Chapter Twenty-Four: The Serpent of Lightning
A low roar came from the black hole, and then a massive head slowly protruded beyond the black hole. It resembles a lion in appearance, but it has two cow-like curved horns on its head, each of which is at least a meter and a half long, its lantern-like eyes flashing with bloodthirsty red light, and its mouth that spews flames from time to time, and its thick teeth look like sharp daggers in the light of fire.
Rhaegar's quietly standing body suddenly moved at this moment, and a radiant energy spear appeared in his hand, and then flew towards the black hole that slowly expanded with the appearance of the monster's shoulder, and in just an instant, the eighth-order spell lightning spear burst out in the black hole with infinite energy, violently impacting the spatial channel located inside, causing it to tremble violently.
This spatial vibration was undoubtedly a great pain for the monster that was passing through the passage, and the energy storm formed by the spatial turbulence tore at its body, creating wounds on its massive body. What's even more terrifying is that the space channel built by relying on Kalan's last strength has become extremely unstable under the attack of external energy, and the black hole has begun to shrink slowly, and once the black hole is closed, all the parts of the monster that have no time to retreat, including the huge head, will be ruthlessly cut off from the body by the power of space, and remain in this world forever.
A roar louder than thunder came from the monster's mouth, and its huge head and shoulders exposed to the black hole suddenly rose its blazing flames, and majestic energy poured out of its body, and the door of space that was closing was forcibly opened by the monster with its own strength, and the expansion speed even exceeded that when Karan summoned it, in a few seconds, one of the monster's front paws had already stretched out of the black hole.
A sense of dread rose in Rhaeggar's heart. Due to the limitations of the laws of the universe, there are only two ways for any creature to leave the world it lives in: most creatures will choose to accept the summons of others, temporarily come to other worlds with the help of magic, and then return to their hometown after the summoning time is over, and a few will rely on their own strength to forcibly open the spatial passage and get rid of the attraction of the world they belong to, so as to reach their destination. Obviously, this monster was using the latter method at this time, and usually, only an existence equivalent to an archmage of the ninth order or above would be able to do this.
Unable to cherish his magic any longer, Rhaegar hurriedly chanted the incantation while gesturing quickly with both hands, and after a few seconds, when the monster's left forelimbs all came out of the black hole, the geist finally completed his magic, and a giant python with a glittering purple electric light appeared in the air in front of him, and under his command, the lightning python, which required at least two adults to hold with their arms outstretched, soared into the air and shot towards the black hole that was still expanding.
The ninth-order magical electric serpent, the trophy that Rhaegar obtained during his duel with the mage named Hasan under Kail, is also one of the highest-level spells he has mastered so far, and its power has increased at least twice as much as in Hassan's hands with the full power of the geist.
The monster struggling to break free from the black hole apparently sensed the threat of the magically generated serpent to itself, and roared in the sky, a pillar of fire as thick as substance erupted from its mouth towards the serpent of lightning, while its freed front paws were raised high and slammed at the electrodented python.
The heat that could melt the iron collided with the Lightning Serpent, and the huge energy contained in both sides exploded in an instant, and the hall that had just been devastated in the battle between Karan and Rhaegar could no longer withstand such an impact, and with a roar, the incomparably solid stone hall burst open like a balloon that had been burst, and the rubble that made up the hall immediately flew in all directions under the overflowing energy.
The pillar of fire was not able to completely neutralize the Electro Serpent, and in the wild hurricane of energy, the giant serpent, which had been reduced by nearly half in size, still stubbornly flew towards the black hole, trying to complete its mission.
A giant claw covered in long yellow hair stopped the Lightning Serpent a moment before it flew close to the black hole, and slammed it on the snake's head with a heavy force like a mountain, the pure and powerful force quickly destroyed the structure of the Lightning Snake, and after paying the price of severe burns on its entire front paw, the monster finally turned the giant snake that was enough to threaten the spatial passage into particles.
After being attacked twice in a row, the monster finally realized that Rhaegar's existence was a big problem, and in order to complete the mission given by the summoner, and in order to be able to enter this world smoothly, the monster launched an active attack for the first time.
More than a dozen human-sized fireballs appeared in the air around the monster's head out of thin air, and raindrops flew towards Rhaegar who caught the shield and blocked the energy impact, and the scorching air flow made the geist who was dozens of meters away feel as if his whole body was burning.
Before the fireball could form, the help of his Primal Friends made Rhaegar feel the danger, and he quickly transformed the shield into several magic shields of similar nature, and at the same time his body quickly retreated - the explosion caused by the collision of energy stretched the entire hall from the inside, and all the building materials flew to at least a dozen meters away, except for a few ruins on the ground, and he was now actually standing in a wide clearing, which allowed him to move in the wider space without hindrance- At the same time, it continuously fires frost missiles. These fist-sized blocks of ice often require two or three pieces to neutralize a fireball, but for the current Rhaeggar, casting such a low-level spell requires almost no preparation, as long as a thought, a dozen missiles will be formed in an instant, with the help of the time won by those magic shields, he summoned at least hundreds of frost missiles in a few seconds, and when he retreated to a place nearly two hundred meters away from the black hole, he finally succeeded in resisting all the fireballs.
But the monster's attack is not limited to this, as an existence with the strength of a ninth-order archmage, although it uses most of its strength to maintain the spatial passage, although it is unable to exert its strength due to the limitation of freedom, it is still not something that the current Raygar can compete with, just when the geist has just gained a foothold, a huge net composed of countless flames has come to his head at some point.
The heat of the fire net ignited the clothes on Rhaeggar's body, and the geist's whole body was wrapped in flames, but he didn't care about it anymore, and made a few quick gestures, and his figure disappeared from the spot before the fire net fell, and then appeared less than a hundred meters away from the side of the monster.
The monster's strength chilled Rhaegar's heart, and if it was possible, he would not hesitate to flee as far as possible, but he couldn't do that - Karan's last magic had locked his tracks, and unless he was willing to give up his body and return to the undead realm, he would never be able to escape the monster's tracking, and now he had only one chance, and that was to close the spatial passage before the monster could break away from the black hole and completely come to this world.