Chapter 94: Battle Beneath Momona Village (Part 6)

"The other side of the duel consists of Hunting God Church Hunter 'Falcon', Hunter 'War Bear', Hunter 'Siliezhuibuzhe', Hunter 'Fengbaojian', Hunter 'Tiaowanglanyan', Hunter 'Shixuezhe', and Knight Jier—"

Hunter 'Falcon', whose name was also among the duelists, excitedly repeated the Old Priest's words in a loud voice.

Afterwards, he opened his right hand and cast the short Duel Magic Arrow far away.

A roar came from the Altar opposite, and a surge of deep green Divine Power projected from the Altar, attempting to destroy the fired Magic Arrow mid-flight like a vine whip; although the Evil God did not know what function that arrow had, it clearly sensed danger.

But once this special Magic Arrow was activated and the duelists were selected, it could no longer be destroyed or influenced by ordinary external forces.

At least this somewhat panicked Alien Evil God did not have the ability to do so.

The Evil God's temporary obstruction simply passed through the Duel Magic Arrow as if passing through a phantom.

Seeing this situation, the Evil God immediately and rapidly withdrew the power from the ocean of Divine Power on the great tree of the Altar, seemingly intending to close this Altar used to summon subordinates, abandoning the chariot to save the commander.

But the Duel Magic Arrow changed in mid-air; it twisted and contracted starting from the arrowhead, instantly turning into a pitch-black dot, and then expanded in the next instant.

The translucent ripple formed by that expansion swept across all the people and Monsters in the vicinity, and naturally swept over the closing Evil God Altar; one second later, starting from where the Duel Magic Arrow had twisted and vanished, an illusory thing of unknown radius, but one that everyone could directly perceive mentally, descended upon the surrounding environment.

In other words, everyone present seemed to feel that they had been locked inside a space like an eggshell.

This feeling was so clear and intense that Jier and the others selected as duelists clearly felt their breathing stifle, and they knew with absolute clarity that there was no way to leave this place.

Jier's chest trembled, and the Elf Lady's ring that replaced his heart swayed slightly, causing him a bout of physical discomfort.

In a mental trance, he seemed to understand that he could not enter or exit the Lady's dream at this moment—the space here was sealed.

"This..."

Although Jier had anticipated it, he was still somewhat surprised when things actually happened.

And on the opposite side, the Evil God, who had originally wanted to rely on closing the Altar to prevent accidents, did not have its plans fulfilled; the Duel Magic Arrow was extremely miraculous, and it was unknown how the Hunting God had achieved it, but it had actually relied on a Magic Arrow made by a subordinate Priest to forcibly restrict an Alien Evil God.

Yes, before the Magic Arrow restricted spatial transfer, it had actually "dragged" the Evil God's true body out of the ocean of Divine Power—from which it could perform summoning transfers on the Altar—in one go, because the Evil God itself had been selected as a member of the duel.

This "dragging" was not as simple as pulling someone by the hand; it was forcibly dragging the Evil God's divine essence and its massive true body through that "channel" of transfer that was no more than two meters wide, similar to forcing a person through a hole the size of a pencil, which could only stretch that person into a long strip of flesh.

The moment the Duel Magic Arrow was activated, it determined that the Alien Evil God was also on the scene by passing through the Altar's summoning channel, so when the Evil God forcibly closed the channel, the mysterious power within the Magic Arrow directly "dragged" the Evil God over.

It is unknown if the Evil God resisted, but it likely did not. Either it did not expect this to happen, or it was simply unable to resist the mysterious rules on the Magic Arrow.

The entire process was extremely tragic, because Jier and the others all saw that on the originally empty Stalactite Altar, there was only a bare, illusory great tree standing there, composing and maintaining the ocean of Divine Power channel for the entire summoning of parasitic Monsters.

But the Magic Arrow's forceful action directly dragged the Evil God's true body—originally a massive Magic Beast tree that was half-flesh and half-plant—through the narrow transfer channel.

A large amount of disordered flesh tissue, resembling snakes and intestines, and plant parts that had been forcibly torn apart, were crowded and piled up on the basketball-court-sized Altar, just like intestines spilled on the ground after someone had their stomach cut open.

The moment that thing appeared, it emitted intense heat, and everyone could feel a bloody stench and high-temperature hot air rushing toward them.

That was the feeling brought about by the high-energy flesh substances within the Evil God's original body and the various out-of-control powers within the plant parts, which were wildly releasing massive energy in an uncontrolled state and evaporating various liquids within the body.

"All Hunters, prepare Magic Arrows!"

