Abyssal Awakening-Chapter 676: Finalized Collar

The Zenia family collar.

An item originally intended to stop Alice from suicide that'll put a stop to their experiments. Each compartment of the collar held a special blend of Healing blood at the perfect mix. Enough so that she didn't die, not enough so that it gave her power to break out.

After a while, they noticed that these collars could be put to. . . Other uses outside of simply preventing suicide.

Of course, keeping the rather bulky design would be a terrible weakness to expose so the inventors made some adjustments instead.

While keeping the primary function of keeping their Hybrids in check with some additional modifications, it now also functioned as a limit break.

To push them beyond the normal functioning capacity.

After all, unlike Alice, they were still unable to fully access the power that her blood could grant.

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Pulling the trigger and removing the limiter around the collar, the device revealed itself in full before stabbing spikes into the woman's neck.

Her body immediately showed signs of change as cracks appeared around her body, revealing the glowing blood beneath the surface.

The pulsing of power and the mutation of her body.

Gritting her teeth, her hair extended all the way down to her lower back as a pair of black wings unfurled behind her.

Darkness spread from her finger tips, transforming her arms and legs into bestial forms.

Her pupils constricted, morphing to a pair of golden slitted pupils.

[ALICE!] Cayla shouted but Alice was rooted in place.

Should she run? Should she fight?

Her fight or flight instincts were in turmoil after seeing the collar. The past came flooding into her mind.

'F*ck! Let me handle this!' Alyss gritted her teeth and took over.

Golden chains snapped around her limbs as she bent her body back, narrowly avoiding the blue haired girl's grab.

However, even though Alyss dodged the initial grab, her movements suddenly flickered and the next thing Alyss knew, she was grabbed by the throat!

"F*cker!"

Killing arc!

Flicking her wrist, her blade slashed the woman's arm off as Alyss unleashed a series of steps to create some distance between them.

Raising her severed arm, the woman gave it a side glance before the limb began to regrow.

The speed was comparable to Alice's regeneration at its peak!

Sliding to a stop, Alyss noticed the woman with the scarf simply watching by the side, showing no sign of wanting to intervene.

Unfortunately, Alyss couldn't turn her attention away for too long as the blue haired woman made her move once more.

"!!!" Widening her eye, Alyss was suddenly hit by an invisible force, throwing her body into the air.

'Is it space?!' Alyss furrowed her brows.

[Half and half. Give me a bit of time, I'll analyse what I can!]

Nodding her head, Alyss tried to adjust her body but the woman was faster.

Soul Chaser!

The moment the woman entered Alyss's field, she unleashed a series of strikes but all of them missed!

Something felt off but Alyss couldn't pinpoint it. It wasn't an illusion either!

Quickly raising her guard, Alyss felt the woman place her palm against Alyss' arm.

*KRK!!!!

In an instant, her arm was forcefully pulled to the right and torn off by an invisible force. It felt like her body was dragged along but while her arm followed the motion, her main body was stuck in place.

The worst part about all of this was the fact that her regeneration wasn't working right now!

*BANG!!!

Kicking the woman away, Alyss wanted to use her abilities to try figure something out but flinched from the pain.

She was reaching her limit!

'Alice! Pull yourself together! If we let them catch us it'll be over!' Alyss shouted.

Biting her lip, Alice glanced down at her hands that were still shaking and clenched her fist.

Alyss was right. If they're caught, it'll be all for naught.

Don't let the enemy touch her, keep a distance and make sure they do NOT place that collar onto her!

Taking over, the chains disappeared as Alice immediately regenerated her limbs and created an explosion of blood around her.

Blood mist boundary!

With this, it doesn't matter what the enemy tries to do, the potency will be reduced once it comes into a certain range-

"!!!"

Instinctively opening a Void portal, Alice watched as the woman was somehow able to bypass the field, ignoring the properties completely!

It definitely wasn't Zone otherwise Alice would've sensed it. Not only that, but even if it was Zone, this kind of performance was impossible!

*BANG!!!

Firing a Void Flux, Alice watched as she 'slashed' it apart, erasing the attack all together.

