Chapter 016: Wind-Chasing Mist
“You!” Hearing Moses speak like that, the expert from the Frozen Alliance immediately held back.
Ten days ago, a group of experts from the Frozen Alliance came to challenge them, including this Saint-class expert. With the help of Lai Luo’s magic, the other Saint-class experts were trapped, forcing this expert to face Moses alone.
Unfortunately, he was no match for Moses. Thankfully, he was an expert from the Wolf Kingdom and had merged with the Wind Wolf. Relying on his extraordinary speed, he barely managed to evade Moses’s pursuit!
Under the watchful eyes of millions of troops from the Northern Legion and the Frozen Alliance, this Saint-class expert was chased by Moses in utter disarray, suffering a great loss of face. Eventually, the commander of the Frozen Alliance was forced to send other experts to rescue him. This incident was a great humiliation for this expert, and now that Moses brought it up again, he naturally became furious.
“Tsk tsk. But then again, I really admire you. Last time, you almost lost your life, yet here you are, daring to fight me again!” Moses mocked him as soon as the expert said “you,” without waiting for him to say anything else.
It was obvious that he was deliberately provoking his opponent before the battle—clearly influenced by Du Fan. Normally, an elf like Moses wouldn’t be so cruel.
Sure enough, the Saint-class expert from the Frozen Alliance was immediately enraged by Moses. With a loud howl, a giant wolf covered in half-foot-long white fur appeared. As soon as it showed up, it also began to howl at the sky.
The warrior spirit of the Frozen Alliance carried an element of pride. Moreover, in the Frozen Alliance, only the royal families of the various duchy kingdoms could possess Saint-class magical beasts!
As royalty, they had their own dignity, one that could not be violated!
Reaching the Saint class was also considered extraordinary among royalty. In the Frozen Alliance, those royal families who had reached this level were usually core members of their respective duchy kingdoms. Such core members tied their actions directly to the image of their kingdoms.
Furthermore, although the eighteen duchy kingdoms of the Frozen Alliance had very good relations, driven by their warrior spirit, there was certainly hidden competition among them, especially among the royal families who represented their nations’ greatest military strength.
During this siege of Red Lake City, all eighteen duchies of the Frozen Alliance, including the already occupied Bear Duchy and Leopard Duchy, sent their royal families to join the allied forces besieging Red Lake City—each bringing a few hundred men as a symbolic representation! Over the past few months, the remaining soldiers from the Bear Duchy and Leopard Duchy tried various ways to cross mountains and rivers to reach other duchies and continue following their former kings. Some citizens from these two duchies, who were in other regions at the time of their countries’ fall, also joined the royal families who had taken refuge in other lands. There were also envoys sent by the two conquered kingdoms to other duchies. These citizens from the Bear Duchy and Leopard Duchy, under the leadership of their respective royal families, even formed their own exile governments. For this siege of Red Lake City, these two exile governments also sent symbolic forces of a few hundred men to join the battle. However, for this allied force, a few hundred soldiers were not much of a concern. But among the royal families of the Bear Duchy and Leopard Duchy, there were several experts at the Sacred rank. These experts were essential for the coordinated tactics used among the royal families of the Frozen Alliance. Without the royal families of these two duchies, the tactics available to the Frozen Alliance’s experts would be much weaker. The Frozen Alliance had a strange belief: royal families who had contracted Sacred-ranked magical beasts could unleash unimaginable power through their skills and the combination of those beasts! Seeing the Sacred-ranked expert from the Wolf Duchy summon a Wind Wolf, other royal experts also began to take action. This time, against Moses, there were only four Sacred-ranked experts. Yet when all their magical beasts were unleashed, Du Fan was deeply impressed. One middle-aged man with a rugged appearance summoned a giant leopard covered in blue patterns—this leopard was none other than the Wind-Splitting Leopard, unique to the royal family of the Leopard Duchy. Looking at this Wind-Splitting Leopard, Du Fan felt puzzled. In his memory, during the attack on Leopard City, only a female Sacred-ranked expert had managed to escape. Now, the sudden appearance of a middle-aged man who possessed a Wind-Splitting Leopard really left Du Fan confused.
Actually, when George attacked Leopard City, the king of the Leopard Principality happened to be visiting other kingdoms with a group of royal family members. As a result, several holy-grade experts from the Leopard Principality couldn’t return at all during George’s siege!
