Chapter 393

After a brief exchange, Jie Ming and Anya quickly reached a consensus.

The predicament in front of them seems tricky, but when broken down, it is nothing more than two parts: the core Tier 6 light cluster lord, and the light cluster army under its command that is large in scale but limited in individual combat power.

"I came out this time for technical exchange, and the combat units I brought are limited," Jie Ming thought in his heart, "There are only two Black Giant priests stationed in the internal space. However, it should be enough to deal with the core target."

After all, as special variants, Black Giant priests are Tier 6 by nature and possess extremely high intelligence and exclusive abilities.

Two priests working together to capture alive an elemental creature of the same level that has just been promoted and whose realm is not stable, the success rate is extremely high.

The difficulty lies in how to create a "one-on-one" environment for the priests that is not interfered with.

Listening to Jie Ming's brief description of his own combat power, Anya was surprised and quickly understood.

"Then, our mission is to clear the field and cover." Anya's voice was calm, "Block those miscellaneous soldiers, don't let them interfere with the actions of those... Black Giant priests. In addition..."

She paused and added: "If conditions permit, I think we should still try our best to capture alive as many of these ordinary light clusters as possible. Grandmother Star Fall should also be interested in their group behavior and sociality."

"Agreed." Jie Ming responded, "You cut in from the outside, create chaos, and attract part of the military force. But don't rush, I will create a 'signal' inside later to firmly nail the core target's attention on me, avoiding it from discovering your approach and launching a surprise attack on you at the first time."

"Understood. I have arrived at the upper crack and am ready. Waiting for your signal." Anya replied.

As for what the signal is...

Jie Ming's gaze penetrated the membrane of the phase space, firmly locking onto the Tier 6 light cluster lord below, whose light was flowing and energy was surging.

It was still constantly searching for the traces of the "intruder" just now, its light sweeping through every inch of the cave like a searchlight, its vigilance extremely high.

Now!

At the moment one round of the other party's search ended, Jie Ming's eyes condensed, and his figure in the phase space started suddenly!

Massive amounts of data poured into his mind, using the shared calculation of the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror, Jie Ming raised the speed of phase movement to the extreme.

His whole person turned into a virtual shadow that could not be captured by the naked eye, and "crashed" straight toward the core position of the light cluster lord!

In the state of phase movement, he is in a different spatial level from the main plane, and theoretically can penetrate any solid object.

But the phase space itself is a temporary false space created by simulating real space, theoretically the "shape" of the phase space and the outside space in the area is the same.

The moment his "virtual shadow" trajectory completely overlapped with the "entity" of the light cluster lord containing terrifying energy in spatial coordinates—

Hum!!!

A violent spatial repulsion reaction erupted!

The light cluster lord is not a pure accumulation of energy, its core contains the spiritual laws imprinted when animated and the Tier 6 life rank obtained after just being promoted, which makes its existence itself produce a stabilizing and "marking" effect on the surrounding space.

Jie Ming's high-speed close-range phase penetration was like trying to forcibly pass through a ball of scorching viscous lava with a layer of thin gauze, triggering violent friction and turbulence at the spatial level.

A harsh cracking sound rang in Jie Ming's perception—not a physical sound, but feedback from the wailing of the spatial structure.

The phase space he temporarily constructed completely disintegrated the moment it passed through the "entity" of the light cluster lord because it could not withstand this "difference" from the real space!

Jie Ming's figure was forcibly "squeezed" out of the phase space and reappeared on the main plane, just behind the light cluster lord not far away.

And the moment the phase space completely collapsed and re-fused with the main plane, the violent spatial shearing force generated by the intersection of the two spatial levels, which could not be eliminated by any conventional means, erupted along the path Jie Ming penetrated before!

Space Slash!

A narrow and long crack that was pitch black, silent, and seemed to be able to swallow even light, appeared out of thin air at the "waist" position of the light cluster lord.

The crack flashed and disappeared, but the damage caused was clearly visible—the huge light body of the light cluster lord was cleanly "cut" into upper and lower halves by this spatial fault!

The light at the break was chaotic, and energy surged and leaked like a broken levee.

"Roar!!!"

An earth-shattering mental roar swept through the entire cave, that was not a sound, but a pure soul impact.

The roar was full of pain, rage, and disbelief.

