Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
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“Everyone, activate the Sand Transformation immediately!”
The heavy sword warrior spoke in a mechanical voice.
Richard controlled it from afar.
“Gunter, use the Ball of Corruption to blast away the tentacles in front of you.
“Everyone, attack! Destroy the giant evil god statue!”
The blood-colored bandage wrapped around Gunter’s body, and the scarlet mana on its body burned like flames.
The A-rank Ball of Corruption appeared in its hand again.
It directly smashed toward the distorted tentacles in front of it.
‘Bang!’
A muffled sound rang out.
The intense corrosive energy caused large holes to appear on the twisted tentacles as if charcoal burned a foam box.
The skeleton blood dragon beside it suddenly spread its folded wings, and its draconic aura gushed out without restraint.
‘Sizzle!’
The giant mouth of the white bone opened, and a strong-corrosive blood-colored dragon breath gushed out.
The tentacles swept over were like ice and snow and melted when they met with flames. Large amounts of liquid dripped onto the ground and made sizzling sounds of corrosion.
Although these tentacles were highly poisonous, they were no longer the kind of physique that monsters like the Ankham divine guards outside couldn’t kill.
Richard heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this.
The skeleton demon was the fastest. It directly used Spatial Movement to appear in front of the giant evil god statue more than 10 meters tall.
It waved its sharp claws.
‘Clang! Clang!’
The attack sent dazzling sparks on the giant evil god statue.
‘Clang!’
The attack that had the Spatial Movement power and could forcefully break shields and armor only left a white mark.
This action immediately angered the surrounding tentacles.
These tentacles, whether some life form or organs went crazy, were unknown.
They all waved wildly and smashed fiercely at enemies.
There were too many tentacles and too few places to move.
After a skeleton demon used Spatial Movement to dodge the attack in front of it, it just revealed itself.
‘Bang!’
A tentacle thicker than a broken plate smashed into its body.
‘Bang!’
The sound of the whip that whips the air exploded, and its body crashed directly into the ground under the powerful impact.
However, when it focused its gaze, it could see that the impact did not damage its body at all.
A crack appeared on the yellow sand armor that protected Richard’s body, but it was far from damage.
This Beyond A-rank skill significantly increased the defense and survivability of all the troops.
“Tomahawk Smash!”
Gunter gave the order and threw its tomahawk out.
In an instant, ‘Peng!’
Terrifying shards rose along with the flames, burnt and destroyed large areas of the distorted tentacles.
“Dark gargoyles, carry the undead soldiers and approach the giant evil god statue!”
Four teams of dark gargoyles immediately carried the undead soldiers on their backs. The remaining three teams guarded the surroundings.
The temporary air soldiers appeared once again.
With the agile flight of the dark gargoyles, the undead soldiers of the Axe of the Dead could unleash even more powerful attacks.
However, the tentacles in the temple quickly responded.
They extended directly, formed a disgusting net of flesh between them, and blocked their way.
Richard’s brows furrowed.
Under the control of his mind, the heavy sword warrior, who crazily hacked the tentacles, stretched out its arms while the clasp on its wrists held tightly onto two giant swords.
‘Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!’
The sound of the wind rang out once again.
“Spiral Storm!”
“Excessive Overload!”
The speed of over ten rotations per second made these magic puppets become the propellers of the helicopter.
The two teams of heavy sword warriors charged forward.
‘Kacha! Kacha!’
The shards of the poisonous tentacles that formed a net flew everywhere.
‘Sizzle!
The highly corrosive poisonous liquid splashed in all directions and landed on the yellow sand armor that made the sound of boiling pots drip into cold water.
However, that did not starkly corrode the yellow sand armor and only had a few black spots.
If there were too much venom, the yellow sand armor would automatically drop some sand to avoid consuming too much of the armor’s energy.
When Richard noticed this scene, he was pleasantly surprised.
Although he had tested the yellow sand armor before, he had never used it in battle.
He did not expect it to be so practical.
