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Chapter 733: Chapter 39: Ferocious Offensive!
Under the Lost Fruit Tree, the shadows cast by the massive canopy were like solidified ink, enveloping Cyrus and Lai Ou in a suffocating silence. The air was filled with the scent of sulfur and decay, with only the unripe fruits hanging among the tree branches emitting a heart-stirring ripple of laws.
Suddenly, Lai Ou, who had been sitting as still as an ice sculpture, abruptly opened his eyes. His nostrils flared slightly, as his perception organs beneath the skin seemed to catch a faint disturbance in the distance. His massive frame sprang up, bringing a chill as he cautiously gazed toward the shadows of the ruins surrounding the chapel.
Almost simultaneously, a cold smirk formed on Cyrus’s lips, as if everything was under his control. He slowly rose and gently dusted off non-existent dirt from his Wizard Robe.
"Have they arrived?" His voice wasn’t loud, yet it hissed like a snake’s tongue, clear in the deathly silence, without a hint of surprise, as if he had been expecting them for a long time.
Just then, a gust of wind from an unknown source swept by, rustling the tattered banners and brittle vines, creating a soft rustling sound.
Under the cover of the wind, a series of piercing sounds erupted suddenly!
"Swish swish swish—!"
Like phantoms, eight figures radiating powerful domain fluctuations appeared almost simultaneously atop the towering fractured stone pillars and collapsed arch remnants around the fruit tree. Each possessed a different aura—light, icy, or sharp—forming a semi-circle around the two beneath the tree, led by Philis and Lynch, representing the alliance.
Cyrus’s sinister gaze, as sharp as a bone-cutting steel blade, slowly scanned these eight faces. When he saw Lynch, the chill in his eyes intensified, but the sneer on his face grew even more pronounced: "Hmph, you’ve gathered so conveniently, saves me the trouble of finding you one by one; let’s settle it all here and now!"
Philis stepped forward, his white robe swaying in the breeze, his expression solemn, his voice booming like a bell: "Cyrus! The Lost Fruit is a gift from the Lost Tower to all Trialists, to be contested through one’s skills! Isn’t it too arrogant of you to attempt to monopolize it?"
At these words, Cyrus let out a sharp laugh, as if hearing the world’s greatest joke: "Philis, spare me your hypocritical sermon! Want to accuse me to the Supreme Council? Don’t forget where this is—the Lost Tower!"
He spread his arms wide, as if embracing this harsh world, his voice rising with unabashed jungle law implications, "Here, power is truth, and the law of the jungle is the only rule!"
"If you have the ability, break through the formation and take it, if not, get lost, or... meet your end here!"
At this moment, Sophia and Alex from the Eternal Freeze Castle also cast their icy gazes toward Cyrus’s companion, Lai Ou. Sophia’s voice was as chilling as the polar wind, questioning: "Lai Ou, as the Son of Eternal Freeze, are you truly going to wallow with the Tower of Order and become an enemy of your homeland kin?"
Confronted with the questioning, not only did Lai Ou not show a hint of guilt, but instead, he displayed a mocking expression, retorting harshly: "Kin? Don’t call us that intimately! Besides being born coincidentally on the same snow-covered land, what else is there between us?"
His tone carried a decisive separation, "I, Lai Ou, act only according to the interests aligned with the strong! As for your choices, what do they have to do with me?"
His words were cold and realistic, revealing the complex power structure within the Land of Extreme Winter. Sophia and Alex represented a faction relatively neutral, even inclined toward Fran, whereas Lai Ou had long tied his fate with the Tower of Order.
"Haha!"
The youngest-looking Lilia broke the tense stalemate.
She chuckled lightly, her voice carrying the clear tone of a young girl, yet exuding an indifference incongruous with her appearance: "If reasoning doesn’t work, then there’s nothing more to say. Let’s see who the Goddess of Destiny favors this time! Magi, let’s go!"
As her words fell, the dark purple toad, Magi, lazily perched on her shoulder, suddenly opened its murky eyes, letting out a low, guttural croak. In the next moment, its previously palm-sized body rapidly expanded like it was inflating!
In the blink of an eye, a giant toad as large as a small hill appeared with a boom on the ruins! Its dark purple skin was bulging with boils, emitting a nauseating stench, its enormous shadow nearly completely enveloping Lilia’s petite figure.
Magi’s colossal mouth suddenly opened, its throat seemingly connected to the Magma Hell, and a thick, dark red flame spewing destructive energy, carrying a terrifyingly high temperature capable of incinerating everything, roared straight toward Cyrus and Lai Ou beneath the fruit tree! As the flame passed, the air warped, and the ground’s rubble instantly melted and crystallized.
Faced with this destructive flame that could evaporate steel in an instant, not only did Lai Ou not show fear, but instead sneered disdainfully: "Hmph! Pointless trick!"
He stepped forward fiercely, his giant fist covered with ice crystals tightened, and without any fancy moves, he punched directly toward the raging flames!
As the fist struck, a Magic Array structure, comprised of numerous azure ice crystal runes, instantly lit up, the vast power of the Extreme Cold Domain highly compressed, transforming into a concentrated ice-blue lightning, crashing into the flame!
"Crack crack crack—!"
The sound of freezing that grated on one’s teeth exploded! The seemingly unstoppable dark red flame was, at the moment of contact with the ice-blue lightning, rapidly frozen from the tip, visible to the naked eye! The ice, as if alive, flowed back along the flame with incredible speed, in the blink of an eye about to reach Magi’s giant mouth!
Lilia’s expression shifted slightly; she clearly hadn’t anticipated Lai Ou’s Ice Power to be so dominant, even capable of reverse-corroding Magi’s destructive flames.
However, just as the ice was about to reach Magi, a giant, exquisitely beautiful hexagonal Snowflake Shield silently coagulated from thin air, firmly blocking before Magi’s huge head.
The shield’s ice crystals shimmered, exuding a coldness akin to absolute zero, a timely intervention from Sophia at the back. Ice to ice, the icy blue chill clashed with the Snowflake Shield, raising a storm of ice crystal fragments, successfully neutralizing Lai Ou’s counterattack.
"Attack!"
Almost at the same moment Lilia initiated her attack, Philis gave a low shout, and the other strong members of the alliance side moved instantly!
"In the name of Light, purge the darkness!" Duncan chanted lowly, the Cross Sword in his embrace suddenly unsheathed, the blade erupting with a radiant and dazzling light akin to the noonday sun, a giant Sword Gang purely condensed from light tearing through the dim sky, imbued with a sacred, solemn aura, slashing towards Cyrus!
Alex, like a phantom, disappeared from his original spot, the next instant having appeared on the flank, his Ice Crystal Dagger in hand transforming into a multitude of cold gleams difficult for the naked eye to capture, attacking Lai Ou’s vital spots like a blizzard, each strike containing the ultimate power of slicing and freezing.
Kong’s hands traced in the air before her, sending out silver space ripples, attempting to distort and disrupt the energy field around Cyrus and Lai Ou, creating opportunities for her companions’ attacks.
Vanilla shouted crisply, her Cross Sword igniting with burning battle intent and a faint hint of Sword God’s power, uniting with the sword, transforming into a red stream of light, thrusting straight at Cyrus!
Boom boom boom—!
Deafening explosions rang out in succession, multicolored Magic Lights wildly erupted on the defensive formation, energy shockwaves spread outward like a tsunami, plowing the already shattered ruins once more.
The battle, right from the start, skipped the probing phase, directly entering the most brutal, most intense, fiercely heated stage! The entire Broken Chapel trembled under the collision of Domain Powers.