Chapter 33: 32. Power of the Star Soul (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

32. Power of the Star Soul (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Both were at the Transcendent stage, but with the magic power two levels lower, the storm could not directly break through the scales of the Earth Serpent. However, the air squeezed into the gaps between the scales and harassed its vulnerable parts, making it extremely uncomfortable and causing it to twist its body, attempting to break free from the Colossus's grip.

Li Ang nodded; this snake was a so-called Star Soul, but elemental suppression still took effect.

When the four basic elements are equal in magnitude, there is a clear suppression: agile wind suppresses sluggish earth. Even if the earth's defense is high, it cannot withstand the erosion of the wind.

When dealing with Zoe, using the settled spirituality of the earth element to suppress her wind was a clever use of spirituality by a high-level professional like Li Ang.

"Hiss—!"

Feeling distressed, the great snake twisted its body. Li Ang saw golden blood spraying out from between the golden scales.

Is this effect really this good?

He pondered and looked at its panel again, finding the answer: it was the influence of the snake's own skills.

[Skill: Earth's Favor (Grafted)]

[Activation Method: Passive]

[The earth cherishes its own offspring, bestowing upon it the healing and protection of earth power, as well as the authority to command all earth forces. Because it was grafted from a true Child of the Earth, it also suffers from the curse of the earth; damage from earth-based power is increased.]

Although he did not know how such a powerful skill was grafted onto it, this was likely the secret of the Star Soul. Because the Earth Serpent currently lacked combat intelligence, it could not use it properly and would only suffer from its effects.

The so-called origin from the earth, including spells released using gems produced by the earth, also had its effects enhanced, which was perfectly reasonable. Perhaps Zoe's parents didn't take all the gems away because they considered this?

Feeling pain, the holy snake turned and whipped its tail violently, its brute force causing the air to tremble.

The Colossus's gem armor took the direct hit, and some fine gems attached to it were knocked off and scattered everywhere.

The great snake's whipping speed was not fast but was heavy and powerful, fully conforming to the characteristics of an earth-attribute monster. Its repeated attacks caused the gem Colossus's armor to gradually loosen.

Since it feared wind, Li Ang had a plan.

He unleashed a series of spiritual manipulations, stimulating the spirituality of all the wind-attribute gems on the surface of the gem Colossus simultaneously. They pulled on magic power to generate a strong air current, which formed a tornado on the spot. The howling of the fierce wind resounded throughout the entire underground cavern, and the loud echo was too much even for Li Ang, who had to cover his ears.

Inside the tornado, countless wind blades cut at the holy snake's diamond scales. Small wind blades continuously cut into the gaps, causing continuous damage to its body. Within the towering tornado, gold gradually appeared—it was all the blood of the holy snake being swept up.

"Hiss-ga—!"

The great snake shook its head in pain, breaking free from the grip of the gem Colossus, whose strength had been weakened by the whipping. Its two star eyes scanned the air, searching for the culprit.

Its consciousness was chaotic, but having received massive damage, it still understood that there was a primary attacker behind it.

Tracking magic power trails is the instinct of powerful monsters, and the great snake moved closer and closer to the hiding spot.

Finally, even through the mountain rock, its gaze locked onto Li Ang.

The emerald in the crown atop the holy snake's head flickered, its eyes emitted star-light that felt almost tangible, and the rainbow-colored gem band embedded on its head lit up simultaneously.

From Li Ang's perspective, the snake's head flickered with different colored gems over a dozen times within a few seconds. This anomaly was definitely not a good thing. He glanced at Zoe, who was kneeling on the sand holding her head, the divine light in her eyes flickering as she showed signs of struggle, and he ran out of the hiding spot to put some distance between them.

After revealing his location, the great snake's eyes captured Li Ang.

Li Ang immediately had the Colossus change its actions.

Gem Colossus, perform body reshaping!

Driven by Li Ang's will, the Colossus's body shook and shattered, decomposing into soil wrapped in gems.

These clumps of soil moved like living things; some slithered on the ground, some swirled in the air. They crossed the complex terrain on the back of the ancient snake's remains and arrived in front of Li Ang, forming a high wall.

Various gems gathered on the front of the high wall, forming a wide, colorful mirror shield.

Just as the Colossus finished its defense, the gems on the snake's head flickered faster and faster, eventually becoming almost simultaneous. In an instant, a rainbow-colored cross-shaped starlight lit up.

The air instantly became dry and scorching, and a torrent of energy poured out. A massive amount of magic power slammed into the gem mirror shield in the form of earth, fire, water, and wind elemental rays.

The energy impact was refracted by the shield, splashing in all directions. Multicolored light occupied Li Ang's entire field of vision. The ground at his feet turned charred in some places, froze into ice in others, shattered into powder, or melted into magma.