As expected, every Beyond A-rank skill was extraordinary.
With the protection of the yellow sand armor, the heavy sword warrior rampaged and tore a bloody path for the dark gargoyle.
When the troop arrived in front of the giant evil god statue, the yellow sand armor gradually reached its limit and began to crumble.
Richard noticed that each yellow sand armor blocked at least ten tentacles’ direct attacks.
Its endurance could be insane together with the flying corrosive liquid.
“Tomahawk Smash!!”
In an instant, the sound of the axe shattering rose again.
The tomahawk directly hit the giant evil god statue.
The shattered pieces that caused shrapnel damage and high-temperature burn immediately enveloped the surroundings.
But what was surprising was that.
Under such an attack, the giant evil god statue only showed slight damage.
For a 10-meter-tall statue, it was far from touching the foundation.
‘Roar!’
The battle outside the door changed immediately after the Twilight City troops entered the temple.
The nine Ankham divine guards felt external enemies gone crazy had invaded the temple. They recklessly charged at the Twilight City troops and tried to kill their way back to the temple.
At this time, the offense and defense changed.
The Twilight City troops became the party that desperately tried to stop the enemy from entering the temple.
The giant axe death knights coordinated with Gray’s control of the curse language. They used the powerful impact to deal increasing waves of damage.
They could forcefully restrict the enemy’s advance at critical moments.
However, the damage dealt by these unkillable monsters was too terrifying.
Five squads of bandaged mummies had all died to delay the enemy in the short few minutes that the battle had begun.
The enemy’s sharp claws with unique negative energy could forcefully tear apart thrice at most, even with the favored yellow sand armor.
Even after they activated Sand Transformation, they could not block the enemy’s damage.
The evil energy on the Ankham divine guards also countered this skill that had made countless contributions.
The scorpion warriors, the giant axe death knights, and the bandaged mummies had suffered heavy losses.
But even at such a high price, the troops could not stop the nine Ankham guards from rushing into the temple.
Richard’s face became increasingly cold.
He could accept the loss of the troop, but not substantial losses that would fail to achieve their strategic goals.
Those monsters were thunderously unusual.
These crossed his heart.
He approached the temple within 100 meters to face the fatal danger coming. His body flashed with light.
The yellow sand rose again.
‘Whoosh! Whoosh!’
The endless Flame Sandstorm enveloped the nine Ankham divine guards.
Their mud-like bodies began to shake and distort.
But even so, this still could not cause any damage to them.
Richard’s face froze.
The next second.
‘Boom!’
A terrible flame rose.
In an instant, the temperature in the Flame Sandstorm rose wildly.
The red-hot sand hit the opponents at a magnified speed.
‘Crack!
Black smoke came out of their bodies.
Their life force finally began to drop.
But soon, the imaginary chains poured energy into them again, and the wounds of these monsters quickly recovered.
When Richard saw this, he immediately asked the temple’s troops to speed up their attack.
They had to break the evil god statue, or they could not slaughter these monsters!
When Richard looked at the nine divine guards whose bodies twisted in the Flame Sandstorm, he noticed the sand next to him.
Suddenly, as if he thought of something. Enthusiasm sparked in his eyes.
With a wave of his hand, the ground in the center of the sandstorm suddenly caved in.
The nine Ankham God guards fell directly into it.
The sand started to move and buried them alive.
Double casting.
Richard gritted his teeth and controlled the Flame Sandstorm in the ground.
He didn’t believe it.
He wouldn’t be able to trap them if he couldn’t kill these monsters!
After Richard confirmed that the Ankham divine guards below couldn’t escape for the time being, he looked at the Dark Temple.
‘Shua!’
The Flame Sandstorm directly charged toward the temple.
However, just as the Flame Sandstorm approached, a transparent shield suddenly rose in front of the temple.
It directly blocked the Flame Sandstorm outside.
Richard sensed the power of the magic shield and decisively waved his hand to cancel this Beyond A-rank skill.
He saved mana to control the Ankham divine guards that he trapped.
