When he reappeared in place of his subordinate's body, patriarch Rowse mercilessly attacked his son, intending to rip both of this young man's arms off.
He could not kill Gavin since the sect master had ordered his son's capture. So he was acting to immobilize this rebellious fellow.
"Humph!" Gavin threw a small dagger toward the void behind his father. "How expected!"
He already knew his father's fighting style. Then, he soon used the normal ability of his lineage, which was somewhat similar to that man's Switch.
Shift!
He shifted, leaving the position where his father had attacked to appear where his dagger had flown, then attacked with his Destruction Eyes.
Gavin's Soul Avatar struck out toward his father's body, making his spiritual hands press against the man's body.
The Rowse patriarch sensed this and noted that the attack his son planned to make was not simple.
"You think I'm just going to accept everything you're going to do?" He said in teasing, as he tried to get away from there.
But then Gavin laughed out loud and said. "What do you think I'm doing, old man? That I just came unprepared?"
As the Rowse patriarch tried to run away, he realized that, unlike the moment before, he could not make his instant switch!
'What? How?' He suddenly became pale, sensing that his son's blow would hurt him significantly.
Gavin had deceived his father by not using all his abilities at the initial moment of the battle, implying that he could not prevent the Switch.
However, this was not true. From the moment Gavin reached the 8th stage, he realized he could combine one of his techniques with his main innate ability. Through this combination, he could replicate the effect of spatial stabilization arrays.
By using this in the space between his Soul Avatar's hands, the three-eyed red-haired young man was able to block that man's escape. At the same time, this person's initial mistake caused him to miss the chance to use another strategy!
"Die, you bastard!" Gavin shouted with everything he had while his hands pressed against that individual's body, creating an extremely chaotic region where space fell in on itself.
The patriarch Rowse dreaded that and tried what he could to defend himself. He knew that he could only wait for the end of this attack to find out whether or not his son was already capable of killing him.
Regardless of what would happen, that would likely be his end in this battle.
"Damn it!"
"You should have simply delivered your eyes to me!"
"Now, not only me but the whole family will be harmed by your disobedience, Gavin!" He shouted before he felt the main effect of what this young redhead had unleashed.
"Don't worry. Your family will be exterminated sooner or later!" Gavin laughed as he pressed his father harder. "But you'll be the first, worm!"
Crack!
At that moment, cracks began to appear in the pressure bubble that had appeared over the patriarch Rowse's body, shortly afterward exploding as if a powerful bomb had been detonated.
BOOOOM!
That immediately drew the attention of Gavin's enemies and allies farthest away from him. At the same time, those in his vicinity were still trying to invade the space under the influence of an array that this guy had set up right after teleporting there.
Gavin had teleported into the midst of his enemies, where he knew he would face much resistance. So he had immediately set up an array capable of creating a powerful defensive field in the space of a few dozen cubic meters.
Such a thing could not last long, so he had immediately done his best to finish off his old father. At the same time, he tried to ignore the few enemies remaining within that space.
Thus, many Spiritual Saints could only watch as the level 77 patriarch suffered from his son's powerful destructive attack.
At that moment, patriarch Rowse felt as if his soul had been damaged, and he lost control over his own body, with every bone in his spine having been destroyed by Gavin's blow.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
He began to scream wildly, feeling the worst of his entire life, while his son laughed maniacally.
"Now is your end, old man!"
"I will use your last moments to cause you the worst suffering of all!" Gavin shouted just before he attacked again, this time only using his body.
...
While Gavin was torturing his father in the last moments of the defensive array he had established, Lance had separated from Minos' group and was battling over that place.
Several people on both sides had already died at this point in the battle, with many having been absorbed into Minos' black hole.
Emperor Stuart's strategy was very effective, which simultaneously helped their forces but made Lance distance himself from the group in search of some glory.
'Just you wait. I'm going to show everyone the power my Terry family's high-level arrays have on the battlefield!' This blond fellow grinned as he flew around the surrounding area, searching for a level 76 enemy.
In doing so, he took all possible care to dodge the remaining attacks from the many battles in the surroundings while having several defensive arrays on his body.
Arrays could be used in as many different ways as possible in combat, but usually were not because of the difficulty of doing so.
Most people simply thought it more appropriate to focus their training on their techniques and have armor and weapons to assist them than to do this with arrays. As such, the style of combat Lance wanted to use was not common to see.
But it was entirely possible, and people like him existed all over the Spiritual World.
Swooish!
As he moved, a powerful spiritual blade left over from an enemy attack almost hit him, but his formations worked in time.
One of them broke upon being hit by that attack from a level 78 cultivator. But the other managed to raise a new shield ahead, saving Lance's life as he was thrown in the opposite direction from where he had been hit.
"Fuck!" He shouted in frustration as he crashed into the walls of a mountain, losing sight of the opponent he had been chased seconds ago.
In his nervousness, Lance struck out in the direction of one of the opponents in his vicinity, using an array that created attacks.
It caused several doughnut-like energy circles to fly toward that individual, a level 76 enemy.
Unfortunately for Lance, his attack, which should have been strong enough to significantly affect people of that level, did not have the expected effect.
That being, a beast that looked like a frog simply opened its mouth upon feeling that it was being attacked and swallowed Lance's 'donuts.'
"What?" He cried out in surprise as he realized who he had attacked.
'Oh, no...'
When the creature opened its mouth again, it shot something pink in Lance's direction, which was the last thing this individual saw before losing consciousness.
But the people in the surrounding area saw very well when that creature's tongue destroyed that individual's head!
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