novelraw Chapter 392-1: Advancing to Mythic+ Grade, Slaying the First Disciple! (1)
Chapter 392-1: Advancing to Mythic+ Grade, Slaying the First Disciple! (1)
[Flesh Angel Holy Descent (mythic+ grade skill): Guarantees a 100 percent successful transformation. During the transformation, your Shell quality increases by one grade and your Shell level is temporarily raised by a certain amount.]
[Using this skill will consume all currently accumulated Flesh Essence (minimum requirement is 100 points). The amount of Flesh Essence consumed determines the degree of the temporary level increase.]
[Current Flesh Essence 0/300]
Lin Xun immediately switched to his Calamity Lich Shell as a power bank and opened Underworld Gate to charge up the transformation skill.
Thanks to the special effect Flesh Growth on the mythic-grade accessory, all skills that required accumulating a resource now charged at double speed.
Not only did this apply to the weapon special effect of Scarlet King’s Sword, the Flesh Essence required by Flesh Angel Holy Descent was also included.
He had already been under the blessing of the Soul Secret Beginning of the Holy Spirit for a short while and could feel that the power it bestowed on his soul was gradually thinning and slipping away. He had no idea when it would suddenly end.
Time was pressing. He could not afford to worry about conserving the power bank’s mana. Lin Xun not only activated Underworld Gate, he also used other summoning skills to simultaneously build up Flesh Essence.
By burning through a massive amount of mana, he very quickly pushed Flesh Essence up to 100/300, reaching the minimum requirement to cast.
Lin Xun did not dare delay. If he kept charging any longer, the duration of Beginning of the Holy Spirit might very well run out.By this time, the two mighty forces clashing at the center of the distant island were no longer as vast and overwhelming as when he first sensed them. Both had weakened drastically.
“It is time for justice to descend from the heavens.”
Seeing the Child of Evil’s HP constantly ticking down, he could no longer waste even a moment. Even if Beginning of the Holy Spirit could have lasted a bit longer, the rejection reaction caused by the forced fusion would still make the Child of Evil die on the spot.
He decisively clicked on the ultimate transformation skill in his skill bar.
[You have used mythic+ grade skill Flesh Angel Holy Descent.]
[Suddenly, a phantom manifests behind you. It is the figure of a voluptuous and alluring mature woman, her body plump and sensual, her bearing soft and graceful.]
[Her features are blurred and indistinct, yet you can clearly see the eyes brimming with primal desire. Under her direct gaze, no one can suppress the filthy, ravenous craving in their heart. They can only wish to kneel before her on the spot and become a string puppet at her mercy.]
[The voluptuous, mature woman pulls you into her arms and holds you tight…]
[Blood-colored radiance surges skyward. That blazing crimson light spreads out to blanket all heaven and earth. A thick fragrance of flesh and blood fills the island and the surrounding sea…]
[In the blink of an eye, all the blood-colored light and all the fleshly fragrance are gathered completely under your control.]
[You feel stronger than ever before.]
[Your Shell Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has temporarily advanced in quality to mythic+ grade.]
[Your Shell level has received a temporary boost based on your Flesh Essence value. Level increase: 10 levels.]
[Current Shell level: 120 (+10).]
[You command the blood-colored radiance and let it spread across your back… In a flash, a pair of broad bone wings sheathed in flesh membranes grows rapidly from your back.]
[You beat the bone wings behind you once and turn into a streak of crimson light, shooting toward the battlefield at the center of the island…]
“One hundred points of Flesh Essence raises 10 levels, huh? If I filled all 300, would that be a 30-level boost?”
With the Child of Evil breaking through to mythic+ grade and sprouting extra wings through the power of flesh, this Shell no longer had to rush across the ground on foot.
With Lin Xun’s previous level of control over Flesh Authority, he had been able to alter the outward appearance of a Shell and even slightly adjust the inner structure of its organs, changing the size of certain parts. But he had been unable to conjure up special limbs like bone wings from nothing.
One was modification, the other was creation. The difference between them was fundamental.
As he flew, Lin Xun dialed Vishnu again.
The call was picked up almost before the first ring had fully sounded.
“Cain, you…”
“Save the nonsense. I am here to help. Tell me quickly, what state is Solomon in right now?”
Vishnu had barely spoken half a sentence before he was cut off. He did not show the slightest anger and did not mention Cain’s earlier retreat at all.
He used the briefest, fastest words to clearly describe the current situation on the battlefield.
Right now, Vishnu was like a drowning man about to go under for the last time. Any piece of flotsam in sight, even a single stalk of straw, he would cling to with all his might in a frantic struggle to survive.
As Lin Xun listened, his expression grew extremely grave.
“Do not you die on me. I am almost there.”
[…]
[Your speed is immense. In no time, you cross more than half the island and arrive above a battlefield in ruins…]
[In the center of the battlefield, at the bottom of a massive crater, Third Disciple Vishnu uses the only remaining left arm to hold up a huge shield and desperately block the enemy’s attacks.]
[The giant shield in his hand is already webbed with cracks and looks like it might shatter in the very next second.]
[His enemy, First Disciple Solomon, is relentlessly attacking with a golden spear. His whole body does not show even the slightest sign of injury.]
Vishnu had told him that Solomon’s trump-card move was also a transformation skill that offered brief explosive power.
Yet Solomon’s strength after revealing his trump card was far greater than Vishnu had imagined.
In the previous fight, Vishnu had been at a complete disadvantage. He could only hang on with difficulty and trade injury for injury to make Solomon just a little wary. Yet even that was not the most fatal problem.
The most fatal problem was that Vishnu’s buff skill had a shorter duration than Solomon’s transformation.
When the buff faded, Vishnu turned and ran, but in an instant Solomon had lanced through and severed one of his arms.
Fortunately, Vishnu still had a lifesaving item. After using it, he finally managed to drag out the full duration of Solomon’s transformation.
What he had not expected was that Solomon had not only kept a transformation skill in reserve, he had also kept an item in his hand that could restore his Shell to full HP and heal all wounds.
He could only stare as the injuries he had exchanged his life for completely disappeared.
In other words, by the time Lin Xun arrived, he would be facing an out-of-cooldown Solomon who had lost his burst skill, but was otherwise a First Disciple in full HP and full state.
Lin Xun could not even be bothered to mock Vishnu’s weakness. After Lin Xun had hung up the first time, Vishnu had effectively lost all support and had been forced to rely solely on his own power. There was no doubt that he had poured everything into this fight and had not dared hold back even a little.
To have fought things to this point… this was already the result of Vishnu doing his absolute best.
[…]
[First Disciple Solomon senses something and immediately falls back several steps, pulling away from Vishnu. He lifts his head toward you as you enter the battlefield boundary.]
[You hover above, looking down. You raise a hand slightly and point the edge of Scarlet King’s Sword toward the enemy…]
[Words brimming with authority thunder across the battlefield.]
[Judgment is passed here.]
[First Disciple Solomon is an evil heretic who has betrayed the true Lord.]
[Solomon’s body suddenly sinks, as if he has been burdened with invisible shackles. Every movement of his limbs becomes heavy and sluggish.]
[You have successfully inflicted the negative status Strong Weakness on the enemy.]
Vishnu stared at the text in front of him as waves crashed through his heart.
Solomon’s golden armor was a mythic+ grade set. One of its effects was immunity to all debuff skills below mythic+ grade.
That Cain’s debuff could affect Solomon meant that this skill was at least mythic+ grade.
“This kid is definitely being supported by the Master behind the scenes. Otherwise, how could a bottom-ranked Disciple have such a skill?”