Another holy-grade expert’s magical beast was a two-meter-long snake, its entire body covered in dark golden hues, with blue wind patterns running across it. Generally, magical beasts that reach the holy grade are quite large, but this snake was only about two meters long. Its name was the Dark Wind Snake.
The Dark Wind Snake was also extremely famous among holy-grade magical beasts. Aside from those at the quasi-divine beast level, it could definitely rank among the top five! The Dark Wind Snake wielded both dark and wind energies, both of which were at the holy grade!
Additionally, another holy-grade expert’s magical beast was a giant bird covered in blue feathers but with a fiery red crest. This bird was the Azure Bird, a holy-grade magical beast. It shared some genetic ties with the phoenix, allowing it to cast fire-based magic as well. However, its fire energy was only at the ninth level, while it relied on its holy-grade wind energy.
What surprised Du Fan was that all four of Moses’s magical beasts possessed holy-grade wind abilities. Similarly, the elite members from various principalities who had reached the holy grade also had wind abilities at that level. Seeing this, Du Fan quickly deduced that the Icebound Alliance had assembled such a team largely out of fear that their experts might not be able to defeat Moses. By deploying wind experts, they could at least escape if they lost.
Indeed, after summoning their respective magical beasts, the four of them immediately merged with them. Once all four had merged, they moved swiftly, leaving behind four afterimages as they charged at Moses!
When a holy-grade wind expert merged with a holy-grade wind magical beast, their speed was so great that even Du Fan, a strong wind domain expert, couldn’t help but marvel. Moreover, such gifted holy-grade wind magical beasts could use most wind-based magic, plus some innate skills unique to them!
Even the speed of the Wind-Splitting Leopard and the Gale-Wolf combined was beyond Du Fan’s ability to match!
Innate skills are unique to demons; no other race or creature can learn them. This is also an advantage bestowed upon these beings by the Creator. Seeing four shadows racing toward him at extreme speed, Moses smiled faintly. Immediately, his Gravity Space Domain activated. His current Gravity Space Domain covered an area of 500 meters. For a master who had already stepped onto the threshold of divinity, the range of the domain could increase significantly further. When Moses first mastered the Gravity Space Domain, its range was only 50 meters. Compared to then, the diameter of his current domain was ten times larger! As for the area covered, it was countless times greater! The area of a circle with a diameter of 500 meters is about a hundred times that of one with a diameter of 50 meters. Moreover, for high-level domains like Gravity Space, the harder it is to increase the coverage area. The four masters, leaving trails of afterimages, rushed into Moses’ Gravity Space Domain, and their speeds immediately slowed down. Yet even if Moses expanded his Gravity Space to 100 times its maximum, these masters, who had combined their powers at the Saint level, could still handle the situation. These four combined Saint-level masters, facing the domain expert Moses, saw their speeds offset completely by those of the four wind-type Saint-level masters within Moses’ Gravity Space Domain. Relying on the strength of the elf race’s magic warriors and their cultivation that had already reached near-divine levels, Moses could still hold an advantage even against these four masters. However, the coordination among the four was extremely seamless. Coupled with their fusion with their respective demons, which enhanced their physical strength and granted them innate skills using those demons, Moses, despite having the upper hand, could not truly overcome them. Wielding the Sword of War, although Moses did not activate its domain, the sword’s power still boosted his combat strength. Along with the intense aura of war emanating from it, the masters of the Icebound Alliance knew that this peculiar long sword must be exceptionally sharp. Among the four Saint-level masters, the one who posed the greatest challenge to Moses was the Saint-level master who had fused with the Dark Wind Snake. After merging with the Dark Wind Snake, this master’s entire body was covered in fine snake scales, and the black long spear in his hand allowed for attacks from extremely awkward angles!
Moreover, this holy-grade expert spat out a mouthful of black mist. That extremely dark mist emitted a faint fishy smell that, once detected by the nose, caused dizziness! Of course, Moses naturally wouldn’t inhale it into his body. What Moses didn’t know was that this mist was actually one of the innate skills of the Snake of Dark Winds—Wind-Chasing Mist! This innate skill, which combined wind and darkness elements, didn’t mean it couldn’t be avoided just by not inhaling it into the lungs. As long as it adhered to the skin, it could, under the influence of wind energy, penetrate directly into the body through the pores! Mouthful after mouthful of black mist was spat out, and soon, a thin layer of black mist filled the area where the five were fighting. Seeing Moses also enveloped in the mist, the holy-grade expert from the Snake Kingdom revealed a sinister smile.