Chapter 1757: Stepping into the Abyss, Taide Transforms

Xia Duo looked at the Blessing Holy Seal on the back of his hand, unable to help but feel a trace of nervousness in his heart; since crossing over, the number of battles he had experienced that could be called evenly matched could be counted on one hand.

Of course, this did not mean his combat experience was sparse; aside from the experience of his Projection Plane Avatar, theory was also a form of experience, and it did not necessarily have to be actual combat experience.

Xia Duo positioned himself as a researcher and leader, not a combatant, but at the current stage, the most excellent researcher was very likely the most powerful combatant.

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Continuing forward, the thick Demon Aura had already evolved into tangible phenomena such as gray-black mist, a foul stench, and quagmires of flesh and blood.

At the same time, Taide ordered his subordinates to land and proceed on foot, while Xia Duo followed closely behind Taide, his feet treading upon the rotting quagmire made of flesh and blood that had already begun to degenerate.

"We are approaching the Dream Abyss, stay alert!"

At Taide's command, Xia Duo was suddenly startled. The Abyss? He subconsciously looked up at the sky; just a few minutes ago, the gray-white sun, though low, had still been present, but at this moment, it had already vanished.

The sky had taken on a mysterious color between blue and purple, looming in and out of the dark clouds, making one unable to help but conjure up ominous associations.

At this moment, Xia Duo could not help but feel some regret; he had originally thought that Taide tracking the demons might eventually lead to finding them somewhere in the Boundless Wilderness, but he had not expected the other party to have chased them all the way to the Abyss.

Could this be the legendary "party of Adventurers"?

Then what did that make him? Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit discouraged.

Just then, Taide's cold and vigorous voice came from ahead, "Mortal, focus your attention, do not be deceived by the Abyssal Aura!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Duo immediately reined in his mind and stopped letting his thoughts wander; since he had already come, he had to find a result that could convince himself before returning.

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Continuing forward, the purple in the sky grew more intense, yet it appeared even more eerie when combined with the dark clouds; this time, not only Xia Duo, but even the ten Divine Envoys including Taide wore solemn expressions.

The greatswords in their hands had begun to rise with a layer of light-flame, like thick torches, burning away the Abyssal Aura that was constantly encroaching from all around.

Xia Duo looked at the Blessing Holy Seal on the back of his left hand; at this moment, the seal was also flickering slightly, as if it were struggling to resist something. Fortunately, it was still holding firm and had not shown the "fading" situation that Taide had mentioned earlier.

However, Taide seemed uneasy and tore a Light Feather from the light wings behind him, imbuing it onto the seal on Xia Duo's hand; only then did the seal stabilize.

"Stop!" Taide ordered again.

The Divine Envoy team obeyed the order instantly and stopped; Xia Duo did not have such restrictions, but this trip was led by Taide, so he would not act independently.

"Divine Envoy Taide, have you made any discoveries?"

"There are demons lurking ahead."

As he said this, Taide had already raised his greatsword, and without waiting for Xia Duo to continue questioning, the demons ahead seemed to be provoked by Taide's actions and revealed their forms from the empty quagmire.

There were three demons in total, one large and two small, but even the two small ones were nearly five meters tall, and as for the large one, it was as high as nearly ten meters!

The large one was humanoid in form with thick limbs, only compared to a normal human shape, this guy had two heads, while the two small ones were both in the likeness of hyenas.

But these two hyenas were countless times larger than the group of infected hyenas that had tracked the Daxia Homeland earlier!

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo could not help but gasp; although he did not believe there was any necessary connection between size and strength, such a massive scale was astonishing even just looking at the physical power.

If they had any special abilities, they would likely be very difficult to deal with.

Seeing that Taide and the group of Divine Envoys were about to launch an attack, Xia Duo hurriedly asked, "Divine Envoy Taide, were the previous infected creatures sent by them?"

"No."

Taide left behind this brief sentence, then spread his light wings and rose from the ground, the sword in his hand emitting intense light-flame that shot straight into the sky.

The other Divine Envoys were similar to Taide, spreading their light wings and ascending into the air together.

Seeing that Taide did not call for him, Xia Duo knew this battle had nothing to do with him, so he remained cautiously alert and slowly moved closer to the front.

On the other side, after Taide rose into the air and reached a certain height, he began to dive downward; while diving, his entire body also began to radiate intense Holy Light, illuminating the dark environment nearby as if it were broad daylight.

The next moment, Xia Duo realized why Taide had not wanted him to follow earlier; it was very likely that he was considered a hindrance.

He saw that as Taide dived, his body seemed to merge into the Holy Light he was emitting, turning into a giant being of light, wielding a greatsword, and crashing fiercely into the large humanoid demon that remained on the ground!

At this moment, Xia Duo could not help but think of Ultraman, whom he had watched when he was a child; of course, there could be no real Ultraman on Earth, but here, Taide was simply a small-sized Ultraman.

Taide's original body height was about two meters, but after "transforming," Taide instantly became a giant with a height not inferior to that large humanoid demon, about ten meters tall.

At this time, Xia Duo had not yet been to the battlefield where the Kingdom of Radiance fought the demons, but he could already imagine the scenes that might appear on the battlefield—

Above, giants brawling, below, small people brawling, and from time to time, a clearing Spell might be cast; it was truly difficult for ordinary people to participate in such things.

He really did not know how that neighbor Peiluo had survived the battlefield; perhaps that was just a cliché story of "I used to be an Adventurer."

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Estimating the intensity of the battle ahead, Xia Duo cautiously stopped his steps and stood to watch; at this time on the battlefield, Taide and the group of Divine Envoys had already quickly completed their tactical deployment.

Except for two Divine Envoy team members who were separated to deal with the two hyena demons, the remaining eight Divine Envoys all focused their fire on the large humanoid demon.

But they were demons after all, and they were in the Abyss; every time those two hyena demons roared, they would summon a group of mutated hyenas similar to the ones that had assaulted the Daxia Homeland from the ground.

It was just that whenever the greatswords with light-flame in the hands of Taide and the other Divine Envoys swept past, those mutated hyenas would vanish in droves.

Occasionally, a few that were not annihilated in body on the spot and recovered to their original state could not withstand the subsequent rounds of "friendly fire."

Taide was right when he said they were cannon fodder!

Looking at it this way, the greatsword manifested from Holy Light that Taide used earlier to eliminate the mutated hyenas sealed by the Force Sphere was probably not even a major ultimate move!

Two Divine Envoys against two hyena demons did not look strenuous at all, but those two hyena demons seemed to have extremely tenacious vitality; even when pierced by the greatswords burning with light-flame, with their wounds still burning, they were still jumping around energetically.