[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-428":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846281,2449,"Chapter 430: Terror and Relief","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-428",428,"\u003Cp>Methum\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Commander, we had lost a lot of our forces and powerhouses. We need to retreat!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne's voice rang out in my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is right; we have to retreat. The enemy had wiped out, half of the horde with alchfire and took a lot out of our powerhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that wasn't bad enough, their powerhouses hiding in the circle had come out and they had also started blasting us with powerful ammunition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not a wise decision to stay here, especially given the record, of the past, two, battles, but I don't want to retreat just yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't want to retreat at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alchfire had given us a big setback, not a defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All I have to do is kill the commander and capture the lord. If I kill the elder blood; I won't have a problem catching the lord and victory will be mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'We will in five minutes,' I replied and turned to the elder blood, who once again crossed more than half of the distance between me and him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had become really hard to stop him since he had revealed his strength a few seconds ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It seemed like, I need to stop holding back myself,' I thought, and my staff lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doom Bolt\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spells shot out of my staff; it was a bolt of dark lightning. A single bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked similar to Dark Bolt but contained three times more power than the Zorinns's Lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder-blood felt the power as well and realized the threat from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze energy burst out of his body and concentrated on the blade of his halberd, which he brought toward the bolt for a direct clash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion rang out, but a moment later, the elder blood burst out of the mist, bronze and black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Good,' I grinned in my heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the bone lances materialized around him. The twenty-four lancer covered him from all directions, leaving him no space to dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These are no common lances, that I used before. No, it's a completely different spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lances are longer and denser, and most importantly, they have tips burning in necrotic fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell called Farizan's Lances; is a very powerful spell, hard to learn. I have used it for only two people and both of them died by it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\" I said, and the lances moved toward the elder-blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These lances are very powerful. They can tear through the shields of mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He will stop them, but how many? Two, three, four, six at most, but there will be eighteen more that will go at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sup Sup Sup\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lances moved toward the elder blood from all directions. I could see the fear of appearing in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of his allies, fighting not far away, tried to come to rescue him but were stopped by Xander and Wayne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is nothing, that will stop him from getting killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that could be is the artifact. I have heard that Bartram had used its defensive ability to protect him and powerhouses when the legacy had exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it is said that even he was surprised when it was activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a broken artifact; it would be hard for him to activate, the defensive method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lances reached him, and he didn't make any move. He didn't leap or anything that would have been useless. The spell is maneuverable; it would target him, no matter where he moves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They moved closer when I saw his lips curled up in a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze energy around him rumbled and moved around him. Forming semi-transparent walls of bronze energy around him, including the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes couldn't help but widen seeing that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is definitely a skill, not from a great sky, but from lineage. They called him methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the intelligence we had. The elder blood only knew one method; the energy arc, but now he had revealed another one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is more complex than the arc attack. He shouldn't have been able to learn that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly awakened elder-bloods take at least a year to learn their first method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had two in less than a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had expected to see it as had learned method in a month's awakening, but I didn't expect it would be a defensive method; they far are more complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lances crashed against the wall and blasted into pieces, one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last lance crashed against it, but it was able to break through it. Though they had weakened it considerably; it didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have mattered. If they had broken it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shield disappeared, and it came toward me, with an even greater momentum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My zombies moved to stop him while I cast Bone Coil, to stop him and Haste on myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze energy covering him repelled the coil away, and he dodged the attack of another of my zombies, before coming toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swarm of undead, I am sending toward him barely affects him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xalyn's Nails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I activated another powerful spell, the soul type. Far from more powerful than the basic Soul Nails and Soul Spikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hit him, and he stopped momentarily with pain flashing in his face briefly before he resumed moving again toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wayne, Xander to me!' I commanded and attacked him with another Farizan's Lances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell is powerful, but it also takes a lot of manas. It is why, immediately, I cast Mana Harness and took the mana from the undead around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The necromancer is a powerful mage archetype, but it becomes more powerful when there is an undead to support us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead we could control, explode, and harness the energy from when we needed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is nothing that could be compared to a great class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The defensive method materialized like the last time, and my lances crashed against it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, too, they were unable to break through his defensive method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, it had given me