NOVEL NEXT Chapter 161: Prelude
The others grew quiet and stopped moving, except the whip woman who was still retreating as fast as she could.
They watched the spearman with fear stricken faces. The man acreamed and tried to retreat but it was too late.
The two of them had tried to retreat away from the black mist the moment the ghastly man screamed at them however a tiny wisp of the mist touched his finger.
It merely touched the tip of his finger but that was enough. After it entered his blood stream, before he could process anything else a wave of the most excruciating pain he had ever felt would hit him all at once.
His body heat would reach absurd levels instantly as if he was in an oven. He would feel nauseous and his stomach would hurt as if his intestines were being twisted and sliced into pieces.
Black blood would then started leaking from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears. The man's body was would start shutting down rapidly and he would fail to even control his bowels.
He would feel a stabbing pain all over his body as if he was rolling in needles, he would then become sluggish and dizziness would hit him like a hammer.
His ears would buzz and a mind splitting headache would hit him. To his horror he would find he couldn't even use his essence energy.
The black mist didn't just effect the victims body, it reached even their soul, blocking essence from flowing.
It didn't deliver any soul damage but preventing him from using his essence was enough to drive him into madness.
However none of these things were going to kill him, Ved knew that as well, the first effect of the poison was creating the most excruciating pain possible to break their mind and weaken their will, that way they couldn't resist what comes next.
Since black death is a mixture of every poison he had,dream mist is included there. It only function was increasing brain activity, making his thoughts faster while increasing his sensitivity to pain.
That way, the world would move slower around him making the pain last longer and it was multiple times worse than it would've been otherwise.
However the most terrifying thing was what comes next, his hand started crumbling into black dust that drifted to the air and scattered like smole.
He almost blanked out from the pain. Tears of blood streamed down his cheeks like rivers, he was probably wishing for a quick death right now.
However Ved felt nothing, even as the man screamed and ran around like a headless chicken, Ved did not feel sympathy or even satisfaction, only indifference.
He noticed the change was happening even faster, he was drifting even further from humanity, before he would've felt a bit of sympathy seeing someone in such agony, even if they were enemies.
Ved turned his attention towards the whip woman who was running away in panic. Seeing the miserable fate of the spearman, none of them wanted to get close to the mist.
They retreated to the edge of the barrier but the mist kept spreading covering more ground, they were running out of space to run to.
The archer fired multiple flame arrows which managed to dispense some of the mist but the effect of her arrows was too little, it barely did anything to the black mist.
However this was enough to give them hope, unfortunately besides her, none of the other remaining 3 had fire based abilities.
The whip woman waved her red whip, everywhere it hit, blood thorny vines grew covering hundreds of metres around her trying to shield her from the mist.
However when the blank mist reached the vines they turned into dried husks and crumbled like dust.
The panic in her eyes grew more intense but there was nothing she could do. The same thing happened to the dark spawn army, it dissolved into blank tar and disappeared.
Then Ved moved, he gently flapped his wings generating massive winds which spread the mist even faster.
He turned into a black streak heading straight for the red whip woman. At the same time he created a 2 metres wide disk and coated it with stealth screen.
Then he sent it flying towards the archer. With the tornadoes and massive winds, noticing the minor shifts in the air caused by the disk would be harder.
This would definitely catch her off guard. The whip woman on the other hand screamed and attacked.
Rose vines grew all around her creating a massive blood red forest of roses. The thorny rose vines flew towards him like snakes.
Trying to keep him away from reaching her, her whip danced between the vines trying to sneak attack him but Ved caught it with his hand.
The thorns tried to pierce through his scales, a blood toxin appeared on his hand but it couldn't break through the scales.
Then the whip glowed deep red, she had activated her soul force in that moment. The thorns grew sharper, tougher and longer.
They managed to piece a little through his scales however that was enough. The thorns injected a toxin into his blood stream.
He felt his hand growing numb but that was it, or so he thought. The thorns sucked his blood, only a tiny bit.
But suddenly the whip turned a deeper shade of red, the thorns grew even stronger and longer. It was becoming stronger by absorbing his blood.
Even the woman, the vessels wielder looked flabbergasted as if she didn't expect such a development.
Seeing such a minor thing trying to use him as a stepping stone pissed him off. He growled and glared at her.
She swallowed hard, " I'm sorry." She whispered but it entered deaf ears, she was already a dead woman in Ved's eyes.
He lunged at her faster than a bullet. His massive body flying towards her like a speeding truck.
She screamed and tried to used the roses to block his path. He broke through them like they were nothing but paper walls leaving a massive hole through the walls of rose vines.
He reached her faster than she could blink and slapped. The air screamed Infront of him, the friction ignited the air into flames and fire spread lighting up the forest of vines into flames.
Just as his palm was about to hit her, Ved already imagining her tiny body exploding likes a tomato, a rose vines grabbed her from above and pulled her up.
However it still wasn't fast enough. Her lover body exploded sending blood and bone in every direction, her intestines fell out and her screams pierced the air.
But he failed to kill her before the vine flung her away. The archer on the other hand, unsurprisingly failed to detect the disk.
However just as it was about to cut her in half, a bracelet on her wrist broke, a golden barrier appeared around her.
She seemed surprised, the disk grinded against the golden barrier and pushed her againt barrier wall.
Sparks flew as the invisible disk grinded against her barrier. Although it failed to break the barrier in the end, the force still made her cough up blood.
He clicked his tongue in annoyance, ' How many artefacts does this woman have?' then he turned his attention towards the ghastly man.
The moment his eyes landed on him, a pool of darkness appeared below him. Ved fired a bolt of lightning but the man sunk into the pool below and disappeared.
Then he turned towards the spear man to finish him off but before he could, somebody clicked their tongue in annoyance.
" Useless." a disdainful voice echoed across the entire space then a red figure appeared next to the spearman. Ved visibly tensed, he knew the prelude to the real battle had begun.