Chapter 57: 56. The Path of the Spellcaster

56. The Path of the Spellcaster

As a non-main-combat spellcaster, the first thing Li Ang had to do was to pull away the distance.

That Sky Gu Lanzhi Ring from the mysterious girl was also conveying this message. The closer he was to this black-armored knight, the higher its heat would be.

The black lightning he released was clearly the same as the special ship cannons on the imperial airship. From the panel, Li Ang got a term—"Annihilator."

It pointed directly to the source of that purple matter like flesh and blood, and at the same time served as the equipment and energy core for this black warrior. Li Ang just looked at it; the power of his armor and sword was all maintained by this matter, not proper equipment.

As the panel said, this warrior was specifically "manufactured." His combat style was very suitable for his profession and race, so the combat power increase was very high.

Berserker, this is a profession that abandons defense and launches unceasing slaughter. The stronger the physique and the higher the recovery power, the stronger the combat power of this profession.

The black knight's race also seemed to be deliberately selected, because among the many races in Newbis, besides individuals with extraordinary talent, the Ox-Horn Race was the most suitable for practicing warrior-type professions.

They were also called the Doraf Race. Besides the pair of horns on their heads, there were huge differences between men and women.

The males among them had burly figures, knotted muscles, and extraordinary strength, while the females had smaller figures, but they had sexual characteristics that were difficult for other races to compare with. Their strength was not as good as the males, but they still surpassed other races, and their explosive power was higher.

This black-armored Ox-Horn Berserker didn't have his own name; he was born for slaughter. This strength was already consistent with the main combat power of a top-tier regiment on paper.

His appearance must have something to do with what the empire was pushing forward.

As the villain that the game protagonist had to face, the Holy Sporeel Empire couldn't all be small fry. Elites would inevitably appear later. This black knight appeared here.

Since it involved creation, the accumulation speed in the short term was limited. Their numbers wouldn't be many; otherwise, the order of the sky would have to be rewritten.

And Li Ang didn't think the Annihilation Knight could beat that young lady. However, he had to take care of himself for the moment.

Riding the wind to accelerate, the black-armored warrior charged in pursuit. Black lightning bolts exploded one after another around his body, and extremely strange and twisted magic shrouded his whole body, forming suspended black-purple blades.

These blades were his summoned objects. They were projected directly, stabbing into Li Ang's magic air shield. The magic in the black lightning slashed out rubbed against the material world, and the thunder roared together. The air shield was reduced by more than half.

After reaching a strength of about Rank 8, powerhouses could basically specifically control matter created by magic and use it as an additional combat unit. Eden could also summon similar things before.

If it weren't for pulling away the distance, this kind of melee sharp blade would pose a fatal threat to people without Exalted armor.

Li Ang replenished the air shield and performed elemental summoning.

A Rank 7 wind element creature generated in place. It carried thunder and whistling, moving extremely fast, and immediately collided with the black-armored warrior. Wild whirlwinds surrounded the surface of the armor, trying to find gaps to attack the inside.

The black warrior stomped on the ground, and black lightning exploded in all directions. The wind element creature was shaken away, temporarily leaving his surroundings.

At this time, Li Ang finished reading the information of this warrior.

Li Ang directly launched his ultimate.

Magic pulled the spirits around him into a riot, mainly controlling the spirituality on the Annihilation Knight.

Every piece of equipment on him, and even he himself, contained strange spirituality. Once affected by Li Ang, they immediately rioted. He twisted in the air, his charge momentum stalled, and he fell to the ground, unable to walk.

"Uh, uh ah!"

The Myriad Spirit Riot was only able to delay the actions of enemies of the Exalted Realm, but it worked surprisingly well on this warrior. He seemed to suffer great pain. In the state where spirituality couldn't be controlled, his body began to twitch and twist, and he even let out screams.

From the feeling of that helmet and his silence, Li Ang even had the illusion that he was an undead creature. Now it seemed that he could also perceive pain.

The black knight's body twisted. In the gaps of his giant sword and armor, those purple tissues seemed to become individual living things. They twisted, stretched, and jumped around like mollusks, as if they wanted to escape the knight's body.

This? Such a big reaction?

Could it be because this power didn't truly belong to him, so the Myriad Spirit Riot could exert such a great effect?

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ang summoned the Earth Snake and let it launch a Gem Ray. This time, he chose the water-attribute ice state.

The energy gemstone flickered at high speed, and a surging ice tide shrouded the entire alley. The black knight, who was struggling, was sprayed head-on. Broken ice and cold air filled the gaps in his armor, almost covering him and the struggling purple flesh with a layer of white frost.

