Chapter 53

The seals self-multiplied until they reached a total of thirty-two .

He got furious because he knew this was the start of a very abhorrent set-up.

The seals flew to one side. They had assembled into a curtain like manner and they all faced Adrian

This was an undeniable sign that they had indeed gained autonomy and had chosen their battle strategy. This is the punishment for being to slow.

Like before, they waited for Adrian to move in order for them to attack.

Adrian must really have adapted to living with wolves because in the subconscious programming of the seals, he embedded one of the great mottos of the wolf. One is no more undignified than who challenges a disadvantaged opponent.

No matter how hungry or desperate a wolf is, they can never feed on dying prey , prey that has been injured , children , elderly, the sick or the paranoid.Similarly in a battle they should never attack an opponent from the above or one who doesn't show the desire to be malicious.

The dog would usually try mostly to divert its attention away from the ones until they start attacking with the intent to kill.

A wolf will measure that intention by sensing the fire up of the human core as that is basically the build up of pneuma. The logic behind that is why would someone innocent be agitated?

So these seals are acting like wolves

They can detect Adrian s energy build up but they are blind to some extent.

They don't have the most advanced programming thanks to their creator so they can't tell if a certain level is dangerous , only when there is change. Reason being they came into exist when Adrian a body was already at peak high so they perceive that as normal.

This is why they have to wait until they get some type of hint that a change is happening,even if it's just a drop of change. It's enough to make them abominable creations

Previously the seals would not hurt him because he was commanding them to act in a certain way but right now ,they are their own boss. If they choose to get rid of Adrian there is very little that can deter them from their objective.

He looked to the seals and then he turned his head to look at the weapon that was hovering over his right hand and by heavens he wished that it was still the same translucent sheet.

He signed in unbelievable annoyance and he noticed that the strip had transformed into a hilt.

The hilt was made of pure black metal with a silverfish pointy end. Its body was embedded with many criss-cross lines imitating polygons and hatches.

He is not sure whether this weapon is corrosive but he can always find out.

He reached for it and he managed to grab it without losing his hand.

He was currently in possession of one of the most creative weapons to be crafted under the sky

It's not quantified in the forbidden books on how may weapons actually exist and which are the most diabolical . The reason is because there is a high possibility that new weapons are being made everyday. So to be on the safe side, one of the books said that anything can be the master of demolition only thanks to having it embedded with magnifying scripture that will work on its user to emphasize his core strength.

That means that if a regular ribbon like the one tying Adrian s hair was to have a certain scripture written on it then it would become very destructive.

In conclusion any good weapon can be dangerous and it having special features like this one makes it even more formidable.

Anyway the awesome features of his sword is that it has an in-built design that allows a large portion of the function section to be inside the weapon . Meaning that the blade is literally inside the hilt and will only come up when need be . And in Adrian s case it will come out when the seals are ready for massacre

The second feature of this sword is the ability to cloak. When the blade is released , an exactly similar sword more often than not will emerge out of no where but will again be semi transparent and still equally diabolical. or even more lethal .

After Adrian pulled up the sword and he started to assess it, he could already guess that the blade is hidden.

The five seconds he spent looking at the sword where enough to prepare an unpleasant surprise for him

Adrian raised his head to the seals but they were no longer present where he has previously seen them.

With great bewilderment, he turned around immediately and as expected the young cultivator was beyond speechless to the scene that unfolded before him.

The seals were joining up to create the outline the contour of a man.

As Adrian s jaw dropped at the scene, he heard mechanical unfolding and as he lowered his eyes to the hilt, that is when he saw the metal rearranging to form the blade of the knife.

The pieces were joining like a jigsaw puzzle and they gave the sword a very sharp cutting edge, similar to a guillotine

The effect was very intriguing to watch but that was not the way Adrian was feeling looking at the sword because it was an indicator that the seals are ready to fight and it there is anything that is most difficult to kill is a human . And though it proves him as cowardice, he really wishes this man has no brain because he really cannot deal with an enemy that will be like an open book to different methods of killing.

That being said at the same time the sword formed ,its duplicate emerged above the other hand which still had a translucent sheet to it..

He looked to the semi invisible sword and felt a great deal of fatigue. Partly because of his fate but greatly because he felt a tingle at the tips of his fingers. And seeing tips, there were minute streaks coming out of each one.

