novelraw Chapter 266-1: The Three Demon Overlords, Chapter Difficulty Soaring (1)
Chapter 266-1: The Three Demon Overlords, Chapter Difficulty Soaring (1)
Lin Xun unleashed a blast of dragonfire to help Wang Zong sweep away the demon monsters on the cloud bridge. For the moment, the situation stabilized.
He even deliberately glanced over at the Seventh Celestial Palace. What he saw was that Lu Caiyi appeared to be handling everything with ease.
[You overlook the Seventh Celestial Palace, the Shaking Light Palace. You see the Breaking Army Star Lord wearing metal gauntlets. Each time he swings his fists, waves of frost-filled fist-force sweep out, and with every blast more than a dozen demons are ripped to pieces.]
[The demon horde is blocked at the front of the cloud bridge, unable to advance an inch for a long time. As the Breaking Army Star Lord charges, he seems to sense your gaze, lifts his head to look at you, and gives a slight smile, indicating no support is needed.]
Lu Caiyi’s Endless Strength stacks had probably reached the limit. With the strength attribute boosted four or five times over, holding off the demon horde posed little pressure.
As for Du Cheng, the Literary Star Lord of the Fourth Celestial Palace, the Celestial Authority Palace, his undead army was firmly blocking the entrance to the cloud bridge. The demons could not even squeeze their way in.
Meanwhile, Yin Linlin and Shangguan Yu, one had the Rhinoceros-Horn Earth Dragon charging back and forth and also possessed healing skills, while the other had a wide-area sword-rain skill, under the current circumstances, neither needed any support for the time being.
Lin Xun returned to the Celestial Pivot Palace’s cloud bridge.
[Your summoned beast, the Three-Headed Lion, and the shikigami, Snow Woman, have retreated to the middle section of the cloud bridge.]
[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion holds the front line, using its flesh to block the demon assault. The Snow Woman stands behind, casting yokai arts to attack.][Any demon that steps onto the cloud bridge enters the coverage of the Domain of Extreme Frost. In the icy landscape, their movements become labored, and their speed is greatly reduced.]
[Not only that, but within the snowy domain, three colossal and fierce snowstorm tornadoes whirl continuously. Any demon touched by this icy tempest instantly becomes a frozen sculpture, then shatters into fragments of ice across the ground…]
Lin Xun stripped the Thunder Dragon Staff-Spear from the Snow Woman and replaced it with the Frostcrystal Staff, which enhanced ice magic.
Once she switched to an ice-specialized staff, the results were immediate.
Not only did the slowing effect of the Domain of Extreme Frost further increase, but the killing power of the Frostfall of Glacial Blossoms snowstorm became even more terrifying.
With this, the pairing of the Three-Headed Lion and the Snow Woman became nearly perfect. The pace of their fallback slowed drastically. Even if Lin Xun went off to support elsewhere again, the two could still hold the Celestial Pivot Palace.
He occasionally moved out to assist other Apostles, temporarily stabilizing the entire front. However, the health bar of the little dragonkin in dragon form was draining rapidly.
Lin Xun had no choice but to return to the Celestial Pivot Palace and possess the healer to recover on his own…
“Lin Xun, I keep feeling like something’s missing.”
Among them, Du Cheng, who had the undead army and was therefore the most relaxed, lifted his head, adjusted his glasses, and frowned as he spoke.
“Missing what? There are already so many demons it’s driving us crazy. If they added any more, wouldn’t it be a full wipe?” Wang Zong retorted without even looking up.
But Lin Xun felt a sudden jolt. With Du Cheng’s reminder, he abruptly realized what they were lacking.
“Demon Overlords!”
Yesterday during the demon invasion, the Seven Star Lords had wiped out the demons so quickly that after exterminating the demon forces, they waited quite a while before the boss-level demon overlords appeared.
This circumstance had given everyone an ingrained habit of thinking, the subconscious assumption that the demon overlords would only spawn after the hordes were cleared.
Yet the strategy guide written by the Jinling Logistics Division after their wipe clearly explained that if the demons were killed too slowly, the demon overlords would not wait, they would spawn on schedule as usual.
According to yesterday’s experience, the demon overlords appeared exactly fifteen minutes after the demon main forces showed up.
And today, three waves of demons had emerged all at once, with no separation between the vanguard and main forces…which meant the demon overlords were likely to appear on the same fifteen-minute mark!
Lin Xun looked up at the digital clock hanging on the wall.
He had started the demon invasion precisely at twelve noon. The current time: 12:14:55!
Everyone in the conference room had different expressions, some grave, some excited, some worried, some anxious.
[From the Demon-Subduing Altar comes an earth-shaking roar!]
[A colossal bellow echoes through the heavens as three vast shadows tear open the sealed rift and force their way into this realm…]
[The three gigantic demon giants are as follows…]
[The first, wielding a wisdom parasol and wreathed in fierce currents of metal energy, the Desire-Bearing Demon of Greed, Desire-Bearing Bishamon!]
[The second, brandishing a vajra staff and surrounded by crackling lightning, the Demon of War, Desire-Bearing Indra!]
[The third, holding a glass lantern ablaze with unending flames, the Demon of Wrath, Desire-Bearing Mahoraga!]
[The three colossal giants roared to the sky in unison and began striding toward the Seventh Celestial Palace, the Shaking Light Palace…]
[The earth trembled. The cloud bridge heaved up and down. Countless demon creatures shrieked in exultation, as if the arrival of their overlords foretold the fall of the celestial palace, promising they would soon enter the human realm to feast on human flesh…]
Damn it, wasn’t it supposed to be seven little bosses, one for each of us to handle, then the next round would spawn after we killed them? How did the little bosses turn into big bosses, and why are they focusing fire all on one palace? How the hell are we supposed to fight that?
Wang Zong gaped, utterly dumbstruck. This round of difficulty escalation in this cursed game had truly scared him senseless.
According to yesterday’s pattern, after clearing a wave of demons, seven little bosses would spawn to attack each celestial palace. Since those little bosses were not very strong, everyone could solo them without much trouble.
But today, this cursed game had directly fused seven little bosses into a single big boss.
And that was not the worst of it, the most infuriating part was that all three boss waves had spawned at once and were converging on the same celestial palace.
The reason they had chosen the Seventh Celestial Palace was probably because the game automatically considered the Apostle guarding the Shaking Light Palace to be the weakest…
“This damn game is devious beyond belief!”
Wang Zong’s remark pierced right to the essence of this cursed game. But Lin Xun no longer had time to reply.
He interrupted the healer’s recovery spell on the little dragonkin, then once again activated Hermit’s Descent to transform into a giant dragon!
[You beat your wings once more, blasting through the gates of the celestial palace and flying straight toward the Shaking Light Palace.]