Above The Sky
Chapter 606 - 606 575 Severing with a Single Sword!

606: Chapter 575: Severing with a Single Sword!

(3/3) 606: Chapter 575: Severing with a Single Sword!

(3/3) Ian once again raised the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword, with the Aether Crystal running at full power, bright green light patterns even penetrated the layers of Armored Clothing, bursting forth from the bottom of the Ice Armor to form dazzling Inscription patterns.

But the Nightmare Spawn, even by instinct, is extremely powerful.

It let out a piercing scream, with its two still intact right wings abruptly sweeping in from the side towards Ian, like two giant scythes descending.

Ian had no desire to take another furious blow from the Nightmare Spawn head-on.

He changed the angle of the Longsword in his hands to collide head-on with the enemy’s wing strike, clashing together.

In an instant, Ian was once again knocked flying, blood spraying from his chest, but the Nightmare Spawn remained in place, its entire body trembling.

There appear to be no injuries on the surface of its body, but something seemed to be wriggling inside its entire torso, and dark Spirit Substance fog kept leaking out and disappearing from the gaps in its shell—especially from the wound on its left wing where it had lost a wing, copious amounts of black Spirit Substance fog kept spewing out.

The ‘Ultimate Magic Weapon Potion’ had taken effect, penetrating the Spirit Substance defense.

Although the last strike was blocked, the power Ian had gathered from the Aether Crystal and Ancient Dragon Core still entered the Nightmare Spawn’s body in the form and secret force of the potion, disrupting its structure.

It was not just a disruption… The overall strength of the Nightmare Spawn suddenly dropped drastically, its characteristic of absorbing energy from Subspace to sustain itself was weakened, and its Body seemed much more ephemeral.

The Origin Quality surging from the Ancient Dragon Heart Core seemed to have a special effect on the species of Void Spawn, with a lethality far beyond Ian’s own imagination.

—It seems that the heritage of True Dragons is indeed no simple matter.

With such thoughts flickering through his mind, Ian of course knew that now was not the time to relax.

The powerful nature of the Void Spawn could even allow the ephemeral nightmares to solidify into Nightmare Spawn, and now that it was wounded, it would probably fully recover after a while.

He once again urged the Fairy Wings, wielding dual swords like a green thunderbolt, striking at the still trembling Nightmare Spawn.

But the monster, which should have reacted sluggishly, was still incredibly swift, swinging its remaining three wings like three sharp and broad scythes, accurately blocking every one of Ian’s dual sword slashes with its astonishing reaction speed.

Instead, Ian had to guard against the sudden stabs from the opponent’s mouthparts and tail spikes, momentarily at a disadvantage in the close-range combat.

—The final defense method of the Spirit Wisdom Institute indeed has some merit.

Thinking this, Ian was forced into a defensive position, blocking every frenzied attack from the Nightmare Spawn using Foresight View and the observation power of the Silver Chip.

However, he stood firm on the ground, dodging and shifting continuously, using the nimble and swift maneuvers of the Fairy Wings to move left and right, yet never truly retreating in the full sense.

On the contrary, the Nightmare Spawn, though seemingly suppressing Ian with a ferocious assault, unknowingly stayed in place, turning into a ready-made target.

As everyone knows, when a fight reaches a stalemate, the side with more people wins.

Although the Void Spawn had quite a number of researchers and guards from the Spirit Wisdom Institute supporting it, they do not count as they are not Humans.

And on Ian’s side…

there was Frost Butterfly!

“Now!”

Seizing the moment, Ian shouted as he let go of his swords.

The Iron Pattern Sword and Heavy Abyss Iron Sword were thrust into the ground, and both hands reached forward, fingers spread wide.

A silver projection of Solid Armor appeared, briefly transforming him into the form of a Rock Cast Knight, the young man apparently intending to use his own body as shackles to firmly lock down the movement of the Nightmare Spawn.

