Four black chains of lightning erupted from Vajra's back and swirled around rapidly to create a shield momentarily, blocking the incoming attacks. As soon as the line of sight became clear for Azzy, he threw the laughing skulls at the targets.
"He he hehe hehehe hehe he"
The eerie laughter from the purple skulls spooked the opponents for a moment but they were veterans, after all. They knew how to react to the situation. Both of them shot concentrated energy from their respective palms to destroy the skulls.
However, each of the skulls was of 6-star rank and appeared to be too strong even for a low-rank-7 energy attack.
As a result, neither of the energy balls from the opponents managed to destroy the laughing skulls, which continued their way. This forced the both of them to hurriedly move away and attempt to block those incoming attacks, this time, using their soul skills.
Jacob exhales a stream of mud and Nilmar shoots a beam of concentrated flames, destroying their respective targets.
Unfortunately for them, the skulls weren't the only attacks they must face. Azzy was already prepared with the Protos spears that are hovering around his head. As they launched their soul skills, he threw the four Protos spears successively, two at each of them.
Soon after Jacob destroyed the laughing skull, he found the black long needle coming in his way. As his soul skill hasn't ended yet, he redirected the mud stream at the incoming spear.
Obviously, it was only met with failure because the power of the mud stream was greatly reduced by the earlier collision with the laughing skull.
The Protos spear started piercing through the mud stream without showing any signs of slowing down.
Seeing that the incoming attack would strike him at any moment, Jacob hurriedly threw out a skill card on the ground, unleashing a 2m thick, 10m wide, and 25m big deep-red granite wall just in the nick of the time.
The Protos Spear struck the granite wall and disappeared. The spectators who don't have the knowledge of this energy attack thought that the wall was indeed sturdy. However, that thought only lasted for a mere four seconds as the entire granite wall turned pitch black before collapsing into powder.
Knowing the properties of the Protos spears from his research, Jacob already started moving away as soon as he conjured the wall.
He wanted to gain enough distance and throw a couple of energy attacks from far away but didn't expect that the wall would only stay for a mere 4 seconds.
As the wall disappeared, the second Protos spear appeared in his sight. Jacob knew that it is useless to dodge and there isn't enough time to unleash another soul skill in his situation. Not everyone is like Azzy who can unleash soul skills within a fraction of a second.
Hence, Jacob pushed ether energy out of his body, forming a defensive energy wall. The Protos spear was naturally stopped but at the same time, the energy shield was also rapidly corrupted and disappeared, leaving the opponent with low reserves of soul power.
Jacob thought of recovering his soul power and summoned his storage card. However, before he even took out the SP recovery card, two black chains of lightning extended toward him at a speed of sound and captured him in a fraction of a second.
Seeing that Vajra captured him from atleast 70-80 meters away, which is actually more than its range according to his research, a crazy thought appeared in his head, "7-circle? No, how's that possible? He's just a 14-year-old brat. Ugh… this corrupted energy… I'm getting dizzy and I'm losing consciousness. C'mon Jac, concentrate…"
Unfortunately, it was too late to even think of any further strategy. Why?
The black lightning chains were also filled with Protos energy alongside the lightning attribute energy. The moment the two chains captured him, his system was already invaded.
As Jacob's mediocre-density soul energy was already no match for the invading energy, he might need greater amounts to expel it from his body.
But, his soul energy reserves were running low at the moment.
As a result, his soul orb was corrupted and he started to feel like his entire body started going numb.
Meanwhile, in the sky, at 60-70 meters altitude from the battle platform, a Protos Spear was chasing after Nilmar, who was flying around while launching energy attacks at the spear.
This Protos Spear appeared to be special compared to the other two that were thrown at Jacob.
Rather than just keeping it in an auto-mode, Azzy was also remotely controlling its direction and making it dodge the normal energy attacks aimed at it. As for the ones aimed at Azzy, the black lightning wolf was protecting its master with the remaining two chains whipping those energy attacks.
With the speed of the Protos spear vastly faster than the flying speed of Nilmar, the latter was barely trying to evade it.
