Chapter 475: Counter-Attack (1/2)
GDK 475: Counter-Attack
At little skeleton’s reminder, Han Shuo immediately came to his senses and stabilized his frame of mind. He focused up his consciousness, and sensed Gilbert’s yet-to-dissipate soul in an instance.
The Demonslayer Edge suddenly flew out from Han Shuo’s body and generated an intensely strong suction power. Gilbert’s unscattered soul was drawn to it. In a split second, he flowed into the Demonslayer Edge.
Although the Demonslayer Edge temporarily couldn’t assist Han Shuo in battle, absorbing one soul wasn’t a problem. As the master of Demonslayer Edge, Han Shuo could even establish a region within the Demonslayer Edge specially for Gilbert where he could take refuge.
Han Shuo dispelled his sorrow. He suddenly recalled that the demonic arts and necromancy magic, his forte, were sinister arts the righteous despised. Whether it was demonic arts or necromancy magic, they provided the practitioner with extreme proficiency towards souls.
Han Shuo only thought to himself for the shortest moment before realizing that, regardless of whether he utilized demonic arts or necromancy magic, by making use of Gilbert’s mighty soul, he could rebuild his physical body and have him revived. As long as Gilbert’s soul remained, he wasn’t completely gone.
With that in mind, the grief which Gilbert brought to Han Shuo weakened a great deal. After the Demonslayer Edge returned into Han Shuo’s body, Han Shuo took one look at fire elite zombie and found fire elite zombie almost at the point of complete exhaustion. He immediately knew that he could not hesitate a moment longer.
The cold air in the Jadefrost Cage was as chilling as usual. At the moment, the demonic yuan that once filled Han Shuo’s body from top to toe was drained to his knees. Yet, the energy being unleashed from the Jadefrost Cage still seemed infinite and everlasting. This left Han Shuo with the realization that the opponent had definitely surpassed them in terms of endurance.
“Move!” Han Shuo shouted and descended straight towards a narrow slit in the lavafall.
Before Han Shuo made it near the lava chink, the whole ravine suddenly started to tremble. Blazing high temperatures soared ever higher and higher. Fierce magma shot out like geysers.
All of a sudden, a strong feeling of longing filled the entire ravine, like a grief-stricken mother bitterly awaiting her long lost child’s return and finally finding him at the doorsteps.
“She, she knows I’m back!” fire elite zombie was pleasantly surprised and transmitted to Han Shuo. He too seemed overjoyed.
Han Shuo finally arrived at the gap in the lavafall. He deployed a protection shield, enveloping Elizabeth and the cage, and descended further down.
While climbing down, as the refiner of the fire elite zombie, Han Shuo could clearly feel that fire elite zombie was communicating with the Lord of the Flames down below. Upon arriving in this region, along with the climbing temperatures, the exhausted fire elite zombie started to restore bit by bit.
Fierce blazes violently roared all around them. Fiery bubbles popped up from the place of extreme fire. Terrifyingly high temperatures filled the area surrounding them.
Suddenly, a thunderous roar came from the place of extreme fire. When Han Shuo looked down, he discovered that the enormous body of the Lord of the Flames was slowly emerging from there. On the cliffs nearby, countless Scorching Demon Warriors were raised at an unknown time. Their eyes trailed Han Shuo and his party, who were gradually descending.
Upon sensing Han Shuo on the alert, fire elite zombie hastily transmitted to him, “Father, don’t be worried. She will help me!”
“Okay, it’s all up to you now!” Han Shuo trusted the fire elite zombie very much. When the fire elite zombie reassured him that there wouldn’t be a problem, he immediately let go of his worries.
Right after Han Shuo said those words, fire elite zombie, holding his FIre Lotus, landed on the body of the Lord of the Flames that just emerged from the place of extreme fire. Fire elite zombie then sat on the wide shoulders of the Lord of the Flames. Unending streams of energy were suddenly released from the Lord of the Flames. A dozen or so streams of magma even spewed from her mouth. Like fiery silk, they all wrapped around the Jadefrost Cage.
