NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 1122: Something's Wrong (2)
Chapter 1122: Something's Wrong (2)
Replicus was somewhat amused by Aurolio's reaction.
Right as he reached Edagon, Serenity had explained to him the key information he had found himself to be missing ever since he saw the false Null Devil King, Aurolio and Sause rush towards Edagon following the forced deactivation of [Consecutive Realm Transmission].
Rich Worlds.
What did it really mean for a world to be called Rich.
The answer had certainly surprised Replicus, but he wasn't as taken aback by it as Aurolio was when he found that he and the false Null Devil King had been deceived.
The shrine made with red jade wasn't the source they were looking for.
It wasn't really surprising that they had been caught by the lie. Both Aurolio and the false Null Devil King didn't really have an understanding of worlds other than the ones they were used to, after all. Sause used this to his advantage and made them believe that the shrine was what they were after, that within it was something that painted Aigas as Rich.
Right as Aurolio, who donned a viciously furious visage, made to roar at Sause, Replicus drew on the string to his bow again.
He felt it. Yuyui was moving!
However, she wasn't moving in this direction. She was going further ahead.
'What is going on?' he thought.
He couldn't, or rather wouldn't approach recklessly.
Replicus wasn't going to underestimate the Null Terror in the Null Devil King's body. The bastard hadn't used any of his true powers yet, and with everything that Replicus gleaned from the descriptions of the six evolutionary options he had been given, he knew to not take the title of the Four Authorities for granted.
Thus, he opted to continue with the plan he had arranged with Yuyui.
It didn't only assign her as a beacon, after all. In fact, the strategy had largely been Yuyui's idea. Replicus had accepted the fact that there would be some margin of error., that nothing was ever certain.
Thus...
Reverberations sounded in the background. Replicus sensed the Hollow Dusk's Prison taking damage.
Yuyui was battling the false Null Devil King.
The lime-haired girl had wanted to fight him one-on-one without the help of the Yagrina and Bassbion whom she tasked with staying with the Unlimited just in case. It seemed she had frustrations she wanted to deal with, and in the process, she hoped she could distract the Null Devil King long enough for Replicus to launch a sure strike with the Fallen Reincarnator's Shadow if the initial plan to take down the Null Devil King failed.
Replicus felt the Hollow Dusk's Prison get obliterated and then a moment later, it was restored.
When Yuyui revived after death, everything on her person, regardless of grade and quality would be restored as well. She had died just now, but she kept on!
Replicus narrowed his curved, yellow eyes.
He raised his one free hand, and a porous ball of gleaming purple-gold crystals wrapped around it.
Sause gave this strange phenomenon a keen look. This was what killed Jerthrax.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Waiting for the right moment," Replicus replied, much to the Giant's confusion.
A few seconds later, the odd ball around Replicus' bottom right hand, spiked, gaining a tremendous burst of radiant light, and the Progeny shot his palm forward!
Now was the time!
From Replicus' hand, an attack that was fifty times the speed of light shot out with the kind of fierce immensity that could disrupt the order of the world, heading towards the general location where Yuyui was!
Sause was stunned by the speed.
It effects on the environment were... treacherous!
Aurolio was also looked bewildered by the power of [Neutral Acumen]. This was his first time seeing it, and the fact that it was faster than those ungodly arrows Replicus had just shot left a deep impression on him!
There was bombastic boom in the distance, and Edagon trembled!
A severe amount of damage had been dealt somewhere out there!
Finally, Replicus stormed forth himself, Ju`wtte blasting the remains of the mountain he had been standing on!
He streaked across a massive chunk of distance while riding yellow-red lightning like a surf board, and soon, he had the devastation he had just caused in his sight!
A great portion of Edagon had sunken into itself and water was storming out like a fountain! Within it, Replicus spotted Yuyui reviving on top of a large rock. She had evidently died to the attack just now, which was something she had been willing to accept.
The Null Devil King on the other hand, looked worse for wear.
His armour still held, three deep, ghastly indentations in it, but his face was scraped, torn and shredded, dark blood leaking from it profusely.
He lay in the great crater that was quickly filling up with ocean water, a hateful... yet fearful look on his pasty face.
Right when Replicus spotted him, he drew on his bow spear and another arrow appeared.
Yuyui had executed the plan perfectly.
Replicus had used [Neutral Acumen] to catch the Null Devil King off guard while he was battling Yuyui, and deal him some damage. He didn't go for another arrow because he feared that if he hit Yuyui directly... she might actually die, permanently.
Transcendent grade artefacts seemed to be anomalies, after all, and he couldn't rule out the possibility that they had the ability to put down even Yuyui.
But now that the Null Devil King was down...
An arrow swiftly left Replicus' bow spear and streaked directly towards the Null Terror's
head!
It was over.
This was it!
...!
But....
Replicus frowned deeply.
Right before the false Null Devil King was hit, he heard him shriek:
"WE HAD A DEAAAAL!"
BOOOOOOM!
The arrow hit at close range, almost guaranteeing that this time, it wouldn't be hindered by
the integrity of the Null Devil King's armour, like before, but Replicus didn't like the feeling
he got just now.
Edagon groaned as a great portion of it sank below and kept grunting as it descended.
'Something's wrong,' Replicus thought.
His thought phantoms concurred.
He narrowed his eyes, waiting for the chaotic, flying rubble and dust to settle.
The sight that then revealed itself to him, baffled not only Replicus, but Yuyui as well.
She recoiled.
...
A familiar figure appeared in her version. It was a tall, spindly, robed figure with a great blue
orb of flame for a head!
It was kneeing on the ground, hunched over in fright, and beside it was the false Null Devil King... or perhaps, he was false no longer.
"Y-you!" Yuyui screamed while pointing at the tall, spindly figure, but it didn't look her way
at all.
Replicus, on the other hand, felt a surge of agency in Serenity.
"Skullius! Brace yourself! I'm afraid your opponent has changed drastically!" Serenity
exclaimed, just as the Null Devil King stretched his neck and looked down at the BoneTender
kneeling beside him.
"Relax. I mean you no harm. In fact, I'm rather elated. So much so," he said as a truly creepy pressure wafted out from him like a storm, different... far different, in fact, from the one that had been screaming from his body for the last month!