307 Greater Earth Armamen (1/2)
”Um, you won't be asking me to help out too, right?” Faelyn asked after watching the Supreme Elder jumped off the airship.
”You must be kidding. Neither you nor I will be surviving a hit from that thing. Wouldn't I be asking you to die?” Leon responded rhetorically.
”Err, that's true.” Faelyn patted her chest with relief before flashing Leon a questioning glance. ”Then, what are you doing?”
Leon was seen stretching his limbs and muscles.
”I can't join this level of battle directly, but I can still assist them from the sidelines,” Leon said while focusing on the situation below attentively.
”Will your assist even be of any help at all?” Faelyn doubted.
Towards this, Leon did not comment and just smiled lightly.
Indeed, even with Leon's current 9-star Ranked Awakener cultivation, the power difference was too vast for him to hurt the robust body of the Ant King. Heck, he might not even be able to tickle it.
A Preliminary Accession-level equivalent Transcendent beast, or in other words, a Rank 1 Transcendent beast possesses a physical strength of 100 thousand jin and beyond.
For a powerful creature like the Ant King that was on par with Seeking Insight-level Transcendents, it was a Rank 2 Transcendent and a powerful Rank 2 Transcendent.
The physical strength of Rank 2 Transcendent beasts and creatures went beyond one million jin. This was far greater than the measly 10 thousand-jin physical strength limits of human Transcendents possess.
And for a creature to possess over one million jin worth of raw physical strength, it goes without saying that its body would be equally powerful.
If humans want to compete with such monstrous beings, relying on just their awakening cultivation alone would not be enough, not unless they figured out how to utilize their elemental laws to their full potential.
For Leon, who was not even a Transcendent, harming a Rank 1 Transcendent beast might still be within the realms of possibility, but damaging a Rank 2 Transcendent creature like the Ant King was just not possible.
Of course, this is only comparatively speaking for his combat prowess. Whether he had a method of slaying Transcendents was an entirely different matter.
”Che.”
Faelyn pouted and faced away in another direction after being ignored. Shortly after, she saw the situation on Lilith's side and pointed.
”Shouldn't we help those people over there?”
Leon flashed a quick look and shook his head.
”No, they will be fine for now. They are holding out well. We need to kill the humanoid ant down here if we want to win the battle decisively.”
”Eh, but they will have an easier time if we help them.”
”Then you can head over there with the airship. I'll be staying over here.”
After saying that, Leon hopped off the airship and used Divine Will to float in the sky.
The Ant King was simply too monstrous, so monstrous it would only take one punch for them and the airship to be done for.
Glancing back at the airship captain on the deck, Faelyn said, ”Well, you heard the prince. Take us over there.”
”As you wish, Princess Faelyn.”
The airship complied willingly.
…
After Marquis Haldir threw out the seeds imbued with his power, the seeds shortly grew into long thorny vines that caught the Ant King by surprise as the thorny vines wrapped about the Ant King and entangled it.
Scree!
(Foolish humans. Do you think something like this will be able to restrain me? If I want, I can snap this apart just by exerting a little bit of… hmm? This thing is tougher than I thought. Interesting.)
”Take this chance to escape!” Marquis Haldir shouted to the broken golem while the Ant King was still preoccupied with the strange thorny vines.
Elder Evergreen did not waste any time after he was given the opportunity. He quickly withdrew all the energy reinforcing the broken golem back into his body and shot out from the broken golem's head.
”Many thanks for your timely help, Fellow Transcendent.” Elder Evergreen expressed his gratitude with clasped hands after landing besides Marquis Haldir.
”Never mind that. We need to work together to take that thing down! Do you have a plan?” Marquis Haldir asked urgently as he exerted all his power to reinforce the thorny vine entanglement.
Hearing this, Elder Evergreen became solemn.
”The Ant King's is too hard! We need a Transcendent of the fire or metal element to be able to kill it! But if you can buy me enough time, there is something I want to try. If I am successful, I will be able to handle our defenses.”
The first half had Marquis Haldir furrowing his brows as he was unconvinced, but the second half had his eyes lit up.
”If you can handle the defense, then I will handle the attack. How much time do you need?”
”As much as you can give me.”
”Hmm… alright, but don't take too long.”