Chapter 400: Anguish
[You have suffered a hit from a Nascent Soul Realm attack]
"Huh—" Ashlock's confusion was shocked out of him by a world of pain.
He had been targeting each of the warehouses Stella had identified with the help of Sullivan with desolation Qi imbued with spatial and blood dao to eliminate Vincent's blood clones. It didn't matter if they hid inside a coffin or walked around. They died all the same. What he hadn't been expecting was to receive return fire.
"What the hell, system?!" Ashlock shouted as his vision blurred, and he returned to Red Vine Peak. Sure enough, it was as if a cannonball had smashed into him, leaving a dent. Whatever the attack had been, it hadn't managed to go all the way through, and while the dent was significant enough for a person to stand in, compared to his towering body, it was the equivalent of a flesh wound.
Checking his surroundings, the Voidstorm Aegis was active, as was the illusion array around the peak that also acted as a shield.
"Why didn't you block the attack?" Ashlock asked his system as he tried to understand the situation. His main body hadn't been attacked in what felt like ages, so to suffer an attack out of nowhere despite his defense measures was terrifying.
[The Voidstorm Aegis eliminates incoming projectiles. It cannot automatically block invisible attacks from affinities such as gravity or sound that have no tangible form. It also struggles against large-scale attacks like blizzards, tidal waves, or meteor showers]
"Can't you strike the cultivator directly?"
[The Voidstorm Aegis can only attack things within the range of Red Vine Peak. The attack originated from far out of its range]