"Iskax, do you think you can escape from the Academic Mages?" Lily asked while enveloping her sword with an intermediate sword aura.
"Academic Mages?" A mocking grin appeared on Iskax's face and was soon followed by a maniacal laugh.
"Wahahaha, Don't worry. The whole city is now under the 'Dimension Lock' magic spell, Miss Lily. Those low-level mages would never be able to break Lord Susur's spell before he finishes his work. Now, the chatting is over!" He said as he opened his arms and wings wider and let out a high-pitched hissing sound.
The next moment, five eerie black-colored chains came out of his chest and started slithering towards Sara and Lily.
Unlike metal chains, these creepy chains were firm like curb chains with the size of an adult's hand, had mysterious crimson marks, and the chain heads were replaced with snakeheads.
"I have a terrible feeling about this. Avoid those chains, Sara!" Lily said in a grim tone and moved towards the left. But she soon noticed that the chains were slithering like real snakes and coming after her at an incredible speed.
"Sister! The chainhead region look alive!" Sara's shout came from the other side.
Startled, Lily looked closely at the chain head area and soon widened her eyes.
At that moment, she noticed the strange snakehead hissed at her, blinking its yellowish eyes, and even flicked its split tongue.
But what shocked her was that these chains seemed to come out of Iskak's chest endlessly.
"F*ck? What are these chains? A bloodline ability?" Lily shouted and blocked one of the snakeheads using her sword. At the same time, she stepped on the side wall, did a back flip, and evaded the other two chain snakes from biting her.
"This guy had already turned into some demon," Sara said, trying her best to evade the chains.
But unlike her sister, she wasn't as skilled in close combat and was soon caught off guard.
One eerie black snakehead bent at a weird angle, evaded Sara's sword attack, and almost reached Sara's neck while opening its mouth.
But before it could bite her neck, a strange ripple came out of Lily's sword tip and moved towards the black chain at an incredible speed.
The next instant, the eerie black chain was cut down neatly by an invisible force and fell along with the snakehead.
Meanwhile, Sara looked at Lily with a pale face and spoke.
"Thank you, Lily-"
Before she could speak, Lily shook her head and interrupted her.
"You are too weak, Sara. I'll hold off this creature for a while. Escape now."
"Do you think I will let you leave?" Iskax snorted as he watched their struggle like he was watching a play and waved his claw-like hand.
The next second, two black chains plunged into the ground and suddenly reappeared under Lily's feet.
Before she could jump, the black chains slithered around her legs and soon bound her body.
"Kekeke, how is it?" Iskax let out another wicked laugh and started walking closer to Lily.
Although Sara tried her best to move toward Lily to help, the other two chains attacked her again and blocked her path.
Meanwhile, something strange started to happen in Iskax's sea of consciousness.
At first, Iskax thought of capturing Sara and Lily and making them his women.
After all, he had been working under Sara's father for more than ten years and never had any chance to live a luxurious life or even get a woman.
But now, something inside his mind urged him to enslave them...
No, the strange feeling urged him to kill them!
After getting the 'Gift' from his master Susur, he felt more powerful than ever and got more confident that he could kill the Academic Mages like insects!
'Yes, they are all weaker than me.' He slowly looked at Lily and grinned maliciously.
'She is just like those weak animals. Will she taste good? Hmm? There is no harm in eating her right? Wait, why do I feel an urge to eat her? No... Something is wrong.' By the time he realized the situation, it was already too late.
His thoughts became cloudy, and his memories started to appear randomly.
At that moment, a wicked power entered his sea of consciousness from somewhere and started to corrupt his memories!
Every time he took a step forward, his face showed craziness, madness, and other chaotic emotions.
Suddenly, he saw a human figure appearing a few meters away, looking at him with puzzled eyes.
'Who is this? Elf? Why did he come here? Wait? Where am I? Who am I?' Countless questions appeared in Iskax's mind.
Before long, his eyes turned completely red, becoming completely irrational.
At that moment, Sara also noticed Abium's arrival and cursed while evading the chain attacks.
"F*ck! Another enemy?"
However, she soon noticed that it was the newly titled Elf.
She didn't hesitate for a single moment and asked for help.
"Please help us!"
Meanwhile, Abium calmly evaded the black chain and turned his gaze towards the humanoid demon.
'Caarth Demon?' He raised his eyebrows in surprise.
'No, this creature is not from the Caarth race. It looks more like a hybrid Caarth. But why does it have a human face?'
Caarth was a powerful and evil snake-headed humanoid demon that lived in the lower Abyss.
In the past, they showed their presence only in a few places and didn't cause much destruction like other demon races.
Due to this, he knew very little about this race.
But the presence of a hybrid Caarth in the Peral Kingdom made Abium ponder.
