CHAPTER 255: CHAPTER 108: BOOST A WAVE OF ATTRIBUTES

Monsters swarmed from afar like a black tide, covering the ground with a vast army of knights. The sky was filled with various flying beasts, with massive Giant Dragons occasionally appearing.

Sterling shouldered his long halberd and laughed, "This must be fake, right? If it’s real, it’d be deadly, wouldn’t it? But the aura is indeed grand, that surging spiritual reaction, I can’t tell if it’s tangible or an illusion."

Lin Rui slightly raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Real or fake, why not try it yourself?"

"Alright, let me pierce through this illusion!" As soon as he finished speaking, Stella leaped into the air, soared over a hundred meters high, and then crashed heavily into the horde of monsters. The long halberd, shining with blue light, burst into brilliant spiritual light amidst the black tide, a scene of grandeur and mighty valor.

The next moment, Sterling’s wails echoed, "Lord, save me... these are all real entities! Every moment, a multitude of blades and swords are hacking at me!"

The sharp edges engulfed the front, the frosty blurs making Sterling’s figure invisible, with only the occasional monster corpse being smashed into the air indicating that this resolute knight continued to resist despite being overwhelmed by the black tide.

Audrey widened her eyes, covering her mouth in astonishment, and said, "Is this entire army enemies? There must be hundreds of thousands of monsters!"

Lin Rui glanced towards the distant black tide, evidently reminded of humanity’s mastery of mass strategy. In the past, human armies sacrificed themselves one after another to defeat this Mechanical Sage, resulting in a multitude of human figures within the tide.

The other knights shouted angrily, "That damned Mechanical Sage, left not a treasure but a trap!"

"Sterling is surrounded, we can’t abandon him, we must chop through these monsters."

"Let’s cut down this beast tide and push forward!"

Lin Rui stood with his hands behind him in the center, a brilliant frost aura spinning and floating behind him. With a wave of his hand, the frosty chill fired towards the monster tide: "Then shatter them!"

The knights roared with raised arms, swinging their sharp swords as they charged headlong into the monster tide. The spiritual energy blades in their hands gleamed brilliantly with each sweep, sending dismembered limbs flying.

Their strides were heavy, but they were unstoppable, every monster they faced was cleaved and split in two.

Behind the knights, three Combat Priestesses swung their longswords, stirring a bloody tempest.

A continuous cascade of explosions rumbled, numbers on the Crystal Scroll rolled like a flowing stream, while densely packed spiritual gems piled into the Spatial Treasure.

Audrey stepped forward, pouting, and said, "Undead companions, let’s join the battle... Ouch!"

Before she finished speaking, Lin Rui pressed her face back with an open palm.

She complained angrily, "Lord, why are you pressing me back?"

"Don’t make a fuss." Lin Rui calmly dispensed layers of shields to all the knights.

On the battlefield, every knight was covered with triple shields, their own Sun Flame Knight Trait granting them power. With twelve knights together, everyone emanated a golden spiritual shield.

Within the Extreme Cold Realm, everyone would form a layer of azure Frost Aurora Shield every thirty seconds.

Moreover, Lin Rui layered ten transparent Jade Ice shields on each of them.

With so many shields reinforced, the knights endured barrages from all directions yet continued to fight tenaciously.

Audrey’s amethyst eyes were filled with confusion as she asked, "How is it making a fuss? I’m so capable! How long will just the fifteen of them take to fight?"

The beautiful and frosty Frost Dance erupted in the black tide, the ice blade fragments swept across the battlefield, cutting countless monsters into pieces, leaving the field empty, the whole dark space filled with scattered remains.

But even such a ruthless assault could not change the battle’s dynamics, as dense waves of monsters instantly refilled the bloodstained ground.

Lin Rui looked at Audrey and asked, "Would your participation finish them off?"

Audrey hesitated with her hands on her hips, still arguing, "Well, more people on the field would mean faster slaying than with just fifteen of them, right?"

Before she finished speaking, the knights’ surprised voices suddenly came from the front: "Why are my attack, defense, and life value all increasing?"

"Me too! And it’s a permanent increase!"

"What’s happening? Why didn’t I get it? Is it because I’m the strongest?"

"Gatling, go to hell! It’s because you’re the ugliest, so you didn’t get boosted!"

"Nonsense! I can’t be uglier than you, Sterling!"

Audrey was stunned and asked, "How can they keep increasing their power? Getting stronger as they fight?"

Lin Rui stopped casting, stood with his hands behind, looked towards the fierce battlefield, and said, "See? These monsters have been constantly attacking them, yet have never breached the frontline."

"Oh! I didn’t notice until you pointed it out, Lord."

"..."

"Hehe, Father Emperor is wise and insightful. So why didn’t Gatling enhance his power?"

Lin Rui smiled and said, "He guessed it right."

Audrey’s eyes widened, "What? That’s really the reason? But isn’t Sterling of the same strength and level as him? Why did Sterling improve?"

"Because Sterling was the first to charge into the battlefield, he got injured."

"Getting stronger when injured? What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger?"

Lin Rui looked at her speechlessly, "Your mind refuses to bend even a little."