Chapter 498: Reverse
Jayden had finished all the preparation he needed to make them before the beast had arrived near him he decided to check the chances of his running the battle and so activated the Fate skill.
[ Activating Fate ]
[ Analysing Jayden XXXXX’s fate ]
[ Completed ]
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[ A deadly opponent much stronger than you is approaching, then you will…
1. Escape:
(Chance of survival: 50%, there is a high chance that the Empty demon could find you along the way on your journey. )
2. Fight:
(Chance of survival: 20%, The ability to convert anything into nothingness for some time is as deadly as it sounds, battle against such a beast could be considered Suicide. )
3. Abandon:
(Chance of survival: 80%, Escape from the Murim world and the mission will end, the danger will be reduced by several times. )
4. Sacrifice:
(Chance of survival: 0%, Sacrifice Hecate, death is the only outcome no matter who delivers it. )]
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After reading the messages in front of him Jayden completely ignored the sacrifice and abandon options, and after a moment’s thought he removed the option to escape too, since then he wouldn’t even know when the Empty Beast would strike and that would be even more deadly so the only option for now was to fight it out.
” It’s finally time, let’s hope everything goes according to plan. ” He mumbled and removed the limitations of the Asura God bracelets, he could already sense something approaching him at an incredible speed.
Taking in a deep breath he opened a big portal which led to the Nether World, using Time’s abilities would be much more difficult in this world and would also have much more severe backlashes, so he planned to take that beast along with him to the Nether World.
*TING* *TING*
Strange metallic sounds rang out as the beast got closer to him, before Jayden was not even able to see it but now he focussed his attention on the approaching entity and was finally able to see a blurry figure moving extremely fast.
Its body looked like a one meter long mass of some colourless gas, it was strange and was flying towards him incredibly fast.
” Can my attacks even affect it? ”
He asked, the aura surrounding the Empty demon made Jayden remember the feeling he got when his leg was devoured by it.
” I don’t think normal attacks will affect it in any way. ”
Anna answered, she had only heard about this beast so she was also curious about it.
*TING*
The beast finally appeared in front of Jayden and without any wait it instantly used its ability, Jayden was ready and moved backwards barely avoiding the area of attack.
” Come here, you gaseous fucker. ” He cursed while pointing two might fingers towards it and slowly moved backwards into the portal, as he soon disappeared.
And just as he had expected the Empty beast followed behind him into the portal without even waiting for a second, it was like a robot that had been programmed to do a job and it would succeed one way or another.
” FREEZE ”
Jayden spoke as he floated in the air and used Split Frost, the stronger version of Frost, and also closed the portal behind the beast.
He also tried to restrict any kind of energy waves from getting out of the Nether World and did his best to isolate this world so that no one from outside could sense that someone is manipulating the time.
Then he created several portals all over its gaseous body and then made them all explode at the same time, the Empty demon seemed surprised as it was frozen for a few moments in the space but that surprise lasted only for a couple of seconds as it instantly began to devour the Broken portals with its nothingness ability.
Using this chance, Jayden concentrated as best as he could and activated the Time Manipulation ability after a long time.
” Please work. ” He was planning to try to manipulate the time of only a particular space, it would be the first time he was going to do something like this, and too that on a moving object.
” REVERSE ”
Jayden mumbled and pointed both his hands towards the Gaseous demon who was still stuck in the space, and tried to reverse the time just around it.
From Hecate, he had found that one of the weaknesses of this Empty beast is that at a particular age, they go through a period where they can’t use their abilities, which happens while they are coming out of their physical body and transforming into a gaseous state.
So he planned to reverse the time and bring this demon exactly to that phase of its life in which it would be the most vulnerable but that could only be possible if he could control time properly.
As he activated Time Manipulation, the Empty beast seemed to have sensed something, it instantly released an attack towards Jayden who couldn’t properly move because he was already in the middle of the controlling time and any kind of movements were not possible.
*TING*
The attack hit Jayden’s body directly and devoured his left arm along with his shoulder, even so, he didn’t feel any pain but a strange kind of feeling filled his being.
” Fuck, it feels like I have never had any left arm, and this feeling is slowly covering my entire body like I have never really existed. ”
He muttered and finally concentrated all his mind on the Empty beast, as the time slowly began to reverse his energy was being devoured crazily but Jayden at first failed to limit the effect only to the beast and was affecting the entire Nether World, changes began to appear all around him at a rapid speed almost like a movie was being played in reverse at 10X.
But one thing Jayden felt glad about was that just at the first attemp he was able to use Time Manipulation solely on the Nether World and the timeline of the outside world was not bring affected by it at all.
*TRRRRRRRRRRR*
The beast released a mad cry as it crazily began to throw its attacks all around and several of them even hit Jayden making both his legs disappear, a part of his torso was also devoured.
*CRACK* *CRACK*
The space around him began to crack as the domineering time ability kept changing everything inside this world.
Jayden released a loud roar as he used all his strength and slowly began to shorten the area that was being affected by his time ability, as the focus was placed on the Empty demon, it began to change even faster.
The demon was smart and within seconds it was able to understand what Jayden was planning to do, after trying for a few more seconds it was finally able to break through the spatial restrictions Jayden had placed around it.
But Jayden was also prepared for it as he had in advance already laid several portals all over its body, and then throwing more of his energy he made those portal explode.
” Just stay still, will you? ” Jayden muttered.
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