novelraw Chapter 364-2: The Only Chance of Victory, The Four Great Angels Gather (2)
Chapter 364-2: The Only Chance of Victory, The Four Great Angels Gather (2)
If he could annihilate all of the enemy’s flying troops, he would gain an advantage in mobility. Then his soldiers would be able to ride the Military Dragonflies to withdraw from the battlefield.
And once the enemy lost their flying troops, they would not be able to rely on ground forces alone to chase down the flying units.
At that point, he could fight a guerrilla war, retreating while engaging the enemy.
That would allow him to obtain support from the main forces in the rear faster than if he simply held this position to the death.
Yes. The only chance for victory in this trial instance was to preserve the survival of the elite Scorpion Legion and hold out until the subsequent main legions of his own side arrived, at which point he could win the battle.
Otherwise, relying on himself alone, when faced with an endless horde of enemies, there would be only one outcome: exhausting his strength and dying defeated.
[You are just about to beat your bone wings and fly into the sky when you see the boundless mass of enemies before you part on their own, opening up a path.]
[Even the several Divine Kingdom Dragons about to close in on you halt their charge and wait quietly where they are.]
[A hulking figure walks slowly along the path opened by the Ascended troops, drawing closer to you step by step…]
[The tall, burly figure also has bone wings like you, but whereas yours are sharply tapered and slender, its bone wings are thick, powerful, and ferocious in shape. Flesh membranes connect and cover the joints, and when the wings spread, the edges of the bone wings are as sharp as giant blades.][Its indestructible exoskeleton combat armor is covered in sharp backward-pointing spikes like fangs. The bone plates on its limbs, chest, and abdomen rise high, highlighting the knotted muscles beneath.]
[You have discovered the Ascended Judgment Angel!]
“Judgment Angel? What kind of new species is this that I have never seen before?”
Judging from the enemy’s appearance, the Judgment Angel should be a monster oriented toward strength.
[The Judgment Angel walks slowly to a spot before you. Its tall, burly body casts a shadow that nearly covers you. It lowers its head to look down at you, bares its teeth in a ferocious grin, and jeers that a ‘prototype’ piece of trash like you actually had the guts to defect to a heretical evil demon and even possesses the Wet Nurse’s intact umbilical cord.]
[Although it does not know how you obtained the umbilical cord, the fact that you were lured here by its petty scheme proves you are a brainless idiot.]
[Heh, Scorpion-Tail Thornflower?]
[It will twist off your neck and use your head as a wine cup to celebrate its great victory. It will tear open your frail body and yank the umbilical cord from your belly…]
[Because only a strong being like it has the right to possess the Wet Nurse’s umbilical cord!]
[The Judgment Angel roars and suddenly smashes a fist at you!]
[The fist wind is incomparably fierce. Even before the fist reaches you, the surging force is like a savage giant hammer, crushing your breath and making it hard to draw air.]
[If you truly let the enemy hit you, then even if your armor is indestructible, that terrifying power will still penetrate the armor and inflict tremendous damage upon you.]
[Knowing full well that you cannot take the enemy’s attack head-on, you beat the bone wings on your back and rapidly retreat, narrowly dodging the blow.]
[Seeing you evade, the Judgment Angel stomps its foot into the ground and shoots toward you like an arrow loosed from the bow, launching another attack…]
[You realize that the enemy before you has incredibly powerful strength and extremely fierce attack power, but its speed is a notch slower than yours. You repeatedly dodge, avoiding the enemy’s lethal attacks, and even have spare energy to strike back with your claws.]
[Yet the exoskeleton combat armor on the enemy’s body seems even sturdier than yours. Your claws can only leave shallow claw marks on the armor’s surface and are simply unable to pierce it to inflict damage on the enemy.]
[You immediately change your target of attack from the war-armor-covered body to its exposed head…]
[You slip past one strike, your figure darting to the rear of the Judgment Angel, and a blossom of blood erupts.]
[Half of the Judgment Angel’s face is nearly torn apart by you, the claw marks deep enough to expose bone. One of its eyeballs is almost burst.]
[The Judgment Angel becomes even more enraged. Its attack power grows stronger and stronger, but its fists still cannot land on your body…]
“So it is just a silver-plated tin spearhead. At this rate, taking down this so-called Judgment Angel is only a matter of time.”
Lin Xun even had the leisure to observe the battle behind him.
The numbers on his side’s Scorpion Legion were too few and the disadvantage too great. They likely would not hold out much longer, so he had to end this quickly.
Yet the transformation skill Purgatory Angel Holy Descent had still not refreshed. Otherwise, finishing off the enemy in front of him would be child’s play.
[Suddenly, a hoarse voice echoes across the battlefield…]
[An idiot whose brain is nothing but muscle, thinking he can kill the famed Scorpion-Tail Thornflower with brute force alone?]
[Without its intervention, the dignified Judgment Angel would probably die here today!]
[Two figures fly over from the rear of the Ascended army. One of them is shrouded in multicolored poisonous gas. Because of the dense toxic fumes, you cannot see its exact appearance.]
[You can only make out the twisted, contorted outline of its body through the thick poison.]
