Chapter 68 True King 2

Chapter 68

Andrey pov.

With Nea's warning I turn my gaze towards the battlefield, the once beautiful environment is now nothing more than scorched earth, broken glass and pieces of rock protruding from the ground, but upon closer inspection I can see that this only affects the areas away from the central pond which is in perfect condition.

"It looks like it has simply taken an attack position, well, then you'll have to initiate combat."

"umm... This will do< lifeline>"

Activating a skill that allows me to share certain stats between me and the connected one, I feel my strength, dexterity, Vitality and Faith increase just because of the increase, I can think of Faith, strength and Vitality are the ones we have equal or he has less than me, followed by that I check my body movement which feels more versatile proved that his dexterity was higher than mine.

"Wow you didn't scream and still got a power up".

"your sense of humor is amazing"

Turning from Nea who simply shakes his shoulders as if he didn't care about my response, he gripped the sword with new strength and advanced with new momentum towards this imitation of the ancient king.

*explosion*

With the clash of our two weapons it shows that even with the increased strength thanks to the skill, he is still superior, but that wasn't going to stop him from getting that water.

"Ahh!"

Raising my voice I start to inject mana into the sword achieving that in this cracks are created from where pure golden colored energy comes out, as if that was a signal my sword started to push back his sword, but in that instant I must take a step to the side thus avoiding a pillar of rock that formed on my back.

"Dark control:dark detonation"

*Boom!* *Boom!*

Before I can fix my combat position, in the vicinity of the King, spheres of darkness are created for a few moments and before I can think about it in depth these explode sending dirt and dust flying, even with all the destruction no damage has happened to me and that we are not in a group I can only think that Nea has an amazing control of her mana, passing from that little silent praise I turn on my body and in that half turn I completely charged the golden energy releasing it towards the terracotta king or where he should be.

*Boom!

With an explosion of golden color the dust is blown away leaving a view of the now very damaged terracotta king, his body is missing his left arm, his breastplate once shiny and immaculate is now completely shredded and to top it all off his trench coat is in a pitiful state almost ragged.

"aghhh!"

Letting out a scream that sounded like pain, something I don't think he can feel, his left arm is regenerated as if that was still not enough, his aura takes on a completely red color demonstrated that he is in the first level of aura, but everything has a price, his eyes are now a red color full of anger, his way of holding the sword changed from a position of quality and control to simply keeping it at hand.

"Second phase? Are you serious!"

"No te"

Without being able to finish my words towards Nea, a swamp is created surrounded everything about 5 meters away from me, leaving only the solution to jump from there, but as if that thing was completely rational, 15 earth spears are thrown towards my direction with no other options, it created a rock wall to block.

"<Earth magic:earth wall> wait I'm fooled!"

*boom!*

As if my words were a signal, an explosion occurs behind my back, without much thought, using the now erected wall hit it with my feet and threw me towards the back area, only to see large pieces of green crystal flying through the air.

"Until you showed up, a hand wouldn't be bad here <Boost>.

Still flying in the air I see Nea throwing on himself <Bracing> while using the environment to avoid the king's irrational attacks, knowing he wasn't going to last long in close combat and feeling a new strength through the <Lifeline> skill I create from the ground long, but thin pillars to use as a jumping platform for each other.

"<absolute defense>"

*burst* *burst*.

Feeling the multiple clashes of earthen spears against my <absolute defense>, as upon seeing my approach the king attempted to slow my advance, I raised my sword above my head on the descent and released as much golden energy as I could, thus giving a final attack to this fight.

"He's rising again!"

"not on my watch!

<dark control:fangs of darkness> (-250mp).

After having split the terracotta king in half with my calculated descent, it attempts to reassemble causing me to yell at Nea to finish it, followed by this from the surrounding darkness, since the nearby crystals were totally destroyed a sort of monstrous mouth is created that completely rips the king apart.

"He's gone!

"It was hard... Well, I think challenging it alone with two people also helped the increased difficulty."

Noticing Nea's look as "don't ruin my victory" she brushed it aside as I approach the vicinity of the now unprotected pond.

It was beautiful, its crystal clear water and no impurities gave the feeling that it doesn't belong in such a place, and more so now that all the fighting had made the terrain like a war zone.

"Are you going to keep staring at it or are you going to scoop up the water?"

"I'm serious Nea, whatever it is why don't you go get whatever it is the king left behind."

As I was bending down to get a better view of the pond Andrey arrived, strange thing, since he is always the first one to try to get as much out of the creatures as possible, still I couldn't let him interrupt me in this delicate situation, so he sent him to do something he obviously loves.

"mehh, have you forgotten that all terracotta creatures always disappear".

"Well pick up the crystals, the king's Armor is made of silver, his crown was made of gold, come on where is your inner treasure hunter?"

The truth seems to me that I should not have said those words to him, it is as if I had opened a new world to him, his eyes got bigger, he began to clench his hands and his body began to tremble.

"Oh, well, this is not my problem."

Ignoring the completely crazy Nea, who even stuffed the smallest of crystals into his ring, he took out from the storage ring a few flasks, which were specially made for this task.