Novel Catchup
Chapter 471 Rising Blade Tide
Erix, Rin, and others climbed the stairs and soon arrived on the 2nd floor.
What faced them was a five-meter-tall doll-like woman wearing a dark yellow frock with black glowing embroidery patterns, her head tilted to the side and her eyes closed.
She held a red trident with black patterns in her hand.
[Commander Plague Karata]
_Rank: Empyrean
_Stats
—> Strength: 101,000
—> Agility: 96,400
—> Health: 99,000
—> Stamina: 95,500
—> Magic: 100,020 / Prana: 1,000,200
—> Aethir: 96,000 / Aethir Force: 960,000
—> Soul: 94,000 / Soul Energy: 940,000
"Sleeping?" Erix raised an eyebrow before pointing his palm at the doll-like woman. "Let's wake her up."
*Swoosh*
A black energy orb with purple waves and dark silver sparks shot towards her.
But it stopped and exploded before touching her.
Her head straightened, and her eyes glowed before pupils appeared in them which were not there before.
In the next second, her Trident glowed before everyone's expression changed.
Above them in the dark swamp-like ceiling made of energy, dark yellow crystal shards rained on them.
'Get your attacks ready,' Erix immediately said in spiritual chat to prevent anyone from using defensive skills against this attack.
The others also understood and didn't do anything. Everyone disappeared from their spots in the next instant and appeared behind the doll-like woman with Erix's teleport.
However, the ground below them suddenly turned dark yellow and muddy with Plague Karata's attack.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Everyone was startled and immediately used their powers to escape, scattering away at different spots.
"I'll take her on solo," Rin said as she took out her Raibor Power Slime in Katana form and also activated her Regalon Drive transformation as a cool red and black sleek armor covered her figure, with a helmet with horns.
A sword also appeared in her other hand.
Her stats shot up, reaching around 80k.
The others quietly went to the corners of this huge hall while Rin began her battle with Plague Karata.
Rin's speed was the same as Plague Karata despite having lower stats, and she dashed around like a lightning bolt while clashing against the enemy.
Plague Karata could match Rin's speed and deflect her attacks with ease, while using skills to target Rin.
Of course, her attacks also couldn't do much to Rin due to Rin's Chronace element. Rin wielded it while creating makeshift skills using Aethir, controlling time flexibly around her and affecting Plague Karata to remain untouchable from Plague Karata's attacks.
"Despite the difference in stats, Rin's making it up without going all out," Aria said.
"Yeah, but not for long," Kenshin nodded as he narrowed his eyes. "It feels like this Commander Plague Karata is not going all out yet."
The others nodded.
*Slash!*
*Clash*
Rin's blade released a sparkling cyclone that swiftly wrapped around the Commander. 'This should damage her finally.'
However, a burst of dark yellow miasma exploded and scattered the cyclone. A terrible stench also spread out that forcefully penetrated Rin's senses.
A whirlpool opened right below Rin, but Rin disappeared from her position, slicing her Katana straight towards Plague Karata.
'What is her power? It's capable of destroying my attacks swiftly…' Rin thought while releasing a cross-slash with her two swords.
Plague Karata's eyes flickered before a powerful aura suddenly oozed out from it and the scenery behind it and around it warped and changed. A deathly dark Yellow River ran through a black land with red stars in the sky.
She used her Arcane Domain in Burst Mode: Yellow River of Plague and Death.
"Well, she has to go all out now. Just Regalon Drive transformation is not enough," Lilith said with a wry smile upon seeing Plague Karata using a Domain.
Rin's lips curved into a smile before she also went all out. She first used her Arcane Domain in Burst Mode to clash and stay in battle with Plague Karata.
Twilight of Dark Crimson.
The scenery around Rin warped and changed, turning into a crimson ocean with dark gold and dark blue waves with sparks.
Various sparkling streams shot out from the crimson ocean that started whirling in the air while the sky only had a single crimson moon with a dark gold border.