enough time, to create a distance between us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had just thought that when I saw him leaping toward me. He had never done that before, seeing it make one vulnerable in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he had taken the risk. Giving me the big opportunity to finish him off, and I have perfect spells to do the job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I prepared the spells, but waited for a moment, for him to reach the sufficient height before casting Xalyn's Nails on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the pain flashed in his and he became disoriented when I cast the second spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark Chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains of dark energy materialized and began to wrap around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they did, I cast my third spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zorrin's Cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's the strongest containment spell in its class. Anyone who had entered inside it had never come out alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thorny bone cage, with thorns covered in dark fire, appeared around the elder blood and covered him fully, while he watched in alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was resistance, but the cage had crushed through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt a little tired after casting three powerful spells, one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had taken quite a lot of my mana and immediately harnessed it from the undead. Like mana potions, it too had restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a limit to mana, I could harness, but it is more than a mana potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There will be no retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will kill these bastards as I promised. Aside from the lord, everyone will turn to the undead. They need to understand, the consequences of their actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no resistance in front of Vris'alud. Only death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My sweet thoughts were interrupted by the explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder blood came out, and broke the coffin, with pieces of bones flying everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at him and saw him bloody, with blood and bronze ting around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's time for you to die, necromancer!\" he roared and came at me while swinging his halberd releasing bronze arc after arc without stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not done this before. He would, at most launch, in a single arc, before stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, tens of them coming toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bone Walls. Dark Frost Shields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cast the Bone Walls and Dark Frost Shields one after another while casting Haste on myself and moved away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am too close to the bastard. I should have moved when the coffin enveloped him, but I was too confident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shields begin to blast apart, one after another. I cast more of them while launching the Bone Lances and Dark Bolts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bastard is like a charging beast; it is coming at me. Dispite the Haste, the distance between them is, shrinking, instead of increasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Bastards! Where are you?' I asked Xander and Wayne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had asked them for help, but there was no sign of them. I would have asked others, but all of them are occupied by the enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn't have been the case. If those bastards, hadn't burned powerhouse to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I am trying commander, but this bastard orc isn't letting me leave!' came the reply from the Xander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Same here, Commander. The Paladin and Mage, are keeping me occupied,' added Wayne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Useless bastards,\" I cursed and cast Bone Spikes through the ground, but the bastard crushed through them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seconds passed, when I heard the loud bang from the Bone Wall in front of me and elder-blood appeared in front of me like a phantom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit!\" I cursed and cast Xalyns Nails. It brought him pain and made blood leak out of his orifices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't make him stumble or unconscious, as I wanted it to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\" he screamed and swung his halberd at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear rose in my heart before my eyes hardened and I casted my most powerful spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spectral Scythe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did, and a huge scythe materialized in front of me. It is spectral, but one could feel a dark cold radiating from it. It is cold enough, to freeze any normal person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is also massive that it even dwarfed the elder blood, who is the biggest person here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhhhh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder blood didn't retreat as I expected, instead screamed loudly and poured more power into the halberd, making it stronger and faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing it, I felt scared for a moment, before controlling myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't call it my strongest spell for nothing. It is really powerful, that casting it nearly drained me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't use the spell unless my life is in danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scythe clashed against the halberd. Stopping it, seeing that I felt relieved, but the very next moment, the relief disappeared from my eyes and transformed into terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The halberd begins to rip through the scythe, begin cutting through it, before coming out the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To my horror, the elder blood didn't stop. He moved toward me with his halberd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to kill me and wouldn't stop till he made that happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cast the Dark Frost Armor with all the mana I had and retreated, but I could see the halberd coming at me even faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My halberd touched the Dark Frost Armor of the necromancer before cutting through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the scythe spell, it didn't resist for even a fraction of a second and cut through it before reaching the body of the necromancer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pachac!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flesh is cut like there is nothing. My halberd came out of the other side, dividing the necromancer into two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relief flooded in my heart, but it only lasted for a fraction of a second, when I realized, I didn't cut the body of the necromancer, but the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Substitution skill,\" I muttered and turned back to the presence, I am sensing behind me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I saw the necromancer standing in a place, a zombie warrior had been. Looking at me with the eyes filled with terror and relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",2004,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","ac34b4dbc4646dbbf2d796ea67e30c40a604297410a258d43b8ca32db242b91b","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-429","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-427",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]