Chapter 541 - 290: Black Hand Priest
Meanwhile, on the other side.
In a clearing within a forest near Dorne City.
Aishir, the Black Hand Priest assisting Lilith in setting up the Teleportation Array, suddenly changed his expression. He swiftly took out the Crystal Stone from his pocket and saw it vibrating continuously, emitting flickering lights.
"The captain needs backup!" Aishir’s expression fluctuated as he looked at Lilith beside him and said, "Lady Lilith, we must go and support them immediately."
This was their team’s method for emergency aid requests.
However, the issue was that before they came, they had agreed that if they found the Eldest Princess Leonore of Soladin Kingdom, they would first send a message.
"Is it Lord Jora? But why didn’t he send a message?" Lilith asked with some confusion, stopping her hand that was setting up the array plate.
Because theoretically, if traces of Eldest Princess Leonore were found, Jora should have sent a message to contact her first.
"I’m not sure." Aishir shook his head, "Let’s go over first, and see."
As he spoke, he mounted the Griffin.
But Lilith blinked her eyes and said, "Lord Aishir, you lead the elite of the Black Fist Army over there first, and I’ll go over as soon as I set up the Teleportation Array here."
"After all, if Lord Jora encounters the Eldest Princess Leonore, it’s possible that the three of us together may not be a match for her."
Upon hearing this, Aishir gave Lilith a deep look, paused, and nodded.
"Lady Lilith, I hope you can come to assist us quickly."
Being an experienced adventurer, Aishir could easily see that Lilith was somewhat afraid of battle.
But they were part of the Black Fist Army and the Talin Association respectively, and what Lilith said was reasonable, making it difficult for him to say anything.
The key issue was that the captain did not follow the agreed method of contact, but instead sent an aid signal.
This point he could not understand for a moment.
It shouldn’t be!
Unless it was an encounter with the Eldest Princess, given the captain’s strength...
"Of course! Oh, Lord Aishir, if you can ascertain that the Eldest Princess of Soladin Kingdom is also in Dorne City, please contact me immediately."
"I believe both Lord White Mann and Lord Hagen should be very pleased."
Aishir nodded, without saying more, immediately leading over a dozen Black Fist Army captains clad in red cloaks and black heavy armor, mounted on Griffins, swiftly flying towards Dorne City not far away.
"It’s a bit strange that there’s no message."
"Is it because there was no chance or some other reason?"
"If it wasn’t an encounter with Eldest Princess Leonore, then what could have put Jora, titled with Nightmare Blade, into intense combat? Could it be Raine?"
Lilith frowned slightly, feeling somewhat anxious.
Because if she couldn’t be sure that the Eldest Princess was in Dorne City, she couldn’t send a message to Lord White Mann to invite him over.
To be honest, if Lord White Mann doesn’t come, she is rather apprehensive about facing Raine!
....
Meanwhile.
In Dorne City.
Inside Viscount Olsen’s Castle, the battle continued.
"Vibration Wave!"
Facing Jora who was about to flash away again, Raine swung his Warhammer heavily, causing the air to ripple with a transparent wave and sweep toward the fan-shaped area ahead.
And just as Jora had freed himself from the Earth Binding Spell and took a step, in the next instant, he was affected by the invisible vibrational force.
Just as he prepared to push off with his toes, he suddenly felt as if his feet were stepping on cotton, unable to exert any force.
To the outsiders, it seemed that Jora was briefly stunned in place by Raine’s Vibration Wave.
This delay made Jora turn his head sharply, his eyes filled with astonishment as he looked at Raine coming after him with bulging muscles.
"Huh? How is this possible!"
"Master level Vibration Wave?"
This time, Jora was truly shocked.
In Jora’s view, there were many rare Magic Equipment that could produce effects like the Earth Binding Spell he encountered just now. However, now, this young man named Raine was exhibiting the Mid-Level Combat Skill - Vibration Wave, which was entirely beyond what external aids could achieve.
It was only through sheer Master level Combat Skill that the impact had reached such a degree!
