Chapter 198: Maintain Domain

Rod constructed the battle soul with remarkable speed.

With the great assistance of the Spirit Seed, in merely half a month, he was already able to fully establish a Bronze Dragon battle soul.

However, a small mishap occurred here.

Since Rod borrowed the image of the Bronze Dragon from Emerald City, and the direct reference material was the magical recording of the two dragons' training during the Dragon Watching Festival.

Therefore, the Bronze Dragon battle soul Rod constructed had an extra thing hanging beneath its crotch.

Naturally, it would not affect combat power; it was just utterly eye-bleeding to look at.

The dignified Forester, who valued his reputation throughout his life, refused to display it in battle, decisively chopped off and extinguished the lower half of the battle soul, and planned to reconstruct it.

And indeed, at this moment, the Bronze Dragon battle soul possessed only its upper body.

Boom!!!

With this sword strike.

A massive sword crater appeared on the hillside.

Everyone could see that amidst the resentment fire and spiritual light, Amel's half-elf body had been completely annihilated, leaving only a mangled arm flung into the sky.

The Prophecy Bracelet in Rod's hand suddenly vibrated.

Sensing something in his heart, he abruptly raised his hand and pointed toward a direction beside him.

It was an empty grass pit.

Lady Kali knew exactly what he meant; she secretly activated the flow of her spell and used 【Spatial Shift】 to arrive at the pointed-to grass pit.

At the same time, the human form resurrected by Amel indeed slowly rose from that grass pit.

Facing the elf charging straight at him, he immediately snapped out of his previous state of shock.

And reacting swiftly, his face filled with resentment, he unleashed a full-range dual spell combination of 【Repulsion】 + 【Fire Spider】.

Directly blasting Lady Kali away!

Moreover, the erosion of the Fire Spider from a Seventh-Rank Mage was very strong, and since she, as a mage, had thrown herself forward, she was caught off guard and entangled.

She could see the blood serving as the soul vessel flowing through Amel's body once, but at this moment, she had already missed the opportunity.

"Damn it!!"

The elf even cursed a foul word with extreme unwillingness and complete loss of dignity.

"It's not over yet!"

Rod snorted angrily.

The power of 【Maintain Domain】 shot directly into the Plague Mage's body.

Amel froze stiff all over.

The blood serving as the soul vessel was 'maintained' on the current flesh by the power of the domain.

"What kind of domain is this?!"

How could Rod possibly answer his question.

The consumption of spiritual energy by 【Maintain Domain】 is extremely vast; even with his current spiritual accumulation far surpassing that of an ordinary Sixth-Rank, it is difficult to maintain for long.

Yet Lady Kali remained entangled by the Fire Spider.

"Tally!"

The succubus moved before he finished speaking.

Her increasingly proficient Shadow Spells allowed her speed within the shadows to nearly match Rod's.

She was seen leaping out from the elf's shadow, holding a massive 【Scythe Claw Reverse Blade】, spinning in mid-air, and delivering a heavy, powerful slash onto the Fire Spider.

The 【Scythe Claw Reverse Blade】 possesses innate magic special attack; the Fire Spider is after all a creature composed of magic, so this strike tore it directly in half.

Immediately after, several black shadows like ribbons flew from Tally's left palm, bound around Lady Kali, and finally flung her toward Amel in one go.

The Plague Mage Amel remained in the stiffened state of 【Maintain Domain】, able only to watch helplessly as Lady Kali rushed to his front.

Watching helplessly as a diamond in the other's hand turned to powder and scattered over his body.

The resurrection-blocking spell named 【Gnoll Feast】!

Shi Zhan Cheng Gong!

Amel's eye twitched.

As learned as he was, how could he not know what spell this was?

His immediate first reaction—this would truly kill him!

Although he could directly abandon this body and use the blood serving as the soul vessel to escape underground.

But 【Gnoll Feast】 had already deeply bound him, his soul, and his flesh; should he gamble on that 50% possibility?

What a joke?!

Amel surged with magic power, gritted his teeth, and cast the dual spell combination of 【Blade Vortex】 + 【Greater Thunderclap】.

The vortex reached straight up into the sky.

The sky rapidly darkened, with black clouds rolling like an ink sea.

The air was filled with the acridity of electric charge, actually creating a spell similar to weather alteration.

Unlike before, when he had to secretly arrange the ritual array to strip away the 【Ke Yin】, this spell cast he held nothing back.

Boom!

A thick bolt of lightning suddenly erupted from the center of the vortex, piercing straight through the cloud layer and striking the earth directly.

Truly like a natural disaster.

The elf, the zombie, and the succubus could not withstand it; amidst the gale and lightning, they were all blown flying in one go.

In the next moment, a massive projection of the Tree Realm descended from mid-air.

Unlike the ferocity and turbulence of the vortex and Lei Ting, the Tree Realm carried steadiness and a suppressed, unspoken rage.

Vivi was suspended in midair, her eyes erupting with brilliant Bai Guang.

Another round of terrifying spiritual arts bombardment!

Amel gritted his teeth and cursed angrily, forced to channel all his mana.

Previously, he had faced this mid-seventh-tier Tree Spirit, but her spiritual tier was unstable, preventing her from unleashing the full power of her spiritual arts to the limit.

Moreover, relying on the might of his Resurrection Spell, unafraid of harm, he naturally appeared to be handling things with ease.

But now that the Resurrection Spell had become a 50% probability event, how could he dare to gamble?

"Damn it... what Domain is that Ranger using?!"

It was all this person's fault for using such strange methods!

First, he severed the transfer of the Ke Yin, then, in coordination with the Elf, extinguished the Resurrection Spell he relied on for survival!

The 【Dog Demon Feast】 was one thing! As long as he could escape, he would eventually have a chance to dispel it.

But interrupting the ritual to transfer the Ke Yin was troublesome.

Amel was a deep researcher of the Extra-Dimensional Space; not long ago, he had inadvertently contracted two types of Ke Yin. Although he gained immense benefits from them, he did not wish to pay any price, especially since the Ke Yin carried a transformation ritual.

So, after freeloaded everything, he intended to transfer the Ke Yin to someone else.

This was not a simple matter; finding just anyone wouldn't work. The person being transferred to must possess some characteristic that exceeded or equaled his own.

He believed this would not be easy.

Amel was once an elite student at Bahadur Magic Academy; even in that top human academy, he was a high-ranking prodigy. Finding a suitable person was no easy feat.

Yet in reality, it was far easier than he imagined.

Because he had encountered the learned Elf Lady Kali, who possessed rich spell knowledge, and that Ranger Rod, who for some reason had an extraordinary comprehension of the 【Plague Domain】.

Just as he was thinking this.

He suddenly realized—where was that Ranger?

With the opponent's monster-like constitution and strength, could 【Blade Vortex】 plus 【Greater Thunder Spell】 really stop him?

Amel quickly expanded his mana perception to its maximum.

Then he rapidly located a figure at the edge of the vortex.

"Hmm?"

Wait.

Amel stood frozen in place, a strange, inexplicable sensation surging in his heart.

He discovered that the Ranger Rod, amidst the violent vortex, was holding a pose with one finger pointing at him.

Like a statue, motionless.

"This..."

Just as he was stunned.

Whether it was the 【Tree World Descent】 in the sky, or the violent Lei Ting produced by the combination of 【Blade Vortex】 and 【Greater Thunder Spell】, they all dissipated point by point like magical projections.

Afterwards, he was shocked to discover that everything in his field of vision had reversed.

The reversed Ranger, the reversed Tree Spirit, the reversed sky, and even that reversed headless body.

(End of Chapter)