Chapter 82: Chapter 82 Sound Ability

Splurt!

The green liquid was like an acid. It sizzled as it cut across branches and leaves.

Sylas’ pupils shrank. Space energy surged out, and a space barrier formed in front of him.

Sizzle!

The green venom struck the space barrier. Instead of splashing outward, the liquid flattened as if hitting an invisible wall. The air crackled violently. Thin ripples spread across the barrier’s surface.

Sylas’ expression changed slightly.

The venom was corroding his space.

Where the green liquid touched, faint black scorch marks appeared in midair, and the barrier began to tremble.

’It’s corrosive… and it can affect space itself,’ Sylas thought.

He immediately stepped aside.

Bang!

The barrier collapsed a split second later, and the remaining venom sprayed past him, splattering onto a massive tree trunk behind him.

Sizzz….

The tree melted at a visible speed. Its bark dissolved in no time, and the wood turned black. Within seconds, a hole the size of a basin had been eaten through the trunk.

The giant python’s vertical pupils narrowed, and it hissed at Sylas.

Hiss!

It spat again. This time, it sent out three streams of venom.

Sylas immediately dodged the venom attack.

Shua!

His figure reappeared several meters to the left. The venom streams crashed into the ground where he had stood, instantly corroding soil and roots. Acrid smoke rose into the air, and the forest floor began to melt.

Sylas did not retreat further. Instead, he raised his hand. Compressed blades condensed in front of him in no time, and he flicked his fingers forward. Compressed spatial blades shot out, aiming straight at the snake.

The python’s body coiled with astonishing speed. Its massive body twisted as it avoided the compressed spatial blades. But it couldn’t dodge all the blades. Several blades struck its scales.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Most of the blades shattered upon impact. But two blades slipped between overlapping scales and carved shallow cuts into the silver body. Dark green blood dripped down.

The python shrieked.

HISSSSS!

Its body slammed into the ground.

Boom!

The ground trembled from the impact, and dust and broken branches exploded into the air. Before the debris even settled, the python lunged at Sylas with its enormous jaws opened wide.

Sylas did not dodge this time. He extended both hands and erected a space barrier in front of him.

The python’s head smashed into the space barrier. A muffled, heavy sound echoed. It was as though the snake had hit a wall of invisible steel. But the python was far stronger than the previous snakes. Its horns glowed faintly, and energy surged from its body.

Sylas’ brows furrowed as he observed the snake.

The python roared and pushed forward.

Crack! Crack!

Fine fissures spread across the space barrier. Sylas’ eyes turned cold. He twisted his wrist sharply. Like grinding gears, the space in front of him began to spin violently, forming a spatial distortion.

The python’s head was caught inside the rotating spatial distortion.

Screeeeeech!

Its scales scraped against twisted space. Blood splattered outward as invisible forces cut into its flesh from all directions. The python roared in fury, and its massive tail lashed from the side. Sylas sensed the attack an instant before impact, and he immediately dodged it.

Shua!

The tail smashed into the rotating space field.

Boom!

The unstable distortion collapsed in a violent explosion. Shockwaves tore through the surrounding trees, snapping trunks like fragile sticks.

Sylas reappeared atop a thick branch several dozen meters away.

He exhaled slowly.

The python’s head was bleeding now. One eye had a shallow cut across it. But the injury only made it more violent.

So strong…

Sylas’ expression grew serious.

The snake coiled tightly, its horns shining brighter. Energy gathered along its spine. Suddenly, its body shot forward straight toward him like a silver missile.

The distance between them vanished in an instant.

Sylas barely had time to react.

He raised both hands and condensed multiple space barriers in front of him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The python smashed through the first layer. Then the second… third… Each layer slowed it, but not enough.

Crack!

The fourth barrier shattered as well.

The python’s horned head burst through, jaws wide open.

Sylas’ figure blurred as he dodged with the fastest speed possible.

The python’s fangs snapped shut in empty air.

Boom!

Its body crashed into the tree Sylas had been standing on. The tree disintegrated instantly, and wood fragments rained down. Before the python could twist again, Sylas extended one finger toward its exposed neck.

