The barrier trembled and a ripple spread outward from the place where their fists connected. However, besides a small dent that was rapidly healing nothing happened.
"Again!" Zane said, they cocked their fists back and punched forward.
*BANG!*
This time a small crack could be seen on the barrier.
*BANG!* The third time a small hole could be seen in the barrier, Zane tried to stretch it open sort of like forcefully opening an elevator door. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
However this was the least of their problems, a large amount of energy suddenly gathered, and a ball of energy formed in the sky.
Suddenly a few needle tips formed on the ball aiming at them.
*Pew*
Several needles were discharged from the ball and passed through the barrier without problem heading towards them.
Zane didn't need to act, Anne opened her mouth and a beam of crimson fire and lightning shot out of it.
*BOOM!*
This caused the needles to explode violently causing them to take a few steps back.
Zane frowned.
"A twin formation, one of them defends, the other attacks." He muttered gravely.
Anne nodded with a grave expression.
It was then they heard steps behind them.
Turning around vigilantly they saw someone who looked like a teenager about 16 years of age with a well-refined body.
He had blonde hair and was wearing white robes.
He cupped his fist respectfully.
"Greetings, Zane of the saint dragon clan, Anne of the hell shock wyvern clan. This young one is Terran of the golden drake clan." He greeted respectfully.
"Golden Drakes? As in you're a distant descendant of the golden dragons?" Zane asked curiously. He wasn't surprised the man found out his identity.
The man nodded. Though inwardly he was a little surprised Zane didn't ask how he knew.
"How did you know my identity?" Zane asked curiously.
'Never mind…' The man thought.
"It was just an educated guess." Terran responded. "I don't intend to sell you out to the heaven shock wyvern's, don't worry."
"How about we work together to break this barrier open?" He proposed.
Zane thought for a moment, in the end, he raised 2 fingers. "I got 2 conditions."
"1st, the blood essence in there belongs to me and Anne. The 2nd is that we split up the spirit pellets, stones, etc between all of us evenly. If there is an uneven amount of them, the last ones will go to Anne."
Terran nodded. "I agree."
Terran brought out a treasure bow, it was made out of runic gold, different from spiritual gold. Runic gold naturally had profound runes engraved on it, meaning anything made out of it, is at the very least a martial artifact.
In this case, this was greater runic gold, the runes on it naturally formed an array of profound runes making it a profound artifact.
Creating something out of a runic material was not easy at all, you first had to analyze the runes on the bar of metal. Depending on what the runes did you couldn't make it into certain objects without severely weakening it.
For example, some pieces of runic gold had defensive runes, so you could make it into a shield and make it a very powerful one at that. However say it was turned into a sword, then it wouldn't be able to reach its full potential.
He respectfully handed it to Zane with 2 hands.
"Please, do the honors."
Zane picked up the bow from Terran's hands curiously. It was light, almost as if it was merely a feather.
"Why is it so light? Isn't that bad for a bow?" Zane asked curiously.
"That's because the bow senses I'm allowing you to use it, so it's reducing the weight you feel drasticly. That bow actually weighs about 500 kilograms." He responded. "If you didn't have my permission to use the bow, you would feel its full weight and it would resist your effort to pull the bow string back."
Zane nodded in intrigue, he recalled the archery lessons he had in his past life and got into position. Although his pose was rather amateurish, he at least knew the basics.
The moment he touched the bowstring it sounded like a harp string was plucked.
It sent chills of pleasure down Zane's spine.
"I need one of these…" He muttered.
Shaking aside his thoughts he pulled the bowstring back. As he did so he felt his spiritual energy being slightly sapped and an arrow of yellow light began forming.
This was Zane's first experience actually using a treasure, and it showed.
Terran smiled. He remembered when he was a child and he got curious about the bow.
Zane took a breath steadying his hands and let the arrow fly.
*BOOM!*
A giant hole was opened in the barrier.
"Let's go!" Zane said. The 2 nodded and shot forward, Zane had already given the bow back to Terran.
*BOOM!*
With another explosion, the spiritual needles that the formation launched were destroyed and they destroyed the door to the mansion as well.
Upon entering, they were greeted with a surprise. 6 swords were hovering in the air, waiting for them, they were made from drake bone.
The runes engraved on these bones lit up and the swords shot forward, intending to skewer the trio.
Zane's heart clenched as time slowed in his vision.
'They are too fast… I can't react…'
He managed to glance over and saw Anne was horrified.
Zane didn't hesitate to try and push her to the side. However, it was all in vain…
*Puchi!*
*Puchi!*
*Puchi!*
3 swords skewered him, their force knocking him off course. They shot through him.
However, just as he thought he was about to die. He noticed he was getting faster.
[Life-Saving Skill '2nd life' activated!]
[Info: Boosts host's mind, body, and soul by 1000% for 5 seconds, heals all injuries, and resurrects host.]
[Cool down: 1 year]
[Penalty: Damage to soul + spirit tempering speed reduced by 75% for 3 months + Temporary exhaustion.]
Zane's speed shot through the roof, his nerves and neuron were firing at the speed of light, his heart pumped powerfully, his muscles bulged as his strength soared, his skin grew tougher and exalted runes appeared all over Zane's body.
*BOOM!*
He took a powerful stride and instantly arrived in front of Anne. His instincts screamed at him to protect Anne now so all surprise was negated.
*BANG!*
The 3 swords were met by a colossal force and turned to ash. However, she was still injured.
With another step, he stepped towards Terran and destroyed the 3 swords about to skewer his vitals. Turning around the 3 swords that skewered him earlier were about to skewer Anne.
With a single step, he arrived and turned them to ash.
This all happened in a split second.
*BOOM!*