Chapter 281: Amortal's Power

Under the watchful pair of eyes, it plopped down!

"The true extent of the power that I have received is not defined. It takes you where your imagination lies

Most importantly, this power allows me to bypass the entrance of the dimension!"

The resolve of Lee was shaken as his eyes went wide in awe. A sense of horror crept up on his face as he knew what she meant.

[Impossible! She cannot defy the supremacy of the Will of the Dimension!

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Or, can she?]

The System Space became chaotic as Hudson found the frightening potential of this power.

The only thing that made Tubians refrain from mass-murdering was the deportation of the soul by the Will of the Dimension. But what Tanya revealed so casually reminded him that the clock will strike midnight at any given moment.

As his mind repeated foresaw danger at each probability, Lee Shen kept the mental fluctuations insulated inside his mind. Thus, his face was blank of any emotions.

"This application is my favourite among all. Watch this."

As Tanya spoke these words, the hybrid animal began to disintegrate. It was more like a controlled disintegration where its anatomy was disclosed layer by layer.

Within a minute, the animal's body was stripped off of its bones and flesh. Its hideously modified skeleton soon sublimated into thin air.

[Lee, I am afraid that this power, unknown to her at the moment, is Molecular Manipulation.]

'It could even extend to Sub-atomic Manipulation.'

[Complete annihilation in silence. Nothing was left of it.]

When the trio shared their opinions, Tanya showed her empty palm to Lee Shen. It was to prove that there is nothing left of that tiny abomination.

Lee Shen began to contemplate as his fingers were crossed in front of him.

'Forgotten Trinity, Prime Glyphs, Amortals, Tubians and an assigned task.

It seems like the Amortals are in a hurry.'

[Why would they be in a hurry? They have lived for aeons, and yet have not displayed this kind of behaviour any time before.]

[Maybe it is related to you, D. The Amortals have already sensed your return to home dimension and it might be the reason.]

[But this Tubian did say that they have been doing this for centuries.]

[Ah, I forgot that part.]

'Leave the reason for now. If it is related to Amortals, then it is bad. Severely bad.'

When Lee Shen held a conversation with D and Hudson, Tanya was growing impatient. But she did not rush things as she considered a possibility of him giving in.

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11 PM.

5,977,500 Essence harvested.

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'I think we will compromise the integrity of the System Storage.'

[Correct. She can also destroy the System Space like crumbling a piece of paper.]

[There is also a spatial lock on this space. So you cannot use teleportation.]

'Then we have no other way than to kill her.'

[But you will have to lower her guard to do so.]

Lee raised his eyes and met Tanya's gaze. Unlike her expectations, his face was calm and his mind serene.

"Before you kill me, I need to meditate."

Lee Shen stood up and looked Tanya directly in her eyes as he spoke. She saw his unwavering resolve to accept death bravely and thus let him take his time to meditate.

Turning around, Lee saw a relatively flat rock protruding from the seabed. It was at the height of his knee and was perfect for him. The brownish-black hue on the surface of the large rock was one among the many common colour schemes found underwater.

'Spread the Essence around me.'

Upon Lee's command, the Essence began to leak out of his body and enveloped him. Tanya quickly felt the emergence of this delicious ambience and strode towards Lee. As she got closer, Lee, through the Map, saw her unconsciously licking her lips.

[Eww...a truly horrible woman.]

Apart from the curvaceous physique and plentiful assets, her face was like any average demonfolk. If she was to grow a tail, she would have been more beautiful.

'She is near, eh?'

Lee Shen could sense the approaching presence of Tanya. Simultaneously, he felt a sinkhole through which the stagnant Essence escaped and disappeared.

'Hudson, notify me when her guard is down.'

[Okay.]

In every manner, death was standing at his doorstep. In stats and powers, Tanya overshadowed him. She knew information that even Dimension Sovereign was a stranger to!

Every decision to forcefully escape her grasp was debunked as D was well aware of the unknown extents of an Amortal's power. The power she so casually used was the same power that Amortals used to create the 999 dimensions in the first place!

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7 minutes had passed when Lee Shen peek opened his right eye. In front of him stood the alluring figure of a demon, and her eyes were closed. Her hands were resting on her sides and were relaxed. She had a faint smile on her face as she savoured and absorbed every bit of the leaking Essence.

'How about now?'

[Wait a little bit more. She seems to be at the verge of falling into a trance.]

'At this point, I am not daring to ask anything about her.

So just let me know when the time is right.'

Closing his eyelids, Lee Shen could see the Foresight interface which was activated unconditionally. In it, the remaining amount of Essence, Mana and Qi could be seen.

He silently condensed 30 million Essence inside his palms and the spheres were compressed and they almost materialised as a tangible object. Inside the cloud of Essence that surrounded them, this particular development had gone unnoticed.

All that Lee Shen wanted right now was the permission to proceed.

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3 minutes later.

[NOW!!]

D shouted at the top of his lungs and Lee circulated his body with both Mana and Qi. The two counteracting energies enhanced Lee Shen's body and his agility skyrocketed and almost rivalled that of Tanya. At the same time, Mana and Qi repelled each other and produced an explosive fluctuation in the atmosphere.