The Annihilator: Killer Of Gods

Chapter 139 Sader's Ice Strike

< Ding! You have learned a new Technique called Sader's Ice Strike. The restriction placed on you has been lifted. You can kill your opponent with any skill now. >

Despite the notification, Karsha remained focused on the swirling amalgamation of vortexes hurtling toward him. The Naga was serious about killing him, and he knew he had to destroy the attack before it was too late. With the vortex now within 300 meters, he prepared his defenses, aware that soon even his strongest skills might not be enough.

"This should be the limit of her skill, right?" Karsha wondered, but he had no time to dwell on it. The immediate danger demanded his full attention.

"I really hope this works," Karsha muttered, and in an instant, he unleashed the third form of his Fore Beam skill: One Slash Kill.

Boom!

A 60-meter-long fire arc shot from his sword at devastating speed. His hand vibrated for a second, and then the sword in his right hand broke instantly, falling from the hilt to the ground.

Karsha didn't even notice because his focus was entirely on the attack he had unleashed. It contained 15% fire essence, Sword Qi, and a Golden Aura. However, the most terrifying aspect was the color of the flame—it was pure red instead of the usual orange-red. The fire was as red as blood, and when it clashed with the monstrous vortex, the entire mountain turned crimson.

Then it happened. When the Phoenix dived into the previous attack, Karsha felt a reaction. Maybe Nedin felt it too, which is why she had distanced herself by 1km. It was a sudden reaction, but thanks to Karsha's affinity for both the ice and fire elements, he noticed it. At first, the reaction was chaotic and unstable.

He shrugged it off because he knew he could handle it, but he kept it in the back of his mind to experiment with once he comprehended and mastered the Sader Ice Strike technique. He didn't fully understand what had happened, so he just assumed it was a minor issue.

But it was anything but minor. When the reddish fire entered the vortex, the same reaction occurred, but unlike before, Karsha instantly felt his danger senses ringing.

The huge dark rings around the vortex stopped for a second and then started spinning even faster. At first, Karsha thought it was going to explode, but he was wrong. As the rings spun again, something different happened—something that, judging by the look on Nedin's face, she hadn't seen before either.

From within the swirling vortex, which seemed to have paused, a huge razor-sharp reddish dark ring shot toward Karsha.

"Crap," Karsha cursed, quickly raising seven layers of Titan Wall. He immediately pumped 100,000 MP into them, making them even sturdier. The ring slammed into the wall, and for a moment, Karsha felt his soul leave his body.

The first four layers were sliced effortlessly like tofu. Karsha quickly dashed back, raising an additional five layers, but they all crumbled as the spinning ring kept slicing through.

Cold sweat broke out on Karsha's forehead when he finally managed to defend against the spinning ring. It all happened in less than a second, but it felt like an eternity. However, when Karsha raised his head to look at the swirling red vortex, his heart sank—five more rings were spinning with fiery intensity, heading straight for him. Luckily, only one was aimed directly at him.

"Domain," Karsha quickly activated his domain and shrank it to a 100-meter radius. The ring slammed into the domain, forcing a mouthful of blood out of him. He swiftly recovered, knowing his domain was on the verge of crumbling.

Using his blink skill, Karsha moved to the side of the domain and raised ten layers of Titan Walls. With his seemingly bottomless mana, he could summon as many Titan Walls as he needed.

"Cough," another load of blood spilled from Karsha's mouth as the domain collapsed. The ring sliced through the first three layers before shooting past him.

"Oh crap," Karsha screamed as he saw two more rings headed directly at him.

"Dark Prince Hell Art," he invoked, and the towering Avatar of the Dark Prince appeared behind him, exuding an aura of terror.

"Let it rain," Karsha commanded, pointing his sword at the approaching rings. Instantly, thousands of swords started raining down on the rings. Karsha quickly raised his Fortress Defense.

In a split second, the countless swords shattered the two rings, but they didn't stop there. The remaining rings were instantly destroyed before they could even get within 100 meters of Karsha.

"Only if I could control such power," Karsha mused, his greedy side showing for a second as he looked at the swirling, terrifying vortex. But he knew his mastery of the technique was nowhere near that of the vortex before him, and even if he did, his mastery of the Ice element was still low.

