The three creatures suddenly sensed disorientation and pain emerging from somewhere deep in their bodies.

But it seemed to only increase their rage even more, the turtle, the spikey and the cicada all attacked Neil at once.

The fiendish figure of the phantom suddenly burst into tiny droplets, shooting out in all directions rapidly.

CLANG CLANG CLANG

The spikey and the turtle Phaged weren’t affected, their physical defence was high.

Neil knew he can only deal with them one at a time, he can’t focus on all three.

If he can kill just one then there would be one less to deal with, and this cicada is the main force.

He is controlling them and making them all sync, so taking him out was his first priority for now.

KRRRIIIIIEEEEEEE

The cicada cut quickly at the droplets but it was useless, the unfinished apotheosis state was very difficult to counter.

One needs a big difference in strength to be able to deal with someone like that, and fortunately, the cicada wasn’t far too strong than the phantom.

"Hey, give me control of your body and let me use your energy reserves, I will kill all three of them in moments." Freya spoke, understanding the direness of the situation.

’No!’ Neil just replied with one word as his body suddenly appeared behind the cicada, the blades manifesting in his hand.

The blue and red chain moved forward like snakes, rapidly climbing onto the cicada as Neil struck its shell with the blades.

But the cicada was very quick, and it had two followers.

Just as the blades were about to sink into the shell, cracks quickly stretched all around it, Neil sensed something dangerous from behind.

Tsk...

Clicking his tongue, he disappeared quickly just as a deadly pillar of black liquid rose, almost engulfing Neil in the poison.

The turtle and the spikey both moved forward, hitting the chains and freeing the cicada.

’Breaking this teamwork will be difficult.’ Neil gritted his teeth.

He was going to use every skill in his arsenal, there was also mental manifestation which will definitely affect the three creatures.

But that was sort of his final trump card, as using so much mental energy will leave him exhausted.

He might even faint when attacking three Gold Class creatures at once.

This was going to be very difficult.

ROAARRRRRRRRR

Yet before any of his planning could take effect, the three creatures roared at once and suddenly extreme force descended.

Three big spheres formed around them, quickly engulfing Neil and the three Phaged.

The spherical fields didn’t merge, just existing without touching one another.

But Neil felt weak, as if the essence in his body had slowed down, because of his phantom form the effect was lower.

But the three fields filled in for that, making the pressure just as dreadful and oppressive.

Neil was forced to return to his real form, as he fell to the ground, feeling slow.

This thing was really such a cheat, and now he can’t do much; entering someone’s field was too dangerous.

He only knew some basic things about the fields.

And even if his strength is at the 4th Origin, he is still of the 3rd Origin, so the fields were still effective.

His strength was clearly lower than these creatures.

It was so exhausting that Neil reverted back to his human form, he gripped the blades and rose to his feet, glaring at the creatures.

’Looks like I am going to die again, at this rate, I might die for real before getting any life saving treasure.’

BANG

A spike shot out and pierced into Neil’s abdomen and he didn’t even have the time to react, his body skidded back and got pinned to a tree.

COUGH

He coughed out blood, the pain was manageable but there didn’t really seem to be any way to win.

’I guess it is time to use that.’ Since he was going to die anyway, Neil decided to use the mental manifestation.

He closed his eyes and black smoke began to seep out of his body, but right as the skill was about to activate a thunderous sound rang out.

Neil was startled as he opened his eyes and looked up, it looked like a scene from some children’s movie.

Sparkling pieces rained down from the sky, it kind of looked beautiful.

But what was important, was the fact that those pieces were from the three fields.

The fields had been broken and just from a single attack?! Neil looked further up and finally saw a man who was standing in the air.

Their gaze met and Neil knew who it was... Randy? What was he doing here?

"Heh kiddo, I was wondering what was taking you so long, so you started playing with these puppies here? Hmm I don’t like waiting so I decided to come." Randy spoke.

ROOAAAARRRRRRRRR

The spikey roared and shot its spikes into the sky, but Randy didn’t even look at it.

He suddenly disappeared from the sky and landed in front of Neil, extending a hand towards him.

"I came here to get you, oh right, your domain is safe." Randy spoke, a small smile on his face.

Neil really couldn’t tell what this guy was thinking or what he wanted, was he really on his side or was he pretending?

But what choice he had, he could only test waters for now and trust him, he can still afford to use Analyzer a few times.

Neil took his hand, his brows furrowed slightly as he tried to pull himself up, the spike was piercing through his belly and was stuck into the tree.

And he was still disoriented from the three fields.

Randy gave a light pull, as Neil’s body rose, the spike was pulled out of the tree but got a bit deeper into his body.

"Ah sorry, I don’t think it is fatal, just let the spike stay there so you don’t bleed too much..." Randy was just speaking when the turtle creature suddenly attacked from behind.

Hearing the noise, Randy was so annoyed, he suddenly gripped the spike piercing Neil’s belly and pulled it, then he threw it at the turtle creature.

BOOOOOM!

The spike turned into a flash of light as it streaked through the air and struck the turtle, its shell was the first to shatter, as it burst into small pieces everywhere.

The real body of the turtle beast exploded like a balloon as the glowing spike then continued and actually changed its trajectory a little.

It then pierced through the body of the spikey, making it burst too just like a balloon.

And finally, it headed towards the cicada and this time too, the scene was the exact same.

The three creatures were completely helpless in front of him, before they even had the time to do anything, their bodies lay scattered in pieces.

"Nice shot, don’t you think so, Neilllllllll- waaaaah oh sorry, I forgot you needed that, should I put it back in?" he looked around to find any spike.

"I- It’s fine, I can stop the bleeding." Neil spoke with a deep frown, this bastard was trying to kill him, wasn’t he?

But he could only hold in his rage, using Aquamorph, Neil stopped the bleeding while his injury was getting healed quickly.

"Let’s go then, to your new home. The Settlement Number 1!!" Randy cheered, the way he was speaking was definitely not how any dignified adult would speak.

He was getting too friendly, at least in the previous meeting he was more mysterious and dangerous.

"Wasn’t it the Settlement Number 2 or 3?" Neil asked, his head hurting badly.

"Shh I don’t care about others’ opinion, anyway that’s its name, Settlement Number 1!" Randy spoke as he took Neil’s hand and flew up all of a sudden.

Neil was startled at first but flying wasn’t foreign to him, so he got used to it.

’Tch what a letdown, why didn’t he scream? I was going to turn his entrance embarrassing.’ Randy thought, this young guy might not be fun at all.

Before long the two were in front of his Settlement Number 1, the domain had already reached that place, the forest wasn’t too far from it.

The two landed and the people from his domain hurriedly ran towards Neil to check up on him.

They were all so weak that it is always their lord getting hurt first.

Ileana was terrified to see so much blood, she used her healing skill quickly but found that the injury had already mostly healed.

"You can bring your domain inside, get rested, tomorrow is a big day. You will be going with me to the big meet." Randy said then he flew away casually.

"Hubby, did you get hurt anywhere else?" Ileana was only worried about his injuries. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"No, that was the only injury, nothing else happened, right?" he questioned, taking her bloodied hands into his own.

He looked at Leon and the others who shook their heads.

After some chatting, Neil went into his domain to take a bath and change up, then the officers sent by Randy helped them move into the domain.

It was much grander than the ones Neil had seen, far bigger and so many domains were present inside everywhere.

It was like a big bustling city, so lively, and there were a lot of powerful lords and even more subjects.

The high tech settlement had thousands of flying buses, robots moving normally on the roads.

This was even better than what Neil had experienced on Earth, and it looked far more advanced too.

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