Chapter 617: Unrestrained verbal abuse (1/2)
GDK 617: Unrestrained verbal abuse
‘Shrunken Sky Shadow Seeker’ was a demonic art technique commonly used for detecting unusual objects. When using this special technique, Han Shuo identified that a state of vacuum had taken shape in a region outside of the city. Finding it rather odd, he decided to travel to the area to have a look.
Under normal circumstances, atmospheric air should fill every corner of every place and there should not be a naturally-existing region of vacuum on the continent. Therefore, the region of vacuum must have been artificially created.
Besides, Han Shuo was familiar with the environment around Ossen City and he had never discovered any field of vacuum around the northern city district. Hence, he deduced that the peculiarity in that region was most likely man-made.
Fanny’s inauguration ceremony as the new chancellor of Babylon Academy of Magic and Force was over. With Ayermike Cotton, Graeae, and Little Skeleton there standing guard, Han Shuo believed that those aristocrats of the empire staying at the Babylon Academy of Magic and Force wouldn’t be in any further danger.
Without having to worry about those people’s safety, Han Shuo transformed into faint bloody threads that were hardly visible to the naked eye and zoomed off to the fringe of the northern city district.
The Babylon Academy of Magic and Force and the outer part of the city were a few dozen miles apart. It took Han Shuo only a few minutes to arrive at that vacuum region.
Han Shuo silently observed the surroundings as soon as he arrived. Right away, he was certain that those who launched that assault on Babylon Academy of Magic and Force were right here.
Up ahead was a space barrier with concentrated energy that opened up a small-scale force field. That blinding light that glowed from within the barrier had obstructed Han Shuo’s view into what was behind it. A holy aura converged into the shape of a huge grail that filled the inside of the barrier, forming a thin layer of protective film that blocked Han Shuo’s consciousness from probing further.
Han Shuo squinted his eyes. He could clearly tell that the grail of holy aura was sustained by the Church of Light’s divine weapon – the Holy Grail. On the Holy Grail were several olive branches shining bright gold. It constantly released holy energy that maintained the protective shield in this area.
The Church of Light’s divine weapon had the ability to amplify light magic. The holy energy contained within could even give out miraculous protective power. The reason that Han Shuo’s consciousness couldn’t detect the presence of those attackers from the Babylon Academy of Magic and Force was likely due to the energy of this holy energy.
Looking ahead of him at the region of vacuum formed using all kinds of strange energies, the corners of Han Shuo’s lips curled up to make a cold grin. He did not rush in making his attack. Hiding in the dark, Han Shuo believed that those people within the bubble couldn’t detect his trail easily.
Han Shuo expanded his consciousness and gradually expanded it all around him, carefully searching for any unexpected danger lurking in the surroundings. Simultaneously, he recited a few incantations. Wood elite zombie, metal elite zombie, and earth elite zombie crossed from the Netherworld. At Han Shuo’s indication, they surrounded the region of vacuum in a triangular formation.
Fire elite zombie and water elite zombie had gained enormous benefits in the Abyss realm. They were still slowly digesting the energies they had acquired from the two former Abyssal demon kings and weren’t able to assist Han Shuo for the time being. Thus, the full power of the Penta-elemental Undead Formation could not be fully deployed. As Han Shuo wasn’t sure what kind of powers those attackers inside the field possessed and his two avatars were still rehabilitating at the Cemetery of Death, he decided to be cautious. He very carefully summoned three of the five operational elite zombies and put the incomplete Penta-Elemental Undead Formation into order, just in case he was met with some unexpected situation.
With everything in order, Han Shuo transmitted a command to Little Skeleton who remained at the Babylon Academy of Magic and Force to quickly teleport over. He then sneered and took out a Pearl of Annihilation, hurling it at the region of vacuum without the slightest hesitation.
Rumbles… The Pearl of Annihilation suddenly exploded and the space immediately crumbled and became distorted. It tore open several small cracks, through which the Soulpiercers could conveniently enter.
After casting the Pearl of Annihilation, Han Shuo leered at the region of vacuum ahead with cold eyes, ready to set it ablaze at any moment.
A hurried voice slipped through the fissures around the region of vacuum and traveled into Han Shuo’s ears, “Ahem Ahem Ahem, what’s going on? Why has there been an explosion?”
“No idea. Could mixing several different spells have produced an adverse effect?” a frosty voice replied.
A voice then yelled out, “There’s the enemy!” The people inside were suddenly thrown into disorder.
Han Shuo, who could not peer into the condition within the region of vacuum, was able to gain a clear view into the strength those attackers possessed the instant those fissures appeared.
As all kinds of energy was mixed among the boundary, Han Shuo couldn’t make out the appearances of those attackers. However, by relying on the acute senses of his consciousness, he was able to determine their identities from their auras.
There were an altogether six attackers. Among them, three had the holy aura characteristic to the disciples of Church of Light; two had bodies and auras as cold as ice, probably Shrine of Ice experts who weren’t at the snowland the last time; and the last one had a body filled with chaotic and explosive energy. His soul was as strange as that of a shaman. It appeared that after several hundred thousand orcs of the Empire of Orcs perished, some true experts decided to participate.