In fact, just like his partner, after destroying the laughing skull, Nilmar also tried to block the first Protos spear by unleashing a skill card of 7-star rank and miserably failed.
Fortunately, he was able to act quickly as the golden energy barrier has a self-repairing ability. That gave him enough time.
But, for how long will he continue to evade the second Protos Spear while trying to attack Azzy from so far away without getting any breakthrough?
Nilmar has no idea but his partner's current condition only made him more focused on not getting struck by that. Of course, at the same time, he was also paying attention to the black lightning wolf, which was currently defending its master but those lightning chains do appear threatening.
In spite of all of this, Nilmar had a hope that will turn around the battle but do that, he might have to rescue his buddy. But, before that, he needed to ensure that he will go there unharmed.
An idea popped up in his mind.
Flapping his wings, Nilmar started to fly toward the ceiling. The Protos spear, as usual, continued to chase him.
As he almost reached the 180m altitude, Nilmar stopped flying and went on in using the energy eruption technique.
He didn't make the same mistake as his partner did. Instead of erecting a defensive shield using all of his soul energy, he expelled it and completely destroyed the Protos Spear.
Once the threat was gone, Nilmar proceeded to instantly refill his soul orb with soul energy using the SP recovery card and then dived toward Jacob at his peak speed.
While descending, he unleashed a soul skill, creating a flaming ax. The flames were burning blue. Looking at it, Azzy mumbled, "Its power is touching the legendary realm; not strong enough to hurt me but Leah and Vajra are different. Hmm… He is heading toward his partner. Does he want to severe the chains?"
In an instant, Azzy thought of something and gave an order. "Vajra, slow down your attacks for a moment…"
As soon as Nilmar entered the 100-meter range, Vajra then shot the two black lightning chains toward him. For some reason, the attack speed wasn't that fast as compared to earlier. Why is there a speed reduction of as much as 70%?
Is it because of the altitude? Or is it because the remaining chains were grabbing the target and that made the wolf slower to attack the other target? The opponent couldn't but wonder.
Nilmar didn't know the exact reason but he felt that this is an opportunity. He planned on throwing the ax to cut the chains but now, it felt like he doesn't have to worry. Well, atleast of those intimidating lengthy chains erupted from Vajra's back. He would still have to be wary of Azzy's movements.
However, Azzy simply stood there until Nilmar reached the ground and forcefully cut two of the chains. And then, Azzy gave his next order, taking them by surprise.
<strong>"Vajra, use soul skill: Lightning Net"</strong>
The last time he used this soul skill in an official battle was with Vann Hildegard. Neither Nilmar nor Jacob has any idea what was gonna happen as the thunder rumbled in the sky. Nilmar only thought of retreating. As his part, he grabbed his partner in one hand and the flaming ax in another hand before flapping his wings to get away.
But, the attack came sooner than he expected. A large lightning net that looks similar to that of a fishing net fell upon both of them, releasing millions of volts of electricity.
"F**k"
In an instant, as their bodies went numb, Azzy ordered Vajra to use the remaining two chains to capture them.
But, before the celestial grade wolf made its move, Azzy's remaining reserves were reduced to zero and a giant seal appeared in the sky enveloping the entire battle platform.
<strong>"Great Seal of Lightning"</strong>
Once again, the thunder rumbled in the sky but this time, it didn't cause by Azzy or Vajra though.
Upon unleashing the great seal, she started levitating in the air with a layer of soul energy protecting her body. Her whole eyes turned blue in color without any visible pupils.
As she motioned her right arm, a lightning bolt descended from the gigantic seal and struck Jacob. It was too fast and no one below the demigod realm is that fast enough to dodge it from a mere 150-meter distance.
"Argh…"
He let out a painful scream before falling unconscious with his dragon scale armor destroyed while having third-degree burns all over his body.
The spectators, Nilmar Keydove, Proctor Leaf, and even Azzy were taken aback to see that attack. As an Arcana Master who was a lightning attribute user, Azzy could sense that it is natural lightning, although much diluted in power because of only 40 million SP of consumption.
Before they got out of the first shock, Leah motioned her arm once again, striking Nilmar down.
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