Although the Nightmare Spawn did not possess the common sense of Humans, having materialized from the collective nightmares of living beings, it too possessed incredibly refined combat skills, or rather, killing techniques.

Its colossal body fluidly moved, coiling into a ball like the body of a lobster, beginning to dematerialize, impervious to physical attacks and preventing any of Ian’s locking moves.

But at that moment, the tail of the Nightmare Spawn seemed to slow down, neither fully coiling into a ball with no blind spots nor entering a dematerialized state, still maintaining its solid form.

At the tip of its tail, the purple-red blood of the Ice Fairy was still shimmering, slowing the enemy’s movements.

Therefore, Ian, stretching out his hands, grasped the tail of the Nightmare Spawn—he stood firmly on the ground, his knees slightly bent, the muscles in his arms and shoulders writhing, bursting with inconceivable strength.

Then, incredibly, he swung the Nightmare Spawn around, snapping it out of its ethereal state, and slammed it hard onto the ground!

Boom, boom, boom!!!

The sound expanded along with the exploding sonic rings, the torn air bursting in all directions—but though the Nightmare Spawn took the hit squarely, it surprisingly still had the capacity to resist.

Its long tail thrust forward, attempting to strike at Ian’s head once again.

Meanwhile, not far away, the Frost Butterfly floated in mid-air, aiming Ian’s Charged Water Gun; it had finally taken aim.

“Fire!”

The Little Fairy whispered softly, and then the Extinguishing Potion, pressurized and expelled with all of Frost Butterfly’s might, formed a narrow, scalding red line that struck the body of the Nightmare Spawn.

—Ian had previously been dispersing low-temperature Origin Quality with his Fairy Wings and Frost Comet Skeleton, covering the shell of the Nightmare Spawn and even using his own blood to slow down its movements.

—And now, Frost Butterfly had launched a super-heated Extinguishing Potion, hitting the Nightmare Spawn’s shell precisely.

As is well known, extreme temperature shifts between intense cold and intense heat can lead to the destruction of a material’s ductility…

Even if the Nightmare Spawn is a Heart Light Body, in the Subspace, it exists almost tangibly.

Therefore… it must obey the laws of the material world.

Covered in a layer of high-heat flames, or more accurately, alchemical thermite of the Extinguishing Potion, even the Nightmare Spawn could not ignore it.

It roared in anger, furiously waving its remaining three wings, attempting to continue its attack on Ian, who had been persistently entangling it and emitting a detestable aura.

But at that moment, Ian had already drawn the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword from the ground with a swift motion.

His ten fingers gripped the sword, channeling Origin Quality with all his might, activating the armor-piercing and impact inscriptions on the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword, and employing the techniques associated with the “Blunt Greatsword” and The Unyielding Fortress.

The Longsword, reinforced with Seraph Silver and fine gold, shimmered with blue-golden patterns, then was swung with all of Ian’s strength!

Aether Crystal, Ancient Dragon Heart Core, Clear Source Crystal—eightfold explosion!

What could be more fluid than this sword strike?

In that instant, it was as if a tsunami, like a mountain collapsing, Ian’s Hongtao Sword, which had already reached the Grand Knight Level, advanced yet again.

A terrifying concept of an unstoppable disaster emerged, one that could neither be halted nor defended against, and then it materialized into a tangible form within the Subspace Labyrinth.

—An irresistible blade of light.

A terrible sword light that would engulf anyone daring to block its path.

The Nightmare Spawn, intending to charge forward and pierce the detestable little man before it with its unbeatably sharp tail, suddenly heard a crisp crack, and then its vision went black.

That crack was the sound of its invincible shell being shattered by the Blunt Greatsword, its upper body sent flying.

It was dead.

The swift blade of light tore through the sturdy shell, the body of the Nightmare Spawn disintegrated, its Heart Light Body collapsed, turning into a mass of black, sticky malevolence that dissipated into the Subspace.

Behind it, a sword mark likewise burst on the door of the control room, which then split in two!