1064 Eerie Divine Spell Part 2 (1/2)

The 300-meter illusion seemed to look tangible all of a sudden, bursting out from the vicinity of the magic tower and leaping a mile away. The scene was frightening to behold. It was after all, a 300 meter giant covering more than a mile with just one leap.

Saleen even felt his mind wavering for a brief moment, recalling the days when there were actual giants to help ancient humans conquer other planes. How tall were those giants? It was said that giants about a mile tall actually existed, and one of the oldest in existence was actually capable of taking up the space of one entire plane.

The illusory giant was one skill in Lex's arsenal of rare skills. With the enemy only about two miles away, the illusory giant got within range of the dozen of remaining living holy masters with just another step.

Jola felt frustrated. While he had been able to pinpoint the holy master's whereabouts, the holy master would have switched to another body whenever he killed one of them. The black and white hole still devoured power in a frenzy and Jola had to resist it while attacking, resulting in him being able to use less than 10% of his true power. If it was not for the fact that the enemy was still a low enough level for him to handle, he would have turned tail and run.

The illusory giant came and clapped its hands. Jola dived in a hurry.

Jola was a golden grand swordmaster. The speed at which he dived exceeded even that of mages. The dozen remaining holy masters still maintained the power-absorbing hole, yet they were quickly reduced to mush at the hands of the illusory giant.

The illusory giant squeezed with its hand and the bunch of flesh and blood blew up right there and then. Nicholas took to the air in elation, absorbing slivers of something from that bunch of messy flesh and blood into his Scepter of the Fallen.

Nicholas' action had been risky. The Winged Skull cursed under their breath. I've never seen that old fart so happy before, and was he trying to get me killed? The Winged Skull drew a line the air slowly with the Reaper Scythe, separating Nicholas from the power-absorbing bicolored hole, before yanking Nicholas by his beard and dragging him down to the ground.

Nicholas yelled in pain but the Winged Skull paid him no heed. They resisted the hole simply to buy Jola time to kill the rest of the holy masters, yet the old fart showed up and had the Winged Skull spend at least half of their power with their last attack.

If it had not been for Lex's giant, the Winged Skull had no idea how long they would have lasted.

The huge hole was being attacked by the giant as well. Having clapped all of the remaining living holy masters to death, the only powerful soul ended up being absorbed by Nicholas.

The giant was a skill casted by Lex, and the skill absorbed more than half of her powers, which made it odd among level nine spells. However, the power supply came mostly from the magic arrays she set. It was the dream of many mages to be able to combine spells and arrays to perform attacks.

Lex retreated back into the magic tower cautiously, holding a magic nucleus to replenish her powers. While she might have killed a lot of enemies and lost only a few spirits on her side, Lex feared being ill-prepared against a level ten professional. Saleen's one attack depleted all of the Thunder Dragon Blaster's energy, rendering the weapon a dead weight for an hour.

There would have still been enemies emerging, and quickly.

Nicholas and the others hurried back to the magic tower. The Winged Skull packed up the spirits and summoned them back to spirit space. All of spirits were painstakingly trained and their combat capacity was leagues above those untrained ones.

The Winged Skull had been fast enough in collecting the spirits, but another army showed up outside the mountain. The army consisted of Blood Knights and wardens, and they charged their way in. The army of about 10,000 quickly reduced the spirits the Winged Skull had not been able to collect to pulp.

Saleen thought for a bit and had the Winged Skull fly back to the magic tower. He then activated the magic power furnace and headed for Daliang City, leaving more than 600 spirits behind.

The mighty ones looked on with gaping mouths as their enemy ran and ditched the spirits. They were unable to do anything about it.

They had no idea that the Magical Element Tower was incapable of attacking while in flight. The imposing 24-floored tower had the holy masters looking totally dazed.

The reason that Saleen ran was because Lex had not gotten enough rest, and he did not want to field Sika yet. It was top priority head to Daliang City and crush their enemies there using the War Drum of Fear. Luring enemies in the mountains was not the right way to fight a war.

Saleen found the Holy See's weakness after clashing with them several times, and that was their mighty ones might have appeared in droves, but they were not as powerful as mages in battle. As for the ones from Cloudflow, they were still mages and they hated more than anything to be bossed around by holy masters. As such, they were reluctant to fight with all their might.

The holy masters were only powerful in terms of their level, as they have advanced so quickly that they did not have enough time to master the tactics to fight high level professionals. One notable example was the troublesome holy masters back there. While they might have brought more than 200 others and that made them very hard to kill, they were unable to do much when they were faced with someone like Saleen, who packed powerful gear. One shot practically decimated the entire group.

If those 200 had not been tied to a single being, Saleen would have been able to kill one with each shot, regardless of how powerful his Thunder Dragon Blaster was.

Professionals who had their powers forcefully upgraded were inferior to those who built their powers over time through experience. Saleen suddenly developed a new insight regarding the army surrounding Daliang City. The enemy was trying to shorten the time taking Daliang City through sheer numbers.

Holy masters were now plentiful among the ranks of the Holy See, and they were no longer in a pinch like when attacking Metatrin City. Even Nicholas would have been able to command an expeditionary force of 100,000.

The Holy See now had no qualms over using newly advanced high level holy masters as cannon fodder, which meant that they had developed ways of creating holy masters in droves. What Saleen felt more distressing was what actually happened within the walls of Holy City.

Theisio had advanced to level ten recently, so recent that he hadn't heard of it.

If Theisio had been a level ten professional for a considerable time, he would have been able to rearrange and unify the Holy See's powers with the God Grace Staff and Bramble Crown. Saleen felt that Theisio, when armed with two godly items, would have had powers comparable to Fycro, regardless that he had only advanced to such heights recently.