The light of the light cluster lord flickered violently, and countless light threads stretched out from the cross-section, trying to reconnect.

The characteristics of elemental creatures are placed here, although it looks very scary, this kind of physical form cutting is not a fatal wound.

As long as the core and energy supply are fine, elemental creatures can repair quickly.

But this sudden heavy blow undoubtedly disrupted its rhythm, bringing huge pain and energy loss.

This precise and ruthless blow by Jie Ming successfully pulled the hatred of the light cluster lord and even the entire light cluster army to the full!

The attention of all light clusters was firmly locked on this "ugly flesh-and-blood monster" who suddenly appeared and seriously injured their "King"!

"Now!"

Anya's eyes lit up, knowing clearly that this was the signal Jie Ming mentioned.

Almost at the same time the light cluster lord roared, the shadows somewhere on the rock wall above the cave suddenly boiled!

Anya's figure emerged like a ghost, she didn't stop at all, her hands opened, and rich natural spiritual light erupted from her whole body!

"Obey the summons, my partners!"

Following her clear singing, countless nature spirits of various forms rushed out from her body—there were lightning sprites as fast as electricity, rock guards that were sturdy and thick, vine spirits that were agile and winding, and fire elemental spirits that were scorching and explosive...

They were like soldiers who received military orders, whistling and rushing toward the light cluster army below that began to stir and prepare to gather fire on Jie Ming.

A large number of elemental spirits collided with the outermost light clusters instantly, triggering a series of energy explosions and light splashes.

Successfully disrupted the formation of the light cluster army and shared the pressure Jie Ming was about to bear.

And just at the moment when the light cluster lord, due to severe pain and anger, locked most of its energy and spirit on Jie Ming, preparing to launch a thunderous counterattack.

Two pitch-black, thin figures that seemed to be condensed from the deepest shadows appeared silently on both sides of the light cluster lord.

Their height was only about two meters, which could be called tiny compared to the huge light cluster lord, and their whole bodies were covered with flowing black liquid metal layers, swallowing all light around them, only the rational spiritual light of coldness flickered in the eye sockets.

Black Giant priests, descend.

No roar, no pressure release.

But their existence itself made the angry mental fluctuations of the light cluster lord stagnate suddenly, as if poured with ice water.

A sense of fear derived from the life instinct toward higher-level predators or natural enemies, mixed with the strange "suction" (the hunger of Black Giants for energy) coming from the other party.

The light cluster lord instantly understood—the real fatal threat had come!

There was no room for communication, and the battle broke out instantly!

The light cluster lord gave up the pursuit of Jie Ming, its light soared, and countless high-temperature rays and shock waves condensed to the extreme bombarded the two Black Giant priests.

And the two Black Giant priests showed terrifying speed and tactical coordination inconsistent with their body size.

One confronted head-on, the black liquid on its body surface surged, swallowing the incoming energy attacks like a bottomless abyss.

The other strangely blended into the surrounding shadows where light and dark intersected, waiting for an opportunity, and every flash would leave a strange attack containing energy-absorbing effects on the light cluster lord, accelerating its energy loss.

In the blink of an eye, the core battlefield was cleared by the aftermath of the Tier 6 creature's bombardment.

Jie Ming took the opportunity to flicker a short distance with 【Phase Movement】, left the most dangerous area, and appeared beside Anya.

"Good coordination." Anya said during the gap, her hands not stopping.

She commanded the nature spirit army to fight with the light cluster army, but she herself did not use that signature "life force attraction" witchcraft.

"Your move is not effective in group warfare?" Jie Ming saw the clue.

"Well," Anya nodded, punching a Tier 4 light cluster that tried to sneak attack, making its light collapse and fly backward, "Too many lives gathered, the life force field emitted will interfere with and superimpose each other, forming a 'torrent', my 'suction' is easy to be washed away or diluted, difficult to precisely target individuals, and the consumption is greater instead."

While speaking, she kicked out two more feet like lightning, kicking the light clusters that rushed from the side to explode.

Only then did Jie Ming have the opportunity to carefully observe Anya's combat style: hand-to-hand combat.

This silver-haired girl who looked slender and weak on the outside was like a human-shaped fierce beast at this moment!

Her movements were simple, swift, and precise, and every punch and kick contained explosive power.