The cold air flowed like a flood, flowing in the corners of the alley, bringing frost to the walls and freezing the floor.

The wind element summon turned its power into a magic hurricane, shrouding the knight, and countless wind blades cut continuously.

"Uh, uh ah ah ow ow—!"

The frozen black warrior raised his head and roared. His riotous magic induced a massive amount of black lightning, and then it converged in front of the eye pattern on the front of the helmet, turning into a surging energy shock wave in the next moment.

Li Ang drove the Wind-Chaser Holy Bell with all his might, the Earth Snake transformed and followed him, and the wind element summon transformed, carrying him into the sky.

"Roar—!!"

The shock wave accompanied by the roar shattered the floor and walls along the way, collapsing a large area of huts in front.

Under the influence of the Myriad Spirit Riot and the attack of the Gem Ray, the black knight launched his ultimate with all his might.

If there were no weakening, his ultimate's destructive power might have been stronger, and it wouldn't have been possible to dodge it. Anyway, Li Ang didn't want to take it head-on.

After releasing the shock wave, the black knight knelt on the ground in silence for a while. Li Ang fell from the sky and just happened to reach an entrance to a hidden location.

Pushing away a brick near the ground and pulling the mechanism inside, the wall turned into a revolving door, and he entered it.

In the darkness of the passage, the Sky Gu Lanzhi Ring maintained the same heat. After a while, the heat became weaker and weaker, indicating that the black knight had left.

Li Ang relaxed and took out the adventure lantern.

The space he was currently in was part of the hidden location, and the system said it was called "Urban Interlayer."

Both sides were built with bricks and stones. Li Ang walked forward for a distance and reached a downward staircase.

Walking along the staircase, he pondered the matter of the knight in his heart.

Now it seemed that the most core power mastered by the empire was that purple tissue like flesh and blood. It could produce black lightning aimed at Star Souls and could also cultivate high-rank combat power like the one just now.

But that kind of matter was afraid of Li Ang's spirituality control.

He didn't use Myriad Spirit Riot to attack those ship cannons before, but he saw some clues just now.

Spellcasters restrain the empire's power?

Li Ang focused on spellcasters at the beginning because he thought he had discovered a loophole in the rules as a transmigrator.

Such a profession that no one chose, and then driving magic not to interfere with matter, but to interfere with spirituality, wasn't it a natural loophole?

But after starting to learn, he knew that what he thought and the facts had a gap.

Newbis had such a profession. It did have its uniqueness, but the reason it was weak was also because it lost a lot of inheritance.

No one knew which force or nation carried forward this profession, and no one knew why it lost most of its inheritance. The history of Newbis was too ancient, and many people were used to not worrying about the lost past.

But in the end, Li Ang still chose it. Because even if his body was a few years younger when he transmigrated, it was a bit late to practice other professions.

Spellcasters emphasized perception. As long as his perception passed, he could gradually get on the right track. After a little practice, he found that he could make progress in this profession.

He also gradually discovered some irreplaceability of this profession and utilized it.

However, other professions could find ways to learn skills or spells, but the spellcaster inheritance was broken. Besides basic spirituality manipulation, even spell writing had to be tested by himself.

The Transcendent stage in backward places was still okay to supplement, but when it reached the Exalted stage, other professions could use magic to create things and build exclusive summons, conforming to the principles of the spirit, matter, and magic triangle, but spellcasters were different.

Spellcasters seemed to jump out of this basic principle. After controlling more powerful magic, how should they interfere with spirituality? Clearly, magic control had reached the Rank 9 professional level, but without corresponding moves and skills, it was more about consuming spellcasting materials to imitate other professions, so it was regarded as having many abilities but not being proficient.

In order to dig into the possibilities of the profession itself, Li Ang once visited ancient tribes during his practice, talked with various shamans and witch doctors, collected spell patterns that Sky Knights didn't care about, communicated with the elemental spirits, ancestor souls, and wilderness ghosts of these tribes, and underwent their tests and rituals.

In the end, he seemed to have caught a little light in the darkness.

That was his two major moves, Ultimate—Myriad Spirit Riot and Rank 7 Spell—Spirituality Activation.

Although simple, in most of the time, he could exert a stronger effect than ordinary support just by relying on these two.

After what happened just now, he even had a feeling that spellcasters might really be an unusual profession.

Able to open the tricky switches of ancient ruins, able to suppress the power behind the empire.

He decided to find a time to go back to those tribes and see if the system could show some more information about the profession.