CHAPTER 170: CHAPTER 68: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE BATTLE_2

Once the Death Finger is cast, there’s no chance to release it again. It has a fixed 24-hour cooldown with no way to reduce it.

It’s like the cold and ruthless style of the Black Queen, allowing the Apostle to borrow divine power only once a day, with no room for negotiation.

But under the shocked gaze of everyone, the black lightning, flashing with crackling thunder, struck the monster. In an instant, the roaring and struggling creature paused, as if the whole world had hit the pause button. The earth and heaven were silent, and the battlefield was in dead stillness.

Then, the dense ghostly shadows dissipated simultaneously, and the entire battlefield instantly became sparse.

Audrey was bewildered: "What happened? It shouldn’t be like this. Could it be that the Black Queen intervened to cheat for the Lord? From what I know of the Black Queen, she’s always cold and merciless, unlike the lazy and unprincipled character of the Lucky Lady."

Lin Rui jumped onto the Griffin and shouted to her: "What are you standing there thinking about? Let Xiaoxiao take you and flee into the Glacial Abyss quickly."

At this time, the Golden Pansy Clan’s army on the ground was completely routed, fleeing desperately from the edge of the abyss, rushing madly into its depths.

"Ah? Ah~ Lord, wait for me, wait for me."

The ghostly shadows inside the abyss dissipated, and the wind blowing in carried the refreshing chill of the glacier. Lin Rui opened his chest to the wind, only feeling the burning pressure in his lungs vanish in an instant, filling his body with comfort.

Although the soldiers on the ground were fleeing, cheers erupted, and helmets and Magic Staffs were tossed into the sky.

Audrey, sitting on Xiaoxiao’s right shoulder, caught up quickly, incredulously asking, "Lord, what happened? Why did we suddenly win?"

Lin Rui opened the system prompt: [Ding, your subordinate Heroic Spirit Level troop Audrey has slain an Epic-level Abyss Invader: Ghost King. You, as the Lord, gain 10% experience. Experience +1,758,000.]

[Ding, Audrey’s Heroic Spirit Level Trait: Remains Extraction has been triggered, Soul Attribute +1.]

[Ding, Audrey’s level increased, current level Tier Two, Level 11.]

Lin Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, saying to Audrey, "I didn’t expect your Death Finger to instantly kill the monster. Reducing its health to zero was enough."

The Death Finger (max), although its primary trait is to instantly kill opponents with a soul gap of 20 points or more, has a secondary effect. If the Moon Apostle’s Soul Value is not 20 points higher than the opponent’s, it blinds the opponent for 1.5 seconds and deals true damage of 15% of the lost Life Value. Fixed cooldown is 24h, with no means of reducing the cooldown time.

The monster’s health was already lowered by Lin Rui and Silver Moon, with the remaining Life Value intentionally left for Audrey to kill and trigger the Remains Extraction trait, increasing the Soul attribute point.

Lin Rui had guessed that the monster would be strong, with high quality, but hadn’t guessed it would be Epic-level. It was the second Epic-level he’d seen, aside from himself.

It was truly outrageously strong, nearly wiping out the entire domain army. Most people died fighting, spitting blood.

Even when the gods stepped in directly to cheat, they were torn apart by it.

If it wasn’t Lin Rui commanding, and was another Epic-level powerhouse, it’s unsure if they could discern the monster’s ghostly layout.

The soldiers rested assuredly in the Extreme Cold Realm for thirty seconds before Frost Aurora Shields, with a defense value of up to 820 points, reformed on everyone. The army’s state once again improved.

In the distance, the monsters in the Ruins River Valley also roared and left disspiritedly, without entering the Glacial Abyss, as if this was the Lord’s territory, not allowing them to intrude.

[Ding, congratulations to the Explorer’s army for winning a medium-scale battle, all members received 3,000 battlefield experience. Explorer reputation +30, territory reputation +30. Received Resource Pack (Medium) *1.]

[Ding, battlefield cleanup complete, obtained Spirit Crystal Coin 1,258, Gem 1,125, Tier Three Spiritual Gem 75, Tier Two Spiritual Gem 453, Realm Coin 53,681]

The system dinged continuously, causing Lin Rui’s heart to race with excitement. He had fought with all he had, nearly exhausting his resources to help the gods quell this abyss invasion. If the gods didn’t bring out some bottom-of-the-chest rewards, it would be unjustifiable!