What was even more terrible was that her attacks seemed to be able to directly shake the target's energy core and life structure.

Those light clusters that were hit were not simple energy dissipation, but life aura plummeted, as if being "shaken away" from the combination of spirituality and energy from the inside by some force.

Her body strength was obviously tempered by some unbelievable means, and taking the energy impact of the light cluster head-on only made a faint natural spiritual light shield appear on her body surface.

Jie Ming quickly figured out the reason.

How could the body of a wizard who is naturally born with extreme affinity and control over life force and natural spirits be fragile?

Abundant life force itself is the best quenching agent and energy source, their bodies are often the deepest and most unpredictable part of their power system, and the ultimate fortress carrying all talents and witchcraft.

"It seems I don't have to hide anymore." Jie Ming smiled and looked at the light cluster army that was rushing like a tide trying to break through the nature spirit defense line to attack them.

He took a deep breath, his hands drew virtual lines in front of him, and spatial energy began to fluctuate violently.

"Just right, test the actual combat effect of this move."

He split his hands toward both sides suddenly!

【Spatial Distortion】 small-scale release!

Hum!

With a radius of one hundred meters in front of Jie Ming, the space in an area seemed to be twisted fiercely by an invisible giant hand!

Light twisted, the scene deformed, and the light cluster creatures in this area emitted shrill mental screams.

The light clusters with a radius of tens of meters in the core area were like being thrown into an invisible meat grinder, instantly torn to pieces by the violent spatial force.

The light was completely extinguished, and the spirituality was annihilated.

The light clusters in the edge area suffered varying degrees of distortion damage, some had half of their bodies torn, and some had their energy circuits twisted.

Most of them lost their combat effectiveness, fell to the ground with dim light, leaving only weak life fluctuations.

With one blow, thousands of light clusters were killed or injured, and the cleaning efficiency was amazing.

"Spatial knowledge is studied well." Anya glanced and evaluated.

"Still adapting." Jie Ming was not complacent, continued to lock onto other areas where light clusters were dense, and cast 【Spatial Distortion】 again and again.

He intentionally controlled the range and intensity, not pursuing maximum lethality, but taking making the enemy lose combat effectiveness as the main goal.

At the same time, he was also constantly fine-tuning the witchcraft model in actual combat, improving the resistance to spatial disturbances in this complex energy environment, making 【Spatial Distortion】 more stable and controllable.

Anya was the same, her nature spirit army and her own hand-to-hand attacks were mostly aimed at defeating, injuring, and stripping the opponent's combat effectiveness, and the ones that were truly completely annihilated were the minority.

In the cave, light flashed, energy surged, and the whistling of nature spirits and the mental screams of light clusters intertwined.

But the balance of the battle situation, as the light cluster army was efficiently "disarmed" by Jie Ming and Anya, and the two Black Giant priests in the core battlefield completely suppressed the light cluster lord, quickly tilted toward the wizard side.

Although the light cluster lord fought to the death, and even tried to detonate the core to perish with the enemy, the combat intelligence of the two Black Giant priests was extremely high.

Just at the moment when the light cluster lord's energy began to compress to the extreme and was about to detonate, the two priests rushed to its side instantly as if they had premeditated, and four palms covered with black liquid metal pressed on its core area where the light was most scorching at the same time!

【Energy Absorption · Full Power】!

Terrifying suction erupted!

The energy of the light cluster lord that was originally about to lose control and run wild, like a broken levee, rushed toward the two Black Giant priests uncontrollably.

Its self-detonation process was forcibly interrupted and turned into a "feast" for the enemy to charge.

The light dimmed rapidly, and the volume shrank sharply, finally leaving only a body the size of an ordinary person's fist.

Looking at the weak light core with flickering spirituality, a Black Giant priest carefully used a stable force field to imprison it in its hand.

As the light cluster lord lost consciousness and was captured, the morale of the remaining light cluster army completely collapsed.

Some tried to escape, some stood still, and some emitted desperate radiation fluctuations.

Jie Ming and Anya accelerated the cleaning speed, and soon defeated or imprisoned all the remaining light clusters that still had the ability to act.

The noisy underground cave gradually returned to calm.

Only the hum of residual energy remained, as well as the "captives" that were dim and lightless all over the ground like stars falling to the ground.

Mission accomplished.

(End of chapter)