Speed Is King

For thousands of miles around Elliot, all of nature’s energy suddenly stood still as if they were all stunned.

Spells and skills which depended on nature’s energy instantly fizzled and caused horrendous damage to both shadow realm warriors and warriors of the known universe.

“What the heck just happened? Why did all of this stupid universe’s energy suddenly freeze and refuse to do my bidding?” The little boy roared out angrily in his deep and mature voice. “Primal Golden Dragon Soul! Fix this mess!”

“This is unlike anything I have ever seen in my long years as a Primal in this universe.” Primal Golden Dragon Soul replied uneasily even as she continued to blink away and escape from Primal Alexander’s many clones who were chasing her down like little boys trying to catch a flying butterfly!

“Damn it. I have no choice but to use my shadow energy. I won’t be able to refill my shadow energy in this realm, and will have to retreat back to the Shadow Realm if this fight stretches for too long. Unleash your full power and open up ten thousand more portals at once!” The little boy shouted at Primal Golden Dragon Soul privately. “I want all of our forces in here within fifteen minutes!”

Elsewhere, other Primals were also cursing the sudden freezing of nature’s energy.

“God damn it! What happened to mother nature? Why does it suddenly refuse to listen to me? All my shields are based on nature energy!”

“You’re a full fledged Primal, you’re telling me you don’t have a single shield that isn’t based on nature energy?”

“I am a God damn sentient tree! Of course all of my spells and skills are based on nature energy!”

However, at that moment, all the nature energy that had frozen for a second suddenly surged towards Elliot!

“Hey! Stop!!”

“What the hell? Who is the one absorbing all the energy? Quit being such a selfish asshole and share the energy with us, damn it!”

“The energy is flowing towards the Gaming Commission meeting room. It must be Saint Dul’Akharat that bastard!”

“Who are you calling bastard you bastard! My clones and I are spread out all around the area saving your butts!”

“Ah hahahaha! Saint Dul’Akharat! I was kidding! Kidding! Of course you’re not a bastard! I knew your mom and dad, remember? They were definitely married when they got you right? No? They were not?”

However, back at Elliot’s position, everything was strangely calm.

The abomination and all of its shadows had retracted their body parts, and were rapidly combining into one ultra-ultra-large abomination that was also ultra-ultra-disgusting to look at!

Thankfully for Elliot, he had his eyes closed to focus on weaving the Ascendant Rune properly. If not, he would have definitely cursed the abomination once more for polluting his eyes and mind!

Both the abomination and Elliot continued their insane energy build up for a few long seconds as space around them both began to tremble and crack as their energy exceeded even the humongous capacity of space to contain.

On the abomination’s side, she was reorganizing the full power of 50 Primals into one huge shadow entity that could put to bear every ounce of its power in one grand attack that would obliterate everything in its path.

On Elliot’s side, his Ascendant Rune was absorbing all of nature’s energy from thousands of kilometers around him!

Its awesome complexity and the sheer dominance it exhibited due to it being created by the Lord of all energies, the Cosmic Dragon Energy, caused all of the energy to obey its call obediently.

Even without activating its explosive and damaging aspects, the sheer volume of energy which the Ascendant Rune collected had already caused space around Elliot to collapse!

At that moment, both Elliot and the abomination opened their eyes at the same time, and both gasped in surprise at what the other was doing.

“Giant Shadow Abomination. And all of its power flowing smoothly and freely towards that bone spear. She has become extremely dangerous.” Elliot thought with a deep chill in his heart.

Even though he had become exceedingly powerful, he still could sense the impossibly horrifying damage that the focused attack of a being who wielded the power of 50 Primals could bring forth.

And he wasn’t sure if his Awakened Energy could resist it.

Billions of attacks spread out over a large area were easy to repulse. But combine those billions of attacks into one needle point attack?

“I cannot allow that attack to hit me.” Elliot thought solemnly.

On the other hand, the abomination was just flat out horrified.

“Cheater! You are definitely a cheater! What are you using to cheat? Why are you becoming so strong, even stronger than my ultimate skill, Shadow Empress?” The abomination shouted cutely.

However, Elliot couldn’t hear her because his ears were stuffed with energy! So he merely glared at the Shadow “Empress” (Elliot would have definitely called her Shadow Freak if he heard her skill name) and searched her for weaknesses.

“Stop ignoring meeeee! Meanie! Stop ignoring meee!!” The abomination squealed even as body parts continued to rapidly slam into her and quickly brought her nearly kilometer tall body to completion.

“Since she is just a combination of parts, a massive blow would probably be able to break her apart. I should focus on the “Strengthen”, “Indestructible”, “Speed” and “Humongous” runes when I attack and combine them into “Smash” function. That way, my attack will smash into her and cause her to burst apart.” Elliot thought.

“I advise you not to use too much of your power if you are planning to smash her into pieces.” Gilgamar suddenly spoke up. “She is just like an overstuffed rabbit. If you smash her too hard, her energy would explode outwards without being burned up in the slightest. You would cause irreparable damage to this area.”

“Hmmmm. I understand your logic. But failing to burst her would be a far worse outcome.” Elliot argued back pleasantly as he began his weaving of his planned runes.

Gilgamar merely shrugged mentally and let Elliot do as he wished. He already did his part by warning him.

Opposite him, the abomination’s massive frame was finally complete.