NOVEL NEXT Chapter 507: Come to pick up your princess?
Damon's expression hardened. Three dots. Three remaining flame fragments pulsing faintly within the almost fully drained Diadem of the Eternal Sun, each one a small fortune of power he had no intention of letting walk away.
Goldy buzzed around doing its best. To give the fire sprite its time, Damon did not have to do much. He just needed to exchange a couple of attacks at most with the black robed man. However, he had no intentions of doing this casually.
The only reason the red-robed guy hadn't killed Damon immediately was because he had his own agenda. Something told Damon that this one definitely did not have any agenda like that. He would probably fight to kill the very first time.
And if he was as powerful as the red-robed man, then could he withstand even a single attack from the man?
Damon decided that his best chance lay in trash-talking. "What? Come to pick up your princess?" He drawled, flashing a crooked grin as his aura flared crimson. "You Devereux lapdogs sure know how to clean up a mess. What's next? You gonna tuck him into bed and sing him a lullaby?"
The black‑robed man's head turned slightly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say something wrong?" Damon mocked, gesturing toward the unconscious Reynard. "I didn't realize your master's babysitter was on duty today. How many of you does it take to carry one burnt chicken off the battlefield?"
Damon barely closed his mouth when something shifted. Everything happened way too quickly, much quicker than he could react.
The man raised his free hand. Darkness condensed into a black blade, black fire running down its length. All Damon could see was that black blade, and the next moment, the blade was already in front of him, aimed to strike him right at his chest.
There was nothing he could do. It was too fast. Before Damon could even think, the attack was already upon him. It was some sort of illusion trick. This was going to hurt like a bitch.
Damon braced himself for the damage as the attack passed through his armor, his items, his blood-barrier, and reached for him. It was just about to carve out a massive gash on his body and spill blood, when suddenly a loud clanging sound rang out.
Damon looked down to see that the attack was actually blocked before it could touch him!
And it was blocked by none other than the little black egg, which was stuck to his chest!
The little leech had come in clutch and helped him block a huge attack. Damon instantly shifted gears and prepared himself before another attack came. He might have been caught off guard the first time around, but it was not going to happen again.
Unfortunately, it looked like the black-robed man had no plans of sticking around and fighting with him. He had already disappeared along with Reynard.
"Sorry, bud. I tried." Damon told Goldy, who seemed restless.
The sprite only managed to absorb one other flame fragment before the two were gone. In total, it had gobbled ten out of the twelve flame fragments. An impressive feat. After all, these flame fragments were a part of a legendary item. But the little sprite did not look satisfied.
"It's fine. We will get it next time." Damon dusted it off and moved on. After all, there was a battle going on all around him. He couldn't afford to be hung up on one little thing.
He first checked the state of the egg, and there did not seem to be any damage or even a slight scratch. The little leech was pretty tough. Maybe he needed to start using this a lot more to block attacks.
He then immediately jumped back into action and got another guy who was trying to activate a magic scroll. Goldy, as well, went back to shooting out attacks randomly and repeatedly.
Damon only spared the little sprite a single glance when what he saw gave him a big surprise. The little sprite was now shooting out not one but two flame bullets at the same time. One reeked of hellfire while the other was actually solar fire!
Now it was doing double the damage it did before and on endless repeat mode!
Before, the damage number wasn't high enough to make it significant. At max, it was just a bleed damage of 100 to 500. But now things were different. It was doing 500 to 1000!
This could easily add up over seconds and remove chunks of health from the opponent. The nasty part was that the sprite did not run out of mana, and it did not have any cooldown time for the attack skill!
Seeing this, Damon immediately had an idea. He had actually planned to try this out from the convenience of his blood hall sometime later, but now seemed as good a time as any. Especially if it meant that this was going to improve Goldy's attack power once again, making it a very real threat!
Without hesitation, Damon took out the lantern item dropped by Sanctifier Varro. "Goldy, can you absorb this thing, too?" Damon was not sure, but it was rumored that this lantern contained a spark of a high-tier holy flame fragment that empowered a lot of Varro's attacks. It was not quite a legendary item but it was extremely powerful, perhaps because of the single flame fragment.
The next moment, just as he suspected, Goldy zapped towards the lantern in a straight line with a lot of enthusiasm. From the looks of it, it also did not have any restrictions. It seemed capable of absorbing any type of flame fragment, even a spark of the holy fire fragment.
The little sprite zoomed directly into the center of the lantern. A ribbon of white-gold fire unspooled into the air. The little light inside the lantern then completely disappeared as Goldy shot out once more. Now it looked a lot more happier.