Chapter 308: Dead Patriachs
Aren stood looking at Ironclaw. Ironclaw was on his knees, he had attacked Aren only for those massive tendrils to constantly toss him around like he was a bag of tomatoes.
"Why did you kill her?" Aren asked. He looked at the man with a gaze that didn’t falter, and no emotion could be seen, especially with the mask that covered his face.
Ironclaw looked up. Despite the situation that he was in, he refused to yield.
"Stage five, ack—" he tried to activate his power only for a spear to rise from the shadow down below and stab right into his throat. Blood gushed out of his mouth, he didn’t die, but the shock that he received, as well as the pain, was unlike anything he had felt before.
The full summon rose from the shadows, a tall warrior lady, sleek armor and a spear in hand which she had used to stab Ironclaw.
Aren took a look at Kira who was in his hand and then looked back at Ironclaw.
"Make sure you stab him until every part of his body is filled with nothing but holes." The summon did as she was asked. She pulled out her spear and stabbed into Ironclaw, he tried to scream but she stabbed into his mouth, then she pulled it and stabbed again, and again, and again. She kept going over and over and over, blood pouring.
Aren didn’t stop it. It kept going until his entire body was nothing more than holes and a mangled mess of blood, and then in that moment he swallowed the body with shadows and it vanished.
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The system tried to send a message, but the current state of Aren shattered that.
Now that he had killed the person that killed Kira, he turned around to watch Blade finally die.
Blade was now on his knees, head leaned forward and bleeding. The great patriarch was about to lose his life.
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A few moments before Ironclaw died, Silver watched. He saw how Aren completely killed him and left nothing to remain, he knew that the same fate would follow Blade and soon them all.
He knew that he had to do something, and he had to do it now or else that would be the end for all of them.
"Getting distracted when facing me, how impudent," Geisha said before speeding at Silver.
Silver saw this as the opportunity that he did, and then he waited, and when Geisha was close, he yelled as fast as he could.
"SAVE BLADE!"
After that, he unleashed something. His liquid metal shot from his back like a raging ocean, it surged forward nonstop and then created a massive dome around him and Geisha.
Before the dome closed completely, he gave a simple nod to Trueblood who was outside.
She understood fully what the old man wanted to do.
"Senile old man, how do I explain this to your family now?" she said and then turned around, charging in the direction of Blade. He was the only person that was left among them, she was not going to allow him to die and make one old man’s sacrifice be for nothing.
When she got close, she saw that the summon was about to cut off the head of Blade. She gritted her teeth, blood wings formed on her back and she shot through the air at double speed, and at just the last moment she managed to wrap her hands around Blade and barely pass through as the sword came down.
Even then she wasn’t unscathed, as the blade slashed into her leg and almost cut it all off. The pain was immediate and immense, yet she gritted her teeth and flew through the air at speeds that shattered multiple speed barriers.
Aren saw what happened and frowned behind the mask. He immediately tried to use tendrils to attack and bring her down, but then he coughed blood, a large mouthful from behind the mask.
He collapsed to his knees, holding tight to Kira to not let her fall even as his mind was spinning like a vortex and his eyes were already getting dark.
Whatever had been keeping him until now was no longer there, his body gave in. He fell forward, but Kira was in his hands. He bit his tongue to wake himself up even just for a moment, enough to push himself back and pass out on his knees right there.
With Aren out, the shadow faded and the risk of getting caught reduced for Trueblood, who was already very far away from them.
At the same time, the massive metal dome that Silver had created exploded with blue flames erupting from the inside, exposing Geisha floating in the air and in his hands a barely alive Silver.
"You should have stayed home, old man, so that you could continue playing strong. No human is strong, you all are weak and pathetic, you all think you hold a candle to the Wargod, pathetic."
Silver looked up at Geisha, the look in his eyes said it all. He was still in disbelief at how their fight happened. "I thought I was closer," he muttered.
"Haha, I would have said you were, but you were not, and I feel disappointed."
Geisha proceeded to grab him by the face and with brute force rip off half of his skull and then toss the body down, watching it fall until it hit the ground. Then he lifted the part that was in his hands high and drank the blood.
He tossed it aside when he was done and then looked at Aren, flying down there and standing before Aren.
"Stay away!" suddenly Aiden yelled. He held his sword despite the fact that he was trembling in fear now, after everything he watched, even he could not stomach it.
Geisha looked at him. "Oh, you lot are still here, well I’ll not hurt him for now, but he needs a place to recover and none of you have anywhere to go. I’ll take him with me, you can all choose to follow, but don’t try to stop me."