novelraw Chapter 271 - 26: My Mechanics Are Above Yours (Part 2)
Chapter 271 - 26: My Mechanics Are Above Yours (Part 2)
Qin Feng’s battle strategy was gradually starting to show results.
He keenly observed that every time Nesia used Flash, he always appeared to the west of Qin Feng’s current position, and the distance was consistently between twenty and thirty meters.
’Heh... In that case, I won’t hold back!’
’Take this!’
Mjolnir!
BOOM!
Following a deafening roar, a colossal blue hammer wreathed in lightning descended from the sky, crashing down viciously on Nesia’s head just as he finished his Flash.
The next second, Nesia’s body went rigid. He was instantly thrown into a three-second stun.
At the same time, a system notification popped up in Qin Feng’s Field of View.
[Your Lord Skill "Mjolnir" has successfully hit the enemy. Based on the power difference between both parties, you will stun and suppress all enemies for 0.1~3 seconds, during which you must maintain a channeling state for 3 seconds!]
This was the biggest drawback of Control Magic in the Lord World.
Whether it was precision single-target control or area-of-effect crowd control, the Caster had to maintain a fixed channeling state.
During this time, they couldn’t move a single step or actively cancel the Magic, leaving them completely bound in a state of "rigidity."
Contrast this with the Control Magic in other games.
Those were often "fire-and-forget." The moment a spell was cast, you could immediately follow up with the next skill, pouring out a continuous stream of damage while the enemy was unable to counter, until they were dead.
But on second thought, it made sense.
This Lord Plane was, after all, a "real" world.
Creatures in the Extraordinary Stage were all in a state of mutual one-shotting due to their excessive damage output. Even controlling an opponent for just half a second could provide a massive combat advantage.
If control-type skills were as unrestricted and unbalanced as they were in games, other types of Extraordinary Armies would stand no chance. Facing a control-focused enemy would mean a swift and utter defeat.
The moment he was stunned by Mjolnir, a chill shot through Nesia’s heart, and a cry of alarm almost tore from his throat:
"Instant cast?!"
"And it’s an area-of-effect Control Magic?!"
As if precisely reading his thoughts, Qin Feng—who was still rooted in place while channeling the suppressive spell—let a cold smile curl his lips. His voice carried an undisguised sense of pressure:
"That’s right!"
"This is an instant-cast, area-of-effect Control Magic!"
"So, are you scared?"
Although Qin Feng, having used Divine Descent on Arthas, was currently bound by the channeling state and unable to move, his Extraordinary Undead were completely unaffected and could still move freely.
And so, with a single cold command, the Extraordinary Undead summoned by the Land of Corruption skill responded instantly.
"Kill him!"
Like a pack of ferocious, death-defying beasts, they lunged toward the stunned Nesia. They stopped just before him, raised their gleaming weapons in unison, and brought them down viciously on the defenseless target!
SQUELCH!
The sickening sound of blades tearing through flesh was piercingly loud!
A torrent of blood instantly gushed from Nesia’s neck!
Even though he was a 1-Star (Red) Extraordinary Peak with a top-tier template, his All Attributes maxed out at the 2999-point cap, Nesia was ultimately a pure Mage. His "squishy" nature, with low health and defense, had already sealed his fate.
Thus, just one collective onslaught from the Extraordinary Undead completely emptied his health bar, sending him off to meet the Great Evil God he so longed to see.
However, just as Qin Feng thought it was all over,
the corners of Nesia’s mouth, on the head now severed from its neck, suddenly curled upward into a cold and bizarre smile that radiated a heart-stopping chill.
"Heh heh!"
"So that’s how it is!"
Blood was still gushing from the severed neck, but Nesia’s head, wearing that eerie smile, spoke word by word:
"Tingfeng!"
"Your Arthas, just like this ’Magic Clone’ of mine, is nothing more than a Puppet Creature!"
"Isn’t that right?"
His voice was filled with an undisguised understanding, each word as if quenched in ice:
"To disguise your true abilities!"
"Or rather!"
"To achieve some hidden purpose of yours!"
"You don’t dare expose this Puppet Creature’s identity, so you deliberately had it usurp the name of our Elf Race, even fabricating a false identity like ’Eldest Prince Arthas’!"
