The Primal Hunter

Chapter 1397 - Chosen of the Malefic Viper vs Chosen of the Heartsoul Daolord (3)

Jake was really good at dodging. In fact, he dared venture that of all B-grades at his level, he was the best of the best. However, there were instances when even he couldnʼt avoid everything thrown at him, and this was one of them.

The Chosen of the Heartsoul Daolord could attack him from all sides with a variety of methods that made responding nearly impossible, forcing Jake to prioritize. When faced with a dragon of steam and a rain of spears, Jake chose to face the dragon head-on, forcing himself towards it as fast as he could despite space being squished around him.

That certainly didn’t help, as Jake preferred for space to act normally when he was moving through it. He pushed Pride of the Malefic Viper to its limits, trying to forcibly stabilize space, and while it worked to some extent, it was far from enough, and he clearly burned through far more energy than his opponent.

Even so, it wasn’t enough, and while Jake managed to blast himself through the drake of steam, he still suffered several burn wounds that only got worse due to the powerful sunlight trying to roast him. The rain of spears also didn’t stop falling, but at least Jake could avoid them after being free of the steam, though the feeling of space pressing in around him still made it difficult.

The Chosen of the Heartsoul Daolord didn’t give Jake any space to rest, as all the fallen spears that had gone past him suddenly all bent and flattened, turning themselves into boomerangs in the blink of an eye, naturally making them spin and fly back towards him.

At the same time, the other Chosen held up her hand towards Jake and spoke.

“Repel.”

Jake immediately felt the invisible force from the Word of Power as he was launched down towards the spinning boomerangs that were already quickly moving in his direction. Twisting and distorting his body in the air, Jake managed to safely pass by a few, but several left deep cuts before he finally got through, only for the boomerangs to all turn in the air yet again, flying back toward him.

“Attract.”

From being pushed away and flying towards the ground at high speeds, Jake was suddenly yanked in the opposite direction and dragged back toward the other Chosen and right into the swarm of spinning sharp boomerangs yet again. Fortunately for Jake, he had slightly more time to react, and with both katars in hand, he managed to avoid taking any major blows while even propelling himself towards his target, wanting to take her by surprise.

He stepped down the second he was free of the boomerangs and teleported, appearing nearly right in front of his opponent, ready to strike. Yet he didn’t.

Instead, Jake blasted himself backward just in time as a small beam of light passed right where he would have been if he’d followed through on his attack. Without his danger sense screaming at him, there was no way he would have avoided it either, as it had been a sneaky one.

The steam that had once been a river, then a dragon, had risen into the air, and once sufficiently far up, the Chosen of the Heartsoul Daolord had formed it into a lens of water that caught the sunlight, shooting down a concentrated beam of light towards him. She had effectively formed a magnifying glass and tried to fry him like some ant, and as much as Jake hated to admit it, he probably would have had a hole burned straight through whatever it had hit.

His opponent looked a little surprised that Jake had managed to pull back, something he immediately took advantage of by summoning his bow and shooting several quick arrows. He was hopeful for a brief moment that he would hit her, which he technically did, but it didn’t exactly do much.

Right before his arrows struck her, soft padding covered their arrowheads, making them all blunt, leaving only small blue marks at best. His attempt to make them explode also failed, as the padding she’d added allowed her to utterly suppress any of Jake’s control over them, causing the arrows to disperse mere moments later.

Having accomplished nothing with his one brief opening, Jake was fully forced back on the defensive again as she’d been given the chance to mentally refocus and continue her onslaught. Nearly a hundred different weapons were summoned, the one lens in the sky turned into four, and beneath him, the ground warped as the many trees started sharpening into spears ready to be launched upwards.