Adrian flexed his right hand making the tingle freeze. But again at that instant , the translucent sheet jumped from its location , magnetically attracting the semi-visible sword with it. Together they aimed for the seals. The sheet flew right through the seals of man but the sword was the one that destroyed one seal. In this process both the weapons disintegrated.

Two seconds later , the seal regenerated and the translucent sheet reemerged on top of his hand.

He smirked as he realized that the exercise just gave him an example. How thoughtful!

Adrian looked to the human seals and as that happened his pupils turned red and so did his metacarpals. His meridians were filled and flowing unobstructed so much so that he can from zero to a hundred ,in a second

The enemy raised his arm towards Adrian to detect his energy change and Adrian just watched.

Out of impatience , he slyly short a small thunder bolt at the contour s face .

As it shielded with its face with its hands , Adrian ceased the opportunity to launched towards it with his steel blade but he was too late as the figure spinned its lower body then kicked Adrian over two meters away.

Adrian had embarrassingly underestimated the strength of the figure because it pushed him like he was weightless. Plus the region where he been kicked felt like one of Tajih s stone fists

He got flustered and threw away the sword but it never fell completely to the ground because admist its fall, the human contour magnetized the weapon and it pulled it towards its body then promptly held it in its hand

Adrian summoned several thunder bolts and he started to shoot them towards the human figure ,which responded by using the sword to fight a huge number of them away. And thanks to this Adrian managed to only destroyed three seals

The shooting didn't stop and it was also reflected because the figure would periodically shoot seals towards Adrian who dodged most of them while some he destroyed using his thunderbolts.

The seals that were shoot out didn't count at all because, Adrian had destroyed more than fifty of them yet his enemy was still strong as ever. Therefore those that mattered had to be the ones that compose his body.

This cat and mouse was not an effective strategy to say the least and there was not a lot of time left

Adrian couldn't think of anything else so he started to draw a spell he picked up from Emair, on the air .If an enemy won't die, it's professionally acceptable to cheat.

He peeled it off and he flew towards the human seal that was always incredibly mobile and very active as it kept attacking Adrian

While that was happening Adrian kept throwing a duplicate at a point around the contour as he ran in circles around it.

The spell he created was motion constriction. It works best when the victim is to be pinned against something as escape is unguaranteed. When it's like this setup, it would be like inflicting paralysis as the victim only gets incredibly more stiff with the more they try to move.

And that was Adrian s plan.

Within the next two minutes , eight spells were around the human figure and it was starting to struggle to move. It was furthermore having difficulty shooting out seals as they would only travel thirty centimeters then shrivel.

He should congratulate himself because the enemy is finally apprehended but he doesn't have time for that. The beast has to die now or something far worse will take its place.

Adrian knows that he can't cast out thunder bolts because the human figure would been able to deter them with his seals. Reason being that just because they don't fly doesn't mean they can't protect their master by forming a barrier

So he had to find a creative , reasonably heartless approach and that is detonation

He squinted his eyes and started to shoot at the spells around the the figure. As he did that the characters begun to circulate around the figure like the seals had circulated around him.

They started to move very fast and that also meant that they were squeezing the seal figure in all directions. On top of that they were also forming an encirclement meaning that Adrian would just have to keep shooting and won't miss.

The pressure built up so much so that that the yellow started to glow inside the orbital of red HanZi but Adrian didn't stop shooting

The wind started to blow very furiously which was an indicator of something sub-humanly dangerous that whatever that was near would never survive the explosion. This is why when the yellow started to get more and more distinguished, he begun to move a little bit further away in the direction . But he moved very slowly as all he wanted to do was pressurize the dome

He was in too much of aggressive mode that he didn't properly analyze how lethal this is becoming and how vulnerable of a situation he is putting himself in.

At that instant, when Adrian threw the three hundredth thunderbolt and he was three metres above the pedastel, the dome had had enough and was ready to explode.

Immediately after that thunder bolt touched the dome, a very large explosion occurred inside the dome obliterating very thing inside. Immediately after, black rain composed of shriveled paper was propagated.

Adrian immediately waved his reddened hands in front of him and then procedure to crouch whilst hugging his head. The outstretching had created a shield so that whatever poison falls from the explosion should not touch him. As for the crouching, it was a simple reflex.

Twenty seconds later when the wind was subtly blowing and had dispersed the black rain, he started to float downward towards the pedestal.

He descended softly and his hair was completely white, and this gave him the effect of a peacock..

He landed on the pedestal and he raised to the heavens.

His sense of accomplishment was very much entertained.