Selena sensed dark energy piercing through her snowstorm and aiming for their source of power. However, the dark energy crashed onto Alice's defense barrier. Alice instantly turned pale to the imnse strength. She ground her teeth and the magical radiance emanating on her hands shimred increasingly brighter. Cecilia didn't give up.
She swiped her right hand and the scene before them instantly spun 180 degrees to scan the situation. Then, pitch-black flas erged.
"Move back!"
She commanded and the other two young ladies stepped back hurriedly. The surging, powerful dark energy erupted from the magical image. But at this mont, she released a dazzling brilliance from her right hand and instantly subdued it.
"Phew! That's sure nerve wracking."
Cecilia clapped the dust off her hands and let out a sigh of relief.
"We've confird the enemy's specific location and destroyed their detection barrier. We'll have to leave it to Alex next."
Cecilia gazed at Alice and Selena with a smile.
"Alright. Ti to enjoy so tea don't you two think?"
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On the other side, scarlet flas spurted and dazzling sparks ripped through the darkness as they scattered wildly. The dark figure let out a snort and dodged the flaming ambush. Vandal sulked as he laid his hand forward and clenched. Shortly after, dark matter between his shriveled fingers surged forward and instantly extinguished the blazing flas.
The area that shone brightly had as though been reoccupied by darkness and everything went silent. After a few monts, a green radiance lit up the space. He stepped ahead and gazed at the crystal ball with a sullen expression. His dark pupils glinted with curiosity and astonishnt.
This "Night Lich" didn't appear too different from other Liches. Or perhaps, Undead Creatures looked the sa to humans. Similar to other Liches, Vandal was also a walking skeleton and it was unbelievable that he was a highly experienced Lich due to his dry, crumpled skin and age-marks on his face.
If it weren't for his pupils lit with spiritual flas in the empty eye sockets, perhaps others would regard this Lich clad in a violet robe as an old man who didn't have much ti left.
Ordinary Liches didn't have skin and muscles. They abandoned their bodies after transforming into Undead Creatures and the higher tier Liches didn't even need physical bodies. But he was an exception. Even though he was a Great Lich, he was persistent in keeping his body.
Even before he transford into a Lich, he used alchemy spells to modify his body, which was why he appeared rather similar to humans now. This interest of his had beco a source of amusent for the dark spell caster community. So even ridiculed him that he might as well beco a Vampire since he loved his body that much.
Thereafter, Vandal had indeed beca close to the Vampires, which turned him into a laughingstock in the Dali Kingdom. But, as he rose in strength and position, the sneers and ridicules vanished.
"The enemy countered my detection spell."
Vandal's hoarse voice echoed in the darkness. He stared at the extraordinary crystal ball, which was also his spell casting tool. Even though it was expensive, it couldn't withstand the powerful strength and crumbled entirely. Not only that, but Vandal was also left with filthy smoke stains and the shimring accessories on him dulled instantly.
Unlike many spell casters who weren't engaged in honest work, he was currently below the Interdiate Demigod Realm because he focused all his effort on alchemy research. However, this wasn't too surprising since Undead Creatures had unique traits over humans that helped them transcend into the Demigod Realm: they weren't alive, didn't have friendships, relationships, and lovers—wrong.
It was because humans had double protection with their flesh and ntality, so even if they failed to transcend into the Demigod realm, they had the chance to restart if they protected themselves from the backlash of failure. However, the Undead Creatures didn't have flesh as defense and could only rely on their spiritual energy to break through.
Once their breakthrough failed… They would vanish into thin air.
But the Undead Creatures were 'undead', after all, and as long as they didn't die to sches and assassinations, they could live on forever. It was due to this that the Dali Kingdom held such powerful forces over the years, unlike the Mainland where legendary humans would be dead at the maximum of 200 years old.
