BXBX NOVEL Chapter 82: Mana Core
With a few thoughts, Blake easily connected the dots, figuring out the reason why this holy sword was acting up now when it had been silent all this while.
"An unholy mind doesn't make you an unholy being but an unholy body definitely does the job"
That was the summary of Blake's current situation with his sword and at the moment there was nothing he could do about it.
With Kate having already dropped the shield that protected him, Blake hesitating in his attack would only lead to him giving up the chance of a surprise attack while also letting the other demon take the initiative.
Despite the intense stinging pain that came from the burn of the sword, Blake tightened his hold on the sword and pulling on mana from his newly formed mana core charged the enemy.
Blake's plan was to close the distance between him and the hot blazing demon as fast as possible, and then launch a sword strike, but when Blake met up with the demon, the only thing he could do was tackle it from the waist and smash him into the ground.
Their fall sent cracks running all throughout the floor, till eventually it gave way and while Rehabab fell into the larva beneath, Blake who was above him was quick to push himself off and roll to the side, his skin singeing as it came in contact with the hot steaming ground.
When it came to the difference between an unranked being and a ranked being of the first and second order, unless the ranked being decided to unleash his full aura, then one would never be able to differentiate between them.
With both parties having mana running through them, the main difference between them came in the absence of mana core in an unranked being and its presence in a ranked being.
With a mana core, not only could one store far greater quantities of quality mana while also producing it at a faster rate, a mana core greatly enhanced one's control and speed of movement of their man within their bodies and it was this benefit that screwed up Blake's plan.
Wary of his opponent's strength Blake had floored himself with mana as he would before his evolution and in doing this moved so fast that he had gotten swallowed by his speed and by the time he arrived before Rehabab he was not yet ready to swing his sword and could only spread his arms and tackle the man.
Quickly getting on his feet, Blake turned to Kate, incredibly satisfied with the woman when he saw that she had already taken down her barrier and was standing and waiting for him.
Not speaking a single word to Kate, Blake moved towards the woman, hoisting her on his left shoulder and without missing a beat speeding away, his every step cracking the ground.
Despite his evolution and greatly improved stats, Blake was against the idea of battling the demon behind him and it wasn't just because of his high power, but most importantly because of his lack of understanding of his own power.
Unfortunately for Blake, the decision of whether or not he would be fighting wasn't up to him because seconds after he began running, from the corners of both his eyes he noticed a crack on the ground rapidly speeding towards, an intense yellow glow radiating from them as they caught up to him despite the ridiculous speed he considered himself moving at.
With Blake's speed, he had quickly gotten out of the battlefield, this also meaning that he was quickly leaving behind the light provided by the purgatory flames and the volcanic floor, his figure sinking into the darkness of the night but just as the cracks on the ground caught up to him, several bright pillars of light in the form of larva geysers began erupting behind him.
Before Blake knew it, the ground several steps away from him exploded in a shower of larva which unleashed a huge larva serpent that coiled on the ground and shot towards him.
"Damn it," Blake thought tightening his grip on Kate and then channelling his mana to his right hand, he had a dark red fireball appear on his palm, this fireball rapidly growing in size and by the time Blake was face to face with the serpent, ignoring the blistering heat which its presence came with, he slammed the over 7 meters wide fireball at it's charging forehead, roaring as he pushed forwards and obliterated it from his path.
Not missing a beat, the second Blake had the larva snake out of his way, his legs kicked forward, about to speed away, but then ahead of him, he saw a Rehabab with his sword stabbed on the ground and his hands going through the last of hand signs.
With a grimace, Blake turned to the left, looking to go around the demon, but before his very eyes he watched as the ground for several meters around him rapidly cracked, molten lava spitting out these cracks and in particular locations all around him, the ground literally broke apart in small explosions as creatures completely made of larva which looked like a mix between a rat and a dog, crawled out of it onto the hard ground.
Seeing this, though Blake grimaced at this display of power and the fact that he was the one facing it.
Blake made several rapid jumps back from the demon who was keenly staring at him and raising his hand up so his palm faced the sky, he had a fireball appear in his hand, but this one unlike the earlier one began rapidly spinning in his hand and also similarly gaining size.
"When I drop you on the ground, run away don't stop for anything, you can return to the dungeon on your own, I'll come to find you," Blake whispered as he poured more and more of his mana into the gigantic fireball in his palm, a cavity soon forming in the centre of the fireball, just above Blake's palm.
"What about Lena" Kate silently asked.
"I killed her" Blake answered.