[You have discovered the Ascended Plague Angel!]
[The other figure has bone wings on its back. Its upper body resembles a normal person’s, but its lower body is a bloated spider-like abdomen, and at the end of that abdomen are dense blood-red barbed stingers.]
[You have discovered the Ascended Bloody Angel!]
[The instant the two figures appear, you inexplicably sense immense danger from the front and instinctively retreat at top speed…]
[A humanoid outline emerges from the void. A bone blade thrusts into your abdomen and then rips upward. If you had not dodged in time, you would probably already be disemboweled.]
[Having failed with one strike, the enemy’s figure is revealed. The enemy is small of stature and has no arms. From its shoulders extends a pair of angelic bone wings, and the blade edges at the tips of the bone wings are both its hands and its weapons!]
[What shocks you most is that a strange luster coats the blades of its bone wings. Your tough armor is as fragile as tofu before the bone blades.]
[The blades of its bone wings seem especially designed to destroy exoskeleton combat armor…]
[You have discovered the Ascended Cruel Angel!]
[The four great angel warriors under the Wet Nurse’s command, standard humanoid weapons, have gathered here with only one objective…]
[It is to kill you, the Legate of the Scorpion-Tail Legion, before retreating!]
“Cursed game, you really do think highly of me!”
If it were only the Judgment Angel alone, Lin Xun could still rely on his speed to maneuver around it and slowly grind the enemy to death.
Facing two angel warriors at the same time, although his Shell levels were probably far below theirs, with the Shell’s strength buffs and some auxiliary items, victory would not be entirely impossible.
But facing four angel warriors at once, Lin Xun truly could not think of any chance of victory.
He swiftly analyzed the enemy types based on the text, searching for even a sliver of hope for victory.
“The Judgment Angel is a high-health, strength-type warrior, and the Plague Angel is most likely a monster that uses toxins and debuffs…”
“The Bloody Angel should excel at long-range attacks, and then there is a Cruel Angel that can stealth and launch sneak attacks.”
“The four angels have no weakness at all as a combination… Damn it, no matter how you look at it, there is no way to win!”
[The four great angels surround you. The multicolored poisonous gas wafting from the Plague Angel rapidly spreads…]
[You are afflicted by Deadly Plague, your life value continuously declines, and all attributes drop by a certain degree.]
[You feel weak in your limbs and cannot help clutching your chest as you cough violently.]
[You grit your teeth, beat the bone wings on your back, and suddenly pounce toward the Plague Angel…]
[The Judgment Angel can now barely keep up with your speed. It flashes in front of the Plague Angel, and its fist smashes into your chest with all its might.]
[You crash back to the ground faster than when you flew out, gouging a deep crater in the ground and sending up a cloud of dust.]
[You feel the bones in your chest shatter and cave in, and every breath you take brings searing pain from your lungs.]
[Although this fierce strike does not break through your armor, several fine cracks appear on its surface. The tremendous force penetrates the armor and is transmitted into your chest, leaving you with significant injuries!]
[Just as you are about to brace yourself and stand, a blood-red barbed stinger, wreathed in dense blood light, streaks toward you, drawing ever closer to your eyes!]
[You only have time to raise your palm to block when you suddenly feel a chill in your palm followed by sharp pain from your left eye.]
[Blood tears drip from your now-empty left eye socket. Your left eye has exploded under the attack of the blood-red barbed stinger.]
[Your remaining right eye’s field of view is covered by a smear of inextinguishable scarlet, interfering with your senses.]
[It is the barbed stinger that has pierced into your brain and is tormenting your nerves…]
[That inexplicable sense of danger rises once more. You stomp on the ground and beat the bone wings on your back, and before you can lift off, a flash of bone blade light erupts beside you!]
[The tearing pain of ripped off flesh comes from your shoulder blade. The agony burrows into your bones and almost makes you collapse to the ground.]
[You barely manage to land and support your body, only to see the Cruel Angel reveal itself not far away. It sticks out its crimson tongue to lick the fresh blood on the edges of its bone wings, one foot stepping on a wing of bone spikes.]
[With only half a bone-spike wing remaining, your movement speed drops sharply.]
[You have already suffered extremely serious injuries!]
Lin Xun only felt that facing the four great angels, there was absolutely no chance of victory.
No matter who took this trial, the result would be defeat. In order to punish his cheating, the Cursed game had raised the hellish difficulty to the level of the eighteenth layer of hell, leaving him with absolutely no way out.
“It looks like I probably cannot clear this trial… Well, the Librarian’s trial is equivalent to an extra-credit question anyway. Clearing it would only earn some bonus Bookmark rewards outside the chapter.”
“If I fail, it will not have too great an impact on the chapter’s progression.”
“Maybe… I should just give up. There is no way to win.”
Lin Xun clenched his teeth tightly as one thought kept telling him in his mind to abandon the trial.
Another thought, however, refused to compromise so easily.
“I cannot give up just like this. Even if the Cursed game refuses to give me a way out, I cannot bow my head.”
“There must be a way to win. There has to be!”
A thought emerged in Lin Xun’s mind, and that was… to be reborn through death!