NOVEL WEB Chapter 118: Eh, Too Brutus?
I concentrated on increasing the Vi circulation in my body to 3 times the normal amount. Then I circulated my blood through my body faster to fuel my muscles with oxygen.
After that I manifested Midas at 3 times his normal size and I manifested my domain around us.
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Lilith looked at the domain surrounding us and said, "A domain? How quaint. No one from my realm uses them anymore. Domain auras are so much more efficient."
Brutus stopped his attacks and focused with his eyes closed. Then two more pairs of arms sprouted from his shoulder sockets. They each pulled out another sword from the many scabbards he had at his side. I hadn't really noticed those before.
I wasn't sure if they were there before or he had manifested them. This was strange though. When I made my domain aura, I had to make a inside out domain ball, but his seemed to be coming from inside his body. Maybe it was a higher form technique.
Regardless, I was going to use my domain to my maximum advantage. I focused on giving myself maximum good luck while giving him maximum bad luck.
I moved in while using Blood Saw on my Muramasa blade. I barely attempted to dodge his blows but I dodged all of them perfectly. Then slashed him across the stomach.
Instead of opening his guts onto the ground like I intended, I merely cut into his abs. The muscles on his body were so thick and tough that my blade couldn't slice through them, even with Blade Saw activated.
"You think you have enough muscles, my dude?" I said, as directed by one of the golden mouths.
"I'm not that big!" He said, frustrated and embarrassed.
"You kind of are," I said.
"Am not!" He said.
"Ok, you're not, geez!" I said, as I sliced across his upper thigh.
I kept getting a decent hits in while he couldn't touch me but I didn't feel like I was making any real headway towards defeating him. Instead of targeting me, he started targeting the ground with his strikes.
I had to back away to avoid getting hit with debris from the explosions. Every time one of his blades struck the ground, dark energy transferred out of his sword into the ground, causing a massive explosion.
With me a ways away, he changed up his strategy. He raised all six of the swords his arms were holding and black energy started the gather at the tips of them.
It made me think of Vi, except Vi was only ever white or red. My Vi had originally started white, but as I got stronger with it, it matured into a crimson red color.
However, whatever the energy he was generating was, it was black. He swiped down towards me with all six blades and sent the black balls of energy at me.
I had never graduated to sending Vi away from my body. My Vi manipulation wasn't good enough for that yet.
I jumped away from the balls of energy. I tried to get as far away from them as I thought I would need to not have to deal with any explosive effects, but I was wrong.
When the six balls of energy struck the ground, a massive shockwave went out from the impact point. And a coldness I can't describe other than to say it felt like dying all over again.
I was flung a hundred feet away by the explosion. I would need to up my game but there wasn't much more I could do except bring Midas into the mix. I didn't want him to get hurt because he was my undead soul. He was my backup copy for regenerating my body in case I was obliterated, but I needed help, and he was the only help I could ask for right now.
I empowered him as much as I could and he became as big as a car. He attacked Brutus and Brutus struggled to keep him at bay. Brutus stabbed him numerous times, but Midas kept trying to suck Brutus into his mouth.
After a brutal tug of war type of situation, Midas finally succeeded in swallowing the brute named Brutus.
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We had defeated him, although temporarily. He was stay in my inventory as long as I wanted but I couldn't kill him while he was in there so we were at a stalemate.
"Why I never!" Lilith said, in response to Midas swallowing Brutus. "It seems I was ill prepared to take over this planet. I never thought we would face a warrior who could best Brutus in battle. I will need to get reinforcements and come back."
"Enjoy your remaining time you have on this planet because it will not be very long. You have about what you call a month before I return with an army and you're finished."
Before I could stop her, with a beam of black energy, she ascended back into the sky and disappeared. I looked back at the highway and the destruction that was my entourage's vehicles.
I needed to get back and tend to my companions to make sure they were ok. I scrambled out of the glass crater and ran back to the highway, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
When I got back, people were climbing and crawling out of flipped over vehicles. I rushed over to Alice and her people. They were the least rugged of us all and thus I figured would need more help.
Johnny's boys had seen some shit. They knew the score. They would make it out of this more or less in one piece all on their own. But Alice's people were likely another story.
I jumped onto the bus turned onto its side and peered in through the broken windows. People were still laying motionless on the ground. They probably weren't wearing seat belts when the shockwave hit, so they all must have been tossed around pretty good.
Alice probably wouldn't appreciate it, but I looked for her first. She was Victoria's former and now current best friend. I had to protect her first and foremost.
I would protect everyone, but I had to choose the order I helped people in. Under those conditions I had to help Alice first. I saw her laying on the ground on her back with her eyes closed. I would recognize her blue hair anywhere.
I jumped down into the bus, grabbed her, and picked her up. I jumped and climbed my way out of the bus and laid her down on the ground a decent ways away from the highway.
Her eyes fluttered open and locked with mine. "Dylan. What happened?"
"New enemies showed up from @$$ knows where. When they arrived, there was a huge explosion and it knocked over most of the cars on the highway. I have to get everyone else to safety," I said, moving to leave.
She said, "I'm going to be selfish for a moment and thank my savior." She grabbed me by the collar and pulled me in for a kiss. It was as delicate and demure as she herself seemed to be.
She searched my eyes for approval after we broke the kiss and she saw whatever she wanted to see, because she smiled wide. "Now go save everyone, hero."
"I will," I said. I ran back to the highway and the chaos created by Brutus and Lilith's arrival.