Judging from the entire situation, the Dali Kingdom was much stronger than the entire Light Mainland. Even though Elves, Dwarves, and Angels had longevity, their flaw was that there were too few of them. Besides, it was hard for these three races to reproduce the next generation. Although there were a lot of humans, they were also the most fragile, where they wouldn't live for more than 200 years.
On the other hand, the Undead Creatures might have just transcended into the Demigod Realm after the 200 years.
Judging from this aspect, the advantage of the Undead Creatures was their longevity while humans had fast speed growth. Both sides had weaknesses too. Humans couldn't live for long while Undead Creatures required a long ti to reach that realm, where almost every Undead Creatures took at least 200 years.
This ant that if all the legendary creatures in the Dali Kingdom died, they would a minimum of 200 years to recreate a new generation of legendary creatures while humans only needed 50 to 70 years.
Vandal was the perfect proof. Before he beca a Lich, he was only an ordinary human apprentice under a Necromancer. Thereafter, he worked hard to change his destiny and touched the gates of the Demigod realm within 50 years. In the end, in the face of death, he staked everything on one throw and beca a Lich to break away from the Necromancer's control and eventually kill it.
That was when he inherited its assets, treasure, and territory and this beca his foundation to strengthen his developnts.
However, within the 300 years of being a Lich, Vandal had slow understanding of magic spells.
But this was the ordinary pace of the Undead Creatures.
No matter the Lich, Necromancer, or Vampire, their rate of growth were extrely slow. Besides, in addition to the nurous conspiracies and internal family frictions, so rising talents were killed before they revealed their outstanding feats.
But due to long accumulation of ti, not only did the internal family frictions not turn the Undead Creatures weaker, but they also separated the wheat from the chaff and uncovered the terrifying, powerful figures.
Although Vandal wasn't considered the best among the Liches, his expertise in creating magic equipnt and alchemy potions was stellar. He didn't mind using external powers to complint his magic equipnt in boosting his strength into the Interdiate Demigod Realm.
This was his proudest achievent because the higher the spell caster's level, the deeper they entered the Magic Circle and the lesser the assistance was required from external factors. It didn't an that Vandal was weak and his magic equipnt boosted him into the Demigod Realm. Instead, the magic equipnt proved his achievents.
Vandal was proud of this. But this ti, he realized that the situation was different from what he expected.
He sensed that there was a Mage spying on him and his army. Then, he stepped up and stopped them. This was a common situation for him and he was full of confidence because detection spells were incredibly fragile.
No matter which type of detection spell it was, they were cast using the spell caster's ntal strength and the farther the distance and wider the range, the more ntal strength it required. But no matter what, there was no endless source of ntal strength to support the spell, just like a kite that flew far away would eventually fall after its string was cut.
However, he sensed the surging, powerful strength when he resisted and attacked simultaneously.
That pure, formidable magical power was as though a pouring storm, which caught him off guard. If it wasn't for his quick reaction to activate his defense accessory, perhaps he would be a goner by now. He was baffled.
'Oh my!That was so powerful. Will I stand a chance against the enemy when we face each other?'
"It's a Mage in the Demigod realm."
Vandal sulked and muttered under his breath. He stretched out his hand and touched the crystal fragnts hovering in midair. They appeared to be burned by flas. He narrowed his eyes and scanned carefully.
"… Was it one of our n that was previously sent?"
A Necromancer beside Vandal asked with weakened spiritual radiance in his eyes. It was apparent that in the previous clash, this unfortunate Necromancer didn't hold as much protection equipnt as him, which resulted in his injury. But his plight wasn't too bad considering that the other two Necromancers assisting jim had perished into dust due to their low levels.
This proved just how powerful Cecilia was.
"No I'm certain it's none of our n, this energy feel different."
Vandal shook his head. He sensed pure flas within the powers. The man he was thinking about wasn't a fire elental Mage, so this powerful strength definitely didn't belong to him. Not only that, but Vandal also sensed the presence of the wind elent, which confused him. There might be more than one enemy spying on him he concluded.
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