Chapter 248: Power Play, Lily's Trick
Each domain had a breaking point, which was connected to the point that would ethereally appear outside in the material plane.
That ethereal point outside could be used to enter someone's domain forcefully as well, but once inside, it would be hard to find that point.
However, there was one way to cancel someone's domain forcefully and exit, but it required a powerful and highly perceptive way to use one's spiritual power.
Erix and Rin had sufficient spiritual power and even a high-quality medium of it.
Spiritual Mystic Eye!
As long as they carefully spread their senses and find the breaking point in their domain, they could attack that point with a condensed and powerful attack, creating an ethereal hole in that breaking point—an exit.
Once someone who was forcefully pulled into the domain exists, the owner of the domain wouldn't be able to pull them again unless they waste energies to activate their domain again, which would be counter-productive if they were short of Spirit Force.
…
*Crackk...Slash!*
Rin cut open the thousand-eyed whale as blood rained all over around before she spread her senses and ran away at her fastest speed like lightning.
She also chugged a Mana potion as using her Chaotic Cross-Slash inside the whale-monster consumed her Mana.
The Royal-order hunter was confused. He thought that Rin would directly attack him to kill him, so he would use his powers on defenses in his domain to wear her down.
Alas, Rin didn't plan that, and the Royal-order soon knew what she was going to do as he sensed the breaking point of his domain getting pressured.
'No way!' Shelang was alarmed. 'How come she found it?!'
Shelang flew towards Rin in his giant form while exotic vines with sharp and raging water pressure circulating around them shot toward Rin.
'Raibor, adept the defensive chronace flow!'
Rin was instantly covered in a slime barrier that started oozing out Chronace Flow and created five layers of whirling flow around it.
After all, Raibor Power Slime was the Bizarre-type fairy that adapted, absorbed, and grew on its master's powers! Once it was bound, it would only have one master for its life.
All of the attacks that came her way were significantly slowed down while the chronace flow directed them around her barrier, not clashing with them, but using the flow power mix of Wind, Lightning, and Time to alter their course.
This consumed less energy than directly defending, and this was only possible with Chronace Flow, which had wind that could mix with time to change flows.
Lightning sped up the process while the attribute-concept empowered it and also put the lightning force into the flow, which helped defend and minorly break the attacks, pushing them to go with the flow.
It had a separate pool of energy, so Rin wasn't using her Mana for it. Instead, she was already in the form of executing her strongest compact Skillcraft.
Her 2nd Skillcraft: Vorpal Stream Blade!
The Blade Eater in Katana form was imbued with 1000 Mana worth of Chronace Flow while the magic formation took a whooping 1200 Mana and an additional 1000 Blade Energy as her Katana suddenly expanded one hundred meters long!
It pierced out of her slime barrier seamlessly for a brief moment before it condensed into a normal-sized blade again.
The blade glowed intensely with potent energy while micro-chaotic whirls inside controlled by her chronace flow moved chaotically, yet in a formation.
"You will not!"
Shelang shouted as he saw Rin managing to deflect his attacks and intending to exit his domain.
'I can stop her if I put my defense before the breaking point,' Shelang wanted to keep Rin here as long as possible so that her companions could catch and kill Lily.
If he let Rin escape, he might die against her deadly attacks because, ultimately, no amount of his defense could break her conceptual power of Blade that he felt applied to him when he was in Rin's unless he had a counter-defense against her type of power.
It was Severam! Shelang didn't know, but he was feeling Severam's power that could essentially allow Rin to sever anything as long as she slashed powerfully enough.
But inside this domain, he could even resist Severam's power with his expertise in a multitude of defenses that were even more prominent in his domain. Even his class was defense-oriented.
As such, he made a move.
A stupid move to use against someone like Rin.
Rin's Spiritual Mystic Eye was fully activated and spread, locked onto the breaking point and also Shelang as she needed to keep her attention on him.
And….she managed to sense the flow of his energy.
Rin's pupils instantly shrank while wrists burst out with blood, almost shattering! However, she kept them stuck with her spirit force and chronace flow using some Mana.
Shelang defended his breaking point, but Rin canceled that attack.
Her arms continued moving along with her hands holding the dark gold Vorpal Stream Blade that had a condensed and compact energy form with golden and dark red sparks with chaotic whirls in them!
Her target was no longer the breaking point but the Royal-order hunter, Shelang!
The moment she finished swinging her Vorpal Stream Blade, her wrists detached with blood bursting out, but her detached hands blurred along with the Vorpal Stream Blade that zoomed towards Shelang.
