Chapter 1206
"Stop, Mortalius, the outside is full of His Majesty's men."
Chapter 1206 "Stop, Mortalius, the outside is full of His Majesty's men."
In the air, the two bone dragons clashed repeatedly, their wing bones tearing through the poisonous mist, and their dragon breath exploding into swirling clouds of death and plague in mid-air. But the most dangerous thing was not the collision of their massive skeletal bodies, but the fact that the two powerful beings riding on them had simultaneously released their domineering avatars.
Mortalius's incarnation is named Nergal.
It was a tall, heavy, and oppressive humanoid figure. Its head was shaped like a crown fused with bones, and its eyes were burning with a dark yellow-green ghostly flame. Its breastplate and shoulder armor resembled layers of tomb doors and coffin lids, and its surface was covered with cracks, plague spots, and patterns of flowing death energy.
Uzi's alter ego, Charon, is a completely different style.
It was tall and thin, cold and menacing, like an ancient ferryman who had emerged from the other side of the River Styx. It was covered in a wide black robe, beneath which the outlines of white bones and chains were faintly visible. Its head looked like it was wearing an elongated skull mask, behind which were clusters of floating ghostly blue soul flames, and its hands were extremely long.
Behind it, several semi-transparent ghostly boat shadows hung, clearly high-level necromancers with a focus on curses, domination, and rituals.
The moment the two avatars appeared, the battle in the sky immediately took a different turn.
Next up is the battle of the Overlord's incarnation!
What started as an aerial battle between bone dragons quickly turned into a two-tiered fight involving both bone dragons charging at each other and the Overlord's avatar casting spells from a distance.
"Motalius, you truly live up to your reputation as the successor groomed by His Majesty Nikel. At such a young age, you have mastered the Dragon Rider Furnace technology and even successfully modified a Dragon Rider... Perhaps, given time, you will indeed be able to surpass His Majesty Nikel and become someone even I can only look up to."
"Unfortunately, you are still too young and do not know how to hide your talents. It is foolish to expose your goals too early."
Standing on the back of the bone dragon, the mage Uz raised his bone staff, and Charon reached out his long arm first, throwing a large number of gray-black death runes at Mortalius and his bone dragon.
[Desperate Spell - Curse of Doom]
Once the curse of misfortune falls, it's like countless damp, cold little hooks hooking onto the target, specifically weakening the body, soul, and resistance, gradually suppressing the opponent's condition.
But Mortalius was clearly prepared.
“You’re right, but… time waits for no one. I have time to lie low, but the world of Abalus has no time left.”
“You, Archmage, know what Father is trying to do. He has gone mad. He doesn’t just want to use all the humans of the world of Abalus as sacrifices; he wants to sacrifice the entire world!”
As Mortalius stepped forward from behind [Nelgal], a dull gray light shone around his breastplate, directly absorbing most of the curse's corruption. Mortalius himself then used the momentum of the bone dragon's dive to forcefully cut into the upper side of the Uz bone dragon.
At the same time, he swung the Silent Scythe in the backhand, causing [Nelgal] to raise his hand and cast a necromancy spell compressed to its limit.
【Transformation Spell - Gravity Vortex】
Unlike ordinary vortexes, the spell was not exaggerated in its power; instead, it consisted of only a dark green sphere that kept sinking inward.
As soon as it appeared, the surrounding air and poisonous fog collapsed inward, even slowing down the flapping of the Uzna skeletal dragon's wings for a moment, and the joint of its right wing made a cracking sound.
The flames in the eyes of the Sorcerer's Skull suddenly ignited, revealing just how shocked he was... oh, he had no heart, so I should say his soul.
"What...do you know?"
To everyone's astonishment, the magician's hand continued its movements.
The ghostly boat shadow behind [Cha Rong] lit up at the same time, and a large area of deep blue necromancy barrier unfolded in front of the bone dragon, using a [Eternal Spell - Absolute Defense] to withstand the subsequent impact. Then, he did not hesitate to follow up with a spell.
[Destruction Spell - Great Disintegration]
Motarius did not take the shot head-on.
He yanked the reins, and the bone dragon violently flipped over in mid-air. Its bone wings grazed the disintegrating wave, but a layer of bone armor was still shaved off its chest and the edge of its left wing.
But at that moment, [Nelgal] also raised his hand and cast a [Void Spell - Dispel Magic] in the opposite direction, directly dispelling the weakening and restraining spells that Uz had previously applied.
Immediately afterward, Mortarius didn't give his opponent a moment to catch his breath and charged forward to continue the fight.
"I know far more than you do, Uz—"
"My father has fallen completely into the abyss of thirst for power. In order to control that indescribable and abhorrent monster, he himself has become a monster... Perhaps he has always been this kind of monster, but I only know it now."
As he spoke, [Nelgal] behind Mortalius spread his hands, and a large swath of gray-green intertwined plague flames suddenly spread out in mid-air.
The flames crawled forward along the poisonous fog and deathly aura like living things, and in the blink of an eye, they sealed off most of the sky.
