Chapter 122 Red Runic Array

Eren was battling with another demonic ranker at this point.

His battle had been shifted to the inside of Bulal's main base. He and a few other rankers forced their way inside the giant hall he was used to conducting his blood rituals in.

The rankers were sent to see if there were any survivors among the people Bulal had kidnapped from Pointlet Town. Since they were winning, Kiara decided to secure the kidnapped mortals and ranked guards if she could help them.

The demonic ranker Eren was battling with seemed more interested in finding his way inside the giant hall than engaging with his opponent as well. He soon found what he was looking for.

There was a red runic array at one corner of the hall. The array would usually remain inactive and invisible. But someone had used it not too long ago when the chaos was just starting to unfold.

Still, it was not overly noticeable considering the ambiance of the hall. The array had its mana signature masked on top of it. So no ranker was aware of the array being there. To locate the array inside the giant hall, one must know where it is and what they are looking for.

"Hahahaha. Found it! I'll just get the fuck out of here."

Having sensed the array with his mana sense, the demonic ranker couldn't help but shout what he had in mind. Eren raised his eyebrows as he heard his opponent's words. He sent his mana circuits into overdrive and approached the demonic ranker at full speed.

"Where are you heading exactly?"

Eren suddenly appeared in front of the demonic ranker before throwing his ax at him. The demonic ranker dodged the attack by jumping three meters in the air only to find out that another ax was heading his way.

The other ax lodged itself in the demonic ranker's right thigh, making his release a painful cry. Eren just pulled both axes towards him using his lightning whips to finish the demonic ranker once and for all.

The demonic ranker was pulled toward Eren. But instead of being scared, he seemed excited. Because Eren was standing inside the red runic array as well.

Among Bulal's followers, only a handful of demonic rankers had access to and authority over this array. The demonic ranker Eren was battling with was one of them. As his body got pulled towards Eren, he activated the red runic array and started laughing.

"Hm?"

Eren felt a distinct mana pulse spread around him and the red runic array was activated. He looked around to see that he was standing inside the array. He thought of changing his position. However, he suddenly felt a heavy mana signature overwhelm him.

An Awakened ranker was approaching Eren's position at a rapid pace. The latter didn't need to turn in his direction to know who it was.

"Scoundrel! Don't use the array without me."

Bulal yelled as he approached the array. He stretched his hands in Eren's direction while activating his spell to get rid of him before the array gets activated.

'Fuck!'

Eren exclaimed to himself as he saw Bulal suddenly target him. He and other rankers had counted on Kiara to keep Bulal in check before approaching the giant hall. But it turns out, she failed to do her job.

Kiara had protected the rankers who were in Bulal's path by creating flame walls. She was right behind him, chasing him with visible anger on her face.

The fire-element ranker had been caught off guard when one of Bulal's flesh golems detonated its golem core while she was in the vicinity fighting it earlier. As a result, she was injured and covered in blood and gore.

Bulal could escape from his predicament after detonating a bunch of golems at the same time. The rankers battling them had gotten severely injured by the sheer contaminated mana pulse that was released from golem detonation as well as the bodies' bones acting as shrapnels.

It was clear that Bulal had given up on both the rankers and the people who were fighting by his side. He wanted to escape from the battle, and the red runic array was his only escape route.

Eren was in a dire state. He could see that Kiara was behind Bulal Blood. But he knew she wouldn't make it in time. In a matter of moments, the demonic ranker would be finished with him.

The demonic ranker who was getting pulled towards Eren suddenly found that his body's orientation was changing. Instead of being pulled straight toward Eren, there was a tug that forced his body to move midair in a curve.

Bulal's spell activated on his reddish hands. But they suddenly found a new target instead of Eren. The demonic ranker with his right thigh pierced by the ax suddenly found himself getting subjected to the spell that was quickly turning his body into a flesh golem.

The flesh golem this time wasn't someone who could fight his master's battle for him. Bulal only meant to destroy Eren when he saw him inside the array. As such, the spell was supposed to inflate his body unconditionally until it imploded like a balloon. And that's what it did.

Bulal effortlessly tossed the demonic ranker's inflating body in the air after his spell signed a death warrant for one of his men. He didn't care about him anyway. He just approached Eren to get rid of him. However, at this point, the array got activated.

The blood rune array was part of the teleportation network that linked the region near Pointlet town. Bulal's array helped him capture so many townspeople for his rituals.

This was also the array Ariadne had used earlier to get away from the battle before things started turning dangerous for Bulal and his companions. The isolation array cast by the rankers' team was still active. However, it couldn't do anything against a teleportation array.

Bulal knew he wouldn't be able to get rid of the isolation array quickly. Kiara would be there to stop him from destroying the isolation array. However, he could always count on his own teleportation array to escape.

The newly created flesh golem flew into the air when the array got activated. The two people who were inside the array vanished all of a sudden before the flesh golem imploded in the air, spreading blood and gore all around it.

Eren and Bulal Blood had been teleported to a different location together.