novelraw Chapter 269 - 25: Utter Frenzy! The God of Envy’s Divine Gifted Talent
Chapter 269 - 25: Utter Frenzy! The God of Envy’s Divine Gifted Talent
"Lord Tingfeng just took down thirteen fully converted Evil God Players in the Northern Forest... How dare they show their faces and start trouble again?"
Oreo, who had already learned the inside story from his friends in the Imperial Capital, began to explain:
"It’s not the Evil God Players."
"It’s the Evil God Believers hidden among the Native Powers."
"That member of the Five Dragon Generals, Nesia, just revealed himself as an Evil God Believer not long ago."
"Right now, he’s leading the Evil God believer soldiers from the Imperial Capital to besiege the Void Gate within the Gulad Empire’s borders. He wants to drag the entire Gulad Empire back into a state of chaos overrun by Evil Gods."
Moonlit Observation: "???"
"Holy shit!"
"One of the Five Dragon Generals?"
"Nesia?"
"That bastard is actually an Evil God Believer?"
"This is bad!"
"Flame Emperor Galukasa gave him complete control of the Imperial Capital before!"
"And now Flame Emperor Galukasa is trapped in Edinburgh by the combined forces of our kingdom. Neither side can break the Magic Seal Array holding him, and neither can send their main forces away from Edinburgh!"
"So that means there’s no one who can stop Nesia?"
Xiaocao immediately said:
"No!"
"There’s still one person!"
"Lord Tingfeng!"
"He can do it!"
"I’ve seen it with my own eyes!"
"Lord Tingfeng has at least several thousand Extraordinary Soldiers under his command!"
"He’s also recruited the empire’s Extraordinary Dragon Cavalry, possessing the strongest Flying Soldier Type, and a huge number of Heroic Units!"
"Plus, Lord Tingfeng is a believer in the ’King of War’ and has a Divine-level Talent for rapid mass Healing!"
"He can definitely take on the Evil God Believers head-on!"
Hearing this, Hafke Self-destructive Vehicle frowned and said in a grave voice:
"No."
"It’s different."
"These are Evil God Believers we’re talking about."
"And they’re Native Evil God Believers who have been entrenched in the Lord World for who knows how many years."
"They possess a massive amount of Blessing Power."
"Their individual strength is far greater than that of conventional Native Powers. They might have all reached the Extraordinary Peak, the world’s first-stage limit, possessing the maximum 2,999 Attribute Value."
"Add to that the Void Creatures pouring out of the opened Void Gate, especially the Void Bosses that have reached the Extraordinary Realm... their combined combat power will be utterly terrifying."
"If we can’t rally all our available forces."
"There’s no way we can deal with them."
Meng Mengyue looked completely baffled:
"Uh?"
"Is that so?"
"Then what should we do now?"
Doctor suddenly appeared and said:
"Retreat."
"Give them the central region of the Gulad Empire."
"If necessary."
"Even give them the empire’s Northern Territory that you just conquered."
"Wait until our Queen of Ventecenia and Flame Emperor Galukasa negotiate a truce. Then we can form a joint coalition to crusade against the Evil God and attack the territory controlled by those Evil God Believers together."
Meng Mengyue said somewhat awkwardly:
"Huh?"
"We have to retreat?"
"But Lord Tingfeng has already sent his army to attack, hasn’t he?"
Doctor: "???"
"Wait!"
"I need to go ask the boss first!"
「Meanwhile」
mad madam sent Tingfeng a private message to ask about the current situation:
"What’s going on?"
"Nesia suddenly revealed he’s an Evil God Believer?"
"We were just struggling with a lack of evidence to prove he was an Evil God Believer, trying to get Flame Emperor Galukasa to agree to a truce with us so he could go back and deal with that Evil God Mage Nesia..."
Qin Feng explained:
"He panicked."
"He saw how easily I was steamrolling the empire’s Central City."
"If he didn’t make a move, he’d have to just stand by and watch me capture the Central Imperial Capital and annex it directly into the Holy Empire’s territory."
"Besides, the longer this drags on, the faster my people will develop, and the advantage they’ve built up as natives over the years will become meaningless."
"So his only choice was to brazenly send out his army of Evil God Believers to stop me."
After a pause, Qin Feng added a word of caution:
"You should be careful on your end."
"This is the move of a cornered animal."
