Grand Ancestral Bloodlines Chapter 2255

[ … words ]

BANG!

Verrona appeared in Ryu’s path, her fist descending like a comet. The energies of the world formed around her naturally, even the Shrines themselves trembling beneath the might as though prepared to be ripped out of the control of Shrine Mountain.

Ryu almost felt his arm collapse, but then—

BOOM!

A thunderous echo came from his Bone Structure, his power doubling and countering Verrona’s might.

Merculy flapped his wings hard, the energies redoubling around Verrona as Zercius quickly formed one hand sign after another, a dome of chains forming in the skies.

They weren’t just powerful, but they worked together seamlessly.

The Laws of the world bent to Verrona. The energies of the world bowed to Merculy. And all of them were sealed under Zercius’ control.

Fighting just one of them was a nightmare. Fighting three of them at once was like facing off against the Heavens themselves.

It was a good thing then… that Ryu was quite good at that.

His eyes flashed. There was a pulse at his third eye, and Zercius suddenly felt as though his chains were splintering off into reality, trying to latch onto the energies and laws of the world only to find that there weren’t enough chains to cover them all.

Rob the World of its Color.

There was another flash, and Merculy felt his own control over qis and energies slip away at the same time, as though the world had no energy to speak of at all.

BOOM!

A second echoing boom came from Ryu’s arm, and Verrona was forced a step back.

Ryu took a step forward to meet her, a second fist colliding against a follow-up. She met it with her own attack, only to be forced back by a third echoing boom.

Taken off guard, she couldn’t react to the kick that landed a heel right at the center of her chest.

Her ribcage bowed and whined, almost snapping on impact.

Merculy reacted quickly, a saber appearing in his palms. He swung down, his body teleporting at the same time.

Ryu saw through the fact it came from Zercius’ help. While the latter was still struggling to seal the region after Ryu had somehow forcefully expanded the space, he hadn’t forgotten to partake in the battle itself.

He might not be able to get things to work properly on the large scale he was looking to. But on this small scale…

Ryu took a steady step back, his head tilting out of the way and avoiding his nose being severed at the stem.

His palm slapped out, slamming against the back of Merculy’s elbow.

The wind crackled, but outside of this, it almost looked like an exchange between normal martial artists.

Or, it would have, had the residual swing of Merculy’s saber not cut the Chaos Plane in two.

Verrona recovered at the same instant, her crown glowing with a fiercer light. She slapped her palms together, her eyes opening wide as a pair of eight trigram diagrams took shape.

Ryu noticed it immediately. He had once used this method; it was a clever method. It was just that…

He had outgrown it.

A pair of eight trigram diagrams appeared in Ryu’s eyes as Verrona screamed as her own burst into a rain of blood.

Ryu rounded to Merculy’s back in a seamless motion, the latter still suffering from the blow to his elbow.

With a stomp, Ryu kicked at the back of his knees and the man’s legs buckled. He fell to a knee in the skies, placing his head right in line with a descending claw from Ryu.

The cry of a Phoenix filled the skies.

Ryu should have used Dragon Claw, he could have called down the might of the Dragon Clan and sought the approval of the Heavens themselves.

But instead, his claws were wrapped in the red-gold Heavenly Patterns of the Emperor Phoenix for no other reason than his grandmother.

As though it was her hand extending across the bounds of space and time onto Merculy’s head, the pride of a woman who had once been wed to the Tatsuya Clan shone through.

But that was because that was precisely what was happening.

Space, time, Fate, it all layered into one, and Ryu embodied everything his Grandma Tatsuya had once been.

“Die.”

BANG!

Merculy’s head exploded into a rain of blood, his soul snatched out from the ether and ripped to pieces.

An Ancestor of a generation, dead. Just like that.

Verrona shrieked. She might have been blinded, but she could still sense what was happening.

Just not for long.

Fate Reversal.

Verrona almost stumbled as she felt her eyes forcefully heal outside of her control.

Ryu pulled at the air, drawing a line across it. [Rob the World of its Color] was pulled into a blade and Zercius vanished.

The Divine Chain Ancestor had been fighting against Ryu’s Domain for so long that the sudden release into freedom caused him to shift out of reality for a moment. As though playing a game of tug of war he unexpectedly won, he was sent flying far away.

Leaving no one at all to protect his allies.

One died before he could do much of anything at all.

This one would die before he could even think to get back.

The Fate that injured Verrona and [Rob the World of its Color] fused into one.

“Die.” Ryu said calmly.

He swiped an arm across the air.

Verrona saw every moment of it. The irony of her eyes being healed was that she witnessed every single bit of it herself.

There was no escaping this moment.

Suddenly, Ryu’s words well and truly settled into her. Had they made a mistake by focusing more on the Heavenly Court than him…?

‘My love…’ Verrona thought to herself, her mind struggling to reach toward Zercius.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time… because no time passed at all between the swipe of Ryu’s finger and her death.

He made certain of that.

Before him, even pining for a loved one wasn’t allowed.

It would make each one of them suffer as his Tatsuya Clan had.

“VERRONA!” Zercius’ infuriated roar shook the skies, but he only returned in time to watch her head fall from the skies, her soul snuffed out to ashes.