Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 1169, Growing Stronger With Every Battle

Translator: Silavin

“This method of killing him… is a bit too difficult, don’t you think?” Lu Fan heard it and a wry smile crept onto his face.

The Slaughter Ancient God’s strength was, by all accounts, greater than any enemy he had ever faced.

Physique that surpassed his own, strength that far surpassed every living being, formidable Self-Healing, and on top of all that, Skills with devastating destructive force.

That body of the Slaughter Ancient God had been born specifically for slaughter. He was the ultimate being for combat, forged for killing and nothing else.

Wanting to directly kill the Slaughter Ancient God, who has such a body without giving him any opportunity to recover or bolster his own power, how extraordinarily difficult that would be?

Merely severing one of his heads had already left Lu Fan keenly feeling the weight of it.

Now that the Slaughter Ancient God’s strength had risen yet again, and whether they could even sever a second head was in question, let alone kill him outright.

Thinking of this, Lu Fan shook his head with a small laugh. “Though stripping the Slaughter Ancient God of his Divine Seat is indeed difficult, it still must be done. Teacher Ouyang, I’m going in. Use your Void Insects to assist me!”

With those words said, Lu Fan charged once more at the Slaughter Ancient God.

As he advanced, Lu Fan opened his hand and summoned an Abyssal Node, calling five Projections of himself at once. With his strength alone, it would be nearly impossible to hold the Slaughter Ancient God at bay or pose any real threat to him.

For now, the only option was to exploit the advantage of numbers against this troublesome existence.

Together with Lu Fan’s True Body, six Lu Fans in total, all transformed into Golden Dragon Kings, swarmed upon the Slaughter Ancient God.

At this moment, the Slaughter Ancient God had already massacred every Void Insect that had surrounded him. Those Void Insects, though created by Ouyang Bai Ge specifically to counter the Slaughter Ancient God, had become something of a joke in the face of the sheer gap in power.

Their High Defence had been broken through directly by the Slaughter Ancient God, and those seemingly impenetrable suits of armour had been torn apart with brute force.

These defensive Void Insects were reduced to scattered limbs across the ground.

The Slaughter Ancient God was about to sweep them aside and then cut down Lu Fan and Ouyang Bai Ge, the two enemies who posed the greatest threat to him, when Lu Fan and his five Projections arrived.

Because the Mirror Image Projections were identical to Lu Fan’s True Body in every way, even the Slaughter Ancient God could not immediately distinguish which was the True Body and which were Projections.

Upon seeing the Projections appear, he understood at once that Lu Fan was drawing upon his power as the Abyss Ancient God, summoning an Abyssal Node to create Projections of himself from the Abyssal Node.

With his own perception, he naturally located the position of the Abyssal Node almost immediately.

Faced with the combined assault of six Lu Fans, the Slaughter Ancient God chose to completely ignore them and instead unleashed a Skill directly upon the Abyssal Node.

In an instant, a crushing gravitational force materialised from nowhere and enveloped the Abyssal Node.

This gravity was terrifying. It compressed and distorted the very air it trapped in an instant. While it lacked the power to raze Heaven and Earth, the pressure layered upon itself in accumulating waves, and crushing the Abyssal Node with no trouble at all.

Ouyang Bai Ge, seeing this, immediately waved her hand and tore open a Void Rift directly above Lu Fan’s Abyssal Node, connecting it to the Void World.

The pressure fell, but poured into the Void World, causing no further harm to the Abyssal Node.

Not only that, but from within the Void Rift, a type of Void Insect resembling silkworm bored its way out. This Void Insect completely ignored the crushing gravity, crawled out, and made its way onto Lu Fan’s Abyssal Node, where it began spinning a cocoon at remarkable speed.

In the blink of an eye, a cocoon as transparent as glass crystal took shape over the Abyssal Node.

Lu Fan could sense that this cocoon was something extraordinary, containing within the power of Space Principle.

It functioned like a one-way mirror. Things from within the Abyssal Node could pass directly through it, emerging into the outside world without any obstruction whatsoever.

Yet should anything from outside pass through the cocoon, it would be sent into the Void World, vanishing without a trace.

In other words, this cocoon could easily protect the Abyssal Node from being affected by the Slaughter Ancient God’s Skills.

At the same time, it would not prevent the Projections from reaching the real world, ensuring Lu Fan’s Skill would not lose its effect.

Lu Fan understood at once that this was likely a Void Insect Ouyang Bai Ge had crafted to counter his own Ancient God Power. Were she to make this Void Insect spin its web in reverse, his Abyssal Node would lose its function, and he would be unable to summon more Projections.

Lu Fan was not certain whether Ouyang Bai Ge had cultivated this Void Insect beforehand as a counter to the Abyss Ancient God, or had only just now cultivated it as a counter to himself.

But since Ouyang Bai Ge was now summoning the Void Insects to assist him, that suggested she was not keeping this Void Insect’s existence hidden from him, and in all likelihood would not use it against him.

Whatever the case, Ouyang Bai Ge had acted, and it was enough to set Lu Fan’s mind at ease.

So long as the cocoon’s protection held, no matter what Range Attack Skill the Slaughter Ancient God unleashed, he could not harm his Abyssal Node by even a hair.

Of course, Lu Fan was quite certain that with the Slaughter Ancient God’s terrifying physique, if he truly closed the distance and reached the Abyssal Node, he had the capacity to shatter the cocoon and destroy the Abyssal Node along with it.

How extraordinarily difficult would it be to close this distance!?

Lu Fan and his Projections, all transformed into Golden Dragon Kings, collided with the Slaughter Ancient God and engaged in fierce combat.

It had to be said, the Slaughter Ancient God, having had one head severed and thereby having strengthened his Ancient God Power further, was frighteningly powerful.

The original Lu Fan in his Golden Dragon King Form had already been at a disadvantage in a direct clash with the Slaughter Ancient God to begin with. He found it even harder to withstand exchanging blows with him.

After only a few Minor Skill exchanges, Lu Fan was already at a disadvantage, being pushed back again and again.

Fortunately, his Projections were plentiful enough. When one Projection was beaten back, another stepped forward in its place, refusing to yield a single step to the Slaughter Ancient God.

Add to that the doubled Pet Dragons providing support from the sides, offering a form of suppressive fire, and Lu Fan, relying on his five Projections, had for the time being managed to keep the Slaughter Ancient God in check.

However, merely keeping the Slaughter Ancient God in check was not enough.

Because as the battle continued, the Slaughter Ancient God’s strength would continue to slowly rise.

By then, even if Lu Fan summoned more Projections, it would not change the tide of battle.

After all, these Projections only allowed Lu Fan to increase in number, while the Slaughter Ancient God was growing stronger in actual, genuine power.

If the Slaughter Ancient God became strong enough to far surpass Lu Fan’s own strength to deal him Damage, then no matter how many Projections Lu Fan possessed, it would be of no use.