Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2031 Summoning

There was simply no getting away from it. This was the one and only ability of her Truth Pupils that she had used last time, and the horrors of it still echoed in Ryu's mind.

The Truth Pupils... its fundamental ability was to distort the line between illusion and reality, allowing it to create shocking abilities like this one.

On the one hand, these clones were meant to be nothing more than illusions. And yet, on the other hand...

Three of them flashed forward.

Ryu blocked one with a knee and a second with an elbow, his mouth opening up in a roar toward the third. A beam of fire left his lips and tore space in two, appearing before the last in a flash.

His body shook as the first two clones practically collapsed his body between their strength, but his Heavenly Dao Tree sparkled as it finally joined the battle as well. The casual use of Dragon Breath caused a slight smile to flicker in Sarriel's eyes. It seemed that Ryu had improved after all. Before, he would only bring out such talents as a last resort when the battle was reaching an apex, but now he seemed much more like a true Dragon.

Amusing, indeed.

It was nothing more than a light smile. As for how much she actually cared...

It was next to nothing.

Her third clone was destroyed. The only weakness of these clones was that their health wasn't nearly as great as that of their master. Well, only Sarriel knew that they could be. It was just that she didn't care enough about this battle to waste the stamina that would be needed to make that necessary.

Instead...

She just replaced it with a fourth clone.

Ryu was besieged from all sides, his body being forced to withstand an assault from what seemed to be an army of geniuses. They came from all sides, each one having the same sharpness and cleverness as Sarriel. It felt like she was trying to overload his mind, draining his Focus Qi even faster than his Birthed Phenomena were already doing.

However... Ryu remained calm.

He casually blocked and parried, slicing out with Dragon Claws and Breaths from time to time as though he had an endless well of stamina to pull from.

And honestly speaking... he might as well have.

The skies clapped with thunder and a bolt of lightning as thick as a mountain descended from above, striking Ryu's Heavenly Dao Tree.

However, from the aura, it was clear that this bolt of lightning came from Ryu's own Storm Talent.

At the same time, his Lightning God Talent flashed as well, and the bolt of powerful lightning became a sheen of scaled armor that covered the crystalline tree from head to toe.

Ryu's movements became sharper, his speed suddenly accelerating as he used his Tatsuya movement technique.

A fist appeared at the head of one of Sarriel's clones and burst it apart.

The Heavenly Dao Tree behind Ryu rippled, and a judgment descended from the skies. All of a sudden, Sarriel's gaze flashed as a warping reality of tree branches suddenly slashed out. It formed a tornado, a whirlwind of attacks so fast that it was difficult for her to manage all of her clones at once.

She quickly realized that Ryu had been hiding the true ability of his [Heavenly Dao Tree] in the earlier battles. It was only now that he allowed the chaos within it to truly bloom.

But what was more shocking was the dichotomy of chaos and order playing well together. The Heavenly Dao Tree was the chaos, and the Lightning God, the judgment of the Heavens themselves, became the order.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Ryu found the weaknesses of her clones and tore through them in a single bound, and in a brief instant, she was left with nothing more than a handful.

After understanding what was happening, Sarriel was no longer as shocked. He had seen through the method these Truth Clones were created and targeted those weaknesses.

As Ryu had stated, the Truth Pupils blurred the line between reality and illusion. These Truth Clones were created on a fundamentally illusory basis before they were shifted into reality.

Usually, Sarriel picked out a casual ability to be the basis of her illusion. Maybe it was an organ, maybe it was a strand of hair, maybe it was a technique she liked to use. The only requirement was that it be something unique to her, something to tether the illusion.

Only then could she create a clone that was so powerful.

However, in order for the Truth Clone to continue to exist, that part of it had to remain illusory. Only that balance between illusion and reality allowed the Clone to display their truest, greatest strength.

But when facing against. Ryu, whose Pupils could see through such things...

It didn't matter how much stamina Sarriel gave them, he would rip through them all in a single touch of judgment.

Ryu took a step forward, his muscles rippling. The bruises that dotted his body, thanks to Sarriel's clones, vanished with the circulation of a single drop of Embryonic Qi before he shot forward with another step.

He appeared before Sarriel, sending out a casual fist strike as he ignored what remained of her clones completely.

**BOOM!**

Sarriel didn't move an inch, but a portal did appear before her. A palm as white as snow came out from the small portal. Even when what was on the other side couldn't be seen clearly, Ryu could feel the heart-shuddering aura.

However, he wasn't surprised... he had already known that Sarriel was a Summoning Necromancer after the first time they fought. Back then, she had summoned a Demon Royal as well... but compared to the aura of the one back then, this one was on a completely different level. They couldn't even be compared.

But what Sarriel did next was even more shocking than that.

Ryu watched as her irises rotated and the portal grew larger.