[Destruction Spell - Hellfire]
Faced with this sudden high-level anti-dragon cavalry necromancy, Uzi's bone dragon had already turned to the side at the first moment.
But it was still a step too late. Several wisps of gray-green plague flames grazed the bone wings and neck bones, instantly burning large black scorch marks on the surface of the dragon bone. Even the most crucial magic array plates on the spine quickly went dark.
What's more troublesome is that once this hellfire touches the surface, it doesn't stay there obediently. It drills its way in along the bone seams, runes, and steam circuits, relentlessly biting into the [steam interaction pump] inside the bone dragon's body and burning deeper.
This is clearly an attempt to utterly destroy the entire power core of the dragon rider.
Uz's ghostly blue flames narrowed sharply, and he finally uttered a deep curse:
"Damn it... You've even learned Hellfire, a high-level anti-dragon necromancy spell."
The Archmage finally stopped holding back. With a wave of his hand, several dark magic array nodes simultaneously cracked open in the sky, and then several fully armed high-level Death Knight Exclusive Summons crashed to the edge of the airspace.
"Don't think you're the only one who can counter the Dragoon Necromancer's spell—!!!"
Three Death Knights, each with the combat power of half a Nightfall Man, leaped up using the aerial magic circle and rushed towards the Bone Dragon's flight path, attempting to buy time.
Mortalius was indeed held back for a while by three Death Knights with a combat strength of 0.5 Night's Edge.
Although the delay was short, it was enough.
Mortalius's bone dragon maneuvering rhythm was abruptly disrupted, and the previously smooth, almost violent aerial suppression finally showed a very subtle break.
Uzi seized upon this very weak point.
[Cha Rong] directly raised his hand and released a [Transformation Spell - Time Acceleration].
The moment the spell landed, the entire bone dragon and Uz's own spellcasting rhythm simultaneously increased, the frequency of wing flapping surged, the turning became more aggressive, and even the bone dragon that had been entangled by Hellfire earlier burst forth with an astonishing speed under the forceful compression of necromantic power.
The next moment, the skeletal dragon, still burning with the lingering plague, crashed into Mortalius's skeletal dragon with a ferocious force that broke the sound barrier.
Thump—! ! ! !
Magician Uz used the entire skeletal dragon as a battering ram, using time acceleration and extreme pumping to launch a powerful rocket headbutt at Mortalius.
With just this one strike, the protective shield on Mortalius Bone Dragon's chest, specifically designed to protect the [Steam Interaction Extraction Pump], shattered instantly. Large sections of bone armor, rune plates, and necromantic steam exploded outwards, even revealing several rotating extraction rings inside.
Upon seeing this, Mortalius's gaze remained cold and brooding.
He didn't retreat at all. Instead, he pulled on the reins, causing the bone dragon to plunge down sharply, using the blind spot created by that instant dive to get right up to Uz.
Meanwhile, [Nelgal] took a step forward, his entire avatar pressing into [Charon]'s casting area.
First, a [Pseudo-Ability Nullification] that surged with plague energy severed some of the opponent's spell effects, and then immediately followed up with a close-range [Soul Devour] that blasted towards Uz's main body.
A piercing shriek suddenly erupted from high above. The necromantic shield surrounding Uz fluctuated violently, and the ghostly blue soul fire in his eye sockets trembled wildly from the impact.
Meanwhile, the two bone dragons took advantage of the moment when their masters were exchanging blows to each other and fiercely entangled themselves together. Their bone claws gripped their bone wings, and their heads bit down hard on their necks. The entire sky was churned up, causing poisonous clouds to dissipate and bone dust to fly everywhere.
At this point, both dukes realized that ordinary suppression and conventional spells were no longer enough to determine a winner.
They were both all too aware of each other's hierarchy, and all too aware that whoever hesitated even half a step first would be the first to die.
So, almost at the same time, both sides revealed their cards.
The two started exchanging their ultimate moves.
Mortalius's gaze darkened, and his grey-amber eyes suddenly lit up behind his breathing mask as he pressed the [Silent Scythe] down the bone dragon's back.
[Nelgal] then opened his arms, and a large amount of blackish-green death energy and countless wailing remnant souls instantly gathered around him, making the entire sky seem to darken instantly.
The Plague King whispered the true killing move.
"Forbidden - Devouring Ten Thousand Souls -"
The next moment, all the spiritual structures within range that could still be defined as "alive" were forcibly torn apart, and gray-white soul lines were dragged out from all directions of the battlefield, and then all poured into Uz's main body.
At the same instant, Uzbekistan also raised his hand.
The pale white skeletal hand appeared to have no fancy changes, but the moment it was raised, everything around it experienced a brief moment of stagnation, as if some higher-level rule had been directly summoned into reality.
The Magician's voice was hoarse and cold.
"Taboo - Heart Control"
In that instant, Mortalius felt his chest suddenly contract.
It was as if an invisible hand had truly pierced through all the bone armor, poison gas, necromantic barriers, and physical defenses from above, and grasped his heart.
