The First Store System

Chapter 1552: Ancient Glorious City(23)

Combining one-fifth of the stone seemed to have broken some limit as pressure erupted out of nowhere.

Aakesh was knocked backward, and the stone forcefully left his grip. Aakesh stabilized himself and pounced forward, grabbing the stone fragment once again.

An intense pressure weighing several universes at once attacked Aakesh, sinking him deep down the road.

Aakesh gritted his teeth and persisted, and finally, a minute later, things returned to calm. Several of his veins had ruptured, which resulted in him getting covered in blood.

His strong physique immediately worked, and the ruptured veins began to recover while the blood around him vaporized. A few minutes later, Aakesh had fully recovered, ready to proceed forward.

Even though he was getting stone fragments after defeating the creatures, he still searched one building after another since he didn't want to leave the challenge up to fate.

A few minutes later, Aakesh entered a three-story building.

Whoosh!

The moment he stepped foot inside, a chilly wind attacked him. He immediately stepped backward, and the chilly wind disappeared as if it were Aakesh's illusion.

Aakesh activated the defense skill and walked inside.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The shield around Aakesh began to crack, unable to handle the power of the chilly wind. Aakesh immediately enforced the ability with several new barriers. It kept getting destroyed, and Aakesh would keep restoring them.

Since it was the first time he was facing anything like that in the city, Aakesh knew the building was different. The shield around him kept cracking and restoring, while he looked around trying to find the stone.

Suddenly, an explosion rang as the spirits reached Aakesh. The tree wasn't sentient and it could only attack with the help of the spirit, so Aakesh decided to employ the help of the spirit and successfully baited them to himself.

The immunity characteristic of the skill was a huge help to Aakesh since the spirits didn't expect Aakesh to attack like that.

Screech! Cry!

Several mental attacks rang at once, thinking that Aakesh wanted to kill himself so that he wouldn't become a spirit. They weren't afraid of dying since as long as that tree was there, they would get reborn an unlimited number of times.

The attack wasn't destructive enough to kill all of them at once. Many of them survived, but the injuries they received were severe.

Before getting reborn, they wanted to kill Aakesh, only to see Aakesh rushing toward them with the sword. He was unscathed from the blast.

In less than a moment, Aakesh had cut off the survivor spirits, leaving only one alive. But with another attack, it also died.

Aakesh then stared at the tree. He was aware of the tree's spirit-spawning ability, but he already had a plan in his mind.

He rushed to the tree, and three of the twenty spirits had already respawned. Before they could think of attacking, the stone fragment appeared in Aakesh's hand. He then threw it at the tree.

An intense pressure suddenly erupted, and cracks started emerging on the tree's body. It survived an onslaught over the minute, but in that time, it was unable to spawn any spirits, and the three survivor spirits were already killed by Aakesh.

The fragment failed to destroy the tree, but it created more than enough opportunity for Aakesh's victory.

A beam of black light gathered around the tip of his right index finger, and he released it, aiming at the gap formed by the fragment.

Boom!

In less than a moment, Aakesh had bombarded every gap with a beam of [Apocalyptic Blast]. The tree survived due to its strong defense and vitality, but Aakesh had already prepared for it.

Aakesh took back all the energy required to maintain the shield barrier and put more than two-thirds of his remaining energy reserves into the attack.