Nine divine guards that were level 14 and which they could not kill fell into the quicksand at this moment.
The sand above them pressed down crazily while the ground below them kept falling.
In an environment full of sand, it was almost impossible for them to struggle.
When Richard felt this, his eyes became brighter.
He seemed to have discovered another powerful characteristic of controlling the yellow sand — using sand to create a prison.
This skill seemed more strapping than the mad sand mage’s use of magic to imprison forcibly.
As long as one fell into the yellow sand, it would never be able to escape from his control.
Unless the other party knew spatial magic or was as huge as the god’s ancient tree.
Sure enough, fighting was the best way to increase his strength.
The nine terrifying monstrous divine guards he could not slaughter just now could only struggle in the yellow sand.
However, the desert was his home ground. Even if these divine guards crazily attacked the surroundings and wanted to break out of the cage, they would not be able to break through the sand.
He was only borrowing the power of the desert.
Under Richard’s precise control, the divine guards of Ankham gradually fell into the ground a hundred meters deep.
He starkly controlled the enemies to death.
After the troops outside had no more enemies, they immediately rushed into the temple and cooperated with those that entered first to attack the giant evil god statue crazily.
When Richard saw this scene, his mood also became quite subtle.
He thought it was a tie, but he did not expect it to develop into such a situation.
After all, he had imprisoned the Ankham divine guards.
The aura in the Dark Temple became more and more unstable.
Richard sensed that the threat had increased sharply and immediately retreated to a 200-meter radius.
He was the enemy’s target.
The other party seemed to know that he was the soul of the Twilight City troops, so they had locked onto him from the beginning.
The mysterious existence had chosen the right target, but the opponents had misjudged Richard’s cautiousness.
The danger perception he had learned from Ferguson allowed him to avoid the fatal attack the opponent was ready to launch at any moment.
And just as the situation gradually stabilized and the giant evil god statue slowly crumbled…
Richard suddenly had a bad feeling.
Because the aura of the nine divine guards of Ankam, who were trapped in the depths of the desert, became extremely weak in the blink of an eye.
The imaginary chains on their backs also broke at this moment.
The mysterious existence in the Dark Temple had sucked away the divine guards’ power!
The vigilance in his heart raised to the extreme at this moment. He quickly retreated.
But at this moment, an indescribable paralyzing aura gushed out from the temple.
The space around Richard suddenly froze.
He didn’t even have time to react. He only felt an indescribable pressure had approached.
In a trance, a paralyzing life form more than a hundred meters in size appeared before his eyes.
The opponent’s head had countless squirming octopus tentacles.
Its pair of dark eyes stared at him coldly.
Evil, darkness, death, cruelty… All negative adjectives couldn’t describe the aura it emitted.
“Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!…”
And the opponent cast a dreadful spell.
Richard’s mind went back hundreds of times — to the great god, Ankham.
He did not even have time to respond. The opponent directly forced its soul bound to his soul.
That horrible being tried to assimilate him by force.
It even… Wanted him to be its slave!!
By the time Richard returned to his senses, it was too late to escape the terrible assimilating force.
However, he did not panic at all. He was strangely calm.
He did not even resist the erosion of the other party’s power and allowed his own power to dissipate.
That was until the evil existence devoured and fused with more than half of his soul.
Richard suddenly revealed a bright smile and slowly extended his middle finger toward the terrifying figure.
Then, ‘Bang!’ His soul directly exploded.
Self-destruction.
At this moment, both sides had already merged by more than half. The self-destruction directly caused irreversible consequences.
The evil sensed all of this, and an indescribable fear arose in its heart.
It frantically wanted to cut off the power it had assimilated.
But at this moment, it was already too late.
The collapse spread to its soul.
Everything was in oblivion.
The moment Richard completely lost consciousness, he heard a system notification.
[Ding~ You have killed an evil god’s will and obtained a drop of divine power…]
[Ding~ You have died and triggered a Beyond A-rank skill — Sand Renegeration.]