Evolution of the Ruined Heir - Chapter 330: Dread
Chapter 330: Dread
“Hey beautiful.”
They were words that should make many women smile, sometimes men. But Malakai felt only one thing the moment they reached his ears. Horror.
His head snapped back to see the grade four corrupter tearing towards him with a mad grin.
’Shit.’
“Corrupter’s wave.”
A tide of darkness burst from its body, swallowing the sky until there was no light left. The waves twisted and converged from every direction, all locking onto a single point, Malakai.
Malakai felt the vita in the air tremble, as though begging to be released. To do his bidding. He didn’t stop them. A thought, and they roared.
Kilometers away, vita ignited in a blinding flash, rushing toward him like rivers of light.
Then, Malakai detonated, his body exploding into a storm of green brilliance that shot upward, colliding with the incoming darkness.
The clash split the sky. Green and black tore into one another, devouring the space around them.
The shockwaves rolled out in violent rings, and Malakai found himself blasted backward with mind numbing speed.
He gritted his teeth so hard he tasted the metallic tang of blood in his mouth. Malakai twisted and turned, releasing blasts of concussive waves that deadened his momentum.
’It’s too powerful.’
Even during the clash with Konim, Malakai had realized he couldn’t win, not with sheer power.
The more vita he used the more vita he lost. The power he had in one clash wouldn’t be the same he had in the next. He was fighting a lost battle. This was why he had escaped to the surface.
’But a grade four…’
Malakai knew exactly what he was doing when he broke the vita veil. He had seen the grade four forming, after all. He knew the city would be damned, but he didn’t care.
The life of millions to save a single one, Malakai didn’t feel guilt when he made his choice.
Regardless, a normal bloom, as it was general knowledge, wasn’t a match for a grade four. But now, they had to face three.
And just by barely clashing with one, Malakai could feel his vita draining fast. He couldn’t afford another clash.
“Kill him.”
The voice echoed from above. Malakai’s darkened eyes turned skyward, and froze.
A gargantuan creature hovered in the skies, formed entirely of writhing darkness.
Its sheer width and breadth dwarfed anything Malakai had ever known, stretching so vast it seemed to encompass the main city.
Its teeth jutted outward, with no lips to hide them. They looked like jagged, pointed, endless rows of knives. And its eyes… dozens of them, stark white, dotted across its massive head, all fixed upon him.
Yet, despite its size, Malakai’s attention was drawn to the small figure standing calmly above it.
The summoner. The one who had spoken.
The creature screeched, a piercing shrill that clawed at Malakai’s skull, threatening to burst his eardrums. The force of the sound blasted outward, ripping away the haze that had swallowed the skies and clouds.
Then, the creature dove.
Its jaws split wider, teeth gleaming as it shot downward with terrifying speed, locking onto Malakai.
Malakai’s expression changed violently. He was about to move when he heard a cry.
“Malakai!”
He had barely turned when he felt a hand grip his shoulder.
“I’ll take you.”
Malakai’s eyes landed on Nyx, with Rhett hovering just behind her. Veins of blood filled their faces, eyes flashing with a crimson hue.
’They’re injured.’ He realized.
Nyx’s hand was bloodied, and so was Rhett’s. They might both have been Sanguine bloom, elites, but an enhancer was an enhancer for a reason.
Clashing directly with one was always a mistake. But neither had been given a choice.
He nodded.
“Let’s go.”
Malakai felt the grip on his shoulder tighten, and then they were off.
The cold night air whipped at his face as they tore through the skies, heading straight for the Murkroot Hollow. For the Gor’Mekhai settlement.
Not a second passed when the shudder inducing voice echoed from behind.
“Filthy life spawn! Where do you think you’re going?”
Malakai glanced back, and what he saw made his blood run cold.
The three grade fours were on their tails!
The enhancer was akin to a missile, releasing sonic booms in the air as he shot towards them.
The summoner raged toward them from atop his summon, eyes cold, radiating death.
Waves of darkness spilled out from the corrupter, bathing the world below. Trees withered and turned to dust, every living being engulfed found their minds being taken over.
From humans to beasts, it didn’t matter. All joined the chase.
Not a second had passed since they’d fled and Malakai witnessed an army chasing them from behind.
’The fountain.’ He clenched his fist, reminding himself. They had to get to the fountain, once there, all would be solved.
He turned and faced his front, expression hardening. He had to focus on their objective.
With movements as fast as light, they reached the Murkroot Hollow almost instantly.
’The fog…’
The last time Malakai had been here, when he had been kidnapped and taken to the coven, he had asked Nyx to observe the forest from above.
What she had reported had been simple: a fog engulfed everything. Even as a bloom, she couldn’t see past it.
Yet, as Malakai gazed at the forest from above now, he saw no fog.
’It’s gone.’
However, something else had replaced it.
’A vita veil.’
Malakai’s expression darkened. Somehow, a vita veil spanning kilometers had covered a large part of the Gor’Mekhai’s forest.
He could feel Nyx and Rhett instantly glance towards him, as though trying to ask what was happening.
“The Fourth Pulse attacked the Gor’Mekhai. She’s probably there right now. It doesn’t change anything, we go through it.”
A unified nod, and Rhett’s aura detonated. The metallic tang of blood assaulted Malakai’s nose just as he lanced forward, tearing towards the veil. His blood spear pierced out.
A blinding flare erupted as steel red power split against the barrier. The group somehow knew that it wouldn’t be enough, just like the earlier vita veil.
“We join in!” the head of the Sutrex clan declared, and the other surviving blooms of the Sutrex clan nodded.
Quickly erupting in power, they let out attacks of their own on the veil. The current events had sobered them up, and they each knew it was either they fight or die. They chose to fight.
The cracks spread across the veil, but even before it shattered, the group tore into the broken veil.
Malakai’s eyes swept the area. The first thing he saw was the shattered and destroyed forest. The endless lifeless corpses of darkness creatures that spawned from slain Gor’Mekhai.
Then he looked up, and his eyes shot wide.
Multiple pillars of darkness rose from the ground in the distance, piercing the heavens. As Malakai took in the sheer size and magnitude of the pillars, he only felt one thing. Dread.
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