novelraw Chapter 305-1: Nightmare of the Corrupting Blood Sun (1)
Chapter 305-1: Nightmare of the Corrupting Blood Sun (1)
Seeing Dan affected by an unknown debuff, his divine power greatly reduced, going from suppressing two Solar Heroes to falling into disadvantage, Lin Xun had no time to think and moved at once.
[You possess the Shell Fire-Worshipping Saio Chisoku-hime.]
The healer Shell possessed the Legendary-grade skill Kagura Dance of Eight Maidens. Using the skill could dispel Dan’s debuff.
[You swing the small sickle in your hand. The multicolored tangling silks of your Tang-style sleeves flutter. Your dance is graceful and elegant.]
[Pitch-black Karmic Fire rises from the giant Dan’s four limbs. The blazing flames seem to burn away the invisible shackles.]
[Your dispel skill Kagura Dance of Eight Maidens is of too low a grade. Dispel check in progress.]
[Check failed. You cannot dispel Sinking Shackles.]
Lin Xun furrowed his brows and cast dispels in succession.
But every time the text showed that the dispel skill’s grade was too low, followed by a failed check.
“Fortunately, I still have a trump card.”The reason Amateru Sakiina’s Harvest Sickle could be called the healer’s divine tool was not only because it could greatly enhance healing and buff skills, but more because its innate weapon trait was too powerful.
[Equipment Trait – Bounty of the Harvest Goddess: Using this skill will restore all HP of the designated Shell, dispel all negative statuses including but not limited to bind, mind-loss, slow, weakened, bleeding, poison, and will prevent negative statuses from affecting the target again for a short time.]
[This Trait cannot be used repeatedly. It will only refresh its cooldown when the Shell dies or when you refresh. Additionally, for Shells above Legendary+ grade, the effect will be diminished.]
Since the weapon quality was Legendary+, its innate trait was also at that quality.
Bounty of the Harvest Goddess could not only dispel negative buffs, it could also prevent debuffs for a short duration.
However, the earlier Legendary-grade dispel was judged as too low, not relatively low, which meant the debuff Sinking Shackles used by King’s Sword Itan was at least Mythic-grade.
When the dispel skill’s quality was too low, the success rate was extremely poor. Even hundreds or thousands of casts might not succeed once.
Even if Bounty of the Harvest Goddess was Legendary+, its dispel chance against Sinking Shackles would not be very high.
“In that case, I can only turn on the cheats.”
Lin Xun opened the inventory and clicked the fate-changing divine artifact, Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel.
[Do you want to use Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel?]
[The stored Luck value inside this item is 100/100. Using this item will randomly consume the stored Luck value to grant you a short-term increase of the corresponding degree in the Luck attribute.]
[Note: If you have already gained a Luck increase from this item, using it again will overwrite the previous increase.]
He decisively used the item.
[You take out an ancient hook-shaped magatama that gathers great fortune and pray devoutly.]
[The Lucky Gold Coin you carry glimmers faintly.]
[You consume 99 Luck Value from Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel and massively increase your Luck attribute.]
[Note: This increase lasts a very short time. Please capitalize on it quickly.]
[Suddenly golden light descends and envelops you. Flowers bloom all around. Seven-colored rosy light bursts forth. It is as if countless celestial cranes and phoenixes sing in harmony.]
Lin Xun was dumbfounded.
Previously, he had tried using Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel while forging weapons.
Though a brief Luck boost was not useful for forging, that was not the point. The point was that each use had yielded a dozen or twenty points of Luck.
This time, the long quiet Lucky Gold Coin suddenly showed its might. He gained 99 points of Luck at once, instantly maxing the fate-changing artifact’s effect.
He had heard that a hydrogen bomb, though immensely powerful, had extremely demanding detonation conditions requiring ultra-high temperature and pressure that ordinary explosives could not provide, conditions only met by an atomic bomb explosion.
If Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel was likened to a hydrogen bomb, then the Lucky Gold Coin was undoubtedly the atomic bomb used to ignite it.
“This is cheats on top of cheats.”
Seeing the Luck maxed, Lin Xun immediately triggered the weapon trait of Amateru Sakiina’s Harvest Sickle.
[You raise the small sickle in your hand. Behind you appears the phantom of the goddess of harvest. The phantom that rules over plenty embraces you.]
[Weapon Trait – Bounty of the Harvest Goddess activates.]
[Golden radiance symbolizing a bountiful harvest shines in all directions. The goddess of harvest scatters gold-yellow light like ripened grain.]
