Chapter 149: Silent Dancer & Mystic One
The Blightroot estate’s grand hall was a blood-soaked ruin, its gilded chandeliers swaying, marble floor slick with crimson pools.
The 7th Division, battered and burned, had slain the Iron Brotherhood’s fire spirit dog, its flames fading into ash after devouring ten members—their bodies charred, limbs torn, screams silenced in molten agony.
Rakel Voss, chest heaving, blood dripping from burns across his arms, scanned the chaos.
’It will take him about a day before he can summon that dog once more. Now we have to worry about the second.’ From the beginning, the second man hadn’t moved.
’We’re spent.’ They were already out of energy in the first place; this fight was only exhausting them all the more. Some of them had burn marks all around their bodies.
’The fact that Jin still hasn’t come means he is facing another enemy. Could it be another 7th star?’ He wondered how Baines alone was faring against the enemy.
"Impressive, considering it was a high-ranked spirit," the summoner grandmaster sneered, weaving through the air. Four summoning circles flared, birthing a flame bird, a water whale, a stone golem, and a lightning spark. "Attack!" he commanded.
The spirits surged, a cacophony of elemental fury.
"Disperse!" Rakel roared, abandoning unified defense. Clustering against the dog had cost them; scattering was riskier but spared them concentrated slaughter.
The flame bird screeched through the hall, its eyes locked on his target, and dove for the attack.
"DIEE!" the third seat bellowed, hurling his massive frame with a huge mana armor glowing over his body. The bird’s screech seared half his face, flesh blistering, one eye melting, but he didn’t stop. With a loud roar, he enveloped himself around the bird to crush its form.
"Nooo..." One of his division members shouted at him to stop; however, it was too late. The fire grew intense and,