Chapter 277: All mages are despicable, shameless bastards (33)

The three Golden Warriors all had the same weapon.

Right hand a long blade, left hand a small round shield less than 20 cm in diameter and over 10 cm thick, the shield made of dark gold with a matte surface.

Luosen could tell at a glance that both items were creations of the Tree of Life, and the matte material was essentially a three‑dimensional rune.

Their attack and defense were surely astonishing.

The three warriors also acted almost simultaneously.

After activating Golden Power, their skin showed a faint golden sheen, and they rushed fiercely at Luosen from three different directions.

Their speed was truly great; as they charged, their bodies turned into golden streams of light, and Luosen could barely catch their silhouettes.

Laifu displayed that their ground‑charge speed reached 100 meters per second.

At that speed, even with wings attached they could fly straight up.

If it were an ordinary mage, they'd likely be killed in a single encounter, and after death they wouldn't even know who killed them.

But Luosen feared nothing about this swift, sudden style; he handed full control of the battle to the Heart of the War God.

With six‑line extreme operation bursting forth, three perfect spirit‑resonance staffs flew from Luosen, hovering in the air around him in an equilateral triangle.

Under spirit resonance, vast power was drawn in and transformed into three massive Transformation Techniques.

Transformation Technique was Luosen's most mastered spell; using it now came as easily as breathing.

But the target of the transformation was not the Golden Warriors, but the ground around them.

With a rumbling 'boom‑boom‑boom~~', the ground around Luosen rose at great speed, quickly joining together to form a 10‑meter‑diameter earthen hemisphere that enclosed him.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The three Golden Warriors were blocked by the thick earth layer; their tremendous charge force slammed a huge pit into the layer, almost breaking through.

Taierze immediately shouted, "Brothers, give it your all—this earth wall is soft and won't hold long!"

The crescent long blade is hardly suited for digging, but it doesn't matter—the Golden Warriors' bodies are the best weapons.

The three fellows dug with hands and feet like mole rats, vowing to pull Luosen out from inside the earthen shield.

Their digging speed was also truly fast—over a meter per second through dense soil, faster than professional excavators.

Luosen, however, smirked inwardly: "What three muscle‑brained Golden Warriors."

He kept releasing Transformation Technique, opening an opening above, using Flight Spell to fly to a nearby large tree, then standing on the trunk and continuing to cast Transformation Technique downward at the ground.

Vast amounts of mana poured continuously into the staff, exceeding 5,000 tubes per second.

At the same time, Luosen's main body hidden in the embassy's underground chamber activated the Burning Soul Ring, fully charging the Endless Crystal Array to ensure ample mana supply.

All that vast mana turned into shaping power, gathering the surrounding soil, tightly wrapping the ground's hemisphere and rapidly thickening it.

In the blink of an eye, the hemisphere's diameter swelled to 100 meters.

The three Golden Warriors were deeply trapped inside the soil layer.

This was still not enough.

Because the soil layer was too soft, they could easily break free.

But it didn't matter.

Because Luosen also knew the Hardened Clay Technique, a construction spell widely used by the Natural Empire.

Because it's used often, many improvements have been made, and there are many versions of the spell.

It not only adapts to soils worldwide, but also has many large‑scale versions capable of holding vast amounts of mana.

Luosen now employed it, repeatedly reinforcing the earthen sphere before him.

Not only strengthening, but continually reshaping it.

When he felt the Golden Warriors were about to break out of the earth ball, he used Transformation to shift the soil, moving the warriors they had dug up back to the center of the ball, rendering all their effort futile.

Thus, Luosen was seen standing calmly on the tree, while the ground before him was a 100‑meter‑diameter, constantly writhing and changing hardened‑clay sphere.

Then both sides entered a war of attrition.

Inside the earth ball, the three Golden Warriors struggled desperately to break free.

Luosen kept pouring in power, doing his utmost to keep them confined.

Both sides' forces were extremely strong, but ultimately Luosen, aided by his magical implements, had the edge.

The tug‑of‑war lasted about ten minutes; Luosen consumed over 80,000 tubes of mana in total, finally exhausting the three Golden Warriors' strength.

It must be said, the Golden Warriors are astonishingly tough.

Trapped in an unbreathable environment and yet digging with all their might, they managed to hold out this long.

In a normal setting, Luosen estimated he'd need to tug for an hour before a winner could be decided.

