Chapter 183: Star & Planet
Chapter 183: Star & Planet
I broke away from the monsters, and with a large slam, I broke into the earth and entered a free fall as I felt the energy within the stone destabilise.
Perhaps my disruption ability has done more work than I expected.
The streams of my mana that flowed down like streams of water through cracks on the beach created a web-like structure that continued to stretch further down. The burst of mana from absorbing Espr's core allowed this advance to work, and with these veins of my light stretching out, disrupting Espr's energy, I was able to leech off some of it to recover.
Even with increasing my recovery… I am being drained fast…
The smile didn’t reach my face as I felt the force of Espr energy push down on me as I rapidly descended.
If I could’ve teleported that Hood bastard here, then he would’ve popped like a balloon, and there wouldn't even have been a need to have a fight.
I lamented an easy path missed.
Thousands of stones cracked apart and flew towards me like drones.
This is getting repetitive!
Flames burst from my body as I accelerated downwards, spiralling out of the way of the attacks, but thousands, then tens of thousands of these needles of stone rained down. Each one that penetrated my body either exploded, eating out chunks of this body’s form or expanded to be a lingering threat.
In the distance, I could see this opening close, and so as I flew towards the solid wall, I curved and, with Starlight shielding, I drilled through more stone. The missiles of rock chased after me. Espr’s control somehow greatly increased in this short while, which was sure lovely.
Not looking back, I created a reinforced wall of Starlight behind me, blocking the passageway of my newest tunnel. The thousands of stones were crammed right into it, but I could feel it cracking, and I didn’t hold much hope it would hold out for long.
Flames continued to burn brightly as I accelerated faster to stay ahead of whatever plan or reaction Espr would throw at me. Breaking through the stone, I fell down into another large opening with empty darkness that stretched on for ages.
Not the space I was looking for.
“Opening up? I am all for it. You could create something really special down here. Need any advice?” I said with my continued taunting attitude.
(“ I thought you could just use some company ”)
“That’s an awful thing to say.” My words were proven true as more of Espr's lovely friends, those rock monsters, appeared from the ground, an army of the new and improved version. With an extra big friend in the centre.
Compared to the second generation… This large one has much clearer weaknesses.
One advantage for me was that I could feel Espr's energy that was putting pressure on me from the giant golem. In essence, it was just a method of Espr to directly apply pressure on me, which impacted my energy usage.
“Whelp. Time to leave.” No reason for me to deal with all that. Clasping my hands together, the drills of Starlight reformed, and I went back to digging.
However, my running was quite short-lived.
Rumble!
As I quickly got away, the ground behind me opened up as the giant monster dug through the ground, and the smaller ones jumped down after me.
“Dammit, Espr!” I accelerated faster, but the rock behind me was torn apart easily. The large golem travelled through the earth as if it were water. Not dealing with the same pains as I had to when digging.
I made a quick flip and soared upwards. Dodging strikes from the monsters and the projectiles.
Nearly back to the ceiling of the large room. “I doubt this all was a big, well-thought-out plan for yours.”
The massive monster threw its hands up, and I felt a massive pressure slam into my body. Causing my skin to crack and light to slip out.
Bloody stupid! It’s all just rocks and pressure, but it tears apart my body so easily.
(“ Oh, what brought you to that conclusion? ”)
“Your defence has been so shitty.” I kept my complaints and pains to myself and insulted the planet for the absolutely awful job it had done so far.
(“ … ”)
“Has my conclusion stunned you so? Look at how the mighty have fallen.” I clicked my tongue and chucked a spear of Starlight into the core of the giant rock monstrosity. “Please, the evidence was as clear as day.”
(“ Are you a detective now? ”)
Espr asked; my voice sounded like it was insulting me.
“I think I would make for a good one.” I accepted the compliment. “I am sure you used your accelerated thinking and all the time you had the moment the opportunity arose, but that still wasn’t enough. I am a pretty unique threat after all.”
The large monster wasn’t destroyed, but I felt the pressure lighten.
Time for my own push.
“Thinking about wanting to do something and how to do it are two very different actions.” I let out a deep sigh and shrugged. “You could have been thinking about how to reclaim me once our deal was broken, but the exact process of ‘how’ wasn’t continued.”
“I wonder, were you perhaps afraid?”
(“ Me afraid? ”)
The sound of my own flabbergasted voice was music to my ears.
(“ Why would that be the case? You are far weaker than me and you haven’t achieved anything spectacular yet ”)
“One of those things is a lie. I have achieved many spectacular things; it is why you enjoyed my show so much.”
The dark cave suddenly brightened as my body shone like a star in this empty world. Flames billowed outwards, and my light sharpened. Then, without warning, I fell down through the golem into the hole I was making and continued to keep going.
Time for one more push…
I had dug through so much rock… and now it was time to say hello to a friend.
Past the molten ores and stone, I finally broke into a space full of light.