Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2805

Chapter 2805 Parts and Whole (Part 1)

Silvery flames already seeped between Lith's fangs as he curled his maw up into a grin and when he opened it, a jet stream of Dread Flames burst against the red wave.

<nulli>'That's impossible.' Shelk thought.<nulli> 'Between the two of us, there's not a shred of world energy left. What are those things burning at?'

The answer was that unlike Origin Flames which ignited the world energy with a spark of life force, the Dread Flames needed to accumulate the world energy first. Only after replacing its six elemental components with their cursed counterpart was the world energy ignited to become Dread Flames.

It was the reason they would burn and destroy anything even in the absence of world energy. The Dread Flames packed everything they needed and when they met the Blood Tide head-on, they punctured it like a knife through a slab of meat.

While the Blood Tide was spread out and moving in every direction, forming an expanding energy dome, the Dread Flames were as focused as a laser. To make matters worse, the Leviathan's bloodline ability was comprised of highly compressed world energy but still world energy.

The Dread Flames burned through it, becoming stronger by the centimeter as they turned the enemy attack into fuel.

<nulli>'Fuck!' Shelk had no choice but to infuse the Blood Tide with a red bolt of lightning, stopping the Dread Flames in their track with a sudden burst of power.

Or so he thought, until the Void Flames component neutralized the Blood Maelstrom and the Dread Flames resumed their advance unimpeded.

Shelk activated Blood Blink to move escape but in doing so he emitted a trail of energy that guided the hungry flames to their target. The Blink bought him only one second during which the Dread Flames followed the exit point and hit the Blood Warlock like a truck.

The Void Flames component and the Blood Maelstrom canceled each other while the other five Cursed Flames that comprised the silvery fire burned at his equipment, body, and mana from the inside out.

Ulma couldn't believe his bad luck. Building a herd was very difficult for a Nightwalker since he needed to find humans with an affinity for the darkness element who were willing to let him feed upon them.

Every one of them was a treasure hard to replace yet he was now forced to put several of them at risk.

<nulli>'I can't afford to drain their life forces slowly. If I don't save Shelk, I'll be next.' The Nightwalker consumed a large part of the members of his herd's life essence and activated his bloodline ability, Shadow Transfer.

The Blood Warlock had Blinked away from Lith and near his ally in the hope of joining their forces. Ulma was far enough from the epicenter of the Blood Maelstrom so the stream of world energy from the mana geyser had already partly filled the void.

It was enough for the bloodline ability to conjure tendrils of darkness that the Nightwalker used to grab at the Blood Warlock. Most of them were burned on contact but they also neutralized the Blight Flames.

That and the absence of the Void Flames allowed Shadow Transfer to pass precious mana and life force to Shelk. It saved his undeath long enough for him to conjure a burst of Blood Flames from his body.

The two flames ate at each other like hungry beasts, the Dread Flames quickly overpowering the opponent before triggering an explosion.

"Fuck!" Ulma sucked his herd dry, using half of the collected energy to recover his strength and passing the rest to Shelk.