Chapter 596: Battle!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
The Spiritual Spell Visual Projection came from a crystal ball sitting on a base. With magic power flowing inside, the mist above the crystal ball revealed a huge screen with scenes in the battlefields on the Continent of Immortal Relics.
These were all provided by the G.o.dly palace in Canglan City.
Sometimes, it would show some projected visuals of masters fighting in mystic realms.
“Did you see that sword technique clearly?”
With borrowed horrifying G.o.dly power, Hex created a curtain of sword shadows with blazing flames, but his attacks were shattered by one clear sword slash from his opponent.
The knights, elves, warriors, mages, and young people of the Morning Light Empire on the White Pigeon Square were shocked.
How come this is different from the battles that we watched before? With Hex’s terrifying speed, strength, and flames that are empowered by G.o.dly power, he can easily fight 10,000 warriors alone!
But you guys… destroyed all that with a sword strike? Something is wrong!
It didn’t make sense!
They were stupefied with shock and disbelief.
This battle turned their understanding of battles upside down!
This sword slash looked random and didn’t make sense, but true masters knew its power and the outcome before it landed.
They saw a horrifying control of strength after everything at that moment was known to Nalan Hongwu. He didn’t need eyes to see and ears to hear to achieve this granular control.
Seeing a tiny movement from his opponent, such as a s.h.i.+ft of a foot or a wave of a sword, Nalan Hongwu would instantly know how to use the next sword strike.
Regardless of how fast Hex moved around Nalan Hongwu and which angle he attacked from, Nalan Hongwu would use a perfect sword strike to counter.
“I’m surprised.” The projected image of an old man who was emitting radiant light said, “Mr. St. Heinz, we might not be able to win the war as easily as we expected.”
“Obviously, Hex lost this battle due to his opponent’s superb combat skills.” The old man who was nicknamed the World Mage said, “But I’m not worried. After all, skills take hundreds of years to master but can’t extend people’s lifespan or strengthen their force. It takes everything backward. This old man has lived hundreds of years but only reached level 7. I’m afraid that he’s in the last years of his life.”
Powerful strength could extend one’s lifespan. With prolonged life, people could cultivate and reach higher realms.
These people also practiced skills, but in their eyes, skills were just auxiliary abilities while one obtained more strength.
After all, one couldn’t block a destructive spiritual spell with only techniques.
It was why these forces were called G.o.dly nations and G.o.dly palaces while the Morning Light Empire, the nation of skills, was only an empire.
“Oh! Mr. Hex was so careless.” At this moment, Luther hurried to explain. “Believe me, it was just an accident!”
For laymen, it indeed looked like an accident.
In the Spiritual Spell Visual Projection, Luther continued, “I hope that others won’t repeat the careless mistake that Mr. Hex made. Anyway, these barbaric natives are not good-for-nothing. Yes, that’s what has happened.”
“These barbaric natives are fearless. Maybe they think that their good luck will continue?” Luther said viciously, “I think we must teach them a lesson!”
“Was it just an accident? Oh… No!” Naïve Elf Girl Sala began to worry again.
“Obviously. Mr. Hex was defeated too easily.” A knight of the Golden Griffin Knight Legion said, “I, too, think that it was just an accident. Don’t you think so, Ms. Helen?”
Helen answered distractedly, “Maybe…”
“Even if his victory had an element of luck, he is still very powerful since he could defeat the mighty Mr. Hex!” Cia argued.
At this moment, the audience on White Pigeon Square were divided into several groups with different opinions. The knights of the knight legion thought that the barbaric natives wouldn’t be so lucky anymore. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to rescue Ms. Jessica and the others.
The group led by Elf Girl Sala thought that there might be an element of luck in the victory, but they believed that the battle was won with some high-level techniques.
While these people argued, Luther changed the scene of the Spiritual Spell Visual Projection. They had set one end of the Spiritual Spell Visual Projection in each of the three battlefields, and Luther could choose any of them to show to the audience.
Obviously, he had seen something he liked on another battlefield and immediately changed the scene. It was something that the G.o.dly palace wanted to show to the audience as well.
“Oh! Look! Mr. ‘Land of Thorns’ has ordered a full-scale charge on the barbaric natives who are determined to resist us. But this time, they won’t be so lucky!”
They could see white G.o.dly light transform into destructive light beams while they crashed down from the sky. Pale blue lights lit up around the spiritual s.h.i.+ps of Spiritual State cultivators. When the white G.o.dly light beams crashed onto the pale blue spiritual lights around the spiritual s.h.i.+ps, the s.h.i.+ps shook violently under the huge force.
Meanwhile, the Spiritual State began to fight back.
While artifact masters in Jiuhua City and Half City were busy preparing, the cultivators of the Spiritual State hadn’t been idle. At the end of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, Li Xiaoyao returned to Shu Mountain Faction and studied many things from the ancient scrolls.
With the artifact-making and array-planning methods that they learned from the game, the cultivators strengthened and improved the defensive and offensive arrays on their spiritual s.h.i.+ps. Since the ancient families on the Spiritual State were the most powerful forces on this continent, they were not at an obvious disadvantage in this battle.
Meanwhile, many warriors riding all kinds of mounts flew out from the huge stone palace in the sky like locusts, das.h.i.+ng in all directions.
Instantly, they almost filled the whole sky and blocked out most of the light.
Behind the riders were rows of white-robed mages who were hovering in the sky.
The most eye-catching were fire-spitting huge dragons which looked like the horned dragons that Gabriel and the others rode, but these beasts were fiercer than horned dragons.
Of course, there were other rare beasts as well. One golden-armored knight was riding a magnificent lion with wings.
This knight didn’t attack. Instead, he watched the battle quietly from the high sky.
At the order of the golden-armored knight, the locus-like legion of knights swept down from the sky like a huge gloomy cloud under the cover of many G.o.dly light beams!