1372 Ambush Part 1 (2/2)

Jason did not actually miscalculate anything. That thousand-kilometer wide jungle would have made it impossible for even level 13 professionals to pass in an instant. Fycro's Road of Glory was simply too extraordinary. If it had not been for Pande's Maze, Fycro would have showed up right outside the magic tower's door instead.

”Saleen, sigh...” Fycro sighed and he had no intentions of continuing. Saleen had been a mage that he came to like better than most and he was hoping to turn Saleen into one of his believers. However, things proved hopeless at that juncture. Saleen was like the ancient mages, who hated the gods with a passion.

But why did he establish the Nature Faith then? That was something that Fycro found puzzling.

Fycro had never ventured inside the temple of the goddess. If he had discovered one before, he would have understood the reasons behind right away.

Fycro took out another piece of equipment, having no intentions of continuing to use the Mirror of Fate. He knew well enough that despite the mirror sporting a myriad of ways of attacking, but mages had an edge when they were inside a magic tower.

If he were to use the Mirror of Fate to tear the maze apart, it would have made it easy for the mages to calculate the rules embedded within the Mirror of Fate.

Even if they were to be able to calculate even a tiny fraction of the rules, it would still have robbed him of his edge in future battles. Furthermore, the Mirror of Fate had limited number of attacks. He was, at the moment, a pseudogod instead of a true god after all.

If he were to possess divine persona, even broken ones, he would have been able to convert all of those power of faith provided by his believers into his own power, instead of having to digest them for a bit before being able to use those power.

Fycro took out a divine-crafted puppet. The puppet's appearance resembled that of the Lord of Glory's angels. The puppet headed straight for Pande's Maze after it was released, unleashing powerful attacks at the maze with the sword of glory in its hand.

Tens of huge trees fell with a loud boom. Fycro stepped forward and tailed behind the puppet, while he himself did nothing else.

”Heh, you think it'd be that easy eh.” Saleen pointed in the air and the toppled huge trees were erected again, blocking Fycro's way behind. The trees looked as if they have never been attacked.

Saleen used Thundering Shock and Fycro suffered little more than a mild headache, instead of being seriously affected. He knew that the puppet was not attacking actual trees, as those were simply part of a magic array.

All of those constructs were illusions. There were limited number of trees in the Pande's Maze. All the others were simply constructs created using projection magic.

Seeing how he was unable to confuse Fycro, Saleen then summoned the Violet Angel and took out the War Drum of Fear, telling the puppet to start beating the drum.

Tens of thousands of pests gushed from the drum into the maze, charging straight at Fycro. Those pests were only beings around level six or seven, making it imposible for them to kill Fycro. The former holy master even put up a divine shield, which the pests stood no chance of breaking.

Fycro then laughed. ”Saleen, if you are using something like this, I wouldn't have had any idea of how to proceed!”

Fycro said as divine light lit up in his eyes. He zipped past the puppet and his body lit up with divine light. Any pest that had gotten near to him was purified on the spot, reduced to dirt and dropping all over the ground.

Fycro was able to track how the pests entered the maze with his eyes. He was quick with his feet and passed through the maze soon enough.

A golden sword was lying in wait for Fycro right outside the maze.

The sword was swung horizontally at Fycro's neck. The divine shield was broken right away. Fycro was thoroughly shocked, as none of that was seen in the Mirror of Fate. Saleen has a level 13 being serving him? Impossible!

Saleen had never expected Fycro to really show up before the magic tower alone. From Saleen's perspective, what Fycro did was very stupid. If Fycro were to take his time to plan things out and open a path in the jungle, Saleen would have been able to do little against him.

If Saleen were to destroy that passage in the jungle, he would have had to show up personally, but doing so would have robbed him of the backup from the magic tower. There was no way for him to set up an ambush in the wild as well.

Saleen had precisely let the pests into the maze just so that he was able to set up a trap. The weapon spirit of the magic amplifier was not the only being lying in wait; Rafel was there as well.

Saleen saw Rafel thrusting out with her red spear from the other side, which grazed Fycro's body. He unleashed Thundering Phantasm, all of whom lifted the left arm at the same time, with the Thunder Dragon Blaster showing briefly and shot lightning icicles.

There were 12 lightning icicles seen being shot—11 from the illusions and one from Saleen himself. The lightning icicles were but feints, but if Fycro were to not avoid them, he would have nonetheless ended up being killed all the same.

The Inferno Spear grazed Fycro's hips. His level 13 divine shield was unable to stop that godly item's attack. If it had not been for a piece of armor appearing behind him all of a sudden, Fycro would have ended up severely injured.

However, Blood was seen pouring from his hips, so much so that one was able to see the bone under the wound.

With two level 13 beings ambushing him with powerful weapons, Fycro was quickly caught in a ditch. A huge bubble expanded on his body, repelling both Rafel and the weapon spirit. Saleen's lightning icicle punched into the bubble and were quickly dissolved.

The temperature of the bubble was even greater than that of underground fires. The lightning icicles did not have fire-resistant properties due to being focused on being as sharp as possible.

That was because under most circumstances, even if the lightning icicles were to be dumped inside volcanoes, it would have still taken them quite a while to be melted. Furthermore, lightning icicles had very brief period of offense after all.

Saleen would have never expected that there were actually defensive skills that worked by laying out a super-high temperature layer on one's body.

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