“Chester!”
The sight of the necromancer being instantly refined and incinerated into a pile of ashes made the remaining two undead generals cry out in shock.
Instantly killed?
Chester, who had already begun burning his soul, was instantly killed just like that by a single Sacred Flame from Leon?!
He hadn't even been able to put up a shred of resistance!
The soul fire flickering within the eye sockets of the undead priest and the undead rogue wavered violently, revealing the extreme unease in their hearts. Because Leon's ability to instantly kill Chester meant that they, too, could be instantly killed by his Sacred Flame in the blink of an eye!
Just like Chester, they would be completely powerless to fight back. They wouldn't even be able to trigger the inherent resurrection trait of the undead before being incinerated into ashes by that terrifying Sacred Flame!
“Risk everything!”
No longer harboring any illusions, the undead priest let out a loud roar. He immediately channeled all of his mental power into the scepter in his hand.
“His offensive methods are too powerful! With our defensive capabilities, we can't block them at all!”
“Risk your life! Against him, trading wounds and lives is the only solution!”
With that, the undead priest raised his priest's scepter high. His mental power rippled outward in all directions like a tidal wave.
At the same time, waves of necrotic energy swept across the land of the island below.
In the very next second, the ground, which had been covered in countless plants, withered and dried up within a single second, as if the land's very life force had been drained dry.
As the ground cracked and dried, undead bodies—emitting an aura of death that was repulsive to all living things and fatal to the touch—crawled out from the blackened, parched soil.
Clack! Clack! Clack!
Countless decaying skeletons, reeking of rot, crawled out from the ground, the power within their bodies varying wildly.
The weakest among them were only at the entry level of the Bronze rank.
And the strongest was a Corpse Dragon, covered in rotting flesh and possessing a massive skeletal frame that blotted out the sky!
The Corpse Dragon soared up from the decaying soil, its aura of decay sweeping outward in all directions like a shockwave.
Anything touched by this aura—whether it was the soil, the plants, or the giant rocks that had weathered countless storms—rapidly decayed and softened within a mere half-second, disintegrating into scattered ash!
“Roar—!”
The Corpse Dragon flapped its fifty-meter-long skeletal wings, its tattered membranes whipping up dark green air currents as a deafening, terrifying dragon roar erupted from its throat!
As the undead priest summoned the Corpse Dragon, the undead rogue also let out a sudden roar, causing the soul fire within his eye sockets to blaze furiously.
He poured more than half of his soul into the soul dagger in his hand.
In an instant, the soul fire on the dagger erupted violently, as if high-purity gasoline had been poured onto it!
The soul fire, which had previously only covered a range of a few meters, suddenly exploded outward in all directions, condensing into an extremely low-temperature icy soul flame field.
Within the field, the rampaging soul fire completely froze the moisture in the air.
Massive sheets of ice crystals drifted high in the sky, transforming the warm, clear day into a scene of heavy, swirling snow!
The moment Leon stepped into this icy soul flame field, he sensed that all the surrounding icy flames had been triggered. As if transforming from dead things into living entities, they all surged toward his position.
As the icy soul flames rapidly approached, a layer of frost condensed all over Leon's body.
Though it was only a thin layer, it felt as if he had been encased in heavy iron armor, causing him to feel immense resistance with every movement.
Even the surrounding space seemed frozen, heavily restricting Leon's spatial teleportation methods.
“Soul Freeze!”
The undead rogue suddenly hurled his soul dagger at Leon.
The pair of daggers had been in the rogue's hands just a second ago, but in the next, they flickered repeatedly through the icy soul flame field. Using the icy flames as stepping stones, they instantly arrived right in front of Leon!
Just as the soul daggers were about to pierce Leon's neck, several pure white, brilliant Sacred Light Shields suddenly materialized in front of him.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Carrying the terrifying icy flames, the soul daggers frantically burned, corroded, and froze the Sacred Light Shields.
However, as a faint, looming cloak appeared over the Sacred Light Shields, their defensive power was boosted once again!
Enveloping the Sacred Light Shields like a city wall, the cloak blocked the soul daggers and their icy flames entirely!
Even though the undead rogue sacrificed more of his soul to burn his soul fire, he still couldn't break through this layer of Sacred Light Shields, which was less than a centimeter thick.
On the contrary, as the soul daggers frantically slashed against the Sacred Light Shields, beams of crystalline light began to flash from the shields.
Immediately after, these beams of light, as if possessing eyes of their own, drew perfect arcs in midair, bypassing all the icy flames and piercing toward the undead rogue!
The linkage effect of the Moonlight Cloak and the Sacred Light Shield—Long-Range Counterattack!
“Ugh!”
The undead rogue let out a muffled groan. His skeletal body was instantly pierced through by the counterattacking light beams, exposing the burning soul fire within him.
However, he had already completely abandoned his merman identity and converted into an undead!
Normal vital strikes were completely useless against him!
Even though he was pierced by the counterattacking light beams, he only suffered a minor shock.
With no flesh in his mouth, the undead rogue didn't have to worry about biting his own tongue. He simply gritted his skeletal back teeth to recover from the shock and continued to unleash his icy flame burning techniques at Leon!
“Did you forget that you still have to deal with me?!”
Right at that moment, a bone-chilling voice echoed from behind Leon.
Riding on the back of the Corpse Dragon, the undead priest spoke in a sinister tone as he raised his skeletal scepter and waved it toward Leon.
Whoosh!
The Corpse Dragon below took a sudden, deep breath. Its chest rapidly expanded, its throat convulsed, and it spat violently toward Leon:
“Roar!”
A glob of green acid mist shot out from the Corpse Dragon's mouth like a cannonball, making a sizzling corrosive sound in midair before slamming hard against the Sacred Light Shields!
Crack! Crack!
In the next second, subjected to the simultaneous onslaught of the icy flames and the corrosive acid mist, the Sacred Light Shields began to crack.
The countless interconnected Sacred Light Shields now fractured with numerous spiderweb cracks.
And the Moonlight Cloak linked to the Sacred Light Shields rapidly faded from its semi-visible state toward complete illusion.
Ultimately, as the connection of the Sacred Light Shields was shattered by the icy flames and acid mist, the Moonlight Cloak also turned from solid to ethereal, losing its defensive efficacy!
“It's broken!”
Seeing this, a trace of human-like joy actually flashed across the skeletal faces of the undead priest and the undead rogue.
Their eyes locked dead onto Leon's body, waiting to witness the scene of his flesh being dissolved by the acid mist and his body being frozen solid by the icy flames!
However... their expectations fell flat.
The very instant the Sacred Light Shields and the Moonlight Cloak were breached, a faint blue circular barrier took their place, continuing to erect a defensive net in front of Leon.
As this circular barrier withstood the assault of the acid mist and the icy flames, ripples of disturbance cascaded across its surface.
However, the power of the acid mist and the icy flames had already been mostly depleted by the previous defensive divine arts. By the time they hit the barrier, less than ten percent of their original strength remained.
Thus, even a Level 1 Bemis’s Protection was more than enough to completely block the final remnants of the attack!
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