Chapter 45: Killing the 2nd Echelon Fire Lion (2)
Behind them, eleven others ran wide, aiming for the lion’s neck. A second column of ten undead circled around the lion’s right shoulder, where Elias’ blow struck and pierced it.
Elias gritted his teeth, took one deep breath, and created a lattice of light around himself. Despite the fact that his mana pool had not entirely recovered, he used a second Solar Blade talent to distract.
Silver-gold afterimages licked Solaris Fang’s edge while luminous wings sprouted from his back of pure illusion, drawing the Fire Lion’s gaze his way for an instant.
That instant was enough.
Kai blurred ahead, running in the slipstream of the eleven undead attackers. Two lynx exploded first as flash-fried by close-range hellfire, but their smoldering bodies blocked the monster’s vision of the real threat.
Kai jumped and used the falling Shadow Panther to be his stepstone as he kicked it, shooting toward the eye.
He coated the blade with water-attribute mana and used all of his stored mana to form a needle-thin coiling along the edge.
Thump!
The sword sank into the Fire Lion’s right eye with a sickening simmer.
ROAR!
A wave of wrath erupted from the beast’s throat. Its left forepaw lashed out too quickly to be seen with the naked eye. Kai twisted and jumped, but not on time.