opponent. That being was a red-colored Hybrid.”
“It took the strongest from the three factions to fight against it, and in the end, we are not even sure if the thing was defeated. After that, people became much more cautious and aware of Hybrids coming through portals.”
“As for the three factions, they all received a significant blow from what happened and were in no state to continue fighting. That was when the alliance was formed.”
“However, the group most affected by this event was the Dark Faction. A change occurred within the Dark Faction, and the strongest group, the Noctis Clan, was replaced by the Erupting Fist Clan, led by Murkel.”
“He proved his strength many times when the Demonic and Light Factions tested him, and slowly, he revived his name as the strongest warrior in all of Pagna, the closest to reaching and becoming a Divine being.”
Beatrix was quite shocked to hear the further details. She knew the damage the Hybrid had done, but it seemed the three factions hadn’t dealt with it as a simple matter.
“Are you saying the red-colored Hybrid was able to best those from all the factions? Does that mean that the red-colored Hybrid was as strong as the Divine beings?” Beatrix asked, her voice tinged with disbelief.
Once again, Ricar nodded. “You should know that beasts aren’t limited to the rules of Pagna. This seems to be the case for Hybrids as well. The beasts in the first place have great power in other dimensions, and you know that Divine beings can still use their full power in these dimensions, just not in Pagna itself.”
“And you’re saying that thing is still alive, right? They didn’t kill it back then!” Hannah asked, her eyes wide with fear. “That it could still come back any day.”
“That I’m not sure about. We aren’t confident it was killed that day. Most likely, it might just be heavily injured, healing and biding its time to return. Regardless, it hasn’t disrupted things as they are, and most have forgotten about it, a thought that just goes to the back of the mind.”
“The reason I wanted to tell you all of this is to truly understand how dangerous Hybrids are, and why it’s not surprising that Dame is now able to even go against Murkel. It feels as if I’m seeing a repeat of the past.”
They certainly felt that way and were thankful now that the Dame they were looking at only had a strange black substance and scales surrounding his beast and transformed parts.
Yet, it was quite clear he felt much stronger than Amir. Even among the colors of the Hybrids, they were sure to have differences in their strength. That was when a thought clicked in Beatrix’s mind.
“You said that it was a Hybrid that came and attacked, not a beast. Doesn’t that mean it was linked to a person, linked to a warrior of the past? I’m assuming the strength of the beast has to be linked to the warrior in some way, right? So who was the warrior?” Beatrix asked, her curiosity piqued.
“I don’t know much about why certain colors appear on the Hybrids; that might be information that only those below know about. I don’t know if an individual needs to be strong or not, but you are right.”
“A very skillful warrior had become a Hybrid, a warrior from the Dark Faction.”
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 695 Fighting Till No One Can Stand
Despite everything that was going on with Murkel, the other fights were still taking place, and they were too intense for the fighters to pay attention to anything else.
The Crimson Crane members couldn’t help but worry about Alba, knowing fully well that she was up against one of the most difficult opponents.
In particular, Kizer, Lilly, and Reno were engaged in a fierce battle with Suzan, who was using no weapons. Kizer swung his large sword, and Suzan met it with a strong kick in the air. She continued using more force, and the flowing water Qi pushed the sword down even though she didn’t continue with her foot. Then, with her leg still in the air, she kicked the spear thrust forward by Lilly. The kick was forceful, and again the visual Qi continued on.
Even though the leg still wasn’t making contact, the Qi from the kick continued pushing the weapon out of the way.
This was unexpected for Reno, who had dived in with both of his hands glowing green. He went to deliver a blow with the palm of his hand, but Suzan quickly hopped off her leg and jumped, lifting it up in the air and kicking it down.
Reno’s hands were swung to the floor, and before he knew it, a big kick was delivered into his stomach. Shortly after, she kicked both Kizer on the shoulder and Lilly in the stomach, sending all three of them skidding across the ground.
Although the hits weren’t completely devastating since they had large amounts of Qi as well, they were still clearly outmatched and outskilled in this situation.
“This is ridiculous!” Kizer shouted. “There are three of us, and just one of her! We should be the quickest of the group to deal with the situation and then get rid of her!”
As Kizer finished saying his words out of frustration, Lilly charged forward. Her spear was powered with her Qi.
When getting close, she thrust it forward at an incredible speed. Each attack seemed to come off faster than the one before it.
“Lilly’s really going all out right now; we have to back her up,” Kizer said, holding his sword.
“Wait, we have to come up with a plan. While Lilly has her on the back foot, we need to figure out a way to do this!” Reno said.
Kizer listened and decided to take a step back for a second. He knew everything they were doing so far wasn’t working, and they couldn’t just keep doing the same thing.
On top of that, there was the caveat with his weapon. Each time he used a technique, he wouldn’t be able to use it again. So it felt like as the fight went on, he would be getting weaker and weaker.
