Chapter 55 - C55 Clash 3

The man's expression went grim as he saw Thomas and Drew do a set of hand seals. He could feel the divine energy within the divine mark, gushing out.

Moreover, the divine energy was denser this time.

The man was confused, he was sure that Allen was still clashing with the demonic cloud. He did not understand why Allen could spare divine energy for his followers.

In that very brief moment, the man thought of a reason and after a while, his face paled as he thought that Allen might be strong and was simply pretending to be a pig that devours the tiger.

The man cursed inwardly. Then, he started preparing to defend. But in the next moment, Thomas and Drew finished their hand seals, which made the man unable to complete his preparation for defense.

Then, all of a sudden, the man felt a profound feeling. He felt a seemingly invisible wave hit him. But, strangely enough, it did not seem to affect him. He was confused whether their attack was a failure or it was simply too weak.

Then, using his very own ability, the man waved his hand and exuded a deep chill that almost froze the entire hovercraft.

But before that could happen, Thomas used his ability as he and Drew sank in their shadows. The man's reaction might be fast but Thomas had prepared ahead of time.

The man almost froze everything, but he failed to freeze Thomas and Drew.

"Fuck!"

He cursed inwardly. The subordinate of the general did not dare blink as he, too, was on full alert. The man was unsure if Thomas and Drew were still on the hovercraft or if they already left. But the latter did not seem to be the case because the hovercraft is at a high altitude.

He was sure that their 'teleportation' would not be able to reach the ground. Thus, escape was not an option or else, they would fall and die.

With that speculation, the man continued to look for their traces. For some reason, he could tell that he was being watched but he could not pinpoint the exact location of the source.

But unbeknownst to him, Thomas and Drew were already preparing for their next attack. They did not intend to give up as they had made up their mind that they would kill the man.

Thomas' ability is really convenient at this time. It's only weakness is that Thomas needs to be on constant alert mode, ready to thread to the other shadows. Because if the shadow they were in disappeared, they will disappear along with it.

Thomas paid full attention to the man. And on the next moment,

*phft*

The Life Pulse silently traversed the air in the man's direction swiftly and silently.

The Life Pulse did not leave any traces for detection and most of all, even if it did, he would not have time to evade it. Not unless his ability is related to speed.

Although the man was hit, for the second time, he did not feel anything because there is a wide gap in their strength. Although Thomas' attack is amplified by the divine mark, the amplification was negated by the demonic energy.

*phft*

The second Life Pulse...

*phft*

Third…

*phft*

But on the fourth time, the man already felt it. For some reason, he seemed to be dizzy. Thus, he lifted his hand to massage his whirling head.

Meanwhile, Thomas and Drew who were waiting for this very moment came out of the shadowy space and attacked the man from the back.

At the same time, the divine marks in them also burst their divine energy and cleared all the demonic energies emanating from the man. This short burst cost most of its stored divine energy and only left a few strands.

*PHFFFT*

This Life Pulse did not have anything special. It was not even amplified by the divine mark. Rather, it was bare like a normal one. But despite that, the damage it inflicted, along with the other damage that was stacked made the man feel weak as his life energies began to scatter. He was confused for he did not understand how they inflicted damage to him.

Then, the man noticed two figures rose from the shadows of the side windows of the hovercraft. He stared at them for a while. Then, he spoke.

"You, what did you…"

*rumble*

Before he could even finish what he was saying, he was interrupted by the rumbling sound of the hovercraft as it started descending for some reason.

Unbeknownst to them, the demonic energy and the divine energy pressured the pilot to death because the man only has the strength of a captain while the demonic energy and the divine energy are beyond his level and were even, perhaps, higher than the general's.

The pilot became unconscious and aside from that, the chaotic characteristics of the demonic energy ignited chaos in the advanced chipset of the hovercraft. The code of its program jumbled and caused an error in its operating system.

*BOOM*

Then, the flight engine of the hovercraft that was working at a very high intensity exploded as it overheated because the heat sink, which was controlled by the operating system, stopped working.

Meanwhile, Thomas and Drew canceled all their plans. Thomas used his ability to escape before it was too late.

They entered the shadows. Then, Thomas used his remaining spiritual energy and connected to the shadow of the hovercraft below it.

(A/N: this shadow is akin to the dark side of the earth. The side that was not facing the sun.)

Then, he waited for a moment for the plane to descend at an altitude where he could connect to the shadows of the object on the surface of the earth.

Meanwhile, Drew kept praying as this was the only help he could offer. His ability is useless in this setting, or rather, he is yet to understand more of his ability.

Meanwhile, a few minutes backward, Allen kept shooting his divine energy towards the demonic cloud.

This was going on for a while now and his divine energy is about to be depleted but the demonic cloud is yet to subside.

Allen took a deep breath as he no longer had a choice. He connected to his shrine and commanded it to send him all of the divine energies that it collected.

For some reason, the shrine did not connect to him when he was disconnected from the aura of the world full of life.

He was unsure if it was only natural or perhaps the shrine was too weak and still did not have this feature.

His link towards the shrine cost him additional divine energy. But unlike normal times, Allen did not think much of it.. It did not matter if he used all his divine energy, what matters is that he would not be sent back to his divine slumber.