Feeling the Golden Warriors inside the earth ball had fallen silent, Luosen let out a quiet sigh: "These mole‑rats really can dig."

If he hadn't greatly improved the quality of all his magical implements, he might have been broken free by the enemy.

Once they broke free, the three could either scatter and flee at full speed or launch a full‑force assault on him—either way a huge trouble.

But now, naturally, he was the victor.

With a thought, the earth ball continued to transform, constantly writhing.

Vast mana kept being infused, and the Transformation Technique exerted tremendous crushing power, shattering the hand‑foot bones and even the spines of the three Golden Warriors trapped in the soil, leaving only intact heads to sustain life.

Only then did Luosen finally relax completely and unfold the earth ball.

"Plop~ plop~ plop~~"

Three twisted figures, their clothes utterly shredded, bodies coated in mud and blood, tumbled out of the earth ball one after another and fell to the ground.

Even so, they were not dead; they still had faint heartbeats and breaths, and were continually growing stronger.

In less than a minute, the three unlucky ones opened their eyes one after another.

As soon as they opened their eyes, they saw Luosen still sitting on the previous boulder, smiling at them.

"Three warriors, your challenge has failed."

Taierze suddenly felt his body completely immobilized, even unable to sense his own existence, and his heart instantly turned icy.

At this point, even the most foolish person would know they had been outmaneuvered by the mage.

"Despicable! Shameless! Sneaky! Vicious!"

"They claimed it was a spar, claimed they would only defend and not strike, yet they schemed against us!"

"Yes—exactly—mages are all untrustworthy scoundrels!"

"You will not meet a good end!"

The three Golden Warriors kept hurling curses, helplessly, because their mouths were the only weapons they could still use.

Luosen pretended not to hear, his mind flickered, and the soil layer beneath surged again, tightly enveloping the three, leaving only a single breathing hole.

Using Levitation, he wrapped the three stone cocoons, then whisked the three unlucky fools away from Hudie Gu at speed.

Duola's intelligence told Luosen that Golden Warriors are formed by elite Elves merging with the Golden Tree Seed.

The stronger the foundation, the higher the ultimate attainment.

For seven thousand years, the Holy Elven Empire has amassed countless immensely powerful High Ring Warriors.

Among them, those above eight rings number around two thousand.

Each of these individuals is a person of unparalleled talent.

After merging the Golden Seed, and with a Legendary Crystal, one can easily stabilize one's power above Legendary 7.

And the three Golden Warriors he captured are truly elite among elites.

Such a prized treasure, Luosen naturally couldn't bear to kill.

He plans to use their bodies to study the Golden Tree Seed, then subjugate it for his own use, to maximize benefit.

He had just been gone a short while when he sensed a massive surge of power rushing toward Hudie Gu.

It was the Radiant Warrior who, sensing the disturbance, hurried back to investigate.

Luosen sensed briefly and realized the arrival wasn't anyone else but Regiment Commander Jia Di Ya of the Shadow Guard Sixth Action Group, accompanied by a large contingent of elite subordinates, close to five thousand.

Obviously, they sensed the situation was abnormal, so they brought an entire Shadow Guard Legion.

After a brief assessment, Luosen estimated that with the combat power of the Elite Shadow Guard Legion, if they could encircle the three Golden Warriors, even at the cost of nearly two thousand casualties, they should be able to successfully slay the Golden Warriors.

The premise is that the Golden Warriors choose to fight to the death; if the three insist on fleeing, the chance of killing them drops dramatically.

Thus, if these three Golden Warriors truly wreak havoc at the Empress's birthday banquet, it would certainly create a world‑shocking tragedy.

If combined with the earlier dream and the two flower saints, Zhuo Ya could also be killed.

Luosen thought to himself: 'Duola said that the Elves' Legendary Crystals are still extremely scarce, only thirty in number and of poor quality, so the legendary power has not yet erupted.'

'I'll take this chance to quickly devise a solution against the Golden Warriors.'

Of course, from Duola's report, given the Elves' slow pace, it will be three to two years before they overcome the limit on Legendary Crystal numbers, so the issue isn't particularly urgent.

'After finally getting out, the trouble is solved, so just enjoy the Empress's banquet.'

He stretched, raised his hand and patted the floating 'stone cocoon' beside him: "Stop cursing, or I'll pick up a lump of dog poop and shove it into your mouths."

The three Golden Warriors fell silent at once.

(End of chapter)