Chapter 484: Another Encounter
Chapter 484: Another Encounter
When Ren activated 'Dragon Soul Smash' and unleashed the 5th Dawn Strike 'Steel Forest', the body of the Ice Sea Giant Gazrian suddenly condensed a large amount of white ice crystals, which quickly gathered and solidified.
In the blink of an eye, it froze itself within an irregularly shaped, over a hundred-meter-tall, massive ice block.
At this moment, Ren's Dawn Strike also suddenly exploded!
In an instant, the surface of the giant ice block sprouted numerous dark silver metallic plants with thorns!
However, what surprised Ren was that this 'Steel Forest' he unleashed seemed unable to inflict any damage on Gazrian, who was encased in ice.
The giant ice block, aside from shedding some ice debris, revealed Gazrian's white scales beneath the ice, showing no signs of damage.
"Is this Gazrian's life-saving ultimate move?"
"Yes, as a giant beast that survived since ancient times, it must have some special means."
Witnessing this scene, Ren immediately understood what was happening.
However, he wasn't discouraged.
Because this was also within his expectations.
In ancient times, the Ice Sea Giant Gazrian, who possessed strength reaching the Demigod level, wouldn't have such a well-known reputation if it were easy to kill.
"However, this ice sealing seems to abandon offense, focusing entirely on defense."
Ren took a careful look at the ice block, and a glint flashed through his eyes.
At this moment, he glanced at the ice-sealed Gazrian, a faint smile on his face, as if he had everything under control.
Just then, his right palm once again radiated dense dark silver light, and immediately, his palm heavily struck the ground.
"The sixth wave!"
Instantly, the dark silver ripples appeared again, spreading towards the giant ice block where Gazrian was located.
"Boom!!"
In a flash, hundreds and thousands of trees, bushes, and vines of various sizes, covered in metallic thorns, enveloped the giant ice block and violently pierced through!
After the powerful energy fluctuations dissipated, the giant ice block still showed no obvious traces, let alone cracks.
But upon witnessing this scene, Ren not only didn't feel the slightest disappointment, but the smile at the corners of his mouth became increasingly brighter.
"Gazrian's ice sealing technique, logically speaking, can perfectly defend against all magic and physical attacks."
"But the issue is that this technique also can't defend against true damage."
"Its deployment of ice sealing, on the contrary, becomes a double-edged sword, trapping itself within the ice block."
"While I can safely unleash Dawn Strikes to attack it!"
Just as Ren unleashed the sixth Dawn Strike, he carefully sensed again.
He could feel the true damage mixed within the magic, which had harmed Gazrian.
Additionally, the life force within the giant ice block further weakened.
"It seems the level of this true damage is very high."
"The Dragon Pulse Wizards truly live up to their legendary reputation."
Just as Ren was about to recover and was about to unleash the Dawn Strike again, suddenly, Gazrian within the ice block seemed to sense some crisis as well.
Just then, that giant and extremely hard ice block suddenly cracked!
A hundred-meter-long giant fissure started from the center of the ice block and extended upwards.
At the same time.
On the platform of the Fadil Mountains.
The black-robed maiden's beautiful eyes were about to check why Gazrian was so violent in her domain, but the next moment, she looked forward.
Countless bright red cannonballs flew towards her!
It was the main artillery fire from the distant Federation's Airship Squadron covering her.
"Such annoying pests!"
The black-robed maiden's eyebrows furrowed.
She could easily dodge these cannonball attacks, but the problem was that the magic array beneath her and the believers supporting the array at this moment couldn't withstand these cannonballs.
Moreover, since the magic array was already operating, she couldn't relocate it.
Just then, she waved her fair palm, and a black water shield appeared above the array, blocking these countless cannonballs.
After this delay, the black-robed maiden looked down again, but when she did, her expression changed.
To be precise, her expression became somewhat startled!
Apparently, what was happening in the Mortuary Sea Domain once again exceeded her expectations.
"It's actually this guy who forced Gazrian to unleash absolute ice sealing?!"
"For this guy's strength to have improved so rapidly, it's too fast."
"No, although I don't know how he's doing it, I can't let him kill Gazrian."
