Chapter 413: Ability Fusion
There was no doubt that Hezar was very powerful!
More than a decade ago, there had already been a rumor among the insectoids that he had reached grade 6, which was the equivalent to an Eternal rank warrior in the Pan-human Alliance.
No one knew what Hezar’s current cultivation was, for this eccentric Exotic Beast Butcher did not like exchanging pointers with anyone. He was intoxicated in the joy of slaughtering exotic beasts, moving from planet to planet, taking it upon himself to kill all exotic beasts in the universe.
He undoubtedly possessed a high cultivation, and his energy drain ability was cruel. In fact, he had absorbed the essence of so many exotic beasts that his body got smelted black, seemingly having been cast from steel!
He was an unfathomable and extremely unconventional existence. Among the insectoids, he was a benchmark. Ordinary warriors naturally could not challenge High Priest Ryun. Not only was this a suicidal course of action, it was also blasphemy against the G.o.ds.
Thus, when the Sacred Warriors joked with one another, someone would always say, “If you’ve got the guts, go and challenge Hezar! What’s the point in flaunting your strength here?”
Although this was just a joke, it was also proof of Hezar’s outstanding status in the insectoid race. Challenging him did not merely highlight the difficulty of such a task, but it was also viewed to be a sort of honor!
Now, Xia Fei, this lone, human warrior, who had so rudely intruded upon the lives of the insectoids, decided to test himself on this benchmark of the insectoid race! He would pit his speed ability against the most tyrannical, sinister, and gruesome energy drain ability!
After absorbing the energy and essence blood of the high-ranking Watergloom, Hezar turned scarlet red, and a sense of incomparable ecstasy flowed through his body. He was bursting with energy!
At this moment!
Xia Fei’s attack began!
He jumped out of the forest like a tiger lunging out of a mountain!
In his right hand, Celestial Moon let out a piercing howl!
Furball sat on Xia Fei’s shoulder, his red eyes glaring at Hezar, his belly swelling. That was a sign that Furball was acc.u.mulating energy!
*Whoosh~*
Several thousand meters were covered in an instant!
Xia Fei swung his right arm, and Celestial Moon’s eighteen blades shot forth! They spun around, aiming at eighteen of Hezar’s vital points!
At the same time, with a light tug from his left hand, Xia Fei released the Immortal rank weapon, b.u.t.terfly Serpent!
Nineteen weapons became akin to nineteen bolts of lightning, tightly surrounding Hezar!
Hezar felt a gust of wind at the back of his hand, as if some creature was attacking him.
*Thump!*
He reacted very quickly, crouching down on all fours like a horse as his feet dug themselves into the sands of the beach like they had grown roots.
“Drain!”
Hezar raised his head and howled, his muscles exploding with strength!
An invisible energy web swiftly spread out!
This was a draining net. Any physical object that entered this net would be completely drained of energy, thus losing any ability to kill!
Alas, Xia Fei was incredibly fast. After releasing his attack, Xia Fei did not get close. Instead, he made a long arc, maintaining a distance of five hundred meters between him and Hezar.
The energy drain ability was an extremely fierce ability. Anyone who got close would be captured by Hezar, and they would lose control of their body until they had been sucked dry.
Xia Fei had circ.u.mvented Hezar, but Celestial Moon and the b.u.t.terfly Serpent had not!
*Whoos.h.!.+*
Compared to Xia Fei’s peerless speed, Hezar’s ability was rather slow. b.u.t.terfly Serpent agilely made its way onto Hezar’s body and held him fast!
On the other end, just as Xia Fei’s Celestial Moon was about to reach Hezar, Xia Fei withdrew his mental energy from the weapon.
Xia Fei was controlling Celestial Moon using his mental energy. Once Hezar began draining energy from Celestial Moon, Xia Fei would also have much of his mental energy drained. If Xia Fei did this poorly, he might damage his brain’s control over objects. Thus, Xia Fei removed his control from Celestial Moon, allowing it to become eighteen flying daggers that could freely attack!
Hezar breathed in and drained as much energy from b.u.t.terfly Serpent as he could, hoping to break free of this strange weapon’s restraint.
b.u.t.terfly Serpent used Purple Hearts of Spirit as its energy source, and the amount of energy contained within it was comparable to a Watergloom. It was not so easy to suck it dry.
Hezar was rendered motionless; at which point, Celestial Moon arrived!
Though the energy net had weakened Celestial Moon’s speed and force, it had to be understood that b.u.t.terfly Serpent and Celestial Moon had been unleashed at the same time. Hezar not only had to absorb the energy in Celestial Moon, he also had to devote most of his attention to dealing with b.u.t.terfly Serpent. This greatly reduced the efficiency of his energy drain ability, and in the blink of an eye, Celestial Moon reached him!
*Plus.h.!.+*
The eighteen circular blades completed their mission, leaving eighteen wounds on Hezar’s body before scattering.