In the middle of the flurry produced by Lilly, Suzan was avoiding all of the attacks. When she saw gaps, she would shift her feet and deliver a kick to the face.
Lilly pushed through this, seemingly unfazed, and continued to push forward. However, this was clearly not working. Once in a while, she would get kicked in the face again and again.
Suzan was finding gaps and more openings compared to before. The amount of hits delivered on Lilly’s face now made it quite swollen. Her lip was busted up, and blood was trickling down, but she still continued.
“Hey, have you used that head of yours to make a plan yet? Because I’m starting to get really angry,” Kizer said, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the sword even harder than before.
He continued to watch carefully, observing how Suzan moved, how she thought, but even more so, he was observing the splatter of blood coming from Lilly’s disfigured face.
The kicks continued, and finally, it was to the point that Lilly’s hands felt weak. She slightly let go of the grip on her spear, and she wavered for a moment, nearly dipping out of consciousness.
Seeing this, Suzan bent her knee slightly and swung her leg out like a whip. A trail of water followed and crashed right into the side of Lilly’s head.
Blood splattered out from her mouth, and Lilly’s body moved in the direction of the kick until her face fell to the floor.
“I’ll do something,” Lilly said as her consciousness was fading. “I’ll help, even without a weapon of my own…” her voice trailed off.
“That’s it, I’m going in!” Kizer shouted.
Reno couldn’t formulate a plan quickly enough. From observing, he thought he could see an opening, but instead, he saw nothing. He did come up with one idea, one that he thought could work.
“Alright, just keep her busy and make sure she can’t use her hands and legs!” Reno shouted as he came forward.
“That’s your big plan? That’s what you came up with?” Kizer shouted as he geared up a technique. He placed the sword by his side, and then in a flash, he struck his sword through the air.
Visually, it looked as if the sky was actually cut and split, but it hit nothing, as Suzan had avoided it by bending below the slash. She was quite flexible and nimble.
In the first place, Kizer’s goal was just to get her away from Lilly. Then right after, he continued trying to attack Suzan on the back foot.
“Let’s do this!” Kizer said as he swung his sword, using technique after technique.
Everything almost looked like a repeat of what had occurred with Lilly and Suzan. She was avoiding all of the attacks, but she was unable to find an opening.
Although Kizer was slow, when he used his techniques, the strikes were powerful and fast. It was taking everything out of her just to follow the attacks.
‘This man is using technique after technique, and each of them is powerful. If I get hit by one of these, I’ll be done for! How is he able to strike from one attack to the other so soon?’
In the middle of these thoughts, she felt something clamp onto her back. Reno had jumped, latched on, and wrapped his arms around her neck, as well as his legs under her waist.
“What is this!” Suzan shouted. “This isn’t even a Pagna technique. This is an embarrassment!”
Kizer still didn’t have a clue what Reno was trying to do or his plan, but he decided that he would continue swinging his sword and stop her from using her arms and legs to fight, or at least to get Reno off.
Even with someone on her back, she was just as nimble as before, avoiding attacks bit by bit. Then that was when she could finally see Kizer slowing down.
Jumping in the air, she then kicked Kizer in the face, making it swollen. Kizer went to move his sword, but it felt extremely heavy.
“I’m not good for this stuff. I’m much more of a heavy hitter than this!”
Now that Kizer was tired, there were a lot more hits for Suzan to take advantage of. She kicked the back of his leg, lowering him down, and then went to kick Kizer’s head, but that’s when her attack completely missed.
“What the…” Suzan’s vision was slightly blurry, and she had no idea why. Not just that, but nearly all of her senses were dulling, and the control of her body was starting to fade.
“It’s you, isn’t it? You, who’s on my back, the poison Qi user. You’re putting it directly into my bloodstream, no wonder!” Suzan shouted.
Kizer, hearing this, was getting a second wind. Now he knew Reno’s plan. His poison was strong, but against a talented and high-level Qi user, simple attacks weren’t going to affect her much.
So he directly needed to make contact with her and focus on just pouring his poisonous Qi into her.
When Kizer went to attack, she hit him clearly in the stomach.
“You’re a big, slow-moving target. I can get to you even without having to see!” Suzan claimed. “As for you on my back, it’s time to suffocate!”
The Qi activated all over her body, and she was burning like a lamp. As the Qi surrounded her, it surrounded a particular area and focused on just Reno’s head.
Now he felt like he was trapped underwater. His sound was dulled, and even more so, he was unable to breathe.
“Let’s just see how long you can hold out, you, the big guy, or me!” Suzan claimed.
She continued to hit Kizer, kicking him from side to side, hitting his face. Kizer wasn’t even picking up his sword anymore and was just being knocked around like a rag doll.
As he was hit, he finally fell down to one knee.
“Reno, I can’t even force myself to use any more skills. I’ve used them all up, so beat this woman.”
