Amber Sword

That was a magnificent stroke sustained by the Strength of the Extreme Realm; the sky-filling Golden Flame Fire seemed to drag the scorching Elemental World down over the battlefield. Across the entire Kruz Empire and the subordinate nations of the Flame Temple, the number of powerhouses who had reached the Extreme Realm added together would not exceed ten; the life experience of each, to the common folk present, was itself a Legendary tale. Just like Earth Sword Saint Darius of those years—who would dare claim they could smoothly receive a single sword from him? Even today’s "Cross Hand" Bujia had no such confidence.

Yet a sword like that simply vanished like a stone sinking into the sea before Brand. Innumerable golden Law Threads that sliced open the curtain of rain crashed onto one pure White light-screen after another. The speed was so great that the eye had no time to react; people only saw the flames scatter back like fireworks, rolling away in all directions, like a golden cosmos flower blooming in the torrential rain.

Then the flames dissipated into nothingness.

The Law Threads that represented flame and sublimation had actually been reversed; in the Vorn World, this signified only one thing—that the Law authority was too low, and had been overruled by a higher priority. Yet these were Laws of the Extreme Realm, the Boundary where Fire Element reached its utmost peak.

Could it be the Power of Existence?

Everyone was stunned, but only Brand understood that, among all the rules he had seen, the world formed by the Travel Mage’s independent system seemed to possess the first priority in the Vorn World. The description on a Destiny Card speaks of effect before cause, and no matter how bizarre, the Vorn World will acknowledge it first.

The description on the Anrudu Holy Ring renders one Attack invalid; therefore, no matter how powerful the next Attack might be—even if it could destroy the World—so long as Brand reveals this card, Anrudu will remain unscathed.

This is the strongest shield. Even he himself cannot help but feel amazed at such rules, let alone others.

But Brand did not stop; he seized upon the Instant when Williams fell into a daze. He took the opportunity to place four Nightmare Furnace Constructs onto the field. The Nightmare Furnace Constructs tore up through the ground from beneath the surface, like one after another shining Metallic Beetle, roughly the size of a human head. These Biological forms, merely Silver Upper tier (level 35, after Golden Radiance Battle Banner evolution), did not attract much attention when they first appeared. Yet their Abnormal Ability allowed them to complete self-replication by devouring Light Element. White Light orbs continuously flew from Brand’s hand, merging into the Nightmare Furnace inside these ugly Mechanical Bodies; on the battlefield, their numbers swiftly climbed to thirty-two.

With Brand’s current Strength, his Element Pool had now grown to Fire Element 78 slots, Wind Element 51 slots, Earth Element 55 slots, Water Element 48 slots, Light Element 50 slots, Dark Element 60 slots. Fire Element’s growth, due to Eruein being descended from the King of Flames, had always been far in the lead, while Dark Element had grown rapidly under the influence of the Dark Dragon’s legacy. After Martha’s Blessing, under the Talent of a Chosen One, Light Element’s growth was only slightly behind Dark Element and Fire Element, though the Natural Elements Pool remained unopened. In the previous battles he had used the Travel Mage’s abilities sparingly, merely summoning and maintaining the Holy Sword and Wind Spirit Spider at the cost of a little over 40 slots of Earth Element and 1 slot of Wind Element. Summoning the Life Holy Scripture had been a free placement by discarding the Wave Gem, and cards such as Wave Gem and Eternal Ball had been present on the field all along. In other words, at this moment Brand’s other Element Pools were almost entirely in a full status.

He played four Nightmare Furnace Constructs, consuming a total of 4 Dark Element slots, and when these Mechanical Bodies proliferated to thirty-two, his Light Element Pool status Instantly dropped to 0/50.

The next complete proliferation would require thirty-two points.

From four to eight, from eight to sixteen, and from sixteen doubling once more, the changes around Brand finally drew Williams’s attention; that strange swarm of Metallic Beetles had expanded almost in an Instant. Having previously mistaken Brand for a Summoner, he was extremely wary of all Brand’s Summons. But upon carefully sensing them, he realized that the Nightmare Furnace Constructs were merely Silver Upper existences, and only then did he exhale in relief, turning his focus back to the two enormous Life Holy Scriptures floating before Brand.

The two Life Holy Scriptures, radiating pure White Light, hovered quietly there; at first, it seemed they served no function at all. Yet the Instant Brand released four Nightmare Furnace Constructs onto the field, the enormous Life Holy Scriptures suddenly began to turn pages in unison; they flipped four pages, and with each turn, a surge of pure Strength spread from the Holy Scripture, diffusing across the entire battlefield.