Ascension of the Nephilim

Kyros fled with great speed. He channeled his force and magic into exploding out, and with the Blood Calamity's wings, he flew.

The Cardinal quickly chased him as the mad and angered Necromancer began to attack Kyros with massive attacks.

BOOM! BOOM!

A giant ghost skeleton had appeared and began to punch and slap the ground in anger.

The size of the ghost was larger than the mountain form of the Shade Lord, and its powers had the strength of a Cardinal with a Crown potential.

Yet as the huge skeleton continued to slap and attack the ground below, Kyros could easily evade the attacks.

"Ah... This brings back memories of when I entered the Mountain Giants lair back then... I didn't even have the power of Flight but roughly the same dexterity stat I now have." Kyros recollected.

The Midlands of the Planesworld have Cardinals and Cardinal-level monsters that Kyros fought in his previous life. The average Dexterity that cultivators and monsters who emphasized speed would have a stat point of around 320.

Dexterity was different than most stat points. Strength gauged the amount of damage one could do, Vitality gauged how many attacks one can resist, but Dexterity factored in two different categories.

Cultivators who pursue speed need to have both body and mind to be as fast as each other. Force and Magic energy can be used to push a person to speed, but without the eyes and the speed of the mind to keep up with a body, the cultivator won't be able to fight effectively. Dexterity identified the fastest possible speed that a person or beast can move to control their body accurately.

Kyros had another lifetimes' worth of experience and had the titles of 'the Swift' and 'the Untouched' as he was fast enough to defeat cultivators who were more than five levels higher than him without getting harmed or touched. However, when Kyros was reborn, that experience and that trained mind were far faster than what his body could do.

Before his rebirth, the enemies of the Planeworld mistakenly thought that Kyros was a level 99 warrior. But his stats were too weak compared to most level 99 fighters. Using their [Guage] skill, the enemies of Kyros were underwhelmed when they saw Kyros's stats.

He was level 99, but he wasn't even considered a Celestial! His Dexterity was only at 1120, which was very low for his level. And although he managed to double that number through various skills, it was still weak for a Celestial! So many enemies assumed that he was a warrior of the Highlands who forcibly increased his level.

Little did they know that Kyros was actually a level 63 cultivator. And a dexterity stat point of 1120 was shocking in level 60! Level 60 warriors were called Crowns. But Kyro's stats made him a person with a Conquerors potential. Kyros even had the qualifications to be called a High Conqueror.

And because he was able to double that point, that made Kyros a person who had a Cherubim potential. And all of these were achieved with massive curses inflicting him.

Now, the chains were lesser, and Kyros had Pronto and Time Haste.

Cardinal Heralcus was a Cardinal with a Crown's potential. This meant that the average stats would be over a hundred points higher than his average level. But Heralcus was not a fighter, nor did he train to be a warrior who could employ high speeds with his body. Thus, despite the massive level gap between them, his attacks could not hit Kyros.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Several skeletons had already appeared, and bone dragons were summoned from various dark portals.

"Here's a suggestion, take some of these bones and help your limping Champion up." Kyros laughed and continued to taunt the enemy using Tyrannus's ability.

"DIE!" Heralcus summoned all his massive bones and made them shoot a massive attack towards Kyros.

"[Time Haste]!" Kyros used the ability once more, and his speed increased by half. His Dexterity jumped up to 463 points, and he zoomed out of the attack and headed towards the portal.

BOOM!

The massive attack was so strong that it caused a massive trembling that those in the Temple area could feel.

"Ha! That attack was weaker than my attack that nearly killed you! Must be hard for a necromancer to have a broken yew wand!" Kyros laughed as a growing power of white appeared. With a mighty flash, Kyros used the power of Holy to make him move even faster than what his mind could perceive. But as his destination was just straight ahead, he didn't need to use it.

Heralcus chased and tried to employ greater attacks and shot it towards the portal doors in desperation.

"Come! Let us finish this into that place! You're done holing up in your stupid dome, come and fight me, Cardinal! If you have the balls to chase me!" Kyros laughed.

[Taunt of Tyrannus skill activated.]

[Deception skill activated.

[Deception skill level increased.]

The gigantic skeletons and the skeleton dragon began to shoot out massive attacks.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Another round of huge explosions occurred in the portal doors.

"He reached the portal! Damn! I wonder if he managed to evade that attack I sent?" Heralcus felt a strange sensation. All of the anger he had disappeared.

"What was that power? I was driven mad by his words!" He cursed as he recalled what had happened. Once more, did their preparations meet a great delay. The attack on the dome and how he moved out created a ripple in the paths of the souls that moved around the planet. It would take them several hours to redo what they had nearly achieved.

Finally, the dust that was kicked up from his attacks settled down.

The portal door stood standing without a single scratch despite the attacks. Massive craters were found nearby, but the ground underneath where the portal stood was not destroyed.

"Not even the smallest damage from all those attacks? This portal sure is mysterious..." Heralcus observed. He hesitated. If he moved in the portal, he would be cut off from communicating with his Commanders.

As he stood there, rage continued to build up. Several minutes passed, and the Commanders finally arrived.

"Cardinal Heralcus!" Qara called out as she arrived.

"Commanders. It seems we will be forced to go into hiding..." Heralcus gritted his teeth.

The Commanders were silent. They fought a warrior who wasn't even a Captain, yet their situation was very pitiful. Now they know that staying in a single place wouldn't work. They had to hide and perform the magic.

"Let's go. We have to hurry and resolve my idiotic mistakes." Heralcus cursed.

The Commanders followed silently as they heard Hearlcus admit his mistake.

"Be careful. That Nephilim has powers of strange Corruption and Code. That insult drove me mad, and I could not control myself. We hide for now. Bear the shame. We are losing!" Heralcus declared as he flew, and the others followed.

Neteri couldn't help but look back at the portal.

"They must be preparing an elaborate trap on the other side."

"I sent a powerful attack inside. While the Nephilim would be unharmed, I'm certain that many deaths will occur. There are many footsteps from the surviving settlements headed towards this place. They tried to increase their numbers. That attack would have encompassed more than half of that space leading to the Temple." Heralcus explained.

"Such power should have killed most of them. What if we attack now?"

"I know better to dive right in. What if we enter that place and find ourselves right in front of the attack they just did?"

Qara was silent. If that previous attack landed on them directly, they would die.

"They must have prepared something for us. Let us retreat. They are deliberately taunting us to force us into a premature fight. But let us make preparations. We have to act outside the possibilities." Heralcus explained.

"My Lord... You can't mean...?"

"Yes. We will use that spell." Heralcus decided.

But as they retreated, what they did not know was that as Kyros was about to enter the Temple, he created a massive light that flashed and used the ability to teleport directly into the Temple at the last moment.

And so, instead of moving into that strange place beyond the portal, Kyros was actually teleported directly into the Temple at the bottom of Alpha Draconis.

"Lord Kyros!" Scarlet shouted in glee.

"Master Kyros!" Gojirrah approached.

"Hoo... You're back!" Mezal smiled.

As Kyros appeared at the center of the Temple, he was greeted by everyone there.

The recruits had heard and seen Kyros already. So the ones that Martha recruited bowed immediately.

"Our Master and Lord!" The Lowly Lich bowed, and several skeletons followed.

"Well? How was it? Did you buy us more time?" Branze asked immediately.

"Yes. I left them words of misdirection.. They will be exerting a lot of effort on something pointless!" Kyros laughed.