Chapter 571: Fa Judgment

The skill 【Abyssal Throat】 is extremely powerful, even belonging to the cosmic creature, the Abyss Devourer.

Of course, there is a certain sensitivity involved.

But Rod had already used it during his battle with Archduke Asmodeus; those bards had described the skill as if they were there themselves.

Naturally, he was too lazy to hide it any further.

He looked at the dozen or so mages as if they had seen a ghost.

Having tested the spell formation that had shone brightly on the battlefield enough, Rod held nothing back.

Lines like purgatorial lava spread across his corded muscles, merging into a spiritual light of Gao Chao intensity.

His legs suddenly pressed down on the ground with explosive force!

Plus the absurd thrust of +38 【Repulsion Spell】!

【Repulsion Spell】 had been used quite often, and being relatively low-level, the accumulated proficiency had easily piled up to a height of 38.

Boom!

The ground instantly exploded into a huge circular crater.

He crashed forward like a cannonball, not even needing to swing the sword in his hand.

The defensive barrier of that sky canopy was as brittle as paper; without even a moment's resistance, a huge crater was blasted through it in an instant.

Pfft—

Two mages happened to be on Rod's collision course.

They couldn't dodge in time and were directly smashed into a cloud of blood mist, splashing down from the half-sky with a splash-splash sound.

Rod's face was covered in blood.

He slashed fiercely at the empty air with the black-gold long sword in his hand.

Amidst piercing shrieks, the sounds of flesh being cleanly severed and bodies falling to the ground with a pfft-pfft sound came continuously.

Amidst the brutal, blood-colored scene.

The skill 【Infinite Brutal Strength】 of the 【Cruelty Ke Yin】 extracted streams of pain and the joy of combat from the bloodstains, constantly feeding them into Rod's body.

【Infinite Brutal Strength: 20% -> 26%】

The amplified strength had increased.

"Hmm?"

Rod noticed this.

And discovered that the 【Cruelty Ke Yin】 squeezing and pressing against his body had moved even closer.

"Hmph, does 【Infinite Brutal Strength】 get stronger the more people I kill?"

But at the same time, the power of the Ke Yin would also become stronger.

"So what?"

The force of the 【Will of the Firmament】 surged violently.

It pushed the Ke Yin back to its previous distance once more.

And before him.

The mages instantly fell into chaos.

The mage formation being scattered meant they had to fight on their own.

Then they discovered that no spell could block a single strike from Rod's sword.

Some fled, some resisted, and those using their trump cards employed every means at their disposal.

"The mountain is blocked!! Open the ritual, quickly!"

"Where is the ritual control stone! Who has it!!!"

"Stop looking, you fools! Flee first! This person is a warrior, create distance!"

Rod's gaze pierced through the falling rain of flesh and the chaotic crowd of mages, staring straight at Seamus not far away.

He cruelly grinned, feigning ruthlessness.

"Let's begin."

Seamus's eye twitched; he cast 【Fly】 and turned to flee.

Rod sneered, and the 【Insight Demon Eye】 flashed.

He turned back and slashed a sword at the empty void where no one stood.

Pfft!

An arm shot up into the sky.

Scattered blood splashed all over the ground.

Seamus retreated from the 【San De Fa】, revealing his true form.

With a face full of terror, he clutched the neat, clean cut on his shoulder, as a large amount of blood instantly dyed his palm red.

"W-why?! You can see through the Fa?!?"

【【Insight Demon Eye】 triggers Fa Judgment!】

【San De Fa · Insight Demon Eye (Rod): 59】

【San De Fa · Basic (Seamus): 26】

【Result: Success!】

"Only 26? Weakling."

Rod laughed arrogantly.

The 【Sword of Devotion】 spread black, viscous corrosive liquid, which he swung and splashed forward.

The corrosive Fa of Slime Xiao Hei instantly burned through Seamus's spell shield.

He stared at the charred, stinking magic power in apparent shock, and the moment he sensed it, his face went through another wild change as if he'd seen a ghost:

"Another Domain? Where the hell did you get so many Domains?!"

"Guess."

Rod casually called out to Tally, who was watching the battle not far away: "Don't let a single one escape."

"【Secret Shadow Follows】 is already fully in position!"

Tally smiled sweetly, gave an obedient salute, "Is there a reward, Master? Tally's been dying to play."

"Depends on your performance."

"Yay! It's been so long since Tally got to play in the back door, today I want to try it~~"

Beside them, the half-deer-person Kira, who had been staring dumbfounded at Rod's terrifying combat performance, was startled.

She looked at Tally with some awkwardness: "Um... Young Lady Tally, as a girl myself, I have to remind you that men don't like loose girls, especially a respectable gentleman like Mr. Rod."

Tally snorted dismissively.

With Rod not by her side now, she had no reason to be polite to these two:

"You, a little deer-girl who's never touched a man, are actually giving relationship advice to the great succubus Tally Lilith? How laughable."

"S-succubus?"

Tally let out a cold, snickering laugh.

She cast a shapeshift spell, transforming from her current human adventurer form into a dark elf, then from a gnoll into a terrifying but voluptuous tiefling, and finally back into a cute human girl.

Kira's face went pale and she took several steps back.

Succubi were a type of demon, and her courage wasn't great.

"Let Big Sister Tally tell you a truth, little virgin — men like women who are loose only for them~~"

Meanwhile.

The longsword in Rod's hand stirred up wind pressure, and the overwhelming force instantly snapped the magic ring off Seamus's finger.

The president of the Image Society immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream.

At this moment.

Rumble rumble rumble—

Intense magical rumbling came from the sky.

A figure in a purple robe, trailing a faint stream of air, cut across the sky from the distant horizon.

On Seamus's paper-white face, a flicker of joy and hope appeared, and he screamed toward the heavens:

"Teacher, save me!"

And the figure in the sky had clearly been heading this way from the start.

An amplified-volume 【Phantom Sound Art】 came crashing down toward Rod.

"Get lost!!!"

Rod looked up.

He saw an eighth-tier high-stage purple-robed mage performing Kuai Su Nian Zhou.

A massive fist of force formed from magic power came crashing down from the sky.

Rip—

The muscles on Rod's left arm writhed and bulged.

He suddenly opened a cluster of terrifying, lifeless eyeballs, which rapidly turned glowing red like molten lava.

Dozens of +15 【Flame Rays】 burst forth from the eyeballs in a violent eruption!

In midair.

The extreme heat warped space, piercing straight through the sealing ritual in an instant, then, with its force undiminished, tore apart the force-field giant fist as well.

Finally, it punched through the purple-robed mage's body along with his magic shield.

The magical fluctuations became violently chaotic.

The purple-robed mage, like a struck great bird, trailing black smoke, spun through the air and plummeted downward.

Seamus's eyes widened in despair, his mouth opening and closing.

He couldn't squeeze out half a word.

He stared blankly at that man.

He watched him walk over unhurriedly.

Casually slashing a summoned rock in half, then clenching his left fist and squeezing out the burned eyeballs on his arm.

Behind him, a massive Hyakume battle soul flickered.

A crimson long arm formed of soul mist, solid as a real thing, pierced straight through two mages' chests in succession.

"Kneel."

He said it casually, a sunny, arrogant smile on his elf-like handsome face.

Seamus did not resist.

He complied.

He even chose to actively kiss the toe of his shoe.

(End of this chapter)