Web of the Timeweavers by Marvin Knight

Author:Marvin Knight [Knight, Marvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Three

I felt my hands grow hot, and to my shock, the skin on my fingers was starting to disintegrate. He was using the same spell I was.

The two of us struggled there on the ground for a moment. My disintegration spell was active as well, but most of this robot was made of adamantium, and my skill was leaving nothing more than a few blemishes. In contrast, my skin was starting to peel and turn raw. This wasn’t a good position to be in.

I turned my senses to the ground beneath me, sensing my escape just out of reach. I released one forearm to reach for it, and the robot’s free hand went for my throat. But by the time he reached me, I was already slipping into the ley line I’d just touched.

I reappeared on my feet a few paces away, wounds already healing. I glanced at the marks on the robot’s forearms and was satisfied to see that they remained. Good. My opponent was more durable than I was, but slower to heal as well.

If I still had Spell Eater, I would have returned it to my hand now. But that weapon was still lodged in the foot of the massive elemental carcass back where we’d come from. My Sword Storm blades were far away as well. The speed of our fight had left them behind.

This brief lull lasted just long enough for me to activate Layered Durability to protect myself. This machine was powerful, and I didn’t want to get into another grapple with him. I was too used to being able to overpower anything up close. Not being able to reminded me of the days before I’d acquired the World Titan Fiendbody.

Every ability I had seen from this metallic doppelganger had come from either my earth cultivation or body cultivation. While he might have some of my mind magic, my abilities in that field were far beyond their previous level. Unless he had improved as much as I had, I would have the advantage with mind magic.

I used Draconic Roar, my stunning mental attack. I watched him flinch. Machine or not, he still had a mind to attack.

I almost took the bait, but I’d long since mastered the Mind Trap spell by the time this clone split off from me. If he had any mind magic at all, that would be the spell to practice. My mind magic would have to play a supporting role.

Instead, I fell back on my old abilities like Embrittling Palm. I dodged his wrist as he moved to jab at my throat, then struck that wrist five times in quick succession.

The robot twisted his now-cracked and rusting wrist and tried to grab my arm. He would have succeeded, but I flared Titanic Force to full power and drew on deep wells of strength.

But the machine did the same, and I only escaped by slipping through a ley line.

I reappeared at the top of a mountain, and my foe came up to meet me.

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