Chapter 299: X-Ace Clash (Part 17)

Aarav angled his feet forward to veer back through the air and get some distance, before swooping back down towards the arena, his feet hitting the floor with a thud, before he suddenly shot straight towards me.He extended out tendrils of blood from his hands before rapidly whipping them about in front of himself as I fired a volley of Negative Energy blasts towards him, blocking them with his tendrils as he swung them around with immense force.

I then unleashed a piercing beam of Negative Energy towards his head, bursting through his defense before grazing his right cheek and splitting his ear in half as he tilted his head across to the left, before he suddenly launched himself straight towards me with a pressurized burst of blood from his heels as he leapt forward.

He rapidly extended out a bone blood in his right hand and swung it down towards the top of my head, the bone splitting in half as it collided against Desecrator.

I swiftly whipped my left arm across as he began to take aim at my stomach with his staff, diverting its aim across to the right as a piercing jet of blood zipped out, grazing my left side before I slashed at his head with Desecrator.

Bone spikes rapidly extended out the side of his face, briefly halting the swing of my blade as it got tangled between the bones, before he propelled himself back with a concentrated burst of blood from his stomach as my blade began to cut through the bones, the force of the blood blast knocking me slightly off-balance.

He fired out a flurry of bone bullets towards me as his feet hit the ground and skidded back, before I swallowed up the projectiles with Devour and fired out a shredding blast of Negative Energy towards him.

He blasted himself straight up into the air with a sharp burst of blood from his feet, evading my blast before rapidly extending a bone spike towards my head from his palm.

As I raised Drain, swallowing up the bone as it shot straight into the jaws of energy, he swooped down towards me rapidly, dozens of bone spikes extending out all around his body before he sharply twisted his body into a rapid spin as he closed in on me.

I swiftly sprang back and backed away, getting some distance before quickly raising my blade above the middle of my torso as a bone spikes extended out of his forehead with immense speed, shooting towards me and closing in in the blink of an eye.

I began to raise Devour, before stopping and lowering it as quickly as I could, as he simultaneously fired out several bone spikes towards my legs, swallowing them up as the first one collided against the flat of my blade with a sharp clang, pushing me back across the arena.

As the bone began to branch out, I sent both Devour and Drain zipping in towards it from either side, chomping through the branching bone spike, a couple of trickles of blood running down my hands as the branches nicked my skin.

Several blood orbs came shooting towards me, before a thick crimson mist burst out as the orbs erupted.

I unleashed a powerful burst of Negative Energy around myself, blowing the mist away, my gaze darting about before I quickly lifted my gaze up, several bones spikes extending down towards me with immense speed.

I raced across to my right, a couple of the spikes grazing my left arm and side, slightly piercing into me as the spikes branched out, before I launched myself further away with a burst of Negative Energy from behind me, the wounds swiftly closing up as I whipped my arm across, firing out a slashing wave of Negative Energy.

He unleashed a burst of blood from his right side to propel himself to the left, my attack inflicting a shallow gash across his right bicep, before a barrage of bone bullets came shooting down towards me.

I swallowed them up with Devour as he zipped down and landed, before sprinting towards me as he fired our a volley of rapid blood arrows at me.

I consumed them with Drain before lowering Devour over my legs as he took aim and unleashed a flurry of bone bullets.

He jumped with a sharp burst of blood as he began to close in on me, a thick bone spike rapidly extending out of his palm as he raised his hand, branching out rapidly, a large, wide construct of bone spikes casting a shadow over me.

As he began to swing it down towards me, his eyes widened in alarm as I launched myself straight up towards him with a concentrated blast of Negative Energy from the bottom of my feet, swinging Desecrator across at his chest as I closed in on him.

Suddenly, he extended out a row of curved, smooth bones from his chest, my blade sliding along the curves before inflicting a deep gash across his left bicep as he diverted my blade away from his chest.

"<Lethargy>," I chanted as I shot past him, before twisting my body around as he tensed, slamming my left palm against the middle of his back before chanting, "<Slumber>. And <Mana Pulse>."

He let out an excruciating yell of pain as his body shuddered and spasmed in agony, before several bones spikes erupted out of his back as he began to fall, a few piercing my legs and stomach before getting wrenched out as he plummeted down towards the arena, while I hovered in the air with jets of Negative Energy from my feet.

He shakily fired out a blast of blood as he closed in on the floor, the force of the blast softening the impact as his feet thudded against the floor, lifting his gaze up towards me as he slowly got back onto his feet, stumbling slightly as tears of blood steamed down his eyes, the whites of his eyes deeply bloodshot, with trails of blood running down from his nostrils and ears too.

"Damn, that hurt, I can barely walk straight...guess I’m the one getting boned," He remarked, as he ran his sleeve across his face to wipe the blood off.

"I believe it’s time to end this. <Descent>."