Chapter 126: EX 126. Snake In The Dragon’s Shadow
The air cracked with pressure as Leon and Elizabeth vanished, flickering out of sight just as Eleanor’s master unleashed a storm of corrupted energy. The black wave tore through the ground where they’d stood, scorching the stone and cratering the earth. But the couple had already reappeared at a safe distance, Leon dashed ahead, blade in hand, and Elizabeth behind, her hands already weaving necrotic symbols into the air.
Without a word, Leon surged forward like a missile, the ground exploding beneath each step. Behind him, Elizabeth lifted her arms and summoned her undead skeletal warriors, rotting hounds, and ghastly phantoms erupted from the shadows and charged alongside him.
Eleanor’s master responded instantly, their hands flaring with black lightning as a swarm of crackling demonic spheres spun into existence around them. With a flick, the orbs shot forward, twisting through the air like angry hornets, locking onto Leon with deadly precision.
Leon didn’t flinch.
In the blink of an eye, he switched places with a ghoul that had sprinted dangerously close to Eleanor’s master. It was a flawless execution, no flash, no signal, just cold strategy. One moment the undead was there, the next it was Leon.
He was already mid-swing.
"Extreme Art..." he whispered, his voice drowned by the hum of raw power gathering around his blade.
"...Horizon Cleave."
The sword howled. Force affinity pulsed out in waves, the energy so dense it warped the air around it. The slash didn’t just cut, it detonated. As a glowing arc of energy erupted point-blank toward Eleanor’s master.
They barely reacted in time.
As Layered barriers, five of them at once, snapped into place, black shields formed from pure demonic essence. But the moment Leon’s strike collided, the air erupted in a thunderous sonic boom. The barriers shattered like glass hit by a hammer, and the impact launched Eleanor’s master like a ragdoll into the cave wall, the stone buckling under the force. They hit was so hard that black blood sprayed from their mouth as they growled in rage, eyes blazing.
But Leon didn’t let up.