Within her SS-rank domain, Rin acquired a direct boost of 120% in her Magic Power and Magic Control and a 100% boost in her Aethir power.
On top of that, all of her elements and concepts had their potency increased by 80%.
However, her Domain and Plague Karata's Domain clashed evenly, indicating that Plague Karata's Domain was also SS-rank!
Plague Karata started shooting her attacks at Rin, mostly in the shape of spears.
But Rin didn't intend to play any longer since she had measured this commander's power.
'I am stronger. Its attack are ineffective against me as they can't hit me with my Chronace defense. All i need is a powerful attack to finish her off.'
Her eyes turned serene and she stood still while holding Katana and Sword downward. 'I guess I'll use it.'
'Combat Domain: Blade House of Doom.'
*Swoosh!*
In the next second, a dark gold metallic hut with eccentric crimson and black patterns appeared behind Rin before she executed her first synergized skill: Rising Blade Tide.
A tide of blades released her katana and sword while the Hut behind her glowed, enchanting all blades as they chaotically streaming towards Plague Karata.
Rising Blade Tide's skill stage was 14 as it achieved a score of 1,448,309 when testing its power. But in Combat Domain, this skill's attack flatly increased by 50%!
Rising Blade Tide's elemental prowess was Chronace Element, with each blade connected to the other for a single purpose.
To pass the Chaotic Flow to each other, thus increasing the power of the blades.
The Rising Blade Tide's front area was darker and more potent precisely because of that.
Out of the five Synergized skills Rin had, this one consumed most of her energies because it was a foundational skill for her skill set, allowing her to execute the next skill almost free of cost.
After executing this skill, she would be able to produce other skills from it.
As Plague Karata's attacks shot toward Rin, her Rising Blade Tide met her Plague Spear attacks head-on.
Chronace Element's most powerful aspects were handled by Aethir's attributes for pure offense.
Chaos Concept's effects bring out even further offense from those blades with Rin's design.
The Blade concept's effects automatically activate on every blade due to it being an Action concept.
Speed concept increases the attack and various effects based on the speed of all blades whose speed was manipulated, which Rin could do easily with her Chronace Flow.
The blades at the tip of Rising Blade Tide utterly destroyed the spears before they continued and devoured Plague Karata entirely.
However, when those spears were destroyed, Rin suddenly felt pain throughout her body while dark yellow spots appeared all over her, damaging her constantly.
'What the fuck?'
The others were startled as well, but didn't intervene immediately because Rin's Rising Blade Tide had also devoured Plague Karata.
*Screeeee!*
A terrible scream echoed as thousands of potent Blades that had Rin's most powerful aspects geared for the pure offense devoured Plague Karata.
A powerful explosion rang inside as she tried to break free, but Rin's grin only widened as she executed her second Synergized skill.
'Semi-ultimate move should be able to finish her off since she isn't able to break free from the tide.'
Suddenly, half of the blades at the end of the stream of Blades of Rising Tide intensely glowed and melted into each other before transforming into a single huge blade that penetrated Plague Karata.
'Chaos Sword: Burst Impact.'
*Boom!*
[You have killed the first commander: Plague Karata.]
"Alright, that was easy," Erix said with a laugh.
"Well, it is just the first Commander. We still have to kill more," Lilith smiled and looked at the stairs that appeared. "Let's go. The time is limited."
Everyone flew towards the stairs as Sameira said, "True. They didn't tell us how many commanders are there, but we have a time limit on us."
"Let's kill other Commanders swiftly by working together," Isabella nodded.
As they arrived on the second floor, what greeted them was not a hall like they expected, but a dark forest with dark blue and dark purple wisps floating around.
And then a voice echoed, entering everyone's ears.
"Words are but whispers in the howling winds of fate. Actions, however, echo through eternity. If you are to traverse the shadows that cloak my domain, you must first prove your worthiness."
In the next second, everyone felt danger bells ringing before their shadows released dangerous dark purple claws with dark blue patterns, intending to tear them apart in the next instant.