Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2105 All Out

Ryu rested one of his great swordstaffs on his shoulder, his other pointing toward the ground. He stood in the midst of the four Heavenly Knights as though he was just another one of them, not feeling the oppressive pressure coming from them in the slightest.

The Knights didn't move immediately, and their gazes seemed to flicker with extra hints of intelligence. However, not one of them spoke. It even looked as though they were slowly trying to find a weakness for Ryu to take advantage of.

The tension in the skies increased until one of the two female Knights suddenly exploded forth. In her palms, a great sword manifested from the swirling dark golden energies of the world and she slashed down at Ryu's neck with all of her might.

The world couldn't even keep up, not realizing that it too was meant to be sliced in two even after the blade had appeared right at Ryu's neck.

PUCHI!

The blade cut into Ryu's skin beneath his narrowed eyes. But he managed to stop it from deepening the wound any further with a raise of his great swordstaff.

Fast.

This woman was faster than the laws themselves, embodying such raw speed that reality only caught up several seconds later, only now shredding to pieces.

Trails of cracked space burst from the path she had just taken and through the curved path of her blade.

BANG!

The echo of their blades clashing came moments later.

Ryu's torn robes billowed beneath the shockwaves of their attack.

Suddenly, one of the male Heavenly Knights moved. He was far slower, almost painfully slow compared to the woman, but when his attack descended, Ryu's pupils constricted.

The strength was out of this world. Ryu felt that even with his current Bone Structure, facing that attack head-on would take everything he had. But he had yet to activate his Bloodlines or enter his battle state, and he definitely didn't have the time to do it now. "Truly strong...'

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu raised his blade and erupted with Nine Revolution Skybreaker. His one attack became six before he finally managed to make the Heavenly Knight take a step back. But the rattling in his wrist made him feel like it was on the verge of collapsing. Ryu took advantage of the momentum, shooting backward.

'I sec... so this is why they're so powerful...'Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Knights were a step beyond Aspirants who already had a perfect slate of talents. They would usually have a mutation of some sort that made them particularly strong. The best way Ailsa's memories described them was like giving an Aspirant with perfect talent a variable like Heavenly Pupils or a special Soul Nature to benefit from.

In this case, the abilities of these four Knights were shockingly simple... but they were also mind-numbingly effective.

Speed faster than the laws.

Strength heavier than the laws.

Senses so piercing that they couldn't be fooled.

Qi control so vast that they never seemed to run out of energy.

It didn't take long before Ryu understood all four of their abilities, but that didn't make them any easier to deal with.

'It seems that... I really will have to go all out so early on...'

Ryu knew that there was one final wave after this one, one where instead of just four

of these existences, he would be facing almost 40,000 of them.

He had been looking for a weakness... but now he understood that there was no simple solution to find here.

The only path forward....

Was absolute strength.

BOOM!

Ryu's Bloodlines erupted, his body shaking as scales surged across his skin. Horns grew from his forehead, piercing toward the skies as wings burst from his back.

Ryu gained a sharpness to his eyes that wasn't there before.

He stomped down and the air beneath his feet seemed to explode as he suddenly left a line of afterimages in his wake.

He appeared before the speedster, his wings flaring out.

She calmly tried to retreat, her legs carrying a shocking burst of power to them. Even when Ryu tried to use his Spacetime Soul Nature to extend the space behind her, she always seemed capable of stepping beyond it.

As he had learned from the very start....

Her speed was beyond laws, including those of his own.

That said... it wasn't beyond Karma and Fate. It was just that Ryu had no casy way of targeting her directly normally.

But that was what his eyes were for.

[Fate Reversal].

The woman had just crossed the barrier of Ryu's spatial distortion when she suddenly found herself standing in the same spot. She didn't even have the time to react in

shock before her head was sent flying into the air.

Ryu's eyes left silver streaks in the air as he rapidly turned his head to the side, the large hammer of the strength Knight already tearing into the skin of his back despite still being three meters from touching a hair on his head.

Ryu stabbed out backward toward the already dead speedster as though he had lost his mind, but the flicker in his eyes told a different tale.

[Fate Reversal].

The head of the speedster magically reattached, only to find a blade running right through her body. At the same time, the strength Knight found his head flying into the

skies.

Ryu kicked out, sensing the strength Knight flying toward the perception Knight.

His great swordstaff flickered, deflecting an arrow from the qi Knight and slashing out with his other in one fluid motion.

A shudder came from Ryu's Meridians and his eyes flashed.

[Rob the World of its Color].

The qi Knight tried to gather energy for a defensive maneuver, only to suddenly find

all the qi in the world stripped away.

She was sliced in two without Ryu even paying much attention to her at all.

Ryu's body vanished from the bounds of Fate once again, suddenly appearing behind the perception Knight whose vision was obscured by the flying strength Knight.

PUCHI!