Chapter 149: Orion
"Show me now how you will survive me!" Anar slowly and confidently advanced toward Rios until he finally stood only a hundred meters away from him!
Anar, who stood forty meters tall, stood before the sixty-meter-tall Rios in complete silence, creating a strange tension.
At this moment, Rios was incapable of doing anything!
His strength had withered, his mental energy was almost completely depleted, and his Spirit Power had run out. On top of that, his body was almost completely destroyed, and he could no longer heal himself.
It was true that the Array was still supplying him with energy, but his body could no longer withstand it, and his mind could no longer handle it.
He had now become like someone who had stayed awake for three consecutive days and drank nothing but coffee throughout those three days.
Even if you gave him another cup of coffee, it would have no effect on him. His body would not benefit from it, nor would it invigorate his nearly destroyed mind. Instead, it would only make things worse for him!
"You would have had a bright future if you had been born somewhere else, but unfortunately, you were born here... where the stage is already filled with players!" Anar did not smile as usual. Instead, he looked at Rios with a hint of pity, then extended four arms toward Rios and...
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Four tentacles emerged from the backs of Anar’s arms and shot directly toward Rios’s body, piercing through him!
"Noooooooo!"
"You bastaaaaard!"
"Your Majesty!"
Elena and the rest of the seven children who had arrived, along with the surviving soldiers, looked toward the scene of Anar attacking Rios and piercing his body in horror and fear... Some of their tears even rolled down their cheeks from the intensity of their fear and worry, including Elena and Imris!
Whoosh! Crack! Boom!
One attack after another was launched toward the protective Array, but they did absolutely nothing except cause a few small ripples. It was as though their attacks were nothing more than tiny pebbles thrown into a gigantic lake!
"Move aside, let me try!" The strange red-haired Elf stepped forward from the back and stood near Queen Elena!
"And who are you!" Queen Elena looked toward this strange person and narrowed her eyes. She did not remember seeing someone like him among the Elves, but she did not make any foolish move against him because she felt a strange sense of danger coming from him!
It was obvious that he was still at Level Three, but the aura his body released was far greater than that!
"Oh, how terrible my manners are. I forgot to introduce myself!" The strange Elf placed his hand over his mouth, then smiled and slightly bowed toward Queen Elena. "This humble one greets the Queen of the Elves, the First Queen of the City, and the heir of the Immortal Tree of Cradle. I am the Crown Prince of the War Elf Kingdom and heir to the throne, Orion, son of Banibal!"
When Elena heard this name, her eye widened at Orion’s identity. Unlike the Kingdom of the Light Forest, which was considered the origin of all Elves in this world, the inhabitants of the War Elf Kingdom were people who had left the Kingdom of the Light Forest tens of thousands of years ago and gone on to establish their own kingdom elsewhere, with different laws and aspirations.
The War Elf Kingdom was one of the oldest kingdoms that had survived to this day, and one of the strongest kingdoms on the continent, in addition to being the most mysterious kingdom of all!
They had never been an open kingdom. Instead, they had always remained isolated, and whenever they left their kingdom, it was only for war.
No one knew anything about them except the legends, because everyone who tried to go there never returned!
"And how will you break through this Array, Son of Banibal? As you can see, all of us have tried, but none of us managed to do anything to it!" Elena narrowed her eyes, pointed around her, and said worriedly.
"I didn’t say I would destroy it. I said, let me try!" Orion shrugged indifferently, as though this were not his problem!
"Do it!" Elena gritted her teeth, but she could not afford any delay, so she allowed Orion to do whatever he wanted!
"I will try not to disappoint you." Orion nodded at her with a smile, then looked toward the Array in front of him. "It is a Level Five Array, so we need several Level Five weapons at the very least to destroy it!"
"But we have eight Level Five weapons here, and we couldn’t destroy it." Elena raised an eyebrow and said doubtfully and worriedly.
"You are still only at Level Three, so no matter what you do, you can only unleash a tiny fraction of those weapons’ power." Orion shook his head as he explained to Elena.
"But you are also still at Level Three!" Elena’s suspicion increased with every passing second, and her worry for Rios grew even more. Her patience with Orion was nearly running out.
Orion smiled in response to Elena’s doubts, but he did not answer. Instead, he extended his hand toward Ethar. "Would you lend me your hammer, please?"
