Divine Path System Chapter 286: Twisting Islands [2]

Chapter 286: Twisting Islands [2]

The floating island was very small and was filled with arbitrary metallic structures—the nests of s.p.a.ce worms.

All of them were empty except one. The final s.p.a.ce worm. Also the strongest.

Helia ignored the creature and glanced at the center of the island. An ancient leather skin flag stood in the air, as if it was frozen in s.p.a.ce and time.

Caleb's eyes flashed and he teleported to the flag. "I got it—"

Or at least tried to.

"Huh?"

Caleb's hand was inches away from the flag. His teleportation was off by a few inches!

"Impossible!" He exclaimed and the next thing he knew, he was sent flying coughing out blood.

"Idiot." Helia cursed and observed the s.p.a.ce worm that just appeared beside the flag. This thing even sneak attacked upon Caleb.

But why did Caleb's teleportation amiss by a few inches? For his level, this was a major error!

With doubts, Helia slowly took a step forward. The s.p.a.ce seemed to have changed subtly.

'Is this…' She took one more step. And one more.

The s.p.a.ce worm slithered close to the flag and faced the intruder.

Helia didn't care about its gaze as she felt the changes in s.p.a.ce.

Finally, her eyes widened and she sighed. "I see."

Through her s.p.a.ce sense, she observed some strange patterns that almost seemed random.

These patterns had words written in a script close to Deva script, yet different. There were also various materials used, including precious s.p.a.ce related materials.

The result?

The closer she got to the flag, the more solidified the s.p.a.ce became.

Helia concluded that the strange patterns were 'formations'.

An ancient art of arranging items in a specific patter to achieve desired results.

Humans had limited achievements in formations. The best accomplishment being Teleportation Formation.

And these were—

"s.p.a.ce Lock Formation." Helia muttered as she recalled the information she read long ago.

She scanned the exquisite patterns before shaking her head.

Once she was aware of their existence, these formations weren't much effective on her. At most, they only affected mid level 6s and low level 6s.

Even they wouldn't be drastically affected. At most, they'd be frozen for a moment.

If Caleb had been careful, he'd have easily offset the effect.

"I think Ashtarh team is close to getting the flag." Helia muttered as she leisurely walked towards the flag.

She wasn't a mid level 6 and these formations literally had no use to her. If she wanted to use them in a battle, she had to set up the formation before hand.

"Let our messengers pick up these sc.r.a.p. If I don't do this, they'll call me stingy." Helia muttered.

She didn't care if they called her stingy before. But now, if they compare her to Sarah, she didn't want to appear inferior.

No. She's definitely not inferior to a girl one year younger than her.

"Caleb, let's get this over with." Helia said and clenched her fist. As she circulated her s.p.a.ce power, she felt the tingling pain of the injuries she acc.u.mulated.

The s.p.a.ce near her fluctuated and Caleb appeared. "Alright. I'll follow your plan."

Helia raised her hand and her s.p.a.ce power connected her to the outside s.p.a.ce and she quickly locked onto the s.p.a.ce surrounding the s.p.a.ce worm.

The s.p.a.ce worm already sensed her intention and was about to teleport.

Helia gritted her teeth and clenched her fist. "Stay!"

Ka!

Ka!

Helia compressed the s.p.a.ce, almost squeezing the s.p.a.ce worm to which it responded by loosening the s.p.a.ce and resisting its attack.

At the same time, the s.p.a.ce worm locked Helia's location.

"Eh?" Helia felt the s.p.a.ce around her twist and she instinctively teleported away.

Kacha!

She heard a sound of mirror shattering and her s.p.a.ce sense instantly caught what was happening.

The place she was previously standing was now twisting. The ground she stood at was gone and a small crater appeared in its place.

Her s.p.a.ce sense caught the fluctuations only in the last moment!

As Helia was about to yell at Caleb for not attacking yet, she felt a new fluctuation behind her.

"d.a.m.n!" She didn't even think and simply teleported away.

Boom!

The s.p.a.ce worm crashed into the area she was previously standing, forming a huge crater.

