Chapter 413: The Breakdown (5)
In the clash of domains, Maze and Erix faced each other with their forms looking like flashing lights amidst explosions and phenomenons of their skills.
But Erix no longer managed to hold against Maze after his first attack.
Maze saw two giant spinning chakrams hurling at him while bringing chaotic space whirlpool around them and just flicked his finger, producing a giant jelly-like golden-green arm that swept its giant palm towards incoming chakrams and caused a blast, their energies meshing together as Maze nullified the attack.
Right after that, Erix's perception caught an incoming attack as he sensed it and erected his defense around him. A flickering space zone appeared around him in an instant before a baseball bat-shaped projectile with golden-green patterns and black designs struck the barrier.
Upon impact, it enveloped Erix's barrier into a faint golden-green hue before the defense burst into motes and Erix was struck squarely, shooting tens of kilometers away and crashing into a mountain.
"Is that it?" Maze appeared right before Erix with a grin.
Erix grunted and conjured his Erasure Void Rods right in Maze's body while moving his Quill to create a giant hammer.
However, Maze's body that got struck by Erasure Void Rods flickered and dispersed.
"You have to find the real me for that," Maze's voice appeared behind him.
Erix narrowed his eyes and struck the hammer in space, releasing a dome-shaped expanding shockwave with destructive aspects of his elements, mainly Nihilir, boosted by his concepts as the border dome and inside the dome produced hundreds of fist-punches.
The hammer vanished after executing this AOE skill as Erix wanted to hit Maze.
However, one part of the maze became unstable, and Erix teleported right before there as he struck his skill technique: Dual Vortex Chaos Punch.
*Boom!*
'Time?'
Erix felt a strange and familiar sensation. 'He has an affinity of the Time element?!'
"Alright, enough playing around. I'll start to bring out my real deals," Maze grinned before he appeared right before Erix, his entire body coated in liquid-like energy with thick golden-green, black, and blue flows.
Erix was prepared, but in the next moment, he felt his stomach connect to something palpitating.
Maze's punch directly struck Erix's stomach before a beautiful yet deadly phenomenon akin to a butterfly's wings burst out from Erix's back.
In the next moment, Erix's body exploded, and his Vitality reached 0.
"That's it," Maze dusted his hands with a smile. "Too weak. Even weaker than the old guy who fought Barak."
However, Erix's blasted body glowed and turned into energy before gathering together.
Everyone was surprised.
"Finally using your Bloodline power, eh?" Maze snorted with a laugh. "It won't change the outcome."
"But I'll have to match it as well."
Maze's body exploded with a powerful aura as he also used his Bloodline powers.
On one hand, a deathly black crown with golden gems appeared above Erix as he used his Bloodline's first skill—Undeath Aurelion Crown.
Undeath Aurelion Crown-Lvl 2: Increase stats by 150% of fundamental stats and grant you Paradox Spectrum Heart ->Paradox Spectrum Heart: increase your death power and life power at an increasing rate. -> Cost: 1 Blood Essence per minute.
At the moment, Erix's all stats increased by 10,500 except for Soul power, which increased by 7000!
On the other hand, Maze's body was covered in a crystalized golden-green suit with a tie, and his hands held gloves with eccentric patterns.
Maze suppressed his stats again after using his Bloodline's powers to match Erix's stats and grinned, "Come on, make a move."
Erix summoned a hundred thousand metal needles around him, made from the most powerful Metal for Nihilir's medium and boosted by the effects of all elements and concepts.
Holding his Quill, Erix made a line before 10% of those needles shot towards Maze while the line that Erix drew transformed into his latest creation as each of those needles conjured a dark hazy purple flower behind them, holding an offensive skill that would activate upon impact.
Chaotic Fireworks of Doom Flower.
Each of those needles was unsuspecting because they traveled through space in an instant anywhere and all of them struck Maze's defensive barrier.
Those needles exploded after getting blocked by the barrier, creating a huge and chaotic chain of blasts.
"Nah, that won't work," Maze spoke while standing beside Erix.
"You…" Erix was shocked and quickly hurled his other needles towards Maze.
However, what happened next was a punch projectile appearing above Erix in an instant and smacking him on the ground ten meters deep with a loud blast as a crater formed with him at the center.
Fortunately, Erix's Spectrum Heart was working well and he was almost unkillable against someone who used the same amount of stats and realm of power.
At least, that's what Erix thought.
Still, as the battle continued and Erix lost every bout no matter how creative he became and improved, an irritating and annoying feeling surfaced in Erix after a long long time.
Rin, Lilith, and Lily who watched the battle could only stay silent and watch.
'These people's skills, the foundations, and fundamentals of magic knowledge they have higher than us,' Lilith frowned.
'It is the same as a 5-year-old fighting against a 10-year-old in a math test,' Lily wryly smiled.
*Boom!*
*Crash!*
*Blast!*
Erix healed himself after every beating and continued fighting with red eyes.
'There's no fucking way I can't injure him even a bit! We have the same stats and power level at the moment!'
However, five minutes went by more with Erix trying his best but only getting one thing in return.
"It's easy to fool your spiritual sense, brat. If you can't even find and explore the correct use of your spirit power, you can forget about touching me."
Maze grinned.
Erix felt helplessness stemmed from his subconsciousness.
It told him he was helpless against this individual.
'Damn it! Damn it!'
'How is he escaping every time even when I am using my Spiritual Mystic Eye to full!?'
'What is that darn element? It looks like wind, but it's not wind. It's strange…'
Erix was frustrated greatly, but he calmed down and continued fighting. 'I have to figure it out.'