A Fight with No Retreat

Chapter 498: A Fight with No Retreat

When the rainbow light gathered once more and Benjamin's form reconstituted, he was already in an utterly wretched state.

His robe had not suffered much damage, but the exposed skin across his body was covered in fine blood marks caused by overdriving his Spiritual Power.

His breathing rasped like a broken bellows, every inhale accompanied by a burning pain in his lungs.

His dantian was nearly drained dry, and after successive bouts of intense expenditure, even his mental power had become dim and muddled.

He landed upon a stretch of cracked gray-black earth. Looking around, he found nothing but desolation and deathly silence.

Thin heat haze twisted along the distant horizon, while the sky remained that oppressive leaden gray.

"A day already..." Benjamin muttered hoarsely, gritting his teeth in frustration.

The death chase spanning tens of millions of kilometers between him and that Level 6 Wizard of the Tower of Silence had already lasted a full standard day.

Not only had the situation failed to improve, it had taken a sharp turn for the worse, becoming ever more suffocating.

To address the fatal flaw that Light Transformation could only fly in a straight line, Benjamin had long since changed his strategy.

He no longer pursued straight-line sprints over extreme distances, instead switching to intermittent "short-range turns."

After flying for a stretch in Light Transformation, he would forcibly cancel it, choose a new direction, and transform into light again to flee.

Sometimes he flew for only a few seconds; sometimes he held on a little longer. He did his utmost to disrupt his flight pattern and prevent the enemy from easily predicting where he would land.

This method had indeed produced some results at first, but it ultimately treated the symptoms rather than the