Suzan now could only see a large blur in front of her. She knew who her targets were, but she was seriously being affected by what was in her bloodstream right now.
‘This was a lot more annoying than I thought. I wonder if he went up against these three, if he would have the same amount of trouble.’ Suzan thought to herself as she felt a great weight let go from her back. .cσ๓
Finally, Reno couldn’t take it anymore, and when he fell to the floor, he could finally breathe as the Qi was no longer suffocating him.
“Figures, I’m the one standing in the end. Now let’s get this poison out of my—” Suzan stopped mid-sentence as she saw a pointed spear going right through her chest.
“I bet you didn’t see that one, b*tch. I told them I would do something even without one of his weapons.” Lilly said, as she let go of the spear and fell to the floor again.
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 696 A Wife’s Gift
While Lily lay on the floor, she was drifting in and out of consciousness. She had been badly hurt, taking more blows to the head than she should have done during her fight. She knew she needed to pull back, that her strength was waning in the fight, but she continued on regardless. She had an idea of what Reno was doing, why he and Kizer didn’t come forward, so she wanted to help at least a little.
It was these thoughts that had kept her going and continuing to thrust the spear even after exhaustion. As the only one without a weapon made by the Dark Magus, she felt like the weak point in the entire group. She had to admit that, so she wanted to at least do something for them, rather than just get in their way or to be someone they needed to worry about.
The thing was, she had lasted even shorter than she thought she would against Suzan, ultimately making her feel like she had done nothing.
‘I need to do something… I need to… something… anything.’
It started slowly; all she needed to do was get herself up from the ground, and she did bit by bit. After that, she needed to find her target.
However, she couldn’t strike because she saw that Reno was on Suzan’s back.
When he finally fell, that was her chance, her opportunity, and she decided to take it. Gathering the last of her strength, she thrust the spear perfectly through Suzan’s heart.
One of the strongest members to ever exist in the Flowing Force Clan was defeated just like that. Due to the poison running through her body, Suzan’s senses weren’t even aware of Lily’s presence, and Lily didn’t have much of a presence, walking around half-dead.
“I did it…” Lily smiled as she fell back to the ground.
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Rayna was going against the man known as Wendart. He was a skilled swordsman who had reached the top of the academy, becoming one of the best teachers among the students.
Rayna herself was using a spear, employing the special techniques of the Neverfall Clan. The two had been clashing quite evenly, exchanging blows with neither side gaining the upper hand.
Once again, Wendart deflected the spear and went to strike at Rayna’s face, but she managed to use her leg to kick the sword right by Wendart’s hand and thrust forward, with Wendart jumping back in time to reposition himself.
“Using your foot? I thought you were a spearman?” Wendart asked. “I guess I should expect someone from the Demonic Clan to use such methods.”
“Every clan is different with how they use their arts, and the clan I am from, the Neverfall Clan, was never a clan that specialized in spear techniques in the first place, so I have to come up with a few things on my own.”
After finishing these words, Rayna went in for a strike again. Wendart struck his sword with equal force, and the power of Qi clashing rippled through the air. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
“You are skilled, you are strong, but you are rushing for some reason. What is it? Are you worried about them?” Wendart asked, keeping track of where her eyes went.
They lingered toward Raze. There wasn’t anyone around him, but due to all the fights going on, at any point and time, someone could come next to him.
On top of that, she was sure that the Qi vibrating through the air due to all the fights would be disturbing Raze quite a bit.
“Oh, so it’s him. But let me tell you, rushing your fight is a bad idea, not when you’re going against someone like me. I am the clan head of one of the top clans just outside the major five clans in the Dark Faction!”
Wendart skimmed his sword, pushing forward against the spear, and with a burst of Qi, he then rushed and struck toward Rayna’s head.
She managed to pull back, but the tip of the sword made a cut across her cheek. Jumping back several times, she placed her hand on her cheek, feeling the small amount of blood. She slowly placed her index finger on the wound and smeared it across her cheek.
“One of the strongest clans outside of the top five, and that’s something you’re proud of?” Rayna asked.
She carefully steadied herself and let out a deep breath. She then focused her gaze and looked at her opponent again.
Right after, she charged in once more, but this time, things were different. Her Qi surged through her body with each step, all of it steady and contained at a low level.
It wasn’t rash and wild, swinging out, and Wendart could feel this.
“I am from the Neverfall Clan!” Rayna claimed as she went in and struck from above.
Wendart blocked the attack, but as soon as the spear and his sword collided, a burst of powerful Qi made the attack feel that much heavier.
Right after, he could see her following up with another attack.
“I’m from one of the top clans in the Demonic Faction, and let me tell you, inside our clan, there are plenty of people stronger than you!”
Rayna then jumped up in the air and spun her body. Rather than using the spear to thrust, she was using it more like a staff.
