Thorn was imbued with silver lightning that amplified its prowess tenfold and with it the energy bursts that the Davross spear produced simply by moving.
The problem was that both the speartip and the dozens of darkness pillars hit empty air.
'Where has Leech gone?' Orpal asked. 'You said he Blinked!'
'Below!' Night could see in every direction but one: under Moonlight.
Between the accumulated world energy and the silver bolt of lightning, the steed was a blinding sun to Life Vision. Derek had followed his instinct, using the first Blink as a cover as he changed his trajectory
"You talk too much." Orpal was turning his steed around again when the Void grabbed Orpal's face and dragged him off his high horse.
Away from Moonlight, the Dead King felt his strength leaving his body and then entering his brother's. The Abomination Touch was sucking the Life Maelstrom along with Orpal's life force.
The Dead King lunged his spear through Derek's chest, meeting no resistance. The darkness of his body and the Voidwalker armor opened in front of Thorn so quickly that the spear and the energy blast in its wake simply passed through.
To an external observer, the Void looked like a doll that had been torn in half at the midriff, the two pieces connected solely through thin threads of darkness. Yet neither of the monsters had a foothold in mid-air so their strength was unchanged.
"I don't know who you are, Poopie, but you are delicious." Derek grabbed Thorn with his free hand, draining it as well while his body closed around the haft like a vise.
'Since when can your brother do that?' Night was flabbergasted.
Shapeshifting was one thing, altering the density and shape of one's body was another. To make matters worse, only the army had been alerted of Lith's Abomination form.
The public feed only mentioned the amnesia to justify his strange behavior and avoid mass hysteria. After all, very few people knew what an Abomination was and the Royals preferred to keep things that way.
'I don't know!' Orpal unleashed his anti-Tiamat spell, Hailstorm.
It generated a powerful cold wave that lowered the temperature by over one hundred degrees in an instant and condensed the power of a lightning spell in a single electrical discharge.
Based on their studies of Lith's available videos, Orpal and Night assumed that the cold would sap Lith's strength while the electricity would bypass darkness fusion and send him into a seizure.
Once weakened and paralyzed, he was supposed to be an easy target.
Except for the fact that his body was that of an Abomination now and his Touch was boosted tenfold by the stolen Life Maelstrom.
Abominations didn't suffer from cold and electricity was just another form of energy they could prey upon.
Hailstorm achieved nothing but wasting Orpal's mana and strengthening Derek further.
'Dammit!' Night tapped into her crystal to release a powerful darkness pulse that sent the Void back screeching. 'Verhen is not just amnesiac. He has become a true Abomination. We need to adjust our strategy.'
'Copy that!' Orpal opened his mouth, using part of the silver lightning he had left to overpower Dusk's seal again.
After being defeated by Jirni and tortured by Thrud for weeks, the Dead King had lost most of his usual underserved confidence. To regain it, he needed a victory and to win, he needed Night. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
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