The Umbra Sea Goddess, Hela, immediately made a decision.
She wanted to stop Ren.
"However, without my control, the power of the Occult Array will gradually weaken."
"In a matter of minutes, it might be broken through by the elites among the mortals below."
"Then, after taking care of Ren, come back quickly."
The Dark Robed Maiden suddenly vanished from above the Occult Array and, in no time, reappeared within the rain beneath the gloomy cloud.
Her figure disappeared again in the rain.
When the Dark Robed Maiden reappeared, she had already reached a spot not far from where Ren and Gazrian were fighting.
Within the Mortuary Sea Domain, her speed reached an extreme.
"Huh? Such powerful energy fluctuations?!"
In the eyes of Umbra Sea Goddess Hela, with the support of the Mortuary Sea Domain, she believed her surprise attack would be enough to end the battle swiftly.
But when she arrived at the scene, she realized she had miscalculated something.
After all, the Mortuary Sea Domain was merely a projection of one of her avatars, and under the intense energy clash between Ren and Gazrian, this place had been transformed into a near-vacuum domain.
There was no rain.
Even the dark cloud overhead had thinned to near transparency.
Most crucially, the moment Hela appeared, Ren's palm, glowing with intense dark silver light, struck the ground again.
It was Ren's seventh Dawn Technique - the Iron Forest.
And the slight fluctuation caused by Hela's appearance had immediately caught Ren's attention, so this time, his dark silver metallic ripples covered the entire area.
Everything within a few hundred meters radius was enveloped.
"This—" The Dark Robed Maiden was both shocked and furious!
She quickly cast a Black Water Shield, and her entire body instantly floated into the air.
This sudden attack also meant that Hela's ambush plan was foiled before it even began.
"Roar!!!"
After breaking free from the ice, Gazrian had barely taken a few steps out of the ice block when he was hit by Ren's seventh wave of attacks, further injuring the already weakened ancient beast.
After all, even an ancient beast of demigod-level, severely weakened after a long seal, could not withstand seven consecutive Dawn Techniques with true damage from Ren, and now it was on the brink of death.
"No, Gazrian must not die."
Hela, having dodged Ren's attack, looked at the tottering Gazrian with growing anxiety.
Gazrian was the Sea Kraken, the King of the Three-Headed Sea Dragons, and she had planned to subdue him to find and control all the sealed Three-Headed Sea Dragons.
If successful, it would greatly accelerate her recovery process.
But if Gazrian died, this plan would obviously—
"Ancient Blackwater Souls!"
Without hesitation, Hela's lips parted slightly, and her slender hand lifted, instantly summoning a large number of rapidly spinning black water vortices in front of her.
Compared to the 'Blackwater Souls' she had used in the Dragon Valley Secret Realm, the Hela in the Mortuary Sea Domain was now using the complete version of the ancient technique, 'Ancient Blackwater Souls', in her prime or full power.
Not only were there far more than five vortices, but each black vortex also contained multiple trapped souls.
With a casual glance, Ren noticed that within each black vortex, there seemed to be several pale, agonized human faces screaming and crying.
Without further ado, Hela pointed lightly at Ren!
Instantly, dozens of black water vortices rushed towards Ren.
Feeling the immense power and sheer number of the approaching black water vortices, Ren's expression changed.
"If I continue attacking Gazrian, there's a high chance I'll kill him."
"But the problem is, if I focus most of the Dawn Technique's energy on Gazrian, I might not be able to withstand Hela's attack."
Ren made a quick decision, temporarily giving up the opportunity to kill Gazrian and instead directing most of the energy from his eighth Dawn Technique, the Iron Forest, towards Hela.
Dozens of black water vortices and a dense forest of sharp metal spikes collided!
"Sizzle! Sizzle!"
The black water comprising the vortices had strong corrosive properties, but the metal forest had numerical superiority. The black water, like aqua regia, continuously corroded and melted the metal forest, but the forest kept growing from below.
For a moment, two different energies clashed fiercely.
Logically, the souls trapped within the black water vortices should have appeared and attacked the enemy when the vortices shattered.