With the spin and added power, the attack was faster than Wendart could react, and the side of the spear slammed into his ribs.
He could immediately tell that they were broken. As his body was about to be flung to the side, Rayna quickly pulled the spear back and thrust it forward, piercing Wendart’s thigh.
The spear continued on until it stuck into the ground, and Rayna completely let go of the spear.
Now she was just using her fists and delivered a heavy punch right to the side of his face, knocking out a few of his teeth in the process.
“If I couldn’t beat someone like you, who’s not even in the top five, then I don’t deserve to be part of the Neverfall Clan. Because there are people far stronger than you everywhere.” Rayna pulled Wendart’s head and then punched him directly in the face again, knocking him out completely.
She pulled her spear out of his leg, and shortly after, she started to drag the body of Wendart along the floor. He was still alive but badly hurt and still unconscious.
The fight was clearly over between the two of them, and the Light Faction Clan watching it knew it as well.
“The fights have been rough on both sides… mostly,” Ricar commented after seeing what Rayna had just done.
“Yeah, both sides have taken heavy blows. Although we could consider some groups winners and losers, it looks like regardless of the outcome of the fight, they are no longer able to fight anyway,” Beatrix added.
“What does that mean, though? Doesn’t that mean one side is still beating the other?” Hannah asked.
“This isn’t like the martial arts tournament, where whoever wins can safely go home and claim to be the victor,” Ricar added. “In this situation, whoever is left standing will decide to finish off the others.
“Which means the fate of everyone who is fighting is in the hands of the final few. They will decide the ending outcome of the fight.”
This was why Ricar thought what Raze was doing was relatively smart. Everyone was weakening as they continued to fight, and all he had to do was play clean-up, just like he had done against Arkon.
If he did this, there would be a chance that they could beat all of the Dark Faction. The real question was, then, for them as observers, what was it that they would do?
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Rayna continued to drag the body of Wendart across. At one point, he regained consciousness and could feel his legs being dragged, but Rayna quickly dealt with that by hitting him at the back of the neck again.
Eventually, she reached where she wanted to be and was now directly in front of Raze. She then threw the body right down in front of him.
“I know you’re busy cultivating energy right now, but I thought I would help you out a bit,” Rayna said.
Those words caused Raze to open his eyes and see Wendart right in front of him.
“Use him,” Rayna said as she knelt down and lifted Wendart’s bloody face. “Use the extraction technique on him and restore the Qi that you need.
“If that’s not enough, then use some of my energy. I can take it. In the meantime, I’ll protect you from anything that comes your way,” Rayna said as she stood up and turned around.
Raze looked at the warrior in front of him. A strong warrior indeed, and if the extraction technique was used, he certainly would regain his energy.
‘Maybe I’ll be back in this fight sooner than I thought.’
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 697 Stronger Ambition
Raze opened his eyes from his cultivation, focusing on restoring both his magic and his Qi. He had been switching between the two, channeling them equally. He had a reason for doing this. In his current state, he wasn’t better than those they were fighting against using just his magic alone or just his Pagan warrior powers. The only way he could reach their level was by combining the two, rather than focusing on one art. So even if he could only fight for a shorter amount of time, he would take this over just focusing on one. Now, right in front of him, there was a chance to speed up his progress.
He looked up at Rayna, who had already turned around, hiding her slightly red, flushed cheeks. Having people to help him wasn’t something he was used to. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
‘It took a lot for me to go through with this plan in the first place, to trust that the Crimson Crane would come by my side and fight.
‘I’m not their leader, like Alba was, and even though she is trying to use me…was it worth going against the Dark Faction for?’
Out of everyone, at least Raze could understand the Crimson Crane. What he couldn’t understand was Rayna’s actions.
‘She has no reason to help me; she had no reason to be here other than to commit to the fake marriage. Yet she came here to fight and now has given me a gift like this. She’s a good woman, but one who would be better off with someone else.’
Regardless, Raze placed both of his hands on Wendart, who was on the ground in front of him, and started the extraction technique.
The veins on his hands were showing, and the energy was flowing through him. It had been a long time since he had used the extraction technique on someone and wasn’t in such a rush.
When in the middle of battle, he used it as a way to continue fighting, so there was a lot of waste when he absorbed the energy of those he took.
Now, he closed his eyes and could focus it, going through the pores of his fingertips and heading straight and directly into his Dantian.
He was taking every last bit of life force and wasn’t letting any of it go to waste.
As Wendart could feel his energy being drained away from him, he opened his eyes and stared directly into the white-haired young man.
“You have no idea what you are doing, or who you’re up against,” Wendart managed to speak, but he was too hurt, and the energy being drained from him was too much to do anything to Raze to try and stop what was happening.
Wendart continued to look into Raze’s eyes, which didn’t flinch in taking his life.
