Chapter 179 179: Going above the limit
It was pure raw fear which surfaced in his eyes as soon as his own existence felt the weight of an eldritch's presence nearby.
Daoisto himself wasn't an eldritch entity at all.
When faced against Eryndor, whose fundamental existence stood at the peak of hierarchy, his eyes inadvertently displayed a hint of fear.
Realm nine was the final realm in all power systems. Be it for anomalies or the eight power systems.
Eldritch entities were those who stood at the peak even amongst the ninth realm.
Calm down.
Calm down.
It isn't his true form.
Daoisto mentally calmed himself as he faced Eryndor.
He threw the fire ball in his palm, this time amplified by his authority. The first one he had thrown which burned Eryndor's arm was just a basic one.
To his surprise, the fireball he had thrown swung back at him within a second.
He only managed to dodge by hair's breadth as he seriously considered the student before him.
"Telekinesis? You really are an eldritch huh. Damned lucky beings."
There was hatred in his voice as a myriad of balls of different elements conjured around him, all amplified by his authority as he shot them at Eryndor at the same time.
By the time those balls reached Eryndor though, each one of them had disintegrated.
Daoisto gritted his teeth.
Such mastery of Telekinesis, was he lying about his memories? What use was that though?
Daoisto continued his onslaught, but no matter what he did, Eryndor deflected each and every one of his attacks.
The student with the eldritch presence was ominously glowing with black light.
It wasn't exactly black light, but an alternating occurrence between black aura and blinding white light, just with such a high frequency that it caused one to perceive both as one.
I at least need to kill him here. If something goes wrong, the Cosmic Limit will handle it.
For the first time since the fight began, Daoisto used his Amplification authority at a level higher than the one allowed by the Cosmic Limit.
Surprisingly, the Cosmic Limit didn't immediately act on him, but the secret realm began shaking.
The ground, the trees, the sky, everything. It looked like someone was holding this already unstable pocket of space and shaking it.
A more appropriate wording would be; someone trying to crush an already cracked ball.
*****
When Eryndor switched to his second form, far away from where the two of them were fighting, one of the members of team Yetoren standing at the edge of the battle abruptly cried out.
"An anomaly! A very powerful anomaly!"
Co-founder Morris, who had transformed into a large beast momentarily halted before continuing to swipe down his huge paw with fully unfurled sharp claws. He still had a thought though.
Is it Daoisto who is no longer bothering to hide his true nature, or did something happen to that brat?
It was a beast with six limbs, four on the ground, which provided exceptional stability and two long thick ones which emerged from the shoulder with three sixty degree mobility.
A weird thing about it was that it wore clothes around its torso.
Guardian Sol, who had always been a steady fighter didn't even bat an eye at the reminder as he held up his shield which glowed briefly, easily blocking the paw.
In this tense situation, he didn't care if there was a powerful anomaly nearby. His life was on the line.
As he defended against Morris, from the corner of his eye, he could see Ronin emerging who slashed at one of the limbs of the beast.
True to his status as a Co-founder though, the beast quickly transformed back into a middle aged man, easily making Ronin miss his attack.
In his human form, he no longer had any clothes except for the one around his torso which was specially made for his case.
"Keep in mind that you're attacking a Co-founder." He spoke to Ronin.
After that guy had joined the battle, he could never truly put his full focus into attacking Sol, as Ronin had a high enough offensive damage to seriously injure him if he didn't pay attention.
It allowed Sol to get away multiple times, and even defend easily at times.
"Don't listen to him. Like I've mentioned before, I'll take full responsibility for whatever you do in this battle. No one will be able to touch you outside."
Guardian Sol spoke. Having a relatively easy time after Ronin joined, he was able to divert his energy to heal himself.
As they fought while keeping the new information revealed by team Yetoren in mind, all of them suddenly felt the shaking of the entire secret realm.
*****
Uncaring of everything, Daoisto used a level four Amplification on his lightning sphere, amplifying its 'speed' aspect to the maximum, throwing it at Eryndor.
Lightning, alongside the element of air, was known for speed, so one could only imagine what heights of speed it would reach when an authority of amplification acted on it.
Despite that, he noticed. He keenly saw how the students deviated the path of the ball, and also used Telekinesis on himself to dodge it with extreme ease.
Well, if one doesn't work, how about more?
Eryndor wouldn't give him the chance though.
All this time, he had been advancing towards Daoisto, but the latter hadn't done anything. It was better for him if the student advanced, as it meant he would have less time to dodge his attacks.
"Damned Telekinesis."
Daoisto muttered angrily as he hastily threw a sphere of water to counter the sphere of air thrown by Eryndor, one condensed purely through the prowess of Telekinesis.
Daoisto didn't have the time to follow up with anything though as the rune on the fifth door of Eryndor's Mind Palace began shining more brightly, its effects directly manifesting in the real world as it momentarily blinded Daoisto.
"What the hell is up with that?"
Daoisto muttered angrily, as a feeling of unease grew within him.
True to his thoughts, a change was once again taking place within Eryndor's Mind Palace.
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