Free Web NovelChapter 655: Chapter 654 You Should Aim for the Head_1
"Exile!" Aiden suddenly declared.
The gateway to the alternate dimension opened behind him, and in an instant, it swallowed him whole. freewebnøvel.coɱ
The Wordless Codex did not accompany him into exile; instead, it fell to the ground, protected by the cage of incarceration, so Aiden was not worried that someone might take this opportunity to steal The Codex. freёwebnovel.com
Mr. Bloodcoat stabbed himself with the twin blades of vengeance, and the thought of victory flashed through his mind, but he immediately turned pale.
Aiden Galahad... had vanished!
Aiden had exiled himself using "Retribution," not only banishing the target to every possible location beyond his domain but also throwing the target into a separate dimension for imprisonment.
Just as the "Death" authority created the underworld to isolate the avenging goddess’s sense of revenge against Mr. Bloodcoat, so too did the "Order" create an exilic space to isolate Mr. Bloodcoat’s sensing of Aiden.
Aiden had returned the strategy Mr. Bloodcoat had concocted back to him.
Realizing something was amiss, Mr. Bloodcoat immediately opened the gates to the underworld, ready to swap places with the dead.
However, it was too late, Qiqimora had already pressed the Hand of Erasure against his back.
"Revenge" was sealed by the Wordless Codex, and "Sacrifice" was equally unusable due to the suppressive power of the unique authority. The Hand of Erasure promptly executed erasure on the individual it touched; between its fingers appeared a singularity so small that it was invisible to the naked eye, distorting Mr. Bloodcoat’s clothes and flesh with its mind-boggling suction, swallowing him whole.
Compared to the typical "Annihilation" power, the Hand of Erasure’s "Dimensional Strike" was much more efficient.
"You should have aimed for my head!" The voice, laced with mocking laughter, sent shivers up Qiqimora’s spine.
The eradication by the Hand of Erasure had left a remnant behind—Mr. Bloodcoat’s head was suspended in mid-air.
Blood-red threads extended from the severed neck, which were originally connected to that body, belonging to a High-Rank Bloodline Follower.
Mr. Bloodcoat, anticipating Aiden’s potential use of the Hand of Erasure to kill him, had decapitated himself in the underworld, a place beyond the reach of The Codex’s rules. Possessing the "Undead" authority, he could "live" with just a head in the outside world.
He had the head vaporized by a High-Rank Blood Cultist Follower and attached his own head to the severed neck with blood magic, using the "Undead" authority to control the undead body.
To kill Aiden, he had chosen a risky gamble, using himself as bait to create an opportunity to kill Aiden while luring him into killing himself.
However, as things stood, neither had managed to kill the other outright.
When Qiqimora reached out to touch that body, the individual touched by the Hand of Erasure wasn’t him, but the Blood Cultist Follower who provided the body!
Qiqimora was filled with regret, realizing she should have targeted that head, or at the very least, she should have allowed Lamia to perform a "Fusion" first, completely merging Mr. Bloodcoat with the body.
She reached out again, attempting to touch the falling head, but at that moment, the already open gate to the underworld swapped Mr. Bloodcoat with the dead inside.
The dead creature that was pushed out, still a vampire, split into bats and dispersed swiftly, leaving Qiqimora grabbing at thin air.
Qiqimora reflexively wielded her own "Annihilation" power, targeting a patch of space before her and eradicating all the bats that hadn’t scattered in time.
She had erased nearly sixty percent of the bats, which for a common member of the Bloodline, would be considered a significant blow. If the heart was included in the erased area, the vampire would die immediately.
However, the dead protected by the "Undying" privilege had no weaknesses. The remaining bats quickly flew towards the area Aiden had occupied. Mr. Bloodcoat realized that although Aiden had disappeared, the realm of the Wordless Code was still in effect, suggesting the Codex was still here.
The bats crashed into a "wall"; the cage formed by "Punishment" flashed into existence, with the Wordless Code being safeguarded by this very cage.
The bats dispersed again, distancing themselves from Qiqimora’s position, as Mr. Bloodcoat, manipulating the dead, was well aware that the reach of Qiqimora’s "Annihilating" ability wasn’t very far.
But at that moment, the silhouette of a large half-human, half-snake figure emerged from the nearby fog.
Lamia, who had been hiding near Aiden, revealed herself, chanting the divine word— "Fusion."
Unlike Qiqimora, who had become invisible with the hand of annihilation, her use of her abilities to interact with the external world would break the "Invisibility" imposed on her by Qiqimora.
In her murky murmur, the realm of "Chaos" expanded, commanding these scattered bats to recombine into one entity.
The bats stalled in the realm and were forcibly pulled together to merge, forming only an upper body that landed in the cage, most of which had already been erased by Qiqimora.
The recombined upper body was a blur of flesh; the skin was nowhere to be found. Broken bones jumbled together, constructing a pile, and the face had no features, the whole head had become an irregular lump of flesh.
Different from the "Order’s" "Reconstitution," which forces a changed vampire back into its pre-split state, "Chaos’s" "Fusion" simply mixes things together haphazardly.
"Qiqimora!" Lamia shouted out a warning.
Qiqimora was already rapidly approaching, aiming to bring the dead within the attack range of "Annihilation."
The ability "Necromancy" creates a netherworld that must attach to an individual in the living world; this individual is either a dead bound to the netherworld or the user of the ability.
As long as she kept erasing the dead, Mr. Bloodcoat’s true body would inevitably be forced out, and then she could use the hand of annihilation to extinguish Mr. Bloodcoat.
With the abilities of "Revenge" and "Betrayal" sealed by the Wordless Code, she, a saint holding the sole authority, actually had an overwhelming advantage over Mr. Bloodcoat.
However, at that moment, a door opened within the cage, and the banished Aiden returned to his original spot.
The "Banishment" Aiden had devised for himself lasted only a few seconds, and according to the original plan, the outcome should have been decided the instant Qiqimora made contact with Mr. Bloodcoat.
Meanwhile, the door to the underworld also opened, and Mr. Bloodcoat swapped himself with the forcibly fused dead vampire.
Aiden returned to inside the cage and, looking around, saw Mr. Bloodcoat standing outside his cage, staring at him with a grim smile.
Mr. Bloodcoat’s head had reattached completely to his body because he had transferred the injury of the severed head out through "Sacrifice."
Aiden’s eyes widened. "Banishment" allowed him to drift outside this space, undetectable by Mr. Bloodcoat, but at the same time, he had no knowledge of what was happening here.
Qiqimora drew in a sharp breath, realizing the developments to come, and cried out, "Get back now!"
"Surprise, huh!" Mr. Bloodcoat laughed maniacally as he drove the double-edged blade of revenge into himself.