The main impact was borne by the Colossus, which had turned into an earth wall. The impact force was transmitted to the ground through the cracks constantly appearing on the wall, and Li Ang, hiding behind it, felt the ground shaking incessantly.

In Li Ang's spiritual perception, the Colossus was forcibly supplementing its magic power with spirituality to maintain its form, and now a lot of its spirituality had flowed away.

Just before it was about to collapse, the holy snake's attack ended. The light of the gems gathered into a band on its head dimmed significantly, but its eyes and the three largest gems on its head remained shining.

After the energy rays ended, everything around had changed. The scattered gems were blown away, and the solidified golden blood melted and flowed, revealing the glazed scales on the surface of the ancient snake's body. Under the scorching of the high-purity energy, these scales also turned black or shattered.

Li Ang repaired some of the Colossus's spirituality so it wouldn't collapse for the time being.

This level of special attack was far beyond what a wyvern's wind bullet or a gem-beast's claw slash could compare to.

Recalling the anomaly that appeared when the holy snake launched its attack, this strike should be the "Gem Ray [Weakened]" on its panel.

And this is still the weakened version?

If the ancient giant snake that died at his feet had used it at its original power, could it have directly pierced through the strata of Satus Island?

Li Ang recalled the super monsters that various top teams had fought; he feared that only the Purgatory Dragon King of the Prison Sea Island could unleash such an attack—that thing could manipulate an entire volcano. And the King of Maggots of the Ancient City of Dark Night, whom he had killed at the Soul Peak not long ago, specialized in death power and truly could not perform high-purity energy attacks.

A Star Soul is truly not something to be trifled with.

The great snake's energy source is called the Creation Equation, Tier 4, and it is also weakened due to its recent birth. Even if its name reveals its extraordinary origin, the power of this Gem Ray shouldn't exceed Tier 4 by too much.

It seems this is the power of the remaining two skills.

[Skill: Star Soul Light [Weakened]]

[Activation Method: Cooperative Casting]

[Guides pure power, the nature of which is far superior to magic power. The power of all attacks launched with this will increase exponentially. Because the Star Soul has not grown to its peak, the light is faint.]

[Skill: Gem Power [Weakened]]

[Activation Method: Passive]

[Gems containing various elemental attributes can refract raw magic power, converting it into energy attacks of all attributes and strengthening them. However, a newly reborn life cannot freely understand and master the Dao of elements.]

These two explain why its attack intensity is so high and why it can launch four types of elemental attacks. It is because of them that it has such a high combat power boost.

However, it doesn't know how to convert all its attacks into wind-attribute before firing; otherwise, the gem Colossus would have been finished.

Li Ang heard a slight movement nearby; it was Zoe, and the anomaly on her had temporarily disappeared.

He didn't know what the ruins' power had shown her, but in any case, it had brought her great fear of the Star Soul, which should still be lingering in her heart now.

However, perhaps witnessing the power of that energy torrent just now, she momentarily cast aside her fear and was almost unable to stop herself from rushing out of the hiding spot.

She remembered Li Ang's instructions and, though worried to the point of clutching her hands to her chest, she did not cry out.

Li Ang shook his head and raised his hand to signal a three to her.

The young girl nodded and lightly left along the shadows.

At this moment, light flowed on the holy snake's head, and those dimmed gem bands lit up again.

That so-called Creation Equation can efficiently recharge, allowing special attacks of that level to be launched continuously?

Li Ang wanted to ask the designers of the game "Newbie Fantasy": even if this thing is weakened, it can crush the vast majority of ordinary adventurers. Should it really be on a starting map like Satus Island?

And from the perspective of someone in this world, since meeting Zoe, the extensive knowledge Li Ang had accumulated during his time in the top teams was no longer enough. The true secrets of this world seemed to be revealing a corner to him.

Li Ang could use the gem resources at the island's core to break defenses and consume, but his defense had flaws.

He had to add more attackers to keep it overwhelmed.

Li Ang sensed the situation of his earth elemental summon; it was still fighting the Divine Rock Guard. However, because of the Gem Ray fired here just now, the energy supply to the Divine Rock Guard had decreased, and its body's repair speed had slowed down.

The elemental beast should be able to win, but it couldn't get away for the moment. If there was another Gem Ray before it arrived, the gem Colossus would be gone, and if more came, there would be no way to fight.

It was still because the current conditions were too stretched thin.

Why must a team have at least one vanguard, commonly known as a tank, to absorb damage? Because only then can the spellcasters let loose.

Li Ang missed the reliable tanks he had encountered.

The great snake's starlight eyes looked over, and the gems on its head bloomed with light once again.

"Zoe!"

Li Ang shouted loudly.

A sharp, bright white stone shuttle was thrown from afar, hitting the great snake's head with a loud bang.