Hearing this, Qin Feng’s gaze turned as cold as an iceberg, falling upon Nesia’s Clone on the ground, which had not yet completely lost all signs of life.
His tone was devoid of any ripples as he asked faintly in return:
"And so what if it is?"
"Even if you tell everyone, no one will believe you."
The "Clan Manager" Talent from the Riding and Cutting system hadn’t notified Qin Feng that Arthas’s disguised identity had been exposed by a Native Creature, which would have caused it to lose its "Territory Clan" status.
Therefore, Qin Feng wasn’t worried in the slightest.
Of course, then again, even if he were worried, it would be useless.
Knowing Nesia’s personality, if he wanted to spread the word, he would definitely find a way.
Therefore, rather than agonizing over something beyond his control, it was better to focus on the more critical problem.
’How can I completely finish off this freak who can use Infinite Flash, create an Undying Clone, and Teleport at will?’
The bad news was, up until now, Nesia was the most mechanically complex and overpowered enemy Qin Feng had ever encountered.
The good news was, Qin Feng’s own mechanics were even more so.
And he’d also figured out that this guy didn’t seem to have any Purification Skills to counter Control Magic.
Thus, Qin Feng quickly formulated a clear plan to completely eliminate this Envious Believer. To deal with this Extraordinary Mage, he had to proceed with caution, using a cohesive strategy to cut off all of Nesia’s escape routes.
Step one: Use the Eye of the Hunter Talent to pinpoint Nesia’s location, making it difficult for him to use his Clone ability to obscure his main body’s whereabouts.
Step two: Use Control Magic to suppress his Flash ability, cutting off his primary means of escape and turning him into a lamb for the slaughter.
Final step: Concentrate all combat power for maximum damage output, one-shotting him during a window when he can’t Dodge, and send him packing back to the Evil God’s embrace for good.
But to implement this plan, Qin Feng first needed to satisfy two key prerequisites.
First, he had to destroy the Teleportation Tower Nesia had built.
Just like Qin Feng’s own Gate of War Talent, the Teleportation ability in this world wasn’t some cost-free, strategic-level Magic.
On the contrary, to use Teleportation, one first had to construct an Extraordinary Building capable of channeling Teleportation Power. Only with the aid of such a building could a Teleportation Magic Array be activated.
Because of this, only by completely destroying Nesia’s Teleportation Magic Tower could Qin Feng strip him of the ability to make long-distance transfers at will. This would fundamentally eliminate the possibility of Nesia using Teleportation Power to escape when a battle turned against him.
Second, Qin Feng had to deal with the current target bound to his Eye of the Hunter.
Namely, the Little Tangren, Zhao Chuan, who had been resurrected by the Evil God Players’ forces.
Only by freeing up this tracking slot could he re-bind the Eye of the Hunter to Nesia and achieve the precise tracking he needed.
The first prerequisite was easy enough to meet.
This was because Teleportation buildings in this Lord World had an extremely crucial rule.
If Teleportation buildings from different factions existed in the same area, both sides would immediately sense each other’s presence and could dispatch their armies to directly attack the other’s building at any time.
Back then, the reason Nesia’s Envious Believers couldn’t use Teleportation Magic to directly infiltrate the heart of Qin Feng’s territory for Reconnaissance was precisely because they were restricted by this special rule.
So, Qin Feng’s strategy was clear. He just needed to gradually build his Gate of War structures in key areas throughout the Gulad Empire.
By using the mutual detection between Teleportation buildings, he could pinpoint the location of Nesia’s hidden Teleportation Tower.
Then, he could send his Divine Chosen Army to destroy the building, effectively "banning" Nesia’s Teleportation ability at its source.
But the second prerequisite was not so easy to handle; it was, in fact, quite tricky.
After all, Qin Feng knew that as a core member of the Evil God Players Alliance, Zhao Chuan was likely under the strict protection of high-level Evil God Players.
’With my current strength of only a 1-Star Extraordinary Peak, can I really assassinate such a core member right under the noses of the Evil God Players Alliance?’
Moreover, even if he really did manage to brute-force a kill on the Little Tangren Zhao Chuan, the Evil God Players might have "marking" type abilities that would prevent him from making a clean getaway from their base.