“The one who will win this is the one whose ambition is stronger. You and your friends are fighting to survive, but Murkel has a far greater ambition that drives him—to rule all of Pagna and reach the Divine Realm… you won’t be able to beat him with your petty ambition.”
When Raze looked down, he could see Wendart’s skin and muscle structure start to shrivel up. This is when he knew a person’s lifespan was at an end.
Using the extraction technique for a short while would simply take the Qi in one’s Dantian; it was only when going past this stage once emptied that it would take a person’s life force.
Which was why taking part of Rayna’s would be fine as well.
Still, after hearing these words, just for a moment, Raze slowed down the extraction technique and looked directly at Wendart.
“You have no idea what my goals are. You have no idea what I would do to achieve them,” Raze stated. “Murkel simply wants to rule Pagna and get to the Divine Realm.
“For my goal, I won’t stop at anything—the Light Faction, the Demonic Faction, the Dark Faction. If all of them are in the path, blocking me from getting my revenge, then I will take out each one of them.
“If my enemies run and hide in that Divine Realm, then I will bring the Divine Realm to my feet and crush every single one of them. This world of Pagna is simply in my way!”
The extraction technique was in full force, absorbing more of Wendart, taking the very last bit of his life. While listening to all the words spoken by Raze, Wendart looked directly into his eyes and could see an ambition that went beyond the Dark Faction leader.
“Maybe…I was wrong after all.” These were the last words spoken by Wendart.
Rayna, who was standing close to the two of them to protect Raze from anything that would come at him, had heard everything.
‘Raze, you are holding a large amount of anger. I could feel it through your words. At your age, just what happened to you? This is no normal anger that would appear just from a simple revenge that would occur if one’s family died.
‘Although those are strong feelings, these are stronger, and it almost feels like it’s a buildup of resentment over several years.’
By absorbing Wendart, although it didn’t cause Raze’s Qi to expand and make him any stronger or closer to increasing his stage, it did refill his Qi completely, so there was no need for him to use Rayna’s Qi.
“Do you need me?” Rayna asked.
“If you could continue protecting me, that will be for the best,” Raze said as he went to change his position to now concentrating on the Dark Faction’s cultivation technique.
Now he would need to absorb the Dark Magic into his core. As he was doing this, the lingering dark mist appeared from Wendart’s body.
It was a mist that was only visible to mages with a Dark Core, as one of the requirements to increase one’s affinity with Dark Magic was causing the death of others.
The special trait of the cursed ring that Raze had created was going to work, now combined with the special single ring that he had obtained.
The magic was fading in and had entered his ring and went straight to his Mana core. At that point, Raze could feel his mana core pulsate, along with his heart.
A burst of magic had gone through him. He could feel it spreading and swirling around.
‘Is this what I think it is?’ Raze thought.
Closing his eyes, he had to focus on it one more time, and when he felt the rings that would equate to stars forming and swirling around his heart, he could feel it.
‘It is. Right now, my heart—no, my mana core—is forming another star. I’m going from a 4-star mage and turning into a 5-star mage. Going to another star, might take a little longer and more Dark Magic, as Raze didn’t quite expect this, and he could feel it was on the cusp of breaking through but he needed to do this.
‘This might be exactly what I need to have the strength to defeat the others.’
“I might take a bit longer, but I promise you that I will defeat the Dark Faction!” Raze claimed, giving his order as he focused on himself.
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 698 The Power Of A System
Lin and Lulu were two Pagna warriors who were indistinguishable from each other; it was clear they were twins, and each of them were as strong as the other. This wasn’t good news for the opponents they would be going against.
Anna had picked up a sword from one of the dead on the ground and was now using it to fend off against one of the Pagna warriors. She was using mainly techniques from the Light Faction.
“Half Moon Block, Saber Strike, the Crescent Falls!” Anna said to herself with each move.
Her attacker was using a metal fan as her weapon, swinging it fast and fiercely. Lulu would open and close the fan, opening it up when using it more defensively to block attacks and closing it to use it more like a sword.
The two were continuously clashing, and from the look on Lulu’s face, Anna could tell she was getting annoyed.
“What’s wrong?” Anna replied back. “Is everything you’re doing not working? Well, that’s a shame, right?”
Another strike came forward, and with a half-moon block, Anna swung and hit the fan again. Once in a while, she would attack, but Lulu could tell that something felt off about the attacks, almost as if they weren’t fully committed.
She blocked another strike and then heard a scream coming from her side.
“That kid is useless,” Anna said. “He is not deserving of the system. Why would it be handed to someone like him?”
While Anna was going up against Lulu, Liam was going up against Lin. Unlike Anna, who was able to block strikes and have an even fight, the same couldn’t be said for Liam. He was using the skills recommended by the system, but it wasn’t enough in their fight. As he blocked certain attacks, the Qi from Lin’s strikes would overpower Liam.
