Chapter 313: New Profession Specialty, Martial Corpse Burning Stream

Chapter 313: Chapter 313: New Profession Specialty, Martial Corpse Burning Stream

However, just as Lance was about to press his advantage and finish Cassis off in one fell swoop.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

Three sharp, whistling sounds tore through the air, coming from a blind spot in the rock formations above the cavern.

They were three arrows.

Their entire bodies shimmered with an eerie blue energy trail, making them exceptionally jarring in the vast white mist. They were flying in a V-formation, shooting toward Lance’s vitals!

’His teammates aren’t blinded by this mist?’

Lance caught sight of the sneak attack out of the corner of his eye.

Just now, when his shield had been shattered by Lance’s punch, Cassis’s eyes had shown shock, but not panic.

’He must have another trick up his sleeve!’

If he tried to tank these Energy Arrows and force a killing blow on Cassis, he would likely fall into a follow-up ambush completely unprepared.

In a flash,

Lance’s combat instincts immediately made the decision for him.

He decisively gave up the chase on Cassis. Vigorously flexing his waist muscles, he forced his center of gravity to shift, sidestepping to the right.

The three eerie blue arrows scraped past his Dragon Remains Armor and, with a series of THWACKS, embedded themselves deep into the distant cavern wall. Their Penetration Power was astonishing, as if they were made specifically for Armor Piercing.

However,

the instant Lance finished his dodge and his feet touched the ground,

GURGLE...

a sound of bubbling suddenly came from the stone floor beneath his feet.

Two Rings Divine Skill: [Abyssal Blood Swamp]!

[Instantly transforms the ground within a 20-meter radius into a swamp of flesh and blood. The swamp lasts for 40 seconds. Enemies within the swamp have their movement speed forcibly reduced by 30%. Staying in the swamp for more than 5 seconds will inflict 10 points of continuous corrosion damage per second.]

The once-flat ground had, in an instant, turned into a vast, viscous swamp reeking of acrid blood.

On the swamp’s surface, countless tiny tendrils formed from dark red Energy shot up. Like leeches that had smelled blood, they crazily wrapped themselves around Lance’s ankles and calves.

Lance’s brow furrowed slightly.

He tried to forcefully lift his leg to tear the tendrils off.

The tendrils’ strength wasn’t immense; they couldn’t trap him completely.

But their viscous, clinging grip felt like two lead weights had been tied to his legs.

What was more troublesome,

was that Lance could clearly feel that if he stayed in this swamp any longer, the Energy tendrils would probably worm their way through the gaps in his armor and into his flesh, inflicting continuous corrosive damage.

The instant the swamp impeded Lance’s movement speed,

the Priest, Cyrus, who had been hiding at a safe distance, immediately seized this opening and unhesitatingly threw another prepared Divine Art at him.

Two Rings Divine Skill: [Reversed Blood Burning Heart Curse]!

[Instantly inflicts 40 points of blood-attribute Spell damage to the target. It also applies a Reversed Blood Seal to the target for 30 seconds. During this period, if the target’s stamina drops below 50%, they will suffer 40 points of true backlash damage.]

A dark red Curse Rune pierced through the mist’s obstruction and accurately imprinted itself on Lance’s chest.

"Ugh..."

Lance let out a muffled groan.

The mechanics of this Divine Art were bizarre; it didn’t cause any direct external injuries.

The moment he was hit, Lance felt the blood flowing in his veins seem to defy the pumping of his heart and begin to reverse its course.

This should have brought about an agony as if every one of his blood vessels was about to burst.

But under the effect of his [Hevagmir’s Boiling] Talent, the impact of pain and abnormal statuses was greatly reduced.

However, while the pain was nullified, the damage he sustained was not reduced in the slightest.

On the exposed skin of Lance’s chest, thick, green veins bulged out like earthworms.

Wisps of dark red blood began to seep from his pores, dyeing the Energy Scales on his body’s surface.

And at this moment,

the [Abyssal Blood Slaughterer], Baal, who had been hiding in the back and waiting for an opportunity, finally finished charging his attack.

He had already activated his core Skill, [Crimson Fury].

His stout body, over two meters tall, was now enveloped in a bloody light.

He raised the heavy Giant Axe high with both hands, his eyes crimson, and launched a savage charge at Lance, who was trapped in the swamp!

Lance did not choose to take the hit head-on.

He flicked his left hand.

A Steam Chain Blade, shimmering with a silver-red flame, shot out with a shriek that tore through the air, wrapping itself directly around the Giant Axe.

CLANG!

The Chain Blade wrapped tightly around the junction of the axe’s handle and blade.

Using the momentum from the Chain Blade’s pull,

Lance kicked off hard from within the swamp, his entire body soaring into the air.

He used this force to successfully swing himself out of the chopping range of Baal’s Giant Axe.

And as he used the Chain Blade to launch himself into the air,

the Steam Chain Blade wrapped around the Giant Axe began to constrict violently.

The high-frequency vibrating teeth on the Chain Blade, catalyzed by the Ash Dragon Breath, began to tear into the Giant Axe like a cutting machine.

