Chapter 56: Leona’s Ground-to-Ground Missile
“A high-ranking priest from the Church?” Dallan thought, shocked, as he searched his memory. Only a high-level Divine Arts user from the Church could perform that spell. But…
“The information the Priest gave me said that the boy had two companions, one most likely Princess Leona, the other never displaying any magic… Damn it… What’s going on?”
Dallan questioned himself internally.
A combination of a necromancer and a Church Divine Arts user was unheard of! Not to mention that Divine Arts users were highly esteemed individuals. They wouldn’t team up with an unknown rogue mage. Even if this skinny boy had somehow managed to recruit a Church girl, there was no way she would be so devoted!
Dallan knew a bit about the Divine Art Flora had just used. It was called Unification of All Things, one of the Church’s highest-level spells. It allowed the caster to transform their body into any substance and then, after a certain period, revert back, ignoring any external influence.
Although he didn’t understand why the blonde girl’s Unification of All Things had such a wide area of effect, Dallan knew the price it demanded—the caster would lose their vision and speech for thirty days and pay nine-tenths of their life force.
He was a necromancer! A sworn enemy of the Church! How could a Divine Arts user from the Church sacrifice their life for him?
Could she be that skinny boy’s undead follower? But how could an undead use Divine Arts?
This was strange! Too strange!
“Hey, old man, are you done with your performance? It’s my turn now,” Leona’s voice interrupted Dallan’s thoughts. He looked down and saw Princess Leona, who had been standing idly beside Abyss, now cracking her knuckles and staring at him.
How strong was Princess Leona? When she was alive, Dallan was just a mage apprentice and had never witnessed her power firsthand. He only knew from legends that she could shatter a mountain with a single kick and surpass the speed of sound with her bare feet.
That was fine. His Eight-Armed Giant was invincible against physical attacks! He had spent a fortune obtaining the corpse of a giant, a race that had gone extinct before the rise of human civilization, from an ancient tomb. Then, with the blessing of his lord, he had infused it with mutated power from another world, creating the strongest undead! Although this body, not pre-eroded by the Tongue of Greed, wasn’t suitable for his lord’s arrival, it could serve as a powerful vanguard in his lord’s conquest!
Even the largest siege ballistae couldn’t leave a scratch on the Eight-Armed Giant!
Princess Leona, now someone else’s follower, had no further use to him. And the Church girl couldn’t use Unification of All Things again. If she was foolish enough to challenge him, he would simply destroy her…
Controlling the giant’s massive body, Dallan didn’t hesitate. He swung a palm towards Leona. Even this simple movement caused the ground to tremble. The wind generated by the giant’s bending motion crushed the tents in the campsite, and a giant hand, like a mountain falling from the sky, smashed towards Leona with the force of a thousand jun. The other seven hands were also busy, casting spells to restrict her movement, enhance the giant’s power, and weaken her with curses, determined to crush her with a single blow!
As the giant’s hand was about to land on Leona’s head, she extended a hand to meet it. Her petite figure was insignificant compared to the giant, her outstretched hand like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, a comical sight.
Boom!
The giant’s hand finally landed, pinning Leona and the ever-present Abyss beneath it. The solidifying lava cracked again under the impact, and waves of molten rock surged, reflecting the giant’s rigid face.
Then, silence. Deathly silence.
Dallan’s grotesque grin remained, but he frowned. He didn’t believe Princess Leona could be killed by a single blow… She should at least be able to resist.
A torrent of orange flames erupted from beneath the giant’s palm. At the same time, an immense force surged into the giant’s body.
The giant stumbled. This fifty-meter-tall behemoth was actually pushed back by the force, its two thick legs losing their balance, causing it to fall backward!
The earth trembled with unprecedented violence!
“Such power! What kind of monster is this?!” Dallan exclaimed in shock. How could Leona’s human body possibly topple the Eight-Armed Giant?!
The giant’s hand was forced open, and the full extent of Leona’s Dou Qi flames was revealed—no, it wasn’t just flames, it was a raging inferno, a scene straight out of hell!
As Leona unleashed her power, a sea of fire, fueled by her Dou Qi, engulfed a radius of hundreds of meters around her tiny body. The ground itself burned under her might. The aura of her unstoppable power surged outwards, enveloping the entire battlefield.
“Abyss, watch closely. Don’t ever underestimate me again!”
Leona’s body, propelled by the Dou Qi flames, slowly rose into the air, like a phoenix bathed in fire. Using Dou Qi to levitate was the most brute-force, inefficient method. Any ordinary Dou Warrior would exhaust their Dou Qi within seconds, but Leona showed no signs of fatigue. Instead, the Dou Qi emanating from her body intensified, like a giant flower blooming towards the sky.
Abyss, clad in his bone armor, gave Leona a thumbs-up in the direction of her voice. Her clear laughter echoed from within the flames.
“Let’s warm up a bit, Bishop Dallan!”
…
“What’s that! A meteor!?” a soldier standing on the wall of Golden Griffin City exclaimed, spotting something unusual in the distance.
A flaming object rose from the ground, trailing a bright streak of light as it ascended high into the sky. Then it plummeted, crashing into the Eight-Armed Giant, which was still trying to regain its balance.
The giant, which had terrified the entire city moments ago, was struck squarely in the abdomen. Its massive body was slammed to the ground with an impossible force!
The impact sent shockwaves through the surrounding ground, uprooting trees!
“That’s not a meteor, it’s Dou Qi flames! A necromancer is fighting a Dou Warrior!” a knowledgeable soldier shouted.
“Dou Qi!? What kind of Dou Warrior possesses such power?!” the soldiers exclaimed in awe.
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