Chapter 434: A threat to the Nyx family?


    “Nice try.” ke said as he put back Ebony and Ivory in his dimensional pocket and threw a void dagger at Damon who was retreating.


    Having been with ke for almost 3 years, Damon knew almost every trick of the void daggers. He knew there was no point in blocking or dodging because as long as it passed through that area, ke knew the spatial location and could open a spatial corridor.


    Shadow Jump!


    Damon sank into his shadow and rose from ke’s shadow behind ke, but that was he saw another void daggering at him.


    “Give me a break!” Damon cursed ke’s persistence as he deflected the void dagger with a lightning bolt.


    “Got you!” ke said as he opened 3 spatial tears. One at Damon’s previous location, one at Damon’s current location and thest which he thrust Ebony into.


    For shadow jump to work there needed to be a shadow within a certain range before he could jump.


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    Also, shadow path was useless because it slows down the body only when it was directly in contact with the shadow path. In this case, it was just Ebonying at him.


    “You wish!” Damon smirked as the lightning bolt used to deflect the void dagger made the dagger’s shadowrge enough for him to shadow jump.


    Immediately Damon popped out of the dagger’s shadow, he cast shadow path before distancing himself from ke.


    “Finally!” Damon let out a sigh of relief as he began to assess the situation.


    ‘I am still not fast enough and I have no clue how he is able to sense me even with darkbringer active.’ Damon thought.


    ‘I guess I have no other choice.’ Damon said as he activate his darkness artifact. Both his armor and darkness artifact amplified darkness spells, so when he activated night mist, it began filling the battlefield that was as big as an American football field.


    The only way to counter night mist was to leave its range of effect, but there was no ce to go.


    “Time to end this.” Damon activated the fear factor of the night mist.


    ‘Seems like he has gotten serious.’ ke thought as he was amid the ck mist, but that was when the battlefield changed to his home back on Earth.


    ‘Let it not be what I think it is.’ ke thought as he saw the door handle broken and the door wide open.


    Before ke could enter the house, Ivory lit up dispelling the illusion.


    ‘Thanks.’ ke thanked Ivory as he continued to stand still faking being trapped in the illusion.


    When Damon came in front of him and shed with a ck curved de, ke finally moved. He dodge the attack before grabbing onto Damon left hand and pulling him closer.


    ‘How?!!!!’ Damon was utterly confused as he received a blow to the abdomen.


    ‘Darkbringer, nightshade artifact, night mist, and illusions. So how is he still able to sense me?’ Damon was perplexed as he was mmed headfirst into the ground.


    “As I said, it doesn’t make any difference.” ke said as he stabbed Damon with Ebony causing a golden barrier to envelope him.


    Right from the first time ke had seen Damon fight, he had been thinking of ways to counter the darkness element. Luckily he had the system and Ebony and Ivory.


    Illusions were useless against ke thanks to the passive ability of Ivory, the same went for the darkness element.


    Spells like night mist that rendered the senses of the body useless did not affect the system. The system only needed ke’s vision to record memories, so the ck mist was no different from the concealing effects of darkbringer.


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    Inside the luxurious booth of Councilor Jaeger Nyx, not only was he alone but it waspletely dark just like he liked it.


    ‘Still being able to sense him with only darkbringer active is not a problem. The question is how he could do so even with night shade active.’ Damon’s dad was shocked by the oue.


    “Any info on how he could do that?” Jaeger asked as a shadow rose at one of the corners of the luxurious booth.


    “During their stay in the magic school, he had rarely gone against either young master or the other one. As for the time they have met, Prince Luciano had dealt with it using an artifact.” The shadow reported.


    “What of the other councilors, do they know anything about it?” Jaeger asked.


    “No, they are also clueless.” The shadow reported.


    “Hmm”


    Jaeger was concerned about the event that just unfolded because the Nyx family were in control of the darkness element in the Synder Empire. So someone that could somehow counter the darkness element and even darkness artifacts was a danger to them.


    Not only could he share the info with the other ancient families which would in turn weaken their strength and power, but he would be a problem if he decide to go against them.


    ‘The only option I can think of is that Prince Bryon gave him an artifact.’ Jaeger thought.


    “Dismissed.” Jaeger said as the shadow instantly vanished.


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    Back at the lobby, the match was just over and Serhan watched as both ke and Damon returned to the lobby.


    ‘I shouldn’t be surprised, he is always full of surprises.’ Serhan thought after recalling how ke won without taking a single hit.


    “Next match Serhan vs Lucas.” The host’s announcement snapped Serhan out of his reverie.


    ‘No matter who I was paired against, I would still lose.’ Serhan thought as he let out a helpless sigh. He was the least ranked person in both schools, and even the 2nd lowest which was Castiel would beat him thanks to the darkness element.


    ‘Let’s just hope I don’t get defeated in less than a minute.’ Serhan thought as he walked up to the tform that took him to the center of the arena.


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