Chapter 131: The Chapter With out Dekan (Lengthy Chapter)
Positioned 100 kilometers away from town of Tristin.
Although it was excessive midday, the sky appeared enveloped in a reddish-brown haze, as if a volcano had been about to erupt. The once-existing city had was ruins, stuffed with the lingering smoke and remnants of struggle. The collapsed homes had been stuffed with charred limbs and arms, and the air carried a robust scent of blood, dried or evaporated.
Your complete city had reworked right into a hellish panorama, shrouded in a suffocating sense of oppression. Above the shattered buildings in town’s edge, a red-haired priest stood silently on a pitch-black dragon.
He regarded down upon a silver-armored feminine knight battling a colossal demonic creature. On his face was a faint smile. The feminine knight’s face was already dirtied with blood and ash. Her as soon as radiant holy armor had dulled significantly.
In distinction to the raveled feminine knight, the Cardinal of Spoil, Evans, had not shed a single drop of sweat and his robes confirmed no indicators of harm. As if he had been having fun with a leisurely afternoon tea, his calm and composed state appeared misplaced within the fiery inferno.
Only some giant mansions within the city had been nonetheless standing, however inside, everybody had been slaughtered. The piled-up our bodies bore faces stuffed with despair and concern.
Your complete city resembled a horde of pitch-black beasts, with numerous darkish and alien figures swiftly transferring by each nook. They continued to seek out surviving civilians and plenty of had been heading in direction of the feminine knight, launching suicidal assaults.
It appeared that these multiplying and annihilating beasts had been undoubtedly the Cardinal of Spoil’s doing.
[Multiplying Annihilation Beast]
[Category: Summoning Card]
[Rarity: Orange Epic]
[Tier: 8]
[Effect: After killing a unit, transforms its corpse into a derivative annihilation beast that exists for one hour. The derived annihilation beast has a combat power ranging from tier 2 to tier 6. When the derived annihilation beast kills a unit, it can trigger the effect of multiplying annihilation beast. When the summon is released, all derivatives disappear together.]
[Note: Endless! The power of annihilation!]
Initially, no summoner may summon and management so many creatures. However Evans may. The derivatives didn’t eat the summoner’s mana.
[Multiplying Annihilation Beast]’s fight energy was a lot weaker than that of bizarre tier 8 summons; its fight energy can’t even attain the extent of bizarre tier 7 summons. Nonetheless, if allowed to multiply throughout the city, it would not take lengthy for your complete metropolis to be worn out.
Among the many ten cardinals of the Resurgence Church, Evans was not the strongest in a one-on-one combat, however he was one of the vital notorious cardinals. What made individuals flip pale was the truth that Evans had as soon as, with the mixture of the [Destruction Demon Lord] and the [Multiplying Annihilation Beast], annihilated a small principality in a single day. Each nobles and commoners appeared to have evaporated and your complete principality was ruins. Since then, he turned the dreaded Cardinal of Spoil.
At this second, Evans nonetheless wore a delicate smile on his face as if he could not hear the regularly weakening cries from the city. Though slaughtering civilians had no sensible significance for Cardinal Evans on this battle, and it’d even assist clear sufficient house for his opponents to maneuver, Evans gave the impression to be having fun with his distinctive pleasure. He repeatedly commanded the annihilation beasts to sometimes seize mutilated and agonizing civilians earlier than ordering the beasts to commit suicide by dashing in direction of the feminine knight.
He even maliciously instructed the annihilation beasts to method the feminine knight whereas carrying kids, limiting the actions of the feminine knight. The aftermath of a tier 8 battle was not one thing each side may management.
He appreciated the just about crumbling expression on the feminine knight’s face each time she unintentionally killed a civilian together with her assaults. It was as if he had been savoring his afternoon tea.
“Oh expensive, oh expensive, mages could be fairly a headache,” Evans sighed with a touch of frustration in his laughter.
