Chapter 142 – The End of a Hero (1/2)
The Kingdom of Darkness contained God Tier power where darkness, decay, corruption, deadly poison, and other adverse effects permeated. If an outsider didn’t have the corresponding ability to resist these forces, they’d be hard-pressed to survive once they entered.
Celestial boss Undead Marshal Lei Ting sat straight-backed astride the Hellfire Stallion. They stood in the center of the field proudly, looking down upon all other existences. Now that the God Tier Kingdom of Darkness surrounded Lei Ting, his golden armor had turned pitch black.
In the sky, lightning was striking down. The sound of glass breaking echoed as more and more cracks appeared on the Land of Exile sealing the dragon.
Lei Ting hadn’t completely absorbed the power of darkness in his body since he was awakened early by Lin Xi. Therefore, the Kingdom of Darkness wasn’t in its peak form either. Its parameter was only twenty-something meters, which indicated that Lei Ting was still a Celestial boss and that he had not yet reached God Tier. This factor gave the NPCs of Black Tortoise City renewed hope.
Purple Bell and TenStepOneKill teleported before Lei Ting at the same time. The instant they emerged, they were met with the DoT from the Kingdom of Darkness, and their health bars almost reached rock bottom in the blink of an eye.
The two screamed in pain. They immediately had their Yin Yang Manuals float over their heads. Purple Bell’s and TenStepOneKill’s manuals each respectively shot out a black and a white light. Unexpectedly, the two rays of light entwined to form a Yin Yang Fish diagram that floated above the two players and isolated the force of darkness from them.
“What is that?”
Everyone’s face paled in shock. The fact that these two players’ skills could combine and resist a God Tier force greatly stunned them.
“Yin Yang Thunder.”
The two shouted in unison, each pointing their finger at the Yin Yang Fish diagram above their heads. In an instant, a black and white ball appeared out of nowhere and hurled itself at Lei Ting.
Boom, boom, boom!
The Yin Yang Thunder ball exploded as it struck Lei Ting. The boss swayed nonstop, but his health only dropped by a sliver. The Hellfire Stallion let out a long, furious neigh, then spat out the rest of the few flames left on its body.
“What a loyal steed!” Fatty praised. Now that the mount system has activated, I’d look very stylish if I could get a mount like that.
Although the Hellfire Stallion was enraged, it was too exhausted to deal any real damage to the two players. Therefore, they didn’t pay attention to it and instead focused on attacking Lei Ting.
After Lei Ting had cast his ultimate skill, Thunder of the Ninth Heaven to summon the dragon, and proceeded to deploy a weakened version of Kingdom of Darkness, his strength was utterly drained. Currently, he could only passively defend without the power left to attack in retaliation.
Crash!
Along with the sound of shattering glass, the lightning dragon finally broke away from Land of Exile’s restraint. Then, it headed straight for the ground.
“Stop it!” Libya shouted. He erected his dragon spear and charged at the dragon.
At this moment, two battlefields were formed in the area – one with Libya charged with blocking the lightning dragon, and one where Purple Bell and TenStepOneKill allied together to fight Lei Ting.
“Wheel of Judgement!”
Purple Bell and TenStepOneKill chorused out loud. A black and white light wheel of one-meter in radius appeared in the air and slowly rolled toward Lei Ting.
The two seemed barely able to manage it when they released the skill. Their movements were stiff when they steered the Wheel of Judgement in the right direction.
Lei Ting made no move to dodge the attack. The wheel struck him and started spinning as it hit him, emitting a series of tooth-tingling creaking sounds.
“Foolish human,” Lei Ting glanced at the light wheel with contempt and no longer bothered with it.
As the Wheel of Judgement spun faster and faster, it dealt more and more damage to Lei Ting in the process. Even so, this kind of attack was like a feather tickling Lei Ting since its damage posed little to no threat in the face of his enormous HP.
If this attack kept going without a time limit, it might just be able to kill Lei Ting, but that was clearly impossible.
The players in the vicinity could distinctly see the Yin Yang Fish gradually shrink while it guarded against damage from the Kingdom of Darkness for the two Yin Yang Inquisitors. Once the Yin Yang Fish disappears, these two will be pressured to escape their fate of returning to the respawn point.
“Yin Yang Treasure Swords.”
As the Wheel of Judgement gradually faded away, the two replenished some mana and simultaneously cast another skill.
Two little swords – one black and one white, appeared from thin air. They intertwined while soaring through the sky before impaling Lei Ting.
Another blood-red number rose up, but Lei Ting was indifferent and motionless. After the two players attacked for ten-odd minutes, Lei Ting’s health only dropped by less than 1% while the Yin Yang Fish had already shrunk to one-third its original size.
Bang!
Over on the other battlefield, the lightning dragon displayed its entire prowess as it snapped the giant boa in half with its jaw. After all, the dragon was a union of an innumerable amount of lightning bolts summoned by Lei Ting. While Libya and the rest’s power were at the level of the eighth class enhancement, they barely managed to counter it.
Whoosh.
Suddenly, a black mist rose up from Lei Ting’s head. The instant this happened, the entire Kingdom of Darkness became more stable, and Lei Ting's health could be seen increasing by a sliver.
“Not good! He’s absorbing the dark power that the Phantasm Ghost King left in his body.” Jijilu’s face turned ashen in fright. If they just let Lei Ting fully absorb the energy into his body, then only Lin Xi would be able to stop him.
“Aowuuuu…”
Right at this moment, the giant turtle wail painfully. Yellow air streamed out from the ground and merged with its body. Surprisingly, its lost leg once again regrew quick enough to be visible to the average eye.
Thud. The giant turtle flung the knight NPC off its back and strode toward Lei Ting. During this, its massive body shrank until it was about ten meters in size.