System Change

Chapter 320: Fight!

The Nether Wyrm beneath Silvi disappeared back into her storage ring, and she disappeared. Derek wasnt about to let her completely outshine him in such a fight, so he also used Silvis Active Void Shift and moved toward his own target.

Of course, Dereks opponent that was chosen for him ended up being the Crystal Basilisk. Avery would deal with the griffin, and Silvi had already dealt with the wyrm. She was now on her way to the Terra Stag. It wasnt hard to guess why she chose the stag as her next opponent. It did look like it would have the tastiest meat out of the bunch.

The Crystal Basilisk was a gigantic lizard-like beast with a body made from sparkling, razor-sharp crystals. Derek would put the beast at the highest threat level out of the bunch because of its hardened defense and what was probably a fantastic physical offensedepending on how the crystals were used.

When Derek reappeared above the Crystal Basilisk, it seemed that it was already ready for him. The quick death of the wyrm must have put the generals on high alert. As soon as he appeared, the light reflecting off the basilisks crystals formed into what seemed like a laser beam and blasted directly at him. Along with the laser, multiple crystals broke from it and began swirling around in the air.

Soon, the crystals stopped and directed all the light back at the ground. To Dereks surprise, multiple Crystal Basilisks appeared where the lights hit. While attacking, the basilisk had created multiple illusion copies of itself.

Derek held his arms up in a cross pattern and directly took the blow of the laser. He had yet to receive the gauntlet part of his armor, so he took the full brunt of the damage on his naked forearms. It was hot. The laser burned into his arms, and his skin darkened and steam flowed off, but other than some light second-degree burns that would heal as soon as the beam moved, it didnt do much.

With his arms still crossed, he focused on Harbinger, and the glaive appearedgrasped in his right hand. The three other copies of the basilisk begin firing their own lasers at Derek at that time. At first he was surprised that they were able to attack, but then he realized that even illusions could reflect and concentrate sunlight.

Unfortunately for the basilisk, he had begun pumping void energy into Harbinger as soon as he summoned it. When around a third of the maximum amount of energy he could channel into it was channeled, he kicked off the void with Void Steps.Reêad latest novels at wuxiahere.com

He changed his directions multiple times on his way down, avoid the beams of light, which were quite sluggish and couldnt keep up with a target moving at his speed, even if he wasnt the fastest person. With Harbinger gripped in both hands and a giant, near transparent image of the blade overlapping it, he swung down on the lizards golf cart sized head and activated Multi-Strike just before the blade hit.

The end of his blade landed directly on one of the crystals covering the basilisks forehead. When the blade hit, it bit into the crystal a small amount, then, the force of the Multi-Strike hit behind it, and the crystal protecting the basilisks head spider-webbed then shattered. Of course, that wasnt the true damage of Dereks strike.

The overlapping image of the projected void energy had continued on into the beasts head instead of stopping along with the weapon itself. It was Dereks first real time using everything in a setting where he could actually see things happen before his eyes. He didnt count the giant whale because of its massive size and the odd way he had to use Harbinger to deal with it.

With the Crystal Basilisk, he got to see everything happen close up. As the projected blade disappeared into the skull of the beast, the basilisk went still. Next, the beasts soccer ball-like eyes began to fill with a crimson hue. Then, the illusions of the basilisks surrounding the real one faded, causing the crystals that formed them to fall out of the air and plummet to the ground, shattering on impact after losing their magical hardness.

With one strike, Shae would pierce directly into the brain of a viper, putting it down for good, but the next strike, his spear would go straight through the head and he would have to do everything he could to dodge the incoming counterattack from the snake.

Also, Cain was raining down every basic element he could, but they all seemed to work just about as well as the other, and when the snake was in what Derek wanted to call its astral form, not even the elemental attacks could hit it.

On the bright side, the snakes didnt seem overwhelmingly strong in their attackswhich is what was keeping the two Guild Masters in the fight. The duo had fallen into a rhythm. Shae protected the glass cannon Elementalist from any snakes that came close, and the Elementalist chose whatever skill could do the most area damage to the highest number of snakes possible.

Derek did see a couple of snakes manage to get through Shaes attacks and bite him. In return, Shaes movement slowed, and he had to shake himself out of a daze before continuing on. It wasnt enough to cause major harm to them, but it did disrupt their rhythm. Derek planned on heading that way soon, but first, he wanted to see how well Avery and Lyra were doing.

They were doing fine? The griffin was nowhere to be found, but they were struggling with the mass amount of electric felines. Avery and Lyra both had the same problem in a fight that he and Silvi had well, Silvi and Derek used to have before she became able to emit massive amounts of flame. Derek was okay at group battles because of his Sweeping Slash, but they were still a weakness.

They were great in one-on-one situations, but neither had any real area of effect skills that worked on large groups of beasts. The reason Derek said that they were fine was because both the archer and his dragon had taken to the air and were pelting the Thunder Lynx with attacks. Each destructive arrow and each mind blast took out a single feline, but there were just a ton of them.

The duo dodged the lightning bolts shooting up from the ground at them easily enough, but they were slow in halting the charge of the beasts. The Thunder Lynx were the closest army to where Jasper and Tara were in the middle of the battlefield.

Before Derek made his decision on who to go help, Silvi appeared on his shoulder. With her back in the game, it wouldnt matter which way he went, she could go the other. Im going to go help Avery. You go

Get some octopus for some good seafood dishes? she asked.

No, you gowell it has been a while since Ive had Takoyaki. Go ahead. Just watch those snakes and Shae, and if it starts looking bad, Active Void Shift over and give them some help, Derek replied. He couldnt believe he was getting caught up in Silvis shenanigans, but after eating that dragon steak, he was all for some more delicious cooking.

Got it, Silvi said, then disappeared off his shoulder.

With that, and with all the army leaders out of commission, Derek and Silvi jumped back into the battle.