Chapter 502 Returning to the Abyss <TOC> Chapter 504 The Sword of Mer
Translator: SumTLMan
When Angel shook off the sea beast and continued to dodge the tentacles, he finally flew to the neck of the giant octopus.
The neck of the giant octopus was not small, and Angel couldn’t find any trace of the tribe at first, so he continued to fly in the sky.
“Front side! Angel, it’s the front side!” At this moment, Cherie’s voice reached Angel’s ear.
As Angel followed Cherie’s directions and flew to the front side of the octopus, his gaze suddenly sharpened.
He saw it! If one were to draw a line connecting the octopus’s eyes as the base, an equilateral upside-down triangle would intersect, and at that position, there was a transparent, bubble-like organ.
Inside this bubble, there was a Ger with closed eyes, just as Cherie described—human upper body, lower fishtail body!
Angel didn’t know if this Ger was alive or dead, but its appearance caused Angel’s eyes to light up.
Angel wanted to get closer to the bubble, but it was located right at the core of the octopus, making it difficult to reach. Several times, Angel tried to get closer, only to be swatted away by the octopus’s tentacles or chased off by the sea beast.
This was still the result of the octopus primarily dealing with Cherie and not paying too much attention to Angel.
From the position of this Ger, it should also be important to the octopus. Once his objective was exposed, it would be even more difficult to succeed under the watchful eye of the octopus.
So, he had only one chance. Otherwise, once the octopus focused most of its attention on him, it would be even more impossible to succeed.
As Angel dodged left and right, he soared higher. What he was doing now was to blur the octopus’s attention and not let it see his target. Once he took action, he must strike straight at the heart of the matter.
While Angel dodged left and right, he also sent a message to Cherie: “Is there any way to hold it off for twenty seconds?”
Cherie hesitated for a moment, feeling that the words were familiar. Back then, Angel had also spent twenty seconds setting up a huge illusion beside the Ink Touch King. Was he now sending a message to set up an illusion again?
However, it wouldn’t be easy for Angel to replicate the situation back then. Because at that time, the Ink Touch King didn’t care about Angel and didn’t primarily attack him, which allowed him to set up the illusion. But now it was different; the giant octopus’s target was the two of them, and trying to hold it off for twenty seconds wasn’t an easy task.
Moreover, even though Cherie was currently holding the giant octopus’s attention, her pressure was enormous. Now that Angel asked her to find a way to attract all of the octopus’s attention and hold it for twenty seconds, it was too difficult.
After pondering for a moment, Cherie’s face showed hesitation, but when she looked at the Ger immersed in the bubble, a determined look appeared in her eyes.
“I have a True Path Meditation Lamp Source Fire, which can forcibly pull it into a Soul Challenge. After the Soul Challenge, regardless of victory or defeat, I will lose all my combat power. If you can succeed in one strike and take me and Luna away, I can pull it into the challenge,” Cherie’s voice came through.
“Soul Challenge, are you sure you can succeed?” Angel didn’t know what the Soul Challenge meant, but from the literal meaning, it seemed to involve pitting two souls against each other for some sort of exemption.
Cherie replied indifferently: “Do you think I can win? According to the scale, I have almost a 100% chance of failing, but as long as I can hold on for a few seconds in the Soul Challenge, I should be able to buy you some more time.”
“What will happen to you if you fail?” Angel asked with concern.
“Don’t worry, I can consume a Source Fire to compensate for the penalty of failure. The main issue is losing my ability to act, so someone must cooperate with me,” Cherie added mentally: and a trustworthy person.
Once she loses her ability to act, she has no chance of surviving against the giant octopus. Cherie is essentially entrusting her life and death to Angel’s choice.
Angel guessed that the value of a “Source Fire” must be quite significant, but they are now facing the risk of being sacrificed. As long as they don’t die, there is always hope.
With that thought, Angel nodded: “Okay, whether I succeed or not, I will take you and Luna with me.”
“There is no failure, only success. Otherwise, my sacrifices will be in vain,” Cherie snorted, seeming to blame and complain, but the corner of her mouth curled into a faint smile.
The two agreed quickly, and Angel chose to move around the octopus. It seemed unintentional, but his attention was always on the bubble.
“Get ready to start.” Cherie cast another wave of dark fire, but this time she took out her favorite oil lamp, and a small, nearly colorless flame emerged from the lamp, quietly mixing with the numerous dark fires and attacking the octopus.
“Five, four, three…” Cherie counted down in a telepathic message.
As the word “one” appeared in Angel’s ear, his soul immediately returned to his body. A large number of illusion nodes were cast by him.
At the same time, the giant octopus’s movements suddenly became sluggish, and though its tentacles still appeared swift, they were much slower than before. As Angel dodged, he could freely construct illusion models, which he hadn’t had the time to focus on earlier.
It took less than ten seconds for the illusion nodes to be set up.
