Chapter 41: Obstruction (2)

Chapter 41: Obstruction (2)

With 3 rings of Xue Tie's blood trace ability active (4th spirit skill of his armor), he takes out his trident and the 2 envoys of the food god rush at him. Xue Tie is surprised that the food spirit master who is the support is also rushing in but he doesnt mind.

"Don't let him unleash it" The supporter says and they seem to have information on his abilities, or at least the early ones but due to having modified his first abilities timer, they were surprised by that initially.

The Hammer man rushes forth with his 5th ring active, He slashes out at Xue Tie while the food type keeps going. A powerful shockwave is sent out toward Xue Tie. Who is only smiling.

"GOTCHA BITCH" He activates both the Domination state of his Blood Gods Domain. Then he activates his third martial skill to increase his already boosted defense. On the other hand, the two envoys are pressed down by the dense killing intent being released from the domain. The original shockwave is greatly suppressed where Xue Tie can easily withstand it.

"I thank you for this ability Godrick" Xue Tie says to himself as he activates his 5th spirit skill and stomps his foot towards the food support master. With that step, a tornado is unleashed around Xue Tie that he manipulates with his hands. He sends out sharp gusts of wind at the food envoy.

"Marble Rye, Bestow Protection" He quickly uses a spirit skill to create a giant stone bread wall to protect him but under the suppression of the domain, the wall is broken through and Severe cuts are inflicted upon the food envoy. His whole body was bloodied by the knockoff tornado.

The blood drawn was taken to heal Xue Tie under the domain's vampirism effect. The food spirit master was blown away and while Xue Tie could have continued attacking him, the damage would have been negligible. As such, he unleashes the rest of the tornado at the hammer envoy. Causing wounds on him as well but on a smaller scale as he still retains the defensive food buff on him. But the domain outright negates the increase in strength from the food and then some power since it's all percentage based.

Even if there is resistance due to the difference of cultivation ranks. By technicality, they are the same rank as Xue Tie has 6 rings as well, just split between 2 martial spirits. But a miniscule amount of resistance remains and while the duo envoys are greatly injured as a result of this clash. Their plan to barricade Xue Tie inside while The hammer bounces around inside.

The two envoys look at each other and with an understanding gaze. They both take out a bottle of a golden liquid. They drink it and their injuries begin rapidly healing and their auras grow as they are surrounded by light golden glows. Making them appear akin to angels, as such, Xue Tie can only assume that the liquid has some sort of connection to the divine. An Ambrosia of sorts perhaps. Luckily he knows a counter to healing.

"nihil" He proclaims as he summons out his trident and stabs out. With the original trap having rattled them, they forgot about this ability. Both envoys vomit out blood as veins are also tense and bleeding. While they feel horrible, Xue Tie feels great as the remnant energy of the golden liquid was also stolen by him. Making him feel giddy as the golden liquid seems to merge with his blood but to no immediate effect or change.

He can only investigate this further at another time as he still has two deadly enemies before him.

"Spirit Rye, Restore grace. Blood Rye, restore nature, Wind Rye, Grant Grace" The food type uses his rings to once up the last of his spirit skill and summons up new rye types that he has never heard off. He eats the blue green rye bread which grants him a speed boost that allows him to escape behind the hammer man once more. With him not being within range of the domain, he isn't cramped to escape. He then gives the other 2 rye breads to his partner. The red one seems to make his injuries heal but not as fast as the first heal while Pure green rye bread seems to cause an outburst of energy.

The food envoy uses the white rye to heal himself fully. Their recovery seems to propagate the golden glow to return and Xue Tie grins at the deliciousness being delivered to him.

"Nihil", They both explode again and while the food master is doing fine, the hammer man is quite bloodied as his veins have exploded. He charges up his 1st, 5th and 6th spirit skills. The Sizable hammer grows to eclipse half a skyscraper in it's size. He then just barely throws it at Xue Tie. Who changes the Dominion state of his domain to Armament. The killing intent is condensed and it makes his red and black robes seem more ominous with the red bloody mist around it and red outline.

He activates his third spirit skill, Immutable and the earth cracks under his weight as that is also strengthened by his domain. He almost tunnels underground. If he had a proper tunneling skill then he could surely have dodged this but as it stands, the hammer almost directly collides with his face and he has to raise his arms to block the collision.

BOOOM

Xue Tie is sent flying back from the collision as he coughs up blood into the air. With no suppression, being buffed and fully going into attacking, Xue Tie struggled to match his defense against the power of the true Assault system Spirit master that is the hammer envoy. The skyscraping hammer flies past him but that only makes Xue Tie shake in fear as he knows the impact would be greater on the return. And his fears are confirmed as the hammer man activates his 2nd ring. The hammer begins returning while chasing Xue Tie.

Xue Tie can only try something new as he cant go around the hammer, It's possible it has a range limit but he would rather not risk it. He turns off Immutable and spreads his wings. He flies towards the two envoys. His original high speed is made insane under the strengthening of the Armament state of the domain.

Yet when he reaches the duo's location, he bypasses the hammer man in front for the food type in the back. The food envoy tries to escape but his speed is subpar as he has to build up speed first as compared to Xue Tie is already going fast and activates immutable to have his weight provide speed as well. He grabs the food spirit master by the face and spins around towards the hammer man.

"Hehehe, Go on, have your hammer come at me. I have shown I can take it. But can the same be said for your friend?" A Maniacal smile on Xue Tie's face as he is pushed to his limits to win at all. Both have a grim expression but strangely the Food master seems to have a resolved expression as he says

"Do it."

"For the glory of the Food God" he continues.

The Hammer man has a dark expression as he replies. "For the Glory of the Food God." He allows the hammer to continue going after Xue Tie, who is shocked by the actions but realizes, 'As expected of real religious fanatics. I am still a few steps too far from this point'.

While partially lost in his thoughts, he senses an energy build up from the food master. Xue Tie kicks him away and grabs his trident for a final attempt.

"NIHIIIIILLLLLL" He yells out, pushing all his energy to the profaned skill as the hammer man explodes into a poodle of blood, while the food master kneels over as his self destruction is halted. The backlash and Nihil cause him to collapse on the floor. The hammer which was initially bountiful and unwavering, begins dissipating as its owner dies from the powerful call of blood.

"HAH, HAH, HAH" Xue Tie is breathing hard as he runs out of energy. He falls over unconscious but healthy as the nihil helped him recover. His trident and armor dissipate as he passes into dream time.

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Howdy everyone

As you can all see the limits of the mc at the current stage of the story

I have some….ideas brewing.