The Messenger of Death - Chapter 357: quarterfinals v

-Swish!

Everything had been happening so fast, from when Camilla activated her bloodline ability to when Camron used Victor’s water tentacles to get a boost, everything happened within a few seconds.

Camilla’s senses were heightened by her bloodline after activation, even though its major effects had been suppressed by her, she could still sense Camron coming at her fast.

To dodge his attack safely, Camilla had to jump back, giving up on chasing after Gustavo. Since Camilla dodged Camron’s attack, he was left flying in the air, quickly heading for the edge of the stage.

Adrian appeared beside Camron in a flash and threw him back at Camilla.

However, Victor and john had already recovered from the shock that Camron left them in. Before Camron could reach Camilla this time, Victor and John appeared beside her.

‘This is going to hurt.’ Camron thought.

Victor’s water tentacles slashed and flogged at the fast-approaching Camron, and as Camron had been faring previously, he used Shadow Bind on the tentacles, stopping them in their place.

Camilla then took the initiative to attack Camron by jumping and brandishing her knees at his chest. John, aiming to synchronize his attack with Camilla in case Camron found a way to avoid her attack mid-air… he too sent a high kick at Camron from the side, not giving him many options but to choose from which of the attacks he was going to give in to.

With Camilla ahead of him, Victor by his left and John by his right.

Camron quickly made the safest bet and chose to dodge Camilla’s Knees and take a kick from John. He closed his eyes and readied himself for the possible harm that the kick could bring to him, however at the last second, Gustavo came to his rescue.

-Thud!

Gustavo also came with a high kick. He used his kick to stop John’s own in its track, saving Camron.

The 2 seconds hold that Camron’s Shadow Bind had on Victor’s water tentacles were up, placing Camron in possible Danger. As soon as Victor felt that his water tentacles were loose, he used them to slash at Camron, this time with a lot more power behind their swings.

Victor knew that if he could hit Camron this time, it will be very possible to knock him out while he’s still in that position. And if he chooses to block the tentacles, the stone tiles on the battle rings will be there to cause some considerable pain to Camron when he falls on them.

Seeing that the tentacles were heading for him at a speed faster than they had since Camron first saw them, and with more power behind their swings, Camron sacrificed a considerable amount of his QI is produce stronger threads for his Shadow Bind skill.

Albeit Camron’s sacrifice, it wasn’t enough to stop the tentacles in time before they reached him.

-Whip! Twuah!!

The tentacles flogged Camron, Sending him to the ground.

-Boom!!

Camron fell on his back, breaking the tiles underneath him. “Cough, cough!” Camron coughed out some blood as his face contorted in pain.

“Camron!” Emma, Drake, and Katherine called out in concern.

-Whip!!

The tentacles came for Camron again with the same speed and force.

-Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Camron quickly rolled to the side, dodging the tentacles narrowly, only taking a few pebbles from the stage to the head.

“Adrian, prepare it!!” Camron said.

For reasons unknown to him, he was getting angry, so much so that he wanted to kill Victor.

Camron used his arms to prop himself up to his feet, dodging the tentacles as he did so.

With the formation of the seraphim team scattered, their only option was to hold on until Adrian prepared their trump card.

“On it!” Adrian answered, he was busy trying to escape from Camilla that was hot on his tail. Because of her heightened senses, she could vaguely sense where Adrian was going to appear, so it wasn’t difficult for her to pursue him. Not to mention, Gustavo wasn’t present to distract her this time.

At the moment, Gustavo was occupied with John, trading blows and kicks. Since sharp objects didn’t have much effect on Gustavo, John had no other option but to use blunt attacks on Gustavo.

“Do you think we are going to allow you to do that!? Victor, do it before they get started with theirs!” John ordered.

“Where do you think you are averting your attention to when I’m looking at you!?” Gustavo asked as he sent a powerful blow at John.

John snorted and also sent a powerful punch at the fist that was coming for him.

-Thum!

Their fists collided and created a little shockwave that pushed the dust around them away.

“Uhh!” John winced in pain and jumped back. His fingers were broken, they caved in and blood dripped down his palm as a bone was poking out of his palm.

“Hmph!” This time, it was Gustavo’s turn to snort at John.

Before their fists collided, Gustavo redirected most of his hardening ability to his fist. Doing that made half of his body return to its normality, and in exchange, the strength and sturdiness of the fist he concentrated the ability on, spiked!

“Vic! Hurry it up!” John quickly said. With this new development, he wouldn’t be able to hold his ground with Gustavo. If he decides to exchange more blows with Gustavo, and Gustavo concentrates his ability on a particular part of his body, blocking wouldn’t be an option for him. And dodging wasn’t much of an option too, because he was trying to stop Gustavo from going to support Adrian.

The moment he sees a chance, he will leave John and head to where Adrian is.

Camron became wary of Victor the moment he heard John telling him to do something. He was certain that it would be a skill that Victor hadn’t used since he joined the competition. Because of this, Camron was on edge.

‘Water World!’

The water tentacles that were around Victor suddenly deformed and turned into a huge ball of water that was only as tall as Victor. The ball of water then started to turn slowly, steadily increasing its speed.

Camron wanted to attack, but he was busy trying to dodge bullets of water that were shooting out of the spinning water ball. That was a safeguard to ensure that no one will be able to easily approach Victor when he is busy trying to complete his skill.

Each bullet of water was strong enough to break his bones if he got hit.

The spinning water ball rotated at a high speed, so much so that it started making a loud spinning sound that overshadowed the cheering of the crowd. Camron could feel his back get wet with sweat as he shouted; “Adrian!”

“Still working on it!” Adrian replied after narrowly escaping from Camilla’s grip for the umpteenth time. To the audience, the two of them have been playing a game of tag for the last minute, where Camilla had been trying to catch Adrian.

And because of this consistent high-speed game of tag, Adrian wasn’t left with much space to prepare his own trump card. Nevertheless, he was preparing the trump, albeit slowly.

“Damn it!!” Camron cursed out.

“Guys, it’s ready!!” Victor called out to John and Camilla, and immediately, they stopped what they were doing and ran for the water ball that had submerged Victor in itself. He was standing in the middle, constantly infusing QI into his ‘Water World’ skill, using it to further fuel the skill.

Camron thought of stopping one of the two that were coming towards the water ball, but before he could do so, the water ball expanded and enveloped him, Camilla, and John. Sweeping Camron and carrying him within the spinning waves of the water ball.

However, Camilla and John were not in the same situation as Camron, they were not caught up in the spinning waves of the water ball.

Not long after Camron was enveloped by the expanding ‘Water World’ skill, Gustavo joined him. He also got caught in the waves of the spinning water ball. The two of them lost the ability to do anything as they focused on not breathing in the water.

The only person that remained untouched is Adrian. He stood in a particular spot with his eyes closed and his body vibrating continuously as the expanding water ball fast approached him.

Emma, Drake, and Katherine were agitated and nervous because of this. They knew that Adrian was preparing to activate his own trump card, but the water ball was fast approaching him too.

The moment Adrian gets enveloped by the ‘Water World’, the Seraphim team will most likely lose the match.

Just when the water ball was a few inches away from the tip of Adrian’s nose, he opened his eyes and uttered.

“Sound, Echoed Presence.” Immediately after saying that, the loud spinning noise that the water ball had been making became none existent. Even the audiences that had been cheering couldn’t hear their cheers or themselves speaking.

Everyone within 15 kilometers lost the ability to hear normally.

-Bawnn!

Every wave of sound within 15 kilometers concentrated on Adrian and exploded…