935 The Ward in the Storm (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
”Sky-Flame Funeral!”
Mo Fan held two puffs of swelling flames in his hands and delivered them into the Nyx Regime.
The fiery clouds loomed over the Nyx Regime, and fierce flames started pouring down from the clouds. The dense fireballs landed on the ground and carpeted the place in flame, which eventually combined into a scorching sea of fire.
Sea of flames on the ground, rain of fire in the air, and fiery clouds in the sky. The three layers of fire totally entrapped the immobilized birds.
It was like the strange birds had fallen into a giant furnace. Their beautiful feathers were burned into ashes. Their bodies were severely scorched...
The Sky-Flame Funeral was a spell with a wide coverage and long duration. Even though the strange birds were not low-level creatures, death was their only way out once they were trapped inside the combination of Nyx Regime and the Giant Shadow Spike Formation. The flames would slowly burn them all into ashes!
”It felt great killing so many of them in one breath! It's time for Little Loach to enjoy a great meal...” Mo Fan looked at the strange birds dying inside the formation of darkness and fire. He could not help but wonder how many Soul Remnants he would collect from it.
Perhaps it was enough to strengthen the Space Element Stars!
”Strange, why isn't Little Loach absorbing the Soul Remnants?”
Mo Fan suddenly realized something strange.
Normally, the Little Loach Pendant would automatically absorb the Soul Remnants of the creatures he killed. Mo Fan would also see green and blue souls like fireflies entering the pendant on his chest...
However, none of it was happening this time!
”Why is this happening?” It was Mo Fan's first time encountering something like this. ”Don't tell me these things have no souls? That doesn't make any sense. Even the undead need to have a soul, just so they can move. If these strange birds don't have a soul, what is keeping them alive?”
Mo Fan initially thought he was about to enjoy a great harvest, yet he somehow ended up empty-handed. The Little Loach Pendant's reaction was hinting to him that these creatures had no soul...
Mo Fan fell into deep thoughts. He immediately recalled the incident he encountered on the plane.
The air routes that human planes took were usually protected by barriers constructed by powerful Magicians. The barriers would drive demon creatures away, and if any demon creature broke through the barriers, it would alert the responsible party, too. They would send Air Space Magicians to handle the demon creatures. It was similar to highways. Even in the wild, demon creatures rarely trespassed onto the highways.
The air routes were incredibly safe. He had never heard of any tragic accidents, yet not long ago, a strange bird a lot bigger than the ones he was seeing in front of him had intercepted the plane. Mo Fan had not understood how the strange bird snuck into the barrier without alerting the Magicians?
And now, Mo Fan had found the answer to it. These strange birds had no soul!
A creature with no soul meant they were not even undead. The barriers could only detect living creatures. As a result, headquarters was totally unaware of the strange bird that had followed the plane for a long time...
”Damn it, what the heck are these things!?”
Mo Fan felt his head aching. The birds looked just like ordinary demon creatures, yet they happened to have no soul. If they had no soul, why were they insisting on attacking the team? Things without soul were just puppets, and leaving the ability to move aside, puppets usually had no goals in mind, no concept of attacking, defending, nor would they think or cry...
”What's this?” Mo Fan walked in the formation covered in scorched corpses of the strange birds and surprisingly discovered a bright-colored crest.
Over a hundred strange birds had been burned to ashes by the Sky-Flame Funeral, yet a piece of its crest still retained its bright color after burning in fire for so long.
”Have any of you seen this before?” Mo Fan showed the bright-colored crest to Zhao Manyan and Jiang Shaoxu.
”I think so, I'm not too sure,” replied Jiang Shaoxu.
”Those strange birds are coming again...” Zhao Manyan did not even care about the colorful crest.
Mo Fan asked Jiang Shaoxu to repeat the same method, as it was a lot quicker at getting rid of the birds. He would worry about their lack of soul later.
Jiang Shaoxu unleashed the Spirit Ripple, while Mo Fan prepared to cast the Nyx Regime in order to grill the birds again with the furnace of dark and fire. Yet, it did not work this time!
Not only were the birds not enraged by Jiang Shaoxu's Psychic Spell, they actually avoided Mo Fan's spell when they noticed the powerful presence of the Shadow Element...
”Holy crap, did those birds just become smarter?” exclaimed Zhao Manyan.
Visibility in the storm was extremely low. It was impossible that the new batch of strange birds had witnessed how their comrades died, yet they acted as if they clearly knew how deadly their spells were. They were circling in the air above Mo Fan, Jiang Shaoxu, and Zhao Manyan, as if they were waiting for more reinforcement!
”They are intelligent... no, no, this isn't just about their intelligence!” said Mo Fan.
The previous batch of strange birds were all butchered inside the Nyx Regime. Even sound could not leave the formation, thus how did the new batch of strange birds know that it was a slaughterhouse, and they needed more comrades to overcome it?