CHAPTER 44: NETHER SPIRIT 5 — ENTHRALLING POISENOUS MIST

Previously a day ago...

After Zephyr consumed the transformation core of The Soul Ensnaring Tree. Her previous Poison Mist ability evolved into her current or new ability — [ The Enthralling Poisenous Mist ]

It was the ability she gained after Resonating the essence of The Soul Ensnaring Tree within the transformation core with both her Poison Mist and The Soul Poison ability.

Meaning when she used it.

It became the natural bane of the undead army Ava’ross commanded.

For two main reasons — primarily almost all of Ava’ross minions were in rank five and only a few were in the sixth rank even so Zephyr base prowess alone was something that eclipse their entire battle prowess.

This alone was enough for her to completely decimate his undead army using her evolved ability.

Secondly — All his minions were savage in nature, they didn’t have or didn’t possess the sentience an undead should possess and add on to that they were even weaker then when they were alive, all because Ava’ross nether energy was too impure for someone of his level.

So the undead he commended were also of low level.

He had already advanced to level 73 after assending to rank seven and in all that time he didn’t have a single rank seven undead under his command or even a single undead with sentience or an undead with prowess equivalent to when he or she was alive. One could only chalk up all these achievements to his brilliant incompetence.

If previously her poison mist ability eroded the manavains of her victims and her soul poison ability currepted the soul essence of her victims, then her new ability, the enthralling poisenous mist, currepted both the mind and soul of her victims giving her absolute control over Their Being! Their essence!.

After being inflicted and currepted by her Enthralling Poisenous Mist, Zephyr’s ’will’ became akin to the ’will’ of the Heavens like a heavenly mandate that couldn’t be disobeyed.

Her victims become her Puppets! Her Enthralls! Who live and die by her ’will’! Her command!.

Presently...

Ava’ross hovered hundreds of meters above the ground, his pale ashen-gray skin illuminated by the soft luminesce of the crystalline formation. His dark amethyst hair dancing, stirred by the slight wind breeze.

As a Rank Seven Nether Spirit, He naturally possessed the ability to float or fly, in fact, all lifeforms who assended to this rank possessed this ability.

Nonetheless his white pupils were wide in disbelief as he gazed down, at the massacre laid bare before him! He couldn’t believe it — No! He didn’t dare believe what had unfolded before him! What he had witnessed!.

After he commended his undead army – he was so proud of – to slaughter Black and Zephyr like every other being he had encountered in the middle-layers. The slaughter he had expected! even anticipated didn’t happen, instead it was his undead army that got massacred! butchered! even slaughtered right before his very eyes.

He didn’t even have the time to react or understand — How or what had happened before... it was already over. Leaving him dumbfounded!.

’How.. !?’ He questioned in his mind, ’How is she.. How.. ?’ He stuttered, his mind still refusing to believe what he himself had witnessed before him, ’Not even half a minute had passed.’ He screamed in his mind, more then the loss of his minions he wanted to understand! To compherend just what had happened in that short of a time frame! Just what had zephyr done for his minions to be wiped out like that! In cold bloodedness!.

In his efforts he again remembered that terrifying scene that had unfolded before him in those short but unforgettable 30 seconds. Something totally, Out of his expectations! Out of his imagination!.

The undead! Immortal army that made him rule this section of the middle-layers with a sovereigns fist was totally decimated by Zephyr.

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Just 5 seconds after his command resounded in the obsidian stoned clearing, the undead moved and advanced towards zephyr and black, while at the same time zephyr also used her new ability the enthralling poisenous mist!.

However as a mist-type ability it need time to take effect, which in this case was infinitesimally shortened because of the strength disparity between herself and the undead minions.

The mist spread like a ghostly shroud, silently enveloping the obsidian stoned clearing, all within a fraction of a second.

It was Imperceptible! Invisible! Indiscernible!. Even Ava’ross didn’t realize what was happening until it was already to late.

However at the end of the day no matter how much time had shortened for her enthralling poisenous mist ability to take effect because of the strength disparity between herself and the undead minions — It still needed 5 whole seconds to work.

And in those 5 seconds both Black and Zephyr moved, they couldn’t just stand still and ask the undead’s to wait for the ability to kick in, now could they. And besides the undead minions were already upon them.

Black used his [ Resonance ] trait again since he was trying to reach the Accomplished Level Mastery in it, and was focusing more on it now a days rather then his Dissonance trait. And his Biggner Level Mastery had already reached till 80 percent from his previous 30 percent after so much time, only 20 more to go and he would finally advance to the next mastery Level.

One time he would resonate with fire element to burn the undead minions, another time he would use earth element to destroy the undead minions, then he would use his hands as sword clad in metal element to severe the other undeads.

He slaughtered his way through the undead army, the minions dying like brittle leaves scattered by a stormy wind. With each millisecond passed a corpse would fell to the ground, each *thud* rumbled like a dark echo.

Then their was Zephyr! Who too took action! She Advanced! Slithered like a serpent amidst the undead army! Each step decisive! Precise! — Her movement silent! cold! Yet lethal.

Her hands clad in the dark wisp of her soul poison like weaver of venomous whispers leaving trails of corruption on everything they touched. Her poison clad hands struck the undead minions currepting their soul essence, collapsing their soul sea all within a fraction of a second.

Her lithe figure — graceful! Swift! Even Unpredictable! wrecking havoc amidst the undead army as though singing a song of devastation! Her serpentine eyes radiated a frigid coldness like a millennia old frost. Yet an unexpected smile still bloomed across her face as each body fell, the thuding sound echoing like a sweet melody in her ears.

In these both long and short five seconds the undead minions fell by her hand like the autumn leaves in the wind.

Then after the 5 seconds, She stopped! Black also stopped! His expression smiling. Yet the undead minions didn’t, they were mindless to began with.

Besides even if they didn’t stop, so what, it didn’t matter now, when suddenly a ripple ran through the air echoing with a silent rumble when abruptly within a millisecond all the moving undead stopped! And stood — Petrified like years old statues.

Zephyr’s new ability — [ Enthralling Poisenous Mist ] finally showed its terrifying might.

"The creature’s of curreption got currepted by the true evil and rebelled against their master! Hehe" Echoed Zephyr looking at Black, a playful smirk dancing across her lips.

And with a snap of her fingers, all hell broke loose...

*Snap.. *

*booom.. * *booom.. * *booom.. *

*booom.. * *booom.. * *booom.. *

Being currepted by her enthralling poisenous mist within those 5 seconds, all the undead naturally came under — Her Will! Her command! Thus becoming her Puppets! Her Slaves!.

And she simply gave a single yet simple commend — To explode their transformation cores itself. And that’s what they did, it didn’t matter if they were mindless or not.

Causing the earlier spectacle, where the obsidian stoned clearing of the dark caverns was illuminated by the exploding transformation cores of more than 230 undead minions.

Creating for a spectacular scene where it felt like the sun itself descended upon the dark caverns to illuminate it.

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