Magus Supremacy-Chapter 827: Narrow Save

Chapter 827

Booom—!

Noelle erupted from where she stood with all the speed she could muster, her own whip cracking through the air with deadly intent.

She rapidly approached her mother, who stood rooted in one spot, refusing to budge a single inch despite the incoming assault.

In a flash, Noelle was upon her mother from above, delivering a vicious slash of her whip.

With minimal effort, Selene twisted her head to the side, letting the weapon crack past her ear harmlessly.

Capitalizing on the opening, Leo bolted forward and jabbed his slender blade towards Selene’s head while it was still tilted.

With surprising agility, she leaned backwards, dodging the cold steel.

She then proceeded to swing her hand from below, sending a sharp Ki slash rocketing towards the Vice Leader.

Leo reversed his grip on his sword and slashed downward, striking the energy wave.

Pouring his own Ki into the blade, he shattered the projectile, sending the remnants tearing into the ground and turning the earth into a deep, jagged trench.

Simultaneously, Noelle appeared behind Selene and swung her whip towards the back of the woman’s head.

With just a sharp twirl of her body, Selene managed to avoid the weapon, which proceeded to crash into the ground, tearing through the stone with a loud boom.

"Die, Die, Die!" Noelle bawled, her voice cracking with emotion as she began hurling her whip repeatedly.

Side to side, she unleashed a continuous barrage of strikes towards Selene, who avoided each and every one of them without even attempting a counter-attack.

Without pause, the mother was also clashing with Leo, who was still pressing his advantage.

’Hm? Why isn’t she using it?’ Leo wondered inwardly as he slanted his head to the side, allowing Selene’s whip to race past his temple.

He didn’t move to attack immediately, as he knew exactly what was coming next.

Hence, he spun around and hauled his blade, striking the tip of the whip that had now curled back toward him like a viper.

Pouring his Ki into his weapon, he managed to deflect the lash, sending the weapon flying away from him.

Feeling a sudden shift of pressure in the air, he swirled around, only to be clobbered in the face by a punch from Selene.

The strike lifted him off his feet and sent him flying into the distance.

"Look here!" Noelle hollered into the air, drawing attention back to herself.

Selene’s eyes just rolled to the side, only to see Noelle’s whip reaching for her neck.

Jumping forward with a burst of speed, she avoided her daughter’s weapon once more.

What she hadn’t expected was that Noelle had anticipated this maneuver and proceeded to swirl Ki into her feet, darting forward with newfound momentum.

In one fluid motion, the girl coiled her whip around her hand until the tip was pointed out like a spearhead.

Sensing the immense energy heading towards her, Selene still didn’t turn around fully.

She just lightly slanted her head to the side, allowing Noelle’s focused attack to rush past her.

In the same heartbeat, Selene’s foot sprang out, smashing into Noelle’s side with a crushing kick.

A spray of saliva erupted from the girl’s mouth as she was also sent hurtling away, her body racked with immense pain.

Ricocheting off the hard ground, she proceeded to dig her whip into the earth, grinding herself to a jarring halt.

In the same breath, Noelle sprang off with astonishing speed; Ki augmented her feet with increasing intensity as she blurred across the distance.

She crossed the gap in a flash, appearing before her mother again.

Selene, who had momentarily assumed the girl was dealt with, found herself facing a relentless resurgence.

The whip uncurled from Noelle’s hand like a striking cobra, cracking through the air toward Selene’s head with the speed of lightning.

Hearing the sharp whistle a tad too late, Selene’s own weapon hissed into the air to intercept.

The two lashes collided in a thunderous bang, sending a shockwave that caused the ground to splinter beneath their feet.

Noelle gritted her teeth, sparks flying in the air between them as the two weapons surged against each other.

She kept trying to push her mother’s whip away, but the obsidian-like cord refused to let up.

That was the fundamental difference between their armaments.

Aside from the fact that Selene’s whip was of a much higher rank, it possessed a lethal passive skill: the ability to be controlled entirely by the user’s mind.

All Selene had to do was provide a mental command, and the weapon would act on its own accord.

Noelle knew its strength and the mechanics of the weapon well, yet in the heat of the moment, she found herself struggling for a solution.

Swooosh—!

Leo crossed the distance from where he had been hurled earlier, hauling his blade toward Selene’s face with explosive speed.

Coating her palm with a dense layer of Ki, Selene lifted it to intercept the slash.

The impact was heavy, sending her sliding backward across the jagged stone.

Seeing her guard momentarily high, Leo let go of his weapon’s hilt and dropped low, slipping through her defensive line and stunning the woman for a fraction of a second.

Ki flooded his limbs as he swung upward in a blistering uppercut that shattered against Selene’s jaw.

Her eyes widened.

Sharp pain flared through her being as her teeth clashed violently against each other.

Blood began to trickle down her lips as the force of the blow sent her hurling into the distance.

Before she could go bouncing across the debris, Selene planted a hand firmly on the ground, twirled mid-air, and sprang back to her feet with predatory grace.

Only then did she realize Noelle had somehow bypassed the automated defense of her whip.

With blood drooling down her chin, the girl sent a Ki-infused fist hauling through the air toward her mother’s abdomen.

"Eat my—"

"Get away from me, trash!" Selene scowled loudly.

Her speed seemed to double in an instant as she sidestepped the punch, allowing the strike to smash into the empty air with a resonant bang.

Ki flowed through Selene’s foot as she lashed out toward Noelle’s exposed side.

Surprisingly, the girl ground her teeth and dug her feet into the earth.

With a sharp, reflexive twist, she bent low, narrowly avoiding the bone-crushing kick.

Taking advantage of the momentum, Noelle sprang forward, tackling her mother to the ground.

The two went down roughly, kicking up a thick shroud of dust into the air.

This desperate action stunned Selene to no end. She stared up at Noelle with wide, disbelieving eyes.

For a second, there was only confusion—then came the anger.

Red-hot fury coursed through Selene the more she stared at her daughter’s defiant face.

Noelle lifted her hand into the air, ready to smash it forward, when the atmospheric pressure around them suddenly shifted.

"F*CK! Noelle, move away now!" Leo screamed frantically from across the clearing.

Noelle was momentarily confused by the sudden panic in his voice, her hand frozen mid-strike.

However, she didn’t have time to ask questions as an ashen portal yawned open directly behind her.

A firm hand reached out from the void and dragged her into the portal just in time.

All of a sudden, the area erupted.

It felt as if a dozen invisible swords had been unleashed simultaneously; the ground beneath Selene’s body was sliced with surgical precision, as if phantom blades had struck the earth, kicking up a violent storm of dust and debris.