Displaying the skills of a site, displaying pace it should not have, toxic skills it should not have, outpacing his thoughts on the identical Dimension, and now even displaying the results of a totally completely different Drive fully?

Leonel dove out of the wave, however he was nonetheless too sluggish. Whereas he managed to keep away from the cobra demon’s punch, it was as if it had managed to foretell precisely the place he was going.

It was a silly alternative, possibly essentially the most idiotic alternative Leonel had ever made.

He had been thrust in opposition to one wall after which slapped to the aspect till he hit one other one. With the cobra demon now coming straight at him, there was just one solution to dodge, and that was to his proper.

To his left there was a barrier, coming straight at him was the cobra demon, and the one open area was proper there. But when he may understand this, how may the cobra demon not?

The demon’s tail whipped throughout Leonel’s face.

At that second, Leonel smelled the scent of demise nearer than he ever had earlier than. There was no on the spot restoration to depend upon, there was no probability at clearing this Zone, and there was no escape.

His head snapped again and his backbone cracked. His cranium fractured, his mind rattling about and tearing beneath robust G-forces that it wasn’t geared up to deal with even within the Sixth Dimension. His jaw, nostril, and enamel all cracked without delay, leaving his face in an unrecognizable, bloody mess.

Leonel entered a dazed-like state and the fraction of a second this took appeared to be stretched into infinity. He may virtually really feel his physique shutting down, the reserves of his Life Drive rushing out of his pores and again into the universe that had gifted all of it to him.

The ache got here abruptly and so forcefully that he really did not really feel a factor. It was arduous to inform if it was as a result of his backbone had entered an unrepairable state or if this was simply the numbing that got here with such a lingering scent of demise.

In these moments, Leonel’s pondering pace which had felt prefer it was operating by way of sludge all this time lastly picked again up. However that solely made him extra conscious of his impending demise.

‘Shit, shit, shit…’

He could not perceive how he made such a silly mistake in battle. But it surely was even worse that he could not even consider an alternate. Assembly the cobra demon head on was not possible, the hole between them was far too giant. Each time it attacked him, its power appeared to extend. However Leonel knew that the reality was that the cobra demon hadn’t attacked all out from the very starting. It was simply toying with him.

And now… It was bored. It merely did not really feel the necessity to maintain again anymore.

Leonel was livid. Livid with Thaela, livid with the bastards that had pressured the Void Palace into such a scenario, livid with himself.

The one time he did not overestimate himself, the one time he wished to obediently settle for a loss, take what he may get and go house, the one time he pressed his personal needs down and did not pursue the place of primary, he had really ended up in such a state.

He did not need to combat this battle, he by no means wished to combat this battle. He wished to guard the lifetime of his mom, of Aina, of his brothers, and he had felt that the one means to try this was to put down his delight and concentrate on maximizing his probabilities at survival.

However even when he did this, he had in some way ended up like this.

BANG!

Time appeared to lastly meet up with Leonel’s pace of thought and his physique was slapped again to the nook he had tried to roll out from. His head rebounded in opposition to the barrier and his fractured cranium straight shattered on influence.

Leonel slid down the barrier, his eyes half open to disclose nothing however their whites. His limbs went limp and his physique ceased motion.

His face was nothing greater than a rain of mangled flesh and blood, his limbs have been twisted into odd angles and he appeared to haven’t the slightest signal of life left.

Greatest

Like a candle that had been snuffed out beneath a harsh, chilly and suffocating wind, he sat dully, his head hanging, his legs unfold and his arms limp.

The frosty chilly of the cobra demon latched onto his pores and skin and blood. With nothing to combat again in opposition to it, he shortly gained patches of frost right here and there, some on his face, some on his limbs, others on his torso, however every of them spreading like a blooming flower.

The cobra demon gripped Leonel’s neck and pulled him upward. An odd crunching sound adopted because the shifting of Leonel weight pressured his cracked backbone to crack as soon as once more.

The tongue of the cobra demon slithered out, a touch of shock coloring its snake-like face. It wasn’t very serious about Leonel’s corpse, a minimum of not initially. However when the scent of Leonel’s blood permeated the air, it made it really feel fairly intoxicated.

Saliva dripped down from the cobra demon’s enamel. What a boon. It hadn’t anticipated such a weakling to have such tasty blood. Possibly if he may acquire a small change at evolving to turn into a Chaos Demon…

The cobra demon’s mouth opened broad, its pleasure palpable. Its saliva overflowed, however when it hit the bottom, it froze right into a puddle of ice. After which, the demon chomped down.

A sickening crunch resounded.

The cobra demon took a chunk proper out of Leonel’s cranium, swallowing half of it in a single gulp.

It chewed slowly, its physique trembling with delight because it savored each chunk and swallowed.

As soon as it did, fully beside itself, it roared with pleasure, feeling as if each cell in its physique had fully come alive.

Its eyes turned purple with pleasure. When it lowered its head to take one other chunk, its saliva falling even sooner, its gaze flashed.

There, the place Leonel’s frontal cortex ought to be, a glimmer of a gem lay.

Leonel’s Ethereal Glabella.