Speed Is King

A split second after Elliot disappeared, a crushing aura with the pressure of the ocean at tens of kilometers deep appeared at the exact spot where he was at.

CRACK!

The very land split in half for many, many kilometers and created a deep, seemingly endless abyss.

In fact, the land was cracked so deeply that scorching hot magma started to spurt out!

An Ancient level powerhouse truly was no trifle warrior to be taken lightly.

With more than sufficient strength to destroy continents and dry up the seas, even entire Star Systems have to take each and every Ancient level powerhouse seriously!

To say that she looked ghastly would be the biggest understatement of the year.

Her face was animated, but gaunt and greyish in death. The ungodly and demonic vitality in her eyes accentuated the fact that her body was supposed to be dead, but was still moving very unnaturally.

She truly was the scariest being to have ever walked the planet!

And for some reason, this particular ancient completely didn’t bother to cover up her position from the video cameras with her ancient aura.

The entire universe was able to watch her and her absolutely grotesque self in full, Hyper High Definition.

As soon as she appeared at Elliot’s location, she entered into the screens of trillions of lifeforms, and instantly caused ninety percent of them to erupt either in screams of shock or in shouts of vehement curses.

“Freaking hell! What is that freaky half rotten undead doing on my screen? Get her off! Get her off quick!”

“Ahhhhh! Why did you change to a horror movie? Switch it back to my future husband and father of my twelve kids, Elliot Musk!”

“What future husband? I AM YOUR HUSBAND! And we have five kids already!!”

“What in all of nine hells just crawled into my screen? What an abomination!”

“That thing is an ancient level being? Holy smokes. I better stay the hell away from wherever she’s from. Where the hell is she from? WHAT! SHE’S FROM OUR STAR SYSTEM??”

“My eyess!! I need to unsee that! I need to unsee that!! Mommyy!!!”

The entire universe burst out in an uproar at the sight of the scary Ancient level powerhouse, who of course, was completely oblivious to the fact that she probably had scared the living daylights out of a full fraction of the entire known universe!

But even if she knew, she probably wouldn’t care. She was a wolf hunting a rabbit, and who cares about what the spectators were thinking?

The billowing heat rising from the magma retreated like a bunch of witless rabbits fleeing before a wolf when it collided with her aura, causing a swirling wave of steam to spin around her in a very wide radius.

Her undead eyes shone with ungodly light as she scanned the area around her.

“No trace at all. He must be in possession of the Ring of Absolute Stealth. El’Taras sure is pulling out all the stops this time.” She muttered loudly, her voice making its way very clearly into the screens of all the viewers.

“And he can blink. The cursed Void Walkers are invested in him as well. Good. Very good. Too bad you all won’t be able to protect your interests with such half-assed methods. Since I am here, your luck has just run dry! Death Light!”

The Ancient raised both hands horizontally and immediately, for many, many kilometers around her, black glows appeared everywhere.

They were all death energy! The Ancient’s skill had caused all the death energy within her radius of influence to glow brightly!

Some were glowing very faintly, completely unnoticeable at the size of marbles, while others the size of a big tree glowed brightly.

One ridiculously large one the size of a small copse of trees was blinking in and out, and each time it blinked, it would travel a couple of kilometers away.

It was, undoubtedly, Elliot.

Although the Ring of Absolute Stealth completely hid his energy signature, it did nothing to the swirl of death energy around him which naturally hung around him after he and his beasts massacred so many bugs.

A horrendously creepy grin appeared on the Ancient’s face.

“Gotcha, little rabbit.” She cackled loudly.

And then she too blinked away.

WHAM!!!

She appeared right on top of the humongous pile of glowing death energy and locked down the space around it savagely with pure force!

However, due to Elliot’s Darklight Energy, her lockdown failed miserably.

Blink!

Blink!

Blink!

Elliot blinked away with renewed vigor!!

“What? You still can escape even with my lockdown pressure? Hmph! You can run, rabbit, but you can’t hide!”

Blink!

The Ancient blinked once and immediately appeared right on top of Elliot once more.

This time, the Ancient summoned an ethereal bone prison around them which glowed a scary light green. Within the ethereal bone prison was a mass of black void.

“Ha! Let’s see if you still ca- Damn it! You slippery eel!” The Ancient hooted loudly in frustration as Elliot blinked away once again.

She had never met such a difficult to catch person before!!

Completely pissed off by Elliot, she blinked after him and unleashed a barrage of ethereal bone spears on his position!

“You may have a godly escape skill, but without strong enough defense, you’re still nothing much but a slightly more tricky target practice for me!” The Ancient snarled viciously.

“Keep eating my Ethereal Bone Spears! Have a good meal!” Her shrill voice sounded as the barrage continued to land endlessly in the center of the swirling death energy which was glowing very brightly.

Within the massive barrage of ethereal bone spears, Elliot was frowning heavily.

The bone spears had taken him by surprise.

Although he had managed to put up a defense against them and avoid being overwhelmed by them, he failed to do the same for Lady Balastiera.

And as a result, a couple of bone spears had slipped past his defense and ripped a huge chunk of Lady Balastiera’s clothes to pieces.

A very, very alluring pair of jiggly mountains had come loose and were pointing proudly upwards!