Chapter 93 - Bloodline vs. Bloodline! Domain vs. Domain!

"I see. You're interfering with my sense of sight perception. When I see your attack coming, you aren’t attacking me from the front, but from the opposite side. And the same is true when you attack from behind. But it’s not just the front and back who are affected. Even above and below and every possible direction as well. I admit, as I haven't fight for a long time, I'm a little rusty. But your illusion is nothing so exceptional."

The man smiled after he finished analyzing the situation he was in. He wasn’t in the least worried about being hit twice as he hadn’t suffered any injuries.

In truth, leaving aside the first blow that had taken him by surprise, the second shot could have been blocked. However, he had decided not to implement any wide-range techniques to understand better the illusion in which he was. After all, even if it was a gamble, the quickest way to cancel and break an illusion was to dive into it and experience it on your body.

Hei and Lian had done something similar in the Dream Trial. Instead of trying to isolate their mind and activate their spirit power to wake up, they had penetrated deep into the Nightmare. They accepted every image produced, eventually winning their demons.

Only, although the action was similar, there was a massive difference between the two situations. Hei and Lian weren't fighting that time, and even if they weren't able to break the illusion, the penalty was just not getting a good score. Here instead, it was a fight to the death where only the one who would remain standing until the end would be the winner. Therefore, doing such an action in such a situation was concrete proof of one's confidence in one's abilities.

Bao Bei didn’t worry and continued her attack.

She appeared again behind her enemy and hit with her legs. This time, however, the human martial artist was ready to respond. He had broken the illusion, and there was no way he would confuse the directions again.

Without fail, he avoided the Bao Bei’s attack and moved at lightning speed behind the gigantic divine beast spider, positioning himself a few meters above her. At that point, he prepared once again to strike with his spear.

Bao Bei, however, didn’t let herself be impressed by this, and instead of moving away, she made a move that left everyone even more dumbfounded. Her body began to lean back as if she were somersaulting, bringing her back to face the surface of the lake and leaving her belly exposed.

But, although it might seem strange that she left a delicate part like the belly so exposed, a moment later, all those present understood the reason for that choice.

When Bao Bei pulled her body back, her eight legs were also brought back. From that position, she contracted them and snapped them against the martial artist who was about to attack.

Boom!

Another roar and the human with the spear was thrown even further than during the previous attacks. This time, there was a very thin strip of blood coming out of his mouth.

As if he could not believe it, he ran a hand over his mouth and then began to stare at the blood-soaked fingers. The wound was no big deal and closed itself the next second. But just the fact that he had been wounded, even if it was small as a wound, was enough to put him on guard.

"All right. I underestimated you. Or maybe it's because this body is weaker than what I used last time... in any case, enough playing around. I hope you're ready. Resist my attacks until the very end and desperate before your impotence. Weapon Materialization - Nāgarāja!"

Suddenly, from the tip of the spear held by the man, an explosion of purple light appeared around the human martial artist. As that light dispersed, a 15-meter figure consisting only of condensed spirit power appeared.

It was the figure of a human man. No, to be precise, it was human only in the upper half of its body. The lower part instead consisted of a long gigantic serpent tail that made up most of its body. The human upper part was only about three meters long, leaving a total length of twelve meters to the tail.

That figure positioned itself behind the human martial artist while it looked with lifeless eyes at the gigantic spider that was facing its master.

"You like it? Ironically, the best candidate I could find had a strong affinity for snakes. Don't you find it curious? "

The man irritably scoffed as he tried to make Bao Bei upset. And indeed, he succeeded in part because the eight big eyes of the purple spider were contracting from anger.

Hei An was a snake. And it wasn’t strange that humans used moves that could be linked to spirit beasts. But she couldn’t accept that the person who had ‘in front of her’ used techniques related to snakes and mocked her companion.

"You don’t like it? Then let me show you something even more incredible. But before that, I still haven't told you where I got this body, right? Let me tell you. He is the family head of one of the Eight Big Families on the Continent, the Shé Family. "

At that point, he stopped for a moment to momentarily enjoy Bao Bei's reaction to the name he had just spoken. The divine beast spider had its eyes even more contorted by anger than before.

"Yes, Shé, meaning Snake! Ba Serpent Bloodline, Activate!"

At those words, the pupils of the Shé Family man were reduced to two vertical slits, resembling the pupils of a snake while the skin took on a slightly greenish color. In addition to that physical change, the power of his attacks with the Law of Poison increased. That was the active ability of a bloodline. And in this case, it was a bloodline of the Poison Law.

"Then, Secret Technique of the Shé Family, Hydra Mode!

Behind him, nine ten-meter long snake heads quickly appeared. They had the same color that his skin had taken. These were attached to the man's back by his spirit power. No, rather than attached, they were like appendages generated by his very spirit power.

