Chapter 335: Desiring a domain
"Kill the crows!" Carmine urgently ordered.
Ninth didn't wait any longer and disappeared from her position. She seemed to have teleported right atop the tallest tree in the vicinity.
And below her were tens of crows who were caught off guard by her swift movements. They all looked up and displayed fear that no normal crow could have ever expressed.
She raised her sword and performed a single swing, destroying tens of trees in a circle around her. And even though her stance only had one swing, each leaf that the trees shed was sliced into two.
The crows who reacted too slowly to the appearance of Ninth were helpless as they were dismantled from their head to their tail without even a single cry.
Some reacted fast, especially since they were a lot further away from Ninth.
They spread their wings and flew all over the place, screaming Caw! Caw! as they tried to warn the others of the incoming threat.
Judging from their reaction, these crow Canzers were merely for spying. They had no fighting capabilities. So, they weren't exactly too much of a threat to the group. It wasn't worth it to spend so much time chasing each crow to their deaths.
However, Ninth was extremely frustrated from the very beginning. She wanted to dirty her hands with violet Canzer blood. If she couldn't kill the Canzer that they were protecting, then she sure as hell was going to kill the other Canzers she laid eyes upon.
"Don't let them escape!" she told the team.
Even though they were starting to lower their weapons thinking that the fight was over, they immediately raised their weapons and threw out LifeSkill after LifeSkill trying to deter the crows from leaving too far away.
Suddenly, the whole Remedium started to shake.
Atlan was alarmed, thinking that another Canzer had found their location.
But when he looked up, he noticed that the reverberations were coming from none other than Ninth. This wasn't her normal LifeSkill; this was something else.
"She's going all out…" Carmine uttered.
The medieval world that they were trapped in suddenly disappeared in a blink of an eye. The trees, the castle, everything was dissolved as if everything was a mere illusion.
Then, Atlan felt as if his entire body was being crushed into a single point. The pressure wasn't too strong, but it was enough to be noticeable.
He looked around and noticed that they were in a desert world, filled with nothing but sand and swords.
All around the mounds and dunes of this desert, there were all kinds of weapons, rusted and new alike, staked to the ground as if someone put it there.
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He looked at the sword nearest to him and noticed that despite its state being corroded away by rust, it still emitted a kind of danger that he knew better than to tangle with. It felt like he could cut himself if he got too close. Even just looking at the swords made his eyes feel like it was going to be pricked by a needle.
In the middle of everything was Ninth. She floated atop the world of swords and acted as if she were the master of this territory.
"Is this…is this her domain?" Atlan asked.
"Yes. I don't know why she used this Domain on such weak opponents, but it's fine. We needed to get rid of those crows for good."
The Crow Canzers who tried to fly back to safety found themselves in a completely different dimension. No matter how far they tried to get away from the humans, they only ended up circling back to their original place.
"By decree of my swords, anyone who tries to leave will taste nothing but rust."
Of course, the crows didn't understand Ninth's warning. And even if they could, they wouldn't stop trying to leave this place.
Unfortunately for them, this was Ninth's domain. She was God in this place. Anything she said must be followed to the tee or retribution will come to them.
There were about eight crows scattered about in the air. They all went in different directions, thinking that eventually, one of them would find a secret exit out of this strange world.
But as soon as they flapped their wings and advanced further away from Ninth, the swords lying dormant in the sand suddenly rumbled.
And suddenly, the black crows that were flying in the air turned into nothing but violet mist.
They disintegrated. They didn't even know what hit them.
"This…this is the power of a domain…"
Seeing it firsthand was a truly different experience. He barely even understood what happened because even with his enhanced senses, he only saw a blur.
The stagnant weapons in the sand suddenly disappeared from their positions and reappeared in the air, already pierced through the bodies of the crows.
There were thousands upon thousands of weapons, and they all converged into the tiny bodies of the Crow Canzers. It was no wonder that they turned into nothing but a mist of violet blood.
Everything took place within a fraction of a second.
The strangest part about this was that Ninth didn't move a single bit in the process. She didn't control the swords, she didn't cast any spell, and she didn't use her LifeSkills.
It was as if the swords themselves moved with their own will.
"In this domain, everything follows Ninth's command. There is nothing she can't do in this domain."
But even Carmine's explanation wasn't enough for Atlan to understand how it happened.
He wanted to know how a domain worked and most importantly, he wanted to know how to summon a domain.
Even though only Specialist-level Saviors could summon a domain and he was only a Student-level Savior, Atlan desired to have his own domain.
Wait a minute…I'm not a Student-level Savior anymore. I have multiple LifeSkills in the Intern realm, which means I'm an Intern-level Savior.
If I could get a Specialist LifeSkill, then can I get my own domain?