CHAPTER 292: CHAPTER 292 THE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN KAILEN DARKHAVEN AND JIN

"Please be safe." Cimeris sent a thought transmission to Jin.

The latter sent one back, his confident tone reassuring her of his safety and her freedom.

"After today you will be free, just wait for me."

A ruthless expression flashed through Jin’s eyes as his gaze traced back to Kailen Darkhaven, standing opposite him in the large battle space with a deadpan expression on his face.

Their expressions directed towards each other bore extreme killing intent, a testament to the reality that death was the only way to resolve this.

Kailen activated his shadow armored form completely, causing all his shadow creatures to form an obsidian armor around him.

He was not done. What followed next was the activation of his Asura Enlightenment Physique.

His hair, unrestrained, billowing in the wind and eyes turned deep crimson.

A deep crimson horn nestled itself on his forehead, pulsing with lethal bloodlust and malevolence.

His skin assumed a deep crimson lustre, with archaic runes running through them.

His whole presence teemed with pure, unrestrained bloodlust.

He looked like some sort of handsome yet malicious creature summoned from the depths of an underworld.

Then, transparent armor subtly appeared around Kailen’s figure, one that many spectators and even Jin himself failed to notice.

It was a rune-inscribed armor made by Anaya to aid him in this battle. It dealt significant resistance to curse-related affinities.

’What sort of Physique is this?’

Jin suddenly felt extremely cautious, as he felt a very lethal threat encumber him just by staring at Kailen Darkhaven, transformed into some sort of hell spawn from the use of his rumored Physique.

When he met the gaze of Kailen Darkhaven after this ominous transformation, he felt a tinge of fear almost creep into his heart. However, he cursed himself for being pathetic and steeled himself.

He had to fight for Cimeris, the woman he loved!

He had to kill Kailen Darkhaven.

Only then could she be free!

Plus, he would receive great rewards from the sect if he managed to be the one to eliminate this bastard!

He had nothing to lose, as only benefits waited him at the end of the day for getting rid of this guy.

Quickly, several blobs of some sort of red thick liquid appeared around him.

They floated around him. However, some of the blobs of the red liquid covered his figure completely and hardened into some sort of reddish armor.

A very thick, pungent aura spread throughout the battlefield at the same time.

"Interesting strategy. The fellow from the Arcane Empowerment Sect aims at using his debuff liquid, not only offensively, but defensively.

He wants to ensure that Kailen Darkhaven cannot only attack him due to fear of being under the debuff of coming into contact with the armored form, he’s only put on the defensive trying to defend himself against the effect of the liquid.

But will it work against Kailen Darkhaven?"

Riba Harker analyzed with swift precision, his gaze fixed on Kailen Darkhaven.

He had decided to come here to spectate in the life-and-death battle to learn more about Kailen Darkhaven.

He needed to know more about his enemy, right?

In a battle like this, the fellow was definitely gonna use all his trump cards, and he would definitely have a full picture of all of Kailen’s abilities.

"Did he think I’d come without adequate preparations?"

A katana appeared in Kailen’s hands, glistening with otherworldly sharpness.

It was not made of shadows. After buying the katana from the stores of the blacksmith department, he had handed it to Anaya to inscribe some curse-affinity-related resistance runes on it for him.

Kailen had done this after watching the battle videos of Jin. He had come to an understanding of his opponent’s methods. This had led him to prepare himself adequately for this battle.

He was confident in his own abilities, but he wouldn’t underestimate someone like Jin.

When Jin saw the katana that appeared in Kailen’s hands, he felt something was not right.

He had watched the battles of Kailen Darkhaven.

Each of his katanas was formed from his strange affinity.

Why was he gonna use a normal katana in this battle?

What was going on?

However, he brushed those thoughts away.

The moment the countdown for the battle to begin ended—

Jin did not stand on ceremony, sending several blobs of the red liquid towards Kailen, the blobs of the red liquid whistling towards Kailen with blinding speed.

It seemed Jin could control the direction and movements of the red liquid blobs.

This was because the moment Kailen started dodging the red liquid blobs heading his way, they would change trajectory and head towards him again.

"These things are dangerous."

Kailen had been evading them for a while now, but he sensed the threat packed in these liquid blobs.

"Infinite Katana Series!"

Kailen wasted no time.

With katana sizzling with elemental mirroring and affinity lightning, infinite Alchemy flames and condensed palpable katana intent branded in hand, Kailen moved like a phantom, each motion executed with swift precision—each strike more lethal, precise, deadly, and powerful than the previous.

Larger versions of the liquid blobs were shot towards him, pulsing with more ominous intent.

Even with his monstrous perception and elevated physical prowess thanks to the use of his shadow armor and the Asura Enlightenment Physique, Kailen still failed to evade all the red blobs.

Some managed to land on him.

However, contrary to the effects of his curse affinity Jin was expecting, Kailen Darkhaven’s movements did not slow down, neither did his universe energy reserves start to drain at an astonishing rate like Jin had expected.

Kailen’s movements became faster as he shot towards Jin with his katana branded in hand.

Jin finally understood that Kailen Darkhaven had mostly prepared himself for this battle after studying his battle patterns.

The fellow had most likely secured the help of a rank zero Runesmith to make curse-energy-resisting runes on some sort of armor for him.

But where was the armor?

Was it transparent?

An invisibility rune, huh!

And a curse-affinity resistance rune on an armor at the same time?

Where did Kailen Darkhaven find such a Runesmith?

All these thoughts had flashed through his mind in the span of a moment.

Quickly, he made up his mind.

Since his opponent could now engage him in a direct confrontation, it was time for him to also show his prowess in battle.