Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
Chris was sticking to the wall like a gecko. Since Stripping Rhythm worked on the principle that things with unharmonious rhythms were repelled, a perfectly harmonious rhythm could naturally create suction.
âAs expected, I have something thatâs affecting the so-called Bizarre Scales and causing it to be just a little bit hesitant as it attacksâ Chris climbed up the wall and onto the roof of the building.
âThe Bizarre Scalesâ rhythm is full of madness and chaos, a creature with this kind of rhythm should be no more than an irrational beast, so how is that Crowmen controlling it?â Chris swiftly rolled to one side.
A thin tiny black string flashed into existence for a brief second and disappeared, Chris continued to use his breathing to sense his surroundings. He was basically walking on a tightrope right now so one wrong step for him could mean death.
With a dark golden flash, the Bizarre Scales jumped out from some corner and destroyed the roof of the building where Chris was standing. The Bizarre Scalesâ body was now in the air, its movements slowed enough by the impact for Chris to see its face.
The creature was mostly humanoid with dark golden scales of mixed colours all over its body, a thin membrane underneath its armpits and a long barbed tail behind it. The only way to describe the look on its face was madness; sharp, jagged and uneven teeth protruded from its mouth while drool dripped down.
As soon as the Bizarre Scales landed, its body disappeared in a dark golden flash.
âThat was dragon scalesâ sensing the incredibly imbalanced rhythm, impatience and madness he felt from the creature, Chris couldnât help but recall one of his adventures.
While it wasnât exactly the same as the wyvern he defeated with Deep Rhythm, the imbalanced rhythm and dark golden scales of the creature could be faintly recognized as dragon scales.
âDragon! Damn it, so thatâs the reason why Negary wanted to keep Nala hereâ Chris was immediately able to explain a lot of things.
From a very long time ago, Negary had already discovered that Nala was the Daughter of Dragons, and heâs been keeping Isabella and her daughter in Reya for all these years in order to study the secret of the Dragonâs blood. By now, Negaryâs experiments mustâve yielded results and the Bizarre Scales are part of that.
Chris wasnât wrong, the Bizarre Scales were indeed a product of Negaryâs experiments to create the Soulâs blood. The Cauchy mix-blooded people before Comoros accepted the injection of the Dragonâs blood, but their souls couldnât endure the [Dragonâs Pressure] inside the blood. Not only did these people lose their minds and become senseless animals, but their bodies also mutated due to the influence of the Dragonâs blood.
These monsters were both ferocious and mindless, if Negary hadnât found a way to restrain them, they wouldâve already been discarded as failed specimens.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âWhich means, the item that was able to affect these Bizarre Scales was...â Chris glanced down at a piece of ivory hanging on his clothes, the fang of the ferocious wyvern.
If the Bizarre Scales hadnât been affected by the wyvern fang and hesitated slightly each time it attacked, Chris wouldâve already been killed by this beast with strength and speed that vastly overwhelmed his own.
âI donât know how many of these Bizarre Scales there are, but Negaryâs accumulated power is definitely terrifying. This ominous Evil Spirit must be destroyedâ Chrisâ mind turned and swiftly took the wyvern fang into his hand.
Regardless, I have to make it through the current danger first. With the wyvern fang, I will at least have a bit of protection against the Bizarre Scales, so the most dangerous factor right now is the Crowmen who is controlling the Bizarre Scales
Chris remembered the thin black string that appeared for a split second before it vanished.
âKill him, Bizarre Scales!â Yadleyâs voice came again, Chris was feeling a sense of danger unlike ever before.
The dark golden Bizarre Scales turned into a streak of light as it charged towards him, Chris waved the wyvern fang in his hand to make the Bizarre Scales flinch briefly and hurriedly avoided it. But a split second later, he completely froze in place as he noticed countless black strings that had completely sealed off his escape routes, waiting for Chris to throw himself into the net.
Boom!
Surrounded by smoke and dust, the Bizarre Scales directly smashed into the road where Chris had been standing and made a huge crater.
The black strings stretched across the ground and into the sky all over this area, constantly expanding outwards. If you tried to look where these strings originated from, youâd find that they were all connected to Yadleyâs fingers.
Over a third of his body had been replaced by [Black Crow] germs, and all ten of his fingers were made entirely out of this substance. The germs here had been trained by him to form the shape of strings, easily piercing or cutting through the flesh of living beings as he ordered them to, at the same time sensitive enough to detect movement in the air around them.
If these strings were to pierce through the skin, they would quickly spread all over the body and act like strings of a puppet for Yadley to control. Furthermore, Yadley still had [Black Crow] germs implanted at several other positions of his body, that was the reason why he was the strongest of the Crowmen.
âNo heartbeat, did the Bizarre Scales kill him?â Yadley used the strings at his fingertips to search the surroundings again. Since this was Lord Negaryâs direct order, he couldnât afford to make any mistakes.
âWait, the Bizarre Scalesâ state isnât quite right...â Yadley sensed the Bizarre Scalesâ step as it walked through one of his black strings and noticed that its movement was heavier than it was supposed to be.
After the dust settled, Yadley quickly noticed a person laying flat on top of the Bizarre Scales, covered in fine powder. Who else could it be but Chris?
At the very last second, before the Bizarre Scales got to him, Chris used his rhythm to make the old wyvern fang explode into fine dust, took advantage of the wind to scatter it all over his body and used [Respiratory Art] to make the powdered fang stick to him.
As he was soaked in the aura of a âDragonâ, the Bizarre Scales gave up on attacking him and instead made an opening big enough for Chris to climb onto it.
Waiting for the creature to take a few more steps, Chris leapt onto another location and breathed out heavily, the Bizarre Scalesâ body then shivered and collapsed completely, coughing up some golden blood as well as bits and pieces of ruptured organs.
As soon as Chris landed on the Bizarre Scales, he had been using Deep Rhythm to attack it. Even a creature of the Bizarre Scalesâ level couldnât handle its own power attacking itself and got its organs ruptured.
âChris, I didnât expect you to be able to kill a Bizarre Scalesâ Yadleyâs expression was somber: âBut this is the end. To make sure that you donât disturb Lord Negaryâs hibernation, I will have you lay your life down right hereâ
As soon as he said that, Yadleyâs expression changed and noticed that some sort of power had led him into saying that.
Chrisâ expression widened, noticing the information Yadley had just conveyed.
So Negary really was wounded and is currently staying somewhere to recover?
âNo matterâ Yadley suddenly laughed, four flashes of dark-golden light appeared next to him and revealed themselves to be more Bizarre Scales. Each of them had a Crowmen riding on top, including Tesa who had now re-equipped herself with a new rapier, all staring down coldly at Chris.
Seeing the Crowmen and Bizarre Scales surrounding him, Chris couldnât help but smile bitterly. He was powerless against such an overwhelming difference in power, after all, he was still only human.
At this point, a clear voice was suddenly heard: âIt seems we arrived just in time!â