Chapter 867 - The Test (2) (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

He’s dead!

Rhode smirked. The Hell Lord talent tree was the most unsuitable in close-combat among the three talent trees. Although the Hell Lord talent tree possessed advantages in awakening the dead into Undead Creatures, its biggest flaw was that it only had a single attribute, where its offense or defense basically held the ‘undead’ attribute. Although the ‘undead’ attribute was useful against Undead Creatures due to damage immunity, apart from this, the Hell Lord was the easiest to take down in this situation!

The Dark Rangers’ continuous arrows disrupted the movements of the other two Spirit Swordsmen. At the same time, the explosion from the crazy Hell Hound broke the Hell Lord Spirit Swordsman’s defense.

The Hell Lord Spirit Swordsman was stunned. He thrust his hand forward quickly, where an enormous skeleton creature emerged and swiped its huge bone claws at Rhode. Rhode had no intention of retreating. Instead, he brandished his blazing blade which clashed with the menacing claw. But at this moment, he discovered a faint white flash from the creature’s body, and the creature suddenly became incredibly tough!

At the same time, the ground around Rhode rumbled deeply. Then, stone statues about half of his height emerged from the ground one by one and swarmed toward him. Rhode sulked at this scene.

Darn it!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Without any signs of warning, the stone statues exploded and razor-sharp stone thorns burst out of the ground, striking the ground where Rhode stood. Fortunately, Rhode dodged and re-emerged from the shadow on the other side. He squinted at the Spirit Swordsman who stood in the dispersed smoke and held a glowing yellow card.

Using the combination of the rule power and card attribute? Not bad at all.

Every being who transcended into the Legendary Stage held their very own rule attribute and Rhode was no exception. This explained why their tactics were all unique. For instance, Rhode’s awakened talent, Eternal Fantasy, was lethal when used by him alone. On the other hand, the three skills, namely [Self-Affirmation], [Absolute Presence], and [Igniting Wrath], could also be used effectively against enemy groups when unleashed appropriately. But no matter what, only he could unleash the skills.

On the contrary, some talents were more effective when launched by several attackers. In the past, Rhode fought a Spirit Swordsman, the “Dinosaur Beater”, who played the best with this tactic. His individual talent was the ‘time-reverse’, where he mastered and achieved the effects of casting two skills simultaneously. This tactic wasn’t too meaningful for him, but after he coordinated it with his Soul Messenger talent tree and summoned enhanced summoning spirits, the talent skill could instantly defeat a fully-armored Warrior. After all, not anyone could tank double attacks from multiple summoned spirits at once. Not only that, but the ‘Dinosaur Beater’ could also use this tactic to summon spirits twice in a row to raise his chances of winning. However, he wasn’t too confident of his talent back then and although he drew against Rhode from the start of the battle, he eventually lost his cool to Rhode’s taunts and was defeated by Rhode’s ‘annihilate’ attribute.

Judging from this, the rule attribute of the Hell Lord talent tree should be ‘defense’, while the Summoning Master talent tree was ‘explosion’?

Rhode puckered his brows. This indeed was a troublesome combination. The Hell Lord Spirit Swordsman’s biggest flaw was that the Undead Creatures were weak in defense. Besides, they only had a single attribute, which was easy to overcome. Even though the Summoning Master Spirit Swordsman could summon a huge number of spirits, they would still be crushed when faced with a powerful force since quality over quantity applied in this case. However, with the ‘explosion’ attribute, it could be said that all the spirits that the opponent summoned would be equivalent to walking bombs. If Rhode guessed correctly, the opponent should be using a deck with the ‘earth’ attribute… Card decks with the ‘earth’ attribute often held strong defenses, which was extremely annoying.

On the other hand, Rhode didn’t know what the rule attribute of the final Soul Messenger Spirit Swordsman was…

Rhode lifted his head and looked at the Soul Messenger Spirit Swordsman standing silently on the other side. At this moment, the flying fish was hovering around him and the crystal-clear barrier. It seemed like this was the barrier that stopped the Dark Rangers’ ambush…

Although the situation was rather difficult, this made things interesting…

Rhode twitched his brow.

“Wow…”

Although the battle had progressed for less than a minute, everyone was dumbfounded as they stared blankly at the arena. Even though there were four of them in battle, it seemed like a battle between magnificent armies with thousands of men and horses. Lize rubbed her eyes in disbelief while Christie placed her hands on her chest and observed the fight.

At this moment, Rhode made up his mind on the battle tactic.

“Attack!”

The Spear Defenders who were in defense formation stood up vigilantly. They raised their shields and spears and dashed forward. The Dark Rangers in the back scattered in all directions with trails of afterimages. Then, a blinding radiance erupted and blasted at the three Spirit Swordsmen.

The three Spirit Swordsmen came to a halt in unison and the Summoning Master lifted his card, when suddenly, hundreds of stone statues broke out from the ground. They braved the magic arrows released by the Dark Rangers while charging toward the Spear Defenders.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions shook the ground. But the Spear Defenders were unaffected. If it were an ordinary human army, perhaps the explosions would have crushed their formation. But it was a pity that the Spear Defenders would not falter with this attribute of theirs.

[Fortification (Formation will not be destroyed)]

Just this attribute was enough to wipe out the opponent’s efforts to destroy their formation. Other than eliminating the Spear Defenders, there was nothing else that could split up their formation or stop them. Shortly after, the smoke dispersed and even though hundreds of stone statues were destroyed, the Spear Defenders didn’t seem to be hurt at all. They continued to raise their spears and marched forward in large strides.

At the same time, the other two Spirit Swordsmen also launched their attacks.

A whistling cold breeze instantly froze an ice carpet on the ground. On the other side, a skeleton giant emerged out of thin air, hurling its enormous claws at Rhode, who also launched his attack.

“———!”