Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 866 Cryptic Axiom Chasm! (3)

Indeed, this Territory needed to be shut down immediately.

The assumptions that Replicus' thought phantoms conjured up from the effects he saw manifest just now from the seemingly impossible to dodge strip of foggy light, suggested that he needed to work faster.

What added even more fuel to his resolve, was the still image of him reflected on the giant mirror in the distance beginning to move, replicating scenes that occurred in his life months ago, and the look on Nedalia's face.

She was awestruck.

Her fingers lightly touched her temples as she seemed dazed, evidently absorbing information that was a lot more surprising than she had thought.

'I see. She has a lot of Primary functions attached to her Territory. The ability to travel through the scattered mirrors; the ability to perhaps damage someone who is reflected by the mirrors, or maybe stall them; and the ability to see a piece of information from someone who gets hit by that bizarre element...' Replicus thought and then chuckled. 'That last one may not be as beneficial to her as she might have thought...'

Surely, it didn't seem like Nedalia was quite able to use the information she got to use, at least right now. She still looked stunned. Replicus didn't know how much she got informed of from the last attack, but given what was displayed soundlessly on the arrowhead-shaped mirror, it was more about his Hybrid Luman form and Ferex.

'Let's pile on the pressure...'

While Nedalia was yet to fully comprehend what she had just seen, Replicus performed the same gesture as she had done moments before.

Two of his fingers traced the dark space before him, and then he flicked them up.

Nedalia regained her wits, but she didn't see the significance of Replicus' gesture.

...Until two vicious, incredibly deep scars appeared over her chest and face!

...!!!

Nedalia was alarmed.

Even though the parts of her body that had been attacked had merely changed into shards of mirrors, which meant no damage actually fell on her, much like Replicus' previous attack, she was still appalled.

Was that a skill?

No.

Impossible.

Her opponents, unless she allowed it, couldn't use their skills and mana in here. Also, she hadn't sensed anything rush her way just now.

"You've put in a lot of resources into making an effective set of Primary attack and support functions for your Territory. Impressive. However, I can't imagine the sheer the cost of it all. Can you keep up?" Replicus taunted.

Nedalia wore a frown, but she didn't utter a word.

Instead, she whipped her fingers across the empty space, and a foggy, vertical strip of erect light materialised, before shooting towards Replicus who got smacked by it like before, a vertical glow left from his helmet to his lower torso. Similarly, like before, bits of tiny mirrors traced the line of damage, and the grand mirror in the distance reflected another scene.

A tall, black skeleton standing with a woman with lime green hair, around them a series of dark creatures that manipulated fire!

Once again, Nedalia wore a dark expression, her eyes close to spilling out at this point.

Replicus chuckled, and his fingers whipped out again, and Nedalia's arm was sliced off by an unseen, astute, sharp force that came from the Penetrator!

At once, the red haired woman tore herself from her dazed state of disbelief, gazed at Replicus with an odd look of mild terror, and gripped her torn arm which immediately began to spot mirrors replacing what had been cut off!

Nedalia seemed to withhold what she wanted to say, and how she wanted to react. But she stubbornly attacked again!

She sent a strip of foggy light, then another, and another and another!

Dozens of strips smashed into Replicus with a furious force, appearing on his body with signs of travel. The sounds that came from them walloping his armour sounded more like human flesh being whipped by sjmabok!

Replicus didn't idle.

He returned every blow he received with another of his own.

His cruel attacks whizzed through the air as well, and the damage he sent towards Nedalia whose face grew more bestial and pale by the second, ruptured, tore, gouged and sliced through the red haired woman's features large chunk after large chunk!

The contest was epic in its own right, but a winner was close to being determined. At least Nedalia and Replicus thought so with separate reasoning!

By the thirtieth exchange, Nedalia was almost wholly an accessory of varying chunks of reflective glass while Replicus had been turned into something similar.

However, both couldn't care less.

After all, for Replicus, a wishful goal of his had been accomplished...

[High level concept detected. 'Lambent Phosphor'. To learn the lesser fundamentals, an investment of 18,500 Null Life Essence is required]

Without waiting a second more, Replicus paid the price immediately, and in the <Affinity> section of his status, 'Lambent Phosphor' appeared, ungraded!

At once, the tiny shards of mirror clinging to his armour fell to the sea of light below him bit by bit, and a pleased chuckle crawled from Replicus' mouth.

[Epiphany] was working well, and soon, [Nullmancer's Royal Raiment of Acclimation] would too.

Naturally, Replicus couldn't mobilise his mana in a Territory, and the same was true for all skills that required mana, and treasures made to rely on it.

However, much like Genuine Incarnations, even Territories couldn't stop Replicus from mobilising his Null Life Essence.

When it came to using skills related to the odd power, Replicus was restricted, as Null Life Essence skills that affected Nedalia with complex effects upon activation, like [Static Limbo], would be resisted by the Territory. However, Null Life Essence in its raw form, could reach and wreak Nedalia!

The Penetrator was extremely proficient in wielding Null Life Essence in a way that conjured horrendously damaging slashing attacks, though it was not without inspiration.

He swiped across, and the Null Life Essence that clung to his fingers travelled so quickly, unseen and unregistered by Nedalia and her Territory!

It cleaved her in two rapidly, the force behind it so overwhelming that it pulled the woman to the side!

...!!!

Nedalia gritted her teeth in desperation.

There was no pain.

There was no true loss from being harmed like this.

However, her mind was filled with too many unreasonable sets of information she had yet to process.

And to make matters worse...

The Penetrator had flashed before her in the time it took her gnash her teeth, his fist being the only thing that was vivid in the micro moment she managed to see it, and then take it to the face without resistance, which sent her flying off like a comet!

Replicus, upon dishing out the sharp blow, quickly looked upward where the large half-man, half-half-serpent creature in the bulky armour had appeared, its body circling him ominously.

A crude light, similar to Lambent Phosphor appeared in the gap created by its motion.

Replicus' sockets dimmed.

At this moment, his understanding of Nedalia's abilities finally reached its peak.