Chapter 20: Heroic Spirit Legion! [Request for Recommendation Votes]
2016-12-17
Author: Floating Tower
The figure of Orcus seemed large and bulky.
However, when Soren’s silhouette suddenly appeared, swinging his curved blade and striking at him like a silver-white streak of light, Orcus nimbly dodged to the side and countered with a swing of the Staff of Orcus.
Blind combat.
Realm of the Gods.
Standing at a height of six to seven meters and weighing over 6000 pounds, Orcus exhibited agility that was unexpected for his size, managing to evade Soren’s surprise attack.
— “Descend of the Celestial God!”
Golden light gathered around Soren’s body, as facing the Saint form of Orcus with a terrifying power value of 45 left Soren without the confidence to confront him head-on. Thus, he directly entered the Descend of the Celestial God state, pushing his temporary attributes to an extreme limit.
Clang!
The first face-to-face clash.
Soren blocked Orcus’s attack with his dual knives, but his figure was sent retreating over ten meters.
“The gap in power is too great!”
Soren swallowed the blood in his mouth, tested the influence of the Staff of Orcus on him, and then moved his body to loosen up, instantly splitting into two figures.
Image Mimicry.
Soren did not use his avatar capability, as the death of an avatar would harm his main body, while Image Mimicry did not have that issue and could also disrupt the enemy’s battle. In this level of confrontation, ordinary spells had basically become ineffective. Both Soren and Orcus had vitality exceeding a thousand points, and the immunity to ordinary spell damage was too high, rendering most attribute damage ineffective. In this situation, both sides could only rely on their fundamental strengths; just as Soren wouldn’t give Orcus a chance to cast spells, Orcus was not afraid of most of Soren’s spell attacks.
Soren had always possessed extreme resilience and was skilled in the God of Death profession, making it impossible for the Staff of Orcus to trigger death effects.
This was Soren’s greatest advantage!
Clang clang clang.
Through the brief exchanges, both sides gained an understanding of each other’s power.
Soren was a typical high agility, high attack character, while Orcus was a typical high strength, high damage character; both followed different extremes and had no obvious weaknesses.
Boom boom boom!
The first round of physical confrontation concluded.
Orcus instantaneously cast over a dozen spells, all instantaneous spells, while still trying to explore Soren’s weaknesses.
— “Shadow Leap!”
Unfortunately.
Soren was not afraid of spell attacks; he was immune to spells of levels 1-4, had a divine shield against higher-level spells, and could also hide in shadows.
Similarly.
Soren gave the other side a first round of instantaneous spell attacks, using Mayoufu’s Strong Acid Arrow and Mayoufu’s Meteor. Accompanied by agonizing howls, it appeared Orcus was unable to resist Soren’s spells and took some damage, but his regeneration ability was strong, aided by priest-like abilities, and he recovered almost in the blink of an eye.
The battle seemed to have reached a stalemate.
Both Soren and Orcus had the capability to damage each other but had no assurance of a decisive kill.
Soren could heal himself with divine techniques.
Likewise, Orcus could also restore himself with divine techniques.
The battle between both sides required the need to suppress the other, but it was evident that this was not easy.
Outside the battlefield.
The advantages of Modo City began to manifest.
Vivian and Lilian united possessed medium divine power, Saruman was a demigod, the Fallen Witch was a high-level legendary spellcaster, Alice commanded a massive Golem Legion, and Gloria operated the maze from the Arcane Tower, occasionally delivering a magical energy crystal superconductor pulse.
If it weren’t for maintaining the energy of the maze, a round of bombardment would be entirely feasible.
The battle situation leaned towards Modo City.
Orcus, despite possessing immense power, did not have any gods under his command; the only one who could be considered a god was the King of Ghouls, Doreisen, but he didn’t seem to be present on the battlefield.
In the clash, Orcus clearly started to get anxious.
He attempted to find Soren’s weaknesses, and his attacks grew increasingly fierce, while Soren gradually resorted to melee combat, even using Image Mimicry to hunt nearby liches.
Soren found it impossible to kill Orcus in one go.
However, he could stall the enemy and gradually push the situation towards the Abyss Legion.
— “Domain of the Undead!”
— “Undead Sovereign!”
— “Dust of the Mummy!”
Orcus could no longer contain himself; with the opening of a domain, he raised his hand and scattered gray dust, gathering six ancient mummy figures that charged towards Soren from all directions.
“So there are such methods!”
This single breath summoned six legendary-level helpers, catching Soren by surprise. However, the brilliance of elemental crystals then appeared, with an Elder Air Elemental, an Elder Fire Elemental, and a massive Earth Elemental bursting forth from the portal.
He could summon spells as well, and many more, such as treants and more treants.
However.
This level of combat didn’t require treants; they had many other uses.
Bang!
In just one clash, the giant earth elemental summoned by Soren was knocked away, and the elder fire elemental was shredded by three mummies.
“Eh?”
At this moment, Soren finally sensed something was amiss, as the ancient mummies before him radiated a divine glow.
He exclaimed inwardly, “They’re actually summoned divine mummies!”
“It seems there’s no way out.”
Soren withdrew his curved blade and suddenly slashed towards the void, then said solemnly, “My servants! Obey my summons!”
“Gateway to the Divine Kingdom!”
A portal of light opened before him.
Since the other side wanted to use summoned creatures to suppress him, he had no qualms about showing off his luxurious array of summoned servants from the divine realm.
The Gateway to the Divine Kingdom opened.
Accompanied by a golden glow, an Otherworldly Messenger stepped out, followed by four Otherworldly Divine Servants with black wings, and then twelve high-level Heroic Spirits in the form of shadow angels.
A group of shadow angel servants protected Soren within.
“My lord!”
The Otherworldly Messenger, having transformed after the death of Chouhou, knelt on one knee towards Soren, then stood up and drew a blade that emanated dark light.
Theoretically.
Soren’s Gateway to the Divine Kingdom could retrieve any servant from the realm of deities, from divine disciples, demigods, down to messengers and angels; as long as Soren’s Divine Power Value was sufficient, he could summon as many as he wanted. This was also the key reason deities were almost impossible to defeat outside the Saint’s Cataclysm; opposing true gods was equivalent to opposing the divine kingdom, and the Spider Queen’s revenge against the Archmage had already proven this.
“Eliminate them!”
Soren calmly nodded.
True gods could summon thousands of angelic heroic spirits with a wave of their hand. While he currently did not possess that capability, summoning a Heroic Spirit Legion was still sufficient.
…………… (To be continued ~^~)
