Chapter 198: Maintain Domain

Luo De constructed the Battle Spirit with remarkable speed.

With the Spirit Seed's great assistance, within just half a month he had fully established a Bronze Dragon Battle Spirit.

But a small mishap occurred.

Since Luo De modeled his Bronze Dragon after the one in Cuiyu City, and used only the magical recordings from the Dragon Viewing Festival as direct references,

the Bronze Dragon Battle Spirit he constructed had an extra appendage between its legs.

It didn't affect combat power, but it was utterly grotesque to look at.

The ever-dignified Forest Warden refused to display it in battle, swiftly severing and extinguishing the lower half of the Battle Spirit, planning to rebuild it.

At this moment, the Bronze Dragon Battle Spirit indeed consisted only of its upper body.

BOOM!!!

With this single slash,

a massive sword crater appeared on the hillside.

Everyone could see that Amel's half-human body had been utterly obliterated, leaving only a severed arm flung into the sky.

The prophecy bracelet in Luo De's hand suddenly trembled.

He sensed something, and sharply pointed his finger toward a direction beside him.

It was an empty grass hollow.

Kali Site knew exactly what he meant; she secretly activated her spell and used 【Spatial Shift】 to appear at the indicated grass hollow.

Simultaneously, Amel's newly revived human form slowly rose from that grass hollow.

Facing the elf charging at him, he immediately snapped out of his stunned state.

He reacted swiftly, unleashing a full-range 【Repulsion Shu 】 combined with 【Flame Spider】 in a burst of hatred.

He directly blasted Kali Site away!

Moreover, the seventh-rank mage's Flame Spider had potent corrosive power, and since she had charged in as a mage, she was caught off-guard and entangled.

She could see the blood acting as the soul vessel flow through Amel's body—but she had already missed her chance.

"Damn it!!"

The elf cursed loudly, utterly ungraceful with frustration.

"It's not over yet!"

Luo De snorted in fury.

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

Amel froze stiff.

The blood serving as the soul vessel was "maintained" in place by the Domain's power.

"What kind of Domain is this?!"

Luo De had no intention of answering his question.

【Maintain Domain】 consumed immense spiritual energy; even with his current spiritual reserves far exceeding those of an ordinary sixth-rank, he could not sustain it for long.

Yet Kali Site remained entangled by the Flame Spider.

"Tally!"

The succubus moved before he even finished speaking.

Her increasingly refined Shadow Magic allowed her speed within shadows to nearly match Luo De's.

She leapt from the elf's shadow, wielding the massive 【Sickle-Claw Reverse Blade】, spinning midair and delivering a heavy, forceful slash onto the Flame Spider.

The 【Sickle-Claw Reverse Blade】 carried inherent magical specialization; the Flame Spider, being a construct of magic, was instantly torn in two.

Immediately after, several black shadow ribbons flew from Tally's left palm, binding Kali Site and hurling her straight at Amel.

The Plague Mage Amel remained frozen in 【Maintain Domain】, helplessly watching Kali Site rush toward him.

Watching helplessly as she turned a diamond into powder and scattered it over himself.

The spell 【Canine Demon Feast】—a ritual to block resurrection!

Successfully cast!

Amel's eye twitched.

As a learned scholar, how could he not recognize this spell?

His first instinct—this would kill him.

Though he could abandon this body and flee underground using the soul-vessel blood,

【Canine Demon Feast】 had deeply bound his soul and body together—risking a 50% chance?

Are you kidding?!

Amel surged his magic, gritting his teeth to cast 【Blade Vortex】 combined with 【High Thunder Shu 】.

The vortex surged upward.

The sky darkened rapidly, clouds churning like ink-filled seas.

The air crackled with charged electricity, creating a spell akin to weather manipulation.

Unlike before, when he had secretly arranged the 【Inscription】 removal ritual, this time he held nothing back.

BOOM!

A thick bolt of lightning erupted from the vortex's center, piercing through the clouds and striking the earth.

Truly like a natural disaster.

The elf, zombie, and succubus could not withstand it—they were blasted away by wind and lightning.

The next instant, a vast projection of the Tree Realm descended from midair.

Unlike the violent chaos of the vortex and thunder, the Tree Realm carried calmness and suppressed fury.

Weiwei hovered in midair, her eyes blazing with brilliant white light.

Another terrifying barrage of spiritual spells!

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

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

Added to that, he relied on his resurrection magic's resilience, unafraid of damage, so he had appeared effortlessly in control.

But now that resurrection had become a 50% chance—how could he dare to gamble?

"Fuck! What Domain is that Forest Warden using?!"

It was all because of this man's bizarre tactics!

First he disrupted the 【Inscription】 transfer, then teamed up with the elf to extinguish Amel's resurrection magic!

【Canine Demon Feast】 was bad enough—but if he escaped, he could always remove it later.

But disrupting the 【Inscription】 transfer ritual was a nightmare.

Amel was a deep researcher of other dimensions; recently, he had accidentally absorbed two 【Inscriptions】, gaining immense benefits—but he had no desire to pay the price, especially since the 【Inscriptions】 carried a transformation ritual.

After exploiting them, he planned to transfer the 【Inscriptions】 to someone else.

This was no simple task; he couldn't just pick anyone—he needed someone whose trait exceeded or equaled his own.

He thought this would be difficult.

Amel had been an elite student at Bahadur Magic Academy, among the highest-tier prodigies even in that pinnacle human institution—finding a suitable candidate was no easy feat.

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

Because he encountered the learned elf Kali Site, rich in magical knowledge, and the Forest Warden Luo De, inexplicably gifted in understanding the 【Plague Domain】.

As he pondered this,

he suddenly realized—where was the Forest Warden?

Given that monster's physique and strength, could 【Blade Vortex】 combined with 【High Thunder Shu 】 possibly stop him?

Amel immediately expanded his magical perception to its maximum.

He quickly located a figure at the vortex's edge.

"Huh?"

Wait.

Amel froze in place, a strange unease rising in his chest.

He realized—the Forest Warden Luo De remained motionless in the raging vortex, one finger still pointing at him.

Like a statue, utterly still.

"This—"

Just as he was stunned,

both the 【Tree Realm Descending】 above and the violent thunder from 【Blade Vortex】 + 【High Thunder Shu 】 dissolved like magical projections, fading point by point.

Then he realized with shock—everything in his vision had inverted.

The inverted Forest Warden, the inverted Tree Spirit, the inverted sky, and the inverted headless corpse.

(End of Chapter)