Old Priest Mardo did not waste this excellent opportunity; the Hunting had already begun, and he knew that the situation at this moment alone would not truly kill a god.

Although the Evil God's true body had been forcibly "dragged" to this place by a mistaken "spatial transfer," anyone with a brain could see how dire the situation was for the Evil God at this moment.

But gods are not mortals, and the same goes for Evil Gods.

It was called an Evil God because the other side was hostile to Humans; when the other side's alien believers were still alive and not yet exterminated, this Evil God was also the only and legitimate god of that alien race.

The sturdy Hunter nicknamed 'War Bear' immediately took out a moderately powerful Explosive Magic Arrow, and the other Hunters also took the Magic Arrows they were carrying and held them in their hands, loosely nocking them onto their various Hunting Bows.

Of course, it was impossible for all the Hunters to fire their Magic Arrows at the same time; that would be fatal. Whether the Evil God died or not, at the very least, it was unlikely that anyone here would survive.

At this time, the Hunters were under the command of three Hunting God Church Priests; if Priest Mardo did not issue an order, Priest Clark and Priest Jierkesi could command all the Hunters present on their own. However, under normal circumstances, they would not directly command Hunters belonging to other Priests.

"Little War Bear, you strike first; use your Magic Arrow to test the Evil God's condition," Old Priest Mardo ordered next.

The sturdy Hunter immediately whispered the secret code for this Explosive Magic Arrow and cast it out.

Boom————

An intense explosion spread from the Evil God's flesh on the Altar.

The force of this explosion was so fierce that it even blew Jier and Bell, who were fighting the parasitic Monsters that had rushed up again, away; the parasitic Monsters, being lighter in weight, were easily blown into the air by the spreading shockwave, and even smashed heavily into the stalactites at the top of this Rongdong space, breaking many stalactite columns that had existed for countless years.

Jier and Bell were both blown into the air by the violent shockwave, but Jier did not fly far before he quickly decelerated in the air and landed on the ground on his backside.

He looked up and saw that he was only fifty meters away from the Hunters in front. Jier immediately realized that the maximum activity radius for the specific personnel whose names were recorded by the Duel Magic Arrow was just over one hundred meters, but less than two hundred meters.

It was about the size of just over twenty thousand square meters, roughly the overall size of a football field.

This size was sufficient for combat, but to deal with an Evil God, and using such powerful Magic Arrows, was it a bit too small?

Jier wanted to spew out a whole bunch of curses, but when he turned his head, he saw that because Bell did not have the restriction of the duel distance, he was in a worse state than him, having been blown back several dozen meters further by the shockwave of the explosion.

If Jier hadn't been releasing Lighting Orbs all the way when he came over, he wouldn't have been able to find that poor young man who had been blown away.

"Hey! Bell! Are you alright?"

Jier called out and received a curse in response from Bell.

Clearly, this Baron Heir was now incomparably annoyed that he had taken the initiative to participate in such a dangerous god-hunting operation.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! Are those people all idiots? Using such powerful means at such a close distance, I almost broke my neck! And died in this godforsaken place!"

Bell complained as he quickly ran and jumped over.

Jier waited for him on the spot and did not "heroically" try to approach the front-line battle again, because he discovered that the battle of the Church Hunters did not seem to require the assistance of him and Bell. Those hundreds of parasitic Monsters that had originally guarded the edge of the Evil God's Altar were basically wiped out by the aftermath of the high-power Magic Arrow just now.

And in this place where space was sealed by the Duel Magic Arrow, the Evil God had no possibility of summoning its trashy subordinates again.

"Jier, what do we do now?"

Bell seemed to be at a loss and stood side-by-side with Jier far from the battlefield to ask.

At this moment, Priest Clark's gaze pierced through the billowing flames on the Altar ahead, seemingly seeing something, and through communication, Priest Jierkesi seemed to order his subordinates to release another Magic Arrow.

"Phew, I don't know, I think we should just watch here for now." Jier took a deep breath, watching the new Magic Arrow being fired, his expression not looking good.

As soon as that Magic Arrow was fired, it immediately projected a large amount of electric arcs outward; by the time the arrow landed on the Evil God's body, which was still billowing with flames, it had already turned into a spherical, massive arc core.

This arc core, which gathered huge energy, projected huge, high-temperature electric arcs dozens of meters long in all directions; even the sturdy stalactites that had accumulated over many years had their surface rock melted by the arcs after being swept by arcs thicker than a person's waist, turning red and hot.

If the Shitou could be melted, then there was no need to mention the Evil God's physical body.

