Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor-Chapter 884 - 176: Duel Begins (Part 2)
Xiaocheng Frostheart: "@Quinn Constantine, are you still there, big guy? When are you coming over? Give me a heads up when you do, but don't make a ruckus. We can sneak away quietly. These lunatics are beyond reasoning."
Quinn Constantine: "I just checked the map, and I'm too far from you. It could take months to get there, so take care."
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Lin Rui glanced for a while and then shut off the civilization module, because he was busy with his own troubles now.
Everyone should fend for themselves.
Do you think Lin Rui wants to be involved in this level of battlefield?
It's all out of necessity.
Yet Audrey was filled with mysterious confidence, patting her expansive chest and said: "Lord, rest assured, I understand this Divine Arena. Watch me, I'll handle it effortlessly!"
As she spoke, she completed another high-tier sacrifice!
Lin Rui's eyes widened, asking: "You're still sacrificing Dark Temple Warriors?"
How far has this gone?
Audrey immediately replied with excitement: "Yes, indeed, this golden opportunity must be seized. This time it's epic-level!"
Epic-level!
This means Audrey's main force has already glimpsed the ranks of the Golden Pansy Knight Order.
After all, the Golden Pansy Knight Order, the highest-ranking soldiers are merely legendary-level.
The core forces are only epic-level.
But Audrey has already pushed her strongest troops to the epic-level height.
And it's a whole squad at once. 120 soldiers!
Forcibly sacrificing so many soldiers to an unprecedented height consumes unparalleled spiritual energy.
Even now, she must wait for the Divine Artifact Shadow Robe to absorb spiritual energy for some time to activate the next sacrifice.
This made the elves, particularly Shadow Moon, increasingly anxious, because every second that the plan is delayed increases the chances of problems occurring for them.
Lin Rui does not yet know what the elves' plan is, but his situation remains stable for now, so he checked the newly acquired epic-level trait of the Dark Temple Warriors.
But the result slightly surprised him; this time, there was no new trait acquired, but the previous catastrophe-level trait directly advanced to a new trait.
[Shadow Splitting: Epic-level Trait: Abyssal Shadow, Fission Unpredictable; Devouring Enemy Soul, Eternal Seal of the Wilderness. Enemies Helpless, Soul Returning to the Nether River; Majestic Eight Extremes, Shocking Nine Borders. Dark Temple Warriors can manipulate the core power of shadows, triggering shadow splitting. When Dark Temple Warriors attack, their weapons release shadow energy, causing a shadow split on the enemy. This attack can significantly weaken the opponent's attributes by 50%, placing them in a fission seal, extending the seal by 3 seconds with each hit. After killing the opponent, the attributes of the split will enhance the Dark Temple Warriors, gaining 10% of the fission seal attributes with each subsequent kill, and this effect can stack. If no new target is killed within 3 seconds, one layer of the effect will be reduced.]
Epic-level traits generally do not involve permanent effect enhancements.
But now, this epic-level trait has reached an extreme of strength.
As long as he keeps slaying opponents, he can continue to grow stronger. After killing eighteen or nineteen soldiers consecutively, he can stack eighteen or nineteen layers of buff.
Even without killing targets again, after 3 seconds, it doesn't mean these eighteen or nineteen layers of buff disappear simultaneously, but rather diminish layer by layer from the most recently acquired nineteenth layer down.
To clear all buffs requires at least one minute.
And within that minute, as long as he kills one more target, he can stabilize the gains not yet diminished and continue stacking new gains.
Just as Lin Rui finished thinking, the system's prompt sounded.
[Ding, the Otherworldly Colony Golden Pansy Domain has been summoned to partake in a duel, please confirm the participant selection within 5 seconds.]
[Ding, this summon is the first round of battle for the Otherworldly Colony Golden Pansy Domain, unable to avoid combat, if the participant selection is not confirmed on time, one personnel will be forcibly randomly eliminated.]
Lin Rui immediately said to Audrey: "Then you should send Dark Temple Warrior: Leopard to the battlefield."
Audrey's vast army hadn't entered the battlefield, but in her contracted creatures, there were indeed Dark Temple Warriors, and in considerable numbers, as many as seven.
She summoned the summoned creature of the Empress's Contract, which is not a skill but a trait ability, as long as the trait is not sealed, the summoned contracted creature is unaffected by this Shadow Sky Curtain.
[Empress's Contract: Heroic Spirit Level Trait: Skeletons End the Flames of War, Soldiers Cut Through Sorrow. Under the Empress's personal blessing, the Moonlight Apostle can infinitely resurrect the contracted summoned creature using spiritual energy. Spiritual Energy Value +800 points, every 10 points of Charm, can increase one designated contracted summon creature, currently 44/44]
Whether it's contract, summon, or resurrection, it's an ability acquired through traits, not skills. The same applies to her Key of the Spirit Realm trait.
[Key of the Spirit Realm: Elite-level Trait: The existence of the Moonlight Apostle serves as the key to opening the Undead World. At every moment, wandering undead hope to enter the living world through her anchor point. Each point of Soul Strength attracts a randomly leveled undead to accept her contract daily, which can be summoned without cost. (The strongest Attribute Value cannot exceed the soul strength limit of the Moon Apostle)]
Though this is merely an elite-level trait, it doesn't match Audrey's strength as a legendary hero, yet it's important to know traits do not exist independently; they are also strengthened comprehensively by other attributes and traits, interacting and influencing.
Thus, Audrey can activate this elite-level trait to summon legendary-level creatures. That is the effect granted by other legendary-level traits.
With these two traits added, even though Lin Rui and Audrey entered alone, the army they can summon is likely to be endless.
If we drag on time, even with the Resurrection Skill on the human side, they might not outlast Lin Rui.
This is still under the circumstance where Lin Rui's skills are sealed; if not sealed, he could endlessly summon Water Elemental Warfare, potentially exhausting all other parties.
Five seconds, fleeting for ordinary people, but for Audrey, she still managed easily; with a wave of her hand, she summoned the now epic-level Dark Temple Warrior: Leopard.
Now the Dark Temple Warrior's appearance has drastically changed, his skin no longer a simple deep brown but black-red intertwined, as if stained by the blood of demons on the battlefield. This black-red hue makes him appear more eerie and dangerous.
His eyes became crimson, like burning flames, shining with madness and the glow of slaughter. When he gazes at the enemy, those eyes seem to penetrate the opponent's soul, evoking fear deep within.
The cloak that once shimmered with cold black light became darker and heavier, as though woven from the resentment of countless souls.
He wields a massive longsword, the blade shimmering with cold black light, as if capable of devouring all brightness. The hilt is inlaid with a red gem, like congealed blood, exuding a sinister aura.
Just standing in place, he feels much more threatening and sharp compared to his previous simple and rugged style.
After Audrey chose him to battle, the system's prompt also sounded.
[Ding, Otherworldly Colony Golden Pansy Domain combat gladiator confirmed: Dark Temple Warrior: Leopard]
[Ding, Beastman Uprising Army combat gladiator confirmed: Centurion Mogo Poison Fang]
[Ding, Duel victory reward: Physical Attack Power +10]
The grand arena had already enveloped the entire battlefield. Amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the Dark Temple Warrior: Leopard and a towering beastman with only one giant fang, wielding a battle axe, stood opposite each other.
Without any hesitation, both sides roared fiercely, leaped high, raised their weapons, and struck at each other.
The next moment, blood splattered across the sky, as the body, severed into two, fell heavily from the air, injecting a large amount of fresh blood into the battlefield already streaming with rivers of blood.
