Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 24: The Power of Death
Instant death skills, based on their special mechanism, often have extremely demanding conditions for activation in order not to disrupt the balance of the battle. Generally speaking, they are either very easy to dodge or have an incredibly low probability of success. The former is usually used to restrict the enemy, while the latter is often used to restrict the player.
William remembered that the Void Kings whose domains were related to destruction and damage basically all possessed several instant death skills. And most of the death-related authority holders he had dealt with also used some instant death skills.
But most of them are timed skills that require countdown, or range skills that even an old lady can dodge with a little effort - of course, this is only based on the performance in the game, but even if converted into reality, William believes that with his perception and speed, he can easily dodge them.
But he had never seen such a targeted, instantly effective, and completely unreasonable instant death skill like the one released by the Terra Undead in front of him.
The black and red auras entangled like snakes in the undead's hands, forming the shape of a heart. As the other party squeezed hard, a sound like breaking glass came from his chest.
William subconsciously lowered his head, and a wound like a chisel mark appeared in the center of his chest. Then, with this wound as the center, dense cracks spread out like a spider web - his body gradually began to disintegrate into pieces.
Delusional heart sounds?
William suddenly remembered an old cartoon he had seen when he was a child, in which a black-clad assassin with a skull mask could destroy a replica of a heart and resonate with the enemy's heart, thus killing the enemy with one strike. The ability the other party was using was somewhat similar to his.
But even if it was a delusional heart sound, it would need a medium to release it, right? How could there be such an unreasonable instant death skill?
The body was shattered very quickly, and William did not have much time to think about these problems. He first threw the [Black Hole] in his hand directly to the opponent, and then immediately released [Mirror Shadow] again to his own phantom that had not yet completely collapsed.
After a few breaths, William's mirror image shattered and turned into bubbles and dissipated, while the phantom created by William's phantom gradually took shape in mid-air.
He reached out to catch the fallen iron plate, then looked up at a distance.
The black hole thrown out before was only the size of a needle tip, but it triggered a series of violent phenomena where it flew past - the seawater along the way formed a thin and elegant water curtain, and the surrounding fog was also sucked away by the black hole. An extremely small and deep space crack appeared along the trajectory of its flight, and it looked as if William had previously emitted some kind of black ray.
The blood-red sword light flashed from the long sword in Terra's hand, and instantly intertwined a gorgeous network in the air, but they were completely unable to stop the attack. The black trajectory attacked the opponent directly in an unhurried and unstoppable manner.
Although the network formed by the blood-red sword beams was extremely dense, the gaps they left were still too large compared to the needle-sized black hole. The water curtain formed by the black hole's attraction was smashed into pieces by the sword beam network, and the space cracks opened behind the black hole were instantly eliminated, but the black hole itself simply passed through the network like wind blowing through a screen window.
The cloaked shadow behind Terra's ghost immediately held up his body and tried to dodge, but it was too late.
A huge suction force emerged from the black hole. Even if the opponent tried his best, he could only move a few meters away. In the end, he could only watch himself being hit.
For a moment, in William's sight, the whole world was left with only black and white.
An extremely huge, deep black ball expanded there almost instantly, completely swallowing up Terra's ghost. At the same time, a layer of dazzling pure white halo, like the sun's corona, lingered around the black ball.
But this scene only lasted for a moment.
If I had to describe what happened next, it would probably be an explosion played in slow motion in reverse.
It was as if a huge black ball and a dazzling halo that covered half of the sky were slowly and steadily collapsing inwards, in silence.
At the same time, the huge suction force slowly lifted the huge warship under the opponent's feet out of the sea, as if a pair of invisible hands lifted it up, and disassembled it from top to bottom in mid-air into countless floating fragments, and then was sucked into the constantly collapsing black ball.
Compared to the spell in the game, this spell is several levels more expressive and destructive.
After all, there is no such strong environmental interaction in the game.
William thought as he looked at the thick fog that had cleared away, the sea level that had been temporarily raised, and the giant warship that was gradually being dismantled.
The black ball and the halo shrank smaller and smaller, and finally collapsed and evaporated completely. Only then did the extremely powerful divine-level shadow spell [Black Hole] finally end.
After the temporary rise of the sea level lost the huge suction force, it instantly turned into a surging wave and spread in all directions. Countless pieces of warships that had not yet been pulled into the black hole turned into a rain of broken wood and fell one after another, carried by the waves and drifting in all directions.
“Plop…”
A figure fell from the place where the black hole disappeared before, and landed into the sea, floating on the sea like the broken wood around it.
"Dead?"
Seeing this, William spread his membrane wings and swooped over. At the same time, various defensive spells continued to light up on his body.
The authority is called a demigod, and their body toughness is far beyond that of ordinary people. Some even have conceptual defenses, such as being unable to be harmed by a certain attribute of power. Therefore, even though William was very sure that the opponent should at least be completely incapable of action after taking full damage from the [Black Hole], he still made defensive preparations in all aspects.
When William was halfway through the flight, he found that his previous preparations were too cautious.
“It’s starting to dissipate…”
He noticed that most of the warship fragments floating on the sea were rolled back a few times by the waves and then turned into foam and disappeared.
Whether it was this warship or Terra, they were originally just a memory from the past, but they reappeared briefly in the world through this magical fog. Now, since those phantoms have been destroyed, and even the surrounding fog has been cleared away, it is not surprising that they are beginning to dissipate.
William hovered above the Terra Riel Ghost, calmed the waves around him, and then looked at him quietly.
