novelraw Chapter 365-2: The Death of the Four Great Angels, Demon-Banishment Merit Ascends (2)
Chapter 365-2: The Death of the Four Great Angels, Demon-Banishment Merit Ascends (2)
[The mighty power of a demigod spreads through your body, enough to sweep away all enemies blocking your path!]
[The remaining soldiers of the Scorpion Legion are all tremendously encouraged. They shout your Holy Name in fanaticism and loudly declare their oath to follow the Legate unto death!]
[The four great angels stare at you in utter terror. The Judgment Angel mutters that this, this is a might enough to rival the Wet Nurse’s offspring.]
[The Plague Angel cannot suppress its panic and shrieks, Run, run, run back to the Sacred Nest!]
[You look down upon the Ascended army and the four great angels fleeing in panic…]
[A blood-colored greatsword appears in your hand. The sword’s blood light is dim, yet the mighty pressure it exudes alone causes the Ascended slightly closer to you to collapse to the ground, unable to muster the slightest will to resist.]
[You reveal a cruel smile that does not match your holy face. The sharp bone wings behind you suddenly drive into the ground. Mythic skill Cruel Thorn Bone Spikes activates!]
[In an instant, a thorn forest appears and covers a vast stretch of the battlefield, reaping the lives of several thousand Ascended in one stroke!]
[You have defeated Ascended Legion Soldier x2861, and your experience value increases by a colossal amount.]
[The power within the Shell begins to boil. The Ascended Purgatory Angel Shell level increases. Current Shell Level: 86 (+1)][As several thousand Ascended die, the blood light of the greatsword in your hand surges, and the dense blood glow nearly covers the entire battlefield!]
[Tangible scarlet aura gathers into blood-colored ribbons, swirling around the Scarlet King’s Sword and radiating terrifying might!]
[You raise the greatsword horizontally. Where the tip of the blade points is where the four great angels flee in madness…]
[Cruel killing intent that does not match the ethereal voice reverberates across the battlefield for a long time…]
[Judgement is pronounced here!]
[The four great angels are wicked heretical traitors who have betrayed the true Lord!]
[The bodies of the four angel warriors suddenly grow heavy. Their previously swift fleeing movements become incomparably sluggish, as if bearing some invisible chains. Every motion is filled with a sense of heavy obstruction.]
[They beat their bone wings with all their might, but cannot take to the sky and can only remain on the ground.]
[They run with all their strength, yet feel a towering mountain pressing on their backs. Every step is difficult, and their speed of escape is slower than an ordinary person’s walking pace.]
[You have successfully inflicted the negative status strong Weakness on the enemy!]
[Knowing they cannot escape the battlefield, the four great angels gather together in despair, attempting to combine the power of all four to endure your next attack.]
[Only by merging their scattered strength into one do they have even a sliver of hope of standing against the transcendent demigod whose power has reached that of the Wet Nurse’s offspring!]
[You lick the corner of your lips and reveal a bloodthirsty smile.]
[The bone wings behind you once again drive into the ground, harvesting the lives of several thousand Ascended as the source of blood power.]
[You have defeated Ascended Legion Soldier x2917, and your experience value increases by a colossal amount.]
[The dim greatsword in your hand erupts once more in dazzling blood light, the dense blood glow piercing straight into the sky and sweeping away layer after layer of cloud.]
[Mythic+ grade weapon trait Bloodthirsty Judgement activates!]
[Endless aura of blood spreads over your whole body. Infinite slaughter intent occupies your mind and saturates your thoughts.]
[You only wish to grind into minced flesh all enemies who stand in your way!]
[You transform into an exploding blood-colored meteor and, in an instant, cross the battlefield with unstoppable momentum, charging toward the four great angels…]
[Where the meteor passes, waves of blood-colored flame sweep across the ground. The countless Ascended between you and the four great angels do not even have time to scream before being mercilessly crushed into plasma and meat paste.]
[The blood-colored impact instantly splits the battlefield, leaving behind a deep trench filled with severed limbs and broken arms!]
[At the end of the meteor’s trajectory are four faces filled with despair and terror…]
[Blood jets and sprays. The sonic boom echoing across the battlefield is enough to shatter eardrums as blood-colored shockwaves fling countless Ascended into the air.]
[The meteor, its blood light exhausted, turns back into the colossal Purgatory Angel. At the place where the four great angels had stood, nothing remains but scattered fragments of flesh and blood…]
[You have defeated Ascended Legion Soldier x5764, and your experience value increases by a colossal amount!]
[You have defeated Ascended Divine Kingdom Dragon x12, and your experience value increases by a massive amount!]
[You have defeated the Ascended Judgment Angel. Your experience value increases by a colossal amount!]
[You have defeated the Ascended Plague Angel. Your experience value increases by a colossal amount!]
[You have defeated the Ascended Bloody Angel…]
[You have defeated…]
[The power within the Shell begins to boil. The Ascended Purgatory Angel Shell level increases. Current Shell Level: 89 (+3)]
[Your special attribute Hive Consciousness+8 has increased. Current state is Hive Consciousness+12!]
[You hold the blood-colored greatsword and look down upon the battlefield. Not a single Ascended dares to meet your gaze.]
[Their faces full of terror, without the command of the four great angels they no longer charge and instead halt their steps and turn to flee…]
[In an instant, wails and shouts echo across the battlefield as the Ascended army withdraws as one!]
