Chapter 988 Rematch! Eustace Against Yan Shang
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"You're the reincarnation of that divine spirit, are you not?!" Laughed a giant four-armed lion-headed chimera vampire. "Good! You came right towards us! We will use your divine spirit soul to fully resurrect our lord!"
The giant rushed forwards, appearing in front of Celes and his mother in a split of a second. His four gigantic arms, covered on black and red scales, pummeled down a dozen meteoric punches, the ground shook as it broke apart before his might.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
"Celes!"
However, Eustace appeared in front of mother and son, his sword clashing against the gigantic fists. His azure eyes overflowed with a slight about of divinity himself. Whatever remnant power from his now destroyed Divine Ember remained, was now surging from the depths of his very Origin.
"RAAAH!"
Swinging his spiritual sword, Eustace unleashed a barrage of azure-colored slashes, which the vampire felt clearly cut through him, the fingers of his hands flying away as his lion-shaped head widened its sharp eyes in shock.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"Uuurrggh?! YOU!"
His wounds couldn't regenerate as fast either. Warlocks were vampires that tried to abandon their bodies themselves, therefore, their regenerative abilities weakened tremendously compared to other Vampires in exchange for much larger bodies and mitigating their weakness to sunlight and other elements.
"GROOAAR!"
The lion's jaws opened, inhaling and then exhaling an enormous blast of burning flames against Eustace. His barriers of divine water evaporated on a split second, as he was swiftly overwhelmed. The explosion consuming him completely.
BOOOMM!!
"N-No… Eustace!" Celes cried; the boy constantly attacked the nearby monsters with his magic. A domain of oceanic water was conjured, spreading around his body. It shaped into countless of vicious sea snakes, biting the Miasmic Beasts. "EUSTACE!"
"He's not dead…" Nia said. "Calm down, Celes" His mother swiftly rushed around her son, using her powerful Wind Aura to move swiftly, evading attacks and hitting her foes with powerful, explosive and piercing blows using her spear and her wind magic combined.
As the smoke dissipated, the lion-headed chimeric vampire glared with disbelief at the scene. Eustace's phantasmal body was still there. Half of him had evaporated, but it swiftly regenerated back to normal as one of Maria's Phantom Clones fused into his body, recovering his phantasmal energy reserves.
"Eustace, don't give up." Her voice reverberated inside of his head.
"Maria…" He sighed. "Thank you! I won't!"
Eustace swiftly clashed against the Vampire once more, constantly chipping away at his life, cutting his body piece by piece. The warlock was unable to resist the barrage of attacks, even less when they were imbued with powerful divinity.
The divine ember that Eustace believed was destroyed when he died, was still there, slowly blossoming back to its former self. As he regained more of his divine powers, his sword flashed with blue flames. They were phantasmal flames, but the embodiment of his Divine Ember.
"[Azure Dragon Swordsmanship]: [Tempestuous Waves]!"
Eustace focused to his 100%, his sword dancing in the air, as endless waves of water surged endlessly, shaping into a ferocious, roaring azure dragon! He employed the swordsmanship techniques he learned from Murim, which had cursed his soul, and transformed them using his new knowledge and the remnants of his Divine Ember.
And what he acquired was something completely new! Even the Yin Shang noticed that he had bastardized the techniques of his precious sect, turning them into something completely different!
"ROOOAR!"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The mighty roar of the Azure Dragon reverberated. The lion-
headed vampire was completely engulfed by the waters, which shredded his body like a hundred slashes. His screams of agony made the rest of the vampires' alert, some leaped out of the range of the attack just in time before a tsunami of purifying water were to consume it all.
SPLAAASH!
As the vampires drowned, the Dark Pest swiftly materialized a pair of giant claws and attacked Eustace. Noticing that the lion-headed vampire, an S Rank bastard, was already dead, torn to shreds.
"Useless bastards! Can't you just handle a single ghost?!" Roared the Dark Pest, his black tendrils pierced the corpses of his vampires and absorbed their bodies and souls completely, nourishing himself. "And YOU! Eustace, I've had enough of your foolishness. You should have stayed as the cursed undead you were! Why, just why did you come to me again?! To die?! Did you wanted to die again so badly, you accursed fool?!"
"YAN SHAAAANNNGGG!" Eustace roared, possessed by his own powers, as his sword danced in the air. Both rivals of ancient times clashed against one another, explosions of azure color and miasmic darkness echoed everywhere.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Even on my sealed state, I can easily overpower you! Pathetic worm! Do you never know when you lay down in the dirt?!"
Yang Shang's powers shapeshifted; a thousand spears pierced Eustace's entire phantasmal body at once. Countless holes appearing through his soul. Each strike felt like a piece of himself was lost.
"Eustace!"
Celes cried, running across the battlefield with his mother. Lucifer and Nyx appeared by their side and protected them from the incoming vampires and miasmic beasts. Abyssal Death Flames and an army of Phantom Dragons constantly tearing down on their foes.
"Uuuggh…! Yan Shang…" Eustace vomited golden liquid from his mouth, his very soul essence. "I will not go down… Until I avenge her…! I won't forgive you! And I will… keep coming back! No matter how much you crush me! No matter how hard you TRY! I will TORMENT you for ETERNITY!"
As he laughed, the knight clashed against his malevolent rival. The demonic cultivator furiously gnawed his teeth, his darkness constantly blocking Eustace's relentless barrage of attacks. Despite all the soul damage he took, he was constantly improving, becoming swifter, stronger, faster!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"How is he so fast?!" He thought. "Damn Eustace! Why won't you go down, you bastard!"
With all his strength, the sealed Dark Pest harnessed his dark powers in the form of a gigantic palm, and crushed Eustace with all his strength.
CRAAASH!
However.
"[Azure Dragon Swordsmanship]: [Sea Dragon Queen's Rising]"
A gigantic dragon made of water pierced through the palm made of darkness, an explosion of azure light engulfed Yan Shang.
BOOOM!
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