This was all due to Xia Fei’s meticulous calculations. He had determined that Hezar’s ability would not be able to deal with b.u.t.terfly Serpent and Celestial Moon at the same time.
Alas, the wounds on Hezar’s body were not too serious, not even reaching his bones.
Xia Fei was taken aback. He was keenly aware of how sharp Celestial Moon was. This set of mentally controlled weapons had been with him for many years and was like a brother to him. Celestial Moon should have dealt far greater damage to Hezar.
“This isn’t good! Before Celestial Moon hit his body, Hezar was able to create a strong energy reaction from his body, which protected him like a suit of armor. This neutralized eighty percent of Celestial Moon’s offensive power.” Phantom frowned as he sternly spoke.
He was a soul—a soul that was extremely sensitive to energy. Thus, he had been able to see clearly what Hezar had done.
Xia Fei was rather surprised. This energy drain ability had so many uses? Not only could it drain energy from the opponent, it could use the drained energy to protect the user? Even the Cosmic Absorbing Power from Jin Yong’s novels was not this incredible!
Xia Fei truly had not managed to properly categorize the energy drain ability, having believed that it belonged to the energy category or perhaps the special control category, but this was not the case at all.
To be more precise, Hezar’s energy drain ability did not belong to either category because his ability was a mutation! It had a basis in energy control, but it was also mixed with the devouring effects of the darkness ability. It was a true ability fusion!
Xia Fei also had two abilities, speed and psychokinesis being his two trump cards for victory, but he had yet to reach the realm where he could fuse them together. For him, speed was speed and psychokinesis was psychokinesis. Whether it was in terms of technique or energy allocation, they needed to be separately controlled.
However, Hezar was completely different. He had long ago firmly fused together his energy ability and devouring ability. He could both drain energy and control energy, multiplying his fighting power!
Xia Fei’s eyes coldly flashed as he wickedly smiled.
His personality was such that, when the battle began, he would not retreat!
Before making his move, Xia Fei had made careful calculations. Though there had been a small error, this error would not affect the overall battle.
“Furball, it’s up to you!” Xia Fei called. At the same time, he continued to circle around Hezar with an average speed of about three thousand meters per second.
Furball hated Hezar to his bones, and he had been impatiently waiting for Hezar’s order!
*Bang!*
A white ball of energy the size of a golf ball shot out of Furball’s mouth. Furball felt an indescribable hatred for Hezar, and he put his all into this battle!
Be it in terms of l.u.s.ter or firing speed, this white ball was much stronger than before. This little ball was enough to make the sun lose its radiance! It could vie for brightness with the sun and moon!
“Good job! This fellow has improved again!” Xia Fei excitedly said.
The ball of light moved incredibly fast. In a flash that was difficult to look at directly, it rapidly approached Hezar.
Hezar’s face turned grave. He was skilled in energy manipulation, so he had a better understanding than most regarding this ball flying toward him. He could sense that it was more complicated than it seemed.
There was an unimaginable vortex within this ball of light. If he did not take it seriously, he would be torn to shreds by this energy vortex!
He was truly a very experienced and wise individual. Furball was able to convert life and matter into energy particles through the intense vortex within the ball of light.
Like with a chemical reaction, the ball of light that Furball had spat relied on incredible, high-frequency movement within it to produce an energy reaction. Be it energy, matter, or even thoughts, once they were struck by the ball of light, they would experience the process Furball had set into motion and diffuse!
Each ball of light was a ma.s.sively powerful centrifuge, which would diffuse and destroy everything it encountered before forming it back into the energy particles that Furball wanted.
This attack, which defied science and common sense, was the ultimate technique that the Shatterstar Beasts had become famous on!
This was why Shatterstar Beasts were called the king of beasts!
If Hezar was a powerful energy controller, Furball was a grandmaster energy controller!
“Break for me!”
Hezar went crazy!
He did everything he could to absorb the vast amount of energy in b.u.t.terfly Serpent!
*Pa!*
b.u.t.terfly Serpent ran out of energy and dropped limply onto the beach.
Hezar threw his hands back, and then he made a pus.h.i.+ng motion, placing his palms together with his fingers spread outward, somewhat as if he was trying to unleash the Kamehameha.
“Drain!” cried Hezar, his face reddening. That metallic black face actually began to turn purple! This was a sign that he was using his strongest power, and was attempting to absorb Furball’s energy attack!
*Thump!*
The energy ball struck Hezar’s hands, the collision of the two producing a deafening squeal and a light more blinding than the sun!
Once the light faded, Xia Fei found that Hezar was completely uninjured, and Furball’s energy ball had vanished without a trace!
“Hezar has absorbed Furball’s attack,” Phantom sternly said.
Xia Fei smiled and patted Furball on the head.
“Come on; let him witness your true power!”