As the electric arcs swept past, the places where the flesh came into contact directly heated up and exploded, while the places not directly touched twitched violently; a large amount of tiny electric currents crawled over the flesh that had been forcibly stretched and lengthened, and the liquids within the flesh seemed to boil, being squeezed out from the gaps in the flesh as steam.

As for the parts of the Evil God's body that had turned into plants, the areas swept by the electric arcs turned directly into pitch-black charcoal; even the parts merely grazed by the current, those originally powerful, divine, and mysterious wooden sections, all caught fire.

This terrifying scene made Jier scramble backward, for the electric arcs were so fearsome that he felt that even if it weren't the whole thing, just a single, smallest arc sweeping over him would be enough to char him into a piece of coal.

But despite the immense power and wide kill radius of this new Magic Arrow—which at the very least shrouded most of the Altar space within the range of the electric arcs—Priest Clark still felt it was not enough: "It's not enough! The Evil God's Divine Power activity is increasing. The parts of the body that were previously destroyed are reconstructing at the bottom near the Altar. The Thunder Magic Arrow only causes damage to the surface of the Evil God's body; the other body parts hidden underneath are recovering rapidly!"

"We must inflict damage on the Evil God's body at the bottom; we cannot let It recover."

Priest Clark, his eyes shining with the light of Divine Power, shouted loudly.

Priest Jierkesi immediately looked at the Old Priest Mardo. The Old Priest pondered for a moment, then said to Priest Jierkesi: "Supplement it with another Storm Magic Arrow. Use the temporary rain to replenish the effective range of the electric arcs and restrict the Evil God's recovery."

Priest Jierkesi immediately issued the order: "'Fengbaojian', fire one of your signature techniques, the one with the smallest range."

Among his subordinates, an inconspicuous Church Hunter nodded, put away a Magic Arrow in his hand, and instead quickly took out a Magic Arrow wrapped in strong winds. This Magic Arrow was so difficult to hold that the Hunter had previously kept it in a special sealed arrow case under his Cloak.

Many Hunters' titles and nicknames are related to their signature skills, honors they have received, or obvious physical characteristics. This Church Hunter called 'Fengbaojian' clearly had a title closely related to the Magic Arrow he was using at this moment.

Once the Arrow was released, it immediately vanished from sight.

It was as if the entire Arrow had shot into an invisible world.

And the next moment, a clear change occurred at the location of the Altar where the Evil God was.

In the entire enclosed underground environment, wind actually began to blow.

It started as a breeze, but after one breath, it turned into a strong wind. The wind was even fiercer at the targeted Altar location, and the flames caused by the initial Explosive Magic Arrow were actually blown out by this sudden, rising gale.

Beyond this inexplicably appearing strong wind, even more bizarrely, a dense "cloud layer" appeared at the top of the Rongdong, visible to the naked eye and clinging to the ceiling. If it weren't for the fact that the object was small and its appearance too strange, Jier would have truly thought it was a real rain cloud.

Beneath the suddenly appearing cloud layer was the energy core of the Thunder Magic Arrow. This thing was still striking the Evil God's body below with lethal electric arcs resembling electric whips, but a shield made of Divine Power had already appeared on the surface of the Evil God's body. Although this Divine Power Shield shattered in one hit when the electric arcs swept across, it was clear that compared to the beginning, the Evil God was already recovering and now possessed the ability to resist; it was estimated that it wouldn't be long before it began to counterattack.

But all of this was within the Old Priest's expectations.

A torrential downpour poured down from the thin layer of rain clouds. Even though it was just a thin layer of rain clouds, no one could have imagined it could release such a massive amount of precipitation. These rains, falling like waterfalls, were evaporated immediately upon nearing the electric arc energy core, while the rest of the rain that bypassed it fell one after another onto the Evil God's body.

The Divine Power Shield gathered on the surface of the body resisted the electric arcs from above and their aftershocks, but it had no intention of blocking this rainfall—or perhaps the Evil God itself needed this large amount of moisture to replenish its recovering body.

But before It could absorb this rainwater, the striking electric arcs flowed instantly across Its entire body along with the water.

In an instant, as an electric arc descended, Its entire body began to go numb and convulse. The parts of the body near the Altar had already successfully recovered, but after being numbed by the pervasive rainwater mixed with the electric current, the functions of the entire body ceased working.

The Divine Power Shield that had risen to intercept was bypassed.

?? On the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Horse, I wish the book friends reading this book a Happy New Year, success in the Year of the Horse, good health, all the best, and happiness.