Chapter 77: Chapter 77 The last one

Opening spatial rifts was not easy for Sylas. He needed to focus and be extra cautious.

So many vines came straight at Sylas.

Several vines attacked Evin, forcing him to retreat, and he was overwhelmed by the vine attacks.

Major Kyle and the others were also trying their best to move forward, but they were obstructed by the vines.

Seeing the number of vines surrounding Sylas and attacking him, everyone felt their hearts race.

Sylas saw an overwhelming number of vines coming at him. But he couldn’t afford any distraction while opening the spatial rift.

’So many!’ Sylas tensed, but he still focused his space energy on the spatial rift.

The stem of the mutated plant shook when it felt the pulling force from the spatial rift.

The air around it distorted, and the surrounding vines were pulled toward it.

Ha!

Sylas let out a shout and pressed his palm forward.

Shua!

The stem shook violently, and the surrounding vines were immediately shredded into pieces.

The spatial rift slammed into the mutated plant, and the whole plant was uprooted and shredded into pieces.

The vines that were coming at Sylas immediately went limp and became lifeless.

From the stem of the mutated plant, a green crystal came out when it was shredded.

Sylas immediately waved his hand, and the energy stone disappeared. He sent it directly into his space.

The spatial rift sucked in all the nearby vines before closing.

Sylas couldn’t afford to maintain the spatial rift for long. His energy wouldn’t be able to sustain it for long.

“One down, two more to go,” Sylas thought as he immediately moved ahead again, sensing the other two mutated plants’ main bodies.

“There… found it,” Sylas said as he saw a plant growing from the cracks of the concrete on the side of the bridge.

Just then, a thick vine suddenly erupted from beneath the bridge railing. It was thicker than a human torso, and its pointed end was spinning like a drill as it shot straight toward Sylas’ chest.

’Too fast…,’ Sylas’ pupils contracted, and he sidestepped immediately.

Missing the target, the vine, like a serpent, immediately turned back and attacked Sylas again.

’Another main body of the mutated plant is beneath the bridge,’ Sylas thought as he sensed the main body of the thick vine.

Sylas raised the space barrier and at the same time sent out spatial blades, attacking the smaller vines.

Bang!

The thick vine slammed into Sylas’ space barrier. Sylas’ body shook from the impact.

So strong! Sylas thought as spatial blades started to circle around the space barrier. The vines around him were cleanly severed.

The thick vine continued to slam into the space barrier again and again.

Sylas formed a compressed spatial blade, and just when the vine slammed into the barrier, he immediately sent out the compressed spatial blade. The vine recoiled immediately, sensing the danger, but it still couldn’t dodge it completely.

The blade severed the vine in half. The remaining half recoiled violently, thrashing against the bridge before falling limp.

Sylas’ face paled instantly.

The mutated plant on the side of the road sensed the danger, and the stem began swelling grotesquely. Its bark started splitting slightly as energy gathered inside.

Fine cracks spread across the concrete near its roots.

If it unleashed a full-force attack, the bridge might not survive.

Sylas inhaled sharply.

’Not good, the bridge!’ Sylas thought when he saw the cracks.

He raised both hands, and the spatial blades formed around him. Then they converged. Layer upon layer compressed together.

Ten blades.

Twenty blades.

Thirty…

They fused into a single condensed crescent of distorted air, barely visible but radiating terrifying sharpness.

The surrounding space vibrated faintly.

This compressed spatial blade was stronger than any other compressed blade he had condensed before.

The mutated plant lashed out, and countless vines shot toward him simultaneously from every direction.

At the same moment, the swollen stem fired a massive spike straight at Sylas’ head.

Sylas swung his arm downward.

The compressed spatial crescent shot forward silently.

It met the incoming spike first. The spike was split in half instantly.

The spatial blade did not slow down. It cut through the defensive layers of vines as if they were paper, and it headed straight toward the main body.

Layer after layer shredded apart, and the spatial blade reached the stem. For a split second, it felt a little bit of resistance.

Then… with a slash, the thick main body was sliced diagonally.

Time seemed to pause, and a deep cracking sound echoed. The upper half of the stem slowly slid off, and all the vines on the bridge froze mid-motion.

Then, like puppets with their strings cut, they collapsed.

The massive main body of the mutated plant toppled sideways, slamming against the railing before falling partly over the bridge’s edge.

Sylas saw a green energy stone roll down from the stem as the mutated plant fell down lifeless.

Sylas stood still, breathing heavily.

The space energy around him flickered weakly before fading.

One down.

But he could still sense one more beneath the bridge.

And his energy was running dangerously low.

Evin, who was entangled with an overwhelming number of vines, immediately saw half of the vines fall down lifelessly.

The vines that were attacking Major Kyle and the others immediately lessened. Many vines attacking them went limp and lifeless as soon as Sylas cut down the main body of the mutated plant.

Only a few vines remained that belonged to the last mutated plant.

“Quick, Sylas is out of energy,” Major Kyle said when he saw Sylas take down the mutated plant.

They hurriedly started dealing with the remaining vines.

Vines writhed around Sylas, and one of the vines shot toward the energy stone belonging to the mutated plant that had fallen on the bridge.

Sylas immediately waved his hand and cut down the vine. With great speed, he ran toward it and picked up the energy stone, his breathing ragged.

He stored the energy stone in his pocket. His space had already consumed one of the energy stones, and he had already prepared an excuse for it. He could say that the energy stone got consumed by the spatial rift. But for this one, he didn’t plan to absorb it. Otherwise, the people around him would be suspicious.

Vines surged again as more and more started to surge out from beneath the bridge. They began to surround Sylas again.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

Ice blades shot out from behind Sylas. Evin, who had finally finished dealing with the vines, ran toward Sylas as ice blades shot out from his hand.

Sylas felt a warm sensation and felt his energy recover slowly. The energy stone of the mutated plant he had consumed earlier seemed to have been completely absorbed by his space.

Major Kyle and the group also finally made it to where Sylas was.

“Sylas, are you okay?” Major Kyle asked as he raised his hand and burned down the vines attacking him.

Sylas nodded and said, “The main body of the last mutated plant is beneath the bridge. It will be tricky to deal with this one.”

Vines surged out from beneath the bridge, surrounding them.

“What should we do?” Dylan asked with a frown.

“Sylas, if you are tired, stay back and try to recover your energy. We will try to deal with this,” Shuan said.

Sylas shook his head and said, “It’s alright, I can still hold on.”

His energy was restoring, so he didn’t feel the need to rest.

Whoosh!

Fire burst out from Major Kyle, consuming the vines.

“As long as we don’t deal with the main body, these vines will continue to come back,” Serena said.

“How are we going to deal with it? It’s beneath the bridge. We can’t fly and go under the bridge to deal with it,” Shuan said.

Sylas immediately thought of something and turned to Serena.

“I will go, and Serena will assist me. Evin, you are responsible for dealing with all the attacks that come near me. Two water ability users will assist Evin just in case. Shuan, in case something goes wrong with the bridge, you are responsible for repairing it. Major, you will overlook the overall situation,” Sylas said as he waved his hand, sending spatial blades out and cutting down the vines.

“But how are you going to do it? And what about me?” Dylan asked.

“Serena’s plant ability is useful here. I will go down the bridge with the help of Serena’s vine. You will assist Serena,” Sylas said.

Sylas planned to use Serena’s vine to go down the bridge, then deal with the mutated plant’s main body while hanging from the vine. Since he would be focused on dealing with the mutated plant, he would need Evin and the others to cover him from vine attacks. His plan was not flawless and was risky, but this was the only way he could think of for now.

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