Chapter 1650 Reliable
High in the skies, his Birthed Phenomena roared to life, shaking the already trembling skies. nove(l)bi(n.)com
He concentrated Dragon's Claw into a single downward motion.
The world shook as space bowed to his whims.
PCHU!
Enrika's head was torn clean through, her eyes only snapping open at the last minute to show her horror. She had been planning all sorts of nasty things for the moment her life finally wasn't in danger anymore, only for this to happen.
She couldn't believe that Ryu actually dared to kill her.
Her throat was caught before she fell to the ground, her gaze vacant. But Ryu's eyes couldn't help but narrow.
He had sensed something just now.
Reaching down, he ripped the pouch on the woman's side away and found that there were hundreds of beasts within.
Of course, most of these beasts were just small fry, a large number of them only being at the Fragmented Sky God Realm. Clearly, Enrika had been sacrificing the lessers because she didn't want to use her more valuable beasts, and that had made her suffer dearly in the end.
Because so much of her soul was diverted to sacrificing her beasts, she could only control one beast at a time and had probably already given up on controlling the beasts fighting Elena.
To make matters worse, because she was only absorbing the weaker beasts as a healing sacrifice, it was taking her longer than it otherwise would have, making her outcome all the more set in stone.
But this wasn't what Ryu had sensed.
He realized that Selheira's father had greatly improved his Golden Moon World. It was just as large as it was on the Sixth Heaven and no longer shrunk down, or else Ryu realized it might have collapsed the moment he stepped onto the Ninth Heaven.
A smile spread across Ryu's lips as he took a step and vanished.
When he appeared again, he found a delicate beauty with a slight frame, taking long, heaving breaths. She stood over three corpses, her fingers dripping with blood and her gaze somewhat absent.
Elena had been waiting for those hidden in the shadows to attack, which was why she had tried to drag out the fight. But in the end, she was being injured so severely that she had no choice but to take that step and brace herself for whatever might come.
But to her astonishment, no one came at all. She could only wonder what happened...
Until she smelled a familiar scent.
Before she felt it in her soul, or before she even saw him, she smelled that scent first...
Ryu didn't know, but the only reason she had started paying attention to him in the first place was because she really liked how he smelled.
It was so calm and earthy, reminding her of cinnamon spice and hints of citrus and pine. It was the sort of masculine scent she could lose herself in for years, never becoming bored of it.
Her gaze turned misty as she slowly looked up.
"... Hubby?" Her voice cracked.
Ryu swept her waist into his arms and hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry I left you alone for so long," Ryu said softly.
The tears Elena had been trying to hold back fell like a flood as she held onto Ryu even more tightly.
Even when he had been a frail man she could knock over with a finger, he had always felt so reliable to her. And now... all those feelings had come flooding back.