GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



Salvini got to the attack buff. Then his link was severed and so were the connections he had with the army of Vipers. His death had a great impact on the Vipers for several reasons. For one, a paragon was killed by someone other than the champion of the furries. It's like a paragon being killed by a normal Viper. It brought low the prestige of the paragons. His death reduced the morale of their soldiers since they saw it happen. It happened right in the midst of them too.

His death also weakened them physically. They lost the empowerment that they had and became easy prey to the battle sage monkeys. Without the attack paragon around, Salvini and the other paragons can now unleash spells and wanton destruction on the Vipers without any worries. Things have officially become very bad for the Vipers.

"Let's scatter." The immortal link said with finality.

The spell tower agreed reluctantly, "Fine." 

Back To Soverick.

Soverick kept all three of them together. He ran up to the spell tower and kicked her. Her barriers protected her but that didn't stop her from being tossed towards the brutes. He would kick them or use his attacks to keep them together anytime the distance between them increased. That made them close together so he could run around them and attack them from every side. 

This process continued without a problem. They were trying to fight and resist him so they never bothered with themselves being so close together. Being close wasn't a problem for them when they had the problem of surviving Soverick on their mind. But things changed when they decided to split up. They stopped trying to fight him and decided to run in different directions.

Soverick narrowed his eyes at the change. 'It seems they are planning something.'

The brutes stopped trying to fight back and the spell tower stopped trying to make more spell matrixes. The difficulty of keeping them together increased with them actively trying to get away from him. He doesn't know what went on in their links or what they spoke about but he knows that the attack buff just died. If he were the one on the losing side, he would do something to change the situation too.

"It seems you're desperate to go. Well too bad. You're going nowhere." He mocked them then he activated his nullification field.

Their environment ground to a halt. The small typhoon that he created as he circled them froze and disappeared. Momentum ceased and motion stopped. Everything was supposed to stop. It didn't. The paragons spread their domain and broke his nullification field. His nullification field shattered and motion resumed.

The paragons are too powerful to be constrained by him. Their connections will always feed them momentum even if he cuts them off from the momentum in the environment. Unless he can stop all the Vipers in this arena, he can't stop the Paragons.

"Fine. Let's end this." He gazed at them and said, "WRAITH OF DEATH: ECHOES OF THE PAST."

The nullification field was broken but it made them pause for a split second. It did its job and that's enough for him. He has had enough of their fight. So he decided to end it now. He activated one of the moves of his skill set on them. 

He used that split second to make his four eyes fuse into one. Then he used the ECHOES OF THE PAST. The three of them were bunched up close together so the violet light that emanated from his single eye covered all three of them. 

Time latched on to the three paragons and they began to peel open. All the injuries that they have suffered recently suddenly appeared. Every bruise and every cut, every painful blow and every blow that they shrugged off all returned instantly. 

Every injury that they suffered and healed from recently appeared together at the same time. The injuries bypassed their defense because they already suffered it. They might have forgotten about those injuries but they left their marks in time. He simply dragged them from the past to the present. The past was made to echo in the present and determine their future.

It was too much for the paragons. The brutes screamed as their skin unfurled and wilted like the petals of a flower under a very hot sun in the dry season. All the little and big damages that he did to them may have looked like a waste of time when he was doing them. But together and all at once, they became fatal. The arena saved them before they turned into peeled and mashed-up tuber.

As for the spell tower, she survived. He hasn't managed to touch or harm her physically. The only thing he ever did to her is subject her body to intense and crippling gravity, tear her spell matrixes apart before they are formed, and break her barriers over and over again. He has done nothing to harm her life.

So the damage he did to her now is mainly mental. All of that happened to her again and at once. Someone else will have had their mind blown, shattered, and scattered to the wind. But not her. She is a paragon after all. She is made of stronger stuff than that.

The sudden injuries and pressure on her mind would have overloaded her consciousness and made it burst open like a compromised dam but she survived. Her threads empower her mind and concentration so she was able to withstand the pain and the mental injuries. She came out of that move with a mild case of mental stun. In other words, she was just stunned. She will be able to recover soon.

Soverick didn't give her that chance. Being stunned made her barriers fall. She is unprotected for once. She is vulnerable and ripe for the taking. And he intends to take advantage of her. His single eye gleamed dangerously as he moved into action.