Chapter 634 - 339: Divine Abomination’s Child_2
Chapter 634: Chapter 339: Divine Abomination’s Child_2
"You know me?" Seeing Aston’s expression, Raine raised an eyebrow and shot back.
There were only two of them, but both of their strength was unexpectedly terrifying.
Both were clearly at Legendary Level.
And the other side actually knew who he was.
"Heh, you don’t need to know why."
"Your Majesty Brute Hammer, I’m taking this Raine with me as well."
Hearing this, the surrounding Dwarf Elders all raised their weapons and closed in.
Aston’s face darkened as he looked at Brute Hammer the Second, who still sat on the broad throne without speaking, and said in a deep voice, "Brute Hammer the Second, doing this will only bring calamity down on your Kingdom."
The moment the words fell!
With a swish, Aston moved at a speed so fast it was almost invisible, arriving beside the severely injured Ilgerina, his dagger stabbing down.
He bypassed Raine not for any other reason, but because Ilgerina, as a Saint, carried Divinity Energy far surpassing Raine.
The priority in his heart was naturally higher.
"Get lost!!"
Clang!
A Flying Warhammer abruptly intercepted that dagger.
Hm?
Aston lifted his gaze in slight surprise.
He saw that Raine, clearly only at Extraordinary Level, was actually charging at him, and at the same time, the other’s right leg stomped down hard.
The ground cracked, trembled, bulged, and an invisible Vibrating Power rapidly spread out in all directions.
Yet Aston wore a faint smile, not the least bit panicked. His whole body shot backward, and his retreat was so fast that he barely managed to outrun the spread of the Vibrating Power.
But in the next instant!
His expression suddenly changed!
"Crack!"
Five bolts of Lightning crashed down in a dense barrage.
No matter how fast Aston was, he couldn’t possibly be faster than falling Lightning. In an instant, five arm-thick, dazzling arcs slammed into his body.
Yet to the crowd’s shock, the Lightning’s damage to him was extremely limited.
Aside from a few wisps of smoke rising off him, he hadn’t taken much substantial harm at all.
"Clang!!"
But that brief delay was enough for Raine’s Warhammer to catch up. Amid a spray of sparks and the backlash force, Aston was knocked back more than ten meters, while Raine was forced a half-step back by the impact.
However, Aston suddenly noticed that four Dwarf Elders were already charging at him with raised heavy War Axes or Double-Bladed Battleaxes.
"Looks like you dwarves are dead set on wading into this muddy water. But the price for keeping us here will be very high."
Aston glanced at the Dwarf Elders closing around him, his expression gloomy. As he spoke, his hand moved swiftly into his robes and produced a Blood Array Plate.
As if triggered by the Array Plate’s activation, an invisible ripple suddenly spread outward, and immediately after, some kind of confinement or restriction welled up from the depths of everyone’s hearts.
Raine and the Dwarf Elders felt nothing wrong, but Elder Balin, Princess Dongni, and the other High-tier Priests beside them all turned pale!
"This is... isolating Divine Power!" Elder Balin cried out. "Is this a Divine Abomination construct?"
Just as Casters needed to draw on Mysterious Energy particles, Holy Professionals needed to pray and channel Divine Power.
But right now, the High-tier Priests couldn’t connect to the Upper Realm Divine Power at all, as if they had become merely slightly stronger ordinary people.
"Your Priests are lambs waiting for slaughter now. Tell me, if I were to..." Aston toyed with his dagger, looking at the Dwarf Elders who’d all come to a halt, a mocking look in his eyes.
"And you, Raine—without the ability to commune with your god, a Divine Favored is nothing."
"Since you’re so intent on blocking me, let’s start with you."
Suddenly!
Aston vanished from where he stood, and in the next instant appeared in front of Raine.
"Clang clang clang!"
The fierce sounds of exchange rang out!
"Too slow! Too slow!"
"Boom!"
Steel Boots slammed down!
Instantly, five dazzling arcs of Lightning cleaved down out of thin air, forcing Aston into a brief lag—whether from shock or surprise—and this time, Aston took the full brunt of the invisible Vibrating Power.
"Boom!!"
Aston crossed his dual darts to block, yet was still sent flying by Raine’s single Hammer strike.
"You... you’re not a Divine Favored??"