'The other seals haven't broken yet. But how did a demon manage to appear here?'
At that moment, he focused his gaze on the human head and soon understood the situation.
'It's not a demon. He is half-demonized.'
He had heard of these situations and even knew the reason for this.
'I heard that humans will get a temporary boost by consuming demons' blood or other chaotic things, but in return, they will become half-demonized. Their minds will be corrupted, and they'll become irrational beings.'
As he thought, a blue screen appeared in front of his eyes, along with a list of information.
[Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Race: Half-Caarth (Under Transformation)
Health: normal
Class: Foot soldier
Affiliation: Chaos Evil
Divinity:??
Attributes:
Strength: 8.6 (4.6)
Agility: 7.9 (4.3)
Vitality: 9.8 (4.8)
Mana: 83.0 (8.0)
Spirit: 40.0 (4.0)
Skills: ????, ????
Bloodline Spells
Zero tier spells: ?????, ????, ?????
First-tier spells: ?????.]
'What's with this abnormal spirit status?' He couldn't help but frown.
At that moment, Azolla's voice echoed in his head.
'There is a small shard of divinity inside this demon, kid. That's the reason for abnormal spirit power status.'
'Shard of Divinity? What the h*ck?' He broke into cold sweats. Although he had no idea about these Mysterious Divinities, he was sure of one thing.
'They are capable of changing one's life itself... No, they are capable of altering the fate of the kingdom itself.'
Abium hurriedly touched his space ring and took the Sword of Wrath from it. He then unsheathed the sword and imbued mana into the sword.
A second later, a reddish aura enveloped the sword and shone brightly.
The next instant, he cast the [Blink] spell, disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared in front of Lily.
He then calmly raised his hand and slashed his sword at the eerie black chains before freeing her.
Meanwhile, the black chains started to crack and break into multiple pieces.
After that, Abium stopped imbuing more mana into the sword, looked at Lily's status, and immediately furrowed.
'Spatial Snatch skill?'
'It's an inherited skill, lad.' Azolla said.
At that moment, Sara moved closer to him and spoke while battling against the other two chains.
"Thanks-"
"We don't have any time for introductions, Sara," Lily said as she panted heavily and shifted her gaze towards the demon.
Then, she moved toward Sara and tried to cut the remaining two snake chains.
In truth, the battle was slowed down due to Iskax losing his rationality. Iskax mostly didn't attack them, only destroying nearby walls and ornamental plant jars.
"He completely lost his mind," Abium muttered slowly and was about to attack it with his spell but suddenly stopped.
At that moment, he heard a strange bone-cracking sound coming from the half-demonized human and widened his eyes.
He saw that creature grow bigger and begin to transform within two seconds.
"Another transformation?"
'It looks like he managed to assimilate a part of the divinity shard into his body. Finish him off sooner.' Azolla warned him in his mind.
Then, she also noticed something strange at the same time and added.
'Beware of that blonde-haired girl, lad. Just now, she took a high-tier magic crystal from your spatial ring.'
'What? How is it possible?' Without him noticing, he knew it was almost impossible to steal things from the spatial ring and was alarmed.
'Whenever you imbue mana into your sword, a small amount of mana also enters your spatial ring and connects the ring space to the outside world. If I'm not wrong, she must have used that moment to steal the high-tier magic stone from your spatial ring.'
'I'll be careful from now on.'
Saying so, he looked at the wholly demonized human and frowned as he noticed the madness in its eyes started to dim.
A moment later, Iskax suddenly blinked his eyes, let out a hissing noise, and finally shifted his attention towards Abium.
"Hiss! Who are you? What are you doing here?" That demonized Iskax became aware of the change around his body and fell silent.
Two seconds later, his eyes again started to turn red and soon bled!
"Ahhhhhhhh." Then, a scream came out of Iskax's mouth.
Without waiting, Abium imbued mana into his sword, covered it again with the Advanced Sword Aura, and sprinted forward.
Simultaneously, he raised his hand, locked his gaze on the demonized creature, and cast the [Dark Bind] spell.
Ten shadow vines came from the concrete floor a second later, slithered towards the demonized creature and restricted its movement.
He approached the creature in a second, slashed at one of the snakeheads, and decapitated it.
"SIEKKKKKK!" Iskax screamed in pain.
Meanwhile, the snakehead fell with a thudding noise and sprayed eerie black liquid in all directions.
Alas, Abium noticed that a small snakehead had grown from that severed area in a mere second.
'Oh? Regeneration skill? Don't waste any moment and cut the other head, kid.'
Abium moved his sword again and tried to cut the other snakehead.
But suddenly, another black chain came out of the humanoid creature's chest region and blocked his sword in midair!
Unlike before, the chain was covered in a strange black aura similar to Abium's sword aura!