"And finally, the final blow! Poison Domain - Snake Storm!"

As with the two previous techniques, an incredible change occurred. The human martial artist’s spirit power expanded from his body, starting to create a fifty-meter radius sphere, with him considered as the center. Inside that sphere, his spirit power was literally being materialized into endless tiny green snakes that danced in the air generating a feeling of malice.

When the Shé Family head finished activating his techniques, the hairs of Bao Bei’s body had all risen. The divine beast spider could no longer contain her anger.

Ba Serpent. One of the snake type species divine beasts. They had been among the first to accept Hei An as their emperor. At the same time, they had also been among the first to fall into the great war that ensued. The fact that that ‘person’ was using a bloodline related to her partner was pissing off Bao Bei.

With that anger in her body, Bao Bei activated her offensive.

"Nightmare Spider Bloodline, Activate! Law Poison Domain, Poisonous Spiderweb Dome!

In one instant, the spirit power of Bao Bei was concentrated on the back end of her body, to be precise, on her spinneret.

The spinneret was nothing but appendages of a spider body that was used to produce the web. Usually, Bao Bei slowly made her spiderweb go out, wrapping it carefully. This time instead, she charged her spirit power at that point, and from there came out a crazy amount of spiderweb.

It was as if water had been poured into a container, and once closed, the liquid had boiled inside. Since the pressure inside would increase, and it couldn’t find a way out, in the end, the container itself would no longer be able to contain the water inside, generating an explosion.

In a sense, it was a similar process. Except that instead of water, it was the silk of Bao Bei.

The enormous amount of silk produced by the Bao Bei spinneret went to flow into the surrounding environment, extending for meters and meters. In the blink of an eye, a closed dome made of spiderweb with a radius of a hundred meters materialized in a few seconds, painting the sky itself and the lake below of silver-white. Inside that dome, there were now a giant spider and a human, which was surrounded by countless snakes.

But the spiderweb that formed that dome wasn't the classic spiderweb that Bao Bei used to produce for her children. No, it was a very different kind. The spiderweb had a purple color in addition to the classic silver white one. Every filament of the spiderweb, even the smallest one, was full of poison derived from the Poison Law.

Domain. It was a technique at the top of all the techniques that could be used. It consisted of the materialization in the external world of one’s Elemental Law. That materialization would, therefore, influence the space itself, modifying it to create one’s personal area. In that area, the moves of the Domain's Elemental Law would increase even more in power.

And like Concepts, Domains varied from person to person. To be more precise, from a living being to a living being. In addition to the Elemental Law, one's Bloodline, one's physical body, one's emotions, and personal history were also calculated to create a Domain.

In the case of the Shé Family head, his Domain was originated from the Poison Law and generated a myriad of small snakes. This was due to his Ba Serpent Bloodline and a particular fixation of the user for snakes. That fixation was also reflected in the form assumed by the Weapon Materialization. After all, coming from a family with a bloodline from a serpent divine beast, it was reasonable that he had grown up with a preference for those creatures.

As for the Weapon Materialization, it was a process similar to the domain. Only, rather than materializing an Elemental Law, the technique would materialize the Artifact Spirit dwelling in the martial artist's weapon. That materialization would increase even more the combat power of the user.

As far as Bao Bai’s Domain was concerned, it was a combination of her characteristics as a spider and her mastery of the Poison Law. This dome was thus generated, and it would prevent the enemy from escaping. But just as the dome prevented the Shé Family head from escaping, likewise, it couldn’t wrap itself around the enemy because of that Dominion formed by snakes. Once in contact, two Domains would always generate repulsion.

It was also necessary to point out that the Domains weren’t necessarily linked to a Bloodline. A Bloodline made it easier to create a Domain, but it wasn’t an absolute requirement. And therefore, Bao Bei still had another Domain.

"Illusion Law Domain, Rondo of Illusions!"

The powerful voice of Bao Bei resounded in the air as the figure of its immense gigantic body flickered. Then, her giant body was reduced to 5 meters while at the same time, a series of light shapes appeared around her.

When the light shapes materialized, they turned out to be identical copies of Bao Bei. It was impossible to distinguish who the original was once they started moving. And it wasn't like there were three or four of those copies. No, the number of copies amounted to 50. All fifty were identical to the smallest hair on the body, and the pressure and sensation of Bao Bei's spirit power were the same in each of those 50 bodies. The same was true for the smell, the sensation during contact, the noise produced by the movements, or the taste of Bao Bei's skin.

There was no way to distinguish them or maybe not? Because the human martial artist still had a smile on his face as if he weren’t at all nervous by what he was seeing. He just smiled even more.

Looking at his reaction, all the Bao Beis looked him in the eye and said in unison.

"Get ready for the last act. The curtain is about to fall, you, The One Who Hides Behind The Curtain."