Monster Integration

I have it, but things are not simple as the other times; everything is connected. The branches that are prisoning me and also the ones which are spread over five hundred miles under the ground.

If it had been just that, I would have been able to pull it inside me, but it is not all; the biggest obstacle is its bloodline. The phantom is still outside, resisting the pull. The Goat man also seemed to understand that, as horror disappeared from its eyes and mock appeared.

'It seemed like there was no other choice,' I thought and sighed, and the next moment, a vast amount of energy began to flow out of me.

These are no common energies, but energies that made my strings, and they are spreading far and wide; I have to get my strings into everything; it is the only choice.

My two clones and I worked together, so that we could work faster; we had to finish it as soon as possible. If I sensed something bad, it would come to its rescue, so I needed to finish it before that happened.

Doing this would have been much easier if I could make it recede its branches, the way I controlled its attack coming toward me, but that way had been closed. Its bloodline had acted very quickly, closing all the weaknesses that I could exploit.

Now, it could not move them, nor could I. The attack is locked, with both trying hard to gain control over them.

Still, it is very dangerous for me; its bloodline is trying very hard to get control over these branches; the moment it does that, it will be game over for me because now, I don't have my shields to defend against the attack of branches.

I could not let that happen and pushed my clones and myself hard.

Rustle Rustle Rustle

Around two and half a minute passed when the branches began to move ever so slightly; seeing that, my expression couldn't help but turn worse.

It is gaining back its control over its attack, and I am stopping it, but I am losing battle; I have to finish this quickly, or it will be I who will be dying, not it.

Another minute passed, and its control became even greater; the ball of branches had shrunk, and now, I could touch it with my hands and feet; most importantly, I was wrapped under the branch, and it was squeezing me with every second, the force growing bigger.

If it continued, then within half a minute, these branches would squeeze me to the pulp; it is a very bad way to die, and I don't want to die this way.

Buzz!

Twelve more seconds passed, and my defenses have reached near breaking point; when I finally heard the buzz, I was waiting to hear.

The silver and green runes began to come out of me and begin spreading; seeing that, I couldn't help but take a sigh of relief while branches squeezed me tighter with every second.

For the past few minutes, I have been spreading my energy everywhere, to branches, as I have already spread inside it, but it is not enough; as the bloodline essence covers these very vines, and I have to spread it inside it before the runes could come out, that is the condition.

It would have been much easier if I were able to cut these branches from it, but if I had such strength, then I would have killed it directly rather than use such, risky elaborate ploy.

The runes are spreading at an extremely fast speed, but I still wish they would spread faster; the bloodlines have seemed to have sensed the threat from the runes and now fighting back desperately, clawing back power at a much greater speed, and it is making things harder for me.

Crack Crack Crack

Finally, the squeeze had become so tight that my bones began to break; first, it was the bone of my left hand, before it was right, then it was my legs and shoulders.

I have kept my neck and legs very protected, but the pressure is piling on them very fast; I won't be able to resist for long before the bones of my neck begin to break; it will be a very dangerous thing for me.

Buzz!

A few more seconds passed, and the bones of my head began to crack, and a faint crack began to appear on the bones of my neck when suddenly I relaxed, and a moment later, I heard another buzzing sound as the runes lit up.

Immediately, the bloodline stopped increasing pressure on me as now that the runes began to harness its power, it was fighting back with everything it got to stop it.

It would have been better if it had loosened the branches, which are still squeezing me tight. It is painful and widening the cracks in my bones, but I will survive now that the force is not increasing.

The trickle of bloodline essence began to flow inside me to my core; it was tens of times less than what the runes could harness when the Grimms were inside me. The core is their domain; no bloodline, no matter how powerful it is, could not put up much resistance; here, things are a little harder.

Though the bloodline will lose, it has already started losing, despite fighting tooth and nail against it.

The branches also slowly began to lose their hold on me; till now, they could not crack my bones anymore. The runes absorbed the bloodline essence contained in them, making them weak as the normal branches; within a minute, I broke out of them.

The resistance from the bloodline got weaker and weaker till, after five minutes, there was barely any resistance, and now, my runes are sucking this purified bloodline essence at amazing speed; it won't take more than ten minutes before the runes suck it try.

I begin to make the preparations to escape; the moment it dies, the Grimms will know, and they will come at me in vengeance, which I am very sure won't be able to survive without rescue.

So, I want to escape before that because rescues could fail when attacking someone like an old Werewolf, who would need a single attack to kill me.

With the space lock from the branches vanishing, I did not feel any resistance when the teleportation formation came out. I did not activate it, just brought it out, the moment I activate it, it would form the connection with the other end, and I will step through it.

This is the plan, and I will have to execute it perfectly.

Soon, there were only a few seconds of bloodline essence remained in it; the moment my runes sucked it, it would die, and I will escape.

Seconds passed, and finally, the last drop of essence sucked into my runes, and immediately, I could see the change appearing on the faces of all Grimms; they knew its dead.

That very second activated the teleportation formation, which opened a gate a moment later, and I moved my leg into it when I suddenly stopped.