A thin but strong compressed spatial blade surged out, aimed straight at the snake’s neck.

Snap!

A thin, invisible line appeared across the snake’s neck. Green blood sprayed out violently. The python recoiled with a howl of pain. But instead of retreating, it grew more ferocious. It opened its mouth again, and a deafening hiss burst forth from it.

The sound waves were visible. They distorted the air like ripples on water.

Sylas’ body trembled slightly.

The hiss carried a strange vibrational force that interfered with his control over space.

His space energy became unstable.

’Sound-type mutation…?’

The python’s hiss intensified, and the leaves around them shredded into dust and branches cracked. Sylas felt a sharp pain in his ears. He clenched his jaw, and the space around him began fluctuating erratically.

The python seized the moment.

Its tail swept forward in a wide arc.

Sylas reacted instantly and dodged, but because of the sound wave attack, he stumbled slightly.

Bang!

The tail struck him across the side. His body shot through the air like a cannonball.

Crash!

He smashed into a tree trunk before finally stopping.

Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. Sylas pushed himself up slowly.

His ribs ached.

The python advanced toward him, sensing his weakened state. Sylas wiped the blood from his lips. His eyes grew colder.

Judging from the sound attack earlier, Sylas felt that its sound wave attack wasn’t that lethal.

He placed one hand against the ground. Earth energy expanded outward like an invisible tide.

The python lunged again.

Right as it entered within ten meters of Sylas, the ground beneath it suddenly became loose like sand, and it fell into a pit.

The python suddenly dropped several meters into the sinkhole.

Its body twisted violently midair. Before it could regain balance, several stone spikes attacked it from all sides.

Boom!

The python crashed into the earth pit.

The space in that pit shrank rapidly as earth energy surged out from Sylas. Crushing force pressed against the python from every direction. The python howled in fury.

Its horns glowed intensely.

Crack!

Green energy burst out from its body, forming a protective layer around its scales.

Sylas felt enormous resistance pushing against his earth energy. Veins bulged faintly on his forehead. With a roar, the python forced its body upward.

Boom!

The earth blew up as it burst out from the ground, covered in dirt and blood. One of its horns was now broken halfway. Several scales had been crushed inward. But it was still alive and even more enraged.

The python lifted its head toward the sky and roared. The air trembled, and Sylas’ pupils contracted.

Sound wave attack!

Without hesitation, Sylas raised both hands and erected a barrier around him to shield against the sound wave attack.

Along with the sound wave attack, the python shot out streams of green venomous liquid at Sylas.

Sylas’ space barrier shuddered under the multiple attacks.

Sylas immediately sent out compressed blades far stronger than before and sent them toward the python.

The python hissed, and its body nimbly avoided the blades, but Sylas kept sending out spatial blades. At the same time, he stomped his foot, and earth energy surged out, and several sharp stones burst out from beneath the snake.

The python was overwhelmed with the attacks, and soon, multiple deep cuts appeared on its body.

Green blood splashed everywhere. The python shrieked and spat venom wildly in all directions. Wherever it touched, a sizzling sound could be heard.

The python hissed, and suddenly, it lowered its body and shot directly toward Sylas again. It was coming at Sylas with strong force. Sensing the danger, Sylas immediately reinforced his space barrier, making it far stronger than before.

Bang!

The python slammed into the space barrier with strong force. Sylas stumbled backward from the impact.

The space barrier between them annoyed the python, and it hissed at Sylas, and green venom, far darker than before, splurted out from its mouth.

Sizzle!

The venomous liquid attacked the space barrier. The space barrier shuddered and became unstable.

Earth energy surged out from Sylas, and several earth plates rose up in front of the space barrier. Then, at the same time, Sylas gritted his teeth and opened up a spatial rift.

Bang!

The earth plates, acting as a barrier, crumbled down with the snake’s single attack.

The snake was very strong, but what puzzled Sylas was, if it was very strong, a high-level mutated creature with a sound ability, then why was its sound wave attack not strong enough to threaten him?

Compared to its strength, the sound ability didn’t seem to be of a high level, and moreover, the python itself wasn’t relying too much on the sound ability to fight him.

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