Chapter 327: Old Friends Clash (2)

Cyril’s aura exploded shaking the heavens and the earth. Annie’s face changed, ’ He’s strong.

I hadn’t expected him to keep up with my progression, he might just be the most talented Espara in the last 1 000 years.’

She suddenly remembered somebody Meggie had warned her about, ’ No, that title belongs to her but Cyril is no joke either.’

Although she recognised his strength she wasn’t about to back down. Her own aura blazed like a flame clashing with his.

The earth around them shook and cracks as wide as dozens of metres spread for kilometres like a spiderweb.

A sword appeared in his hand, its presence alone seemed to cut the air itself, armour materialised around his body.

He grabbed empty air and a shield appeared on his left hand, in a blink of an eye he turned into an armoured knight.

" You know about my clan do you not? Our strength lies in the weapons we forge, I don’t mean to brag but I can make some mean weapons.

This will be my last warning Anele Ladros, for old time’s sake, stand down." Cyril took a fighting stance.

" You know me better than that Cyril Smith, do you remember me as a woman who gives up just because somebody told me to?

Also, it’s Lunar now." Black claws grew out of her fingers and sharp fangs grew in her mouth.

They both knew talking any further would yield no result, neither were willing to back down.

So they clashed, Cyril lunged at her and swung his sword from above like a heavenly guillotine.

A sharp aura cut the air and split the dark clouds looming above them. Annie’s eyes glowed like green embers.

An illusion of a green moon appeared behind her, the sharp aura turned into a gentle gust of wind.

Cyril found himself surrounded by flowers, " What the.." suddenly the world changed and he found himself in an endless field of flowers.

The sky was dark green with a massive green moon hanging above him. ’ An illusion, when did she..

I see, I need to avoid meeting her gaze, this will be troublesome.’ His esper surged to his brain like a wave.

All illusion abilities had one thing in common, they worked like parasite that infect the brain with the users esper.

As long you can see through the illusion, breaking out of it was easy however when his esper reached his brain he found nothing.

’ Strange, her esper isn’t inside my brain, what’s happening?’ Cyril was confused and lost his calm for a moment.

Instead of panicking he activated his ability summoning another artefact, ’ Osiris’s eye.’ The eye met his own.

The illusion was broken and was brought back to reality, the first thing he saw was Annie clashing with his subordinates.

They were all in terrible conditions, they could barely react to her attacks but they managed to protect him long enough.

’ If they weren’t here, I would’ve lost this fight instantly.’ That realisation hit him like a sledgehammer.

He placed the eye of Osiris around his neck to ward off her illusions then attacked her alongside his subordinates.

Annie suddenly split into a thousand clones, ’ More illusions, how? With the eye of Osiris illusions shouldn’t work on me.’

Cyril was getting flustered, Annie’s abilities kept shattering his expectations over and over again.

However he was partially correct, there were two types is illusion abilities and Annie could use both.

One that creates an image in ones mind and trap them within an illusory world and another that creates illusory projections into the real world.

Cyril waved his sword in a wide arc sending a crescent blade slash that cut hundreds of the illusory Annie’s.

They disappeared like smoke, ’ They’re all illusions, I just need to find the real one.’ He poured esper into the eye of Osiris.

It shone with blinding light that scanned all the illusions but the results he got confused him.

The eye of Osiris couldn’t tell which one was an illusion and which was not. ’ Damnit, how powerful are her illusions?’

" AHHHHHH!" He heard a scream and saw one of his subordinates have both his arms ripped off his body.

The sight was so gruesome he wondered if the one he was fighting was the same Annie he once knew.

Cyril locked his eyes on the Annie that attacked the man and lunged at her, others illusory clones blocked his path.

" Move." He cut them then accelerated to near lightning speed, he appeared above Annie like an armoured shadow.

She looked surprised, Cyril swung his sword for her neck, Annie’s eyes opened wide and for a moment he saw fear in them.

Cyril hesitated, his sword stopped just centimetres from her neck, only for a split second.

Annie smiled, " Oh Cyril, you’re still too soft." She threw her own neck on the sword cutting off her head.

Blood splattered on his helmet, Cyril thought she was an illusion for a moment but he could practically smell the iron.

The floating head smiled at him then transformed into the face of one his men, he looked down at the headless body, his body started shaking.

" Did you really believe it would be that easy to take me down?" He heard the sweet enchanting voice behind him.

He saw her sitting there on a throne chair watching him with a mocking smile. " I admit, I underestimated you Cyril, you’re stronger than most.

Probably around the same level as the 12, I suppose 11 now, Delta leaders of the pack, but you see Cyril, I’m an Alpha.

A hundred of you would not be enough to take me down, your little trinket will not work on me."

Her mocking tone made him grind his teeth in rage. " Stop underestimating me Anele Ladros!" He roared.

His sword disappeared replaced by a cannon about 2 metres long with a 20 cm wide barrel.

A tremendous amount of energy gathered inside the cannon and in a blink of an eye reached staggering levels.

A beam of condensed plasma fired at her, the air burnt and the ground melted instantly, Annie did not dodge.

The plasma beam swallowed her entire body along with the throne, followed by a massive explosion.

A ball of plasma expanded devouring the ground and everything within a radius of 10 kilometres.

All that remained within 20 kilometres around them was a gigantic pool of bubbling lava.

Cyril took a deep breath, he had grabbed his subordinates and retreated before the explosion could engulf them.

" I got too overheated, I might’ve killed her." He sounded remorseful.

" It was fun playing with you Cyril but it seems something have come up, we’ll meet again someday."

Cyril heard her voice and saw her still sitting on the same position as if nothing had happened.

She snapped her fingers and the world disappeared. Cyril found himself standing on the same position.

" I..never escaped the illusion?" That realisation made him sweat, ’ She’s been toying with me the whole time.’