Ethar looked at everyone, then at Queen Elena, who hurriedly nodded at him. He then shrugged and reluctantly gave it to Orion. "It’s yours, but you better treat it well."
"Don’t worry, I will treat it as I would treat my wife!" Orion grabbed the enormous hammer, gently caressed it, and looked at it with intense desire before giving it a deep kiss. Then he turned toward the Array. "Come on, darling, let’s dance a little!"
Ethar looked at him from behind and felt immense disgust toward Orion, already regretting giving him his hammer, but he had no choice!
Orion stood before the Array with a crazed smile, and his aura began to grow gradually. The tattoos on his body began to glow, and his body swelled until it nearly doubled in size, reaching a height of five meters!
"This aura!" Queen Elena and everyone around her widened their eyes when they clearly felt Orion’s power.... That aura definitely did not belong to someone at Level Four. It was far greater than that!
And that was not the only change that occurred. The Mad Bull Hammer also began glowing strangely, and numerous purple and black symbols appeared upon it, followed by numerous bolts of lightning!
"The Mad Bull!" The person most shocked by this change was Ethar. He felt deep envy toward Orion because he was capable of displaying such power from the hammer!
"So this is what a Level Five weapon looks like when its full power is unleashed!" Orion looked at the Mad Bull Hammer with an even happier smile stretching from ear to ear, then looked toward the Elves behind him again. "If my attacks affect the Array, I want you to attack it with all your strength. If you don’t see me affecting it in any way, then don’t waste your energy!"
The Elves looked at one another with some doubt, but eventually nodded toward him!
"Good." Orion nodded, then turned to face the Array again..
Rrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaooooorrr!
The numerous tattoos on Orion’s body roared, then he swung the Mad Bull Hammer with all his strength, and strands of lightning danced like dragons and snakes as....
Craaaaaaaaaaaack!
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The enormous hammer collided with the Array with a tremendous boom, sending shockwaves that blasted many nearby Elves dozens of meters backward!
But the good news was that a few cracks appeared on the Array... A few small cracks that quickly healed, but they were cracks nonetheless!
"Hahahahaha, this is amazing! I didn’t expect this to happen so quickly!" Orion laughed happily and quickly turned toward the Elves behind him, who were staring at him in astonishment. "Come on, what are you waiting for? Attack it with me with all your strength and don’t hold anything back!"
The Elves snapped out of their astonishment and quickly regained their senses before beginning to attack the Array alongside Orion!
The attacks rained down upon the Array, and Orion did not stop striking it with the Mad Bull Hammer with all his strength for even a moment. The cracks quickly widened one after another until it was almost shattered!
"An Elf at Level Four! Is he from the War Elf Kingdom?" Anar narrowed his eyes, but he quickly smiled. "But it doesn’t matter. Even if he were at Level Five, he wouldn’t be able to break through it!"
Then he turned toward the half-dead Rios before him, and his smile widened. "I wonder if you will die from all this amount of Chaos Energy I am pumping into you, or if you will transform into something greater."
Anar looked toward his four tentacles that were pumping a huge amount of gray aura into Rios’s body, which had already begun to disintegrate and crumble, and anticipation filled him!
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"Come on, we only need a slightly stronger push. Attack with everything you have and don’t hold anything back!" Orion shouted impatiently, and the beast tattoos on his body glowed even more until they began emerging from his body and taking the forms of real beasts that began attacking the Array alongside him!
Craaaaaack! Craaaaaack! Craaaaaack!
The Array finally reached a critical state after sweat poured from every part of Orion’s body and evaporated due to his body’s tremendous heat, and with one final strike...
BOOM!
"Yes!"
The Array was destroyed and shattered into pieces like broken glass before quickly disappearing, and Orion shouted in joy. But his joy did not last long, because the Array quickly appeared again!
"Damn it! It’s a multi-layered Array!" Numerous veins appeared on Orion’s forehead as he shouted in anger and threw the hammer forcefully to the side!
"Damn you, you bastard! Didn’t you say you would treat it as if you were treating your wife!" When Ethar saw him throw his hammer, veins immediately appeared on his face from the intensity of his anger. He picked it up and shouted at Orion.
Faced with this shout, Orion sat down on the ground and shrugged sarcastically. "Fine, consider her a masochistic wife!"