Chapter 584

Chapter 584: The Shadow King’s Attack

The Shadow King quietly approached within one hundred meters of Xinas.

While Xinas was training, he furrowed his brow slightly.

He had an uneasy feeling.

“Attack!”

The Shadow King immediately notified Mares.

Without any hesitation, Mares surged out of the Shadow King’s hidden surroundings.

A massive tree branch struck toward Xinas’s back.

Xinas was taken aback.

He never expected an enemy would suddenly attack him.

Moreover, the attack came from less than a hundred meters behind him.

Caught off guard, he had no time to react.

At that moment, he could only sense the attack and turned on his energy shield to the maximum.

Boom!

A loud bang resounded.

Under Mares’s strongest strike, despite Xinas being at a major realm above, the energy shield shattered instantly.

The huge branch slammed into Xinas’s back.

This sent Xinas flying forward.

Puh!

Blood sprayed from Xinas’s mouth.

“Die!”

Mares desired to pursue his advantage, taking advantage of the effect of the Black Wing Grass to strike again with the massive branch toward Xinas.

Unfortunately, while the Black Wing Grass greatly enhanced his attack, allowing him to inflict significant damage on Xinas this time, it was not enough to render Xinas defenseless.

Sensing Mares’s attack,

despite losing balance and being unable to dodge,

Xinas’s energy surged rapidly within him.

The laws of time moved swiftly.

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters…

The branch Mares swung drew nearer to Xinas’s back.

But just when it was only about two hundred meters away, poised to hit Xinas, the branch suddenly slowed down by half.

Xinas managed to regain his balance, twisting his body, and successfully created distance from the tree branch.

“Damn it, this mere level 200 Tree-Dwelling Tribe warrior has just barely entered the ranks of the strong, yet dares to ambush me!”

After dodging the tree branch’s attack, Xinas was furious.

He pushed forward, forcefully suppressing his injuries, and threw a punch at Mares.

It’s over!

Mares’s expression turned extremely grim.

Not succeeding with his second strike meant almost certain death for him.

While the first strike had severely injured Xinas, it had not left him entirely incapable of fighting.

The proverbial thin camel is still bigger than a horse; Xinas’s strength still surpassed his own.

Even if Mares wanted to escape, it was a foolish dream at such close range.

While the Time Tribe’s speed was not as fast as the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s,

in his heavily injured state, Xinas’s speed might actually be slower than Mares.

However, to escape, one must maintain a certain distance from Xinas.

The strong of the Time Tribe were not particularly strong in attack, defense, or speed, but they possessed the ability to control the power of the laws of time.

At close range, they could create a bizarre time domain around them using the laws of time.

Within this time domain, a Time Tribe warrior could manipulate the flow of time.

This allowed them to slow down the opponent’s time flow relative to everything else.

If the opponent’s time flowed at half the normal speed, it meant that at the same speed, attacks, movements, and reactions would also take twice as long in the outside world.

Just like how when he attacked Xinas, when the branch was only about two hundred meters away, Xinas’s speed suddenly doubled.

This didn’t mean Xinas’s flying speed had truly increased;

it was because the flow of his time had slowed.

From Mares’s perspective, Xinas appeared to be fast-forwarded, moving at double speed.

From Xinas’s perspective, his actions were slowed down, making his attack speed half as fast.

This was impossible to fight against.

As he saw Xinas’s punch coming, Mares did not hesitate and immediately fled into the distance.

The result was just as he expected.

His perception ability allowed him to clearly sense that Xinas’s speed suddenly increased by a factor of two.

The gap between them closed rapidly.

He quickly gathered his energy, desperately trying to manipulate the surrounding laws of time.

Xinas’s speed decreased by about three times.

Yet it still remained faster than before by forty percent.

The most dangerous part was that from Mares’s perspective, not only had Xinas’s speed increased by forty percent, but this also meant that Xinas’s reaction and attack speed would rise by about the same percentage.

As he fell into despair, Mares could only turn to defend himself, putting all his effort into blocking.

Xinas’s face twisted with fury as he made up his mind to let Mares experience the power of his punch.

Not far away, behind Mares, the Shadow King suddenly unleashed his aura.

He transformed into a massive shadow spear that stretched for thousands of kilometers, aimed at Mares’s back.

“Get lost! I am the only one who can kill him!”

Xinas yelled angrily.

The moment the Shadow King appeared, Xinas’s first thought was of the Shadow Clan being wiped out by the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Since the Shadow King aimed to attack Mares, Xinas’s immediate concern was that the Shadow King intended to strike while he attacked Mares, ensuring Mares’s death.

This made him feel ashamed and angry, believing that the Shadow King underestimated him.

How could a mere level 200 Tree-Dwelling Tribe warrior possibly avoid disaster at close range?

This was why he ordered the Shadow King to leave.

Even while heavily injured, he looked down on teaming up with a level ninety Shadow Clan member to attack a level 200 Tree-Dwelling Tribe warrior.

He could not afford to lose face.

However, the Shadow King showed no signs of stopping, continuing to thrust the shadow spear toward Mares’s back.

Mares was somewhat surprised, but soon understood the Shadow King’s intentions.

His focus remained solely on defending himself against Xinas’s punch, even closing his energy shield.

The shadow spear, transformed by the Shadow King, penetrated into Mares’s body.

This filled Xinas with rage.

How dare a mere level ninety Shadow Clan member, one of a destroyed race, defy his orders?

He decided that after killing Mares, he would not spare the Shadow King either; he would eliminate them both.

In the next moment, however, his pupils suddenly constricted.

To his shock, he discovered that the shadow spear had pierced through Mares’s body and was now aimed directly at him.

This was completely against the Shadow Clan’s method of attack.

Combining Mares’s sudden betrayal and the earlier attack, he finally realized, even though he couldn’t comprehend it fully, that the Shadow Clan, destroyed by the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, was actually working with this Tree-Dwelling Tribe warrior.

Mares had managed to surprise him earlier thanks to the stealth techniques of the Shadow Clan.

But now it was too late for Xinas to understand.

He forcibly halted his attack on Mares, gathering energy to defend against the shadow spear.

But he was a moment too late.

The lengthy shadow spear had already passed through Mares, burrowing deeper into his body.

With Mares having shattered his energy shield in a single blow, by the time Xinas interrupted his attack and gathered energy to counter the Shadow King’s shadow spear, it had already penetrated most of his body.

“Damn it!”

Powerful energy erupted forth, pushing back the remaining bits of the shadow spear.

Xinas was nearly driven to madness.

He never thought that a moment of foolishness could lead to such a serious mistake.

“Die!”

Mares’s face lit up with joy.

He hadn’t expected such a turnaround in a situation that seemed hopeless.

The level ninety Shadow King had successfully launched a surprise attack.

Without hesitation, he quickly shifted from defense to offense, swinging the massive tree branch at Xinas.

Xinas tried to turn and dodge the strike.

The Shadow King acted swiftly.

Boom!

With a loud bang, the energy within Xinas’s body suddenly exploded.