Simultaneously, the place of extreme fire, which had existed for who knew how long, and that even nurtured the treasure of fire attribute – the Fire Lotus – suddenly seemed to come alive. Thousands and thousands of strands of yuan energy of fire flowed into fire elite zombie’s body. In no time, the fire elite zombie was restored with all the energy he previously exhausted.
The Fire Lotus suddenly exploded with magnificent rays. Under the manipulation of fire elite zombie, it mobilized the enormous yuan energy of fire in the place of extreme fire, sending out small clouds of flames that fluttered their way onto the Jadefrost Cage.
Han Shuo immediately felt the pressure on him greatly reduce. After such actions by fire elite zombie and the Lord of the Flames, the piercing cold of the Jadefrost Cage was all being used to resist the onslaught of the flames. Han Shuo no longer needed to continue resisting with excessive use of his demonic arts. Even Elizabeth and the dark dragons whose bodies were almost frozen stiff recovered in the heat of the place of extreme fire.
Thousands of miles away at the Shrine of Ice…
“Not good! There’s an intense energy of fire pouring into it. What’s going on?” that sacred grade magus that had been licking Ice Celestial Corey’s ass, suddenly made a huge change in expression and cried out in surprise.
The previously calm, unruffled faces of the experts of the Shine of Ice were replaced with solemn expressions. Each and everyone of them casted their gazes on Ice Celestial Corey, their leader.
Even Ice Celestial Corey took a shock. Through some kind of mysterious connection, he also felt the changes to the Jadefrost Cage located in the Dark Forest. That energy which deepened all of a sudden revealed itself to be the most scorching energy of flames. As far as the Shrine of Ice was concerned, such fiery energy was what they most loathed, and also the most thorny energy to handle.
The sudden surge of this incomparably mighty energy completely disrupted Ice Celestial Corey’s calmness. Under the attentive gazes of his subordinates, Corey pressingly turned over in his mind to come up with a countermeasure while trying to determine the source of the fiery energy that suddenly appeared.
After quite a while, Corey spoke again, “It must be them making a comeback at death’s door. As long as we go all-out to withstand this wave of attack, they won’t have any more energy to resist!”
“Lord Corey, if this turns out not to be their final push before they die, and we exert all our strength to resist this wave of attack, if, and this is completely hypothetical, by any chance, their strength exceeds our’s combined, it would be very difficult for us to retreat by then,” another sacred magus of the Shrine of Ice suddenly weighed in.
After letting out a cold groan, Ice Celestial Corey said, “There are no mistakes in my judgement. Even if another entity steps in, with so many experts from our Shrine of Ice cooperating, how many in the whole of Profound Continent can withstand us? Be at ease. This time I will be exerting all my strength, and undoubtedly will freeze them all to death in one go!”
Seeing that Ice Celestial Corey was somewhat displeased, the others did not raise any more objections. Corey’s ego was infamous in the Shine of Ice. He was a man who would never listen to others’ opinions. Once he made his decision, all that one could do was wholeheartedly execute his plans with no questions asked about whether his decision was right or wrong.
Under Corey’s command, the strongest few of the Shine of Ice, using the mysterious magical array, began to release the divine energy from their bodies with all their strengths, intending to get rid of Han Shuo and the others located far in the place of extreme fire once and for all through the Jadefrost Cage blessed by Ice Goddess.
Back at the Dark Forest, in the place of extreme fire…
“Master, what do we do? What should I do?” Elizabeth, who could finally talk, shouted frenetically.
“Maintain this state and hush. This time it won’t be us that will have headache!” Han Shuo insisted before ceasing to respond to Elizabeth.
The inexhaustible yuan energy of fire in the place of extreme fire, through the two existences of fire elite zombie and the Lord of the Flames, poured onto the Jadefrost Cage. Scorching heat filled the entire region. The patriarch of dark dragons, Gilges, finally awoke from his fainting due to the roasting heat.
“Foolish little one, where is Gilbert that silly thing? Where is my grandson?” After Gilges woke up, he anxiously looked everywhere for Gilbert.
“Patriarch, Gilbert is….. he’s dead!” a dark dragon sighed sorrowfully with teary eyes.
“Ahhh…..”