CHAPTER 557: CHAPTER 8: ATTACKING THE FORTRESS

Dark mages are very insidious in battle, especially when they face the enemy alone, they hide themselves well and never reveal their whereabouts.

The battlefield in front of the teleportation device is no different. Death’s Wings roars and rampages in the Sea of the Dead, its wild Dragon Breath spews in all directions, leaving behind a sea of molten lava wherever its wings cover.

Not far behind Death’s Wings is the frenzied slaughter by the Blood Dragon Knights and Heroic Spirit-level undead. Although they are surrounded, the undead, lacking morale, continue to swing their swords and bite fiercely.

Yet this scale is indeed shrinking every moment. The summoned creatures of the contract can be endlessly reborn, but the slain Heroic Spirit-level undead can’t be revived with Resurrection Skill. But this is the fate of warriors; where there is battle, there is attrition. A famous saying in the Imperial Holy Scripture is: Sacrifice is the foundation of the empire.

Lin Rui observed for a moment but couldn’t find where Audrey was hiding.

So he raised his right hand, spreading his fingers forward. In an instant, surging Spiritual Energy was mobilized, and hundreds of inverted Celestial Spears appeared densely in the sky, their frosty ice-edge aimed at the ground.

This surge of Spiritual Reaction drew the attention of all the combatants on the ground, who lifted their heads to the sky.

Hundreds of ice spears, dragging hundreds of meters of blue tail flames, fell from the sky. It was like a meteor shower!

After the previous battle lasting three days and nights against the green skins, having slaughtered millions of them, Lin Rui not only reached Tier Five but also upgraded the skill [Ice Blade Frost Splendor] from lv7 to lv18 as the battle started!

Every 10 levels of a skill can undergo a qualitative change. The qualitative change of [Ice Blade Frost Splendor] transforms it from one ice spear at lv10 into three ice spears, and instead of increasing damage with further upgrades, an additional ice spear is gained until lv20. With this Trait enhancement, [Ice Blade Frost Splendor] can display the densely packed blade capabilities seen in the Glacial Abyss, similar to a web of lasers.

[Ice Blade Frost Splendor], after all, was strengthened to the limit by the Goddess Pendulum, its core underwent a qualitative change, which better fits Lin Rui’s Ice Attribute.

A Tier Five Legendary-level caster with an lv18 Super-Tier Skill! Accompanied by Lin Rui’s Mythical Trait enhancement, the skill layers directly multiplied to Twentyfold Casting.

[Whisper of the Magic Goddess lv13: While casting, there’s a chance to feel the Magic Goddess’s casting chant, skill carries 35% Divine Effect, 75% chance of Fourfold Casting, 50% chance of Sixfold Casting, 25% chance of Eightfold Casting, 12.5% chance of Tenfold Casting, 5% chance of Fourteenfold Casting, 1% chance of Twentyfold Casting.]

All of this combined made Lin Rui’s magical output seem divine-like.

Hundreds of ice spears fell like a meteor shower!

Even if it were hundreds of flies, they would densely cover the sky, let alone hundreds of ice spears.

The entire sky was covered, reflecting a deep blue across the firmament.

As the ice spears crashed down fiercely, the sound of frost explosions erupted one after another, the entire ground was cut by spinning ice blade fragments, and the undead’s remains, bones, and flesh flew in all directions.

More crucially, with Lin Rui’s current increase in Spiritual Energy cap, his casting was uninterrupted.

The dense Celestial Spears constantly appeared, as if the deep blue sky was continuously shooting stars down to the ground.

In the midst of the frenzied Spiritual Strike, patches of the undead instantly had their life bars erased, turning numerous areas directly into frostbound zones, leaving only intersecting ice blades, and all the undead in the area were sliced into fragments buried beneath the frost.

Fortunately, there were no Explorers who witnessed this scene.

This divine-like world-ending moment, if seen by Explorers, would shatter their beliefs, worldview, and mindset completely.

The monsters surrounding Death’s Wings were instantly cleared, it let out an excited roar, ascended with wings, and flew to a high peak several miles away, where a girl hidden behind rocks leaped onto its back, and it directly flew her to Lin Rui.

The next moment, Audrey’s exuberant cheer came from the sky: "Wow! Wow! Wow! Father, you’ve ascended to Tier Five, this intensity is simply exponential! With this strike, the number of undead you killed is in the tens of thousands!"

Lin Rui smiled, "You can lead an army alone; as the strongest Lord in the territory, isn’t it normal for me to obliterate an army alone? With two Traits comparable to Mythical-level, it’s equivalent to divine strength."

Audrey frolicked for a while and then turned to look at the ground, saying, "Father, although these undead have less combat power compared to you, they are extremely strong! Very tough, and their numbers are incredibly vast, exceedingly troublesome."

Lin Rui nodded, saying, "Yes, I already noticed while I was observing."

It’s simply absurd!

Don’t be fooled by Lin Rui’s direct devastation, these monsters were instantly erased.

But when fighting against Audrey’s undead, these monsters were absurdly strong.

The soldiers under Audrey are catastrophe-level and heroic spirit-level; their attack on the foe should make them collapse like a dough, quickly breaking their formation, sweeping irresistibly.

Catastrophe-level knights should be slicing through dozens or even hundreds of skeletal structures with one sword. Charging and striking, nothing should be able to resist. Sweeping everything before them.

But in reality, Audrey’s undead assault felt like crashing into a black steel wall, their efficiency so slow they became surrounded, requiring Lin Rui to use waves of surging Spiritual Energy to help clear the enemy.