"Take it down," Karsha commanded as the second phase of the Dark Prince Hell Art activated. In an instant, a massive 100-meter-long sword formed and descended upon the swirling vortex. The entire sword was golden, but its tips were coated with a darker golden energy.

Another golden sword emerged from the sword pool and shot into the vortex.

"Here comes the pain," Karsha muttered like a madman, pumping over 500,000 MP into the fortress and activating the domain again. He wasn't concerned about Nedin, knowing the Naga wouldn't die easily—she was hardy.

BOOM.

The whole desert shook, and the ground split in half, creating a massive hole. Both the fortress and the domain trembled, and for a moment, Karsha felt his organs vibrating within his body. His senses immediately stopped working, and his vision turned blurry.

The shadow guards standing at the outer section of the caverns instantly turned pale as they saw the ice mist swirling up from even that far away. Shortly after, a gust of wind blew past them, raising their hair into the air. Dhaka and Tifa, thanks to their affinity for the ice element, instantly felt the energy hidden within the wind.

"What is going on over there?" That was the only question on their minds. They all knew they wouldn't survive something like that, no matter how many defenses they had. The wind that blew past them came from 189 km away, and from the energy Dhaka felt, he knew those closer to the epicenter wouldn't stand a chance.

However, what they didn't realize was that the explosion only caused minor disturbances outside the battleground. For some reason, the shockwave lost almost all its strength when it left the battlefield, as if something was preventing it from harming the monsters hidden within the desert. Still, fear was definitely etched in their hearts by now.

"Cough, cough." Karsha spat out two mouthfuls of blood as he rose from the ground, his face pale as white paper. The shockwave had taken a toll on his body even while he was hidden in his domain.

"I guess I'm still weak," he muttered, deactivating the Fortress. The domain had collapsed at the last minute, and even the fortress had huge cracks in it. If not for the fire coating his organs, he would have lost consciousness from the internal injuries alone.

'This is fun, but I have to kill that snake now,' Karsha thought. He extended his senses 10 km wide and managed to locate Nadin 5 km away. Because his senses couldn't give him a clear view, he couldn't discern the snake's condition.

Nadin was in very bad shape, even worse than Karsha. It seemed that when Karsha activated the technique, the curse reversed on her, making her suffer from both the ring attack and the explosion. She must have had a powerful defense technique to be alive after all that.

Karsha, of course, didn't know this, so he reached into his space ring, pulled out a health potion he got from Elder Lin, and drank it. He then started moving toward the Naga. After a few steps, Karsha stood before the huge crater created by the explosion.

"This looks dangerous," Karsha muttered, shivering as he stared at the massive hole. The residual energy was both icy and infernal. His mind quickly flashed back to Earth, imagining nuclear explosions. Thinking about it, he smiled.

"Damn, I survived a nuclear explosion," he said, a grin spreading across his lips. With no way to jump over it, he walked around the crater, which spanned over 6,000 meters.

On the other side of the hole, Nadin still lay on the ground, blood oozing from almost every part of her body. The explosion and the rings had taken a severe toll on her. Without Karsha's kind of defense, she had taken most of the attacks head-on.

Her sword attacks and some skills at her fingertips had helped, but only to an extent. She had gone overboard with that last attack, and now she had only herself to blame. The chance to gain her freedom had been too enticing, and she had gone all out with that one final strike.

She aimed to kill Karsha with that attack, partly because he had faked his injuries from the first explosion. Karsha had expected her to take advantage of his seemingly weakened state to engage in close combat, where he could incapacitate and question her. But eager to kill him, she used the SS-level mastery of the first form of the Sadar's Ice Strike instead.

She definitely wanted Karsha dead and went all out to make it happen. But who would have thought such a reaction could occur? Her own attack had backfired, leaving her in this dire state. She could only blame herself. If she had taken a closer look at Karsha, she might have realized he was just messing with her.

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But alas, it was too late for regrets. They both made mistakes, but at least one of them managed to come out slightly healthier.

"Well, now that we're here, why don't we have a quick chat before I send you on your way? The Yama King can wait a few more minutes," Karsha said with a smile, looking at the Naga lying on the ground.