[By your strength alone, you have reversed the battlefield situation, filling the endless Ascended armies with fear and forcing them to retreat in flight!]
“What a pity. In this trial instance, aside from experience rewards, there is only the special attribute reward for killing the four great angels.”
“Otherwise, if I could obtain a few angel warrior Shells with distinct features, it would not be a small gain…”
[From far behind you comes the Deputy Legate’s hoarse but full-throated roar…]
[Awaiting the Legate’s order! Shall we pursue the enemy army?]
[You look back and see the Deputy Legate standing among the barely more than ten surviving Scorpion soldiers, its whole body drenched in blood, one arm missing entirely from the shoulder.]
[Facing the soldiers whose bodies are covered in wounds yet whose eyes burn with fanaticism, you take a deep breath and loudly order…]
[All troops, pursue!]
[Kill every living enemy you see!]
[The Scorpion Legion raise their arms and shout, relentlessly pursuing the enemies who have exposed their backs to them…]
Taking advantage of the fact that the transformation effect had not yet ended, Lin Xun once again wiped out many enemy troops, farming a huge amount of experience.
The Shell level increased again, reaching the high level of 90.
At last, the short duration of Purgatory Angel Holy Descent faded.
The Ascended army had already lost all intention for a decisive battle. Even when they saw his transformation end, they did not take up the fight again and instead fled for their lives without regard.
[The number of enemies you have killed has reached the breakthrough point. The Demon-Banishment Merit you have accumulated has reached its critical value!]
“Hm, Demon-Banishment Merit?”
Lin Xun vaguely remembered that the Greedy Wolf Star Lord had a passive skill named Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art.
Its effect was that every time he killed an enemy, he would accumulate a bit of Demon-Banishment Merit, thereby increasing the skill quality of that Grand Art and simultaneously raising the Shell quality of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.
It was just that this thing had no progress bar, and killing monsters did not display any acquisition of Demon-Banishment Merit. Over time, he had practically forgotten this skill existed…
“The monsters were clearly killed by the Purgatory Angel, and yet the Greedy Wolf Star Lord can also gain Demon-Banishment Merit… That works too?”
He hurriedly opened the panel to inspect the Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s skills.
[Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art (Epic+ Grade Skill): … With this skill, each enemy slain will accumulate a trace of Demon-Banishment Merit. When Demon-Banishment Merit reaches a critical threshold, the skill’s quality will improve. This shell’s quality will improve along with the advancement of Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art!]
The skill description only stated that after possessing this skill, killing enemies would accumulate Demon-Banishment Merit. It did not clearly specify whether the kills had to be made by the Greedy Wolf Star Lord or by other Shells.
This minor inaccuracy BUG in the description did not count as a BUG at all in the eyes of other Apostles. Even if they knew there was a loophole, they still would not be able to exploit it. Only someone as monstrously talented as Lin Xun could turn this BUG into his own advantage.
[Your Shell Desire-Bearing Greedy Wolf Star Lord, which possesses the skill Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art, has had its skill quality increase because Demon-Banishment Merit has overflowed!]
[Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art has risen from Epic+ grade to Legendary grade!]
[The Shell quality of Desire-Bearing Greedy Wolf Star Lord has risen along with this skill, becoming Legendary grade!]
[Because of the Compatibility bonus of your soul talent Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms, this Shell’s Compatibility has exceeded one hundred percent, and its Shell quality has increased to Legendary+ grade!]
Lin Xun browsed the panel. The Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s Shell quality had indeed risen from its original Legendary grade to Legendary+ grade.
However, apart from the Shell quality and Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art rising in grade, the remaining skills were still unchanged.
“After killing so many monsters along the way and then wiping out more than ten thousand monsters on the battlefield, this passive skill has finally leveled up.”
“It really wasn’t easy…”
At first glance, the Greedy Wolf Star Lord only needed to kill monsters to upgrade skill and Shell quality, which seemed much easier than the little dragonkin’s ascension. In reality, it was not so.
The number of kills required for the Greedy Wolf Star Lord to raise Shell quality was simply too great. If Lin Xun had not coincidentally entered the battlefield instance, who knows in which Year of the Monkey and Month of the Horse he would have had to wait to advance the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.
Moreover, he suspected that to accumulate Demon-Banishment Merit for the Greedy Wolf Star Lord, there were also certain requirements regarding the levels or quality of the monsters and that most common-difficulty and Nightmare-difficulty small monsters might not even count.
“As expected, seemingly broken powerful skills all have hidden limitations.”
Just as Lin Xun was preparing to harvest some more experience and Demon-Banishment Merit, the Cursed game sent a prompt.
[The Ascended army has completely retreated, fleeing frantically backward and raising a cloud of dust. This time they are no longer marching at forced speed, but truly running for their lives!]
[The cheers of the Scorpion Legion echo across the battlefield. The Deputy Legate and the surviving soldiers all come to your side, their gazes upon you filled with fanatical worship.]
[Though their bodies are covered in wounds, they support each other as they kneel on one knee before you and shout at the top of their lungs…]
[We vow to follow the Legate unto death!]
[We vow to follow the Legate unto death!!]
[…]
[You have won the small-scale battle!]
[You have passed the Librarian’s trial!]
[Transmitting…]
Lin Xun twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling that he still had more to do.
“It’s over already? Come on… I haven’t farmed enough yet.”