Chapter 39 - Sneak Attack

Chapter 39: 39 - Sneak Attack

Although that mysterious and extremely dazzling light did not explode and cause damage, it still temporarily blinded a creature that had lived in darkness for many years, like Cerberus.

Its huge paw raised high in the air could not come down because it was interrupted.

A protagonist like Elias obviously would not just hide somewhere and tremble all this time. He had successfully sneaked over to the mage’s skeleton and obtained the wand.

Although Elias had a talent for absorbing aether that was worse than anyone else’s, his talent for using magic was top-tier. On his first try, he had successfully created an extremely effective support move.

Normally speaking, this powerful light was enough to blind an ordinary person, but who was King? He was a reader with an utterly ridiculous Heavenly Dao Swordsman transformation state. How could the Heavenly Dao possibly be afraid of light?

Just like that, this blinding light unintentionally created a perfect opportunity for King. His face, which had been ugly from being tricked by Cerberus, immediately became extremely arrogant and delighted.

"Third Divine Skill - Void Piercing Sword!"

King shouted enthusiastically, the corners of his mouth curling up as if victory was already firmly in the palm of his hand.

Gripping the Heavenly Dao Sword tightly in his hand, King immediately thrust straight forward. The sword qi spiraled powerfully like a missile, shooting out and piercing through the middle head of Cerberus.

Having its head blown away, it painfully tried to let out a cry, but before it could make a sound, King’s excited voice rang out once again.

"Third Divine Skill - Void Piercing Sword!"

Spamming the divine skill twice in a row against a temporarily blinded dog naturally had a one hundred percent hit rate. Cerberus’s last head had ’evaporated’ right above its neck. Not even a piece of skull was left behind.

The flames covering Cerberus’s four paws immediately went out. The death speed of this fantastic beast’s body was truly incredibly fast. Without a head, its heart immediately stopped beating and could not keep functioning for even a second.

Cerberus’s huge body, like an invincible steel fortress, fell from above. At the same time, the enormous stone also crashed into the arena floor, causing the entire arena to shatter.

The entire dungeon shook, with huge chunks of earth and stone continuously falling from above into the arena.

Something this large falling down would definitely put Elias in danger, but King was busy laughing right now and could not be bothered to care.

"Hahahaha..."

"Let me calculate... At the very least, the level difference between this fantastic beast and me is seven stars. With such a huge gap, I still killed it without it even leaving a scratch on me. As expected, only I can create these crazy records."

The first time he seriously fought was actually a battle against a higher-ranked opponent, with an overwhelming victory as the result. King’s arrogance quickly swelled.

Right now, he felt that as long as he reached rank V, it would be enough to smash Iris’s mouth with overwhelming power.

Comparing a heavily injured rank IV fantastic beast to the strongest human was extremely unfair, but King did not care much about that right now.

The protagonist’s luck was indeed incredibly good. Huge rocks were flying everywhere, yet not a single one hit Elias. He did not even need to dodge, only needing to keep his balance as the ground shook.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot straight down from above into the arena. The lightning moved faster than Elias could possibly react, causing him to be knocked down instantly before he could even scream.

In midair, King was laughing when he suddenly fell silent because of the blood-red system notifications.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[Elias has been electrocuted by high-voltage electricity. He is still barely alive for now, but if he gets hit one more time, he will be dead.]

"Are you kidding me?"

King frowned and looked upward, precisely toward the place where he and Elias had jumped down. In the darkness, many figures could be vaguely seen.

The moment he saw them, King knew they were not weak, but they were not dangerous enough either. The number of enemies could barely match that Cerberus...

Thinking of this, King immediately widened his eyes and stared at the system. He finally understood why the ’beginner’ boss that Elias had to defeat was so ridiculously unreasonable.

"System, could it be that according to the original plot, Elias would hide somewhere and wait? These people would fight Cerberus until both sides were wiped out. Then Elias would just sit back and reap the benefits, right?"

[Master! What are you thinking about at a time like this? Only by taking those people out can you complete your mission. If you keep hesitating and Elias gets hit one more time, he will really die. Even though he is the protagonist, he does not have the ability to die and immediately revive!]

King’s ’weird’ way of thinking at this moment made the system really want to curse. Staying calm was good, but was staying this calm really going a little too far?

"Tsk, aren’t they just a bunch of minor villains? Wait, no. In the original plot, this bunch was just ’stepping stones’ and weren’t even villains."

While King clicked his tongue, the wand of the rank III mage above lit up again. Another bolt of lightning was about to strike down to make sure Elias would die, and was ready to be fired.

"Hmph, how dare you treat me like I’m invisible?"

"First Divine Skill - Heaven Splitting Sword!"

The divine sword qi shot out much faster than that low-level lightning magic. With overwhelming power, it crushed the lightning bolt and continued straight toward the group of mages.

They were no pushovers either, and the whole group immediately unleashed all kinds of magic such as fire, water, wind, ice... Each stream of power was far weaker than the divine skill, but with ten people combining their strength, they could barely cancel out most of its power.

A huge explosion at close range blew away a large section of the long elevated corridor, causing huge rocks to fall down like a rain of stones.

The skill of these unimportant characters was pretty decent. After taking one of King’s divine skills head-on, only a few were slightly injured, while the rest were completely unharmed.

"Tsk, I just chopped up one dog, and now another bunch of troublemakers shows up."

Seeing that his divine skill was not as effective as expected, King guessed that the weakest among those mages were at least rank II, with a few of them at rank III.

But it did not matter. Even a rank IV Cerberus had been ’easily’ killed by King, so these stepping stones were just ’audience members’ who had unwillingly come to watch him show off.

Stepping onto a falling rock, King leaped like a cannonball straight into the middle of the enemy encirclement.