Skyfire Avenue - Chapter 840

Chapter 840

Chapter 840: Captured

The alien’s purple-black Domain rebounded and swallowed the sword gripped in the Pharmacist’s hand, and with it the Pharmacist herself .

“Sister!” Lan Jue cried . Captus burned with crimson light but there was little Lan Jue could do . He was barely managing to defend himself . A blue light sprang up around his body, strange and monstrous . As it coiled around him Lan Jue’s aura surged in strength, so much that the Princess was struggling to keep him contained .

Lan Jue brought his sword down like a hammer, and a fissure of power shot out with a thunderous roar . The power of Captus raced for the Violet Prince, pregnant with All-Heaven lightning . Red and blue light coiled around each other and caused space to ripple uncomfortably around them . A stretch of space a thousand square meters long collapsed into a void .

The Violet Prince snapped his eyes toward Lan Jue’s attack . Moments later his head stretched and bulged, twisting into the nightmarish visage of a crocodile . He spat an orb of purple-black energy that collided with Lan Jue’s attack .

The Prince’s Birth and Destruction Domain swallowed everything in came in contact with . Even All-Heaven lightning, for all its strength, was quickly castrated .

Next, tendrils of the corrupt energy splayed out like tendrils and wrapped up Skyfire Avenue’s leader . The Violet Princess took advantage of his distracted and appeared at his back . She reached out to grab him .

But he stumbled forward seven quick steps and lashed out with his left hand . Seven Star Hammer!

Boom! The difference between Nirvana and the Infinite was highlighted in close-combat . Suddenly Lan Jue felt a pressure crushing him from everywhere at once, so intense he could hardly breathe . He felt like every bone in his body was going to shatter .

His Seven-Star Hammer fist was formidable, but the power that enveloped him caused him to stagger . The Prince had risen overhead while he struggled, and thrust a palm down toward the top of Lan Jue’s skull .

He was already at the limit of his capabilities . The might of his Boundless Starlight Domain kept the influence of the aliens’ power from him, but had shrunk to where it only barely covered him . No strength remained to force his territory wider .

Points on his body began to twinkle with starlight, like an inseparable fragment of the Milky Way . A storm of All-Heaven Lightning erupted around Lan Jue as he thrust Captus at the Prince in a last-ditch effort .

The radiance that surrounded him was born of his intrinsic protogenia, a power he was taping into to temporarily swell his powers to the Infinite . However, this was akin to quenching thirst with poison . He was injuring his body’s flows of energy . If they survived the effects might actually decrease his cultivation – maybe even his lifespan . It was a desperate attempt against two enemies that surpassed him in strength .

The Prince and Princess didn’t confront Lan Jue directly, and instead retreated under his self-destructive advance . His attacks hit nothing . Though he’d managed to free himself from the clutches of their Domains, it wasn’t enough to open a path of escape .

The golden runes etched into Captus’ blade had begun to dim as Lan Jue weakened . The burning energy around him was showing signs of collapse .

“Aaaagghrrr!” The Violet Prince roared and attacked with the same method he’d used against the Pharmacist . The Princess answered him with a shriek .

The two sounds combined to create a strange sort of incantation . It reverberated into his soul . He felt something deep within him quiver and his mind became muddled . The blue light that encased him dissolved away .

Both violet figures attacked . The Prince approached from behind and struck Lan Jue in the back . Where he hit, Lan Jue’s clothes were burned away to ash . Captus tried to protect its master with a shell of red power but the Prince broke through .

A handprint appeared where the Prince had struck, black and purple and full of evil intention . Immediately lines of dark veins began to spread from the wound as the aliens’ poison spread .

“Aahh!” Lan Jue screamed . His body began to twist, plagued by unendurable spasms . He felt like he was being pulled apart, while at the same time a maddening energy was worming its way through him . It was headed for his Core .

The pain didn’t persist for long, then Lan Jue felt himself lose control of his body . Pain was replaced by absolutely numbness – he couldn’t move a finger .

