Chapter 499
Resurrection from the dead?
Chapter 499 Resurrection from the dead?
The battle escalated to a fever pitch in an instant.
In theory, Jemin's offense, defense, and movement have all reached the standard of a level six wizard under the enhancement of the modification spell.
But in actual combat, he realized that with his current level, he was still too weak to face a level six wizard!
Jemin moved like lightning, pushing the Tai Xu Step to its limit, leaving countless afterimages indistinguishable from reality in the sky.
The metallic wings on his back resembled a swarm of killing bees with independent will, their cannons constantly locked onto the figure in the gray-white mist, relentlessly spewing out a torrent of destruction.
One after another, streams of dark golden, blazing light shot out from the tips of the floating cannons, crisscrossing in the air.
Because the firing speed between each beam and the next Divine Light of Annihilation was so fast, the beam that should have been a fleeting flash after firing turned into an attack like a continuously illuminating laser.
Wherever these continuously shining beams of light passed, the space was scalded with intensely hot, distorted bands that could not be repaired for a long time, and the barren land below suffered even more.
A stream of dark golden light swept across the ground, causing rocks to vaporize silently and the grayish-white earth to melt into a boiling, glassy lake.
Further away, the hillside was cut in half, and the upper half of the mountain slowly slid down in the blinding light, kicking up a cloud of dust that blotted out the sky.
Under the cover of dense light streams, Jemin himself was performing frantic high-speed maneuvers.
He would sometimes climb vertically, sometimes turn at sharp angles, and sometimes drift erratically like a falling leaf, trying to break free from the opponent's ever-present lock-on.
However, the sixth-level wizard's attack was like a persistent, insidious wound.
"The Crying Fire Crow!" A cold, low shout came from the gray-white mist.
Dozens of birds, composed entirely of ghastly white flames, materialized out of thin air. They shrieked silently, trailing tails of flame that seemed capable of scorching the soul, and surrounded Jemin from all directions.
Wherever it passed, the air froze and then burned, leaving behind eerie trails of ice and fire.
"Annihilation Ring!" The wizard clasped his hands together, and a jet-black ring that vibrated at a high frequency suddenly spread out!
It was not a physical entity, but a mixture of pure sound waves and the law of annihilation.
The sound waves even surpassed the normal speed of sound, spreading at an unimaginable ultra-high speed, instantly enveloping the airspace several kilometers around Jemin.
The space within the sound ring groaned under its strain, and all energy flow became sluggish and chaotic.
Most of all, however, were those simple yet deadly gray-white beams of annihilation.
They shot out from all angles in the fog, each one precisely predicting Jemin's evasive trajectory, forcing him to constantly expend energy to perform extreme evasions.
Occasionally, a beam of light would graz the Void Armor, producing a piercing "sizzling" sound—the sound of highly condensed annihilation energy fiercely clashing with the Void Armor.
Jemin was completely at a disadvantage.
His advantage lay in the continuous light stream suppression from the floating cannons behind him, and the Void Armor on his body that could automatically draw spare units from the cave and refresh almost non-stop.
However, the Guixu Armor often collapses after only two hits.
More often than not, he had to temporarily gather several streams of the Divine Light of Annihilation of Fire and condense them into a huge dark golden light shield in front of him, or wield it into a dazzling light sword to scatter the attacking fire crows and forcibly cleave open parts of the sound ring.
But this is ultimately a case of drinking poison to quench thirst.
The continuous firing of the floating cannons consumes a huge amount of mental energy and computing power, and the opponent's attack density gives him no chance to breathe.
Disadvantages accumulate like a snowball.
Finally, in the instant that his body momentarily stiffened after forcefully cleaving through three beams of annihilation...
"ended."
Within the gray-white mist, the two points of scarlet light suddenly shone brightly!
An extremely condensed gray-white palm, formed from the "origin of light and darkness annihilation," disregarded spatial distance and seemed to "grow" directly from the void in front of Jemin's chest.
Taking advantage of the brief moment before Jieming's Void Armor was repaired after its shattering, it was firmly imprinted on his chest!
The substance that touched the palm evaporated instantly, like dew under the sun.
The gray robe, flesh, bones... everything that constituted his body on Jieming's chest was silently reduced to the most basic nothingness under that extreme "annihilation" damage.
This annihilation even spreads backward along the connection between energy and soul!
Most of Jemin's chest and head disappeared as if in a skipped frame, like a pencil drawing erased by an invisible eraser, from scalp to skull, from brain to the core of soul... completely vanished.
The last thing reflected in those black eyes was a distant mass of gray-white mist that also seemed to be quite exhausted, fluctuating violently.
The headless corpse froze in mid-air for a moment, then lost all its power and, like a puppet with broken strings, fell towards the already ravaged earth below.
