Chapter 557: Corpse King’s Legacy
Chapter 557: Corpse King’s Legacy
One strike, that was all it took.The instant Holy Shield Charge’s knockback effect activated, the Navy Captain’s crystal coffin was blasted into the air. At the same time, Marcus’s melee attack inflicted damage, causing a yellow number to appear above the coffin.
-3200
Of course, the damage itself was irrelevant. Whether he dealt three thousand points or thirty thousand made no difference. His objective had always been simple: knock the Navy Captain’s coffin off the swirling whirlpool, and he had done exactly that.
Just as Elder Eagle had predicted, the moment the coffin left the whirlpool and lost its source of spiritual energy, the changes began.
Resting on the stone floor, the crystal coffin suddenly erupted with chaotic golden light that flickered wildly around it. It was unmistakable: the Navy Captain’s cultivation had fallen into complete energy deviation.
Bathed in the unstable golden radiance, the once flawless crystal coffin gradually softened before beginning to crumble. Piece by piece, it broke apart like weathered sand, collapsing into fine dust before everyone’s eyes.
’That was... surprisingly easy.’
Marcus grinned, waved cheerfully at the women waiting nearby, then gently tugged Blackie’s reins. The mount circled once through the air before descending gracefully from above the whirlpool, landing as lightly as a feather.
"Marcus, that was amazing!"
The women couldn’t help cheering after witnessing such a clean and effortless finish, but only one person remained completely frozen.
"Stonehaven... you..."
Elder Eagle’s soul stared at Marcus with his mouth hanging open, unable to hide the disbelief in his eyes.
"Your Strength... it’s actually over one thousand?"
"Yeah."
Marcus nodded as though it weren’t a particularly remarkable achievement.
"Apparently so. I only realized it today."
It wasn’t false modesty; until entering his Full-Power state, even Marcus hadn’t expected his Strength to cross the thousand-point mark. Sometimes his own stats surprised him.
Elder Eagle, however, was far less calm. He knew better than anyone that even many Level 90 Warriors, after activating every strengthening technique available to them, might still fail to surpass one thousand Strength, yet standing before him was a Level 50 Knight who had already broken through that seemingly unreachable barrier.
The old man’s heart was filled with shock. The younger generation truly had surpassed the old.
Looking at Marcus’s composed expression and unwavering confidence, Elder Eagle felt as though he were witnessing the rise of a once-in-a-generation genius. ’The Goddess of Dreams truly hasn’t abandoned me...’ The words escaped him almost unconsciously.