Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

Chapter 902 185: Reinforcements, Reinforcements_2

[Water Shadow Illusion: Legendary Trait: Water Shadow Illusion, ever-changing, like the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror. My form is a water shadow, traversing the battlefield, making it impossible for enemies to grasp. I am illusory, but my power is real. I am water, able to attack and defend, heal and destroy. Reflecting my figure with the power of water, confounding enemy eyes. The Celestial Divine Priest can harness the power of water to create illusion clones to confuse and deceive enemies. Each attack has a 10% chance to generate an illusion inheriting 30% of his own attributes, lasting for 4 seconds, and the illusion's attack has a 6% chance to generate an additional illusion. The Celestial Divine Priest can freely switch between illusions; he can consume an illusion to enhance his own physical/spiritual/divine damage by 10%, or consume an illusion to instantly restore 30% of his spiritual energy value and life value.]

In the environment dominated by the Water Element, this Celestial Divine Priest is immensely powerful beyond comparison!

Immune to all control effects below Mythical Level, thankfully, the Blood-colored Demon Shadow did not acquire this trait!

Otherwise, it would mean that no strong individual on the Colonization Star could pose any control or threat to him.

Moreover, in the Water Element main field, his defense, output, and mirror image abilities are fully maximized, perfect for large-scale battles.

Especially suitable for defensive battles, like the Guardian Goddess' warfare.

Because his mirror image lasts only 4 seconds, if it's an offensive battle, the opponent could easily pull back a little, causing his mirror images to dissipate in large numbers.

But now, with the enemy forces assaulting in waves, the Celestial Divine Priest needs only to stand in front of Audrey to continuously attack and activate mirror images.

It's the same mode as the Guardian Goddess.

Thus Lin Rui instructed Audrey, "You summon a few Ice Witch Demon Priests to produce more ice shields for the Celestial Divine Priest, then he will possess Divine Shields, and even the high divine damage dealt by the Divine Kingdom Armament will be immune, ensuring his survival until I return."

"But... but... father, you seriously intend to leave me here alone? You can't just run off at the sight of danger and leave your cutest, most obedient treasure here…"

"…"

Lin Rui glared at her: "Alright, your act can stop here. If you truly feel you can't withstand the danger, throw the Elemental Keystone: Eye of Darkness away. I'll go get reinforcements and will return soon."

"Then… I guess I'll try to hold on." Audrey glimpsed Lin Rui's seriousness and immediately felt intimidated.

Silver Moon was furious seeing her reluctance, why aren't you standing firm against Lord?

No wonder so many more women are becoming close with Lord now!

Lin Rui, though both amused and irritated, genuinely did not intend to act as a scoundrel. Like he said, leaving Audrey here posed no real danger.

This Elemental Keystone: Eye of Darkness was not indispensable to Lin Rui.

At worst, it meant sacrificing one offering to the Goddess of Fortune, extending gratitude to her.

With the main quest accomplished, he was now unburdened.

If Audrey felt she couldn't hold out, throwing away the Elemental Keystone would make those divine spirit troops lose interest in continuing their attack.

Those divine spirits borrowed so much divine power, they couldn't afford to waste it on pointless battles.

With her here drawing the divine spirits' attention, Lin Rui could seize the opportunity to return to camp, rally his troops, utilize the Avenging Goddess' teleportation, and gradually transmit the Eye of Darkness back.

Were Lin Rui to carry the Eye of Darkness, breaking through the encirclement would be impossible.

Of course, the best solution would be Audrey teleporting away while Lin Rui guarded the Elemental Keystone here.

But, on one hand, Audrey might not manage the deployment location for reinforcements properly; on the other, Lin Rui was indeed not as suited for this battlefield as Audrey.

In this scene of carcasses and blood, Audrey, as a Dark Mage, could clearly withstand far better than Lin Rui alone.

She could bring forth more troops to desperately defend the line.

Lin Rui even temporarily entrusted his sacred treasures [Extreme Battle Banner] and [Ice and Snow Royal Court's Extreme Cold Realm] to her.

Audrey finally felt satisfied, waving goodbye to Lin Rui.

While Lin Rui directly flew off with a Crimson Heavy Armored Dragon Rider towards the distance.

The Crimson Heavy Armored Dragon Rider, in accelerated state, boasted a speed of 30 Mach, covering tens of thousands of meters in a second, and in an hour, reached 37,260,000 meters, roughly 40,000 kilometers.

Though it pales compared to the Great Saint's "leap of 108,000 miles," after three hours, it was barely comparable.

The key is, this isn't winding flight; it's a straight-line distance of 120,000 kilometers, precisely ten times the diameter of the Earth's orbit path!

If the journey required crossing the entire Colonization Star, it was far from sufficient.

Even the Sanitation No.2 Satellite of the Colonization Star was several times larger than Earth, let alone the Colonization Star itself.

Relying solely on flying would mean Lin Rui couldn't even cover one-tenth of the distance after flying day and night.

Fortunately, the Blood-colored Demon Shadow was not scattered all over; born near the World Tree, its activity range hadn't reached the ends of the earth.

Especially in the latter stage, Audrey's Bell of Slaughter effects were fully activated.

[Fourth Quarter activation condition: Slaughter Value reaches 5,000,000, reduces enemy by 20% in all attributes, and increases damage taken by 20%, recovery effects cut by 50%, randomly blocks a trait below Catastrophe-level, enhances allied Dark Element troops' physical defense and spiritual resistance by 30%, recovers life value of oneself upon receiving attacks by 50% of spiritual resistance value, hides attack path into darkness, attack carries 50% true damage, resets all skill cooldown upon killing target.]

As Audrey's contract entity, the Crimson Heavy Armored Dragon Rider absolutely benefitted from all her Commander Attribute bonuses.

Upon acceleration time ending, the Crimson Heavy Armored Dragon Rider spewed a mouthful of Dragon Flame towards the ground, cooling its skill time.

Finally, by the morning of the second day, bringing Lin Rui returned beneath the remnants of the World Tree.

The once sky-reaching, lush giant tree now transformed into scorched earth, leaving only fragmented trunks and branches, precariously swaying in the wind.

The air was thick with the acrid smell of smoke and charred decay, sending chills down one's spine. Creatures once inhabiting the tree suffered annihilation, their cries and wails resonating across the wasteland. Some surviving beings searched desperately amidst the ruins for food and shelter, their eyes filled with despair and helplessness.

The destruction of the World Tree not only toppled the ecological balance of this land but also severely weakened the vigor and vitality of the entire kingdom. The once-thriving forest has become a desolate desert. The sky too lost its color, turning gray and heavy, mourning for this calamity.

But none of this shocked Lin Rui as much as the sight of a spatial tunnel larger than Audrey's battlefield emerging above this ruin.

The Celestial Kingdom Armament continuously surged from high above, slaughtering until rivers of blood flowed here.

Seeing Lin Rui return, Yalanna, who had been singing until her voice was hoarse, was nearly crying with joy: "Thank goodness, Lord, you've finally returned. Quickly, bring reinforcements to help us; we're just about to break!"

Lin Rui smiled wryly; he planned to gather reinforcements at the base, but the base was still waiting for him to bring reinforcements back?

Reinforcements, reinforcements!

Everywhere reinforcements are needed.

This broken world, there is truly no place to be peacefully stable.

Lin Rui, forced to cut through the encirclement, returned to the camp's center and asked Violet, who was commanding operations, "What's happening here?"