Chapter 1145 - Strength of the Chaos Army (1/2)

Several rays of coalesced radiance erupted, aiming at the enemy from all directions. Lydia wielded her twin swords, expanding her white wings and emanating the matchless, dazzling brilliance of the sun that enveloped her like a circular, protective screen. The archangel held the swords high, releasing two golden blade rays that flitted across the air alongside blustering winds, and headed straight into the dark clouds. Upon hitting the dense layer of cloud, it shrunk as though it were pricked by needles, before rolling away and letting out roaring thunder in its retreat. Meanwhile, it erupted purple lightning bolts that struck Lydia’s defensive shield. However, the purple lightnings were deflected quickly and at the same time, Erin extended and swung her arm to the side with a sword in hand.

Along with this movement, the horizon had as though been split into half. The formidable strength of the moon coalesced into an indestructible blade ray that swept across the entire sky into the thick layer of cloud. This attack was so powerful that the massive cloud almost split open in two. The crack in its middle was forcibly pulled apart by the external forces. Whistling blade airflows penetrated the opening and ripped apart the tumbling cloud. At a glance, there was now an obvious crack on its surface.

“———!”

A deafening roar like a raging billow echoed in the clouds. Just the soundwaves alone were enough to shake the land. The clouds shrunk once again, merging into an enormous tornado from the human-shaped giant. Tremendous cold winds rose from the ground and formed a strong, sturdy barrier.

“Continue to give your all! It hasn’t woken up from the seal yet. Use this chance to defeat it!”

Rhode commanded while extending his arm forward. In this motion, an enormous summoning ritual took shape underneath his feet. Shortly after, a humongous magic cannon emerged from the horizon in a loud rumble, spurting steam from its cannon opening. Then, in an ear-deafening explosion, the scarlet blast released from the magic cannon aimed straight at the opening of the clouds slashed open by Erin. In an instant, the tightly-contracted clouds rolled and swelled up like a balloon. At a glance, one could see coatings of scarlet inside the dark cloud as though it were bleeding. At the same time, the group heard an indignant wail.

“You… fools!”

After being attacked continuously, Agios was immensely enraged. After all, it was sealed and asleep for 65 million years. It finally had the chance to be awake and yet was slammed in the face before it woke up entirely. Even Chaos would feel cranky!

At Agios’s furious snarl, the huge dense cloud changed its shape once again. It pounced on the ground and in just a few seconds, it enfolded the extensive plain completely. Then, it shrunk all of a sudden and as though being filtered through, the cloud disappeared and was replaced by a dozen fully-armored, mysterious beings which seemed like mages and knights. Not only that, but Rhode was also astonished to realize that these creatures were of different races.

Humans, lichs, elves, and even angels?!

Rhode exclaimed inwardly. Even though they clearly looked different, there was something similar about them. Be it which race they were, their bodies were shrouded in black mist.

Swish———!

But this wasn’t the time to be distracted. As soon as the mystifying creatures were summoned, they leaped and pounced on the group swiftly in trails of afterimages.

“Be careful, this is a tough bunch!”

Without the need to guess, Rhode knew that these guys were definitely the very first Creator Dragons’ elites who defended the Door of Akasha. Chaos had manipulated their powers in order to maintain its presence and right now, Agios had returned the powers to their rightful owners. Even though its strength decreased greatly, it gained an advantage in numbers as a result. Judging from this decision, it went to show that Agios wasn’t naive at all. More importantly, these enemies weren’t easy to deal with either. They had far more experience than ordinary people, where even Rhode had to act cautiously against them.

Shing!

Right after Rhode yelled, three figures appeared before him—a human soldier clad in armor, an elf knight donned in heavy armor, and a battle angel wielding a menacing-looking sword—all three of them surrounded him and attacked without saying a word.

“Tsk, this cunning…!”

The instant Rhode witnessed the shimmering blade rays flashing at him, he knew the situation was far from good. He leaped back and along in this retreat, three shadow clones split out of his body and flourished their daggers at the three enemies in front.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

However, after several rasps of blades, Rhode’s shadow clones instantly vanished into thin air after being struck in their chests. Meanwhile, Rhode seized this opening and barely broke away from the encirclement of the enemies. Looking at this scene, his heart sank slightly. These shadow clones were the essence of his [Fantasy Daybreak]. They weren’t any weaker than ordinary humans and he didn’t expect them to perish in a single attack!

“Come to think of it, I have a question for you, younger sister… Back then when you dispatched these guys… around what level were they…?”

Rhode asked, clutching Gracier and Madaras, staring at the three enemies who had released their formation as soon as their assaults missed. Upon hearing his question, the younger sister pondered for a few moments and responded.

“… I’m sorry, Big Brother. These guys… Converting their strength into level, they should be around level 90. Even though they are weaker than Lydia and Erin, the difference isn’t too huge.”

Alright then. In this case, I’m dealing with three enemies who are slightly weaker than the ‘By the God’ beings?

Upon hearing his younger sister’s answer, Rhode couldn’t help but twitch his brows. He realized why these guys were so hard to deal with now. The truth was that their strength was just so powerful. Fortunately, as they were contaminated by Chaos, Rhode didn’t need to worry about being dragged into their legendary realms. Furthermore, the strength and level of one as an inhabitant of Order would plummet after being contaminated by Chaos. But on the other hand, Rhode also couldn’t force them into his legendary realm because they were already in [Casali under the night sky] right now!

“You want to take me down with numbers?!”

As the three enemies pounced on him again, Rhode let out a snort. He extended his arms swiftly. The two shimmering daggers in his hands transformed into two shiny blade rays that flew ahead and penetrated two of them. At the same time, Rhode swung his right arm to the side. A black card appeared and flickered in his hand before transforming into a signature black chain sword overflowing with bad omens. Rhode wielded the hilt and slashed it forward.

Kacha.

In this crisp sound, the razor-sharp chain sword disintegrated and took shape into a pitch-black viper that snapped its jaw open. The coordination in this move was seamless from the moment Rhode hurled the twin daggers forward to after he summoned and flourished the Succubus. As though measured perfectly, the three blades of unique sizes struck at the three enemies respectively. Facing this retaliation from Rhode, the three enemies didn’t fluster at all. They gripped and brandished their swords at the blades.

However, as they almost parried Rhode’s attack, a dazzling white radiance flickered before them. The blades that they were about to resist had disappeared and were now replaced by the emergence of three young ladies.

The manoeuvres of Gracier and Madaras were like reflections in the mirror. They chuckled and their wide, long white robes fluttered in the air despite the shimmering blades seemingly puncturing their bodies. What was strange was that even though there wasn’t anything wrong with the attacks from the human and elf, and their weapons had clearly hacked into the two young ladies, there wasn’t any spraying blood or painful sensation at all. The weapons had swung into the phantoms of the two young ladies and couldn’t hit anything at all. But it was apparent that the human and elf were experienced fighters too. Upon realizing something was off, they turned over and raised the weapon before them immediately.