Chapter 178: Battle of Spirit Masters (3)
Robert stared at Liam for a moment, still unable to understand how the powerful Eleanor had fallen for the black-haired boy.
'Even if he is a Spirit Earth cultivator, that wouldn't justify much. Eleanor had good enough magical abilities for someone of my level to have trouble just hurting her... What did he do?'
That was the same thought in Enos' mind at that moment. However, it made him want to kill Liam even more and absorb Thal'Korr's vitality.
Liam looked in Enos' direction after killing Eleanor, drying the blood on his lips and watching the big man run towards him at the moment of Robert's inattention.
However, at this moment, Liam was exactly where he wanted to be.
'You made a mistake attacking us when we were fighting a group of powerful women.'
Liam cracked a smile on his face as a curtain of purple mist formed around them.
The six women remaining in the area felt Liam's power, each of them turning their eyes towards him as their hearts leaped and their bodies burned.
The passion in her eyes was almost palpable. Without exception, each of them moved away from their opponents, while the shadows in the area prevented those Spirit Masters from moving.
Before Liam had even finished his move, Robert noticed his enemy's movement and moved too. He aimed for Enos' back, while imagining that Liam could defend himself and even counterattack.
The Leopards' men, temporarily restricted by Liam's powers, felt free a second later, now with Enos' men closer to them.
While the Leopards' men changed their temporary targets, letting their Spirits fight for themselves, the remaining women attacked Enos simultaneously.
The man frowned as he noticed half a dozen abilities trying to restrain him at the same time as Robert's movement.
'Why are these women turning on me?'
he asked himself angrily.
But Enos didn't fear a group of women like that. The only woman there who could cause him any concern was lying with a hole in her chest.
Liam moved behind the group of women, forcing them to do their best to defend him.
He couldn't control their bodies enough to tell them what to do. But his seduction skills could make them want to protect him with their lives.
In the blink of an eye, the group of women were using their special skills against Enos, some of them using charm to move their opponent's mind.
Enos could be a difficult bull to tame, extremely resistant to attacks from those weaker than him. But being surrounded by women launching their attacks at him, he had no way of escaping 100% unscathed.
Robert saw his opportunity in Liam's action and attacked his opponent's back with his weapon, seeking the first enemy wound in the battle.
Liam retreated, soon turning his eyes towards Thal'Korr, who was being hunted by Enos' Spirits.
'You thought you were going to absorb Thal'Korr's vitality, but I'm the one who's going to do that to your demon, you bastard!'
Liam moved, ignoring the over 30 Spirits fighting in the surroundings as he attacked with his sword against the weakest of the three Spirits of Enos.
Moments later, the 1-Star creature from the Spirit Lord Realm exploded under Liam's third attack, causing Enos to feel a twinge in his heart.
By now, Enos had suffered a few cuts from Robert and was sweating. But even so, the greatest damage to him was undeniably the Spirit destroyed by Liam.
"Liam! I'll kill you!" he screamed hatefully, as his skin turned extremely red and his eyes emitted an unmistakable light.
At that instant, Enos entered his special combat mode, raising all his physical attributes as he charged towards Liam.
With a swing of his arms, he smashed the face of one woman closest to him, before kicking the torso of another, causing her to cough up blood as she flew away, badly wounded.
Robert saw the enemy charging at Liam and didn't hesitate to retreat as he attacked from afar, aware that facing the monster of the City Thirteen up close in that state would be madness.
Thal'Korr saw the enemy approaching as he entertained Enos' second Spirit, with his master only 5 meters away from him.
Liam saw Enos' state, but he wasn't afraid. At that moment he activated {Black Art} while having the 3-Star creature from the Spirit Earth Realm under his control!
Enos tried his best to hurry, taking the shortest route to reach Liam, passing through the battlefield and destroying three other Spirits and a Spirit Master on his way.
Two of the women tried to keep up with him to slow down his movements, while Robert himself attacked him from afar, but none of them were effective in stopping Enos.
As he was punching towards Liam's face, just a few centimeters from reaching his enemy's body, Enos saw his Spirit crumble in front of his eyes.
In that instant, the tall, fat man felt his strength drop substantially as he bled from four facial orifices.
Simultaneously with the growing pallor of Enos' face, Thal'Korr and the incubus felt their strength rise a few more notches, both approaching the qualitative threshold needed for a promotion.
But even with Enos' powerful Spirit, which had already evolved a few times during the fat man's macabre journey, they didn't have enough to evolve to the Sage grade.
Thal'Korr came closest to his advancement, temporarily gaining the strength to overcome the enemy's Spirit suppressing him.
By the time Enos' fist reached Liam's body, he had lost over 80% of his strength.
Liam remained still where he was, his face merely turning 5 centimeters to the side after the beating Enos had given him.
He clenched his teeth and admitted his enemy's power as he tasted his own blood. If it hadn't been for him striking a blow to Enos' soul, that attack could have killed him!
Enos' attack was still strong enough to hurt!
But now he was weakened and close to Liam.
The black-haired boy didn't miss his chance, attacking Enos' large body with his sword.
Enos' body was weakened, but even with his enemy in that state, Liam only penetrated 8 centimeters of his enemy's flesh. His sword failed to reach one of his opponent's vital organs, and he frowned as he walked away.
'Looks like Grace still underestimated this bastard's defensive capabilities!
' He looked at his enemy with an expression full of surprise.
But while Enos looked like he was going to plummet to the ground at any moment, Robert took the opportunity to move. Appearing two meters behind his enemy, he unleashed the blow that Liam had failed to deliver, piercing even more of the Emerald Owls' leader's body.
"Aaaaaagh!"
Enos cried out in pain, no longer able to support the weight of his own body and falling forward.
Liam switched his gaze from Enos to the surrounding enemies, confident that Robert would deal with the main one of his opponents.
He himself had no desire to kill Enos. The man had caused him a lot of trouble, but the death of the leader of the faction behind the Arena wouldn't change if it came at his hands.
Only 3 women from Abyss Matriarchs were left alive at the moment, while 4 men from Emerald Owls were fighting against 5 members of Leopards. Only 20 Spirits were fighting in the surrounding area and only 3 of them were demons of his enemies.
Liam let the three remaining women continue what they were doing while he went after the 3 remaining demonic Spirits.
When Thal'Korr destroyed Enos' last Spirit, the man stopped screaming, making Robert's job even easier.
Amid this, Liam was quick to absorb the vitalities of those three Spirits, two of them from the men of Emerald Owls and one of them from one woman.
'Thal'Korr should be almost 70% progressed to Sage grade. Meanwhile, the incubus is close to promotion. He's over 95%!'
Liam paused to analyze his gains from tonight, imagining that he might be able to qualitatively promote one of the Spirits while still on the hunt for the Silver-Winged Leopard!
While he thought about his situation, with less than 15% of his mana reserves, Thal'Korr returned to his soul. Liam consumed a recovery potion as the last of the Emerald Owls' enemies in the area died to Lazarus, leaving only the two women at Liam's side.
He had no use for either of them. As soon as the situation was resolved, he slit both their throats, showing his remaining faction mates how easily he could kill even beautiful women bewitched by his appearance.
Enos was the last to die, having given Robert a lot of trouble, even after falling heavily wounded to the ground. The vitality of the head of Emerald Owls was truly terrible, capable of gathering the 7 surviving Leopards around him to stare at him in admiration and terror.
In the end, Enos failed, having been overconfident in his physical abilities and letting himself fall to someone weaker than him.
Liam took a deep breath as he looked at his enemy's severed body, wondering how everything could have been different if Enos hadn't been so confident in his own defenses.
'I'll be more careful from now on.'