In the end, his arm had been knocked away, along with one of his swords skidding across the ground. Right then, he went to block another strike of his own accord but was too slow, and the metal fan had struck right into his thigh.
Quickly, Lin pulled the fan out and then spread it, flicking the blood onto the floor.
“You might have done well against the Light Faction student, but that’s all they are—students. I can tell you’re still in the initial stage. No matter what moves you can copy, you won’t be able to beat me with just that alone.” Lin charged forward; she wanted to finish the fight quickly.
Seeing this, Liam reached out his hand and used the special effect to draw both of his weapons in. It reached his hand, but it was too slow. Lin had already moved her fan, aiming to strike and bash his head in.
Just before it reached, a sword was thrown and struck the fan. It was a fierce throw that caused Lin’s entire arm to jerk back and miss the target completely.
When Liam looked at who had thrown the sword, he could see Anna had allowed the fan to cut through her arm. It had stopped around an inch in, having cut through her clothing, and blood was dripping down her forearm. While in her other hand, there was no longer a sword.
“I need answers from you, so stop messing around and losing your fight. You only have one person to deal with,” Anna shouted.
After saying those words, a red light could be seen underneath her clothing. She quickly pushed through the metal fan and then started to strike at Lulu.
She delivered powerful punches at fast speeds, yet there were no Qi strikes, only the sound of heavy fists hitting the fan each time a strike was blocked.
After saying those words, a red light could be seen underneath her clothing. She quickly pushed through the metal fan and then started to strike at Lulu.
She delivered powerful punches at fast speeds, yet there were no Qi strikes, only the sound of heavy fists hitting the fan each time a strike was blocked.
Lulu eventually became frustrated and went to strike with her fan again, but in the middle of her strike as her arm was raised up, Anna was already on the inside. She hit her wrist, avoiding the fan completely, and with another fist, struck her straight in the stomach.
A heavy hit caused Lulu to be knocked off her feet and skid across the ground.
“The system, although clever, is still ultimately directed by you,” Anna said. “It’s something that is constantly learning. If you’re going up against an opponent you have never faced before, then do what you can to learn everything your opponent can do. Learn their skill set and moves, and then the system can adjust to fight back even better than before.”
“You are a warrior with Qi and the system, and it seems you’re just using your Qi to fight, and not the powers of the system.”
Liam was wondering what she meant by that. It was clear this woman was the same as him, but the power of the system with no Qi? If Anna was using no Qi, how did she just send a middle-stage warrior flying like that?
Thankfully, Lin, who was going up against Liam, was worried about her sister and jumped to her side. Although the attack was a clean hit, it wasn’t that bad.
“She’s telling the truth,” Lulu said as she took a deep breath. “There was no Qi in that strike, which is why my internals are fine. This is like fighting against a human beast with strong powers. I don’t know how she’s so strong with no Qi.”
Anna moved over toward Liam at this point as well.
“You should know right; a lot of your body, it’s no longer human,” Anna explained. “Just look at your leg.”
The wound on Liam’s leg had healed; it wasn’t going to affect him like before, and it was the same as Anna’s arm—it had healed completely as well.
The healing speed was almost just as fast as the Hybrids, only they weren’t hybrids; something else was going on in their bodies.
“The main components of your body still exist,” Anna continued to explain. “However, you and I are completely different.”
“I am not from this world; therefore, I am not able to use Qi. Yet you, young man, are a person from the world of Pagna with the system.
“I don’t know the effect that Qi will have on the nanobots in your body, but if it can strengthen me like this—”
Anna rolled up her arm and showed the red glow that was appearing on part of her body. It ran down several parts of her arm.
Seeing the glow, Liam remembered the man who was with him; he also had all these strange glowing points on him. Although he was also wearing a strange robotic flexible type of suit unlike Anna.
“Maybe with your Qi, you have the potential to grow even stronger than me… but I predict that is far in the future.”
Now that the two twins were okay, both of them looked ready to attack, and although Liam was interested in learning more, it hadn’t helped him.
“Stronger in the future is not stronger now. Even if I analyze all of their movements, I’m just not strong enough to block their Qi,” Liam said.
“I didn’t want to do this, but we’ll just have to work together.” Anna placed her hand on Liam’s shoulder, and that’s when he could see a message appear. freёReadNovelFull.com
[A fellow System user would like to connect]
[Do you accept?]
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 699 Combine The System
The system had acted strangely with Liam in many ways. He still hadn’t gotten the hang of a voice being in his head, and at times it truly felt as if he was having a conversation with another person.
He had asked about how things worked, and in general, as he went through life as a warrior, the system would in turn explain things back to him.
Yet this was the first time such a message had come up, and he had no idea what to do or what it meant.
“Connect, what does connecting do?” Liam asked out loud.
Right then, Lulu and Lin were both charging toward them, and despite the hit from Anna, they were both still in relatively strong condition.
