Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

405  404: Reaching The Mountain of Metals (Bonus Chapter)

It all happened in a flash.

No, that was wrong, it was faster than the speed of a flash.

It all happened in an instant.

All Selene knew was that her instincts screamed at her, and that she was about to die. She was already mentally and physically exhausted, and despite Corey's warning beforehand, what was coming for her was too fast for her to react to.

'I'm about to die.'

Just as she had this thought, and was about to put up a last second struggle of defiance, her vision changed.

'Huh?'

She had been staring at the mountain of metals in the distance, and in her vision was still the mountain of metals, however, she knew that something was wrong.

The mountain of metals felt closer, and she felt that her position had… changed? Also, her instincts were no longer screaming at her?

Selene frowned, and then she turned to her left to glance at Corey, however, she was shocked when she saw nothing to her left.

BANG!

BOOM!

Quuuuiiiiiooooooohhhhh!!!!

An extremely strange and loud sound resounded throughout the desert, and Selene's eyes widened in a mixture of fear, disbelief, and shock as she closed her ears.

Her head snapped to the right and the fear, disbelief, and shock in her eyes instantly increased to the limit.

Reflecting in her eyes was the figure of Corey holding a bloodied axe with a titanic tentacle falling a few meters to his right.

Some meters in front of Corey were multiple titanic tentacles flailing around in a haphazard manner.

As Selene's gaze landed on the tentacles, her breath stopped in her throat.

'Another tier 5!'

She exclaimed with her expressions showcasing the amount of fear, shock, and disbelief that was in her heart.

Countless questions and thoughts appeared in her mind, and her mind was momentarily overwhelmed by all of them.

Not even a second passed, and before she could relax and ponder on these questions and thoughts, Corey vanished from her gaze and appeared in front of her.

"What the fuck!"

She shouted while taking a step back with a shocked expression, but Corey did not bother explaining and directly grabbed her right hand.

'Fly to the mountain! My mana reserve is extremely low!'

Selene's eyes widened as Corey's voice resounded in her mind, and she was about to protest by saying that flying was extremely difficult because of the rain, however, when she saw Corey's pale face and bloodied lips, she kept shut and pulled Corey close to her.

Corey grabbed her waist, and Selene started flying immediately.

Her lips tightened as the strain on her mind and body was extremely high due to how difficult it was to manipulate the mystic mana in the surroundings.

Corey also knew how difficult it was for her to fly, however, they had no other choice. His mana reserves was barely at 2%, and his body was also stressed out.

One of the skills of his Tri-Pupil Eyes was the ability to swap the position of him and another object that was in his sight, whether living or non-living.

That was what he used to swap his position with that of Selene, and when he did that, he had to dodge the tentacle attack while simultaneously attacking it.

He knew that he had to deal a lethal blow to the tier 5, so he used the rune of decay, the claw rune and the rune of empowerment of his axe, he also used axe intent, vibration manipulation, soul entropy, painful echo, and dreamfire on his axe.

Using so many skills should have drained his mana reserves dry, but his high mastery over most of his skills, and his almost perfect in his mana usage helped him to negate the mana cost by a ridiculous degree.

After unleashing all of these skills, he was able to see the weak points on the tentacle through his Eyes of Omniscience, and then he slashed at the tentacle and cut it off.

'Luckily for me, my Eyes of Omniscience was able to see through the outer body of the tentacle, unlike the abomination I fought in the temple.'

After having this thought, Corey turned and looked at the tentacles behind them. To his slight surprise, the tentacle was not following them to unleash it's fury at them.

What Corey did not know was that the titanic octopus was more of a mindless beast that operated more on its instincts, and after unleashing so many skills especially his forbidden skills- Soul Entropy and Painful Echo, the titanic octopus became extremely fearful of Corey due to the immense pain it felt.

'That's surprising and strange, but very much welcome.'

Corey shrugged, and then he focused on Selene and the monsters swiming in the desert below.

Although he wished to help Selene by transferring some of his mana to her or by improving her mana flow, he could not due to his extremely low amount of mana.

All he could do was just to make sure that no sneak attacks was launched at her.

'Hopefully nothing attacks us.'

Corey thought, and then a premonition appeared in his mind.

'Did I just jinx us?'

Corey smiled wryly, and then he looked around with a wary gaze.

Fortunately or unfortunately for him and Selene, nothing attacked them. However, after seven minutes, Selene could no longer continue.

'I can't continue anymore, my mana core is almost empty.'

Selene's voice resounded in Corey's mind, and Corey glanced at her.

'It's fine, I've recovered enough.'

Corey replied with a calm gaze. He had recovered approximately 17% of his mana, and it should be more than enough for both of them to reach the mountain.

Corey stretched out his hand, and a platform made out of hexagon barriers appeared under them. Corey landed on the barrier, and Selene instantly fell from the sky. She tried to land properly but from her posture, it was obvious, she would fail miserably.

Luckily for her, Corey caught her.

Selene glanced at him while inhaling and exhaling heavily.

'Focus on recovering your mana, we might need it when we reach the mountain.'

Selene nodded, and Corey started running while carrying Selene. Some minutes later, the duo reached the mountain of metals and Corey was fascinated by what he saw.

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[A/N: Unedited chapter.]

Hi guys, so I'm back once again.

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I've been able to settle most of my debts and I also have a roof over my head at the moment. Thank you so much all of you.

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