A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5334

His body was nothing more than a streak of night, hatred distilled to velocity.

But Flaxseed had seen the gambit the instant it sparked. He stepped in rather than back, scoffing, “Still unrepentant.” Three golden charms blossomed in golden light before him.

Celestial might radiated from the surface in blinding waves as the charms fused into a towering shield engraved with words suggesting the suppression of evil.

Crack!

The poisoned bone dagger struck the golden shield and vaporized, shards of toxin-laced bone bursting like dust motes in golden light.

A counterforce thundered down the shield; Dioz was flung backward, limbs flailing, before he crashed against the palace gates. He crumpled there, coughing black blood in gouts that stained the marble steps—life ebbing with every ragged breath.

Panting hard, Flaxseed advanced one measured step at a time, charms orbiting him like a constellation of paper stars. His gaze was winter-cold. “Where—are—the divine souls of the Flaxseed clan?”

Dioz forced his eyes open, hatred burning even as life faltered. “Y-You'll never find them... They're... at the headquarters...”

“The headquarters?” Flaxseed's eyes narrowed, his aura snapping like a storm-lash. “Speak clearly! Where is it?”

Dioz's answer seeped out with the last of his strength, black blood threading his teeth. “The branches keep only worthless divine souls. The expert divine souls, such as those from the Flaxseed clan, were sent to the headquarters. Whether they're refined already... I-I can't say...”

His head lolled, aura dissipated.

Rage flared in Flaxseed's eyes. With a savage flick of his wrist, he hurled a cluster of Explosion Charms onto Dioz's corpse. The blast boomed through the ruined palace; when the smoke cleared, not a fragment of the body remained. “B*stard!” Flaxseed spat, the word echoing through the smoldering air like a vow.

A shrill scream fractured the stale air inside the palace. Lunaria staggered through the crimson doorway, bare feet slipping on polished stone as she burst into the courtyard.

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