Although Raine still had a distance of over ten meters from Jora, at this moment, a dark slender figure suddenly cut into Jora’s right rear.
A Curved Sword in her hand drew a cross of gray sword light and struck Jora.
Filling the position was Meredith!
Faced with this threatening strike, Joraqi barely resisted the vibration force, placing the Nightmare Blade in his right hand horizontally in front of him to skillfully block the blow.
"Clang!"
Immediately afterward, the dark dagger in his left hand struck insidiously from the lower left, stabbing fiercely at Meredith’s lower abdomen.
The speed was nearly beyond what the naked eye could capture.
Fortunately, Meredith had already reached the Transcendent level; she leaned back as if dancing, simultaneously lifting her left leg to kick a 180-degree spin, then swiftly flipped backward and dodged with a sliding step.
Huh?
She actually evaded it!
Joraqi squinted his eyes, showing a trace of ruthlessness. As he was about to pursue, suddenly his instincts screamed warnings!
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a strong young man wielding double hammers approaching from the left rear.
Since he had already received a hammer strike from Raine earlier, Joraqi knew that this young man’s strength, as Lilith had said, was mysteriously powerful.
Therefore, he immediately abandoned pursuing Meredith and sidestepped into the shadow of the nearby pillar.
As an experienced mid-level Transcendent Wanderer, he had the patience to play the subsequent "assassination game."
But suddenly, his entire movement speed slowed!
"Damn!"
Joraqi suddenly looked up, his eyes fixed on the second floor, where he saw four Mages in fiery red robes by the window, continuously casting the Third Level Spell "Slow Spell" at him.
Normally, as a mid-level Transcendent Wanderer, Joraqi possessed strong perception, evasion, and immunity against spells cast by Casters below Transcendent level.
But the problem was the sheer number of them!
With four Casters of Level 8 or Level 9 Classes collectively casting slow spells densely on him, getting hit was only a matter of time.
And for battles at the Transcendent level, that brief second or two of delay could reverse the battlefield situation.
"Stomp!"
Raine stomped his War Boots on the ground, and the surrounding hard ground instantly shattered.
Meanwhile, Joraqi was slightly dazed.
But Raine also paused for a brief moment!
Not because Joraqi retaliated in any way, but because a series of insights about stomping flashed through his mind.
In a moment of urgency, he had directly performed this move.
Before this, he relied on the Wild Boarman Lord’s bloodline to execute it.
’Does this mean I’ve mastered this Advanced Combat Skill?’
As the above thought flashed by, Raine raised his Warhammer high, as if to shatter the earth, and smashed it down at Joraqi.
"Blink Boots!"
With a flash of blood-colored light from his boots, Joraqi appeared twenty meters away in the open square.
Although he evaded Raine’s strike, his face was quite troubled because he had already resorted to one of his life-saving moves, not expecting to use it so soon.
Sometimes, a trump card that isn’t revealed remains a trump card; once revealed, it’s nothing.
Just then, another layer of bright black shield appeared on him.
’They’ve arrived?’
Joraqi’s face showed joy!
Looking up, he saw a squadron of Griffins diving down, led by none other than his teammate, Black Hand Priest Aiel.
’Finally arrived!’
"Bang! Bang!"
One after another, captains of the Black Fist Army, clad in red cloaks and heavy black armor, leaped down from Griffins ten meters high, immediately engaging with the surrounding Castle Guards.
Despite their courageous efforts, the guards were clearly no match against these Level 5 Classes and above Black Fist Army elites, who often could knock a Castle Guard flying with a single blow or hammer strike.
The problem, however, was that Raine was fuming from chasing Joraqi earlier, and upon seeing these Black Fist Army captains, he erupted immediately!
"Bang-snap! Bang-snap!"
Two nearly identical silver hammer shadows streaked by, and two rampaging Black Fist Army elites had their heads disappear, their headless bodies swaying and falling.
Both Raine’s speed and power grew stronger by another two points!
This was precisely the special effect of "Frost Brutality."
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