Ren's magic strike contained true damage, so as soon as these white wraiths appeared, they fell and scattered like wheat being harvested.
"Hmm?"
Hela was surprised that Ren could actually withstand her attack. After all, this ancient Blackwater Wraith was several times more powerful than the one she faced in the Dragon Valley Secret Realm, where her clone had already been severely injured.
"Then let's try again. I don't believe you can block it a second time!"
Hela's pretty face was filled with anger, and her lips curled slightly as she chanted and cast her spell once more.
As the energy from the Mortuary Sea Domain was largely gathered here, the energy from other areas inevitably decreased.
In many places, the rainfall was noticeably smaller.
Even the clouds in the sky became thinner and lighter.
This indicated that the Mortuary Sea Domain had already shown obvious weaknesses.
Hela, of course, knew this was a problem.
But the key point was that she needed to quickly resolve Ren, otherwise, once he defeated Gazrian, all her previous plans would be for naught.
In the rain curtain.
"Huh? The power of the Mortuary Sea Domain is weakening?"
'Red Queen' Maynia, who was riding on Red Dragon Tasar, opened her beautiful eyes, obviously surprised by this situation.
For a moment, she couldn't figure out the reason.
However, the next second, she patted the giant dragon partner under her, and in an instant, the two of them soared into the sky.
"Good opportunity, let's get out of here first!"
Following a spiral flame beam, they suddenly pierced through the clouds in front of them, and immediately, Maynia and Red Dragon Tasar successfully broke free from the Mortuary Sea Domain that had trapped them.
"Roar!!!"
This made Tasar excitedly roar towards the sky!
The same scene also happened to 'Great Earth Pulse' Reginald.
However, the situation of him and the giant dragon Ted on his lap was worse than Maynia's.
The Mortuary Sea Domain had already weakened his mental power by about two-tenths, so Reginald had to exert himself to barely break free from the Mortuary Sea Domain.
And as soon as he broke through the clouds, Reginald saw Maynia, who was already in mid-air.
This made him quite happy.
"Maynia, Your Highness, when did you come out? Just now, it wasn't me, I escaped a little earlier than you." Reginald shook his head and said.
"If it wasn't you, could it be the strong ones from the Federation?"
Because this was the territory of the Federation, Reginald naturally thought that it should be the strong ones from the Federation who had arrived to help them.
"It shouldn't be them either." Maynia shook her head again.
"Well, that's His Majesty Terion, and you almost escaped at the same time. Besides him, I didn't see any other epic-level strong ones from the Federation around me.
Reginald followed Maynia's line of sight and looked towards the ground.
He saw that the Federal Sword Saint Terion had also just broken free from the rain curtain.
Obviously, he had also just escaped.
"This..." This couldn't help but make Reginald ponder.
"I guess it's the 'Ice Sea Giant Demon' Gazrian. If he doesn't hold back and unleashes his power, there's still a high probability of breaking the Mortuary Sea Domain." Maynia looked at the surging clouds in front of her and said.
"It's indeed possible."
"By the way, Maynia, Your Highness, did you see Ren?"
"According to reason, if I can escape, he should also be able to." Reginald looked around but didn't find Ren's figure, and couldn't help but feel curious.
Having experienced the Ferdinand Forest, he considered himself to be relatively familiar with Ren's strength.
"I also didn't see him, he's probably still trapped inside."
"Damn, His Highness Ren is likely still trapped inside. We should immediately attack together, and thoroughly break the domain."
"Yes, but for safety, it's better to call upon that Federal Sword Saint Terion to join us."
"We three will jointly attack a weak point of the domain, and we should be able to smoothly break the Mortuary Sea Domain." Maynia naturally nodded in agreement.
Ren, at a young age, already possessed such strength. He was the Empire's future star and naturally needed to be saved.
However, just as the two of them were controlling the giant dragons under them, suddenly, the Mortuary Sea Domain violently fluctuated.
As if a giant hand was vigorously stirring the domain's rain curtain, clouds, and mist!
"Huh? What's this?"
Maynia and Reginald were surprised by this situation and couldn't help but glance at each other.
(End of Chapter)
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