Kill the Sun

Chapter 796: Suppressing a Force Specter

Nick had been going back and forth for several seconds now, and he could feel the Fallen becoming more ferocious.

Fallen were extremely shrewd and intelligent. If they weren't, they wouldn't have become Fallen.

'It thinks I already called for backup, and it wants to finish it before the backup arrives. I don't have much time!'

'Additionally, the Specter Cage will come back down soon. Its acceleration is not fast, but its terminal velocity is brutally high due to its density.'

Nick tried to find a way to kill the Specter without entering the ocean.

That was when he noticed a peculiarity.

'Its tentacles are attacking me from the side. It makes sense that they wouldn't attack me from below since that would throw me further away from it, but why is it not curving its tentacles and attacking me from above?'

Nick realized the reason.

'That's my chance!'

BANG!

Nick became careless and got hit by one of the tentacles, his body being thrown to the side.

His Barrier shone, but that was just a deception.

In truth, he blocked the tentacle with his body, but the Fallen couldn't see that due to the mist surrounding him.

The short flash of light getting past the mist would make it seem like his Barrier blocked the strike.

Nick quickly recovered, but the avalanche of attacks didn't stop.

He managed to cut another two tentacles before several more crashed into him.

BANG!

Nick used another flash of light to make it seem like his Barrier broke.

In an instant, the gigantic tentacles turned into countless thin tentacles, which rapidly wound around his body.

They squeezed tight, and several bones inside Nick's body broke.

However, when Nick felt the bit of Zephyx that was being injected into him by the tentacles, he knew that he had guessed correctly.

It was trying to keep him from dying to his own Zephosis.

The Specter had continually attacked him, but it avoided throwing him into the ocean.

Why?

Well, Nick would fall under the Salt Trident's control and would become its food.

Naturally, Specters only wanted one thing.

To become more powerful.

Of course, the Fallen could just kill Nick in the air...

But did this Specter grow more powerful by killing humans?

Maybe, but judging by the way it was attacking, it didn't seem like it.

Despite its avalanche of attacks, it was striking in a very deliberate and controlled manner.

It was like it was scared of accidentally killing Nick.

He was an actual Force Specter in this state, and suppressing Force Specter was unreasonably difficult.

Nick wouldn't even be able to suppress an Initial Demon Force Specter.

This Fallen did not have the skill set to suppress a Force Specter.

Nick came closer to the Specter Core.

"I surrender!"

Nick heard the Specter's voice in his mind.

It could tell that Nick was a Specter as well by now, and it used the unique method Specters used to communicate with each other.

Nick stopped advancing.

"Go to the surface, or I'll kill you," Nick transmitted.

The Specter hesitated.

The next moment, its body split apart, and a flood of ocean water entered.

In the Specter's mind, since Nick had said that it should go to the surface, it probably meant that he was afraid of the ocean.

So, it covered him in ocean water.

However, Nick's expression didn't change.

"I said, go to the surface!" he transmitted.

"I will," the Specter answered.

It was helpless.

There was nothing it could do anymore.

It moved to the surface, and Nick slowly advanced to its Specter Core.

"As long as you comply, I won't kill you. You will even have some food," Nick transmitted.

"First, catch the black cube falling from the sky."

Several tentacles extended into the sky and took hold of the falling Specter Cage.

The next moment, Nick summoned a second Specter Cage.

"Enter or die," he transmitted.

"It's too small," the Specter answered.

"Then, you will die," Nick transmitted as he readied his blade to destroy the Specter Core.

"I comply, but I will lose all my food."

At that point, Nick's eyes narrowed.

Things just became more troublesome.

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