As he was hurled backward, Aston’s eyes widened, his face full of disbelief as he stared at Raine.
With his memory, even a few cursory glances were enough for him to recall Raine’s intel files with perfect clarity.
A young man only twenty years old—if he isn’t a Divine Favored, how could he possibly slay an adult Giant Dragon?
This doesn’t make sense.
But the problem is, if the other party can do this without being a Divine Favored, that’s even more unreasonable!
It could even be called terrifying!
"Go!" Aston suddenly blurred into multiple afterimages, either blocking or using Evasion to slip past the Dwarf Elders’ encirclement, then in a near Instant Teleportation appeared beside Catherine.
But at that moment, a violet vortex burst out from Raine not far in front of his eyes, instantly enveloping the entire area.
"Anti-Magic Field!" Catherine’s expression changed as she muttered.
Forbidden Magic?
Isn’t this my own squad’s combat style??
Aston was suddenly a bit dumbfounded!
Raine sharply seized on that instant, stomped forward, surged in, and swung his Warhammer in one seamless motion!
From the exchange just now, Raine had basically figured out the opponent’s combat traits—his speed was insanely fast, even faster than Sword Saint Duke Musadi, but his Power was average, roughly on par with Raine.
"Clang!!"
Snapping back to his senses, Aston immediately crossed his Dual Darts to block.
However, this time Raine unleashed a top-down smash, and the downward force instantly made the ground under Aston’s feet collapse; his whole body froze for a split second on the spot.
Just as Aston tried to lift his leg to move, suddenly, a ferocious short and stout figure lunged in from the side!
"Damn!"
Aston’s face suddenly changed!
He quickly crossed his Dual Darts before his chest again, trying to block this blow.
"Die!"
With a flash of platinum Hammer shadow crashing down like Lightning, there was no sound of metal clashing—only a super high-frequency vibrating roar!
The first thing to meet the Hammer of Shattering were the two Daggers Aston had crossed to parry.
The Daggers instantly burst into fragments and were blasted away; right after that, Aston’s palms, wrist bones, forearms, and shoulders erupted in a chain of crackling pops like strings of firecrackers.
"Aaah!!!"
Aston let out a scream of agony!
The next instant!
His screams cut off along with the shattering of his bones; Aston’s eyes stared wide as he collapsed to the ground like a pile of mush.
"You dare threaten my daughter!" Brute Hammer the Second flicked his Warhammer, growling in anger.
He’d been wanting to make a move earlier, but was afraid the other guy would run.
So he’d been waiting for a perfect opening.
’The old are still the shrewd ones! When it comes to grasping combat timing, His Majesty Brute Hammer is still above me.’
’If he doesn’t strike it’s fine, but once he does, it’s an instant kill.’
Raine praised inwardly.
’My own strength still isn’t enough!’
’Against this kind of Legendary Powerhouse who specializes in speed, I’m still finding it pretty hard to cope.’
"Aaah!!"
And from the side, another scream rang out almost simultaneously.
The female Legendary Mage had already fallen beneath the Heavy Hammers and War Axes of several Dwarf Elders.
"Sorry, I saw she still wanted to resist just now, so I hit a bit too hard." Elder Grenum shook his Warhammer, looking apologetic.
The Elders had judged their attacks based on her Legendary strength.
But Raine’s Anti-Magic Field plus Brute Hammer the Second’s surprise strike killing Aston had thrown Catherine, this Legendary Mage, into a panic—she tried to initiate Spellcasting only to find herself inside an Anti-Magic Field.
Before she could open her Legendary Domain, she was rushed by several Dwarf Elders and taken out in one wave.
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"There’s nothing useful on them, except this Blood Array Plate. The craftsmanship is very special, but not of current styles....we can’t track any useful clues from it."
Grand Elder Balin was clearly quite interested in this Blood Array Plate.
"However, why do I feel this Array Plate doesn’t actually have any Isolation Divine Power effect?"
Huh?
Grand Elder Balin’s words drew everyone’s gaze over.
Raine pondered briefly, his eyes inadvertently sweeping across his half-transparent sixteen-slot bag.
Suddenly!
His eyes widened slightly.
Because he saw a strange icon had appeared in his sixteen-slot bag—"Son of Qiqimaike."
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