[The giant Dan’s vast body draws in the harvest light like a great whale drawing rivers.]
[The shallow wounds left on him by the two Solar Heroes fully heal. The harvest light gathers on Dan’s four limbs as if contending against the invisible shackles.]
[Your dispel skill Bounty of the Harvest Goddess is of too low a grade. Dispel check in progress.]
[…]
[Check fa… success. You successfully dispel Sinking Shackles.]
[Due to the effect of Bounty of the Harvest Goddess, your ally Dan will not be affected by debuffs again for a short period.]
[You look up. Dan’s muscles bulge. Boundless divine power fills his body.]
[Dan slams Behemoth Progenitor Barton to the ground with a single punch, then stomps hard on the behemoth’s body and uses the force to leap high.]
[Unable to withstand the giant’s full-force stomp, the behemoth coughs mouthfuls of blood from its many-toothed jaws.]
[Dan soars straight into the clouds and seizes Sin Dragon Dagon who tries to beat its wings to climb away.]
[The two colossal bodies crash down together. Dan flips and pins the dragon beneath him, making Sin Dragon Dagon receive the earth-shattering impact.]
[Amid a sky-shaking boom, the earth trembles and dust billows.]
[A dragon’s wail comes from the dust. Vaguely, the giant’s figure pins the dragon down and suddenly tears at its sky-shrouding wings.]
[The giant’s roar fills heaven and earth.]
[Dan braces his feet against the ground and erupts with divine power, ripping both wings off, flesh and bone together.]
[Blood surges like a heaving sea. The dragon’s wail seems strangled at the throat.]
[The enraged giant grabs the dragon by the neck and hoists it wholly into the air, then twists his waist and swings his arms.]
[A thunderous crash.]
[The dragon’s massive body smashes into the ground and sinks deep into the earth, stones flying.]
[Dan gives Sin Dragon Dagon no chance to breathe, yanking its neck and slamming it again and again.]
[Each slam is like a meteor strike. The shockwaves alone make you lose your footing and fall.]
[At last the giant stops. The once-mighty dragon lies limp, not a single intact bone left in its body.]
[Dan stamps on the end of the dragon’s neck, wrenches up its long throat, then grips its head with both hands, his fingers sinking deep into Sin Dragon Dagon’s jaws.]
[The giant’s roar fills heaven and earth again.]
[The giant’s muscles bulge and flush. Dark veins writhe on his great arms. Explosive power gathers within.]
[Sin Dragon Dagon bites the giant’s fingers with all its might, but how can its jaw strength match the Defender of the Golden Blazing Sun.]
[The dragon’s jaws are forced open by the defender’s divine power. Upper and lower jaws are pulled to their widest.]
[The tooth-aching sound of bone tearing and flesh rending echoes across the parched land.]
[Dan suddenly exerts both arms and tears off the dragon’s lower jaw.]
[The dragon’s wail stops at once. The scarlet light in Sin Dragon Dagon’s two huge eyes goes out.]
[Dan releases his blood-soaked hands. The dragon collapses. Blood flows like a river.]
[Corrupting Blood Sun’s Adjudicator, Sin Dragon Dagon, has died.]
[Titan Giant Dan turns his furious gaze to the Behemoth Progenitor Barton, just standing again with its wounds restored.]
[The behemoth visibly shudders and roars loudly, ‘Itan.’]
[King’s Sword Itan continues stepping unhurriedly, strolling among the mages not far in front of you.]
[Behind him all the priests lie limp on the ground. Even the Yellow-Robed Bishop seems to be wearing heavy shackles and cannot rise.]
[King’s Sword Itan slightly lifts his head and once again raises his sword to launch a heretic judgment at Dan.]
[Your dispel Bounty of the Harvest Goddess is still active. Sinking Shackles cannot apply as a debuff to Dan.]
[The only human demigod among the Solar Heroes, King’s Sword Itan, seems not to see that Sinking Shackles failed and continues to stroll among the mages.]
[He leaves the giant, wholly unaffected, to attack Behemoth Progenitor Barton.]
[…]
In full strength, Dan could fight two at once and still have the upper hand. Now facing a single Behemoth Progenitor, it was naturally easy.
What followed was a one-sided slaughter, exceedingly brutal.
Behemoth Progenitor Barton’s powerful self-healing became the source of its pain.
It was beaten by the giant until every bone shattered and no patch of flesh remained intact, then constantly repaired by its regeneration.