619 The Insane Defense (1/2)

In Temple of Spirits, there were many primordial mummies, but there was only one wearing a gold crown.

That was the king of the primordial mummies, a level-three legendary, the dominator of the fringe area of the temple. It was immune to any spells lower than legendary level, and even some legendary ones!

If one did not know any specific spells that worked or have some particular blood powers, facing this thing would be great pain, even worse than facing a top legendary. As no attack would work at all.

Lucien recalled the pages he had read from before, ”The King of Primordial Mummy, afraid of divine light, Sun power, and super-high temperature fire; Not immune to Luxury Cracking and Advanced Time Stop; High level of defense against physical weapon hacking…”

Ticking, ticking… the black second hand of the pocket watch ticked again and again. Lucien did not leave the mummy any chance to make a sound or attack.

Then his thumb pressed down.

Click. The black second hand stopped, and then the world lost its color only grey and white were left. The movement of the primordial mummy froze, as if it was in another space.

Lucien could not cast Cracking (Advanced). Although he could try Hand of Uncertainties, he did not believe that was going to do much help. After all, he was two levels lower than the mummy.

He assumed that his Sword of Truth could only break one layer of the mummy's defense. In other words, the sword could not really hurt the mummy. Although Sword of Truth was very powerful, its power would still fade after breaking layers of defense.

Also, since the mummy was immune to most legendary spells in Necromancy, Congus Ring could also be quite useless here in terms of attacking.

Immune to death spells and destruction spells, the mummy also would not take Grandeur Obliteration.

…

Lucien quickly ran through the magic spell list to see what he could use here. The moment when he pressed the button, he had been ready to start developing his tactic.

”Elemental Order.”

The spell was cast. In the past several months, Lucien had improved his Elemental Order to legendary level based on Elements Resolve. It was due to the limit that so far only up to four legendary spells could be constructed in his Soul that Lucien had to completely sing the long spell, and also using the complex hand gestures for help. If it had not been that the time had been temporarily stopped, the primordial mummy would have had enough time to kill him twice.

After adding Hand of Uncertainties and Elemental Order, the time-cease effect had approached the end. In the last second, Lucien cast Baler's Transformation and pulled out Sword of Truth. He then fiercely wielded the sword at the primordial mummy.

Silver light flashed.

Colors resumed. Black of the walls recovered. Pale yellow of the bandages recovered.

Suddenly, countless colorful light spots burst out of the mummy's body and the tawny-colored bandages quickly resolved. Layer by layer, however, the black rotten flesh was still not yet revealed.

The silver light cut in, and then the primordial mummy released the most bitter howling ever,

”Hoooooo!”

The awful howling instantly penetrated most of Lucien's defense spells, making his head painfully buzzing.

This was the horrible power of this level-three legendary monster!

In front of the mummy's chest, some of the bandages were finally cut into two pieces. The iron-black rotten flesh now had a deep cut in it, and the cut had the power to prevent the rotten flesh from growing back. The tawny dead body oil, giving out the awful, disgusting odour, dropped onto the floor, eating in the floor tiles because of its horrible causticity.

However, the cut was still not deep enough. Lucien speculated that the mummy should be killed with at least another five or six same hacks adding on the existing wound.

But even with the power as a level-one legendary knight after transformation, this one single strike was already Lucien's full strength. There was no way that he could add another five or six to it - He was not fast enough!

Unless… unless he used Advanced Time Stop. But that would make Moon Timer take a whole day to recover. Lucien would lose his most powerful tool to survive in this dark temple.

”Hoooooo!”

Dark miasma permeated out of the cut and covered it. Layers of defenses were added again.

Lucien felt frustrated, not only by how troublesome the mummy was, but also about his own indecision. If he could not survive here, there would be no more future. If he had seized the chance and continued the attack by using Time Stop, he could have probably killed the monster already! But now, he had to start all over again!

The defense of the monster was totally insane!

At this time, the arms of the primordial mummy suddenly reached out and extended. It was totally an unexpected attack to Lucien.

Fortunately, Lucien's body spontaneously reacted as a legendary knight. His left arm swiftly lifted the small, black shield.

Bang! The colliding powers stirred the air like water rippling. However, the ripples could not hurt Lucien at all, as if he was in a different dimension!

The primordial mummy suddenly accelerated and split into a few streaks of shadows. The black miasma spread out from its gold crown and filled in the space, corroding everything.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Lucien had to keep retreating to confront the power. If it had not been the Shield of Truth, Lucien would have already lost his shield from the beyond-aggressive attacks. However, even so, the shield had had a few fine cracks on the surface, and the waves in the air were becoming increasingly fierce.

Lucien knew that his spiritual power was far from being fast enough to predict the movement of a level-three legendary. His brain worked fast to analyse what he could do right now.

Baler's Transformation was only a sixth circle spell, and therefore, it was now showing many problems in a legendary level fight. The willpower frontier transformed by spiritual power could not reached the level of a legendary knight. Facing the primordial mummy, the disadvantages were fatal.

Hooooooo!

To make the situation worse, more angry and desperate howling followed from behind. The waves of spectres and the legendaries hiding in them had entered the hall.

Lucien suddenly put aside the Sword of Truth in his right hand and grabbed the pocket watch floating in the air following him. His fingers gently stroked it.