Chapter 2924: The Unlikely Trio
Chapter 2924: The Unlikely Trio
Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City
"Then why did most of the card apprentices I fought in the past try to throw me into the void?"
Petra looked at me in confusion. Judging by her expression, she had experienced the void firsthand as well. The memory clearly wasn’t a pleasant one. In fact, she looked like someone who would rather die than be cast into that endless darkness a second time.
"I don’t know. You should’ve asked them back then," I replied with a shrug.
At that moment, my Soul Pupils detected a familiar energy fluctuation high above us: Water rule power. A tremendous amount of it.
"I did. They said it was because they knew we were weakest in the void—" Petra replied absentmindedly. Then she abruptly stopped. Like me, she had sensed it too. A powerful water rule aura was rapidly descending from the sky.
Both of us looked upward. Far above the clouds, a colossal droplet of water was hurtling through the atmosphere. It resembled a giant blue asteroid falling from space.
The immense mass distorted the surrounding air, taking the shape of a rain drop, leaving behind a long trail of white vapor and thunderous shockwaves. Flames from atmospheric friction danced across its surface, only to be instantly extinguished by the overwhelming water rule power contained within.
The entire sky trembled with its descent. As it grew larger and larger, Petra’s expression became increasingly complicated.
"You said she wouldn’t be back," I couldn’t help but point out.
The colossal water droplet descending from the heavens was unmistakably Aqualas. More importantly, she had returned exactly as I predicted she would. And judging by the violent fluctuations of water rule power pouring from her, she was far more pissed than before.
"That’s not possible, unless..." Petra muttered, her expression turning serious.
"Unless what?"
"Someone’s helping her."
I narrowed my eyes and looked closer.
At first, the gigantic mass of water dominated the sky so completely that it was impossible to notice anything else. However, once Petra pointed it out, I immediately spotted them.
Two figures were trailing behind the enormous water droplet as it tore through the atmosphere.
They flew in its wake, deliberately positioning themselves behind the massive body as if using it to conceal their presence in the long trail of white vapor behind it. The turbulent currents of water rule power and the violent atmospheric disturbances generated by Aqualas’s descent masked their auras almost perfectly.
Petra’s expression darkened.
"The celestial force of the Card World shouldn’t have brought her back this quickly," she said. "Even for a Supreme Being as powerful as Aqualas, drifting in the void for a good while is unavoidable. That’s why everyone fears being thrown there. Clearly, those two probably found her in the void and guided her back."
"Well, color me surprised," I remarked, genuinely astonished.
One of the two figures following Aqualas turned out to be Seraphina. However, my surprise wasn’t directed at her or the unexpected alliance. It was the burly man flying beside her. His identity was just as shocking as the company he kept.
He was a pure-blooded Viltronian, or a Demihuman as the people of this world called his race.
Thanks to my Soul Pupils, I could tell his bloodline was purer than Jaya’s. His body radiated with overwhelming vitality and physical power. He possessed the unmistakable aura of a peak Noble-Class Viltronian, perhaps even one who was nearing the Semi-Ruler-Class.
Considering the terrifying potential of the Viltronian bloodline, I wasn’t surprised he had managed to break through the Card World’s underdeveloped power system. What truly surprised me was everything else.
A Supreme Being, a card apprentice, and a Viltronian. The three races had a long and bloody history with one another. Distrust and hatred between them were practically written with their blood. Yet somehow these three had formed a team.
I wonder if it was a temporary alliance born of necessity or a genuine team.
From the looks of it, Seraphina and the Viltronian weren’t merely accompanying Aqualas. The way they flew in formation, maintaining positions around her while escorting her back from the void, suggested a level of trust that shouldn’t have existed.
The more I looked at them, the stranger the picture became. What kind of circumstance had brought these three from races with a bloody history to stand on the same side?
"Protect the city. I’ll deal with this," I ordered my forces, before accelerating toward the sky.
The colossal water droplet that was Aqualas continued descending toward the planet like a falling miniature moon. If someone didn’t intercept her soon, the city below would suffer catastrophic damage regardless of who won the upcoming battle.
"You don’t get to order me around. I’m not your employee," Petra snapped as she caught up with me almost instantly and flew alongside me.
Clearly, she had misunderstood. I would never trust the protection of a blade of grass to Petra, let alone an entire city.
"If you don’t have a plan, stay behind me," I ordered.
Predictably, Petra looked ready to argue, but before she could open her mouth, my attention returned to the colossal droplet plummeting toward the city.
I immediately activated the elasticity meaning of my Space Rule. The space directly along Aqualas’s trajectory began to stretch endlessly, transforming into an invisible corridor of distorted spacetime.
To outside observers, nothing seemed different. However, the moment that colossal droplet entered the distorted region, it would experience the same phenomenon that had occurred within my Double Celestial Rule Domain.
The farther it traveled, the more space would continuously unfold before it. Momentum, speed, and mass would become meaningless as the distance ahead expanded faster than it could cross. And if Aqualas stubbornly tried to force her way through... the distorted spacetime would eventually become unstable enough to tear open another rift into the void.
As expected, Aqualas immediately sensed the danger. The enormous droplet abruptly changed direction, and so did I. The stretched space shifted to intercept her new path. For several seconds, an absurd scene unfolded across the sky.
Aqualas repeatedly altered her trajectory while I continuously repositioned the distorted spacetime ahead of her. The gigantic droplet zigzagged through the heavens like a cornered beast while invisible walls of stretched space appeared wherever she attempted to go.
The city below remained untouched. Eventually, Aqualas realized she wasn’t getting anywhere. The colossal droplet suddenly compressed inward. Billions of tons of water collapsed into themselves before rapidly shrinking. The bloodstorm clouds and the torrential rain continued as usual.
A moment later, Aqualas emerged from the shrinking mass in her humanoid form and came to a halt in midair. Her beautiful face was twisted with rage. The memory of drifting helplessly through the void was evidently still fresh.
She pointed at me furiously and shouted, "Don’t you know any other moves besides tearing open rifts to the void?"