novelraw Chapter 261-2: The Outer Demons Arrive, How to Improve Personal Ratings (2)
Chapter 261-2: The Outer Demons Arrive, How to Improve Personal Ratings (2)
[In the depths of your awareness, you seemed to hear the sound of the seal on the altar being torn apart.]
[Your gaze pierced through the palace’s main gate and the drifting mists, reaching all the way to the Demon-Subduing Altar.]
[You saw a massive rift open in the void, from which countless blue-faced, tusked Desire-Bearing Defender Demons squeezed forth…]
[They held all manner of weapons, blades, swords, forks, spears, and surged out of the rift like a tide, scattering in every direction as they charged toward the seven ethereal palaces.]
[You looked at the demons swarming madly toward Celestial Pivot Palace. Counting quickly, there were more than a hundred of them!]
[They howled and shrieked as they rushed forward, about to set foot on the cloud bridge…]
Lin Xun had not chosen to defend inside the palace just to show off, it was to cover his true intentions.
His secret techniques could not be exposed to others…
Lin Xun switched to the Shell of the Palace Master of Iya Palace, summoned the shikigami Snow Woman and the Three-Headed Lion, then switched back to the President’s Shell.
Estimating the timing was about right, he activated the skill Falling Starlight![You raised the two staves, chanting an elaborate and lengthy incantation…]
[The Three-Headed Lion obeyed your command, using its massive body to block the palace gates…]
[The shikigami Snow Woman, under your orders, gathered the aura of the dragon embryo around her, preparing a wide-area Yokai Art – Domain of Extreme Frost!]
[…]
“These advance scouts among the demons are pretty mediocre, it’s not too hard to fight them.” Yin Linlin said. She was already astride her earth dragon, charging back and forth.
She was defending the Fifth Celestial Palace, Jade Balance Palace – Honorable Restriction Star. The buff there increased healing, which suited her Paladin Shell perfectly.
“Mhm, indeed. Even an ordinary skeleton warrior can hold off five or six demons. Looks like we can clear this almost on autopilot.”
Du Cheng, the Surveillance Division Team Leader from Jinling, was a man in his thirties, dressed in a suit and wearing glasses, looking refined, hard to imagine he possessed a necromancer Shell.
He was stationed at the Fourth Celestial Palace, Celestial Authority Palace – Literary Star, which boosted spell damage and enhanced the power of necromancy summons.
Lin Xun made no comment. After all, the demons hadn’t even reached the palace yet.
After waiting a while longer, the Three-Headed Lion finally sent back an alert.
[The Three-Headed Lion blocking the palace gates roared repeatedly. Peering through the gap between it and the door, you saw masses of demons trying to force their way in…]
Lin Xun issued the command to withdraw the makeshift shield.
[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion received the order, ceased biting at the demons, and abruptly pulled back from the gate.]
[With the palace gates now wide open, countless Desire-Bearing Defender Demons rushed to be the first through, weapons raised high as they charged straight at you!]
[The shikigami Snow Woman obeyed your command. A bluish-black dragon embryo aura emerged around her as the temperature within the palace plummeted to freezing.]
[The Domain of Extreme Frost spread to envelop the entire palace. Snow piled up and the ground turned to ice as a biting wind swept in, carrying snowflakes as large as goose feathers.]
[The horde of demons poured into the palace one after another. The moment they stepped into the Domain of Extreme Frost, they turned deathly pale and their limbs grew stiff. Their charge slowed by more than half.]
[Over a hundred demons flooded into the palace, but because of the freezing slowdown, they still hadn’t reached you…]
“Almost.”
This was exactly the moment Lin Xun had been waiting for.
[You spoke the final syllable of your incantation…]
[The colossal power of starlight compressed to an extreme. Dazzling, blinding brilliance lit the entire magnificent palace!]
[In an instant, the starlight erupted…]
[Like a falling star, it poured out the annihilating power of a meteor’s descent!]
[All the demons inside the palace had no way to escape the onslaught. Before they could even scream, they were evaporated to nothing in the searing light.]
[The radiance not only illuminated Celestial Pivot Palace but also shone out through its gates, making all the other Star Lords turn to stare in astonishment.]
[When the light faded, there was not a single living thing left in the palace apart from you, the Three-Headed Lion, and the Snow Woman.]
“Why does this feel like using a cannon to swat mosquitoes?”
The battle wasn’t over yet, this was just the vanguard of the first wave. After a brief pause, more Outer Demons would come flooding in.
In the meeting room, all the Apostles had clearly seen the spectacle in Celestial Pivot Palace.
“Lin Xun, you’re using your ultimate right off the bat?”
“Hey, mage, save some mana. You won’t be able to use the Resting Page to recover until this wave is completely slain.”
Lin Xun ignored them and continued switching Shells to begin his next maneuver.
[You have possessed the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit!]
[You opened your dragon jaws, bristling with fangs, and let out a thunderous roar…]
[In the blink of an eye, your Shell swelled like an inflating balloon. Its limbs turned into razor-sharp claws, its thick dragon tail grew even larger, and the bones of your shoulders jutted up and expanded…]
[A pair of colossal dragon wings burst from beneath your scales. The black dragon flapped them, stirring up a hurricane.]
[Nearly half the palace was filled by your massive dragon form!]
[You roared again. With a single beat of your wings, you smashed through the palace gates and soared into the sky!]
[This spectacle once more made the Star Lords look up in unison. They lifted their eyes to watch the western black dragon circling overhead, its obsidian scales glinting beneath the heavens. Its wingspan nearly dwarfed the palace itself, and when they spread wide, they blotted out the sun…]
“…A dragon?”
“That really is a dragon, not like my mixed-blood earth dragon?”
“Holy crap, stop fighting, come look at the dragon!”
All the Apostles turned to Lin Xun, their expressions a mixture of shock, awe, and envy.
Lin Xun continued his operation. “It’s just a summon beast, no need to get excited.”
In team-based Easter Egg Chapters, there were two ratings: an overall interpretation rating and an individual interpretation rating.
Chapters like this defense scenario couldn’t be completed alone, but they had one special feature.
You could snipe kills to raise your personal interpretation rating!