Supreme Lord: I can extract everything!

Chapter 1042  Stalling

The Tekur Queen was too strong to handle alone. Her relentless attacks were strong and precise enough to kill multiple enemies simultaneously, but only if their defenses were too weak. Some of the Divine Subordinates were struck to death with a single blow, but beings like Mekhaz survived much more.

Mekhaz used Living Armor, Energy Absorption, Repel, and his other Soultraits such as Gigantification, Taunting Grimace, and One Man Army to throw himself against the Tekur Queen.

One Many Army worked well enough because the number of Tekur in the background was only slowly decreasing. There were still more than enough enemies in One Man Army's range to push Mekhaz's power level up a notch. If not for that and his Last Rope Soultrait, Survival King, Mekhaz would have difficulties surviving one blow against the Tekur Queen, let alone a barrage of whip-like lashes.

The Tekur Queen's attention was forcefully pulled toward him when he activated Taunting Grimace. The Tekur Queen, enraged by the Soultrait and the fact that she had been so easily taunted by a noname, charged Mekhaz and attacked him with each of her arms. The power of Energy Absorption weaved into the Repel runes conjured all over Living Armor, absorbed a portion of the blow – a big part of the energy-enhanced attacks – weakening the blow right before the Repel runes absorbed another portion of the impacting force.

But that was not all the impacting force was distribute across the entire Living Armor whenever the Tekur Queen's attack struck. It was painful – all over his body – but not a single bone broke even after the Tekur Queen had attacked him seven times. He used Repel, consuming one of the repel runes whenever the Tekur Queen's attacks accelerated. The force of her attacks increased and her tactics changed slowly from whisking her arms at him to squash Mekhaz to ripping his seamlessly connected Living Armor apart. It took the Tekur Queen a while to find some suitable spots for her hook-like claws to connect, but it worked. The Warlock Centaur, four times taller and heavier than usually due to Gigantification, was thrown around like a wet sack of potatoes.

Still, the Tekur Queen's attention remained on Mekhaz, who received additional support from other Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates when they noticed the Tekur Queen's attacks weren't working well against him. They healed his injuries from afar and used Support-type Soultraits to boost his physical traits but also the potency of his Soultraits. Even Mekhaz's energy absorption and energy circulation were augmented, pushing Mekhaz's defenses to a level where he could rival and stall the Tekur Queen very well.

Debuffs and Curse-type Soultraits were used against the Tekur Queen, but they were repelled. At least, that was what it looked like at first glance. However, the truth was quickly discovered when other Tekur, those fighting nearest to their queen, was afflicted with the debuffs and Curses instead of the Tekur Queen. Nobody was certain how she was doing it, but the negative abilities befalling her were forwarded to the closest Awakened.

That was annoying, but it was important to note that the Tekur Queen required a quarter of a second to forward the debuffs and curses. That being said, the Tekur Queen was weakened for a moment until the abilities used on her would leave her body again. In addition to that, the Tekur Queen's target had to be nearby; otherwise, the curses and debuffs would last much longer on her, and the Target had to be Awakened. The stronger the target, the faster could the Tekur Queen get rid of the negative abilities used on her.

Kaleb and Frederik made use of that. Whereas Hiraku joined the battle against the Tekur Queen right away, taking off some of the pressure weighing down on Mekhaz. Once Hiraku was transformed into a massive Titan, taller than the ones he'd transform usually and blood-red in color like the blood of the fallen allies, the fight shifted slowly. Hiraku had upgraded his Titan Spirit Soultrait to 9-Star. Most of the SoulStar Fragments had been acquired through his effort, but Michael rewarded him with some additional bits and pieces here and there to help his right hand grow much stronger.

Hiraku wasn't allowed to die, and a 9-Star Soultrait as powerful as Titan Spirit would help achieve that. He was going to survive everything. Especially a fight with a disgusting cretin like the Tekur Queen!

A razor-sharp wind blade whisked past Hiraku, right underneath his right armpit, when he struck out to smash his fist into the Tekur Queen's hideous face. The punch did not land because too many arms shot up to coil around Hiraku's arm to break it. The Tekur Queen did not manage to break Hiraku's arms easily, but bits and pieces of his flesh were torn off. However, the injury was worth it. The wind blade, infused with most of Kaleb's Frozen Nova Essence, whipped around the Tekur Queen's back and impacted in between the pair of transparent wings.

The wind blade exploded, and the Frozen Nova Essence within erupted, spreading across the Tekur Queen's back. The dark-colored plates covering the Tekur Queen's body protected her, but the Frozen Nova Essence was equivalent to the power of a Demi God. Even the Tekur Queen couldn't ignore it. The dark-colored plates cracked a little. There were only insignificant cracks like a miniature cobweb, but the dark-colored plates had never been Frederik and Kaleb's target in the first place.

Their target had been the Tekur Queen's wings which froze instantly from the Frozen Nova Essence. Kaleb controlled the Frozen Nova Essence precisely and let it erupt once more to compress the Essence at vital spots that acted as a foundation for the transparent wings. The vital points cracked and broke, rendering the transparent wings useless. The Tekur Queen couldn't rely on her wings to escape her enemies to charge at others with terrifying velocity. With that troublesome power removed, the Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates could start wrestling with the Tekur Queen until she was worn out and damaged beyond repair.

At least, that was what they wanted to do. The Tekur Queen, however, grasped Mekhaz once he was hooked with two arms and flung him around, smashing the Warlock Centaur heavily into Hiraku. Hiraku tried catching Mekhaz, but he had to pay attention to the Tekur Queen's next move, too. If the Tekur Queen had followed up with a series of attacks, Hiraku would have had to block it because Mekhaz couldn't do so at the time. Hiraku understood the danger of the task ahead but was left in surprise when the Tekur Queen twisted to the side and disappeared.

That was what it looked like to Hiraku. For a moment, at least.

The Tekur Queen disappeared and reappeared before a group of more than a dozen Divine Subordinates. They had been busy using Support-type Soultraits on more than a dozen Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates for the last ten minutes. Their task was also to heal those in pain, to keep them calm, and to rescue those in need of protection.

Unfortunately, too few powerhouses protected them. The Rescue Fighters weren't weak, but the Tekur Queen took them by surprise. She accelerated quickly, passed through several rows of Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates to reach them, and…started wreaking havoc to defeat those who reinforced everyone else.

A small bloody massacre was all the Tekur Queen needed to rebalance the fight once again.