Chapter 017: Division

“Elf, do you dare insult my authority?” the Ghost King said coldly.
“Ghost King, don’t think just because you bear the title of King that you’ve grown a horn on your head! Let’s fight first!” Moses shouted loudly.
His entire body was wreathed in blazing golden combat energy, with a faint green glow within it—this was the magical combat energy of the elf race!
This golden energy tinged with green was truly magnificent, shining brilliantly.
The most effective use of a two-handed sword was to deliver powerful slashes and cuts.
As Moses stepped forward, he swung his two-handed sword, which was infused with flame-like combat energy, and slashed at the Ghost King!
Upon seeing Moses’ attack, the Ghost King smiled slightly, drifted backward, raised his hand, and his Sword of War stretched straight forward. When Moses’ sword came down, the tip of the Sword of War gently touched the tip of Moses’ sword.
Though the movement of the Sword of War seemed light, the force contained within it was terrifyingly intense!
The moment the Sword of War touched him, Moses felt as though an entire army had appeared before him!
That sword carried the aura of countless troops charging at him!
The Sword of War, which the Ghost King had just forged, must have incorporated countless ghosts. The fact that these ghosts had survived for such a long time meant they must have been highly powerful beings in life.
A sword crafted from the will and obsession of such powerful beings incorporated their strong desires and intentions from their lives.
Although these desires and intentions had faded over time, what remained were the purest and strongest of them all.
A weapon forged from such an abundance of desires and intentions possessed an immense, profound will—like the sea, like the depths, as enduring as the mountains!
When that powerful force touched the tip of Moses’ sword, he felt numbness in his wrist. That unknown force, whether power or will, paralyzed his arm!
Not only was his arm numb, but the force also spread upward along his arm, leaving half of his body numb as well!
A mere casual strike from the sword had paralyzed half of his body!
This situation instead spurred Moses to roar loudly, and the flames burning throughout his body grew even more intense!

Raising his long sword, he swiftly swung at the Ghost King repeatedly. The Ghost King also raised his sword and clashed with Moses! The intensity of their mutual attacks caused the bones around them to fly everywhere! With the two of them as the center, a fierce storm even arose! After a series of clanging noises, Moses stepped back, panting, while the Ghost King stood there, breathing heavily. “Very good, very good! You’re quite strong!” The Ghost King praised Moses for being able to fight him for so long. This Ghost King must have been a heroic figure in his past life as well; seeing someone like Moses, he couldn’t help but feel admiration. “It’s mutual—you’re not weak either!” Moses said, gripping his long sword tightly, ready to continue the fight. Raising the sword in front of his chest, he noticed that his sword was covered in fine cracks! Due to the intense collisions with the Sword of War, Moses’s legendary elven greatsword had been severely damaged! As Moses stared at his sword, it suddenly cracked with a clear sound, breaking into tiny pieces that scattered among the bones. Looking at the hilt still in his hand, Moses felt deep reluctance. Although his greatsword hadn’t reached the level of a divine weapon, it was very close. This sword had been a gift from Old Saito on Moses’s coming-of-age day. It had accompanied Moses for hundreds of years! “Elf, your sword is destroyed—how do you plan to fight me now?” The Ghost King, clearly satisfied that his Sword of War had ruined Moses’s greatsword, asked with a smile. “Brother, take the sword!” Du Fan shouted. Frostfall Snow traced a beautiful arc and landed at Moses’s feet. Discarding the hilt of his greatsword, he grabbed Frostfall Snow and lifted it gently. “Ghost King, let’s continue fighting!” With his sword in hand, Moses roared again! “Ghost King, taste my gravity field!” As he rushed forward, he activated his gravity field. When Moses’s gravity field enveloped the Ghost King, the latter was caught off guard and pulled downward by the sudden intense force, sitting down on top of the bones. The moment the Ghost King sat on the ground, Moses split him in two with a single swing of his sword!