The rule of instant death truly applied to Mortalius.
At the same time, Uzi had also reached his limit. [Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Soul] rushed into his soul core, and the entire body structure under his undead form, which was maintained by soul fire, necromancy and self-will, was directly torn apart from the middle by this powerful move.
High in the sky, on one side, Mortalius's heart was tightly gripped by the invisible hand of rules, and on the other side, Uz's soul was brutally crushed by the tide of soul devouring.
They've both won half the battle.
The Archmage felt he had already reached level 1.4, and Mortalius felt the same way. The Hand of Rules was about to pierce his heart, and he was prepared to sacrifice his backup plan—[Necromanticization].
If his heart were to be crushed, Mortalius would choose to become a Sorcerer... or rather, someone like his adoptive father.
He didn't know if, after becoming a necromancy and losing most of his emotions, he would still fight for the world of Abalus, for which humans, and for which weaklings...
His only answer to this question was: "If you don't know about life, how can you know about death?"
Mortalius suddenly felt a moment of disorientation, not because his consciousness was blurred, but because, on the line between life and death, he suddenly saw a huge, pitch-black sun.
The black sun hung high in some deeper place, flashing for only a very short time before a terrifying tide of information rushed into the instant-death law of the Magician.
boom--
There are no unnecessary steps.
The rule-wielding hand that had been holding the heart shattered on the spot.
"What--?"
The exclamation came from both of them almost simultaneously.
However, Uzi's voice was filled with more despair and confusion, because he knew very well that if his attack was shattered, he would be the one to die next.
Mortalius, however, was more bewildered and confused.
Before he could even figure out what that black sun was, Uz's soul core had already completely given way.
【Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Souls】pierced through his last layer of self-preservation.
"How could this be..."
The mages' soul fire suddenly dimmed, and then the entire undead body seemed to be drained of its contents. It began to disintegrate from the eye sockets, then the skull, cervical vertebrae, and chest cavity, turning into gray-black fragments inch by inch. In the end, it couldn't even leave behind a complete sentence, and the entire soul vanished into nothingness in the high sky.
As Uzi fell, the two bone dragons in the sky finally reached their limit at the same time.
They had already shattered each other's [steam interaction pumps] in the collision, and were then repeatedly impacted by high-intensity necromancy and rider ultimate moves, pushing their internal power circuits to the brink of collapse.
Now that Uzi is dead, the entire bone dragon went out of control on the spot, and the power nodes between the chest cavity and the spine exploded one after another; the bone dragon on Mortalius's side was not much better off, after the protective shield was pierced, the core extraction pump was also broken into pieces.
boom--
The two enormous bone dragons lost lift almost simultaneously.
One of them tumbled and fell from the sky, while the other crashed down with a large amount of burning death energy and bone armor fragments. In the end, they both crashed into Ash Slope City from the sky, directly smashing large areas of towers, city walls and blocks.
The ground shook violently from the impact, causing numerous houses and magic array nodes to collapse instantly. Even the two armies engaged in battle nearby were overturned by the shockwave.
In the very center of these ruins, Mortarius slowly stood up.
He looked very disheveled at that moment.
Several obvious tears had appeared on Abalus's armor, and one of the connecting tubes on the side of the breathing mask was broken, but even so, he still did not fall.
Mortalius, leaning on his Silent Scythe, managed to stand up from the half-collapsed bone dragon remains and rubble.
Meanwhile, the elite undead warriors in Ashhill City, who had been closely monitoring the battle, finally surrounded the city at this moment.
Instead of launching an immediate encirclement, they took advantage of the brief lull after Uzi's death, the battlefield tremors, and the fall of the bone dragon into the city to advance along several relatively intact streets and high slopes, gradually encircling the ruins into a semi-closed battle zone.
The three leading figures were the same ones who had spoken so eloquently in the meeting earlier.
Dragonman Butler Taqi walked at the very front.
The four-armed undead general Cocytus stood on the left, carrying a heavy weapon, all four arms taut, clearly ready to pounce at any moment.
The dark elf Bella stood on the other side, death energy flowing from her fingertips. Several necromancers behind her had already set up magic circles, waiting only for a command to kill Mortalius on the spot.
Taqi looked at the figure that had risen again from the ruins, his expression complex, as if he were looking at a child who had already gone too far but was still determined to move forward.
After a moment of silence, I couldn't help but offer a word of advice:
"Stop, Mortalius, the area outside is full of His Majesty's men."
"You've come this far, and you've already killed the Sorcerer Duke Uz. In this battle of Ash Slope, whatever you originally wanted to achieve, that's enough. Now, outside the city, inside the city, and behind the mountain line, everyone is under His Majesty's control. You can't possibly fight your way through here, and you certainly can't fight against His Majesty Nikel on your own."
As he spoke, his voice lowered further, sounding both like a plea and a last-ditch effort to salvage the relationship.
“You know better than anyone that there’s more than one step between a hegemon and a grand duke. Your victory over Uz is already amazing enough, but that doesn’t mean you’re qualified to stand before His Majesty.”