“These guys, they’re about as strong as the pillars from the Behemoth Clan. It took a lot to go up against them as well. This is going to be hard,” Anna said to herself as she looked at Liam. “Just connect already. Do you want to die?” frёewebnoѵēl.com
Lin then jumped in the air, and for a moment, Lulu stopped. Right after, she kicked Lin’s foot, allowing her to boost off and come toward the two like a rocket.
Immediately, Anna pulled Liam back and placed both of her hands forward. The red glow underneath her skin shined brightly as she shoved her hands forward, creating a small beam of energy.
The beam of energy hit the fan dead on, and the energy was now rippling against the fan. The powers seemed somewhat equal.
‘I don’t like using my energy this way. It’s a powerful way to create external energy that can be on the same level as these warriors, but it also drains energy from me the quickest.’
“Did you forget about me?” Lulu said, as she lifted her knee and slammed it into Anna’s stomach. The hit was hard and heavy, but Anna was relatively heavy, so she hardly moved.
It didn’t matter though, as it gave an opportunity for both of the sisters to strike. One attacked from above with her hands, and Anna would block the strike, allowing the other to use her metallic fan to strike Anna.
The metallic fan was hitting and cutting around a centimeter deep into Anna’s skin. Marks were being made and blood was being drawn, but the skin was also seen healing at the same time.
“This person is tough!” Lin claimed. “We need to do more if we want to crush them.”
Liam was watching the whole thing. Now that the two of them were focused on Anna, she was unable to keep up.
[If your fellow system user keeps going like this, there is a 90 percent chance she will lose.]
‘But won’t your nano machines just keep on healing her, and she will eventually find an opening, right?’
[After gathering data on the martial arts, the martial arts that these two Pagna warriors use are superior to most of the techniques that you have seen.]
[The martial arts can also not be copied on a one-to-one basis due to the user’s condition. At the moment, the system cannot come up with a way to win.]
“But you said that there’s only a 90 percent chance of losing, right? That means there is something that can be done?” Liam asked.
[The system can only base situations on what the system knows. There are factors that can be added that can change the fight.]
[Whether it’s a weakness of the attackers or a strength of the two of you.]
For a moment, Liam thought about running away. He was useless in the fight anyway. If he had helped the others, maybe someone else could come and help Anna. That would be much better for her.
Yet for some reason, Anna was doing a lot to help him out, and she was the only one that knew the strange secret about himself.
Although he wasn’t sure it would help, he at least wanted to do something.
“System, Connect.”
A slight tingle was felt in Liam’s brain at that point, and it was the same for Anna.
‘Took you long enough,’ she thought as she blocked a hit and then forced the fan to go into her shoulder, avoiding a fatal blow from the other.
[System is initializing. Information is being shared by the two system users. Formulating best use of plan.]
It was right then and there that Liam could see it. He had thrown his sword at full strength. It went through the air, and Lin had avoided the strike.
As she had done at the perfect time, Anna struck her, hitting her right across her face. Lulu came forward with the metal fan, and that was when Anna managed to grab the sword that had been thrown and blocked the attack.
Lulu was amazed. She didn’t understand. How could she predict everything that was about to happen? How did she utilize the weapon that was thrown by the other person?
None of it made sense. Then, throwing the sword up in the air, Anna started to strike at Lulu, and before she knew it, she felt a sword strike right against her back with two swords.
Liam had successfully delivered a cut right across her back.
“You!” Lulu turned around.
However, Liam ignored her and continued to run forward, going for Lin, while Anna then delivered a heavy punch right to Lulu’s face.
While Liam went to block a strike, his arms still swung out of the way as Lin had overpowered him, but it was all the time Anna needed. She pulled him by his clothes back just in time, then went forward and shot out a beam of energy from her hand, hitting Lin in the stomach.
“What is this?” Liam asked, amazed by how the situation was turning around.
“This is what the system can do, and what you can do with multiple system users,” Anna explained.
Connecting the systems allowed the two of them to share information in multiple ways. The system could process what both users could see, and what both users could do.
It could come up with situations to utilize both of them rather than individuals, and now without having ever worked together, both of them could work perfectly.
This was one of the things from the Red Fortis army, one of the most difficult armies to deal with on planet Tronzo, where Anna was from.
A special unit of system users that could work together. In war, on the battlefield, or as a special unit of individuals, connecting more system users made them an unstoppable force.
There were few things that could take them down, especially if their leader Zon was present. The strongest of the Red Fortis Army.
Right now, the only link Anna had to him and to getting back to Tronzo was Liam, so she would do anything she could to protect him.
After the two twins had been hit a couple of times, trying to attack, they had a frustrated look on their faces, at least at first.
The two of them had gathered again, and a large smirk appeared on their faces.