At this moment, Terra's appearance was a replica of her appearance before her death in this sea.
He floated on the sea with his eyes wide open, his face frozen with a relieved expression. A crystal clear arrow was inserted diagonally into his left eye, and the sharp arrowhead protruded from his skull, reflecting a colorful halo in the sunlight.
That was an arrow shot by the sacred weapon "Glass Moon" held by Remedios. This arrow can be injected with the purest essence, thus reflecting all attributes of magic, so it can achieve the effect of ignoring any magic resistance.
And eight hundred years ago, the opponent's head was hit so hard by this arrow, it is estimated that the person really died here.
The other party was just a memory from the past, appearing with the help of the mist that originated from the power of the high elves' ancestors. Even so, he was able to completely destroy one of his clones with one strike. William really couldn't figure out which mythological god the other party had resonated with through the ritual.
Although there are exceptions, generally speaking, the more widespread and ancient the deity chosen by the authority to imitate in the mirror ritual, the more powerful it is.
All myths that can trigger ritual magic, if traced back to their source, are the imaginary memories of creation deep in people's souls. Therefore, the more widely these stories are spread, the more profound their influence is; and the older these stories are, the closer they are to the event of creation.
William estimated that a mythological prototype that could reach the strength of the other party must at least be a mythological god. William had some knowledge of the myths and legends of the seven birthplaces of civilization on the continent of Vic, but after he went through the characteristics of the gods in these myths in his mind, he found that none of them could match.
Even now that his real body is looking through older materials in the Library of the Dead, he still has no clue.
I didn't even fully understand what the other party's authority was.
Because the battle ended quickly, William did not see the trick of the opponent's black lightning, but the blood-red sword light was a powerful force that could directly act on the technique itself.
The water tornado that he had summoned with [Tornado] was not blasted away by the sword light, but was directly destroyed by the sword light when it cut through the main body of the spell. Based on this alone, the opponent's authority can be said to be the nemesis of all magic casters in the world.
It was also because of this that William chose to use the [Black Hole] technique, which was extremely small and difficult to capture and intercept, for the final blow.
"Hello……"
What made him feel even more outrageous was the ability to remotely crush the heart of his own clone.
In the absence any physical contact, the instant death skill was released instantly. Even the Holy Spirit "Dead" who gathered all the authority of the God of Death was not so exaggerated.
"Hello……"
Destroying demons and death, perhaps there is a connection... The subsequent investigation authority will be carried out from these directions.
William thought as he looked at Terra's ghost which was gradually dissipating.
"Hello!"
A voice shouted into William's ear, instantly pulling him back to reality from his thoughts.
William turned around and saw Liz, who looked tired, calling him.
William came back to his senses and said immediately:
"Sorry, sorry. I'll be teleported back to the Whalebone right away. Once on the ship, you can disconnect those magic pathways."
Maintaining the state of the witch's mist for a long time, even if the consumption is greatly reduced in this mist, is still a considerable consumption for Liz. As the biggest guarantee of William's combat effectiveness during this trip to Ava, it can be said that Liz's state is more important than William's own state.
He had encountered so many troubles just on the Broken Sea, and who knows what else might be waiting for him when he got ashore. Therefore, William was not going to let her waste any more time, at least before reaching Ava Continent.
Regarding William's apologetic expression, the other party just rolled his eyes at him and said:
"That's not what I'm talking about. I'm still far from my limit... Didn't you say earlier that everything started to dissipate? But what's going on there?"
Liz said, pointing to the side.
Just as William flew over to see Terra's ghost, the thick fog around began to spread again. The direction Liz pointed was foggy and only vaguely could see something there.
There were a lot of broken wreckage of ships on the sea floating over from that direction.
The fragments of the huge battleship disappeared long before Terra's ghost disappeared. So there is only one possibility for the fragments of the battleship that can float over now...
"Then let's go over and see if there are any survivors."
William hesitated for a moment and said.
…………
On a half-sunken ship, it is easy to fall into hysterics.
"Get that damn raft down! Stop wasting your time, the water is almost up to my waist."
"Without fresh water, we will all die whether we get on the raft or not. No one can drive the raft away before the door of the water storage room is opened."
"Danshui? The whole raft is so small. Even if you only put a bucket of Danshui on it, who are you going to kick into the sea to feed the fish?"
"I have no such plan, but if you think this will happen in the end, you can choose one among the three of you."
"Huh? Why not you, or that chick next to you who can't do anything but pray?"
"Why not me? Because I am a wizard who can cast storm spells. Without my help, none of you can survive and reach Ava. Why not her? Because without her help, you would have been spit into charcoal by the dragon. And bringing her to Ava is the purpose of our trip. If she dies, we will all die even if we reach Ava."
There was a faint silver light flashing in his eyes. A young man with a vague formation in his hands protected Diana behind him and spoke while confronting the three sailors with their swords drawn.
A magic caster versus three ordinary people, under normal circumstances it would definitely be a one-sided battle.
But at the moment, because the space was too small and the two sides were too close, plus he was in a very tired state, facing three ordinary people with weapons, he himself doubted his chances of winning.
The girl he was protecting behind him was still praying.
"You are the eternal and immortal spirit in our hearts, the beginning of creation..."
"Can you get that bitch to shut up first?"
The leader of the three sailors shouted excitedly.
"Diana, stop talking..."
He whispered.
"They are all very excited now, don't stimulate them."
"After all, even the Eighth Holy Spirit will not respond to your prayers right now."
