Chapter 971: Chapter 723: Malicious Overti
Whitedove withdrew his staff, seemingly wanting to strike Ash again. From the tip of the staff erged multiple Technique Spirits, resembling devout pilgrims of faith, transforming into wisps of smoke that entwined around the staff. Layer upon layer, they accumulated sharp edges at the palm’s tip, cutting through the air around, creating waves of clouds, with extre power fiercely building up.
If the previous strike was the silent spring rain, the next strike would be like a sumr thunderstorm, turning whatever it touched into dust!
The first stab pierced through Ash’s brain, the second extinguished Ash’s body!
But Whitedove withdrew the overwhelming power of his staff the next mont, abandoning the attack.
Because Weiser rushed over and took Ash away.
The round Yuanchan floated behind Ash’s head, abruptly inflating its belly with a deep breath, emitting a peculiar sound, as if it were calling underwater. Simultaneously, Ash’s head returned to normal, and his briefly interrupted consciousness rejoined his loyal body, with light back in his eyes.
“You were just dead!” Weiser breathed a sigh of relief.
“I was just dead.” Ash, though slightly scared, was mostly bewildered.
There was no ti for life’s reflection, no chance for a farewell. His battle experience, in which he took great pride, and the Holy Domain he trusted imnsely, did not earn him even a second to react.
In a way, he was like an elite character in a video ga, powerful, advanced, with many passive skills, capable of handling any character. Yet, Whitedove’s attack felt like the computer power was cut off directly. He didn’t even feel pain before losing everything.
Thankfully, he had Yuanchan. Fortuitously, they had reached a tacit understanding: should he suffer a deadly attack, Yuanchan would automatically deploy “Three-Second Cicada Hibernation,” bringing him back to his state three seconds prior!
Otherwise, he would really have been dead!
“Quickly go.” Weiser summoned a Fog Gate again, directly pushing Ash into it. Ash knew now was not the ti to hesitate; every breath could an life or death separation. Without any pause, he turned and rushed toward the Fog Gate leading to the upper level.
Whoosh.
The sound of kindling flas penetrated their eardrums. Though the eighteenth level of the Silent Spiral blazed under the scorching sun, warming the sand with its rays, and light shone brightly everywhere, Ash and Weiser still felt illuminated by the flas.
Not only clothes or skin, but even their bones, flesh, organs, and soul were painted with a color not their own by the firelight.
When Ash reached the Fog Gate, he found he couldn’t even extend a fingertip into it. He knew Silver Lamp wouldn’t trip him, yet he sensed he couldn’t enter the Fog Gate.
Because the color was wrong.
On the other side of the Fog Gate, there was no sared color from the firelight.
Ash suddenly recalled a ga he often played, walking only on certain colored squares while on the street.
Now, he felt trapped in a similar restriction.
He turned to see the enthusiastic girl Fire Cat, her hair blazing like her personality. Each strand transford into flas, birthing a Fla Technique Spirit with each breath, which then integrated back into the fire, stoking its intensity. Although her flas were small and not very bright, they reigned over all light, even subjugating the sunlight!
Mages had the sa thought in their minds: Fire Cat Technique, also known as Knowing and Guarding Fire.
“Know infinite darkness, guard limited light, for Knowing and Guarding Fire,” even in the midst of battle, Fire Cat maintained a youthful, vibrant smile, “I declare, no one is allowed to leave this place.”
To know infinite darkness, to guard limited light, likely ans the darkness is boundless, but the area illuminated by her light, she can guard—Fire Cat, or the Divine Being of Knowing and Guarding Fire, directly forbids any target within the illuminated range from leaving!
Unlike Whitedove’s sheer brutality, Fire Cat’s effect is restrictive!
Yet compared to Whitedove, Fire Cat’s effect truly drove them into a desperate situation!
Both Weiser and Ash knew the Fog Gate wasn’t the only escape route, for Ash possessed a spoil the Divine Lord coveted—the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes!
Ash’s soul contained the Heart’s Desire center, and even if Senluo were to explode the next second, he could imdiately retreat with his flesh to the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes, uniting with it amid the eternal cycles of nature outside!
But Fire Cat’s restriction directly voided this escape route! Ash imdiately tried to activate the Heart’s Desire center, which attempted to pull him back to the Heavenly Kingdom of Thousand Wishes. Yet, his body and soul remained utterly unmoved, as if anchored fast!
This almost failproof lifeline now couldn’t save him. The power of the Divine Being surpassed all; only a Divine Being could counter another Divine Being. Even though Ash’s Heart’s Desire center was already a high-level teleportation miracle, it ultimately wasn’t a power centered on a Divine Being, rely borrowing a bit of Wish Pool’s might, how could it possibly challenge the expert-level Fire Cat’s cage?
Weiser imdiately stood in front of Ash, who, unbothered by embarrassnt, practically hid behind Weiser. The three Divine Beings were only wary of Silver Lamp. Without using her as a Shield, Ash would vanish into thin air in three seconds—the first two seconds spent trading the two remaining “Three-Second Cicada Hibernation” with Yuanchan.
“You’ve betrayed Lord Zhan?!” Weiser expanded the Holy Domain, sheltering Ash within, coldly asking, “Have you ceased to be Lord Zhan’s Divine Beings?”
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