Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 220: Kill to Save

"Say that again?"

The moment Greg heard what Alice told him to do, he felt like he just misheard what she said.

To pierce her heart? Did you go insane? How the hell would piercing someones heart help at all? She just cane back from death and you want to kill her again? Ridiculous!

Looking at Emma's still growing presence while her body started to become even less human, Greg frowned.

"Why should I pierce her heart? Wouldn't that only kill her now for real?"

"Normally, it would.", said Alice and started to explain.

"However, her current situation is different this time. The Heritage she got from the Alpha lets her get revived even after death. The only way to kill her is to slice her head off and destroy her body. If you don't kill her like that, she can freely revive infinitely."

"What? Can something like that truly exist?", asked Greg with disbelief, not believing what Alice was saying.

"Yes, there is. It is called as the Holy Life Art. It is very similar to Cultivation Arts, but instead of strengthening your power, it makes you immortal."

"So Heritages are in truth are similar to Cultivation Arts?", asked Greg, realizing something.

"Well, not quite right, but something like that yeah. If I can remember right, your Heritage is being called originally as the Art of the Reincarnated Knowledge. However, I still don't understand how could that creature give such powerful Arts to others that easily. And what is more, the owner gets to use it to its fullest potential!"

"Why didn't you tell me this before?", asked Greg with a frown.

"You didn't ask."

"..."

After thinking for a while, Greg sighed and asked, "So if I understand it right, I need to pierce her heart. But how will that help me to save her? You said she will get revived, so how will that help us?"

"Yes, she will, however, the creature possessing her not."

"The creature possessing her? What should that mean?", asked Greg with confusion.

"At first it was not obvious even for me, but now it completely is. You can remember of the sight in the sky the moment she got her Heritage, right?"

Thinking back, Greg could clearly recall the clouds forming above the sky, so he nodded.

"Yes, I can. Was that something that shouldn't have appeared back then?"

"Yes, it shouldn't have appeared. That was a Soul Melting Symbol. The moment a creature printed with such a symbol, their body will get possessed by another being and lose all control over both of their body and soul, including their Guardian too."

When Greg heard this, his eyes widened instantly. Under such a short amount of time, he learned almost a dozen of new things.

From the fact that Heritages were Cultivation Arts, through the fact that Emma was literally immortal, and to the point where he found out that there was a symbol making others get possessed by another being.

When Greg thought about this, he realized just how weak he was and that the world was truly vast and filled with strange mysteries.

As Greg thought about this, Alice started to talk inside his head.

"It seems the one trying to possess her is from a race outside earth. The creature thought because Emma had a weak Guardian, possessing her body would be an easy task. But unfortunately, it didn't think that her Heritage will be the Holy Life Art. What a poor coincidence."

After a small pause, she said, "Now then. If you don't hurry up, her body will be under that creature's full control. If you want to save her, you can do it only now."

Greg knew after hearing this that he didn't have another choice. So closing his eyes, he took a deep breath and only when he calmed himself down did he slowly open them.

With a now much calmer look, Greg raised Shapeless in his hand and said, "Then here I come!"

*BAM!*

With an instant burst of his momentum, Greg's body exploded out, and with a flash, he appeared before Emma.

Emma, whose appearance now looked like a true angle's, saw that suddenly Greg moved and appeared not far away from her.

Seeing that he targeted her, she opened her angle wings wide open and swung all six of them toward Greg.

*Swish!*

Like bullets flying out if guns, the feathers started to bomber Greg one after another, however, none of them were able to wound him.

The moment one could have the chance to do so, Greg used his First Flow's ability to dodge, easily avoiding the scary-looking feathers.

Flying here and there like a fairy in a storm, Greg approached Emma like a serpent its prey.

When the distance between the two was less than a few meters, Greg accelerated the vortexes around his body and flashed before Emma.

"!"

The angle looking Emma seeing that she was unable to stop Greg looked surprised, but the next second she started to smile wickedly.

The six, soft-looking wings behind her back suddenly changed, and each feather on it turned metal solid instantly.

With an evil smile that told Greg he will die, the wings started to sway toward Greg, ready to kill him.

Seeing the wings that closed on him like a jaw full of shape teeth, Greg's expression remained calm and without pause, he pierced toward Emma's chest.

*Squash!*

With an unpleasant sound, Greg's weapon penetrated right into Emma's chest, piercing her heart with one single push.

"!"

Feeling the pain in her chest, the wings stopped inches away from Greg's back and Emma looked down at her chest.

Seeing the gaping wound and the flowing blood from her chest, her appearance turned back to her original state, and just like that, she fell to the ground heavily.

Greg seeing this, looked quite surprised. He thought the fight would be harder than this, but it seemed he was totally wrong.

It was surprisingly easy.

"Don't forget that the creature had a small portion of its real power and could only control Emma's body to a limited amount. If it was not for that, you would have died already."

Hearing this, Greg nodded in silence and looked at Emma's motionless body on the ground.

Seeing the bloody hole in her chest that he made, he felt guilty, but only for a second.

Just as Alice said, not long after the 'killed' Emma, the wound he made started to heal, and slowly started to close up.

When the wound closed up completely, suddenly Emma started to frown, and soon she opened her eyes slowly.

"What... What happened?"