Chapter 1175
The human scale battle against Korin was not going well, but neither was it going as poorly as it could have. Because Korin had to focus individual attacks on some of the void ants, a significant amount of pressure had been taken off of the humans. Enough that very few of the powerful ones had died.
Tessouat didn’t know if he trusted the void ants. He saw them fighting, of course. The great mass of void ants dying meant nothing to him. But one of them had taken off one of Korin’s toes. He was pretty sure that she could replace that easily enough, but comparatively it was like him taking out her whole body. Potentially more than that. It was too bad that one got stabbed.
He watched carefully. The void ants might try to annihilate all of the humans after they killed the Domination cultivator. He needed to be ready for that.
Korin looked directly at him. No, past him. She still had her focus on Bryndis. He would have thrown up a shield to defend her, but he had nothing of the sort to bring to bear. Then several things happened in an instant.
A snip of his energy drew his attention down. A pillar of void ants had climbed up to his feet. They latched onto one foot.
So this was how he was going to die. He kicked his leg forward, and the column came with it, flexing. They swung up, flinging several of their members off the end before curling towards his arm, where he was habitually holding his arm. The shape of the void ants reformed into a shield. Not his sort of shield, just a big round disc, but it was impossible to mistake it for anything else.
What a strange shape to choose for eating his arm. But since they were going to do that, he could take advantage before he died. He wanted to participate in the death of a Domination cultivator before he died, but he would settle for slightly annoying one.
A surge of his energy brought him in front of Bryndis as Korin tossed her spear. His energy wrapped around the mass of void ants from all sides- it couldn’t flow through it, like it would if it was a proper shield. But he did his best.
His initial layer of energy was useless, pierced through like it was nothing. Tessouat imagined that the same would happen with the void ants and the inner layer as well. He was half right, and he survived to comprehend the process which was pretty nice.