Chapter 146: Explosion
Rios calmly watched the battlefield through the Arrays, moving the spirits and undead to ease the pressure on the Elves and increase the number of casualties on the enemy’s side!
Things were gradually leaning in his favor, and the more time passed, the better things became and the greater the number of spirits and undead became!
Many Elves had fallen by this point, and the number of casualties on the Elves’ side had already exceeded half a million!
But all of them had their spirits used to create more wandering spirits, while their corpses were used to create undead!
As for the enemy’s side, the number of deaths had reached approximately four times that number, reaching two million or more by now, and it was increasing with every passing moment. This was all thanks to the defensive Array that Rios had modified!
Since they could neither feel pain nor feel anything else, the wandering spirits and undead attacked with a brutality and strength that their original selves would never have been able to use!
Even if they were wounded or had their limbs severed, they would not feel anything. Instead, they would attack even more fiercely and powerfully!
Rios shifted his focus toward the Titan Anar, who was covered in wounds at this moment as he faced seven fifth-level Centaur spirits.
There were supposed to be nine of them by now, but Anar had managed to destroy two!
"Why don’t we end this battle here, and I will let you and your army withdraw peacefully!" Rios spoke threateningly toward the Titan Anar. "Both of us have already lost a lot, so why don’t we stop here and divide this continent between the two of us? It is big enough to accommodate both of us!"
CRACK!
As he spoke, another crack appeared on Rios’s wooden trunk!
His condition was extremely dire at this moment because of the immense strain caused by the Array. If he did not achieve victory or find a solution to this dilemma soon, he would either die or collapse!
Anar looked at him and furrowed his brows. He could clearly see what was happening on the battlefield, and he had seen Nimrok’s death and the deaths of many other Giants, but despite all these losses, he did not grieve or even blink once. Instead, he smiled provocatively at Rios!
"If losses sadden you to this extent, then show me how you will endure this amount of losses!" Anar looked toward Rios, but he could not see his condition clearly because of the black mist that suppressed any detection senses. However, he could clearly tell that Rios’s condition was far from good!
Based on this, Anar flew even higher and stopped when he was able to see the entire City of Light and the battlefield, then he roared with all his might!
AAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRGGGGG!
This roar echoed throughout the entire City of Light. Rocks shook, bodies shuddered, and spirits trembled under the power of this roar!
If it had merely been a loud roar, none of this would have happened, but there was something strange within this roar that affected everything around him... especially the Giants!
Immediately after hearing this roar, the Giants’ bodies began shaking violently, their eyes turned red, and it seemed that something had changed within their very essence!
"What is happening to this bastard now!" Etham looked toward the change that had occurred in the Giant Thorgar, narrowed his eyes, and felt an involuntary sense of unease!
Grrrrrrr!
Thorgar began making strange sounds, then looked toward Etham with eyes that seemed like those of a predator staring at its prey!
AOOOORRRG!
Thorgar roared and charged forward, attacking with madness and ferocity as if his mind had disappeared and nothing remained before his eyes except killing and blood!
"Retreat!" Etham shouted at his soldiers to withdraw and prepared to block the Giant Thorgar, but suddenly, when the two collided, Thorgar’s body began swelling and...
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
A massive explosion erupted, covering an enormous area hundreds of meters in diameter. At the center of the explosion was a strange gray aura that devoured and destroyed everything it touched, even the ground was not spared!
After the explosion gradually subsided, a massive crater appeared, containing nothing but three weapons!
The first was a weapon that was half hammer and half axe, and it belonged to the Giant Thorgar.
The other two were short swords, and they belonged to Etham.
But even these three fifth-level weapons had been severely damaged by the previous explosion, especially after being struck by the gray aura, which was still clinging to them and causing them to corrode and gradually destroy them at an extremely slow rate!
But everything else, whether fourth-level weapons or bodies, had completely evaporated!
This was not the only place where this happened. It was happening everywhere, with every Giant!
Bragun also charged toward Thandria, but when she heard the explosions around her and saw Bragun swelling as he ran toward her, her instincts screamed at her, and she quickly used her understanding of the Law of Lightning to escape. She did not even have time to warn her companions before...
BOOOOOOOOM!
The sound of the explosion erupted powerfully behind her. It was true that she had escaped the center of the explosion, but it soon engulfed her!
After a few moments, Thandria emerged from the flames of the explosion, having lost an arm and with her entire body burned!
Thandria did not care about these losses. What mattered to her now was that she had survived, or so she thought!
The moment Thandria completely left the range of the explosion, she found another Giant waiting for her, already swollen, and the moment he saw Thandria, he immediately charged toward her!
"Rios...!" A tear involuntarily fell from Thandria’s eye, and her eyes widened when she saw the Giant directly in front of her. She soon heard a sound she would never have wished to hear no matter what happened!
BOOOOOOOM!
And this time, Thandria was directly at the center of the explosion and could not escape!
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In the battlefield between Imris and Rodak, Imris was dominating their battle, and Rodak was kneeling on his knees at this moment because Imris had severed the tendons in his legs.
But suddenly, Imris heard and saw numerous explosions around him. He noticed that Rodak’s body had begun swelling strangely and that his eyes had completely turned red. A bad feeling quickly struck him when he saw Rodak charging toward him, but he did not try to flee in any direction or fly away. Instead, he used the Law of Formation to dig and escape underground!
BOOOOOOOOOOM!