Both halves of the Ghost King were enveloped in dark energy, which quickly merged together. Soon, the Ghost King reappeared!
“Elf, don’t you realize that we ghosts are all energy beings?” the Ghost King said with a smile.
Seeing this, Moses was stunned. “Ghost King, what do you mean?” he asked.
“Elf, as the Ghost King, although I can take on a physical form, I no longer need to worry about sunlight. At the same time, I can transform into an intangible energy being, so I’m immune to any physical attacks,” the Ghost King said with a smile.
“Is that so?” Moses felt extremely annoyed by the Ghost King’s condescending tone.
He tried to activate gravity space once again to pull the Ghost King to the ground and strangle him! But this time, the gravity space had no effect at all.
“Elf, didn’t I just say? We ghosts are energy beings. What use is your domain to a massless ghost?” the Ghost King said happily, seeing Moses’s puzzled expression.
“What good strategies are there against such a Ghost King?” Du Fan asked the mage beside him.
“To be honest, facing a Ghost King like this, it’s better if Elder Du Fan takes action. Your Light Combat Qi is the only thing that can defeat these ghosts,” the mage said. “These ghosts are made of dark, void energy—physical attacks have no effect on them at all.”
“Brother, come down! I’ll fight him!” Du Fan called from below.
“No! I haven’t been defeated yet. How can I let you take over?” Moses shouted back.
Fueled by anger, Moses wanted to fight fiercely, but he encountered a monster that wasn’t afraid of his gravity space or physical attacks, which made him extremely frustrated.
“I refuse to believe that after chopping you ten times, a hundred times, or a thousand times, you’ll still remain intact!” Moses thought. With a swift movement, he charged forward to attack again.
Frostfall Snow, carrying icy cold, attacked the Ghost King.
“Thousand Shadows Slash!” an elf archer shouted.
Thousand Shadows Slash was one of the sacred combat techniques of the elf mages. As the elf archer shouted, Moses’s body began to shake violently. With each shake, multiple versions of Moses wielding Frostfall Snow split apart!

As Moses’ shadow-like duplicates were separated, they all charged fearlessly at the Ghost King! These duplicate figures weren’t afraid of the Ghost King’s attacks at all; they fought desperately, aiming only to land a strike on him. In just a moment, Moses’ figure filled the entire space of that battle, with his images everywhere! Under the attack of this skill, the ghost was once again split in two. Before the Ghost King could recombine itself, Moses swiftly cut the two halves into four, and then into eight! By the time Moses finished using this combat skill of the elven warriors, the Ghost King had been chopped into countless small pieces, all moving around on the ground. Raising one foot, he stomped heavily on one of those moving pieces of the Ghost King, and an extremely angry screeching sound was heard! With a bang, all those small pieces turned back into black mist, which began to merge together. After the mist disappeared, the Ghost King reappeared. “Elf, how dare you step on me!” The Ghost King was clearly furious. “Ghost King, I just wanted to see if stepping on you could cause some damage,” Moses explained. As if suddenly remembering something, the Ghost King shouted loudly, “You, a humble elf, how dare you step on me! How dare you step on Andrew’s body! Elf, such behavior is unforgivable!” “No, I’m not that bastard Andrew. I’m Karosi!” The Ghost King continued to shout wildly, his words incomprehensible. “What’s wrong with the Ghost King?” Du Fan asked the elven mage beside him in confusion. The mage, who was also well-versed in dark magic, frowned and said, “I think it’s like this: if my guess is correct, Andrew and Karosi, mentioned by the Ghost King, are the main parts of the soul that make up this Ghost King. Their thoughts during their lifetimes were probably too strong, so the Ghost King born from them still retains much of their consciousness. When it can no longer be suppressed, the remaining thoughts of Andrew and Karosi can occasionally take control of the Ghost King’s actions.” The mage explained.

“In that case, both Andrew and Carosy must have been truly remarkable people in life!” Du Fan sighed. It’s sad that such remarkable individuals ended up becoming just parts of a Ghost King!
“I am Andrew!” the Ghost King shouted loudly.
“No, I am Carosy!” this time, the Ghost King cried out in a different tone.
While the Ghost King was still confused about his identity, Moses rushed forward quickly and swung his sword at it again!
Just as Moses’s sword struck the Ghost King, black lightning suddenly erupted from its body! From the spot hit by Moses’s sword, streaks of black lightning kept flashing!
For once, the Ghost King let out a terrifying scream!
That scream truly sounded as if Moses had split it in two!
It seemed like Moses encountered considerable resistance with this strike!
Swinging the sword seemed like struggling to use a dull knife to cut flesh!
Only Moses could understand that sense of slowness.
Finally, through Moses’s efforts, the Ghost King was barely split in two!
This time, it didn’t merge back but split directly into two halves!