Healing System

Chapter 206 Trial of the Golden Dragon Sect (10)

The moment Mikhail's words fell, the being—which had practically turned into a monster by now—began attacking.

However, despite its apparent lack of intelligence, its fighting style was not half bad.

Fast, efficient, and last but not least, deadly.

It was especially deadly to him since he didn't have a normal body. One hit, and he would dematerialize back into the halo—the downside of his current condition.

But this was just a monster.

'A simple glance would be enough to kill you if I were in my real body,' Mikhail thought with a sigh, dodging an incredibly fast attack that was aiming for his heart.

But alas, to him—who had faced beings who could wave an entire world out of existence—a simple attack such as this was nothing but child's play.

Using the halo's mana, he forced the attack backward, startling the monster.

It was just a simple attack that used one's own strength against another, but it did not work against a strong opponent.

However, when the gap was only this much, it was doable.

Added to the fact that he had unlimited access to his signature skill:

'Sanctuary.'

As soon as those words rang out in his mind, a concentrated area appeared all around him, eventually settling completely in his body.

An alternative use of Sanctuary—instead of manipulating the surroundings, you could manipulate yourself.

And since he did not exactly have a concrete form, this was even more efficient than he would have hoped.

The monster recoiled but quickly collected itself before reappearing before him. But this time, he struck back.

With Sanctuary as a baseline and the halo as a catalyst, he was able to momentarily bring forth a tiny bit of his powers.

And because of that, the moment the monster's attack was about to reach, a single line of light expanded outwards from Mikhail's eyes, blowing off the arms of the monster in a mere moment.

"Should I just kill you, bug? I don't think Michael would mind..." he spoke, watching as it writhed in pain.

But soon, a chuckle escaped his mouth.

'Who am I kidding...' Mikhail finished with a scoff before enveloping the monster in a golden light, immediately regrowing its lost limbs.

There was a tinge of fear clearly present on its face, but he chose to ignore it before once again sending out light from his eyes, blasting the monster into several pieces.

And once again, reconstructing it.

"You are a good punching bag. Be proud." He exhaled a relieved breath before healing it and continuing this process over and over again.

That was until he felt a presence near the entrance of the town. It seemed like Michael had finally managed to arrive. Find adventures on empire

Yet the moment he felt the pressure the two were emitting, he slightly recoiled backward.

'Pussy,' Mikhail thought while rolling his eyes, before sending a tinge of Sanctuary to cover him and holding down the monster so it could not move.

Michael noticed this and began swiftly flying over, looking a bit haggard from the explosion he himself had caused just a few moments ago.

There was so much mana, in fact, that it seemed like even his mana clothing was not functioning properly.

'He went a little overboard with that skill... I should really teach him sometime.'

He finally arrived—the monster, who was previously Lapis, lying on the ground, trying to reach its arms out to grab the two of them.

But before it could, Mikhail once again cut them both off before suddenly sending out a string-like light beam that wrapped around Lapis's neck and swiftly cut it off.

Just as it was about to drop to the ground, he quickly caught it with the same string and held it up, turning his gaze toward Michael.

"You sure took your sweet time up there."

"And you lied to me again," Michael replied with a scoff before looking down at the monster.

"Is this Lapis?"

Mikhail affirmed his guess. "Yep, in the flesh—or something. Not exactly sure what he had turned into."

"It kind of looks like the watcher I saw..."

"Yet one good look at the mana, and you would notice it is nothing alike aside from its appearance," Mikhail shot back before bringing its head over to Michael.

"You do know I was talking about its appearance, right?" Michael questioned before creating a piece of cloth out of mana and hovering it over to the head.

"Sure, genius."

With those words, Mikhail destroyed the remainder of the monster's body, except for the head, and dematerialized, heading back inside of Michael.

Yet, as always, the process was not exactly easy.

The moment he disappeared, a large diagram popped up in the darkness—one that had information spanning back millions of eons—but the one thing he was looking for was not there.

He scrolled down a lot more, trying to find it, but alas, it was to no avail.

'A black watcher-like creature controlled like a marionette... This is definitely no coincidence.'

Not giving up, he waved his hand, and immediately, a keyboard-like interface appeared before him.

Using it, he typed in a certain keyword: "Watcher."

A few pages appeared—not many, for that matter; however, he decided to check them out nonetheless.

The first was about their origin, which he had gathered throughout his entire lifespan.

As for the others, they were mostly encounters the previous Michaels before the current one had with the being.

Which, for some reason, always ended up causing a calamity down the line.

But as his search was starting to become a little less hopeful, he finally spotted a certain word—one that piqued his interest.

'The Egg of the Watcher?' He raised his brow to seemingly no one in this black space.

'When did I compile this?'

Re-reading the information again, he was unable to find the exact date—all for the single line of detail regarding the egg.

'A humanoid shape with sadistic tendencies that tends to lose itself over time, becoming the purest lifeform alive...' Mikhail read through it before quickly turning around, seeing through the eyes of Michael as he spoke straight into his mind,

"Don't kill it."

Like a megaphone, Michael's voice was blasted back into the dark space. "Why not? Do you think you can restore him or something?"

'Yet I told him to stop with his wishful thinking bullshit...' he sighed inwardly before stating,

"It's a being we can make use of. Let him down for a moment."

Michael's voice rang out again, a confused tone clearly present. "Hmm? Sure?"

At his words, Mikhail took a deep breath before drawing a circle in the air. Immediately, a halo materialized.

And the moment it did, he channeled his sped-up vibrations into it, freezing Lapis in time before quickly slashing sideways with the halo in hand, storing its head in his temporal subspace.

"Woah... Did you just use spatial magic?" Michael's stupefied voice rang out, which he simply ignored, focusing on his own mana.

Quickly, he slashed once again—this time without the halo in hand—and in the next moment, the head plopped down onto the ground before him.

'Hmm... Now how do I make you hatch?'

Putting on a small smirk, Mikhail turned towards the screen displaying Michael's vision.

"Don't worry about it, genius; you will know eventually."