Chapter 226: Rage-Filled Limits


    It was like time itself stopped as Darcel and the Spirit Monster Hawk glowered at each other.


    Neither was moving but for entirely different reasons to each other.


    Right now, the Spirit Monster Hawk was legitimately gauging Darcel''s prowess.


    Though it''s in a maddening feral state where it wanted nothing more than to rip him to shreds. It also couldn''t go against its body and Heavenly Spirit Senses exploding with a sense of immense danger.


    When Darcel had directed that rage-filled shout towards it, the danger the Spirit Monster Hawk felt from him explosively increased to an unfathomable level.


    Not even when that long white hair preyed burst with her own danger sense did it feel as intense as it did with Darcel.


    All the while the Spirit Monster Hawk was having a fierce battle against its instinct, Darcel was quickly gathering the full limits of his bloodline transform state.


    The small ck feathers on his arm began to intensely wriggle more and more as his rage increasingly gathered. No matter how powerful this Spirit Monster Hawk is, Darcel was now immensely determined to put it six feet below ground.


    And in just a mere second after Darcel and the Spirit Monster Hawk red at each other, a frightening change urred around Darcel.


    For about six feet in front of Darcel, a profound Darkness glow began to discharge from his body. The Darkness glow was acting like some kind of extended aura to Darcel.


    Seeing it grow even gave the Spirit Monster Hawk a genuine chilling feeling.


    And even more chilling was the fact even among the abyss-like Darkness glow, Darcel''s figure somehow shined brightly within it.


    Darcel cared little in how the Spirit Monster Hawk was gauging his prowess. Once Darcel felt his bloodline powers climb to its peak, his eyes dangerously narrowed.


    A burst of crazed killing intent exploded from his body, dropping the air to an ice-cold sensation for miles around them.


    "Darcy/Darcel."


    Ani and Masami were genuinely caught by surprise at Darcel''s sudden mood shift. That excitement from battle turned into cold hard killing intent they never really felt before from him.


    Ani had already stood upon the ground while Masami floated a meter away from the tree.


    Though the whole area was falling cold to Darcel''s killing intent, Ani and Masami felt surprisingly warm. Before they would join in again, they would see how Darcel would dish out his next attack.


    Darcel, of course, was unaware of Ani and Masami''s stares. As soon as the Darkness glow emitted from his body, he was ready to attack.


    Darcel didn''t go with his Martial Skills and decided to take the most direct approach with attacking. Before the Spirit Monster Hawk could even think about awakening from its stupor to attack Darcel, Darcel himself sted right towards the beast!


    Darcel blitz through the air, temporarily going against allws and rules for just a couple of seconds. His bloodline state limit powers allowed him to blitz right through the air as if he could genuinely fly!


    "Scree!!" Seeing Darcel sail straight at it caused the Spirit Monster Hawk to awake from its slight stupor.


    It gave an ear-piercing screech, pped its vast wings, and shot right towards Darcel, matching his maddening rush.


    The Spirit Monster Hawk and Darcel had equal immense speed, crossing over to each other in just a matter of seconds.


    Even before they shed, the Spirit Monster Hawk was pushing out its full power.


    The maximum aura of the Spirit Monster Hawk''s aura and Darcel''s rage-filled bloodline state chaotically sh against each other, causing a distorted mess in the spatial space around them!


    The air currents around them were utterly vaporized, and small tears in spatial space could be seen if one had a keen eye.


    From behind, Ani and Masami even felt their awe increase to a different level.


    For nearly all of their fights, Ani and Masami were consistently impressed by Darcel''s prowess. But this time, they witnessed a level that the girls could tell was legitimately above their own prowess!


    Even before Darcel and the Spirit Monster physically sh, their massive sh of auras already caused considerable pressure on both Ani and Masami.


    After all this time, only now that Ani and Masami realize that Darcel may be a bit more special than them.


    As Ani and Masami came upon a bit of a shocking revtion, Darcel and the Spirit Monster Hawk had already closed in on each other.


    The Spirit Monster Hawk''s beak burst with a blinding blue glow and Darcel''s fist got entirely coated with an intense Darkness glow as he strutted it forward.


    Without any special abilities, tricks, or showcase of skills, they both went for the most barbaric sh of powers.


    <em>''BANG~!!'' </em>


    An ear-splitting impact burst out as Darcel''s Darkness fist and the Spirit Monster Hawk''s blue, glowing beak ferociously shed!


    Their immense and energy chaotically mixed with each other, spraying everywhere in the area.


    "Nng!!" Both Ani and Masami had to shield their bodies with a great Qi barrier just to stay afloat.


    They felt as if the whole world was splitting apart!


    Numerous vast trees were split into pieces,rge cracks broke the ground open, and the minor distortion in spatial space became even greater.


    This all urred from just one sh of Darcel and the Spirit Monster hawk''s tremendous powers. Both of them were ring out powers that no ordinary tenth-level Heavenly King could ever hope to possibly match.


    For a split second, neither Darcel nor the Spirit Monster Hawk moved.


    Darcel was gritting his teeth as immense pain traveled right through his arm. A pool of blood gushed out of his fist as his skin was ripped off from the sh, exposing his bare grisly flesh.


    Darcel for sure felt some bones crack in his knuckles, and his whole arm nearly felt utterly numb from the sh.


    And it wasn''t like the Spirit Monster Hawk''s came out this sh unharmed.


    Nearly half of itsrge beak was broken off, and a tremendous pain wrapped around its head. In the instance, the beast shed with Darcel, its consciousness became incredibly dazed, nearly on the verge of passing out.


