Path Of The Dragon (A Dark Fantasy Cultivation Wuxia Xianxia Progression Series)

Chapter 117 Barrier Mummy

Jie leaped to her feet and was struck again by two more shadow arcs that sent her tumbling through the air, trailing shadow in her wake. Again, a purple and black runic sphere bore down on her, about to collide with her, but this time Jie formed a lightning step platform and boosted off it just in time. The rune missed and exploded against the floor as Jie zipped across the battlefield and sent out two finger of light attacks at the assassin to keep him at bay.

The assassin was smaller than the other three, but not by much. Like the others, green fire burned where his eyes should be. He carried twin khopeshes that gleamed with a golden color like bronze polished to perfection even as green qi oozed like pus along the blades.

Each finger of light found its target. One hit the mummy's stomach, and the other struck his shoulder, sending him spiraling through the air away from Jie and blasting chunks of the green fiery barrier into a spray of embers.

But the assassin still managed to land on his feet, his claws scraping along the floor yet failing to scratch it. He hissed at Jie, green fire burning in his throat, as he raised his blades. His aura flared and green, translucent blades burst to life in a circle around him, spinning around him in a whirling vortex of death.

"It has been an age since I've dueled one who walks the path of dragons! Your death shall be a glorious prize!" the assassin yelled. His voice was dry, rasping, and hollow.

Green fire swallowed him, and he vanished.

Jie's instincts screamed danger and she spun around just as he reappeared behind her in a flash of green flames. His twin sickle swords sliced toward her and she grabbed the mummy's wrists, stopping the blades just before they touched her neck. But the swirling blades of green qi around him slammed into Jie's sides, slicing against her qi armor with a rattling, howling clatter. Each hit further drained her already rapidly depleting qi reserves and wore her armor down.

I have to end this quickly, or I'm dead... Jie thought.

Jie reinforced her qi armor as best she could, straining her meridians as she funneled energy into it. She pulled the assassin closer to her, ignoring the stench of embalming chemicals and foul fire that clung to him as she headbutted him on what was left of his nose and told her qi armor to react to it.

The mummy's head snapped back as cracks formed in the burning qi armor covering him. The barrier mummy raised one hand from up on her pipe and her orb of green fire swelled. Tendrils of green fiery qi burst forth from the orb and connected to the assassin, pumping energy into the fiery armor.

Jie snarled and pulled the assassin down as she formed a dragonfist over her knee and drove it hard into the monster's ribs. The explosion sent him tumbling backward and Jie used that moment to send out two finger of light attacks at the barrier mummy. The barrier mummy dodged the first finger of light attack, causing the stream of dragon lightning qi to impact the wall of exposed gears and machinery and arc over it. The gears sped up in response as the purple glow in the transparent floor intensified.

The second finger of light attack struck the barrier mummy in the chest and blasted it off the pipe she clung to. Jie ran toward the falling mummy, sidestepping runic spheres, skeletal snake bites, and shadow arcs as she raced toward the barrier mummy.

The barrier mummy was the linchpin. As long as the mummies had those barriers and kept her distracted and unable to focus down a single target, she would remain on the back foot until she lost. Of that Jie was certain.

Though the mummies outnumbered Jie, she was still faster, and she reached the barrier mummy before the mummy even hit the ground. Jie leaped at her, forming a dragonfist as she did so. The barrier mummy's aura flared and she turned to sand again, streaming away from Jie.