Shelang was in his domain-combat form, and his defense wasn't something to scoff at.
However, he focused his defenses on his domain's breaking point as an exotic wooden shell with eccentric weaving patterns appeared before Rin to block her attack.
'I will not die!' Shelang just barely finished this thought and tried to burst out with his power as a wooden lump of defense with sharp flowing water formatted within it barely formed before Rin's Vorpal Stream Blade struck him.
Even though Rin brutally injured her arms to change the course of her attack, she made sure to aim it at the Royal-order hunter's head!
It struck Shelang's defense, but the Severam instantly activated and severed his entire lump of defense before the Vorpal Stream Blade chaotically exploded.
Rin's eyes glinted as she exerted her control according to the formation, causing thousands of blades to form within the chaotic explosion that became her second offense.
*Crack…Shatter!*
The sky cracked and shattered before both of them left the domain.
However, Shelang was no longer alive as his shredded body dispersed along with the aftermath of Rin's attack.
[You have reached…]
*BOOM!*
Rin ignored the level-up notification and turned to the left while chugging a high-grade healing potion to heal and recover her arms.
She saw a single dark purple projectile of punch five meters in size condensed and formulated with Erix's various powers striking the Royal-order chief.
'This guy is more powerful,' Rin narrowed her eyes and also chugged a Mana potion before vanishing like a lightning bolt while her Raibor slime turned into her giant Battle Fan.
Erix was injured all over, but his enemy was not any better off despite having a big difference in raw parameters.
When he sensed Rin's presence and her flowing energy, Erix grinned.
Since he had reached the 2nd realm in Flame concept, his offense power of Nihilir Essence had increased a lot, and this single punch projectile was pure compact offense.
His second Skillcraft: Blazing Chaos Punch—1500 mana cost.
It struck against the Royal-order chief's own attack, which was a giant hammer-shaped projectile with eccentric patterns on it, bearing black frost and earthen powers.
Alas, the qualitative difference caused both attacks to clash almost equally…only for a brief time.
Erix's punch exploded and pushed its chaotic energy output with the mind-rattling offense of his Nihilir's dismantle aspect, swiftly eating and destroying the Chief's attack.
*Shrrrr….*
The Royal-order chief who was empowering his attack to win the clash suddenly saw another attack coming, but directly at him from the side.
Chaotic Millennial Blade Vortex!—2300 Mana cost!
The chief was quickly trapped in the vortex while the numerous blades inside and a cross-slash struck him, applying 'Severam' and shredding his defenses.
Erix's punch that exploded also continued with nothing to block it as its remaining power entered the vortex, causing a loud, chaotic explosion since both of their Skillcraft also clashed.
There was only one result in the aftermath that Rin and Erix didn't even stay behind to see. Erix teleported both of them away, flying towards the Saraz Stream.
But just as they teleported ten kilometers towards Saraz Stream, they saw Lily flying towards them while smiling.
"Eh? What happened?"
Erix and Rin were surprised. No one was even chasing her!
"Haha," Lily chuckled and said, "They are chasing my clone now, but they don't know it. I tricked them after creating a misty zone above a lake. I hid inside while letting out my clone to fly north."
Statue of Self-Reflection!
"That…" Rin and Erix looked at each other before they burst out laughing.
"Damn, having a perfect clone like that is super useful, eh?"
"Our way to Saraz Stream is also clear now," Lily said with a grin as she gestured a thumbs up towards the duo.
"But since the clone only has 75% of your parameters, wouldn't it get caught soon?" Rin asked. "Do you plan to sacrifice it?"
"Yep," Lily nodded. "I'll just revive it again after consuming stats."
"That's good. We can easily get stats by farming monsters, so it's no problem," Erix nodded, but his eyes showed worry, and his brows creased.
"I want to know Lilith's situation."
Rin's face also turned sour hearing that, "Lilith…She will be safe, right?"
Lily warmly smiled upon seeing the duo getting worried and put her hands on their heads, "Don't worry about Lady Lilith. She will be fine, and we will meet up at the end of Saraz Stream as she promised."
"We should continue and do what we have to do."
Rin and Erix smiled. Lily was right. They were worrying for nothing.
"Alright, let's go," Erix smacked his fists together.
"It's time to slaughter the monsters," Rin grinned.
"And get my class."
"Yep," Lily nodded. "Let's focus on our tasks.'
The trio continued flying at moderate speed while passively recovering their energies, especially their Spirit Force and other unique energies.
The distance to Saraz Stream: 1543 kilometers.
Time: Roughly two to four hours, depending on their speed.