It covered its body with s.p.a.ce armor and even tried to melee attack her!

"Caleb!" Helia couldn't take it anymore and yelled. Her body was already aching from the injuries.

The injuries that were closed after taking the healing potion were now split open and Helia felt a stinging pain all over.

"Argh!" The thick, warm red liquid soaked her clothes and Helia hurriedly downed another healing potion.

"I was about to attack, but you stopped the s.p.a.ce lock in the last moment, I lost it." Caleb appeared at a distance and said slowly.

"…b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" Helia muttered under her breath and raised her voice. "We'll do it again. Tear it to pieces."

Caleb nodded and teleported again. The location he was standing was torn to pieces.

The s.p.a.ce worm wasn't a spectator.

"Go!"

Helia ignored the worsening injuries on her body and channeled all her s.p.a.ce power.

This time, she didn't hold back at all and imprisoned the s.p.a.ce worm.

Ka!

Ka!

The s.p.a.ce worm struggled as it loosened the s.p.a.ce and tried to teleport. But this time, the difficulty was far higher.

Even though the injuries were beginning to affect her strength, Helia kept a tight grip on the worm.

"Ha!" Caleb appeared right before the worm. His body gave off a silvery hue, he covered himself with solidified s.p.a.ce which acted as both an offensive and a defensive—the s.p.a.ce Armor.

Without stopping, he punched out at the s.p.a.ce worm.

His fist was about to touch the solidified s.p.a.ce imprisoning the worm. If it happened, he would destroy the solid s.p.a.ce and instead help the worm escape.

So right then, Helia withdrew her s.p.a.ce power.

Caleb suddenly felt like his fist entered a very loose s.p.a.ce and his fist's speed skyrocketed!

Until then, s.p.a.ce worm was resisting Helia's tightening of the s.p.a.ce. So, it was loosening the s.p.a.ce.

When Helia suddenly let go, all that was left was s.p.a.ce worm created loose s.p.a.ce.

Thus, Caleb's fist reached its body in no time and destroyed it into two.

And at its last moment, its s.p.a.ce power spewed out blasting Caleb and Helia into the distance.

"f.u.c.king!" Helia gripped her chest and felt the heavy pain from her lungs.

s.p.a.ce Worms made a desperate attack right before dying. That is, they always reserved a good chunk of their s.p.a.ce power to teleport when faced with a life threatening fight.

Most of the times, they teleported in the last moment and survived.

But when they couldn't, they would use that s.p.a.ce power to launch the final strike.

This made s.p.a.ce worms much easier to be killed, but the price was taking their final blow.

These final blows were also the reason for Helia's and Caleb's? injuries.

Helia blocked off the wound with her s.p.a.ce power and didn't allow any bleeding.

After some time, the wound would be closed. Her injury would heal after some time.

But…

"These injuries make us even weaker than Sarah team." Helia said in a sorrowful tone.

In her opinion, this was as low as they could go.

"I dunno. Aren't they stronger than us from the start?" Caleb shrugged and threw an object at her.

"Here, the flag."

Helia caught it and carefully felt its texture. She ignored Caleb's comment on Sarah's team.

"Now, follow the plan." She said and teleported down.

After finding a normal mountain on the island, she teleported to a cave and sat cross-legged.

"Let's recover. With our current strength, we can't fight for the 5th or 6th flags. Once they fought it out, we'll join." She said and took out a small s.p.a.cort and aura crystal.

"But wouldn't they suspect and check the islands?" Caleb appeared at a distance from her and sat down.

"No one would think we stayed in the same island after getting the flag. In their opinion, we would be out there, searching for other flags or sneaking behind other teams." Helia explained.

"Staying here while others fight for flags might seem stupid, but let them fight and once we recover, we can sneak attack and grab all the flags." Her eyes shone and she clenched her fists.

"What if a team wants to check on us?" Caleb asked again. He was nervous, alright?

"…." Helia paused for a moment and her eyes narrowed. "I don't think any team will check on us. By the time they've fought for the 5th and 6th flags, we'd have already left."

Silence filled the twisted islands as the two focused on recovery.

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