Disregarding the playing cards in a single’s deck, mages of the identical tier have a neater time coping with summoners as they might clear the sphere rapidly. Summoners, then again, discovered knights far more manageable as knights surrounded by summoned creatures appeared clumsy.
Knights had a neater time towards mages. With their resistance and bodily attributes maxed out, they had been capable of merely cost headfirst with out a lot thought.
Regardless of this, there was no signal of nervousness on Evans’s face. The annihilation beasts had unfold a lot that they had been sufficient to maintain the Grand Sage occupied for fairly a while. As for the feminine knight… the crude warrior was merely not a trigger for concern. Energy, in Evans’s view, was merely essentially the most insignificant attribute.
Turning round, Evans noticed a silver shadow rapidly darting from the ruins! The determine of the feminine knight approached quickly earlier than unleashing a martial talent. A faint glow emanated from her sword as she gripped it with each palms. She immediately closed the gap between her and Evans. The sword swung and a lightweight curtain instantly appeared within the sky.
Evans had no intention of pausing; he opened his spellbook and a darkish aura emanated from him. He collided with the sword curtain created by the feminine knight! Immediately, the feminine knight felt a chilling and eerie breath on her sword. This coldness made her shudder and she or he felt her fingers stiffening. It was virtually inconceivable for her to carry onto the sword hilt. Then, a strong power collided with the sword. Unable to withstand, she felt as if her complete physique had been paralyzed, and, with a groan, her sword fell to the bottom. The feminine knight was thrown again and landed closely on the bottom.
Her skirt appeared as if it had been corroded. Her tightly pursed lips indicated important damage. Nonetheless, the injuries on her physique gave the impression to be affected by a blessing and had been visibly recovering.
“Hehehe, did you suppose dealing with the essence of a summoner would assure victory?” Evans let loose a chilly chortle, and his eyes appeared to have phantom shadows drifting inside them. Even when he launched a [Destruction Demon King] and had to make use of all different summoned creatures to carry off the Grand Sage, he nonetheless had no concern of this feminine knight. In any case, any cardinal of the Resurgence Church was not somebody an bizarre tier 8 powerhouse may simply defeat. Evans was so formidable not simply because he had highly effective magic playing cards but in addition as a consequence of his monstrous bodily attributes. His Spirit attribute progress was SS, and each his Intelligence and Energy had been S. So, whereas being a summoner, he was not weaker than a tier 8 spell tank!
Even when he had been to vary his occupation to a priest, he may result in extraordinarily excessive therapeutic output and standing bonuses along with his extraordinary Spirit and Energy attributes.
“Scroun…drel…”
The feminine knight struggled to prop herself up on the bottom, her palms trembling. Solely now did she really really feel the despair of Evans’s power. His earlier perspective in direction of her, taking part in together with her like a cat with a mouse, was not an act however reasonably a show of delight.
Even amongst tier 8 consultants, one may sense that Evans was a humanoid disaster. To defeat him, she would want to carry on till one other tier 8 knowledgeable arrived to help.
The closest tier 8 knowledgeable was undoubtedly the Ice Princess. Nonetheless, the feminine knight additionally knew that earlier, the course through which the [Destruction Demon King] had flown was towards town of Tristin. Proper now, the Ice Princess should be engaged in a fierce battle. Maybe she remains to be ready for his or her help.
If it weren’t for the necessity to cease the catastrophic catastrophe brought on by the [Multiplying Annihilation Beasts], the Grand Sage would have rushed to Tristin Metropolis first.
“Are you pondering that perhaps there shall be different reinforcements later?” Evans appeared to have sensed the feminine knight’s ideas, asking with a playful tone.
“…” The feminine knight gritted her tooth, elevating her sword, vigilant towards Evans.
“Do not dream. Tristin Metropolis will in all probability be slaughtered quickly, and when the Ice Princess comes over…”
Evans paused, his gaze regularly gaining a sinister look.
“She’s going to turn out to be my companion, ahahaha!”
His laughter was maniacal, as if your complete Norton Kingdom was his playground.