Chapter 732: Bring
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The peacock soared through the skies for hours. Although its Speed cap wasn''t very high, because it wasn''t limited by the ground''s terrain, the time it was making was exceptional.
Ss slowly stirred awake, a sharpness glistening in his pupils.
The benefits of Hibernation Halo shouldn''t have been able to trigger while he was asleep. It needed his Wisdom to keep it active.
However, this was yet another benefit of Synergy. Hibernation Halo came from One Kind For Me, but thanks to his Fusion ability from Were-For-The-Invincible still being active, there were parts of Ss'' brain that were still active even while he was unconscious.
Of course, that activity came from the Bone-Tailed Lizard and the sirith.
The Bone-Tailed Lizard was too simple-minded, but the sirith, even as a newborn, was anything but. It still didn''t haveplex thoughts, but doing something as simple as ensuring his Fusion didn''t cancel and Hibernation Halo remained active was easy enough.
And once again, because Ss fused with two of his Contracts, the recovery he benefited from was double, approaching 30 000%. That was already better than the vast majority of Elixirs. These three hours of sleep he had was the equivalent of almost a month of recovery time.
But the fact he needed this much sleep in the first ce just showed that he had maybe pushed his body much too far.
''No, it isn''t my body that suffered the most. My wounds healed well enough already. It''s the pressure on my mind...''
Even if his mind had been a rubberband it should have snapped by now.
First he suffered the continuous attacks of the Snail Queen, then experienced several mental breakdowns before he suddenly unlocked Demonic Will. But rather than making him feel better, Demonic Will ced even more pressure on his Mental stats. He chewed through his Will faster, and the constant introspection sapped up his Wisdom like a desert might a drop of water.
Before he could even get used to that, he formed yet another Will.
This Martial Will was odd... it felt like it was both a part of him, and yet not at all.
And its abilities had a great deal of potential. Experiencing it, Ss felt that it was foolish of him to ignore it for so long.
If he had had his Mixed Martial Arts Comprehension with him the entire time, hisbat prowess would be leagues beyond what it was now.
The more powerful opponents he faced, the more powerful his Martial Will would be, and the more skilled he would grow inbat.
If Madness gave him his telekinesis and the ability to target the minds of others while controlling his own...
Then Mixed Martial Arts allowed him to grasp thebat style of the opponents with great ease and even incorporate their abilities into his own. This allowed him not only to grow stronger inbat, but also helped him in seeing through the ws of his enemies.
But much like Madness, it had another ability as well.
Supression.
''There are parallels here... Telekinesis and this Martial Sense are more tangible abilities, while thetter two abilities are both mental attacks. Do all Comprehensionse with a set of one each?''
After having this thought, Ss tossed it to the back of his mind.
A Demonic Will stirred in his body and he became iparably focused.
The snow capped mountains of the Grimdes familypound flew past beneath him.
Ss stood to his feet and took a step forward.
He began to plummet from the skies, the harsh, cold winds slicing against his skin.
When he was just 30 meters from the ground and it seemed like he would stter across the mountains, he slowed until his toes lightly touched the iced soil.
At that moment, Ss wore nothing but the seal skin skirt of the Clypsians. All of the rest of his clothes had already been torn to pieces, leaving him with nothing but this.
But theck of clothes didn''t seem to bother him at all... neither did the new scars that littered his body.
Beneath the reflective moonlight, the silvery blue hues, they were pop from time to time. Discolored trenches and bumps in his skin that painted the picture of a man who had been through life and death time and time again.
There were too many new additions this time around to care to count them all, but maybe the two most gruesome was the one on his neck and the one in his quad.
The first was from Vaekra''s arrow. Even now, there was a dull ache that came from it, a phantom pain that reminded him of how he had almost lost his life.
The second was from Vesta who still hung high in the skies, the peacock hovering high above the Grimde''spound, following after Ss'' gate inplete silence.
One after another, Runes began to appear, hovering above Ss'' body. With a pulse of light,
they formed the tes of armor and clinked into ce like real metal fixtures.
A violet hue poured out into the night, fluttering snowkes gliding down from the skies and vanishing from sight the moment they touched Ss.
WHOOSH!
A tempest of wind kicked up when the armor waspleted.
CLANG. CLANG. CLANG.
50% Mastery. +2000 Physical. Flesh Mastery Scorpion Warlord Armor.
The Scorpion Warlord Armor darkness, a ck Demonic Will pulsing.
There was a flicker before Ss, and 50 meters ahead of the path he was on, a shadowy figure appeared.
"Turn back."
The voice only spoke two words, simple and in. Ss recognized the emotionless voice quite well. It was the very same man that had protected by Lucius'' side thest time.
The husk of a man, carrying not the slightest bit of Will of his own.
Ss could remember feeling a great amount of pressure from this man. And yet...n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
BANG!
Ss appeared before the man in a crouched position, his palm driving forward with such
force that wind whistled between his fingers.
The heel of his hand mmed into the man''s chest.
The sickening crunch of bone echoed as the man was sent flying backward.
"Bring me Lucius Grimde''s head and all of this can end right now."