Birth of the Demonic Sword - Chapter 857

Chapter 857
The remaining Sonic Hawk didn't use only its physical strength and its enhanced innate abilities in the last attack . It had used one of the spells in its possession during that charge .

The chains that kept it bound to the ground began to shine as the anger for the death of its brother filled the hybrid's mind . The inscribed item tried to suppress its instincts from taking control of its mental faculties, but the emotions of the Hawk were too intense and kept on fueling its insanity .

Nevertheless, that didn't seem to stop it from using spells .

Noah's eyes sharpened when he saw the cuts on his arms . Generally speaking, a hybrid taken over by its emotions would rely on its beast side to fight . Yet, the Hawk had used even its human side in the previous charge .

'This should be impossible,' Noah thought as he stared at the creature that was turning to face him again . According to his experience, no hybrid could cast spells during those moments of insanity . Their thoughts would regress and appear in the form of pure instincts, which prevented the creation of diagrams inside the mental spheres .

'Is this because of the laws?' He wondered . That scene led him to consider the particular mental state that he had achieved during the transformation as the cause of that phenomenon . Still, the rank 6 ancestor inside the castle at the end of the continent would have obtained similar results if something like that was enough to control the mental instabilities .

'Maybe, it is a matter of variables . ' Noah concluded as he saw the Hawk preparing to charge at him again .

The inscribed chains, a mind wandering in the world of the laws, the experience accumulated in those decades, and that last trauma forced the Sonic Hawk's mental sphere to reach a higher state . It still acted and thought as a beast, but its instincts seemed able to understand that its mind had access to more powerful attacks .

It was as if the mind of the Hawk had evolved after its brother's death, and it was aware of the spells stored in its memories . It had turned the knowledge that the hybrid had accumulated as a human into instincts that it could use in battle .

'Complete awareness, but in the form of instincts,' Noah thought before raising his weapon to face his opponent . 'The exact opposite of me . '

Noah knew that he represented only one side of the hybrids . He was a specimen that had chosen the path of the humans, of the individualities .

Instead, the natives of the other Mortal Lands had followed their ancestors' footsteps, becoming hybrid that pursued the path of the magical beasts .

Noah's path made him become an existence outside of Heaven and Earth's system, while the natives were still inside of it, even if as its natural enemy .

There wasn't right or wrong in those paths . Both of them led to power and could reach the divine ranks . However, Noah hadn't considered the possibility that even their minds could evolve in the opposite direction .




Of course, his interest wasn't purely academic . He had sworn to Danielle that he would fix the unavoidable mental instabilities of the hybrids inside the Hive, so he had to expand his knowledge about that topic .

The hybrid had the chains of the Empire binding it though, so Noah couldn't capture it alive to study it thoroughly .

'What a pity,' Noah sighed as he spat a wave of flames to surround his figure .

The feathers on the Sonic Hawk's body rose and became a spiked armor that it tilted in Noah's direction . Their tips cut the air and created large cracks in the sky, and its speed increased too due to the effects of spells that it vaguely remembered .

However, all that expression of power didn't scare Noah .

He couldn't follow the hybrid's movements with his eyes . Still, he could predict where its attacks were going to land due to the cloud of corrosive smoke and the intense flames that surrounded his figure .



As soon as Noah sensed some movements inside his area of destruction, he unleashed the Black Hole spell, his saber-shaped runes, and the remaining Ghostly Sabers in the spot right after that .

An explosion occurred, and Noah fixed his feet on the darkness under them to resist the repulsive force generated by the detonation of his dark sphere . The armor of smoke around him dispersed as the shockwaves reached him, but the layer of flames had already weakened them . His body suffered virtually no damage in that exchange .

When the sky reformed and the situation calmed down, Noah found the Sonic Hawk hovering weakly at some distance from him . Its body was a mess, and it had lost all its feathers during the explosion . Countless cuts filled its skin too, and there was blood coming out of its beak .

The hybrid had almost died in one attack, but it wasn't its fault . Noah had released the spells that had fed on primary energy since the beginning of the battle . The Hawk didn't have any chance against that .

Yet, the fact that it had survived proved how resilient hybrids were compared to humans . After all, Noah's attack was something that only rank 5 cultivators at the peak of the gaseous stage could launch .

Most experts would die if all those spells were to hit them directly at the same time . Their bodies would disintegrate even before the explosion .



The hybrid didn't seem intentioned to give up on its revenge and stared at Noah with a gaze full of hatred . That emotion was something that only Noah could recognize since he was a hybrid himself, and his mind could notice the various features of its expression even if it had the head of a bird .

Nevertheless, it was too weak to do anything other than remaining in the air .

Noah neared it, and his hand shot to close its beak when he saw that the Hawk wanted to use another sound attack . Both his eardrums had popped during that battle, and it would take them a while to heal . He didn't want to worsen the injury now that the fight was over .

A quick slash severed its head from the rest of its body . Without the feathers to defend it, the skin of the Hawk was slightly softer compared to beasts on a similar level .

The inscribed chain fell toward the ground as Noah stored its corpse after taking out its dantian . The body of the other hybrid appeared in his hands too, and he proceeded on taking its dantian away before storing it again .

The Sonic Hawks were too fast for him, and their annoying sound attacks had forced him to store the dantian of the first opponent for when the battle was over . That organ had lost some power inside the space-ring, but it still met the standards of the fifth rank .

Then, Noah threw the two organs in his mouth and gulped as he turned to look at the rest of the battlefield .