Everyone Is A Lord: My Talent Is A Little Too Strong Chapter 2698: 1483: True Face and Helplessness
Previously on Everyone Is A Lord: My Talent Is A Little Too Strong...
“Lord’s Shelter!”
In this pivotal instant, Little Jie, ready to unleash her power, found herself enveloped by a rush of vital force. A glowing Absolute Defense Barrier, radiating a soft golden hue, appeared without delay, enveloping our entire team in protection.
Right after that, the sharp, blade-resembling thin vines surged forth from the shadows, slashing directly toward the shining Barrier Wall.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As soon as the thin vines collided with the Barrier Wall, an explosive burst of power thundered out. Every impact from those vines hit like a devastating Magic Cannon, generating fierce Energy Waves across the Barrier Wall.
Under the nonstop assault, cracks spiderwebbed across the Barrier Wall in moments. Luckily, the combined efforts of the pink-hooded figure, Frank, Gary, and Leo Ray poured in energy to keep it from shattering right away.
Still, as our full team poured strength into upholding the barrier, every assault landed like a crushing hammer, draining the color from everyone's faces more and more.
Right now, a brute-force specialist like Old Gary could tell that without a change, our weary squad wouldn't last much longer before collapsing and meeting their end.
Notably, each enemy hit demolished the lanterns we clutched, yet the golden orbs inside persisted in hovering nearby, casting a vivid glow that lit up the area around us.
Even so, with those enchanting drifting golden orbs in view, the foe's savage onslaught left us no leisure to admire such minor wonders.
“Everyone, we must turn defense into offense.”
As despair gripped the group, Leo Ray's calm and unyielding tone resounded through the air to us all.
“But what exactly should we do?”
The pink-hooded figure's tone trembled a bit while posing the question.
“Naturally, we need to spread out and target the enemy’s weak points constantly.”
Leo Ray fixed his stare on the foe's lines of crimson eyes, his own narrowing just a touch.
After catching Leo Ray's suggestion, the team grasped it fast and moved accordingly.
He had a point. From what had happened before, those arrays of bloodshot eyes clearly held potent spellcasting prowess, maybe acting as some unique magical tool.
Destroying them would definitely hamper the enemy's attacks in a big way.
Besides, dispersing was the sole way to pull the enemy's attention as far as possible, steering clear of the trap where our whole crew got pinned down together.
Sure, splitting up still meant we could get picked off individually by this bottomlessly mighty adversary. Yet with staying together blocking any moves, a bold breakout stood as our sole path forward.
On top of that, Leo Ray figured that scattered or not, sticking near the demon's massive form would let his Power of Divine Grace shield the rest of the team.
“Understood, let me take the lead then.”
The pink-hooded figure composed themselves, their energy flaring up. A flick of their Magic Wand warped the surrounding space anew.
With the Space Distortion growing fiercer, the enemy's unyielding strikes started to lag, as if endless thin vines were stabbing into soft fluff. Their force and pace both dropped sharply.
“Now’s the time!”
The pink-hooded figure gestured at the space tear behind us, urging the others, “Scatter from there!”
Answering the signal and grabbing the lull in the enemy's onslaught, our geared-up team burst forward, darting through the space tear to slip beyond the foe's striking zone.
Once free, the squad divided into three units amid the gloom: Leo Ray paired with two Stone Spirits, Little Jie alongside Xiao Jing, Frank with Old Gary and Gary, and the pink-hooded figure solo.
Guided by Leo Ray's orders, our forces synced up perfectly, one flank striking left, another right, as the mightiest member, the pink-hooded figure, stepped through empty air, lunging straight for the demon's blood-red eyes.
“A bunch of ants! You’re just futilely struggling!”
Seeing our team's abrupt shift, the enormous silhouette sneered with chill disdain, unleashing a fresh wave of thin vines from the void, hurtling at our three divided groups.
“Ah!”
Frank, Old Gary, and Gary clashed first with the thin vines, offering scant opposition before getting smacked airborne and slamming hard onto the floor.
All the while, Leo Ray pulled the two Stone Spirits tight to his side, drawing on techniques such as [Thunder Light Phantom Body] and [Thunder Sky Diversion] to amp his velocity, weaving erratically past the charging vines, their slicing sounds whipping past his ears in a scene of dire danger.
However, when Leo Ray closed to just a hundred meters of the foe, a stray hit still knocked him back through the air. Thankfully, bolstered by elite Buff enhancements and the spread of Power of Divine Grace, the damage stayed minor.
In the midst of it all, Leo Ray unleashed a handful of Tier 6 single-target Attack Magic Scrolls boasting huge piercing might, only for them to disappear like pebbles dropped in the ocean, swiftly devoured by the boundless shadows, yielding zero impact.