This was the end!

A singular thought crept up to Lan Jue through the haze that was consuming him . Then, everything went dark .

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The Prince watched as Lan Jue floated in the vacuum of space, unconscious . He scowled at the human as though in thought .

The Princess, on the other hand, was elated . She pulled Lan Jue to her side and pinched his face in her hand .

“In the human way, I should thank you . I will bring him back with to mate with . ” Her words were full of a dark satisfaction .

The Prince continued to look thoughtfully at the two of them . “His Core has not been completely overcome . There’s something left, something that rejects my genetic invasion . Be cautious, there’s something different about this human . ”

“This is as it should be,” she replied . “If he were a typical male why would I choose him as a mate? Our progeny will inherent strength from both he and I . Whatever power he possesses that locks us out will become a part of us . ”

The Violet Prince nodded . “That is likely . I will also bring this female back with us, I can feel a connection between her weapon and the one Monarch possesses . He also told us the weapon your male bears is the same . You shall have his . ”

As he spoke he produced Captus from the clutches of his Domain and handed it to the Violet Princess . He kept Occisus for himself .

Both of the Banishing Blades quivered as though unwilling to yield to these monsters’ control . But their struggle was to no avail, not against bearers who could call upon the powers of the Infinite .

The victorious alien royals shot back toward the home worlds as dual beams of light . They penetrated the strange, gelatinous exterior of Monarch and penetrated deep within .

Truly controlling the potency of the godblades was no easy feat . Both the Prince and Princess had felt the danger hidden within Ultus . They knew nothing of the creation of human weapons, but they could guess that these were the product of that bygone immortal realm .

Commanding these weapons would undoubtedly bolster their strength and aid with the evolution . Once the process was complete and an alien immortal realm created, they could quickly increase their cultivation without fear of universal reprisal . This was the home worlds’ plan, to propagate more powerful aliens to join them, and thus strengthen their fledgling reality . Over time they would have enough power to threaten the universe itself .

Lan Jue and the Pharmacist appeared with them in the depths of Monarch . They were placed in orbs of some jelly-like material .

“You first, or shall I?” The Princess cast an eye at her ‘brother,’ clearly eager to begin .

The Prince looked over the ethereal sword cradled in his hand . “You go on,” he said . “I’m in no rush . Besides, the humans are on the move . ”

“Very well! Then I will begin . ” She wasted no further time . The clothing that concealed her melted away to reveal her too-perfect figure . Her alluring frame would have toppled mountains in the world of man, but here the Prince paid her no mind .

She lazily lifted her right hand to motion at Lan Jue, and in response the thick slime that encased him peeled away . Lan Jue was revealed, also without clothing .

Tendrils of cancerous veins crept out from the mark left by the Prince and anchored Lan Jue to the ground . He hovered there as though he were weightless .

A strange light burned in the depths of the Princess’ eyes . She ran her long fingers along her face . “I feel… hot . Is this the influence of human genes?”

“We’ve evolved to assimilate many human qualities,” the Prince replied . “There are likely to be side-effects . Couple with him, see if this catalyzes some change in you . ”

She grinned . “Yes . Now let me think, how do these creatures reproduce?” She knelt by Lan Jue’s side as though admiring a piece of art . Her eyes ran up and down her perfect human specimen .

The Violet Prince’s body had been designed to be perfect, but for some reason the Princess wasn’t the least bit interested in his carefully crafted appearance . She knew his true form, and that was the image that stuck in her mind .

This human male was different . He’d left her with an abiding impression from the moment she met him . She had assimilated human DNA into her own just a short time before their first encounter, getting accustomed to her new skin .

Human emotion was also new – vibrant and novel . Alien society was focused solely on growth . Consume, adapt, strengthen, repeat . Nothing else was important .

She was different . After remolding herself in the image of these humans, she had begun to change mentally as well . Though her emotions could not rightfully be described as human, they were alike enough . She was curious to learn more .