Chapter 341: Arthur Leck

Naimi Xisi's counsel did not cause Ai Ma to defect, but instead made her eyes brighten, and she looked over greedily.

"Since that's the case, why don't I make you my slave, unconditionally offering me that half‑plane?" Ai Ma mocked.

Naimi Xisi shrugged; this battle was inevitable and already within his expectations, and as long as he defeats Ai Ma, the opponent should cooperate obediently.

But in a virtual world, to defeat an enemy with permissions?

That's not an easy task.

"Conquer me with your strength; if you win, I will submit to you. Conversely, you will become my slave!" Ai Ma's mithril war boots traced star‑like trails on the ice, and her sword sang softly, summoning seven black beams. The beams, upon touching the icy mist, swelled into frost‑giant forms, their claws and fangs entwined with bone‑chilling blue‑white frost.

Naimi Xisi's pupils contracted; indeed, the current Ai Ma possessed not only the power of a Sword Singer, but also an unknown special ability.

She instantly summoned seven frost giants; even a master of Spellcraft likely lacks such ability.

"Since that's so, I'll make you face reality honestly," Naimi Xisi intoned coldly, chanting a spell as massive negative‑energy mana coiled on the ground, forming a huge six‑pointed Star Spell Circle.

Six‑ring Necromancy spell — 【Death Spell Circle】!

Endless black light burst from the six‑pointed Star Spell Circle, and the seven covered frost giants, as if weathered by centuries of wind and sun, turned into a pile of ash.

Meanwhile, within the same Spell Circle, Ai Ma stood calmly in place; she had already adjusted her strength to the limit this world can accept — a level‑20 Sword Singer.

With her formidable Physical Quality, the instant‑death effect of the Death Spell Circle had no effect.

Moreover, after the seven frost giants fell, she raised her hand again; ten black spirit lights shot from her palm, intertwining with the ambient mana. In the end, ten fire‑lizard creatures bearing 【Flame Spirit Light】 appeared at the spot.

"Indeed, a high probability of being able to summon Monsters at will," Naimi Xisi squinted; the frost giants and fire lizards were Monsters they had previously defeated.

Even before the battle, he suspected that the final boss could freely appropriate the world's Monsters as consumables appearing before him; now it was confirmed.

"How can I fight this? If I can't defeat Ai Ma, endless Monsters will drag me to death," Naimi Xisi began to calculate, wondering whether the opponent's Monster summoning had any limits and which spells he should use.

Just as he was pondering, the sixteen‑sided golden die in his hand suddenly shifted, and a stream of information flowed into his mind.

Naimi Xisi gave a strange smile: "You have an ally, and I have one too."

The die darted into the wreckage of the lich Wei Ke Na, and amid a swirl of dense black fog, the intact lich, crowned with a frosty ice crown, reappeared before Naimi Xisi.

Strangely, despite the strong reinforcement, Ai Ma's complexion did not improve.

She stared at Wei Ke Na in shock: "How is this possible? This isn't under my control; why did you resurrect it without permission? Wait—"

Wei Ke Na stared at her with dead silence, his voice unmoving yet tinged with a hint of divinity: "I am Ya Se Lie Ke — the servant of my master, opening a path of return for the lord of countless hidden and concealed realms."

"Indeed." Naimi Xisi curled his mouth; the die that had constantly guided him, and the bridge linking Wei Ke Na to the real world, were both founded upon a special existence.

Qibi Zhe.

【Qibi Zhe】 refers to devout, outstanding believers who, after death, are taken by divine messengers to their respective divine realms for rebirth, gaining eternal existence there. They are akin to those who enter heaven, but usually cannot leave the area prescribed by the deity. If their deity perishes, the Qibi Zhe also vanish, or become the Qibi Zhe of another deity.

And at the pinnacle of the Qibi Zhe are the Saints.

Embodiments of divine will, representatives of authority, bridges between the divine realm and reality.

Saints bear countless titles, all indicating their significance. Yet Ya Se Lie Ke, the legendary lich who covertly gifted his half‑plane to Naimi Xisi while seeking Wei Ke Na, had unknowingly died and become Wei Ke Na's Saint.

Wei Ke Na was sealed, and Ya Se Lie Ke, now a Saint, became weaker than he was in his lich days due to the lack of divine support.

Saints have no physical form, being Spiritual Bodies, so he could only choose to invade this illusory world's Wei Ke Na as his vessel.

In other words, the current final boss Wei Ke Na is not Ai Ma's ally; on the contrary, his purpose is solely to defeat Ai Ma and release the true Wei Ke Na.

The lich emitted a cold, metallic‑scraping laugh; the ice surface suddenly sprouted countless prisms. When Wei Ke Na unleashed the nine‑ring spell "Extreme Ice Storm," four hundred twenty ice spikes refracted infinitely between the mirrors, turning the entire space into a meat‑grinder‑like prism light maze.

Ai Ma glided across the ice with the feline‑style steps of a Sword Singer, the fire lizards' flames colliding with the ice spikes to cause steam explosions; seizing the moment, the Sword Singer surged within seven feet of the lich, her slender sword, bathed in silver light of "Barrier Breaker," thrust directly at the rib housing the lich's life core.

Wei Ke Na's skeletal chest cavity suddenly erupted with massive dark mana; the nine‑ring Necromancy spell "Law of Death" shot toward Ai Ma like a Damocles sword, but unfortunately, Ai Ma's essence is a 【Living Spell】; any Necromancy instant‑death spell is a laughable gimmick to her.

Conversely, Naimi Xisi consecutively unleashed three six‑ring Evocation spells 【Burning Stone Haze】. Tiny volcanic stones ablaze with fierce fire carpeted the sky, hurling toward Ai Ma, forcing her to cancel the fire lizard summons and, in retaliation, summon thirty spirit‑raven messengers.

These glowing small Monsters actively collided with the volcanic stones, using their "Magic Counter" trait to weaken the spell's effect before they vanished.

"I see, the number summoned simultaneously is limited? No, the quantity varies with level," Naimi Xisi squinted. Fire lizards are level‑10 Monsters, but the opponent canceled ten fire lizards and instead summoned thirty level‑6 Monsters.

"Time Stop!" Naimi Xisi shouted at the lich.

The lich shook its head: "Useless! Living Spell is immune to all Time Stop spells!"

Naimi Xisi suddenly realized, nearly forgetting that Ya Se Lie Ke himself possessed a Living Spell, whose intricacies he might not fully grasp.

Seeing Ai Ma prepare another summon, Naimi Xisi also began chanting a spell.

Seven‑ring Spellcraft spell — 【Level 7 Monster Summoning】!

After deducting five health points, Naimi Xisi amplified the spell's power, but the next moment, nothing appeared.

Ai Ma was about to mock, when the wall beside her emitted a "Boom!"

When the first wave of energy ripped through the ice, an ancient creature sleeping beneath a thousand‑foot ice abyss awoke. Six ice worms encrusted with frost crystals burst through the wall; their transparent bodies refracted spell light, and their mouths expelled not acid but "Arcane Frost Breath" capable of freezing mana.

Naimi Xisi suddenly understood: in this game world, summoning spells operate on a proximity‑summon principle.

Panicked, Ai Ma instantly altered her summoning strategy; twenty snow‑fairies bearing the "Elemental Devour" trait leapt from the void, these semi‑transparent beings swarming the ice worms' wounds, ravenously devouring their primal mana, while themselves dodging the worms' attacks at near‑sonic speed.

(End of Chapter)