SCREEEEEE!

The ear-piercing sound of metal grinding against metal echoed throughout the cavern.

A shower of dazzling sparks flew between the Chain Blade and the Giant Axe.

Baal gripped the trembling axe handle tightly with both hands, a sneer on his face.

’A naive kid, trying to cut my Hundred Battle Giant Axe?’

Baal found it somewhat amusing.

This Giant Axe was forged from high-tier ’Black Iron Ore’ from the Underground City, mixed with ’Silver’. Its Hardness and Resilience were considered excellent even among Enchanted Weapons.

’How could it possibly be broken by a mere Chain Blade?’

But,

the next second,

the smile on Baal’s face froze solid.

Because he saw,

that under the frenzied burning of those silver-red flames, the connection point on the Giant Axe’s handle actually began to glow with the dazzling red light of melting metal.

Then,

with a crisp CLANG,

the Giant Axe was actually, truly melted and snapped in two by the Chain Blade!

The heavy, broken axe head crashed onto the stone floor, gouging out a crater.

Baal stared in disbelief at the bare half of the handle left in his hands, his mind going completely blank.

And at the same instant the Giant Axe was melted through,

Lance’s flung body landed gracefully on safe ground not far away.

The victorious Steam Chain Blade had already coiled around the large, broken piece of the axe head and flew back before him like a swallow returning to its nest.

[Soldier Resolution and Re-casting]!

[Judgment passed! Seize! Melt and break!]

Under Lance’s control,

the heavy, broken axe head suddenly seemed to lose all physical form in mid-air.

It instantly transformed into a mass of black, liquid metal radiating intense heat.

This was [Martial Corpse Burning Stream]!

On the system panel, the specific bonus data for this burning stream immediately appeared.

[Detected material from Soldier Resolution: Black Iron Ore mixed with Silver.]

[Extracted temporary Traits: Super-Heavy Strike (with Armor Piercing Effect), Weak Magic Resistance Penetration, Energy Damage +20%]

Lance didn’t hesitate for a second.

He opened his left hand, and [Heart Intent Martial Structure] activated instantly.

A Crystal Longbow radiating a dark red glow materialized out of thin air in his hand.

Immediately after,

he nocked two long crystal arrows formed from the same material onto the bowstring.

The black [Martial Corpse Burning Stream] floating in mid-air, like iron filings drawn to a magnet, swiftly coated and enveloped the tips of the two crystal arrows.

The originally translucent arrows now emanated a glow that was a mix of black and red.

Lance turned.

Using his hearing, he locked onto the Dark Elf who had ambushed him earlier.

The Dark Elf was currently hiding on a protruding rock high up in the cavern, waiting for another chance to snipe.

The muscles in Lance’s arms swelled abruptly.

The longbow was drawn into a full moon.

[Double Arrow Release]!

BOOM!

The instant the bowstring was released,

the force was so immense that a white shockwave exploded directly in the air.

It produced a terrifying sonic boom, like a heavy cannon firing.

Two heavy arrows, gleaming with black and red light, shot forward at an ultra-high speed that surpassed the limits of normal human vision.

Straight toward the Dark Elf!

The Dark Elf watched the two streams of deadly light arrive in an instant.

His pupils contracted violently.

’He never would have imagined that even while being besieged by the three of them,’

’the counterattack would come so swiftly, so decisively!’

The Dark Elf wanted to move and dodge.

However, under his opponent’s domain, his stamina had long since dropped to a dangerously low level.

What was even more fatal,

was that he had already been secretly marked by the Profession Specialty Lance had obtained after reaching Level 4!

[Deathly Silence Deprivation]

[Enemies within your ’Pale Domain’ will be marked with a ’Pale Death Line’ when their stamina or Magic Power drops below 30%, or when they enter an exhausted state such as ’shock/stun/suffocation’. All your attacks against enemies marked with a ’Pale Death Line’ will forcibly gain +30% Critical Damage and ignore 20% of the target’s base physical/magic resistance. When a marked target dies within your domain, their remaining Life Energy will be forcibly stripped by the domain and instantly converted into ’Pale Embers’ for storage.]

"No..."

The Dark Elf, who had just leaped away, didn’t get far.

The next second,

the two heavy arrows precisely struck the rock wall where the Dark Elf was.

This attack,

not only did it trigger the high Critical Damage from [Deathly Silence Deprivation],

it also stacked the wide-area shrapnel blast from the [Martial Corpse Burning Stream]’s black iron fragments, and the high-temperature explosion inherent to the [Heart Intent Martial Structure]’s dragon-remains crystal!

RUMBLE!!!

A series of deafening, chained explosions roared from the upper reaches of the cavern.

Before such terrifying composite damage, the hard rock face was obliterated as if it were tofu.

Tons of rubble and rock strata collapsed with a deafening roar.

Although the Dark Elf, relying on his extremely high Agility Attribute, had managed to narrowly dodge a direct hit from the arrows at the last second,

however,

in the wide-ranging blast wave and the massive rockslide that followed,

he still could not escape his fate.

The greater part of his body was crushed and pinned beneath the heavy, collapsing rubble.