    It stubbornly persisted, however, and the pain coursing through its skull majorly helped with that.


    Against all expectations, Darcel actually felt his battle excitemente back to him.


    The immense pain of having his bare flesh ripped into almost made Darcel forgot about his surging rage of protecting the girls. He almost wanted to unleash even more power against the Spirit Monster Hawk.


    However, no matter the excitement he felt, Darcel''s killing intent couldn''t be stopped.


    In the split second they stayed still after shing, the small ck feathers on Darcel''s bloodline arm begin to wriggle about again.


    His Darkness glow intensified, and in that instance, numerous Darkness tendrils shot from Darcel''s bloodline arm!


    Darcel''s Darkness tendrils gave the Spirit Monster Hawk zero time to react as it instantly wrapped up its vast body.


    The Spirit Monster Hawk felt all of its bones painfully squeezed together. And its pupils heavily dted.


    "Skwaa!!"


    An anguish shriek roared from its mouth while it felt Darcels'' Darkness energy set its vast body aze.


    Its bloodstreams were getting overwhelmed with lustful Darkness energy, and this time the beast prowess was truly getting weakened.


    But immediately when the Spirit Monster Hawk felt a slight drain on its energy, its eyes burst with an explosive yellow hue once again!


    The Spirit Monster Hawk experienced another surge of power and began pressing its huge weight down on Darcel.


    ''Tch! Just how many times it can bust?!'' Darcel violently cursed in his mind. It was like this beast had an endless supply of surging power!


    However, instead of getting overwhelmed by this new power surged, Darcel stubbornly pressed on. He gnashed his teeth as he used his other hand to mp down on the Spirit Monster Hawk''s beak like an iron w.


    The feral glow in the Spirit Monster Hawk''s only continued to explode, and it didn''t stop trying to crush its whole weight onto Darcel.


    Slowly, the beast and Darcel began to descend towards the ground.


    Realizing there was no other option, Darcel let himself get dragged down by the beast, causing them both to quickly crash towards the ground now.


    In a mere second, they were already near the ground.


    But instead of letting the beast drill him deep in the ground, Darcel held his footing and managed to nt his feet a few inches in the ground. It allowed Darcel to still keep his iron w grip on the Spirit Monster Hawk while the beast was making him skid across the ground.


    Darcel''s feet were like iron as they tore right through the ground, never stopping to fall over for even a split second.


    Just when Darcel thought he would need toe up with something to stop the Spirit Monster Hawk from making him continuously skid through the ground, he heard then,


    "FLASH!!"


    In the loudest voice Darcel ever heard from her, Ani shrieked as a blinding white glow covered the whole area!


    <em>''Chi!''</em>


    Ani''s soul stunning shbang blended perfectly into Darcel''s Darkness glow. She had red out the total limits of her own bloodline state and crushed it down all on the Spirit Monster Hawk.


    The Spirit Monster Hawk had finally stopped moving entirely. Inside its soulscape space, a radiant white glow covered every inch of it.


    Darcel let out a small breath as he finally came to a stop. He peered his eyes up, and his gaze got filled with slight awe.


    Appearing from the midst of the Darkness and Light glow, Ani was descending down towards the Spirit Monster Hawk.


    Both of her hands were coated in Light energy while there were several enormous trees all coated in the same Light energy floating right behind her.


    Ani swung her hands down, causing the enormous white glowing trees to crash right down to the Spirit Monster Hawk.


    <em>''Bang!'' </em>


    The Light energy trees violently smashed on the Spirit Monster Hawk, burying it within. And in an excellent show of control, none of the Light energy trees got near to Darcel.


    He did have to take his grip off from the Spirit Monster Hawk, cut off his connection to his Darkness tendrils, and jump several feet away from it.


    Before Darcel had a chance to think about what to do next, he heard Masami''s voice re up next.


    "Kitsune Tail!"


    From twenty feet behind the Spirit Monster Hawk, Masami was crouched down on all fours. One of her foxtails had brightly lit up, discharging the highest amount of power Masmai could possibly gather up.


    And in the instance she shouted, that same foxtail shot forth towards the trapped Spirit Monster Hawk. Her foxtail blitz through the air, reaching the beast in a single second, and pierced right through the Light energy trees.


    <em>''Chi!'' </em>


    Blood squirted up through the trees like a geyser as Masami''s foxtail tore right through the Spirit Monster Hawk''s back.


    "SK-SKA!!"


    The Spirit Monster Hawk''s anguish squeals burst out into the area.


    Ani''s soul stunning shbang had vanished from its soul, and the first thing the Spirit Monster Hawk felt was immense pain like no other.


    Before the Spirit Monster Hawk could potentially experience another explosive power surge, Darcel was about to put an end to the beast''s life.


    However, before anything could be done, he, Ani, Masami, and even the Spirit Monster Hawk froze.


    Abruptly three immensely powerful auras had crushed down on them all.


    Darcel narrowed his eyes as this wasn''t just thebined powers of three tenth-level Heavenly King. It was those Crow Leadersbining their powers to unleash a powerful Martial Skill!


    Even as the Crow Leaders couldn''t hope to match Darcel or even Ani and Masami''s full prowess. They could still erupt with immense power that topples them all with a Heavenly Rank Martial Skill.


    And luckily for the Crow Leaders, they actually had all the time in the world from being entrapped and forgotten.


    Darcel, Ani, Masami, and the Spirit Monster Hawk were crushed with immense pressure that tightly suppressed their bodies.


    And as Darcel, Ani and Masami shot their gazes up to the skies, their pupils shrunk to needle sizes.