Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 284

Chills crept on Darren's back, and his body started to feel numb. A quiver of panic overwhelmed him as he sensed a horrible breath of something powerful from the glowering sky. In his battle with the animated creatures, he was forced to use a small quantity of the dark gold internal force twice in a row. In doing that, he triggered the Heavenly Repression, and that only meant one thing: what was about to happen would be something horrible for Darren—which was not totally good at all.

Anticipating the inescapable wrath, Darren released his spiritual sense and concealed his aura in the Ancient Void Battlefield. That was the only option he had to escape the divine punishment.

Darren's technique seemed to work this time because the horrible power lingering in the glowering sky missed its goal in a second. After a while, it disappeared in the ether, and the thunderous and hair raising grumble was never heard again.

Though the sky was clear again, Darren was still in plight. Freed from the threat of the Heavenly Repression, he still had the horrid tree to handle. It was true that Darren's dark gold internal force was powerful, but its speed was too slow. The arcane tree dodged the attack effortlessly.

Responding to Darren's attack, countless wickers chased and whipped him all at once. Desperately, he tried to fly into a tumbledown hut to dodge the attack from the tree.

Boom!

Soon after the loud explosion, Darren felt two streams of great breath from his rear side. From beneath the earth emerged a giant beetle and a stone monster covered with ice. The monstrous creatures appeared in front of him and blocked Darren's way of escape.

The stench made by the two monsters' breath was the same as the tree monster. Apparently, their strengths were equal to Wonder Realm warriors in the outside world.

"Shit!" Darren muttered to himself. He felt helpless as three powerful creatures surrounded him. In his mind, he thought that he would either be beaten to be half-dead or be wholly killed by the nasty creatures.

"Water Kylin, you are such a bastard! How dare you frame me?" Darren said in between clenched teeth, vowing to punish the Water Kylin later.

In the meantime, as Darren was figuring out how to end the battle, he found himself inside a burnt hut. As he roamed his vision around, he saw a pitch-black sculpture boldly etched in the center of the hut. Many black chains twined the weird-looking statue.

A smashing sound interrupted the warrior's reverie; wickers followed Darren closely inside the hut and dashed at him again. As Darren flew backward quickly, his fingers scrabbled the black chains twining around the sculpture and made one swift swing of the strings. With that, the clunky chains hit the tree monster entangling its charred twigs and branches.

"Eh?" Darren let out a sigh as he noticed the oddity displayed by the creatures.

Something strange happened. The tree monster and the other two creatures all took hasty steps back as if they had been much frightened.

"What the hell is going on? Why is it becoming totally dark all of a sudden? Something is wrong here!" Darren shouted, puzzled, and rattled at the same time.

Shifting his gaze to the sculpture this time, Darren noticed some strange black runes flaring towards the statue. Soon a stream of weird and powerful aura loomed over Darren.

'Why are the flaring black runes the same with those etched on my wrecked armor?' Darren thought as he sifted through the runes. All this time, Darren had utterly no idea what the black runes represent in his armor were. Unexpectedly, seeing the runes on the sculpture this time, he couldn't help but ask questions in his mind.

The sky was growing darker and darker as if night had fallen deep. Not a single star twinkled in the ether. It was as if the heavens were saying that something strange was about to happen.

Sharp and icy winds kept on blowing. Darren shuddered with cold and fright. He could not put his mind on it, but some profound and ancient aura was exuding from the sculpture.

As he bent over to have a closer look at the sculpture, the stone's eyes lit up. To Darren's surprise, it was a formidable black light that was shining in its sights.

He was stricken with fear and panic. Darren's weapons were raised in preparation for an attack. 'How could a black light exist?' he asked himself silently. But Darren was sure with what he saw. Indeed, it was a beam of black light.

Though he was not sure what would happen next, Darren thought it wouldn't be safe for him to be in the hut. He couldn't stay there any longer. In a flash, he flew out of the house and channeled his strength to fly as far as possible from the mysterious place.

Yet, though he fled for a long time, Darren was still in the endless darkness, surrounded by the profound aura he felt inside the hut.

"Am I in a domain?" Darren asked. He was horrified and confused at the same time. Determined to let himself loose from the unwanted aura, he released his spiritual sense to locate the source of the high energy. He was right, and he was in some domain.

Out of the domain, the Water Kylin was still taking pleasure in Darren's misfortune. Despite that, the beast could not let Darren die, or else he would die too. His fate intertwined with Darren's. Sensing the panic and fear from Darren, the Water Kylin thought that it was about time for him to give Darren a hand.

To his dismay, however, the Water Kylin couldn't find Darren's figure across space, not even a wisp of Darren's breath.

"Fuck, where are you, master? Don't frighten me!" The Water Kylin flew to the pit and concentrated harder in looking for Darren's whereabouts.

Boom!

Desperately, the Water Kylin flared shots across the sky as he failed in locating Darren's trace. Because of his failure, the Water Kylin couldn't help but feel he was on the verge of death. Anytime from now, he could lie lifeless in the ground, and he could do nothing about it.

Not giving up, though, continuously, the Water Kylin expanded himself until he was the size of a hill. Rampage bombardment vibrated against the earth until the tree monster, beetle, and stone man were all shaken out at the sight of the oversized Water Kylin.