[Keep stalling! It's clear that manifesting the collar is putting a burden on her body. We can't fight her right now!] Cayla shouted, flickering through the different notes that she had but nothing was coming up to a match.

However, the woman wasn't about to give her an easy time.

Despite spreading her Zone, the woman breached it with overwhelming speed and avoided detection!

In a sense, it felt like Selen's trick where she manipulates Alice's focus but it was different.

Time flowed normally but it's as though she was 'erased' from the location.

*CLANG!

Parrying the woman's strike, Alice wanted to push her away when her body was frozen in place once more.

This time, she was prepared!

*RUMBLE!!!

From above, three blood spikes pierced down!

Triggered Cast!

The moment her body is locked in place, her triggered cast will automatically form a counterattack!

'Chance!' Sensing the bindings around her weak, Alice followed up with her own attack, forcing the woman back.

'Did you get that?' Alice asked as Cayla nodded her head.

[I have some theories, keep testing her with the triggered cast, I need to verify a few more things.]

Clenching her fist, Alice snapped her finger.

From the blood mist that she had scattered previously, tens of Void Fluxes manifested in spear form and shot towards the woman.

As expected, the attacks began to diverge once it reached a certain distance from her.

Creating a portal, Alice swapped locations with one of the spears and appeared in front of her woman.

She didn't care about the Void Fluxes since they were extensions of her own power. Even if she takes damage, it was manageable.

But the same couldn't be said for the woman!

Void Flux – Cleave!

*BANG!!!!

"Tch!" Watching her attack freeze in front of the woman along with the other attacks, Alice clicked her tongue.

However, she didn't miss the moment when blood began to drip from the woman's nose.

She was also reaching a certain limit!

*CLANG!!!

"I thought you weren't going to interfere? Fed up with just watching?" Alice parried a kick from the scarf woman using a pillar of metal.

Unlike the blue haired woman, her movements were fully captured by Alice's Zone!

Since her movements could be tracked, Alice will deal with her first!

Personal Artifact!

Artificial Resonance!

Two singularities spun to life. One to occupy the blue haired woman while the other to attack the woman with the scarf!

Dispelling the attack using her scarf, she created a spear of black energy and slashed towards Alice who created a portal where the attack would hit.

An exit portal was formed behind the woman, sending her attack back at her!

*CLANG!!!

Before the attack could hit, it was frozen in mid air as the blue haired woman managed to escape her bindings.

Triggered Cast!

With her trying to bind Alice once more, the trigger cast was activated, giving Alice the freedom that she needed to deal with this woman with the scarf.

Just as she wanted to transport the two of them into the Void, Alice found her portal to the Void revoked as her smile twitched.

'Stingy b*tch!'

Even though she couldn't send the woman into the Void, it was merely to prevent the possibility of reshaping the map.

But at this point, she didn't care! ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

Activating her skill that was still in the process of finalising, a singularity fired off several arcs of destructive energy.

*KRK!!!

Defending herself using the scarf, the woman tried to create a cage around Alice but portals prevented the cage from forming fully.

Just as Alice was about to follow up with another attack, she felt her body being thrown away once more.

'Tch!' With her zone being unable to detect the blue haired woman, it was hard to completely keep track of her unless she was staring at the woman.

It's as though she didn't exist unless Alice was staring at her directly.

Falling back sightly, Alice watched as the two of them regrouped.

The blue haired woman looked a little pale as the cracks were beginning to grow larger.

[I think I know her abilities now. I don't know how much of it was influenced by the collar but I can say one thing for sure.] Cayla frowned, looking worried.

[Her abilities does not exist in the catalogue that I have access to. There are some that resemble what she's doing but only on a miniscule level. She has a set of artificially created powers.]

Hearing this, Alice understood that the Zenia's were still making progress with each passing day.

The longer she stalls her fight against the Zenia's, the more powerful they'll become!

[It's just a theory and I don't know how the Zenia's managed to compile abilities together to form this power. But I think she can manipulate certain forces in space. It's different to space manipulation that Nyer had in the past.

[Instead, it's more like the ability to control 'pathways'.]