Mixed Blessing System

After 5 minutes of combat, over half of Lothur’s allies had been wiped out by opponents in the surrounding area.

But to do this, Lothur’s many enemies had taken severe losses!

While Lothur’s allies were weaker than his opponents, each was fearless, felt no pain, and feared no death.

Consequently, even fighting against a larger group with higher-level enemies, they had done quite a bit of damage!

No deaths among Lothur’s enemies had come from this confrontation. But more than half of the nearly 40 initial enemies were already on the outskirts in no condition to fight, seriously wounded.

Only 14 individuals remained when only the shadow beings created by Lothur moments ago were still there to fight with him.

Lothur had made an effort to keep fighting in the meantime, even though he was exhausted, moving around and even landing a few blows on his opponents.

But with the difference in levels and numbers, he and his beings of darkness soon were in a passive situation.

They were surrounded while their opponents were attacking from almost every possible angle, little by little reducing their space of action.

Lothur saw this as the shadow beings around him became more and more transparent, and the shield they created around him weakened.

‘Shit! They won’t be able to take the next blow!’ He clenched his fists and prepared to only defend himself from now on.

Just defending himself would not eliminate his opponents, nor would it help him much in this place of doom. However, since they were all in the Imperial Prison, the one with the greater physical attributes would have the advantage once they were exhausted. 𝘦𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘦𝑙．𝑜𝑟𝘨

Even exhausted, Lothur would become the strongest and no longer be threatened by these people when they got tired!

Therefore, since he had practically no strength left to attack, he intended to defend himself until the enemies had little to do against him!

He put up a defensive position, protecting his head and vital organs, and waited for the end of this wonderful soul technique he had managed to learn.

Moments later…

Crack!

The defensive barrier around him and those shadow beings cracked and exploded a few milliseconds later.

When it did, those shadow creatures finally disappeared for good, leaving their creator defenseless for the first time since this battle began!

Seeing Lothur alone, with no other allies in the vicinity, those 14 remaining enemies stopped to stare at him for a moment, impressed.

Even though he was weaker than them, Lothur had endured so much because of his hybrid characteristics!

‘The wretch was very good indeed…’ Arno thought, wondering what skill Lothur would leave for the Diamond-grade Soul Bone. ‘But now it’s over!’

“Attack with everything!

He won’t hold out for long and will soon form a Soul Bone!” Arno shouted to those individuals, each sweating profusely, some more injured than the others but still with the energy to continue.

With those words from the strongest of them, those people regained some of their focus lost throughout the battle, looking to Lothur with interest in what only he could provide them.

The best Soul Bone that a human could absorb!

So they all concentrated their forces, creating humanoid silhouettes of spiritual energy, a useful way to create pressure on things and people.

They wanted to destroy Lothur’s Physique, so there was nothing better than to crush him to destroy that part of him!

In the blink of an eye, 14 colored silhouettes appeared around Lothur, each of them making similar movements, moving hands upwards, creating pressure on where he was.

Each person there had this ability and used the elements they had the most affinity for to create such a reaction, whereby they could crush weaker or even stronger opponents.

Together they could even act against a level 19 cultivator when they were at their best!

Thus, even though they were tired, all of them together could impose immense pressure on young Ritter, causing him to scream in agony just moments after this ‘beating’ began.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!”

Lothur screamed with everything he had, as he had his arms above his head, trying to withstand the pressure generated by those 14 spirit hands on top of him.

As he did so, the system warned him that various elements were trying to destroy his body, finally noticing the usefulness of his resistances.

If it weren’t for his many high-level resistances, he would have died about five times already in the last 20 seconds!

However, with his abnormal characteristics, Lothur was just feeling great pain, as every muscle and bone in his body seemed to be crushed and rebuilt.

But his enemies’ attacks were too strong to give Lothur time for his resistances to strengthen in this situation.

Up to a certain limit, one’s resistance would always be stimulated and get stronger. But beyond that, their body couldn’t take it, and only if they had time to recover could they undergo an improvement.

But in that instant, nothing good would come of it, only the excruciating pain that was rapidly increasing.

Meanwhile, blood began to flow from each of his bodily orifices, while his own skin turned red as if it was going to explode.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!”

As he felt as if his body would break into countless pieces, three parts of Lothur’s body began to glow strongly.

Lothur’s skull, one of his fibulae, and his ribs began to glow brightly, causing colored parts to appear around these areas of his body as if they were pieces of armor.

As this happened, everyone in the surrounding area frowned, seeing Lothur’s not-complete Spirit Body showing itself.

“The wretch already had 3 Soul Bones!”

“Tsk! And even with just that, he can already display some of the Spirit Body’s powers!”

The Spirit Body was something that cultivators could form by equipping their soul with 10 Soul Bones. Legends said that its owner would become immortal when it was fully formed.

But many characteristics were associated with the Spirit Body, such as raising each of its owner’s uniquenesses, and could make them faster, stronger, tougher.

In a fight, even someone with an incomplete Spirit Body could, if they were lucky, use such a thing to protect themselves or counter-attack, becoming much stronger just by showing it off.

Seeing that Lothur had just done this in this extreme situation, those men in the area couldn’t help but be impressed.

Arno clenched one of his fists and said. “Don’t weaken! That is the last defensive barrier he has. Once we defeat it, his death will be in our grasp!”

With those words, Arno brought those people back to Lothur’s ‘beating’!

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