Chapter 2592: Black Smoke
Chapter 2592: Black Smoke
Parth held his bow a bit tighter, but there was not even a change of expression. He just waited for them to attack.
The formation gave out a black glow. The whole dome is filled with that black smokey energy.
Parth felt his senses go dull and that shocked him.
He couldn’t even believe that Sam managed to design such a thing. He is a Demi-God. If he isn’t one, no other living or dead creature could claim to be one. And someone like Sam, who is infinitely weaker than Parth, created something that could dull the senses of a Demi god.
Parth was already warned about this of course.
However, to Sam’s surprise and intrigue, Parth didn’t specially prepare for this. He just got ready like he usually does and now he is thrilled.
He let the smoke surround him, he let it creep into him.
He lost one sense after the other. Starting from the sense of touch. He couldn’t even feel the bow in his hands.
Then it was the hearing and then the smell.
He felt a disgusting rotten metallic taste invade his tongue. Even though the mouth was closed before the formation was fully activated.
Finally, he felt even his divine sense diminishing. Unlike the rest of the senses, it didn’t completely disappear. Rather it felt like a dark cloud was obstructing it, leaving a lot of blur and confusion. In fact, it felt like the current state of the divine sense would be causing a lot more trouble than not having divine sense at all.
Parth wanted to puke.
The energy surrounding him is disgusting in more ways than one.
He tried shielding himself with his own spiritual energy. It is fine when it was just on his skin, but whatever he is emitting, once its leaving his skin, the spiritual energy is being devoured by the black smoke
Even the spiritual energy that was already inside the dome before, was all devoured there was nothing left.
And the more energy it sucked in, the denser the black colored energy became.
Along with the disgust, Parth suddenly felt a sense of admiration and even a bit of pride. Because Sam made this.
He wondered how this even works... he was going to make sure Sam gives him a good lecture on this so that he can learn all about it...
But first, he had to dodge a spear that was coming at him.
It almost brushed past his cheek. That blurry divine sense was indeed a real threat to him now.
Parth kicked the ground and jumped as high and far as he could. However, even his movement in the air felt extremely slow and lethargic.
Then the blurry vision gave another warning.
Something from behind.
This time, the spear did brush past him. A small scrape on the neck, let him bleed a little bit. But he moved quick enough to avoid a fatal blow.
Then he crashed into the ground.
However, even Parth didn’t know that he was actually crashing into the ground, at least he cannot confirm it. Because all he could confirm is that he stopped moving.
And even that was because movement in this environment made him more nauseous.
Parth took a deep breath and made a decision.
He started running.
*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*
He didn’t care for the direction... he just ran. Not even one tenth of the second and he already hit the barrier dome. When he did, he raised up and kicked the dome barrier, at least that’s what he thought he did and shot himself into the opposite direction, running once again.
When he hit an obstruction there, he did the same.
He ran like a crazy mad man.
And every step of his was induced with his divine energy, aiming to break everything. However, the formation was still intact.
No matter what he did, it didn’t break. The nodes were sturdy. However, there was only one thing Parth wanted to achieve through this. Or maybe two things.
One is to make sure that he wouldn’t get caught by the attacks.
Second one is to gain some time to think of a solution.
His movements are completely random. He is not choosing any direction or following a pattern. He is just running as randomly as possible.
Meanwhile, Shin who was doing the spear attacks stood in the spot. In this formation of course, he and Myrmon could see things. Not exactly with no effect. Instead, both of them were wearing glasses that were connected to the formation. It allowed them to notice Parth’s presence and movement.
And also a token attached to their bodies, ensured that their spiritual energy and divine energy are not under constant suction by the formation.
There is still some resistance, but not as much as it was for Parth.
Shin looked at Parth and cursed under his breath. Parth’s speed is out of his reach. He can’t even time him properly because Parth’s random movement too was out of his prediction.
Still, he threw a couple of spears to intercept Parth, but he couldn’t do shit no matter how much he tried. Spears became a waste.
"Myrmon, we need to execute the next step there is no other way. Parth is faster than we estimated."
"Of course, he is. Alright, I am activating the second phase."
And the moment he said that, the formation glowed even brighter and hundreds of weird faces appeared in the black smoke.
All those faces were facing Parth and moved along with him, with his every move.
Parth who was running and not feeling anything, suddenly felt something. A numbing pain in his mind.
"Soul attack?" He said it out, but he couldn’t even hear that, so his mind was confused whether he said it or not.
As he was being dragged and spiralled through it, all of a sudden, his felt a pull into his soul. His vision or rather his senses that were struggling to get what’s happening around him, were forced to focus on something internal.
In the empty space of his sea of consciousness.