Originally, he intended to create an illusion that would confuse the octopus’s thoughts, but since its movements had slowed down, he changed the illusion to a fog effect, obstructing the pursuit of the sea beasts and the octopus.
As the illusion appeared, it blurred the vision of all sea beasts, and at the same time, the octopus’s movements became even more sluggish, its eyes dull and its reaction time reduced by at least 80%.
Angel rushed to the location of the bubble. During this process, he looked back at Cherie and found that she was covered in blood. Luna ran to Cherie’s side, pulling her clothes to move her body and dodge the octopus’s attacks.
Cherie had completely lost her ability to act and could only rely on Luna to dodge the tentacle attacks. However, during the Soul Challenge, the octopus could still exert some consciousness to control its tentacles, showing the huge difference in soul strength between Cherie and the octopus.
Cherie had already done so much, and Angel naturally couldn’t let her down. He broke through the tentacle barrier for the first time and reached the bubble.
At that moment, the octopus seemed to notice Angel’s intent, and its previously lost eyes regained focus for an instant, showing anger.
As the octopus’s emotions turned to anger, Cherie on the other side spat out blood as if she were fainting, floating on the seabed.
Angel was startled, thinking that the octopus had already won in the Soul Challenge.
However, the next moment, the octopus’s gaze returned to being blank. Luna’s anxious meow sound by her ear was reminding Angel that Cherie must be in an unfavorable situation again.
Angel gritted his teeth, took an alchemy weapon from his bracelet, and slashed at the bubble.
But this blow did not break the bubble, nor did it leave a scratch.
He felt a faint energy fluctuation on the octopus’s skin, as if it was some sort of defensive spell?
At this critical moment, Angel quickly constructed another spell model in his mind space, praying that the defensive spell on its skin was only against physical attacks and could not block energy attacks.
Time ticked away, and Cherie seemed to be unable to hold on any longer.
The octopus’s reaction speed began to accelerate.
Suddenly, Cherie screamed, and the octopus’s stagnant movements began to recover.
The Soul Challenge was over!
At this moment, a red circle appeared around the bubble. A strange rune appeared in the center of the circle, followed by a large amount of flames.
Flame Formation, Phantom Attack!
Accompanied by the intense temperature and the strange fire elemental illusions, the bubble burst with a loud pop. The Ger inside flowed out with viscous fluid, and Angel reached out to successfully snatch it.
Having achieved his goal, Angel recited the prepared Mysterious Soul Whisper, and his soul left his body once again.
As a tentacle was about to press against him, Angel, like an arrow off the bowstring, burst out with the help of a sudden control of gravity.
Angel’s first destination was where Cherie was. However, the octopus seemed to have anticipated Angel’s move, and a tentacle fiercely smashed toward Cherie.
Without the Soul Challenge, the octopus’s tentacle-waving speed was only slightly slower than Angel’s.
At Angel’s speed, if he rushed over now, he would definitely be hit. If Angel didn’t go, Cherie would undoubtedly die.
Without any hesitation, Angel charged towards Cherie.
As Angel controlled the gravity to lift Cherie, the destructive tentacle attack also fell. Angel’s eyes tightened, his heart pounding.
But when a starlight barrier enveloped both of them, Angel’s expression relaxed.
At the crucial moment, Cherie finally activated the Grand Novaguard.
Angel had entrusted the Grand Novaguard to Cherie, which gave him the confidence to come and rescue her at this moment. Cherie did not disappoint him, using the Grand Novaguard decisively in the face of crisis.
The octopus’s attack fell on the starlit shield, without causing a ripple. Angel seized this opportunity, pulling Cherie out of the Mist Illusion Realm!
“Well done!” Angel said with a smile to the bloodstained Cherie.
Cherie smiled, took a deep breath, and looked at the stars surrounding them, her eyes filled with joy. This cooperation would have failed if Angel had hesitated even a little. But Angel fulfilled his initial promise, and Cherie had only experienced such Seamless Cooperation with Luna before… this feeling didn’t seem bad to her at all.
After the two escaped from the Mist Illusion Realm, a massive roar was heard behind them.
Water currents, earthquakes, and even sonic shockwaves began to attack them. However, with the activation of the Gravity Lines and knowing there were no obstacles ahead, Angel wasn’t afraid of being caught. Moreover, the Mist Illusion Realm could still block its line of sight. By the time it escaped the realm, they had already disappeared.
What Angel didn’t know was that when the giant octopus realized it couldn’t catch up with him, boundless rage caused its body to swell and its skin color to change from deep black to red. If Angel could see this scene at this moment, he would undoubtedly equate the giant octopus with the Ink Touch King.
The color of the Ink Touch King was indeed such a shocking bright red.
At the same time, in the outside world, at the top of Mechanical Tower, a cold mechanical voice suddenly sounded: “Huh, it has evolved into an Ink Touch King?”
Chapter 502 Returning to the Abyss <TOC> Chapter 504 The Sword of Mer