“We are one of the reasons as to why the Tulip Clan rose to its position, and now we will show you how we got rid of every man that existed in our clan!” Lin and Lulu both said at the exact same time
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 700 Distress Signal
With the system connected, Liam felt confident in his and his partner’s abilities. After all, they now had a veteran on their side to help them win this battle. The only issue was that Liam didn’t fully understand who they were up against.
Even among the Dark Faction and the group of people Murkel had brought with him today, many didn’t know much about each other or the strength they held.
The only one who had some idea was Murkel himself. He hadn’t directly fought with everyone under him. At times, one could evaluate who would win without a fight.
There were other times when some would still test the waters, and Murkel would have to show his strength.
In Murkel’s mind, he had brought everyone for a reason, and the twins from the Tulip Clan were no different. He wasn’t worried about them for a very particular reason.
Both Lin and Lulu then held hands, and something strange was occurring, something that the system couldn’t quite see.
Right after, Lin swung her sister Lulu, and as they let go, Lulu picked up immense speed, traveling right toward Anna, the metal fan pointed out.
Quickly, Anna lifted her hand, and Liam came in to help, but he was too slow to do anything.
Anna was no longer using the sword she had picked up because she was focusing on the strength that her system and machine-like body would give her.
She lifted her hand again, ready to blast the attack ahead. Energy beamed out from her hand, but when it hit the metal fan, the powerful surge of Qi completely deflected it.
The fan continued forward and pierced right through Anna’s hand from one side to the other, almost as if there was no resistance at all.
Immediately, Lulu pulled out the fan and then swung it at Anna’s hand that was going for a strike. It was completely knocked out of the way.
Anna quickly tried to fire two blasts out of her hand, but faster than before, Lulu knocked them away, and the blasts ended up hitting the ground.
She burst forward, opened up the fan, and swung it, cutting up part of Anna’s body bit by bit. Anna was on the defensive, and she wouldn’t be able to keep this up for much longer.
‘How? How can this be?’ Anna thought. ‘We weren’t that much different in strength, but suddenly she’s gotten a whole lot stronger.’
While Lulu was fighting against Anna, Lin decided to get in the way of Liam. The two were fighting against each other.
“I need to help, so get out of my way!” Liam threw his weapons up in the air and charged forward using fist techniques.
Right after using fist techniques, with the juggling arts, he grabbed both of his swords and managed to deal a heavy blow.
All of the attacks were blocked, but the attacks seemed to strain Lin as she stopped them.
‘What’s going on?’ Liam thought. ‘Am I fighting a lot better now that the system is connected? Did it give me some type of boost in strength?’
[Negative, it appears your opponent has gotten weaker.]
Liam was about to retort back to the system, thinking it was making fun of him, but when he blocked a strike with a single hand from Lin, he realized that it was true.
There would be no way he could block a strike from a middle-stage warrior.
“What did you do?” Liam couldn’t help but ask, and he could see a large smirk appear just behind the fan as it was lowered in view.
“What, you don’t like the fact that the two of us are fighting on equal grounds? Would you rather fight me like we were fighting before?” Lin asked.
She continued to strike, and the two of them seemed to be even as they blocked and countered each other’s strikes. Yet Lin didn’t appear nervous at all.
Once in a while, loud crashing bangs and slight grunts of pain could be heard from behind, and it wasn’t coming from the other sister.
The two sisters were certainly unique, having special constitutions with both of them being twins.
Both were middle-stage warriors around the middle level. They were skilled and strong, but what made them deadly was something special to them that only they could do.
Temporarily, one could lend the other their Qi. It would make one of the sisters weaker while growing the other in strength, making them have the power of a high middle-stage warrior.
They had passed on just enough Qi to keep Liam busy while Lulu dealt with the more troublesome one.
“Enough playing games, it’s time to end it!” Lulu said as she spun her body and swung her fan out. A large wave of power hit Anna, and then a force greater than she felt before hit her like a house.
She was lifted off her feet. The blow felt like it was crushing her internals, and she was pushed back, crashing right into the arena wall.
She fell on the ground, blood spilling from her mouth, and was unable to move. It would take a long time for her body to recover from this.
Yet, she still managed to move her head as she looked at the young boy.
“He’s dead,” Anna said. “And now my only lead to Zon will be gone.”
Liam looked at Lin, who still had the strange smirk on her face, and when she backed away, now right in front of him was Lulu.
He went to strike forward, but Lulu knocked his hand. It felt like a small tap. With just that alone, a cracking noise was heard, and now his arm appeared to be bent out in a different way.
Right after, she lifted her leg and slammed it on top of his shoulder, popping it out and sending Liam to the floor.
“You two needed to get off your high horse. We are the Dark Faction. We didn’t get to this position by losing to the likes of you,” Lulu said as she readied her fan and started to pour Qi into it.
At the same time though, a ringing pain was starting to be felt at the back of Liam’s neck.
[Distress Signal has been sent.]