Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 513 - 253: A Life for a Life, The Dying, and Turmoil
The Grand Priest’s decisive choice instantly turned the tide of the situation.
Utilizing the Knight Commander’s attack, he severed his own left arm as a sacrificial offering, directly transforming it into energy.
This allowed him to successfully penetrate the Undying Holy Armor, which existed in a material form, and accurately hit the pilot inside the armor.
At this moment, the left arm piercing through the Knight Commander’s body fused completely with the rapidly beating heart, which was throbbing like a blood pump.
As the Grand Priest initiated the sacrifice, channeling the divine power within to ignite his arm...
With a swoosh, the arm that was merely partially energized burst into raging flames, like an alcohol block being ignited.
It burned through the Knight Commander’s body, from the chest and heart, to other organs.
This extremely pure Fiery Sun Energy did not manifest in the form of physical burning; its surface characteristic resembled some kind of spreading dirt.
With the heart’s intense contractions, through blood circulation and metabolism, it invaded every tissue and cell throughout the Knight Commander’s body.
In such a scenario, even if the Undying Battle state could provide the Knight Commander with terrifying regenerative capabilities...
It was difficult to resist the inward and outward flooding of the Scorching Sun Curse, like a rising flood filling every corner of the body.
Due to the spreading speed being linked to the Knight Commander’s bodily state, similar to snake venom, the more movement there was, the faster it spread.
The Knight Commander’s Deadly Combat state maximized his body’s activity, allowing instantaneous regeneration of any wound.
Thus, the Grand Priest striking the heart was a fatal blow to the Knight Commander.
Exiting the Undying Battle state, he could no longer suppress the already spreading Scorching Sun Curse; to maintain the status quo, the swift regenerative power of the Deadly Combat state would further accelerate the Fiery Sun Curse Energy’s spreading attack throughout the whole body.
The Knight Commander ultimately made a misstep, being outmaneuvered by the Grand Priest.
He never anticipated that the opponent would be willing to use a self-severed arm strategy to accelerate his own death.
Clearly, he only made this strategic change after noticing the Knight Commander’s real intentions.
Otherwise, continuing in the current manner would have consequences far beyond merely a severed arm; prolonged Fiery Sun Possession would burn through the Grand Priest’s last trace of life force.
But the Knight Commander evidently didn’t concede to fate.
The advanced Undying Holy Armor quickly indicated the remaining time.
Because his body was being ignited from within, the Undying Battle, originally able to produce a new body, dropped from a one-minute duration to the final three seconds.
In reality, if not for the desperate suppression from the Undying Battle, an ordinary Tier Two Mid-Stage Evolver wouldn’t withstand more than a millisecond; upon contact, they would be directly ignited by the power equivalent to Tier Three and burned alive.
Even a Temple Knight couldn’t withstand a second.
The three seconds now, plus the half-second reaction, were the last remnants of the Undying state.
The Knight Commander then, disregarding danger, swiftly turned around and grasped the Grand Priest’s right wrist that pushed the left arm against him, securing it tightly in place.
In this way, even if the opponent could burst into supersonic speed, they would need to sever an arm preemptively.
This process would be the last effort the Knight Commander could make.
After pinning the opponent’s position securely, the Knight Commander then wielded his spear, aiming likewise at the Grand Priest’s chest.
The torso was the largest target area on the opponent’s decaying body, and striking the chest would damage vital organs like the lungs and heart, enabling the depletion of the Fiery Sun Divine Power and overextending the opponent’s life force.
The plan was to wear down the Grand Priest until both the Knight Commander and he perished together.
However, unpredictably, the Grand Priest suddenly lifted the special status of Fiery Sun Possession, causing the energy waves around him to rapidly recede.
With only his ordinary Tier Two body left, the Grand Priest was directly pierced by the lance, shredding the armor beneath his grey robe, piercing through his entire body.
The Knight Commander’s previous plan to exhaust the opponent, accelerating the Scorching Sun Curse’s depletion of his life force, was directly neutralized by the Grand Priest at this moment.
Instead of letting the Fiery Sun Divine Power consume more, he chose to withstand this piercing damage directly.
Bodily injury is not fatal to a Tier Two Evolver as long as it’s not an instantaneous kill, and it can be repaired with Source Material or potions.
It just takes some time.
During the battle, this method obviously couldn’t restore him to full health, but the intense life-and-death struggle was already nearing its end...
Clearly, the Grand Priest saw no need to drain his last drop of life force for a soon-to-be-dead man.
Just as the Knight Commander realized his plan had failed and prepared to retrieve his spear, he found that the Grand Priest suddenly forced himself forward, enduring the thick lance piercing through his chest, advancing in front of the Knight Commander.
He then slowly raised his palm and struck it towards the Knight Commander’s forehead.
The Knight Commander, who was already at the end of his life, reacted a half-beat too slow, ultimately having his mind disturbed by this strike of the Fiery Sun Divine Palm.
In less than two seconds, the last maintenance time of the Undying Battle was exhausted.
The next moment, his whole body fell backward.
Nearby, three Early Stage Apprentice Knights of Tier Two saw this and immediately panicked.
Although within the entire Holy Temple Knight Order, the Tier Two Mid-stage Knight Commander was only of mid-to-upper level status, his position and importance in the Storm Holy City were akin to being the first under the Bishop.