"He’ll probably send a large group of hidden Evil God Believers to launch a surprise attack on Ventecenia’s Void Gate and the Lord Players guarding it."
"That’s to tie down the Kingdom Army you’d want to send as reinforcements."
mad madam nodded:
"Mm."
"I know."
"I’ve already sent people to reinforce the defenses."
"But... are you really not going to wait for us? Are you going to fight his Evil God’s Believer Army right away?"
Qin Feng replied:
"No."
"I’m just sending some people to probe them first."
"If I can handle his Evil God’s Believer Army on my own, I’ll just take him out directly. That’ll save us the trouble of them expanding their influence and causing more problems."
"If I can’t beat them for now, I’ll retreat back to the north and wait for you to finalize the truce with Flame Emperor Galukasa. Then I’ll coordinate with the Evil God-crusading armies from both your sides to launch a general offensive."
Hearing this, mad madam got an "I knew it" look on her face and said quickly:
"Sounds good."
"Then I’ll go take care of things on my end."
"I’ll try to get the Queen of Ventecenia’s Magic Guide Corps to reinforce you as soon as possible."
Qin Feng nodded:
"Okay."
With that, he closed the private chat window and turned his gaze to Arthas, who had already stepped into the central heartland of the empire with a small number of Undead Soldiers. He then activated his "Divine Descent" ability, transferring all of his power into Arthas’s body.
In an instant, both Arthas and the Undead Soldiers under his command were all infused with a surging wave of Extraordinary Power.
They no longer looked like the sickly cannon fodder they were before.
「On the other side」
Nesia, who possessed a Reconnaissance ability, quickly noticed the uninvited guest. He directly used his Teleportation Power to appear in front of Arthas.
"Tch..."
"Arthas..."
"I don’t know why you’re impersonating the Eldest Prince of the Elf Race..."
"...or why you’ve fabricated your own identity and origin..."
"...but you should know..."
"...that I single-handedly steamrolled the entire Elf Kingdom back then..."
"...just how powerful I am..."
"Now."
"I’ll give you one chance."
"Pledge your allegiance to the Evil God. Submit to the Evil God. And offer the Power of Death you command as a sacrifice to the Evil God."
"And I will spare your life."
’What’s all this gibberish? Eat my blade!’
Controlling Arthas, Qin Feng couldn’t be bothered to waste words with Nesia. He drew the Bone Blade from his waist and lunged forward like an enraged beast, viciously slashing at the Nesia before him.
Seeing this, Nesia wasn’t angered. Instead, he laughed and snorted coldly:
"Hmph."
"You overestimate yourself."
"As a believer of the God of Envy, I have accumulated countless Combat Skills and Extraordinary Abilities over these past few hundred years."
"You are no match for me."
As he spoke, Nesia’s figure flickered, and he instantly reappeared several dozen meters away.
At the same time, with neither a hand sign nor a chanted Spell, he simply swiped his palm and conjured a massive ball of Flame Magic above his head.
’Oh?’
’Instant Magic?’
’No chanting required?’
’Legendary Level Magic Mastery?’
’Well, excuse me!’
’I have that too!’
’Nagash’s Gaze!’
’Activate!’
’Let’s just trade hits!’
However, to Qin Feng’s surprise, Nesia activated Flash Magic again, deftly dodging the attack from "Nagash’s Gaze."
In contrast, the AoE Flame Magic Nesia had cast, with its wide area of effect, landed a solid hit on Arthas, who couldn’t Dodge in time.
’Huh?’
’A Flash he can cast twice in a row?’
’Does he have such an insane magic skill?’
As he thought this, Qin Feng ignored the "Light Up" status effect triggered by the Flame Magic, gripped his Bone Blade, and charged forward again, determined to cut down the Nesia in the black Magic Robe.
Unexpectedly, his opponent activated Flash Magic again, his figure blurring as he teleported several dozen meters away.
’Three times in a row?’
’What kind of broken Flash is that?’
’Wait!’
’Something’s not right!’
’The way Nesia landed after each of those three "Flash" skills seemed different!’
’Could it be?’
’They’re actually three different movement skills?’
’Oh!’
’That must be it!’
’Believers of the God of Envy don’t just have the basic "Blessing of Envy," they also have an additional "Envy Talent."’
’And that Talent seems to be the ability to plunder the skills of other creatures.’
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