Chapter 293 : Chapter 293
Chapter 293. Battle of the Seventh Tier
According to the kingdom’s iron law, Seventh-Tier powerhouses were strictly forbidden from taking part in internal disputes. But beneath that iron law, there was an even higher principle forged in blood—any heretic who threatened the kingdom’s foundations was to be killed without mercy!
This was no longer an ordinary enemy. They had to strike with overwhelming force!
“Die!”
Elena smoothly accepted this grand and righteous excuse, and the coldness in her eyes instantly climbed to its peak.
She did not even make any unnecessary movements. She merely turned her wrist.
Sword Aura, cold and clear as moonlight, surged backward with a roar inside the underground secret chamber, and her entire body turned into a silver arc of light!
【Extremity · Space-Severing Slash】!
Buzz—!
Before this strike, which could even cut through space, only a thin star-track line tearing through the darkness remained on Moran’s retina.
Before the sword even arrived, the materialized Frostmoon Sword Intent had already frozen all the moisture in the air. Even the light was cut into fragments by that flawless edge. The sword tip pointed straight at Moran’s brow, leaving him nowhere to evade!
“Roar!”
Commander of the Royal Capital Guard Aureus did not hesitate in the slightest either. This guardian knight, whose body was as burly as a mountain, let out a deafening roar.
As his muscles bulged like granite, materialized golden Battle Aura crystallized over the surface of his body, making him seem as though he had transformed into an unshakable golden war god.
He gripped the greatsword, which was broader than a door panel, with both hands in a reverse hold, raised it high above his head, and brought it down directly at Moran’s position!
【Metal and Stone Annihilation · Earth Collapse】!
It was physical destructive force refined to the extreme, domineering to the limit!
A golden half-moon Sword Aura that spanned the secret chamber crashed down with a thunderous roar, determined to grind the target and the earth beneath his feet into the finest powder!
At the same time, Dean Barnabas, who had been silent with narrowed eyes all this while, lightly tapped the void with the ancient oak staff in his hand.
The four great elements—earth, water, fire, and wind—interwove and ignited instantly at the tip of his staff.
【Four-Element Circulation Array】!
Buzz—!
A huge three-dimensional array formed from four-colored ancient runes instantly unfolded around Barnabas like a supernova explosion, transforming into an inverted glassy giant bowl that firmly covered the entire underground secret chamber.
The instant it took shape, the rampaging elements were forcibly smoothed out.
Elena’s sword radiance and Aureus’s golden sword pressure, which was powerful enough to collapse half a district, were compressed with extreme tyranny into this cramped space, forcibly locking all of their destructive force within three feet around Moran!
Three Seventh-Tier powerhouses—two main attackers and one main controller—cooperated flawlessly.
This swift joint attack had been compressed to the absolute limit. Once it detonated, its instantaneous destructive power would be enough to erase a small city-state from the map completely!
“Madmen! A pack of madmen!”
Moran’s expression changed drastically. That face, which had always been gentle, refined, and forever adorned with a perfect smile, was now completely distorted, hideous like an evil ghost from hell.
He had never imagined that these people, who represented the kingdom’s highest combat power, would act without a trial, without confrontation, and without even half a word of nonsense. They had opened with a merciless killing blow!
This did not conform to the rules! This did not conform to politics!
On the thin line between life and death, Moran could no longer afford to hide those unspeakable trump cards.
The vast, nauseating aura of death and necromantic mana within his body erupted like a black sea bursting through a dam!
The ten fingers of both his hands suddenly clasped together, and the shrill wails of vengeful spirits instantly turned into tangible sound waves that tore through the air of the secret chamber.
【Seventh-Tier Necromantic Secret Art · Wall of Sighing Bones】!
Countless ghastly white bones, accompanied by ghostly green soul deathfire, surged madly from deep beneath the floor tiles under his feet. In an instant, they interwove around him and formed a bone fortress of extraordinary thickness that radiated a bone-piercing chill.
This was originally a high-tier defensive method capable of withstanding the concentrated volley of an army of ten thousand.
However, before the joint killing blow of three powerhouses of the same tier, it was still not enough.
Elena’s sword light, cold and clear as moonlight, was the first to arrive. Immediately afterward, Aureus’s greatsword, broader than a door panel, descended without the slightest flourish while carrying an overwhelming force and molten-gold Battle Aura as explosive as lava!
Crack—BOOM!!
The bone wall, which was known as indestructible, endured for less than half a second under the combined slaughter of the two top knights before dense cracks spread across it.
Then, amid a tremendous explosion, it shattered completely into a sky full of pale bone dust!
The entire underground secret chamber shook violently. The ground above was directly torn open by the terrifying residual sword pressure from Aureus, and countless clods of earth and shattered stones poured down like a torrential rain.
The abandoned factory in the Black Iron District collapsed in an instant, forming a terrifying crater nearly a hundred meters in diameter!
Amid the spreading smoke and dust, a battered figure shot into the sky from underground.
The black formal suit on Moran’s body had already been torn to pieces by the overflowing sword radiance and Battle Aura. His eyes were filled with the fury and astonishment of a hunter being bitten back by his prey.
He suddenly pressed both hands downward and let out a short, awkward ancient phrase:
“Awaken, slumbering overlord!”
Rumble!
The earth at the bottom of the deep pit exploded. A massive skeleton several dozen meters long rose into the sky, carrying ghostly green deathfire that soared upward.
It was a complete Bone Dragon! Its bones had an ominous, darkened luster, and there was even a faint trace of the domineering pressure that belonged to the ancient dragon race lingering upon it!
Moran turned and landed steadily atop the Bone Dragon’s broad skull.
The enormous bone wings beat the air, stirring up foul winds and bloody rain as they lifted him hundreds of meters into the sky, allowing him to look down from above.
However, in the battlefield of Seventh-Tier powerhouses, the sky had never been anyone’s exclusive privilege.
“Trying to run?” Elena snorted coldly. Without needing any leverage, she directly stepped through the void and charged upward.
“Get down here!” Aureus let out a roar like a mad lion. Relying purely on brute force, he stamped the air apart, and his burly body shot into the sky like a golden meteor rising in reverse.
Barnabas was the most composed of all. With a light tap of his staff, he instantly cast Flight Spell and Acceleration Spell on himself, and his figure turned into a streak of light as he steadily rose from the ground.
Three Seventh-Tier powerhouses, using three completely different methods of aerial movement, surrounded the Bone Dragon circling in the sky in the blink of an eye, completely sealing off all of Moran’s escape routes.
“You are forcing me...” Moran was utterly enraged. His pupils instantly turned into bottomless pure black, and a vast wave of mental power erupted around him in a spherical blast!
【Seventh-Tier Forbidden Mind Art · Thought Disintegration】!
This was an invisible attack that stabbed directly into the soul.
Even Seventh-Tier powerhouses were affected by such a desperate, full-force mental assault.
“Now! Die!”
Seizing that brief instant of an “opening,” the Bone Dragon beneath Moran’s feet opened its enormous mouth. A torrent of dark, ghostly Dragon Breath, powerful enough to corrode the life force and souls of all things, poured down toward the three people below like a waterfall!
At the same time, dozens of shrieking dead souls condensed from pure resentment appeared beside Moran. They emitted piercing screams and shot out like black arrows!