Evolution of the Ruined Heir

Chapter 273: Run

Malakai stood tall, holding two identical scythes whose blades radiated such energy that the air around them shuddered.

His eyes had never been colder as he scanned each of the opponents surrounding him.

The tension that descended at that moment was hard to describe. Malakai had just murdered one of them, two if they counted the other death he’d caused.

In their eyes, his threat level had just skyrocketed. Hands gripped weapons tightly, eyes blazing as killing intent spilled from their forms. But none of them moved.

Their eyes were trained cautiously on Malakai, but Seraza’s warning still rang in their minds. None of them was to interfere. Her bloodlust flooding the air did well to remind them of that fact.

“You’re very smart, cousin!” Seraza’s excitement showed in her voice, her gaze lit up.

“Looks like killing you won’t be so easy,” she said, her body dipping, legs coiling slowly. “That’s good. I always loved a challenge.”

‘She’s not like the others…’

Malakai’s mind ran through different courses of action. With his weapon and battle capabilities, the other node formation evolvers wouldn’t be a problem. The true problem was Seraza herself.

She had formed seven nodes and was a full blooded Sanguine vein. That meant her blood manipulation would be off the charts. Aside from that, Malakai could see it in her eyes.

The bloodlust. The killer instinct. She was unlike Julius and even Aurelia he’d faced in the past. She stood on her own level. Fighting her would be different.

“Bloodflow.”

Malakai’s expression hardened as the word rolled off Seraza’s tongue.

Her eyes flashed crimson in the next moment, red veins igniting across her face like flares. The ground beneath her cracked as her body dropped low, teeth glistening.

‘She’s coming!’

Malakai knew he wouldn’t be able to react to this speed. But he had something none of them had, an advantage. His grade three vita weapon.

Malakai prepared to use Bloodflow but froze when he felt a chill wash over him.

It wasn’t the chill from bloodlust. Nor one of danger. It was a familiar one, one he’d gotten used to over the years.

Darkness creature.

Only this was unlike any he’d ever felt before. Malakai had felt the chill of the army of grade one and gradeless darkness creatures that had marched toward him during the hunt. It had been cold enough to make him shudder.

However, this was different.

This wasn’t about numbers. It wasn’t an army.

Malakai could tell it was coming from just one direction. One source. But the chill it carried burrowed into his bones.

For a moment, Malakai froze. He couldn’t move even an inch. From his body, only his gaze could move. And as he glanced down, his heart thundered when he saw his limbs shaking.

‘I’m scared…’ Malakai realized.

He glanced up. Seraza had paused her launch. The other assassins had frozen as well. It would seem they’d felt the shift in the air.

Something was coming, and it wasn’t the grade two darkness creatures that had just formed beside them.

For a moment, there was nothing but silence.

Then, from a distance, a pillar of darkness erupted, piercing the heavens like divine judgment. A wave of force followed the pillar, slamming into Malakai and the others like a tidal wave.

Malakai found himself thrown back, hurtling through the air.

‘Shit!’ He clenched his grip on his weapons and gritted his teeth, regaining his composure. He twisted midair, landing on the uneven terrain roughly.

He was on his feet the instant he stopped, staring at the distant pillar of darkness with a cold gaze.

‘That’s from…’ he knew that place. It was where he’d just come from, where he’d fought the synergy stage evolved and survived.

Malakai’s expression darkened the moment realization struck.

‘He died.’ His eyes widened before he even registered the thought.

The synergy stage evolved he’d left limbless in that hole, was dead.

Malakai shoved away any urge to question how and focused on what it meant. The implications.

‘A grade three.’

A grade fucking three darkness creature.

It went without saying, one synergy stage evolved had little to no chance of defeating a grade three.

They were unlike grade twos.

A calamity was spawning right in front of him.

Malakai shoved down every shred of fear, his mind steeling. Without hesitation, he tore his gaze from the pillar and turned.

Seraza turned to look at him in that moment. Her grin had vanished. In its place was a deep frown. She seemed to understand what the event signified.

Regardless, Seraza’s gaze remained fixed on Malakai, determination spilling from it.

Despite the looming threat, she still had every intention of having her battle with her cousin.

But before she could even move, Malakai did something she would never have expected.

His body dipped low, and he blasted off, moving in the opposite direction from the pillar.

It took a moment for her to register what had just happened.

‘He ran away!’

Seraza’s eyes blazed with fury as her voice boomed.

“Handle the threat!” she shouted to the other assassins before blasting off after Malakai.

Silence descended upon the assassin ranks as Malakai and Seraza left. They glanced at one another, wondering if they had just heard her right.

Handle the threat? Handle the threat!?

They might not be as strong as her, but they knew a threat beyond their limits when they felt one. And this, this was far beyond what any of them were capable of facing.

“The darkness creature isn’t our target,” one of them finally said.

Another nodded. “It’s not our duty to handle it. The Arbiter will be satisfied as long as our target is taken care of.”

They exchanged nods, trying to mask the unease on their faces with their masks.

Seraza was someone they couldn’t afford to offend, being the daughter of the 4th Pulse, but facing whatever was spawning was suicide.

They were each about to follow after Seraza and Malakai when the darkness pillar suddenly receded. They froze.

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