The light from the metal floating cannons behind them went out instantly, like lifeless metal wreckage, scattering along with the corpse.
boom!
The corpse crashed heavily onto the molten and cooled vitrified ground, sending up a shower of crystal fragments.
The world seemed to fall silent suddenly.
Only the rocks in the distance, ignited by the aftershocks of the battle, were still crackling and burning, and the wind was howling as it blew through the gullies in the ground.
In the air, the gray-white mist slowly receded and condensed, transforming once again into the figure of the Tower of Annihilation wizard.
However, at this moment, his condition was by no means good.
The fully elementalized body was noticeably thinner, and one could even vaguely see the energy core flowing inside.
Those signature scarlet pupils had dimmed slightly, revealing a deep weariness. To ensure a fatal blow, the "Hand of Annihilation" had drained almost ninety percent of his remaining spiritual energy.
He slowly landed not far from Jemin's body, his crimson eyes sweeping over the headless remains and the scattered, lifeless wreckage of the floating cannons.
Finally, I relaxed a little from the tension.
"In the end... it's only level five." The hoarse voice carried the indifference of victory, as well as a hint of barely perceptible relief.
however……
In that split second when his mind relaxed, something unexpected happened!
Among the seemingly random scattered remnants of floating cannons, some of the cannons had subtly adjusted their angles during their fall, and were now faintly pointing in his direction!
hum! ! !
The dull metal surface suddenly burst forth with an intense, dark golden light!
These divine lights of annihilation were further compressed, even to the width of a finger.
What follows is a sufficiently powerful destructive force.
The timing of the attack was extremely tricky, precisely when his mind was relaxed and his body's defenses were slightly weakened due to fatigue!
"What?!" The crimson in the sixth-level wizard's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints!
Faced with a light-speed attack that was within arm's reach, he had no time to make a complete defensive move.
puff!puff!puff!
Three extremely refined dark golden rays, like hot knives cutting through butter, easily pierced through the already crumbling mist barrier and plunged into his elemental body!
"Ughhh!!!"
Inhuman, piercing screams erupted from the mist!
Where the ray struck, the grayish-white mist boiled wildly, revealing a violently turbulent energy core within.
The terrifying annihilation energy seeped in from the wound, clashing violently with his own annihilation power and causing secondary damage!
With just one strike, his already weakened body was instantly severely injured!
The elemental body became flickering, as if it would collapse and dissipate at any moment, its aura extremely weak.
He staggered backward, his crimson pupils fixed on the three floating cannons that were slowly losing their last luster and turning into scrap metal. His eyes were filled with shock, anger, resentment, and... a hint of fear that finally rose.
These cannons...were they fired on purpose?!
Was it the final trap set by that wizard before he died?!
But then, something even more terrifying happened.
In the distance, the headless corpse, which should have been completely dead, with its brain, heart, and even soul annihilated, suddenly... moved.
Then, under the almost stunned gaze of the sixth-level wizard, the corpse swayed, used its hands to support itself on the ground, and slowly stood up.
At the charred break in the chest, granulation tissue writhed wildly as if it had come to life.
Bones, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, skin... regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within just two or three seconds, a head that was exactly the same as before regenerated.
Jemin raised his newborn hand and touched his cheek and neck somewhat uncomfortably, as if confirming something.
Then, he turned his head and looked with his still dark and calm eyes at the sixth-level wizard in the distance who was seriously injured and on the verge of collapse.
"How is this possible..." The figure in the mist spoke in a hoarse, trembling voice, filled with incomprehension and bone-deep horror, "Your heart and brain are clearly gone... I shattered your soul too! You should be dead! Why... why can you still stand up?!"
Jemin did not answer immediately.
He gently moved his newborn neck, making a soft clicking sound, before slowly speaking, his voice weak with the exhaustion of someone who had survived a near-death experience:
"Yes... why am I still alive?"
He seemed to be asking the other person a question, or perhaps he was asking himself one.
The next second, the questioning gaze suddenly turned cold.
"die!"
The remaining floating cannons lit up again, aiming at the gray-white figure on the verge of collapse.
The critically wounded level six wizard let out a desperate and unwilling roar, attempting a final struggle to gather his last strength...
But Jemin didn't give him that chance.
All the remaining floating cannons, along with his own raised right index finger, simultaneously emitted their final burst of light.
Several dark golden rays completely engulfed the gray-white figure.
The sixth-level wizard let out only a brief, mournful wail before falling silent.
The grayish-white mist, like lingering snow under the sunlight, quickly dissipated.
In the end, only a small clump of elemental ash, devoid of all its spirituality, remained, drifting and falling onto the scorched and broken earth.
(End of this chapter)