Lin Rui took a deep breath and opened the subsequent series of system prompt sounds.

[Ding, you have successfully resisted a Chaos invasion. Your heroic performance has earned the divine spirits’ praise. The gods will grant you deserved rewards to encourage your continued fight against evil. When you again severely cripple the Chaos army, you will still receive divine blessings. (Current Phase Two 353/5000)]

[Ding, you have received the divine spirit’s blessing, allowing you to select an Epic Trait suitable for yourself.]

[Ding, you have obtained a Mythical Level Artifact: Divine Sacrifice.]

[Ding, you have acquired Sacred Treasure: Celestial Kingdom Armament: Extreme Battle Banner.]

[Ding, you have obtained the unique skill "Ghostly Shadows."]

[Ding, you have obtained Tier Three Spirit Skill "Phase Blade."]

Prosperity!

Lin Rui could hardly believe the gods were so generous.

After directly intervening to grant his clan cheats, they additionally offered such abundant rewards!

It was unprecedentedly generous, taking out even the gods’ bottom-of-the-chest offerings as rewards.

"Mythical Level Artifact: Divine Sacrifice: Your merits have been unanimously recognized by the gods! With the use of the Divine Sacrifice, your sacrifice is guaranteed to succeed, and the level of blessing from the sacrifice increases by +3!"

What does this mean? Lin Rui was simply ecstatic.

The upcoming sacrifice is the Hero’s Heart’s sacrifice. If the normal sacrifice of the Hero’s Heart results in an Excellence Level hero, with the use of the Divine Sacrifice, any divine spirit must, under the unanimous recognition of the gods, successfully complete the trade of this sacrifice, bestowing a Heroic Spirit Level hero!

And Lin Rui had long prepared a grand plan to extremely enhance the Hero’s Heart. Boosting the standard of the sacrifice.

If the Hero’s Heart is enhanced to the extreme, recruiting Heroic Spirit Level troops at the initial stage, paired with this Divine Sacrifice, Lin Rui couldn’t even imagine how powerful a hero he could summon.

Perhaps surpassing Epic-level isn’t just a dream, even surpassing Divine Level heroes is possible!

Lin Rui felt his heart pounding wildly. He meticulously packed the Divine Sacrifice into his backpack and then opened the next item.

[Sacred Treasure: Celestial Kingdom Armament: Extreme Battle Banner]: Survival is not an inherent right, but spoils seized by forgotten heroes from the cruel world! This is the armament of the Celestial Kingdom; this is the banner of heroes. The commanding army’s attack is accompanied by 50% Divine Damage, gaining 30% Fixed Damage Reduction.

It’s the second Sacred Treasures Lin Rui’s acquired. Unlike the first Sacred Treasure, the Extreme Cold Realm, this Sacred Treasure’s effects are extremely pure.

But at the same time, it’s forcefully straightforward, leaving everyone with a lasting impression.

Adding 50% Divine Damage practically doubles the effective damage. What does a 30% reduction mean?

Lin Rui’s Heroic Body only reduces damages by 50%, implying that the domain troops with this trait, combined with the Loyalist Trait and Damage Reduction, are nearly on par with the Heroic Body.

And under the protection of this Celestial Kingdom Armament, Lin Rui’s Damage Reduction hits over 80%.

A hundred points of damage hitting him are directly reduced by over eighty, with the remaining teens reduced further by defense, leaving only single-digit effective damage.

Opponents unleash a full-force strike, crazily dealing out ten thousand outputs, thinking they could take down Lin Rui instantly, only to see a humble three-digit number instead of the anticipated high red numeric.

This scene would make anyone tearfully sorrowful.

With this Celestial Kingdom Armament, if the opponent isn’t a hero with True Damage or Divine Damage Traits, the threat to Lin Rui significantly diminishes.

In same-tier battles, he is essentially invincible. Unless high-tier troops’ High-tier Spirit Skill hits directly, even through layers of fixed reductions, only 20% of effective damage overflows, enough to potentially one-shot Lin Rui.

The remaining two Skill Books, both dropped by the monsters themselves, with obvious strength, Lin Rui decided to bring them back for a round of strengthening before learning.